I have to say, the ESPN Monday Night Countdown crew doesn't measure up to previous years

[Xavier Breath]

2. I've mostly tuned out the pregame shows anymore.

I'll have it on in the event there are any last-minute developments, but pre-game shows in general have become overstuffed clown cars of half-illiterate former players trying to out-shout each other and prove definitively who's the biggest ass-clown. I long for the days when Bryant Gumble and Brent Musberger needed only 30 minutes and one or two other people on-set to tell you all of the gameday news, all without having to shout any of it. Hell, Cosell and company went on minutes before kickoff and you still felt informed throughout the broadcat.

I guess, if you put me on the spot, I probably find the ESPN College Gameday crew the most watchable of the lot, but that's a low bar to have cleared.

Thanks, this was cathartic