Actually, it didn’t play too well here in Chicago either.
**Trunk ** is right though, I don’t need football, or ESPN becoming touchy feeley or even slightly interested in anything that does not have to do with the game at hand or really important sports news. Not movies, not music, not cancer, not anything except sports. Maybe a movie if it happens to be a sports movie and there’s a legitmate reason to bring it up (say like that Mark Wahlberg flick during an Eagles game or something) but then only mentioned in passing.
If they’re so interested in having this kind of dumb shit during the games, why not simulcast it on Oxygen and have your booth consist of Alan Alda and Ryan Seacrest or something?
I didn’t say other people weren’t annoyed by it, I’m just saying that it was a Vikings fan that came in here and started a Pit thread on it.
Yeah, Deanna may have been on too long, and it was annoying, but if you’re that pissed off about it, change the channel. No one’s forcing you to watch.
Dio is absolutely 100% correct- I started to make the same post after seeing that shit. For the record, I love me some Brett Favre, but having his wife in the fucking booth for what seemd like an hour literally made me turn the channel, and I was really into the game. There is absolutely no place in sports for a ten minute interview *during a game * with a players wife, no matter who is, what she’s been through or what she’s accomplished, period. And no need to show her in the crowd fifty fucking times. Yes she was pleasant and engaging the bit I sat through, but there is zero need for it. Do they really think people into breast cancer who don’t care for football are now going to watch ESPN games because they had her on? Poor fucking thing, she had breast cancer and got the best medical treatment available- there are many many many athletes with family who have gone through the same or worse and they don’t interrupt games to chat with them. I wonder if they would have done that if she were a fat pig?
And don’t even get me started on the Vince Vaughn debacle- they kept him through like three commercial breaks and asked him maybe two questions- talk about uncomfortable silences. And he was obvioulsy on to plug his new movie, but did they even mention it? Don’t they prepare questions for the guests who they know are coming on? They truly acted like they didn’t know Vaughn was coming on because they had no legitimate questions for him.
Who gives a shit about her book? Why should a single second be taken away from the game to shill for some NFL groupie’s book that she probably didn’t even write? I always hate when celebrities write books about their diseases like they’re the first people in the world who ever got them and this chick isn’t even a celebrity, she just sleeps with one. Not only that but she took all the testosterone out of the broadcast. Football isn’t supposed to be about sipping tea and sobbing about breast cancer. She was wearing a shawl, for Christ’s sake. A shawl.
YES. I’ve been bitching about the celebrities in the booth since they’ve been doing it. I t was bad enough when they were turning the booth into the Jay Leno show (“Now here’s Marlon Wayans to talk about Shitty Movie 6”) but now they’ve taken an even more sickening turn into daytime talk. That is not a good precedent. Not a good precedent at all.
Incidentally, it should be noted that this is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the League gets at least marginally involved with that (lots of pink on the sidelines and on clothing, probably a bunch of donations, etc.). Mrs. Favre’s interview and book at least sort of tie into something the NFL is doing. I find MNF’s weekly in-game interview with whichever actor happens to have a DisneyCorp-owned movie coming out to be a lot more offensive. (Though Jimmy Kimmel was legitimately funny two weeks ago.)
What choice does anyone have if they want to see the game? I tried turning off the sound and listening to the radio broadcast but it wasn’t synced up so I was hearing the play about 3 seconds before I saw it.
And only a blind Vikings fan would see “your jealousy” as “everyone else is just jealous.” I’m sorry your Vikings suck eggs, but that doesn’t make Deanna Favre a skank bag.
(For the record, I am no fan of the in-booth interviews).
Dude, I’m not “jealous.” I’ve written off this season but we still have AP to feel good about. I don’t even have anything against Favre personally. I just get sick of all the glurge about him every single time he gets on prime time. Did you see that bilge before the game?
I wish they could find a way to simulcast Brad Nessler and Dick Vermeil doing the game straight, and the current crew doing the game like they do it now.
I guaran-fucking-tee Nessler/Vermeil would destroy them.
Nessler/Vermeil would only destroy them in the eyes of football fans. But ESPN and the NFL have come up with this idea that because the Super Bowl is sucha huge fucking draw, they should make a game a week into the same sort of social event, where the football is secondary to the event itself.
Hell, football fans will watch the game no matter what nonsense Madden/Michaels or Kornheiser/Tirico/Jaws/Guest Idiot are spouting. But the dream is that every idiot will have a fun time while having the basics of the game explained at every turn.
I’m with Dio on listening to the radio broadcast while watching the game. But I have the advantage of Tivo, letting me synch the action up with the broadcast.
Happily, I did not see the pre-game crap. I never watch that stuff. And in general I agree with you that the announcers go on too much about Favre. But the fact is, the guy is a certified NFL Legend ™, arguably the greatest quarterback of all time, certain first-ballot Hall of Famer, has numerous memorable Monday Night games, and he’s playing great football in perhaps his final season. Do you really think they’re NOT going to talk about him? It just bothers you more than most because the Packers are your hated rivals.
And as I said, I don’t like the booth interviews either, but Deanna Favre came off as a perfectly pleasant person, so no reason to go off on her.
(As an aside, do we think the talking point for the Broncos last night might have been Cutler’s arm strength? Man, you’d think that kid was simply one big bicep, since all he has is “arm strength.” Yeesh.)
This is why you turn the TV down on Mondays and listen to Marv. The lack of synchronicity is more than made up for by the reduction in stupid, boring, and orange.
How about after the game? I shit you not, this was the question being discussed by Steve Young and Emmitt Smith right after the game ended, which was superimposed in the middle of the screen below their in-stadium table:
Is Brett Favre being overlooked this season?
I’m a girl and I watch football, and the first time I saw Favre’s wife talking about breast cancer in her pink jersey, it annoyed me. I watch football to escape from thinking about cancer and global warming and terrorists. Get on with the game!
I’ve missed most of MNF this season due to work, but by the sound of it, I should be grateful for that.
Of course he’s being overlooked. Brady and the Manning are the current NFL darlings. That means, instead of the Talking Heads spending anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour metaphorically (and maybe literally) fellating Favre, he’s only getting 15 or 20 minutes worth of attention, tops.
That’s especially galling since neither Brady nor the Manning have that hint of vulnerability about them that the MNF crew find so appealing.
The fellatio is constantly bad with Farve, but it doesn’t just stop there. They do it for Peyton and, at the beginning of the year at least, LT. I think it exposes them as unoriginal hacks that can’t think of anything insightful to say, so they five they verbal love to whatever man-crush happens to be on the field. And it really seems to be getting worse. Now the play by play guys are just as bad as the color guys.
I remember a time when, were anybody in Minnesota to speak that harshly of the wife of a Packer, he’d be shunned and cast from the bosom of his community. That is, in communities that recognized the existence of professional, versus college, football. Then Minneapolis got an expansion team and everybody acted as if they had never considered Green Bay a local team.
And Mrs Favre is rather attractive, too, though I also remember when “skank” was a backhanded compliment when used by a guy. That was earlier today, wasn’t it?
