Looks like I won't be watching ESPN the next two weeks

Well, what looked inevitable in September finally happened. The Patriots are in the Super Bowl. That in and of itself would be enough to make me avoid the coverage over the next two weeks, but their opponent being a NY team just compounds the annoyance level of this situation. I guess its slightly better than if the Cheeseland Favres had made it, but #4 made sure that wouldn't happen.

Oh well, its not like I watch ESPN very often these days anyways.

I just feel overjoyed for those poor New England fans. Can you believe its been three whole months since the region celebrated a title?

Just when I thought SportsCenter couldn't get any dumber...

...it goes and does something like this. Unlike Lloyd Christmas, however, ESPN does not totally redeem itself with this stunt.

You see, back in the day I loved SportsCenter. I loved watching Charlie Steiner, Dan Patrick, Kenny Mayne, and the rest of the SportsCenter crew. They actually showed highlights, weren't just a giant marketing wing for Disney and their crappy movies, and were genuinely cool. Who doesn't remember the great "This is SportsCenter" TV spots?

Then ESPN became part of the Mouse's evil empire, and everything went to crap. Rich Eisen and Charlie Steiner left, Dan Patrick went off to do his radio show, and Kenny Mayne was relegated to doing comedic bits and horse racing. Stuart Scott has devolved into self-parody territory, alongside Chris Berman (who was already there before ESPN went downhill).

The anchors today aren't very good. ESPN seriously compromises its journalistic integrity by its ownership stake in the Arena Football League, and embarrassed itself with the whole "Bonds on Bonds" debacle. The once great shows, such as Baseball Tonight, have turned into weak shadows of themselves, with morons like John Kruk and Steve Phillips passing as analysts.

Today, ESPN is nothing but the bloated, oversold, corpse of what used to be a cool network. I guess that is what happens when your network hits the mature stage of life; it becomes weak and bland. Without a cool young network challenging it, ESPN hasn't had any reason to change its course. CNNSI (as a network) is a distant memory, and Fox Sports was a joke.

My question is, where the hell is CSC? I mean, there was some worry it would go under a while back, but ever since that Internet millionaire bought it, we haven't heard crap from the channel and its under-dog SportsCenter challenger, Sports Night....

What's that you say? That wasn't real? Only a fictional TV show....

Nevermind...