New ESPN book profiles the approaches for NBC's, ESPN's NFL coverage

[Nate Wesley]

Yahoo Sports' NFL blog is titled 'Shutdown Corner', and it has a with quotes from the new book Those Guys Have All the Fun. The entire post serves to briefly contrast how both NBC and ESPN do live telecasts of NFL games:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/sh...e-ESPN-book-that-explain-ESPN-?urn=nfl-wp2450


ESPN has certainly poured itself into Monday Night Football coverage...but with the NFL giving NBC the 'flex games', it confirmed my suspicions that MNF was essentially ESPN's old Sunday night game re-tooled and delayed by 24 hours.

Thoughts? Opinions?

 

[JeeperOne]

Yeah. The book offers NOTHING of substance

Why do I say that? Simple. Who's to say that ESPN won't get flex games in its next deal?

JMO.....

Cheers

 

[Nate Wesley]

Yeah. The book offers NOTHING of substance

Why do I say that? Simple. Who's to say that ESPN won't get flex games in its next deal?

JMO.....

Cheers

If you listen to Jim Miller's appearance on Bill Simmons' 'BS Report' podcast (6-2-11), Miller contends that ESPN also could have secured its NFL package cheaper than it did.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espnradio/podcast/archive?id=2864045

There's plenty of other topics and personalities related to ESPN in the book, and sites like Deadspin, The Big Lead, and even GQ Magazine Online have gotten plenty of hits talking about excerpts.

There's really 'no substance' to a book getting so much sports buzz?