ESPN fallout continues; Cris Carter & Ray Lewis out, Randy Moss in.

[CarolinaJami']

Ray Lewis was not very good at all. Hopefully Michael Smith is next. He sucks too.

[Mr. Scot]

I generally liked Carter as an analyst, but I can't help wondering if his megadumb "get yourself a fall guy" advice helped hasten his exit.

[rainwater]

3 hours ago, CamMoon said:

People still watch ESPN?

Yes. More than all the other sports networks combined. Their issue is they overpaid for rights fees for too many leagues and now people are dropping cable where they required cable companies to carry their channels on the base package. Without those fees from every cable user they lose lots of revenue. They still are the dominant force in sports and nobody is coming close to challenging them (Fox is failing at every turn).

[top dawg]

As a cable cutter,  I say to hell with ESPN.  I still can't get over its highjacking of Monday Night Football. May ESPN continue to feel the pain, tank,  and make the NFL come back to its senses and return to its roots. 

[Cary Kollins]

3 hours ago, csx said:

They have way too many personalities to begin with. They can cover sports just fine with far fewer of them.

 

ESPN stopped prioritizing sports coverage a long time ago.

[Kakarot]

Oh well. Ray didn't belong on there anyways; he was turrible. Carter was ok.

I tell you what, though. Randy and that country accent lol. Like Delhomme, it'll be hard to understand some of the things he says.

[SmootsDaddy89]

Ray Lewis on the Ray Rice video: "Ray Rice put a lot of people in jeopardy because of his actions. A lot of people in jeopardy. Not just himself. He needs to understand that. Because none of this happens if what happened that night in that elevator don’t happen. If I ask anything in this whole thing, I ask, let there be light."

Wow, what a loss for ESPN.

[TheSpecialJuan]

Ray Lewis offers his views on the Peyton Manning HGH allegations

The full response from Ray Lewis, directed to Kolber, Steve Young, and Trent Dilfer, appears below.

“First of all, I think my situation’s a little bit different because I said this was my last ride. And I’ve always been kind of one to pay attention to fiery darts. And so I think what people needs [sic] to understand — I understand Peyton’s frustration because legacies are sweat driven. And I’ll be durned [sic] if a liar or a coward will ever take away what me, myself, Steve Young, Peyton Manning has ever done in this game. Like, that’s the only sad part about this is that you let these people in, and then they run. This guy says all of this during my Super Bowl [week] and then you never hear from them again.

“But we give them access to what greatness really is, and greatness hurts. It hurts every freaking day. And it hurts worse when somebody tries to tell you that you cheated the game. I get Peyton, man, and from my perspective I’ve never done nothing like that and that’s what’s embarrassing that I did it for my teammates, man, and that’s what’s bothering Peyton right now is that for him to be trying to get back, bro, right? Do everything he can. And nobody knows what that takes. Nobody knows the sacrifices you leave your family. Nobody knows what you go through.”

It’s not entirely clear what Ray said, but he definitely didn’t answer the question regarding the “best way to go about handling something like this.” Which means that Lewis probably should have been asked a different question.

[Davidson Deac II]

Dont watch ESPN much, except when they have a game I want to watch.  And when they do, I usually don't care who is doing the game.  As long as its not Dick Vitale. Moss, Lewis, Carter meh. 

[panthertime]

OK, let's "back, back, back, back" up here a little bit:

Now get rid of Chris Berman and ESPN might just have my attention. This guy is way past his prime. I always pass up the Mother Ship on game day and he, Carter and Moss were some of the reasons.

But, if we must, and to borrow a song from Meat Loaf, "Two out of Three ain't bad."

 

 

[RumHam]

12 hours ago, The Huddler said:

It used to be cool to be a rebel and not watch ESPN...

 

now all the dweebs trash ESPN and say they dont watch it.. Which makes you cool and a Rebel if you watch it..

 

kinda like tatoos

 

dweebs tryin to be "in" .   Yeah whats ESPN?? Who watches ESPN??

 

dweeb

fug it. Throw the television in the trash.

[Omega Atrocity]

Charles Woodson is taking the other spot if anyone is curious.

[Snake]

18 hours ago, pantherphan96 said:

tbh I feel like most of these "losses" (Bayless, Schilling, Olbermann, Cowherd, Whitlock) will actually make ESPN more watchable. 

It's ESPN they will find a way to fug it up. 

[ScreenPlay]

ESPN is lame as hell for getting rid of Keyshawn dude was legit.