Comments on: NFL Matchup show may be no more

By: Don Mega

Don Mega — Mon, 17 May 2010 21:05:37 +0000

Good Riddens, there’s no more “intelligent” show than Playbook. They actually break film down as a player would and point out obvious matters that will affect game outcomes.
I’m addicted to Playbook and Solly,Sterling and Brian B is are really good relaying the messages…
GO PLAYBOOK!!! I need Playbook rehab.

By: funi

funi — Mon, 17 May 2010 18:01:19 +0000

WWE figures at ESPN:
Mike Golic: Baston Bogar
Greenburg:, Van Pelt and Cowherd: Jose Luis Rivers, Jim Powers and Pez Whatley: the 3 guys who always got their asses kicked every Sat morning.
Stu Scott: Jake Roberts: they have the same eyes
EriN Andrews: all women wwe wrestlers… looks great but no talent
Labron James: JYD..Good talent but never won a title!

By: cromartie

cromartie — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:24:44 +0000

To be quite frank, this show could run two hours and I’d sit and watch every minute of it.
Even if it means enduring Sal Paloantonio, who shouldn’t be hosting a children’s birthday party, let alone a television program. They should either add a chair for another analyst or bring back Mark Malone to host.
There should be more of these types of programs, not less. The Sunday morning shows are a complete joke.

By: giantcatfanhouse

giantcatfanhouse — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:45:50 +0000

I read how many say it was a good show and can’t help but think “Well, then, it comes as no surprise the league would cancel it.”
The last few years, especially 2009, I have considered canceling my own over 26 year “partnership” with the league.

By: TheDPR

TheDPR — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:22:28 +0000

“Apparently, that’s what we want.”
No, it’s what advertisers want. Advertisers don’t cater to their customers wants, they create them. It is a lot easier to manipulate large groups of people than it is to figure out what those people want and give it to them. Politicians and religious leaders have been doing it for millennia.

By: CKL

CKL — Mon, 17 May 2010 12:52:22 +0000

Agree..it is a great show. Glad to see so much support for it here. I hate the way the programming on the NFL (and other things the NFL itself is doing )is starting to cater more to the casual fan instead of what is good for the real fans. This is just another brick in the wall.

By: Gibbskins9

Gibbskins9 — Mon, 17 May 2010 12:05:06 +0000

Show sucks, ESPN sucks as well, BYE BYE

By: teeg01

teeg01 — Mon, 17 May 2010 11:45:05 +0000

Its the ONLY show for the intelligent football fan. I have learned so much from that show. Everytime I flip through the channels and its on, I have to watch it. Its addicting.
The ESPN news could learn a lot on how to run a show from NFL Matchup. No glitz and glamour. No flashing lights, and seizure-inducing 1/2 second video clip montages. No feel good story of how someone was at 11. I want to hear about sports, and I want it explained intelligently.

By: JuicyMelon

JuicyMelon — Mon, 17 May 2010 11:41:23 +0000

I really enjoyed this show when I caught it. I always wondered why they didn’t have this on instead of Countdown.

By: mr_snrub

mr_snrub — Mon, 17 May 2010 11:41:00 +0000

I have a hard time believing that anyone could learn something of value by watching a show that features Merril Hoge.

By: RFM

RFM — Mon, 17 May 2010 11:36:20 +0000

Contact ESPN on their television content in the USA here: http://espn.go.com/espn/contact?lang=EN&country=united%20states

By: Reflection46n2

Reflection46n2 — Mon, 17 May 2010 11:33:42 +0000

I implore everyone to email the ESPN Ombudsman at http://search.espn.go.com/don-ohlmeyer/don-ohlmeyer/4294607804 begging him to keep the show. This show represents the only pure half-hour of intellectual and legitimate sports analysis on ESPN and probably on all of TV. Failure to keep this show will only prove that ESPN is moving farther from being a sports network and instead is merely an entertainment network.

