Did ESPN run "Jacked Up" last night? (1 Viewer)

[NY/NJMFDIVER]

Though to me, its always somewhat crass, I'm just curious to see if anyone knows if they ran it last night. The disengenous hooey of guys toning down their amplified personas to speak somberly find of rings hollow when they'll cut back to stuff like "Jacked Up". Now don't get me wrong, I love a good hit, and this inst the first incident of paraylsis from the football field, nor will it be the last, but to highlight and praise these hits and then try to "put things in perspective" is an impossibility in my mind. They should probably dump the whole segment because they sound like toolboxes anyway, but if they ran it last night, thats really beyond the pale.

 

[prymetyme25]

They dont do sundays anymore. It should run tonight though.

 

[TheWick]

quit being a pansy

 

[The Man with the Plan]

Technically Kevin Everett jacked himself up so he wouldn't be on it.

 

[Meat]

Though to me, its always somewhat crass, I'm just curious to see if anyone knows if they ran it last night. The disengenous hooey of guys toning down their amplified personas to speak somberly find of rings hollow when they'll cut back to stuff like "Jacked Up". Now don't get me wrong, I love a good hit, and this inst the first incident of paraylsis from the football field, nor will it be the last, but to highlight and praise these hits and then try to "put things in perspective" is an impossibility in my mind. They should probably dump the whole segment because they sound like toolboxes anyway, but if they ran it last night, thats really beyond the pale.

 

[W1cked]

They were too busy doing the Michael Vick timeline.

 

[Carter_Can_Fly]

I disagree here. Hitting is part of the game and as long as it is a good clean hit then by all means show the hit. Now, I can do with out the "JACKED UP" commentary, but football is a contact sport and as long as the player is not seriously hurt then by all means show it. Sometimes the only tv times players get (special teams players) is due to a big hit.

 

[Wu-banger]

wow.... over-reacting a little I think.

Playing the hit on Everett and then yelling "Jacked Up" .. would be in bad taste ... just doing the segment though is fine.

Hell... after having to watch the horrible NBC Highlight show "Football in America" .. ESPN could sacrifice baby kittens on MNF Countdown and I'd still think it was better than putting Oberman , Collinsworth and Tiki in front of a camera.

 

[Mungo Burrows]

Though to me, its always somewhat crass, I'm just curious to see if anyone knows if they ran it last night. The disengenous hooey of guys toning down their amplified personas to speak somberly find of rings hollow when they'll cut back to stuff like "Jacked Up". Now don't get me wrong, I love a good hit, and this inst the first incident of paraylsis from the football field, nor will it be the last, but to highlight and praise these hits and then try to "put things in perspective" is an impossibility in my mind. They should probably dump the whole segment because they sound like toolboxes anyway, but if they ran it last night, thats really beyond the pale.

A) Everything ESPN does is disingenuousB) They always have tried to highlight "good" hits, not ones where the player leads with the top of their head, and they never focus on a play where a player was injured.C) It's always been a monday night countdown thing.D) The game is violent; that is part of its attraction to a large part of the audience. You say yourself, "I love a good hit." If you don't think people can enjoy this aspect of the game in good conscience whenever someone gets seriously hurt, how can you watch at all? How can you live with yourself?

 

[NY/NJMFDIVER]

wow.... over-reacting a little I think.Playing the hit on Everett and then yelling "Jacked Up" .. would be in bad taste ... just doing the segment though is fine.Hell... after having to watch the horrible NBC Highlight show "Football in America" .. ESPN could sacrifice baby kittens on MNF Countdown and I'd still think it was better than putting Oberman , Collinsworth and Tiki in front of a camera.

Why, isn' t that point, to watch a guy get destoryed or something? Well here is an example, why not hoot and holler here? Or at least not bring out the funereal voices in one segment and then pop like crazy because you're watching an average of what, 2, 3 concussions in every 5 jacked up hits they show? You can't have it both ways.

 

[Ayok]

I won't go into my distain for most everything ESPN, however why would you not have a segment on hard (clean) hits when that is a MAJOR component of the game itself?

 

[NY/NJMFDIVER]

Though to me, its always somewhat crass, I'm just curious to see if anyone knows if they ran it last night. The disengenous hooey of guys toning down their amplified personas to speak somberly find of rings hollow when they'll cut back to stuff like "Jacked Up". Now don't get me wrong, I love a good hit, and this inst the first incident of paraylsis from the football field, nor will it be the last, but to highlight and praise these hits and then try to "put things in perspective" is an impossibility in my mind. They should probably dump the whole segment because they sound like toolboxes anyway, but if they ran it last night, thats really beyond the pale.

A) Everything ESPN does is disingenuousB) They always have tried to highlight "good" hits, not ones where the player leads with the top of their head, and they never focus on a play where a player was injured.C) It's always been a monday night countdown thing.D) The game is violent; that is part of its attraction to a large part of the audience. You say yourself, "I love a good hit." If you don't think people can enjoy this aspect of the game in good conscience whenever someone gets seriously hurt, how can you watch at all? How can you live with yourself?

A) I agree with youB) Why destroy a guy when you can just tackle him. I know its "part of the game", I played it into college, I anilhated guys, and I was absolutely destroyed myself, but I was also a teenager who was a knucklehead, these are grown men promoting this stuffC) fair enoughD) I ask the question about living with myself quite a bit lately. I walk with a limp because of this, and I can't stress enough of what a low level scrub I was in comparison, and my lack of talent or desire kept me from playing at higher levels where I could have really done some damage to myself. Maybe its just watching that Earl Campbell piece this weekend(can't recommend it highly enough) that has me thinking about this stuff. I think off all the QB's I could have just tackled, but I looked to injure when I beat a tackle on the blindside. We need to promote more of this in football rather than what is basically a cheap shot. As I said, I love a good hit in the context of a play, but blindside blocks, even if they are "clean" when you really look to pop a guy, I don' t know. Its different being in my 30's and looking back and seeing the carnage. I love the game, but I can't say that I'm sure I"d want my sons to play it given what I've seen personally and with other guys I used to play with and then watching some of these old timers who seem to accelerate their aging.

 

[Finatic]

Monday Night Countdown has always done "Jacked Up" as far as I can remember.............