Say Goodbye to those ESPN Personalities Ya'll Love So Much: Official ESPN Layoffs Thread

[You Win Perfect]

Big gamble on his part in turning the offer down when other networks are having the same financial issues as well from the pandemic and looming league negotiations.

Even Wingo initially didn’t have anywhere to go after leaving ESPN.

man fukk outta here. these companies are doing fine financially.
every company trynna use the pandemic excuse even tho they took out billions in PPP loans (that they don't have to pay back) and all that shyt. please
they do just like every other greedy corporation. fire the high paying guys that built the company and higher cheap labor.

ain't no gamble when you know your worth and got bread stacked to where you don't need to work anyway. just doin it cuz you they pay you the money you want.

 

[Peruvian Connect]

This is 100% true.

MNF was damn good with Al Michaels, Dan Dierdorf and Frank Gifford on ABC. Once that crew broke up, it started going downhill and then moving to ESPN seemed to make it worse.

By comparison, ESPN had SNF and it wasn't really that big until NBC got it. Common denominator is ESPN sucking.

ESPN is cable. MNF is gonna suffer on Cable and SNF will thrive on Network TV

 

[FAH1223]

When MNF decided to put Dennis Miller in the booth it hasn't been the same since.

Off topic, but could you imagine if this were to air today and the reactions it would get

I remember the shid storm this caused. I was in like 10th grade

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

man fukk outta here. these companies are doing fine financially.
every company trynna use the pandemic excuse even tho they took out billions in PPP loans (that they don't have to pay back) and all that shyt. please
they do just like every other greedy corporation. fire the high paying guys that built the company and higher cheap labor.

ain't no gamble when you know your worth and got bread stacked to where you don't need to work anyway. just doin it cuz you they pay you the money you want.

True, but again other sports networks have been cutting salary every since the pandemic hit. Don’t forget that ESPN asked people to give up bread not once, but twice. Fox Sports asked people too as well. Even SAS and Greeny weren’t immune from having to give up bread either. The pandemic hit sports networks and sports in general hard whether you believe that aspect or not.

It’s totally fine that he didn’t want to take what was being offered, but it is in fact no guarantee that other sports networks will even offer him the type of bread he’s looking when other people are running into the same issue.

People forget that dude had left ESPN previously and came back 5 years later on a “part-time schedule.” That’s why you didn’t see him as much as you used to.

 

[Jerz-2]

Haven't watched this trash network in two years, don't even remotely miss it.

 

[Piff Perkins]

This is 100% true.

MNF was damn good with Al Michaels, Dan Dierdorf and Frank Gifford on ABC. Once that crew broke up, it started going downhill and then moving to ESPN seemed to make it worse.

By comparison, ESPN had SNF and it wasn't really that big until NBC got it. Common denominator is ESPN sucking.

I don’t even watch most MNF games during the season because the matchups are often weak and the presentation is worse. Whereas SNF always has my attention. Even if I don’t watch the full game I at least watch the first few minutes. It feels like the finale of the football week, whereas MNF feels like some off brand shyt that doesn’t count.

ESPN needs to throw a bag at Peyton. Pair him with someone like Tirico.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

I don’t even watch most MNF games during the season because the matchups are often weak and the presentation is worse. Whereas SNF always has my attention. Even if I don’t watch the full game I at least watch the first few minutes. It feels like the finale of the football week, whereas MNF feels like some off brand shyt that doesn’t count.

ESPN needs to throw a bag at Peyton. Pair him with someone like Tirico.

They offered him the bag last year, but he turned it down supposedly because of the schedule.

If anything, I think he ends up in a FO role a la Elway in Denver.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

And it's no secret you're seeing more and more female reporters and analysts along with former players.

They're cheap.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

I remember the shid storm this caused. I was in like 10th grade

 

[Morethan1]

Wingo still hasn't gotten on anywhere. He started his own podcast. I haven't heard it though.

How you know hes looking

 

[pete clemenza]

True, but again other sports networks have been cutting salary every since the pandemic hit. Don’t forget that ESPN asked people to give up bread not once, but twice. Fox Sports asked people too as well. Even SAS and Greeny weren’t immune from having to give up bread either. The pandemic hit sports networks and sports in general hard whether you believe that aspect or not.

It’s totally fine that he didn’t want to take what was being offered, but it is in fact no guarantee that other sports networks will even offer him the type of bread he’s looking when other people are running into the same issue.

People forget that dude had left ESPN previously and came back 5 years later on a “part-time schedule.” That’s why you didn’t see him as much as you used to.

That plus people are getting rid of cable and satellite like crazy these days. I think a read somewhere a couple of years back that ESPN gets like $5-7 bucks per individual cable bill. That shyt adds up if people keep cutting the cord

 

[FAH1223]

Ah Vince even mentioned the Malice at the Palace here

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

How you know hes looking

Because after he left ESPN, it was rumored that he wanted to join the NFL Network.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Wasn't he the last of the 90's crew who didn't previously leave and come back

He left for a few years and came back in 2013. That’s why you didn’t see him as much in the later years.

 

[K-Apps]

at a 61 percent pay cut