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[Deuce]

I don't mind the actual analysis and opinions of the upcoming games but the excessive gimmick segments are nauseating. Instead of 5 hours of BS "mini-Mooch" and "U-Know It" type segments just give me 2 solid hours of analysis with a little wit thrown in.

I don't know.....maybe I've just turned into "get off my lawn guy" now that I'm 40. Maybe that stuffs a huge hit with the 30 and under crowd.

It doesn't. I don't know anyone that watches them anymore. Maybe it's the teens and 20-somethings that need that type of entertainment.

 

[ravidubey]

His agent says it is an unfounded rumor, unfortunately

Damn

 

[dallen]

Kilburn? Holy shit...he was terrible....like Colin Cowherd terrible.

Kilborn is so full of himself he is insufferable. I don't like Cowherd that much either, but he mostly just comes off as a huge troll.

 

[boozeman]

It doesn't. I don't know anyone that watches them anymore. Maybe it's the teens and 20-somethings that need that type of entertainment.

That said we were once that way.

Now it is a world of overloaded stimuli.

I am sorry to say you people caught up to me on the pissed off old man scale.

 

[Carp]

The thing about guys like Berman and Vitale is that they were kind of the first 2 ESPN personalities we were introduced to. ESPN owes quite a bit of their success to guys like that. They have not changed all that much since they have been there...now they seem outdated and all, but I think it is more that sports fans are smarter now than ever before, so it seems almost condescending how they do their job now.