Comments on: FOX Champions League Final Coverage Was Amateur and Unprofessional. Hoping ESPN Buys Back The Rights.

By: goldenfoot

goldenfoot — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:31:29 +0000

I was going to DVR it, but fortunately/unfortunately I forgot. I apparantly wouldn’t have been able to watch the 2nd half anyway:

http://deadspin.com/5806653/to-minnesota-weatherman-a-tornado-warning-was-more-important-than-angry-calls-from-soccer-fans?tag=soccer

Weather spoiler alert we didn’t actually have a tornado. I’m sure the weather people shit themselves when they got to cut into a soccer game (45 minutes of weather terrorism where they didn’t even have to interupt the fucking weather radar for advertisements)

By: BFFredo

BFFredo — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:21:20 +0000

Curt Menefee? I might even know more about international soccer than he does.

Shit, I KNOW I know more about soccer than Curt Menefee.

Fox Soccer Channel = great

Fox network broadcasting soccer = awful

I’m guessing you change channels before Warren Barton and Christian Miles talk.

It’s weird. Fox through its Newscorp homey, BSkyB, owns the rights to the Premier League, Serie A, Champions League, and plenty of material. And yet their coverage, their sets, their production values reek of UHF. Why waste billions on TV rights when you’re not spending to make it look like it matters to you?

By: ol' scrappy grinder

ol' scrappy grinder — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:07:14 +0000

Because we’ll still watch. You might actually trick some people into watching if you see Curt Menefee. It hurts the product, but won’t stop you from watching.

Congrats, Jersey. You’ve done a more effective and effecient job of explaining Chris Berman’s career than that post yesterday.

By: Senator Jersey

Senator Jersey — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:05:41 +0000

Why talk down to your audience like that? Why?

Because we’ll still watch. You might actually trick some people into watching if you see Curt Menefee. It hurts the product, but won’t stop you from watching.

By: Vote Kreese in 2012

Vote Kreese in 2012 — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:04:35 +0000

Martin tyler is my president

By: spencer096

spencer096 — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:02:59 +0000

Why talk down to your audience like that? Why?

ask TBL.

By: Der Kaiser

Der Kaiser — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:01:06 +0000

It’s simple really. If you don’t care about soccer, you wouldn’t be tuning into a game on memorial weekend in middle of saturday afternoon. This game had NO connection to America. No americans were playing in the game, and it didn’t have ANY connection to american national team. So you were not going the get the casual american soccer fans that only care about the world cup to tune into this game. Everyone that was watching this game was watching because they know and like soccer. They know it’s called “goalkeeper” not “goaltender”. They know that “clubs” aren’t referred to as “franchises”. They know it’s “Hungary” not “Hungaria”. Ugghh.

Why talk down to your audience like that? Why?

By: ATL_Badger

ATL_Badger — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:59:55 +0000

Anyone else notice that they used the NFL background music?

They do this for baseball now too. It’s jarring. I thought the baseball theme was a little over-the-top, but the using the NFL music should be reserved strictly for football.

By: BlueHen03

BlueHen03 — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:58:38 +0000

Anyone else notice that they used the NFL background music?

By: ATL_Badger

ATL_Badger — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:57:15 +0000

So this Rep. Weiner guy actually DID post a picture of his dong on twitter? Fucking politicians man. Just when you think they can’t get dumber.

By: Bueller

Bueller — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:56:55 +0000

It might be just me but I love the ESPN play-by-play soccer guy – Ian Dark (?). I was surprised ESPN had a better guy than the FSC guys, imo.

By: Senator Jersey

Senator Jersey — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:55:06 +0000

Fox Soccer Channel = great

Bingo.

Fox network broadcasting soccer = awful

Bam. What pisses me off, and probably pisses you guys off, and what should ;probably piss most of the people that watch soccer off, is that this is an extremely easy fix. Just TV execs getting way to cute.

By: traderjack21

traderjack21 — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:51:32 +0000

Fox Soccer Channel = great

Fox network broadcasting soccer = awful

By: Der Kaiser

Der Kaiser — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:50:19 +0000

In order to appease 5% of retards tuning into soccer for the first time, they pissed off 95% of audience who are actually knowledgeable about soccer. Brilliant strategy if you ask me.

By: Senator Jersey

Senator Jersey — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:47:34 +0000

What’s really funny is that Fox fucking LOVES soccer. I think somewhere, two people higher than whoever takes care of soccer on the sports side for Fox decided to take the reigns with this and make it… I have no clue what the word is for it, but just extremely shitty. I knew things were bad when they had the games on FX and Curt was doing the hosting. They have a perfectly fine soccer studio crew and wasted it. I kind of understand why they did (Curt’s a familiar face on Fox national broadcasts) but it was still just a stupid move.

By: HakeemtheDream

HakeemtheDream — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:43:10 +0000

Don’t forget Curt Menehee calling Hungary “Hungaria”

LMAO

By: KC Resident

KC Resident — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:38:33 +0000

Curt Menefee? I might even know more about international soccer than he does.

By: bubbaprog

bubbaprog — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:33:11 +0000

Don't forget Curt Menehee calling Hungary "Hungaria"

By: sousedbergin

sousedbergin — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:31:32 +0000

MLS coverage often focuses on an individual or stat while play is missed. Drives me crazy, get one person in the booth with an english accent who knows what he is doing and fuck off with the charts, stats and personal anecdotes in game. This is not rocket science.

By: geoffreyvs is doing the Tomahawk Chop

geoffreyvs is doing the Tomahawk Chop — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:27:52 +0000

Brad Friedel’s accent made me glad we went straight from Kasey Keller to Tim Howard.

Friedel retired after his brilliant 2002 World Cup performance so there really wasn’t another option.