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He wasn't exaggerating, he was writing pure fiction. The second I heard "NBC didn't have enough people" I had to say something. Anyway...Sports production is fun, but it's also hard work that ain't all that glamorous. The top tier people are on the road a lot of the time (most of these folks work all the sports, not just football) and they have to work in any and all weather conditions. It can be a real grind. Just ask the camera crew at last night's game. To JG9's credit, he has a great idea for a YouTube channel, but, and this kinda tells you he has no real broadcasting experience, his videos would be way better if he had the first idea how to edit himself. If he had any practical experience, his videos would be six minutes long and his subscriber base would probably double as a result.

Three minutes in and I can tell you he's already full of . on at least one thing. NBC didn't use people "who have no sports experience" to broadcast the game. That's simply not how sports productions work - especially at the network level. If NBC actually was short of qualified crew people (they weren't) there are at minimum hundreds of highly qualified sports production people they could have brought in to pick up the slack. The simple explanation is the production team had a bad night. It happens. If he really did work for the "ESPN family of networks" he should already know this. Especially when you understand that ESPN uses freelancers all the time all over the country. Does this guy really believe that networks have full time crews for every NFL game and all the college football games they do? (they don't) He does if he has no idea what he's talking about. Case in point, we have a big NHRA event every year. The broadcast was on Fox and FS1, but the production was done by a non-affiliated production company that was hired to do the event. Long story short, the idea that NBC didn't have enough qualified people so they grabbed someone from the Nightly News or whatever is absurd. That's just not how it works. Back when I was working for the "ESPN family of networks" (AKA freelancing through our local RSN) our people were worked for any network that needed them. I worked for ESPN, ABC, and CBS broadcasts. A couple years ago, a friend of mine in Syracuse - whose full time job is teaching at a local college - directed a bowl game the Buckeyes played in. (I can't remember which game. Might have been the Cotton Bowl.) That's a lot of words to say that JG9 is talking out his ass on this one. He may have sat in ESPN trucks, but he clearly has no idea how working in sports production actually works.

Yeah, hilarious.

The Watson trade was the Browns biggest blunder when it happened. You're a couple seasons behind. Were you really laughing your ass off or is it just rhetorical flourish?

Let's not act like it's no big deal either.

The Flacco giveth and the Flacco taketh away.

We had our fun, but now it's time to head to a neutral corner.

No one is getting the username "Communist Whore." Sorry.

Beats me, but I can't lie, I get a kick out of how much it aggravates them.

MOD REDACTED by me. Suffice it to say that a Twitter user was none too happy with Governor Hochul's decision to move the Steelers - Bills game to Monday.

Oops.

Oh, well that's different. -32 is much warmer than -59. I stand corrected. By the way, at -32, we're only -8 degrees away from the temperature being the same in Fahrenheit or Celsius.

I can assure you that my opinion on this has nothing to do with my age. I felt the same way when the '81 AFC title game was played in weather with a -59 degree wind chill. Snow is a hazard. Rain and mud are hazards. Playing football in "don't expose your skin and be sure to bring your animals inside so they don't freeze to death" weather is insanity. These tough guy football players are going to roll out there without sleeves because they don't want to look weak. Or they're idiots. Or both. It might be memorable, but it won't be good football. This isn't just "bad weather." This is dangerous to the teams and the fans and the NFL should know better.

You kids and your use of unironically. I'm never sure which part is supposed to be ironic when someone says that. Maybe Generation Jones* has a different definition of irony or something, *h/t @SFGiants58 for putting a name to the in between Boomers and X generation I'm a part of.

Find me someone who can go outside and be able to tell the difference between -30 and -59.

I was being sarcastic. It's not football weather, it's the Arctic Circle come to Kansas City and no one should be playing sports outdoors there.

You know this weather has been in the Dolphins heads since they saw the first forecast. I mean, no one is used to playing in zero degree weather, but that stuff hits a lot harder when you're in town from Miami.

More "football weather."

"Football weather."

Still a solid original point.

Accurate.

Sounds like the fake names were listed as part of the production crew. My guess is the EMMYs aren't going to dig too deep on the credentials of the below the line staff. Anyone can be a production assistant.

The EMMY wins were legit. None of the EMMYs went to fake shows, just fake people. ESPN gamed the system and used the fake names to get extra trophies to give to the on-air staff who weren't eligible to receive them.

"Football weather" usually makes for terrible football. Watching two teams try to avoid freezing to death while playing a football game is not fun. Snow games look cool, but that's about it.

Belichick would have to recruit if he went to a college team. He doesn't strike me as the recruiting type.