I think the question is this - did ESPN start hiring poorly, or does this talent just not exist anymore?
The people that work at ESPN are not funny. Not even a little bit. If they try, it’s cringy. The people in this photo didn’t have to try at all. They were smooth criminals.
It’s sad what has happened to ESPN it really is. They literally invented the tv sports medium. They were loaded w fun, talented personalities who made sports fun and was basically appointment tv for any sports fan. Then they just willfully destroyed their own product from the inside out, a slow death by 1,000 self inflicted paper cuts.