ESPN Wanted Timeouts On MNF Blowout For Ads - Ruining Sports Continues

Wow, that's just about all I can say in reading this article.  Apparently ESPN had 2 network commercial breaks it wanted to squeeze into this past Monday Night Football game but because it was a blowout, the Titans were just running clock... when a request - from someone, somewhere, was made to have the coaches call timeouts to accommodate ESPN's need to try and fill 2 more commercial breaks.  Jeff Fischer was not going to oblige but by all appearances Jack Del Rio did.

This just totally disgusts me.  I have hated ESPN for many, many years and this is yet another example of why I can not stand ESPN for any reason anymore and the sooner they stop airing live sports the sooner I can stop watching that worthless network once and for all.  ESPN is all about self promotion, highlights and sound effects...but on their most watched show of the week, MNF, apparently money moves to priority one.

What is so ridiculous about this is the fact that there were probably more than ample opportunities for ESPN to get all their needed breaks in but they may have chosen to run an interview or a feature package, or highlights or whatever during a change of possession or injury or other appropriate times for a commercial timeout.  I have worked many a football game and know that happens on a regular basis, but I have never heard of a television entity requesting for coaches to call timeouts to "help them out".

Will the NFL likely do anything about this?  Probably not because the Walt Disney Company (which owns ESPN) has a lot of money and will probably write a nice big check to the NFL when the tv contracts are due...

But, I would like to iterate at least one more time to make sure it is crystal clear for everyone...ESPN SUCKS!