Maybe I'll give this football thing a try...
The college football season ended with the "championship" game, with USC handing it to Oklahoma 55-19 in the FedEx Orange Bowl. The Trojans were up 38-10 heading into the halftime show, which featured Kelly Clarkson, Trace Atkins, and Ashlee Simpson, and a few technical problems, including Kelly Clarkson starting with a dead mic, and I noticed that something caused Ashlee Simpson to ditch her in-ear monitors. The show ended with a chorus of boos raining down from the crowd. Maybe this is indicative that Kelly Clarkson, Trace Atkins, and Ashlee Simpson aren't a popular as they have been established to be, but I think it could be possible that the crowd just wanted to watch a good game, but they got a blowout and Ashlee Simpson.
ABC has led the way with their prime time broadcast of not football, but football-based programming. They now kickoff the season with a show with the perfect combination of a white female pop artist wearing the jersey of one team, a rapper featuring another rapper also wearing another team's jersey, and a classic rock band wearing spandex. Maybe I'm reading this all wrong. Maybe they are raising the bar by expect you to have already done your research to know what the big off-season moves were, which 6-10 team from the previous season will win their division, and which dyansty will finally stumble due to salary cap problems. They certainly aren't going to tell you. To me this special just screams out that someone at ABC thinks that there are some people who probably wouldn't watch the first game of the NFL season, but might stay for the three hours of football after being lured to the network by the combination of Usher and Aerosmith.
Although to be fair to the media conglomeration, ABC's sister network ESPN seems to realize that some people are interested in the game. Look at their Sunday morning pregame shows compared to FOX and CBS.
ABC has led the way with their prime time broadcast of not football, but football-based programming. They now kickoff the season with a show with the perfect combination of a white female pop artist wearing the jersey of one team, a rapper featuring another rapper also wearing another team's jersey, and a classic rock band wearing spandex. Maybe I'm reading this all wrong. Maybe they are raising the bar by expect you to have already done your research to know what the big off-season moves were, which 6-10 team from the previous season will win their division, and which dyansty will finally stumble due to salary cap problems. They certainly aren't going to tell you. To me this special just screams out that someone at ABC thinks that there are some people who probably wouldn't watch the first game of the NFL season, but might stay for the three hours of football after being lured to the network by the combination of Usher and Aerosmith.
Although to be fair to the media conglomeration, ABC's sister network ESPN seems to realize that some people are interested in the game. Look at their Sunday morning pregame shows compared to FOX and CBS.
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