Hear me out: A sports network that shows nothing but scores and highlights with the focus being on the sports and not the people delivering it because no one gives a fuck about them cause we tune in for the.....wait for it...sports.
I miss…..
Opening the newspaper for the box score
Getting Sports Illustrated for stories
Getting Eastbay to order the latest kicks
Local teams on local channels (for free)
When sports was the escape from life, not the gaslighting and politics of it.
Remember when ESPN showed Australian rules football all the time and every score was punctuated by a guy in a hat reacting like Isaac after he’d just mixed a perfect margarita on the Love Boat?
LeBron is the Emmitt Smith of the NBA - Great player, all-time longevity stats. On paper, he should be the greatest running back of all time. On paper.
But in reality, if you watched him and Barry Sanders, no one in their right mind is picking Emmitt over Barry. The way Barry moved, we have yet to see anyone else move like him 30 years later just like we have yet to see anyone move like Jordan.