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ESPN

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836 complaints

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The Walt Disney Company, Bristol, CT, 06010

ESPN customers are primarily frustrated with announcer quality, citing excessive talking, bias, and failure to focus on game action. Technical issues including wrong channel information, app problems, and poor camera work are widespread. A significant portion of complaints involve politics being injected into sports coverage and inappropriate gender-related commentary.

Common Issues

38% (154)
announcerscommentatorstalking
12% (48)
political viewspoliticssports not politics
22% (89)
channel wrongappcoverage
16% (65)
talking whole timenot calling gamerambling
12% (48)
women announcersladybimbo

Complaints

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Todd knezovich

May 11, 2022
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The play-by-play analyst on ESPN broadcasting the LA Kings at the Edmonton Oilers game is horrible. I can hear the puck hit the post but there's no mention of it from her, all she is doing is telling you who has the puck and what's happening and I can clearly see what's on the TV screen. As a viewer you want to make mention of the important plays like someone hitting someone else hard to get them off the puck and making it exciting this commentary is horrible

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Barry Seth

May 3, 2022
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The sound on ESPN for the Bruins game was in and out. It has been miserable to listen to. You did not have problems during the Toronto-Tampa game.

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Hockey fan

Apr 27, 2022
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Sound quality during hockey game is horrible. Can’t even hear announcers or play by play. Turn off whatever mic is picking up all the fan and ice noise. Even when they do side screen short ads during icing calls , you only hear loud crowd noise.

I’m sure the advertisers aren’t going to like that

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Oliva Brien

Apr 25, 2022
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I am watching what I thought was going to be the Phillies vs the Brewers. Instead what I got was a Bryce harper podcast with a commentator asking stupid question on split screen. I got to watch a plit screen with half showing the game and the other half a continous Harper interview with the stupidest questions I have ever heard.

Who cares that his with supports him by watchiong his chilgren when he is on the road, who cares what he thinks of th caliber of baseball players today, who cares what he went through in his younger years when he was playing ball, and who cares that he sometimes changes his batting stance.

Yor coverage of this game was horrible and your commentators should be given the severance packages. Totally sucked. Did not tune in to watch half of a game and the other half…

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Edwin Cline

Apr 18, 2022
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I'm watching the braves on 209 directv. The announcers are not even calling the game. I don't want to see a talk show I want to see the game. They cut away full screen while game is going on .

It's so annoying I cut it off and turned on radio. This is a disgrace to baseball. I don't want to see Kay Rod.

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Eddie Wiley

Apr 10, 2022
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Adam Schefter's comments regarding Dwayne Haskins was insensitive and uncalled for. Adam and others need a course in human interaction. I'm sure his life has been perfect and he never did anything wrong. Adam is a piece of garbage to say the least.

The owner of Washington was the one who wanted to draft Dwayne. The Washington coach didn't want him there. He received a raw deal from Washington. Pittsburgh saw his value and picked him up. I think he would have started in Pittsburgh.

Making derogatory comments after someone has died is less than professional.

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Albert Lwin

Apr 10, 2022
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Why do I have trouble often with ESPN Plus. I am trying to purchase a UFC fight and it is not working. This has happened too many times. It just spins and spins. I checked my internet and I can get on other sites fine. Very disappointing.

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Anonymous

Apr 8, 2022
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As a long time hockey fan, I’ve been looking forward to the frozen four and occasional wild game to be picked up by another network so I’m able to watch, but I’m extremely disappointed in ESPN’s choice in announcers. They are constantly making mistakes and have an extreme lack of knowledge when it comes to hockey. Please consider the difference between knowledge in football, basketball, etc compared to the knowledge in hockey.

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Bill Walker

Apr 7, 2022
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Watching commercials on Sportscenter. It’s supposed to be The Masters. How greedy are you? This is horrible coverage. And your switching to ESPN+ to make more more money, pathetic.

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Don

Apr 7, 2022
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You are supposed to be carrying the masters golf tournament. It is turning out to be almost exclusively the tiger woods tournamentent. What a slanted, disgusting display‼️.

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Mike

Apr 3, 2022
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I wish there was a rating the then one star, ESPN IS HORRIBLE!!!!!! I can’t scream it loud enough, you’ll never be able to watch anything but it scroll “Event about to start” across the bottom of the screen….DON’T WASTE YOUR MONEY LIKE I WAS TRICKED INTO!!!

