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September 28-October 4, 1998 You asked for it. You got it. Sometimes, you just gotta scrap it all and focus on your core readers. You forget all the clever stories and sports and movies, and you watch television for about a week straight. That's what we did. And here's the result. Read it...then watch what we do.
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Makes Us Miss The Glowing Puck McGwire hits 70. The Mets pull an el-foldo worthy of the Red Sox. Bernie Williams plays completely pansy and pulls himself out of a game so he can win the batting title. And yet all we can really think about is the First and Ten "innovation" from the people who brought you Honey, I Shrunk The Gonads. Of all the problems with viewing the NFL on television, does anyone really believe the biggest is that watchers just can't tell where the first-down marker is? The announcers talk too much, the replays often prove officials to be blind old men (hmmm...), the studio shows are laughable odes to community college...and Disney/ESPN thinks we care about some imaginary freakin' yellow line? In case you missed it: ESPN premiered a new technology Sunday night: it's called "First and Ten," and it's a computer generated yellow line "drawn" across the field at the exact point of a first down. And it adds nothing!!! Just more gobbledy-gook to confuse Joe Theismann. Shoot. Just when Joe had figured out onside kicks. |
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