ESPY Voters Would Rather Watch The Arizona Cardinals Than Six-Overtime Basketball
Either that or this was the only way ESPN could convince Ben Rothliesberger to show up at the awards show.
The epic© six-OT Syracuse-UConn was up for Best Game at the 2009 ESPYs last night and unfortunately it just wasn't good enough to win. The Super Bowl match-up between the Steelers and Cardinals stole the award. The message was loud and clear...unless you're going eight-overtimes...don't even bother.
Syracuse did manage to kinda-sorta win an award on the evening. The Express: The Ernie Davis Story was named Best Sports Movie. That's odd, considering this is a viewer-voting-based show. That means that, in all likelihood, more people voted The Express as Best Sports Movie of 2009 than actually saw it in theaters.
Oh, and if by telling you this information days before the ESPYs air, I've spoiled the experience for you...you are a humongous tool. As to why this show isn't broadcast live on the one night of the year where there is no major sport events i.e. all sports fan eyeballs are available...I don't know. I get that Sunday is generally a larger audience night than Wednesday, but still. Given the timing and this thing we call the Internets, that just seems silly.
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Bulls*** bulls*** bulls*** bulls***!!!!!!!
Yea, it was a Super Bowl, but come on, versus the Arizona Cardinals of all teams???? Now , if it were against the Giants, dare I say Cowboys, or some other NFC team that actually has some history comparable to the Steelers, then maybe, maybe.
6 OT game hands-down. Ridiculous, Jonny Flynn, Price, the buzzer beater that wasn’t. ESPYs are fake, and I shouldn’t try to worry about them too much. It’s a popularity game, sort of like MLB All-Star fan voting. Ovie or Malkin should’ve won Hockey player. Rant of day is now over.
6OT better game
Superbowl more watched and for a championship.
6OT game was more exciting and a better overall game. It wasn’t as sloppy(99 yard INT TD with time out before halftime…cmon), it was competitive throughout, the first 3 quarters of the SB weren’t. and the teams were better. There were maybe 5% Cardinal fans at the game. It was a virtual home game for Pitt. Had Philly made it, it would have been a much better game regardless of the outcome.
Does anyone even really watch the ESPY’s? Granted, some Syracuse recognition would have been nice but I am not into awards from shows I normally forget even exist, although to be fair, I hate all award shows about evenly.
Even if ESPN would stop being moe-rons on this...
and air it live, I wouldn’t. And I certainly won’t be watching the tape delayed show on Sunday night. The whole thing is just silly…especially the whole “Best Team” business.
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by Chris Dobbertean on Jul 16, 2009 12:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Espn obviously hates Syracuse.
A+ on mobile commenting being activated btw.
by brendoh on Jul 16, 2009 12:14 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
What do you expect from a network that is based in Connecticut? It was a huge game for Syracuse, but not so much for UConn.
It’s a good thing that The Express wasn’t up against some movie documenting the life of Jim Calhoun.
The Kvetch: The Jim Calhoun Story
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by Sean Keeley on Jul 16, 2009 12:24 PM EDT up reply actions
Does ESPN think the ESPYs are serious?
Because they sound like a total joke. I’ve watched one from a few years ago and the whole thing reeks of an issue of Playboy, a beer commercial (you will never see basketball in either of these; just football, baseball, and the two non-sports (NASCAR and golf)). Because there’s no way in hell your run-of-the-mill Super Bowl can beat out a 6 OT basketball game or even a lacrosse game won on a last-second shot that followed a botched clear.
It's a platform to sell advertising
plain and simple
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by Sean Keeley on Jul 17, 2009 11:36 AM EDT up reply actions
Makes sense.
Because the adverts hate basketball, hate hockey, hate soccer, hate lacrosse, hate anything that’s not the four sports I listed above. I know most beer companies do anyway (of course the irony is that Bud, Miller, and Coors are no longer American brews. I only drink Yeungling and Sam Adams now).

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