Anyone else hate ESPN

[The Killa]

Well we have an ESPN channel here, but I don't think it's the same channel you guys over there have. You have to pay extra for it, but if there's a game on it that I wanna watch I'll just go down the pub, since every pub in the country seems to have it. Sky Sports is where it's at though.

Any channel that employs John Barnes and Craig Burley doesn't deserve your money.

r u 'avin a giggle m8?

 

Barnesy is boss.

[Jonesizzle]

Come to Australia, we play footy without contact gear and are allowed to deliberately charge people with just shoulders, and we aren't little pussies who fake sh*t all the time.

Yep 'Straya c*nt.

Are you referring to American Football?

 

I turn to ESPN everyday. I have been watching Cold Pizza/First and Ten/First Take every since the show aired, watch Sports Center everyday, I have watched PTI and Around The Horn since the shows aired. I love sports, and I love basketball and football which is shown the most around this time. When basketball season ends, thats when sh*t gets boring, nothing but what seems like endless games of baseball.

[Ari Gold]

Australian sports channels are sh*t. Actually, we only have one proper one and the only sports they show is NASCAR and NFL. The rest of the time they're basically playing sh*t like reruns of Cops. Just checked what's on now and by luck it happen to be NASCAR: Sprint Cup.

 

Thank god I have more tolerance for NASCAR than most other Aussies, I actually don't mind watching it.

 

Unlike NFL, couldn't watch ten minutes of that crap unless Ben Graham or Sav Rocca are playing, only because they used to play AFL over here.

Wait, Australians watch NASCAR? What in the actual f*ck? Why... why the f*ck is Rally or F1 not bigger over there?

Our main racing league is the V8 Supercars. Formula 1 is probably second most-watched and then maybe the MotoGP (but Superbikes aren't shown). Although personally I am a huge World Rally Championship fan I don't even know anyone else that watches it, probably because it is on our least-watched channel SBS.

 

NASCAR isn't actually really watched, it's just that Channel One got the rights to broadcast it so their pretty much just milking it for what it's worth.

You're talking about free-to-air sports channels, right? Fox Sports is the sh*t, especially when it comes to their Premier League coverage, and ESPN's channel in Australia is an excellent alternative.

[John The Grudge]

I subscribe to ESPN in the UK mainly for the UFC. They also show drag racing and some other good stuff. Worth the money I'd say.

[Pagelzilla]

This topic went downhill quickly. I like ESPN's website for the NFL blogs. They have someone in charge of covering every division and they provide a very thorough analysis of every game