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Gary Augustin

Apr 2, 2022
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Get rid of the Bird-Taursi show on ESPN. All they do is talk about themselves Totally take away from the game. PLEASE shut them up‼️‼️

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Jon

Mar 20, 2022
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Womens basketball during March madness??? Really??? I watched reruns of saved by the bell rather than your coverage of womens basketball on sports center!!! Cover March madness!!! Not women playing sports!!!

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Edward Freeman

Mar 15, 2022
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Just to let you know we really get kick out of your play by play (female) announcer. It’s quite the shit show. About as god awful as it gets. We just swap audio to radio. If we wanted comedy we would put on the Lucy Rickey show. SERIOUSLY!!! go figure.

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David Thomas

Mar 12, 2022
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1. WHY do I have to “sign in” to ESPN and ESPN+ every time I use it? You’ve long since received our payment, but can’t seem to keep track of who your customers are! We subscribe to many other streaming services, but none of them require daily sign-ins!

2. You provided a “telecast” of the Big 12 Men’s Basketball tournament from Kansas City last night that was absolutely the WORST I have ever seen. You chose to provide camera shots taken from the rafters of the arena; there were NO announcers for the game, NO game description, NO statistics ever provided! The only things live were the commercials you chose to have your viewers see. Why even bother if you can’t provide a more professional product than this? I suspect, however, that if you’d decided we should see Duke or some of your other…

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william

Mar 6, 2022
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While watching college basketball, I often turn off the sound when Bill Walton is commentating. He talks about all sorts of stuff unrelated to the game being played. I find myself thinking if he'd only shut his mouth or watch the game and comment on the game.

He is the worst announcer you've ever had on ESPN. I've been a basketball player for over 30 years, a basketball coach for over 30 years, and now I enjoy watching college basketball except when Bill Walton is announcing. Please hire someone else.

Sincerely A fan who wants to watch the game and not listen to diarrhea of the mouth.

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Kevin McDonald

Mar 5, 2022
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Please stop over scheduling basketball games. I missed my team bc the game before it ran over by 30 minutes! This doesn’t make sense bc the game before did not go into overtime. Then the next game started late. Please stop intentionally scheduling Games you know will be interrupted by the previous games!!!

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Benjamin T Duck

Feb 26, 2022
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ESPN is and has biased against University of Tennessee athletic teams. I am an alumni and I am personally offended by your commemorators biases against University of Tennessee teams. Auburn at Tennessee blatant criticizing, players bias for higher ranked team.

This bias also happened during the KY at UT Knoxville game. Evidently someone has an ax to grind against the University of Tennessee. I will turn the sound down on your commentators and your commercials. Maybe I will just contact supports in the future. Thanks Benjamin Duck

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Vikki

Feb 13, 2022
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Consistently Van Gundy spends a ridiculous amount of time editorializing, complaining and spouting what HEB personally likes and dislikes about everything rather than calling the game.. this is beyond annoying that you allow this innane diarrhea of his mouth to ruin the viewers experience..

please shut this idiot up.. no one gives a crap about his opinion.. just call the game already! ,

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Myron

Feb 11, 2022
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Bill Walton and to a slightly lesser extent his partner absolutely spoil any PAC-12 basketball I have watched. I intend to note sponsors and complain also to them.

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Bob Johansson

Jan 28, 2022
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My complaint is the commentators on live ESPN for the USC/Ol Miss. women's basketball game televised 6PM on Jan 27th. Rebecca Lobo was one of the commentators. These three persons talked more about basketball and players beyond the game. no mention of the player on either team.

I am a USC fan and know my players, but not to recognize them while they are playing and the good plays, rebounds, 3 pointers, etc is outrageous. I think all of the are a disgrace to broadcasting and especially ESPN.

Rebecca does a great job at half time in the studio. She needs to stay there. There was to much joking around, taking aways from the live event taking place. It is the worst commentary experience I have ever had watching live sports.

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Christopher Roberts

Jan 23, 2022
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Why are UFC prelim events being cut short to televise the end of a lame ass college basketball game? The most recent example was the LSU vs. Tennessee game on 01/22/22. I set a timer to record the UFC 270 prelims and when I go to watch it I end up having to fast forward through 20 minutes of college basketball.

When you finally do start showing the fight event on the scheduled channel, I get to see the winner of the first fight walking back to the dressing room. All so the world can watch the end of a lame ass basketball game where there is already a clear winner.

