ESPN ranks St. Louis Cardinals second in NFL power rankings
ESPN struggles with its NFL power rankings.
On every Tuesday of the National Football League season, ESPN and many other national outlets (included FanSided, boom) put out their NFL power rankings. Incredibly, this is apparently not the easiest thing to tweet about if you are ESPN.
So two of the top three teams have carried bats on the field this year. Interesting. pic.twitter.com/H9jw4RkvWv
— Arizona Cardinals (@AZCardinals) December 22, 2015
The Arizona Cardinals took an epic shot at both ESPN and the Carolina Panthers in the same tweet. Carolina was carrying lumber onto the field before Sunday’s game against the New York Giants, and then there is the obvious reference to the St. Louis Cardinals, who are a baseball team and stuff.
Look, anybody can make a mistake, but how does that not get caught by a company with as many layers as ESPN? The Cardinals have not hosted football in St. Louis since 1987, their final year there before moving to Phoenix. Incredible, the Cardinals have not played the same amount of years in Arizona as they did in St. Louis, after moving there from Chicago in 1961.
Hopefully, ESPN can figure out which team plays baseball and which one plays football before the playoffs. It would be really embarrassing for it if Tim Kurkjian gets sent out to cover the NFC postseason, while Ed Werder is jetted out to Spring Training.