NFL Network is slowly turning into ESPN

[the white hiphop thief]

MLB Network refuses to turn hack

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

That nikka be looking scary as hell

Nightmares

if the 2 Chris's as in Bosh & Broussard, were sperm donors and it got mixed up together and here are the results

 

[OG Talk]

I wonder why the NFL doesn't show classic games from the 70's and 80's like NBA TV does..Especially during the off season..They do own the rebroadcast rights don't they?

 

[Wacky D]

well they needed more debates, and some form of sports-entertainment to counter espn. i mean, yall still watch first take and all that stuff.

im not up on what yall are complaining about tho. i figure that just as long as they dont O.D. and as long as they dont turn into TMZ and fox news, theyll be okay.

 

[LezJepzin]

That nikka be looking scary as hell

Nightmares

nikka ruined my happy hour last week

 

[Joe Sixpack]

I'd like to be able to watch Gale Sayer's six touchdown performance or one of Jim Brown’s monster games on a Saturday afternoon..

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

I don't watch any of them anymore...the internet is a much better source of news, and that's all I really watched for anyway.

Question, tho: what do y'all want from this coverage?

 

[3Rivers]

I wonder why the NFL doesn't show classic games from the 70's and 80's like NBA TV does..Especially during the off season..They do own the rebroadcast rights don't they?

The original philly.com link is dead but this may explain why we don't see more classic footage. From 2008:

Is NFL Films being phased out by the NFL??? - The Official San Diego Chargers Forum

They created a mythic image of pro football with their game-as-war filmmaking, and America absolutely ate it up. "We created a way of portraying the game," Steve Sabol said 2 years ago.

That "way" has helped turn the NFL into an $8 billion-a-year cash cow that has left baseball and college football and every other sport in its dust. That "way" has helped the Sabols and NFL Films win an impressive 92 Emmys over the years, with another 14 nominations announced earlier this month.

But the layoffs earlier this month of 21 NFL Films employees was the latest indication that many in the league may think that "way" has outlived its usefulness.

Steve Bornstein, the former ESPN chief who was brought in by the league to run NFL Media, which includes the NFL Network, NFL.com and NFL Films, has shown less and less interest in Films' signature programming, according to several league sources. He has indicated, the sources said, it's too expensive to make and that there isn't a market out there for it anymore.

"The shots that people associate with Films, those long, beautiful, super slo-mo shots of a spiraling football, the NFL Network people hate that," said a league executive familiar with the situation. "It's too slow for them.

"They're so into their mind-set. The people they've brought in [at NFL Network] are either from ESPN or 'Best Damn Sports Show.' And they have their idea of what's good television. It's a vastly different kind of thing than what NFL Films has produced."

"Everything about the network is about what's happening right now," one Films employee said. "Some of the best stuff we've done over the years has been the historical stuff. But they just don't want to go there. They just don't think there's an audience for that. They think if people tune into the NFL Network and see black-and-white footage, they're on to the next channel."

Bornstein has ended much of Films' signature programming, which included the long-running "NFL Films Presents" series on ESPN and Films' Emmy-winning "Lost Treasures" anthology.

The "Game of the Week" show that Films used to produce for the NFL Network, complete with music, script and Films' unique camera work, has been replaced by much-cheaper-to-make "Instant Replay," which essentially is SportsCenter type highlights of games. Films ended up selling "Game of the Week" to the ION television network, whose primary programming is reruns of old shows like "Baywatch," "Who's The Boss?" and "Mama's Family."

 

[the white hiphop thief]

I wonder why the NFL doesn't show classic games from the 70's and 80's like NBA TV does..Especially during the off season..They do own the rebroadcast rights don't they?

They do once in awhile ive seen a few super bowls from the 70's and 80's and i remember them playing a Vikings Cowboys playoff game from the 70's when the Cowboys won on a hail mary by Stauabach but for the most part they show more modern games..

 

[the white hiphop thief]

The original philly.com link is dead but this may explain why we don't see more classic footage. From 2008:

Is NFL Films being phased out by the NFL??? - The Official San Diego Chargers Forum

The reason the nfl grew in popularity was that early nfl films shyt..If this piece of sh!t takes away John Facendas heavenly voice and that great war music he needs to be destroyed..

 

[Clem]

well they needed more debates, and some form of sports-entertainment to counter espn. i mean, yall still watch first take and all that stuff.

