I realize that you have to fill 24 hours, in a row with "sports of some kind, and that means you put fishing and other outdoor “sports” on, (mainly on ESPN2), but you’ve gone too far.
I turn on ESPN2 last night and there it was!!! NBA pre-season basketball.
Except it wasn’t pre-season, hell training camps don’t open for another 2 1/2 months. This was some bullshit summer league games that truly mean less then nothing.
Come on, you could re-run those NBA finals videos and everything would be fine. Hell, you could even run all of the Super Bowl highlight videos and doing that would make more sense then televising these basketball “games.”
That’s nothing. I turned on ESPN 2 one day and saw a Magic: The Gathering tournament being played. ESPN 2 truly has some bizarre programming sometimes.
You must (please tell me you must) be joking. They didn’t really broadcast that, did they? Sure, Magic:TG is a great game. Thousands of folks love it.
But it’s not a spectator sport, for God’s sake!
There are hundreds of thousands of competitions at the Pro, Semi-pro, Pro-Am, Celebrity, College, Junior College, Minor League, Bush League, Prep, High School, Junior High, Middle School, et al leve which could be broadcast. People playing cards just is not entertaining. Bowling is more stimulating.
I like to think of ESPN as the “Orange Pie Piece Network.” Any pastime that is likely to be the subject of a question in the orange section of “Trivial Pursuit” – i.e., sports and leisure – can fit in comfortably on the network.
I don’t know if they still do this, but ESPN2 did show the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour. I never watched it, since when I was really into Magic I didn’t get ESPN2 like I do now. But The Duelist, Scrye, and InQuest magazines all reported it as fact and there were even some articles about how neat it was for the game to finally be “accepted” by the mainstream. At the time, I thought the idea of watching M:TG on TV was the neatest thing since dual lands.
You can always change the fucking channel but that seems to be a bit too challenging for some of you.
Heh heh heh- no smart alecky post ever goes unnoticed. . .
It was hilarious. Do you remmeber those Olympic four-minute vignettes on each athlete where they shoot the athlete in soft focus, and show 30 seconds of the athlete at rest, 1 minute with their family, 2 minutes training? They actually had “Player profiles” for the Magic players. Imagine Olympic vignettes except where the subject is wearing black jeans, an X-Files T-shirt, isn’t athletic, and doesn’t appear to be well acquianted with soap.
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