ESPN’s shallow yet constant analysis of Johnny Manziel and LeBron James summed up in one segment
If you haven’t had enough of ESPN’s non-stop, 24-7 coverage of LeBron James, the Cleveland Cavaliers, Johnny Manziel, and the Cleveland Browns in the last few months, I’d like to say congratulations because you happen to be the exact demographic ESPN is gearing their stories and segments to.
The King James-Johnny Football coverage reached a breaking point Tuesday when ESPN decided to compare Manziel and the Browns to James and the Cavs based on their play Sunday.
Shoutout to @JellyIntoJam for capturing this embarassing segment and graphic and posting it on twitter.
Is that seriously what we’re dumbing sports down to now, cross-sport stats that don’t prove anything and simply poke fun at bad quarterbacks? Does the biggest sports media organization in the world have to troll a rookie quarterback with ridiculous stats like that?
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It’s an attempt at humor, but it falls so far short of actually being funny, like most of the jokes the anchors and sports pundits of ESPN spew on a regular basis. I’m all for sports-related humor, but in the Bill Simmons way, not in cheap puns and forced references ESPN’s “talent” regularly uses.
If this was a one-time thing from ESPN, then fine, I can tolerate it. They’re trying to have fun with the audience; I get it. But this isn’t a one-time thing.
ESPN suspended Bill Simmons for telling the truth about Roger Goodell. Then, ESPN ripped off Tosh.0‘s web redemption. Now, they’re making up cross-sport stat tables and beating the life out of sports. When will it end?
ESPN regularly skims the surface on actual news and give the mic to any and every former player to comment on what’s happening in sports. It’s a lot cheaper to show some stupid graphics than actually dissect why Manziel was awful on Sunday and why James and the Cavs weren’t.
In that way, ESPN is no better than any other incendiary cable news channel, like FOX News or CNN. All they care about is ratings and advertising; they no longer actually care about the product. Maybe they never did, but it feels a lot worse now that it ever has.
I’m not saying every story has to be a complete in-depth look at what’s going on and broken down into the most minute details, but give me something other than shallow garbage under the guise of “news.”
I’ll hop off my blogger high horse now, but ESPN, particularly the “LeBron-Center and the Manziel Zone”, has reached an all-time low.
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