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Bill Barber
Aug 26, 2015

Hot Rope Guy
https://twitter.com/russilloshow/status/869632288774127616

You could spend the day watching sports in Russillo's basement for the right price.

Currently looking into asset liquidation.

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FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



John Clayton has been laid off from ESPN

Grittybeard
Mar 29, 2010

Bad, very bad!

FlamingLiberal posted:

John Clayton has been laid off from ESPN

Let's remember the better times.

wandler20
Nov 13, 2002

How many Championships?

Grittybeard posted:

Let's remember the better times.

The best commercial they ever put out.

fartknocker
Oct 28, 2012


Damn it, this always happens. I think I'm gonna score, and then I never score. It's not fair.



Wedge Regret

wandler20 posted:

The best commercial they ever put out.

Yep, although I'm still very fond of follow me to freedom.

wandler20
Nov 13, 2002

How many Championships?

fartknocker posted:

Yep, although I'm still very fond of follow me to freedom.

Ha, I missed that one, very good.

howe_sam
Mar 7, 2013

Creepy little garbage eaters

fartknocker posted:

Yep, although I'm still very fond of follow me to freedom.

That is the best Sportscenter ad.

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

howe_sam posted:

That is the best Sportscenter ad.

Yeah it shows how they've been planning for mass layoffs for years and how to mitigate it

Vertical Lime
Dec 11, 2004

In the meantime ESPN resigned Lee Corso

http://espnmediazone.com/us/press-releases/2017/05/lee-corso-extends-deal-remain-espns-college-gameday/

He's 81 but hey, he only has to show up once a week for 4 months a year

Also they resigned Desmond Howard

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


https://twitter.com/ClaytonESPN/status/869962349108576256


:patriot:

Thaddius the Large
Jul 5, 2006

It's in the five-hole!

I choose to believe he means he's stealing it from the prop department, like me walking out on my last day with a stapler or whatever office supplies were on hand.

MourningView
Sep 2, 2006


Is this Heaven?

Vertical Lime posted:

In the meantime ESPN resigned Lee Corso

http://espnmediazone.com/us/press-releases/2017/05/lee-corso-extends-deal-remain-espns-college-gameday/

He's 81 but hey, he only has to show up once a week for 4 months a year

Also they resigned Desmond Howard

Good, Lee Corso rules

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN
https://twitter.com/Ourand_SBJ/status/870008053571108864

RC and Moon Pie
May 5, 2011

fartknocker posted:

Yep, although I'm still very fond of follow me to freedom.

Charlie, come on out and get ya whoopin.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007



I'd be pissed if I was Tirico. That's some bullshit.


yesssss i forgot about this one

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


DJExile posted:

I'd be pissed if I was Tirico. That's some bullshit.
He's not gonna get SNF as long as Al Michaels is around.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Josh Lyman posted:

He's not gonna get SNF as long as Al Michaels is around.

Yeah I guess he's the heir apparent but to go from headlining ESPN/ABC events to NBC, then get kicked down to the lovely Thursday night games has to be frustrating.

Edward Mass
Sep 14, 2011

𝅘𝅥𝅮 I wanna go home with the armadillo
Good country music from Amarillo and Abilene
Friendliest people and the prettiest women you've ever seen
𝅘𝅥𝅮
Tirico does things other than football, you know.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


yeah :downs: realized that as soon as I said it

Timby
Dec 23, 2006

Your mother!

DJExile posted:

Yeah I guess he's the heir apparent but to go from headlining ESPN/ABC events to NBC, then get kicked down to the lovely Thursday night games has to be frustrating.

