Comments on: THE PESSIMIST: Had It With BSPN Dissing Bucs!

By: gitarlvr

gitarlvr — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 01:11:05 +0000

yeah unfortunately you cant blame ESPN that the Bucs are almost dead last next to Jacksonville in fan support. Tampa is a mid-sized market that would garner some attention if all the transplants here gave two shiites about the Bucs. I don’t really expect ESPN to cater to all five of us true Buc fans. I sometimes wonder how many actual hardcore fans(not counting the tons of frontrunners that will show up if this team becomes a super bowl contender)actually are out there beyond the diehards here on JBF. Lord knows I almost NEVER meet another actual hardcore Buc fan in my daily life. When I can go to Winghouse Palm Harbor on Sunday and not be the only guy watching the Bucs game while all the jackass G-MEN fans laugh at my team in between their alternating praise and hatred for little brother Manning, maybe then ESPN will find it worth their time to actually cover the Bucs.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:17:44 +0000

The only that will matter to BSPN is that we’re 0-5 against teams with WINNING RECORDS. Just because of that, the Bucs are trash in their eyes.

Yet the Saints have played lousy teams just like us. That never seems to get brought up! People don’t even bring up how they got an ass whooping by the Max Hall led Cardinals earlier in the year and how they barely survived a 16-14 win against the pitiful Panthers.

If the Patriots, Saints and Jets were 0-5 against winning records, no one would be talking about it.

By: Bucs Babe

Bucs Babe — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:24:26 +0000

My bad!! Thank you Pessimist for this entertaining read I couldn’t agree more!!

By: MTM

MTM — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:28:16 +0000

Great article. Couldn’t agree more. BSPN rolls out the same self serving NFL crap, over and over. If you didn’t know better. You would think there only 6 teams in the league: Jets, Giants, Steelers, Dallas, Pats and Team Favre. The NFL is based on parody. BSPN is all about dynasties.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:17:08 +0000

absolutely outstanding piece of writing. great job pessimist

By: Cannon

Cannon — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:13:01 +0000

I just wish I could watch the Bucs home games again from my TV /

By: McBuc

McBuc — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:59:15 +0000

I really do not care about national attention, I just want to be able to tune into the Bucs every week during football season, and the playoffs as well. If our new offense starts producing better numbers, you will see more coverage on shows…simply due to fantasy football. The full game coverage probably will never be all that much, which I am fine with as well. I like starting Sunday afternoon with the Bucs, I hate waiting for an afternoon or night game.

By: mikeck

mikeck — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:51:18 +0000

Well, in the end, its a business and they have to make money. More people watch if they talk about the Cowboys, Jets and Pats because thats the fan base. Outside of Tampa, people dont care about the Bucs or Freeman anymore than we care about Cleveland and Hillis. Yeah, its a great story but who cares..really? When the Bucs v Seattle games start commanding the ratings that a Pats-Jets game gets (or any game with Dallas in it), then they arent going to talk about it. I would wish that they would break down football but thats unrealistic. They are in it for the cash (which is fine) so they go where the money is.

Think this is bad…try their baseball coverage. I’m not a fan so I didnt realize until last year that there were baseball teams that didnt play in New York, Boston or Philly.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:46:23 +0000

architek79:

Cowturd reminds Joe of the geek in high school that sssooo wanted to hang with the cool kids or the jocks, but couldn’t.

To think there was actually a sober mind in Bristol that some years ago actually had the gall to say, “Look, I have the perfect replacement for Tony Kornheiser. There’s this guy in Oregon called ‘Cowherd’… ”

Joe had to use the WiFi of a nice sports bar at lunch last week as his home WiFi was acting weird. Remember: Joe has BSPN blocked at home. Anyway, there was some game played the night before with this James character (Joe has never seen this guy play basketball. Honest!). My God, for two straight hours that’s all that was talked about. A friggin’ regular season NBA game in December!

The last time Joe saw any network devote that amount of time to one story was when Ronald Reagan was shot.

By: architek79

architek79 — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:37:33 +0000

Joe this is a common theme and I am use to this mess. I dont even watch or listen to ESPN. Quick story, I was on lunch one day and I had BSPN on. The Herd was on and Colin make the statement that the Steelers may go unbeaten when Ben comes back…They are just great, they are this and that…Well they go and lose to the Pats and struggle against teams. Now that idiot for a journalist hops off their wagon and does even retract his statement. At least on the NFL network, they are careful with their statements and care about their credibility.

By: Capt.Tim

Capt.Tim — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:26:21 +0000

Great work, this article should be forwarded to every reporter at BSPN! They have become a parody of what they should be

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:22:42 +0000

Bucs Babe:

To be clear, this is the work of THE PESSIMIST, not Joe, as detailed in the first paragraph.