Things in sports you are just plain tired of

Yeah, that's so trite. I once covered a prep football coach, of a winless team, who had guaranteed victory, but then his team lost (again). After the game, he tried to head me off by saying "I bet you're going to make a big deal out of this in the paper." It was everything I could do to say, "no, I don't really give a shit."

 

Yeah, because you don't get into pissing matches with anyone and everyone, either... :

 

Monday night football games involving teams as shitty as the Browns

 

ESPN's overload on college basketball in fucking November

 

Hell, it'll be a good way to wash that crap we saw Cleveland football out of our mouths.

I'm not working tomorrow, so this will be a treat for me to have the boob tube on and get some writing projects done.

 

Exactly.

 

Any reference to the "New York Football Giants"... uh, the baseball Giants ain't coming back.

Announcers who throw around terms like "quarterback ratings" and "Cover 2 defense" throughout a broadcast that don't explain what the hell they are.

Interviews with managers/coaches in the dugout during the game. Or could you at least give print guys the same courtesy?

Do we need to know the speed of every pitch thrown in a baseball game, especially if it means taking the count off the screen?

 

Do you really think those football announcers can explain quarterback ratings?

And yes, it is useful to see the speed of every pitch. Be sick of what you like, but I think that one is actually a good thing.

 

Hockey announcers talking about someone's grandmother, or what they had for lunch during the game instead of calling the PBP. Oh, and then when something happens, they go to the game and then go right back to their stupid story.

This is NOT a baseball game and you are NOT Vin Scully.

And I'm really sick of Mike Milbury on HNIC.

 

College football teams that come out in totally different colored/designed jerseys (and even worse, different helmets) to "get fired up for a big game." Uh, shouldn't you be fired up for a big game anyway?

Fireworks during the game or in celebration of any victory that doesn't clinch a title of some kind. Especially indoor fireworks - although it was kind of hilarious to see the turf catch on fire in Indy the other night. (Postgame "fireworks nights" are fine.)

Message board argument: The SEC/Big 12/Big 10/Pac-10/ACC/whatever "is a joke" whenever a lower-tier team loses to a smaller school. Yep, Texas blows because Iowa State lost to Montana State.

Tony Siragusa. Vomit.

World Series baseball nevereverevereverevereverevereverever played before 7:57 pm Eastern time.

 

European soccer scores on the ESPN scroll when I'm looking for results of games more than 12 people care about.

 

Sports fans who don't get that soccer is pretty popular now just because they don't like it.

In general, people not understanding that the "big four" mentality is outdated. You have the NFL over all others, the NBA, Nascar and MLB in the next tier, and then a lot of regional and niche sports of varying support.