I get it, sometimes I'm just shocked that people listen to this stuff. I don't remember sports TV being like this when I was younger. I find myself literally not watching any of this drivel anymore and just watching games. I'll watch draft stuff in the offseason but that's about it.
Because it wasn't.
I'm 43, so I grew up with some 80s coverage, but mostly 90s as that is when I entered my adolescence and was old enough to comprehend what I was watching.
And even as a 13 year old kid, I used to love watch the Sports Reporters on ESPN on Sunday mornings. It was real journalists doing real journalism.
Dick Schapp was great and I really enjoyed watching him.
I remember reading Dr. Z. in Sports Illustrated. And while some people didn't care for him, the guy was an encyclopedia of football knowledge and I loved reading about his history of the game.
And for as much shit as Chris Berman gets, who here didn't love NFL Primetime with him and Tom Jackson? It was just 2 guys going over the highlights of all of Sunday's games with no gimmicks or nonsense.
Tom Gannon was a great guy to hear talk baseball and NBC's coverage of the NBA was top notch.
My point is, TV and sports media coverage absolutely was nothing like this when we were younger and it's sad to see how it's all turned into the sports version of MTV in that it's all just trash television that makes you feel dumber after having watched it.
I literally don't watch ANYTHING in regards to sports shows anymore, not even the pregame stuff on FOX or CBS.
I basically just tune into the games and that's it.