He wasn't even allowed to do the Thursday night games last season because the NFL hates him.

howe_sam
Mar 7, 2013

Creepy little garbage eaters


Stuart Scott :smith:

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Timby posted:

He wasn't even allowed to do the Thursday night games last season because the NFL hates him.

that's right, i forgot about that

Bill Barber
Aug 26, 2015

Hot Rope Guy
Tirico is great and should be celebrated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLEXBPwF9_g

I was mad when he went to NBC because I felt the Tirico/Brown combination was the greatest NBA broadcast duo, and he's basically gone completely from all tennis coverage now too.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Bill Barber posted:

I was mad when he went to NBC because I felt the Tirico/Brown combination was the greatest NBA broadcast duo, and he's basically gone completely from all tennis coverage now too.
Umm Tirico was trash garbage on tennis coverage and I say that as someone who watches like 100 hours of ESPN's coverage of each slam.

C. Everett Koop
Aug 18, 2008
Tirico was brought on to be the heir apparent to Al Michaels (and do other things but that's the big one), he doesn't leave MNF for any other reason. One of those other things was TNF but the NFL threw a hissy-fit over that for some stupid reason.

Also Al's 72, he's not going to be around forever and so NBC's trying to sow up the future with the possibility that Al's given them an expiration date. If he hasn't, well I said this before but it's not like NBC hasn't punched themselves in the dick over high-profile transitions before so it's worth keeping an eye on for that alone.

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN
Tirico is also Bob Costas' successor -- he's already taking over the Olympic desk starting with next year's winter games. NBC clearly has big plans for him.

I'm sure he won't complain about slumming it on TNF for a year or two if he gets to be the face of the network in the near future.

Vertical Lime
Dec 11, 2004

At this point the NFL promotes Thursday night games more than Monday night games, so it's not that bad of a gig

Another good Tirico moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9necA_prVM

YeahTubaMike
Mar 24, 2005

*hic* Gotta finish thish . . .
Doctor Rope

This commercial looks like a cutscene in a Sega CD game, jeez.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Benne posted:

Tirico is also Bob Costas' successor -- he's already taking over the Olympic desk starting with next year's winter games. NBC clearly has big plans for him.

I'm sure he won't complain about slumming it on TNF for a year or two if he gets to be the face of the network in the near future.
I wonder if Tirico thinks, like many, that the NFL has peaked.

Vertical Lime
Dec 11, 2004

HE GONE

https://twitter.com/whitesox/status/870036240418168838

Timby
Dec 23, 2006

Your mother!

Benne posted:

Tirico is also Bob Costas' successor -- he's already taking over the Olympic desk starting with next year's winter games. NBC clearly has big plans for him.

I'm sure he won't complain about slumming it on TNF for a year or two if he gets to be the face of the network in the near future.

The problem with Tirico is that he doesn't know when to shut up. Dude just talks, endlessly.

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos

As someone who only catches highlights thank god. I can't imagine listening to that guy call a full game.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


OSU vs. Penn State is basically the only game that matters in the B1G and it won't get primetime because Fox wanted the rights to the game, but also has Game 4 of the World Series that night.

BasicFunk
Feb 26, 2011

How's your Funkentelechy?

Vertical Lime posted:

At this point the NFL promotes Thursday night games more than Monday night games, so it's not that bad of a gig

Another good Tirico moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9necA_prVM

Every time I hear this call, it sounds like he almost forgot he was on TV and had to keep himself for saying "OHH poo poo!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYpwjB0IzoU

angrygodofjebus
Aug 25, 2005

Drink it up and hunker down

Peanut President posted:

As someone who only catches highlights thank god. I can't imagine listening to that guy call a full game.

It's bad. He's only doing 20 games next year, too.

Niwrad
Jul 1, 2008

I still kind of want the Hawk alarm clock.

MourningView
Sep 2, 2006


Is this Heaven?
Tirico is a boring announcer and a gross garbage person, the NFL making GBS threads on him was the most likable thing the league has done in years.

Vertical Lime
Dec 11, 2004

https://twitter.com/espn/status/871735384887234561

they just did it because they felt like it, no pressure on any corners, yep

corn on the cop
Oct 12, 2012

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

― Corey Dostoyevsky
The Liberal Media strikes aga- wait what

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AsInHowe
Jan 11, 2007

red winged angel
Hank and his rowdy friends are back on Monday Night, until Hank says something racist on live television again.

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