For some, watching the Big Game can be tedious, and while our group was enjoying the Super Bowl just fine, you can always use a little more action. And we almost got it, except that CBS and pretty much all the other big networks are hypocritical boobs. I say we all write cards and letters and Twitters and blog posts demanding that CBS give us back our fuckin’ streakers!
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Ban the bottom-of-the-TV-screen sports ticker. Everyone has a smartphone, they can get scores anytime they want, they get alerts every minute about the teams and players they care about, so enough already with the endless scroll that clutters up every freakin’ sports broadcast. ESPN used to only show scores of other games twice an hour and that was okay but now it’s a non-stop distraction that simply disrupts the game for people with razor-thin attention spans like me. I also believe that the non-stop score/news ticker is an insidious communist mind game that can hypnotize some and convince others that world-altering news is going to scroll by at any second. The sports ticker is causing mental instability and the general breakdown of society.
