Screw ESPN2!

[boostedf22c]

Sucks especially if you DVR it. I was watching it, about 2 hours delayed, so I can FF all the commercials, force family saga, etc., and right when NASCAR came on, I switched over to ESPN News, and it was already over.

Nice.

[XFlatRock]

And NHRA probably wonders why the ratings are so low (one of the reasons given by Ford for their leaving NHRA), it's hard to watch a moving target. If NHRA isn't actively searching for a Network that will broadcast WHEN they say they will, maybe they deserve the shabby treatment.

[Jim Wahl]

Originally Posted by XFlatRock

And NHRA probably wonders why the ratings are so low (one of the reasons given by Ford for their leaving NHRA), it's hard to watch a moving target. If NHRA isn't actively searching for a Network that will broadcast WHEN they say they will, maybe they deserve the shabby treatment.

So true! Unfortunately it's the lowly peon racers who are the ones who suffer. Glendora probably didn't even know (or care) what happened. The alcohol addled brains at the top need to be replaced with people who really care about the racers they were put in place to serve! It's sad but profit over safety and the lining of pockets has become the norm. Jim


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[Lew Silverman]

This isn't the first time that ESPN has moved or preempted NHRA coverage for NASCAR or the NBA! As has been mentioned above, NHRA pays for the privilege of "showcasing" the professional classes on ESPN, and in my humble opinion is not receiving fair value for it's (OUR!) money. The Saturday program was scheduled for 3:30 AM here on the East Coast, and even that was delayed over 20 minutes for a "Baseball Tonight" re-run! Then yesterday's debacle, switching a broadcast already in progress to another channel, which coincidentally NEVER carries ANY NHRA programming, and is a "premium" channel on most cable systems! And our only other coverage, on the computer-based ESPN3, has gone from a "live-feed" of the event to another, more in-depth rehash of the trials-and-tribulations of the professional drivers and their team owners.

By this point, we should be thankful for "any" Drag Racing coverage. And you would have to assume as long as the NHRA is paying for it, we DESERVE a more well-produced product. Say what you want to about "Pink's" and "Pass Time", at least our sport was out there on televisions in the homes of millions of potential fans! How many people stayed up until after 3:30 AM on Sunday, or made the switch to ESPNews (if they could) on Sunday night?

While it's pointless to argue that the sportsman racers are still getting shortchanged, because they are and have been for a good long while, doesn't anyone at the Association HQ's understand that the entertainment "package" that we are being fed is sub-standard? Are they waiting for someone, possibly Lucas's new "MAV-TV", to fund their productions? The Velocity Channel seems to be willing to take-up some of the vacuum left by the demise of what now is called FS1, so maybe something good will happen. I just hope we haven't lost all of our fan's by then!

[david ring]

I was watching ESPN-the Sox and the Yankees-it was probably the last chance for Mo Rivera to pitch in Fenway, but he wasn't used since it was a blowout (the last two weekends help eliminate the awful memories some of us have of 1978). The Sox paid a fitting tribute, including a remembrance of October 17, 2004 (one of the few blown saves Mo had in post-season play-as good as he was in the regular season, he was so much better in post-season). Though he stopped the Sox so many times, his greatness and class made him probably the favorite Yankee of so many Sox fans. here is a link to the ceremony honoring Mo.http://nesn.com/2013/09/red-sox-hono...ay-park-video/

oh yeah, and screw ESPN2.

[FED 387]

Sunday mid afternoon watching TV and Not being much of a golf/baseball/NBA guy and sitting looking at an Inch of rain falling that we so desparetly needed all while the Nascar race 60 miles away was on rain hold I was flipping the TV channels and came across two 1 hour programs called Lucas drag boats and Lucas sprint car--good shows both of them and I NEVER watch the NHRA/ESPN shows just because of not only the Pro debacle but the announcers too---cannot quite figure out why the NHRA show cannot compare in quality to those Lucas shows--- Maybe Brett Keppner(sp) can chime in and kinda give us an insiders viewpoint on why this is. He supposedly has been in the "business" for many years and should be able to fill all of us in on thw whys and why nots of the broadcasting business. How bout it Brett??

[aross6]

Maybe NHRA can get some air time on the NFL Network... I mean after all, apart from the NFL Draft (late April) there's not really too much else going on in the Football World (arrests, domestic violence, and murders aside) during Drag Racing Season. Maybe it's about time for a move away from ESPN???

[Dan Bernay]

This channel switching at ESPN has been going on for years.
It's not only NHRA events that its happening to.
If NHRA and ESPN haven't worked out a solution by now........

[rognelson777]

The show that gets the higher ratings wins , Nascar sprint cup gets about 10 times higher viewership than nhra, also it is live,

Nascar fans are probably not happy because it was on espn2 not espn, why ratings.

If NHRA can put on a better show, it will get viewers back and then get the preferred time slot.

[Bob Mulry]

I hope that the sponsors for the pros are dumb enough to not realize that they are not getting their bang for the buck

This could be the end of the pros....

Maybe that is not so bad as sportsman can rise from the ashes of NHRA..

Go back to how it all started....

No pros, just SPORTSMEN racers..

Just a thought,
Bob

PS:
I thought that watching the pros was better than nothing...

I might have to rethink that.....