By: BigDawg

BigDawg — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:50:45 +0000

The NFL need to understand that the true hardcore fans need programming as well. That show is must see TV if you know anything about football.

By: dbartdog

dbartdog — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:49:58 +0000

Sad, the other shows have idiots like Terry Bradshaw hooting and hollering…I always wondered what age target they were going after??

By: Cro-Mags

Cro-Mags — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:47:22 +0000

“WWE-style manufactured storylines, forced laughter, meaningless debates, soft features, and very little football.”
Meaning the other 99.9% of ESPN programming.

By: thealy8676

thealy8676 — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:39:42 +0000

RayG is a moron. The only show worth watching on ESPN is NFL Matchup. I’m shocked to think it doesn’t have an audience.

By: Hank_SJ

Hank_SJ — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:32:22 +0000

Just as bad as the NFL wanting to kill off NFL Films. The true keeper of the flame for the league.

By: DonRSD

DonRSD — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:32:15 +0000

i love this show.
i have no clue why it isnt 1 hour long!?!?

By: myeaglescantwin

myeaglescantwin — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:31:26 +0000

who needs TV
PFT.com all the way

By: jjared1101

jjared1101 — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:30:47 +0000

NFL Playbook is where it’s at anyways…

By: Bob Nelson

Bob Nelson — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:30:25 +0000

It is a great show but with only 1/2 hour it couldn’t cover every game. Should have been an hour show.
With so much garbage on Disney’s ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Classic, ESPN News, ESPN 360, and whatever other networks they have created they should be able to find room for a competent adult show.
If Disney decides to get rid of its last adult program, that means Sterling Sharp on NFL network will have the leading intellectual football programing.
It only gives more weight to those who think the media companies of America including Disney plot together to put on mind control propaganda, dumb down America, and destroy American culture.
No wonder television ratings continue to decline.

By: KnuckleBucket

KnuckleBucket — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:26:39 +0000

This sucks. Would hate to lose a good show like Matchup….

By: rayg

rayg — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:26:20 +0000

Sal Paolantonio/Merril Hoge and intelligent is an oxymoron. I won’t miss that show one bit. In fact, if the entire ESPN network went away, I wouldn’t miss it.

By: Verbal Kint

Verbal Kint — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:24:56 +0000

At least we still have PFTV.

By: kookabura3

kookabura3 — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:24:31 +0000

We need to round up the PFT troops and keep this show on the air, I was just talking this past weekend about how this was the only show on ESPN where you actually learned something, and they actually talked strategy. Unless you have “The Network” there is nothing comparable to it. This is one of the few truly good things that ESPN has going for them, and they need to keep it. How about you sponsor it Florio?

By: dunkingonuts

dunkingonuts — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:24:15 +0000

The only two programs I have watched on ESPN in the last year were Run Ricky Run and Straight Outta L.A. The network is total garbage.. I can’t stand their Draft coverage or their pregame show.
You know you have a serious problem when your most intelligent pregame analyst is Keshawn Johnson…!

By: funi

funi — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:22:23 +0000

We talk about Pats, Cowboys, Favre and Manning football daily!
Mike and Mike in the morning

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:22:01 +0000

Wow…really bad news. The one pre or post game show I watch on ESPN and they are going to dump it ?
Jaws and Hodgy are still top notch in film breakdown so that the average fan can understand it. I certainly hope ESPN in all their infinite wisdom figures out that of all the crap they show, this is by far the best one of the lot.

By: silverback

silverback — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:17:06 +0000

This is ridiculous. NFL Matchup was the ONLY show anywhere on tv that gave a good analytical breakdown of the X’s and O’s on NFL football. It was by FAR the best football related program on tv. Why in the world they buried it so early in the morning that nobody could watch it was beyond me.
Hoge and Jaws were A+++ excellent on that show!

By: irishsamurai

irishsamurai — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:17:01 +0000

way far off with the opions in this story,espn sucks,something as awesome as the nfl,espn found a way to make it succk,the only good pregame and post game and breakdowns are on the nfl network