That's the opposite of what they need. NFL AM is such a blatant attempt to capitalize on that lane. I don't need to see dudes forcing arguments they don't even believe. Also, NFL Network isn't really competing with ESPN.

 

[RugbyMan]

It would be worse than having nothing but clones on staff.

Exactly. nikkas on this site think they know EVERYTHING about sports. shyt would be a cluster-fukk

 

[HarlemUSA]

The original philly.com link is dead but this may explain why we don't see more classic footage. From 2008:

Is NFL Films being phased out by the NFL??? - The Official San Diego Chargers Forum

"They're so into their mind-set. The people they've brought in [at NFL Network] are either from ESPN or 'Best Damn Sports Show.' And they have their idea of what's good television. It's a vastly different kind of thing than what NFL Films has produced."

Same shyt different network. HTF do you hate to see the slo-mo spiral of ball it was

The "Game of the Week" show that Films used to produce for the NFL Network, complete with music, script and Films' unique camera work, has been replaced by much-cheaper-to-make "Instant Replay," which essentially is SportsCenter type highlights of games. Films ended up selling "Game of the Week" to the ION television network, whose primary programming is reruns of old shows like "Baywatch," "Who's The Boss?" and "Mama's Family."

Game of the Week was my shyt. 2008 had some memorable GOTWs for me Cardinals vs NYG, NYG vs Steelers, Steelers vs Cowboys

 

[3Rivers]

The reason the nfl grew in popularity was that early nfl films shyt..If this piece of sh!t takes away John Facendas heavenly voice and that great war music he needs to be destroyed..

Sadly it seems that's exactly what they've been trying to do the last few years

SI.com - Writers - Dr. Z: Goodell, NFL turns back on NFL Films; other meeting notes - Thursday April 3, 2008 4:35PM

I was interested in the commissioner's take on the progress and future of the NFL Network. It was born in 2004. A guy named Steve Bornstein was brought in to run something called NFL Media, which lumps NFL Films and NFL.com in with NFL Network. What he created in the NFL Network part of it was a hodgepodge of programming that brings us half a season of live games and a good NFL draft package, but makes up for it with extended interviews, press conferences, talk, talk and talk, deadly stuff featuring such artistic and intellectual luminaries as Rich Eisen and Jamie Dukes.

It wouldn't be so bad if you could just tune out the blah blah and stay with the stuff you like, but much of NFL Films' really creative football material, both from an artistic and historic perspective, is being squeezed out. NFL Films, with its near passionate dedication to the game, is, in the words of Bornstein and his Network buddies, "obsolete," and "passé," if you listen to the repeated remarks. The only place you could see NFL Films' Game of the Week last season was on something called the ION network, which does reruns of stuff such as Baywatch.

It's sad. NFL Films recently had to lay off 21 employees. Owners I talked to, who have grown up on its footage, seemed to have slid their allegiance over to the Network. Patriots owner Bob Kraft, the chairman of the NFL's Broadcasting Committee, was quoted in a column by the Philadelphia Daily News' Paul Domowitch as saying, "People who are football addicts will love the NFL Network."

Report: NFL buyout list includes Sabol - NFL - Rumors - FanNation

Monday is the deadline for NFL employees at the league office in New York, the NFL Network in Los Angeles and NFL Films in Mount Laurel, N.J., to accept the buyout package the league offered last month. The league is cutting a total of 150 jobs at those three operations. According to sources, they aren't going to come anywhere close to reaching that figure in buyouts. Which means there will be layoffs. The league, which is using the struggling economy as an excuse for the buyouts and layoffs, even though it is making lots and lots and lots of money, already laid off almost 10 percent of NFL Films' work force last March. The league's severance package for layoff victims is an embarrassment. They are offering just 1 week of salary for every year of NFL service, plus 50 percent of the employees' season performance bonus, which is a minimal number. A good number of the job cuts are expected to come at Films. The league, which clearly is trying to phase out Films, even had the audacity to include Films president Steve Sabol on the list of employees who are eligible for the buyout. Sabol and his father Ed founded Films 45 years ago. The company has been instrumental in making the NFL the immensely popular - and profitable - product it is today. Steve has been more important to this league than Paul Tagliabue ever was and Roger Goodell ever will be.
Philadelphia Daily News