It has become very apparent that ESPN has officially "jumped-the-shark". The term comes from the TV show Happy Days when the Fonz jumped a shark and many fans said that was the point of no return and that the show had run its course.
Now look at ESPN and Sportscenter. If you are a fan of the show and channell you know what I am talking about. Each night it is all Favre all the time. If they aren't talking about Favre they are talking about Manny Ramirez. The empire known as ESPN has dumbed it coverage down severely.
Look at the amount of coverage teams get. The coverage has gone down to just a few teams IE: the Yankees, the Mets, the Red Sox, the Packers, and the Giants.
As a fantasy football owner I need a certain amount of equal coverage throughout the NFL and well as the MLB. In the golden years of ESPN they actually gave you stats of each game and covered almost every team.
Now as I try to watch all I get is where Favre is, what the Packers said today, what they will do tomorrow, what Brett ate last night, what kind of plane he flew in, video of it taking off and landing, three reporters breaking it down, and then a Manny Ramirez highlight.
Now is the time Fox Sports should be making their move. Fox needs to assemble the old crew to have a full hour long nightly highlight show with details of all the games and stats. Fox should also incorporate a nightly football show. They have the rights to almost every local baseball game because of them being on Fox Sports Net and are the home of the NFC in football.
ESPN has dropped the ball of sports and should completely revamp now before they lose all of us forever. I have not seen any news out of 25 or more NFL teams, news about the Minnesota Twins rolling into first place without any big names, Olympics coming up (other than USA basketball), and the lack of balanced coverage through each league.
I don't expect ESPN to cover my Lions for 10 minutes every night, but at least tell me about training camp battles around the NFL!
ESPN isn't the only all-Favre-all-the-time station. Try listening to national sports radio. If you flip fast enough through each chanell you would think it was the same conversation. Enough is enough. I am embarrassed for you that all you have is another take on the same topics regurgitated over and over.
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