Or even worse the cornhole world championship. WTF!?!?!? ESPN is televising cornhole!?!?!? Give me a break. When are you gonna start showing competitve ass-scratching? Only a matter of time until you're gonna start showing…

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William Cooney

Jan 23, 2022
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I recieved a years subscription to ESPN+ as a gift. Starting around November, I have been frustrated by having any hockey game I`m watching get interrupted and erased by the message `Unable to show this program` I have gone through many attempts to rectify the problem. None successful.

We have talked with a rep from the ESPN at the telephone # seen in the information. It didn`t help. I have reentered the log-in and password many times to see if it would correct it. It didn`t. A years subscription has been paid and I have only been able to see my programming on about 8 occasions.

I`m not happy with this. ESPN should be better.

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Floyd Trefny

Jan 23, 2022
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The Basketball announcers for University of Houston versus East Carolina are the most ridiculous terrible announcers I’ve ever heard. They are talking about everything but the damn game. We’ve heard all kind of stupid stuff about the coach over and over and over again and it’s just extremely annoying.

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Jake B Mercer

Jan 22, 2022
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The App ESPN plus is terrible! The streaming quality is the worst I've ever seen. Our house has the fastest internet speeds possible and have zero issues with any other streaming app or service! All I want to do is watch the ku basketball games with my mom and I can't.

And after it stopped cutting out and making me re log on, it now is a blurry picture that looks worse than standard definition tv!!!! I have one of the best tvs on the market and this picture sucks! And now the audio is so low we can't hear a damn thing!!!

KU please for the love of GOD cancel your contract with ESPN plus. Your ratings and fan base will be so much happier and they can actually watch the game. How the hell do y'all expect me to pay money for this.?

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Patricia Wentland

Jan 19, 2022
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I can't believe how minimal the coverage is for the Australian Open this year (2022). Just a few hours a day? (Replays from the day before doesn't count...) And, instead of Live Coverage, you schedule some sort of March of 2021 fight thing? Or, some sort of Barry Bonds story?

Yes--I know I can go to ESPN+ and pay more. But, I've already paid for ESPN through my Xfinity subscription. This was the one time that AO didn't really compete with other US based sports due to the time difference.

Just plain 'ol money grubbing instead of providing what was paid for. ESPN+ should be for specific matches/courts not on the prime coverage.

Just horrible.

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Charlene Wolfe

Jan 9, 2022
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Brian Griese should remember he isn’t supposed to be for one team. I am SICK of him bragging on the Eagles Is a professional or a child???

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FARON DIXSON

Jan 7, 2022
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Why is there no World Cup soccer matches available at all when I click the tab? The entire library comes up as empty. Fix this immediately as this is part of my ESPN+ subscription.

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russ

Jan 7, 2022
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not sure if this is the right place Probably not. but the annoncer for tonghts ncaa game ohio vs indiana i think i think his name is rap, old guy white hair, is clearly bais . i'm for neither team but start watching this time of year to make my march madness bets .

the rap guy should'nt be calling the games it should be guys who aren't for either team

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Jim Lee

Jan 1, 2022
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Split screen for ROSE BOWL has got to be the worst decision on your part!

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Paul

Jan 1, 2022
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ESPN2 had a commercial of two men kissing. Penn State vs. Arkansas at the start of the game. Don't show that junk. If it is easier for you to not show a man and a women kissing then don't show them kissing either.

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Juliann Craycraft

Dec 31, 2021
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Watching uc and Alabama football. You're split screen is crap. Maybe a huge TV would be good. This is terrible to try to watch.

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Gordon Cameron

Dec 31, 2021
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I was excited to watch the 2021 cotton bowl ( , BUT I QUICKLY FOUND OUT THAT ESPN is still doing that annoying 3 way split screen with two screens watching the coaches... COME ON ESPN and now with a banner on the bottom. I changed the channel...

shame on you ESPN for not listening to public regarding this subject.

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Douglas Miller

Dec 30, 2021
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Not showing the Alamo Bowl on your Network Affiliate ABC is the reason that I will never purchase your Network again.

I'll be happy with the Fox Sports Network as it is Free to anyone around the World.

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B

Dec 30, 2021
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These pathetic pieces of shit keep showing their true DISGUSTING liberal colors and forcing their social justice bull shit down people's throats!! I do NOT want to see a black person condom commercial while watching a fucking football game!!!!!!!!! Of all the commercials you could show, you show a fucking black person condom commercial?!?!?! FUCKING PIECES OF SHIT!!!!!!!!

