# Sports Rant: I cannot believe I no longer have this option on Sunday Nights after football **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 12, 2016, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-rant-i-cannot-believe-i-no-longer-have-this-option-on-sunday-nights-after-football/765740 "2016-09-12T04:54:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cg16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@cg16](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cg16)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-rant-i-cannot-believe-i-no-longer-have-this-option-on-sunday-nights-after-football/765740/1 "2016-09-12T04:54:16Z")
I was waiting all day to see highlights of all the other games around the league and now I am shocked that I no longer get that opportunity as a sports fan. I turn to SportsCenter on ESPN and they show nothing but quicklights. Chris Berman is no longer on the Blitz so I couldn’t watch that. Then I said let me turn to NFL Gameday Final on the NFL Network and I see Deion Sanders and the two other guys lounging on a sofa acting silly. And the Highlights for each game are like 10 mins apart. In between the highlights they are cracking jokes and interviewing players on the phone. So this is what the end of NFL sunday has come to? Between the Cowboys losing and not seeing any highlights my head is about to explode. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-rant-i-cannot-believe-i-no-longer-have-this-option-on-sunday-nights-after-football/765740/2 "2016-09-12T04:55:28Z")
#First World problems. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-rant-i-cannot-believe-i-no-longer-have-this-option-on-sunday-nights-after-football/765740/3 "2016-09-12T13:11:37Z")
IIRC, NFL Primetime (ESPNs old football-centric highlights show) cannot be played anymore because of a thing with the NFL, contracts, the NFL network and a whole host of weird legal crap. I think you’re selling Gameday a bit too short. Their highlights are better-than-average. Although, yes, you do have you live through the silliness. ---
**Author:** ![cg16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@cg16](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cg16)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-rant-i-cannot-believe-i-no-longer-have-this-option-on-sunday-nights-after-football/765740/4 "2016-09-12T15:10:59Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > IIRC, NFL Primetime (ESPNs old football-centric highlights show) cannot be played anymore because of a thing with the NFL, contracts, the NFL network and a whole host of weird legal crap. > > I think you’re selling Gameday a bit too short. Their highlights are better-than-average. Although, yes, you do have you live through the silliness. Where can I find out more about why highlights can’t be played anymore? And GameDay Final is too unprofessional for me ---
**Author:** ![brad\_d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@brad\_d](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brad_d)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-rant-i-cannot-believe-i-no-longer-have-this-option-on-sunday-nights-after-football/765740/5 "2016-09-12T16:02:42Z")
My wife and I were complaining about the exact same thing while bouncing back and forth between ESPN and the NFL network last night. Very much a first-world problem, but still frustrating. Sent from my SCH-I435 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-rant-i-cannot-believe-i-no-longer-have-this-option-on-sunday-nights-after-football/765740/6 "2016-09-12T17:30:52Z")
[This article is old](http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gameon/post/2011/12/chris-berman-tom-jackson-bringing-back-espns-nfl-primetime-for-one-night-/1#.V9bYYzVrWtg), but it explains it pretty good. Basically, once NBC bought the rights to Sunday Night Football, their pre-game show superceded the fact that ESPN had a post-game show. How the NFL Network isn’t affected I’ll never know… ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-rant-i-cannot-believe-i-no-longer-have-this-option-on-sunday-nights-after-football/765740/7 "2016-09-12T21:12:43Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > #First World problems. This is mild threadshitting… just don’t reply to a topic at all if you have no interest in it. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-rant-i-cannot-believe-i-no-longer-have-this-option-on-sunday-nights-after-football/765740/8 "2016-09-14T17:53:18Z")
I still miss the [NFL.com](http://NFL.com) highlight videos that had the local radio announcers mixed in. Now the primary highlight videos are from Gameday Final. Blah. ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-rant-i-cannot-believe-i-no-longer-have-this-option-on-sunday-nights-after-football/765740/9 "2016-09-14T19:10:47Z")
This is a general complaint of mine on the state of sports news shows these days. It used to be that Sportscenter was an hour show that would show results of every major pro sport game that was played that day (or the day before for morning shows). Now Sportscenter is a 2 hour show that only shows a handful of the games that were played that day. The rest of the show is covering general silliness to such an extent as to be ridiculous. They probably spent a quarter of the show on Tom Brady’s suspension, taking 15 different angles (how is this affecting Giselle?). So myself and many others end up going to the internet to find a synopsis of games that we are interested in. Then the network wonders why viewership numbers are down. Oh and that NBC pregame show absolutely sucked the few times that I tried to watch it. Tony Dungy and Peter King droning on about crap. Well King just mostly name dropping and telling us information that is already known. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-rant-i-cannot-believe-i-no-longer-have-this-option-on-sunday-nights-after-football/765740/10 "2016-09-14T19:26:24Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > I still miss the [NFL.com](http://NFL.com) highlight videos that had the local radio announcers mixed in. Now the primary highlight videos are from Gameday Final. Blah. Yes! I also miss the highlights that used to appear on-demand when I had Comcast cable back in the day. They were about 10 min long and featured all scoring plays and also big penalties, big runs, cool catches…the whole nine. I would watch every team just because they were so perfectly edited and gave me a good overview on the league. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-rant-i-cannot-believe-i-no-longer-have-this-option-on-sunday-nights-after-football/765740/11 "2016-09-14T19:29:59Z")
NBC does game highlights before their Sunday night game. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-rant-i-cannot-believe-i-no-longer-have-this-option-on-sunday-nights-after-football/765740/12 "2016-09-14T19:31:17Z")
Yeah, but then you have to listen to Dan Patrick, Rodney Harrison and Tony Dungy analyze the oppozzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Sorry I must have fallen asleep out of boredom ---
**Author:** ![cg16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@cg16](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cg16)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-rant-i-cannot-believe-i-no-longer-have-this-option-on-sunday-nights-after-football/765740/13 "2016-09-14T22:30:40Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > NBC does game highlights before their Sunday night game. But their pregame show starts before the 4:25pm games are over. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-rant-i-cannot-believe-i-no-longer-have-this-option-on-sunday-nights-after-football/765740/14 "2016-09-15T14:34:04Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > NBC does game highlights before their Sunday night game. True, but that show (“Football Night in America”) is so laden with sponsored segments and other dross that I find it to be close to unwatchable. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-rant-i-cannot-believe-i-no-longer-have-this-option-on-sunday-nights-after-football/765740/15 "2016-09-15T18:42:10Z")
> [@cg16](#): > > And GameDay Final is too unprofessional for me That was my main problem with Chris Berman. Maybe it’s just my general disdain for him, but any highlight show is much better without him involved. ---
**Author:** ![cg16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@cg16](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cg16)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-rant-i-cannot-believe-i-no-longer-have-this-option-on-sunday-nights-after-football/765740/16 "2016-09-15T23:17:37Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > That was my main problem with Chris Berman. Maybe it’s just my general disdain for him, but any highlight show is much better without him involved. What’s unprofessional about Berman? ---
**Author:** ![cg16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@cg16](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cg16)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-rant-i-cannot-believe-i-no-longer-have-this-option-on-sunday-nights-after-football/765740/17 "2016-09-18T23:36:16Z")
Found the highlight show which airs on NFL Network at 7:30pm and ends at 8:30pm Extensive highlights of each game. It’s like NFL Primetime without Chris Berman and Tom Jackson ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-rant-i-cannot-believe-i-no-longer-have-this-option-on-sunday-nights-after-football/765740/18 "2016-09-19T01:22:29Z")
> [@cg16](#): > > What’s unprofessional about Berman? The nicknames. No one circles the wagons. The frozen tundra of Lambeau Field. That ear-grating way of saying “Daaaa Raiders.” The Three Stooges sound effects. Not to mention the sexual harassment suit: > **[ESPN’s Chris Berman at center of sexual harassment lawsuit](https://nypost.com/2015/11/10/espns-chris-berman-at-center-of-sexual-harassment-lawsuit/)** > > He wanted to go all … the … way? Chris Berman, the longtime ESPN host known for his catchphrases, was the subject of a recent sexual harassment claim against ESPN that was settled, acco… ---
**Author:** ![cg16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@cg16](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cg16)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-rant-i-cannot-believe-i-no-longer-have-this-option-on-sunday-nights-after-football/765740/19 "2016-09-19T01:23:19Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > The nicknames. No one circles the wagons. The frozen tundra of Lambeau Field. That ear-grating way of saying “Daaaa Raiders.” The Three Stooges sound effects. > > Not to mention the sexual harassment suit: > > [ESPN’s Chris Berman at center of sexual harassment lawsuit](http://nypost.com/2015/11/10/espns-chris-berman-at-center-of-sexual-harassment-lawsuit/) That was him making the highlights more fun ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-rant-i-cannot-believe-i-no-longer-have-this-option-on-sunday-nights-after-football/765740/20 "2016-09-19T01:28:02Z")
Our mileage certainly varies on this. I’d rather pound my nuts flat with a wooden hammer than listen to Chris Berman. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-rant-i-cannot-believe-i-no-longer-have-this-option-on-sunday-nights-after-football/765740.md?page=2)