ESPN can't afford Monday Night Football any longer

We only ever hear about ESPN losing subscribers. I find that interesting. Since there is no a la carte, when somebody cuts the cord, every cable Network loses a subscriber

 

“Allah card.”

That’s outstanding auto-correct.

 

I cut the cord a couple of years back, and I seldom miss ESPN. I find a way to see what I really want to, or I use the gametracker on the computer, or find a radio broadcast on TuneIn Radio or something. I watch damn little NFL anymore, and that mostly to keep an eye on the guys on my fantasy teams.

This really won't affect me one way or the other. Either the NFL will find a sucker to make an ESPN like overbid, or they'll get less, or they'll sell some of it to Twitter and Facebook, or whatever. I really don't care very much. I'll chase the games I want to watch, go to a friend's house or a sports bar, and the rest can be tracked online easily enough.

 

Clay Travis is a terrible writer BTW.

 

He's terrible at everything from prose to being a human being. Naturally he has a following, because in a country this big, there's lots of terrible people looking for a role model.

 

This is absolutely correct, and a reminder that the whole "ESPN is losing subscribers!" meme is purely a creation of Fox and Clay Travis, perpetuated by people who have no understanding of how TV works.

The only reason ESPN is losing audience at a higher rate than Fox Sports is that ESPN is consistently on the lowest tier, so it has a higher penetration than Fox to begin with.

 

So Clay parrots Jim Miller's work and article, extrapolating it to ESPN is doomed.

Reminds me of the oil crash catastrophe theories.

His commenters will wind up disappointed (again).

 

They won't be disappointed. They're not following him to live in reality. They're shits like him, and they have a community of shit to substitute for their failure to become human beings.

 

Clay's just doing the dirty work to convince Gruden his MNF future is bleak, so he might as well go to Knoxville.

 

Coming up: Michael Lewis talks about his new book, "Cableball".

 

He is the master of run-on sentences. Someone needs to introduce him to the semicolon.

 

When he talks, it's like a run-on sentence. Son of a bitch, take a breath.