GET THAT SHIT OFF OF TELEVISION!!!!!!

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Jim Burton

Dec 23, 2021
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Watching Clemson vs Va. game. Announcers are attrocious. I thought they were not supposed to be so bias. Must be Va grads.

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Beau nodland

Dec 18, 2021
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You guys get worse every fucking year . You guys can't schedule games worth a fuck !! And trying to watch the ndsu vs jmu and it won't show on your worthless espn news site!!!! You guys are an embarrassment!!!

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Lucas Baumgartner

Dec 15, 2021
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I would like to request that you please stop broadcasting NHL games. Your broadcasting of a hockey game is so terrible that it becomes distracting to the enjoyment of watching a game. The announcers are so vanilla with their commentary to point as if you wonder if they're being payed directly by the NHL to not say anything that could be considered controversial.

Not to mention they sound board out of their minds just announcing the game! Then we get into the camera angles you decide to show during key moments of the game. You know there is a reason that seats behind the net are cheaper than the ones at center ice right?

Then why in god's holy dick would you choose to have most power plays shown from your stupid string cam from behind the net!? Now I understand that your company doesn't…

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Scott Melton

Dec 12, 2021
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I paid 70 bucks for the UFC 269 fights and it's been blurring constantly. I can barely watch it because every 2 or 3 minutes it the picture and sound both get blurry and it even stops sometimes. Really pissed right now

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Thomas Jones

Dec 7, 2021
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Please take theManning brothers off of Monday night football they suck we would like to watch a game without the idiot trying to be funny they are not broadcasters they are horrible

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Karl Mueller

Dec 5, 2021
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NOTHYING BUT LIES AND LAME EXCUSES FROM THESE UTTER ASSCLOWNS. WHERE IS MY BASKETBALL GAME? ALL THEY ARE SHOWING IS A CLIP FROM A SAUDI CAR RACE, OVER AND OVER AGAIN. SOMEBODY NEEDS TO BE FIRED BEHIND THIS UTTER FAILURE.

WORST SPORTS COVERAGE IN THE HISTORY OF SPORTS. IO HOPE THEY ALL GET THE VIRUS AND DIE. THE WORLD WOULD BE BETTER OFF.

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Jennifer Kennedy-Croft

Nov 29, 2021
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Alejandro Moreno is the absolutely worst commentator on the planet. He is negative arrogant and adds nothing to the game. I can't believe your Heineken moment of the match was a missed penalty kick. Get people on staff that actually care about the game of soccer.

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Jim Brodzinski

Nov 20, 2021
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The commentators for the Cincinnati vs. SMU game were some of the worst I’ve ever heard. They spent over 15 minutes discussing turkey and Thanksgiving meals — while the game was going on — without commenting on the game. Can’t you get any professionals to do these games?

I really don’t want to know, or care, about their personal lives and their meal choices. I watch ESPN to get excellent coverage of football games. These two broadcasters were certainly not ready for prime time.

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Amy Sharp

Nov 20, 2021
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These announcers on ESPN are suppose to know the game and from the first drive through the most recent play Clemson has been pulling pass interference against Wake Forest!!!!!! Why aren't the announcers acknowledging it and why aren't they calling out the refs!!!!! Stop being pro Clemson and call what you see!!!!!!

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David anderson

Nov 16, 2021
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This format you used tonight for the 49ers - rams game is terrible. You should be ashamed. You ruined the game for me With the constant talking of your host.

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DARREL U GOODE II

Nov 16, 2021
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I can tell you right now. When I watch foot ball I don't like watching foot with the ex footballs on the left side of the tv screen. It drives me crazy!!! I like see the full screen of foot ball please!!!

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John

Nov 9, 2021
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The MNF commentators are awful! Have been watching since origin. I am 63. I love the Manning's!!! It's fun! Thank you for listening. John F.

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Fan of sports

Nov 7, 2021
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Herbstreit is really bad with the rewind process. Plus he shouldn't call game he really stinks at it.....

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Gregory STONE

Nov 6, 2021
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FAVE Pasch is the worst announcer ever on ESPN and you have had some bad ones!

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William Strong

Oct 16, 2021
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Please discontinue using Pam Mulings as a play by play announcer on all power five football games. Her voice is extremely annoying and her fake enthusiasm is by far her worst trait. She would be better suited announcing lower divisional games Div 2 or 3.

She is not prime time material.

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