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Sunday Night Football Unveiled "The Green Zone" Last Night, Which Is Pretty Much The Yellow First Down Line But Much Worse

Well after exactly one night, I think we can cuncel da Green Zone and send it to the in-game graphics show in the sky alongside the glowing hockey puck and that cocky little asshole Scooter The Talking Baseball. You could even tell in Al Michaels’ voice that he wasn’t sold on the Green Zone and he has made a career of shoving shitty network shows down our throats while we watch sports. I don’t know how the same people that gave us John Williams instrumental music and Faith Hill/Carrie Underwood strutting in to get us fired the fuck up for Sunday night after a day of laying on the couch thought that this was a good idea. Even the most casual football fans were more than fine with a BRIGHT YELLOW LINE letting us know where the first down marker was. Instead NBC tried to Color Rush the playing surface and make every field look like the shitty turf of the Edward Jones Dome on third down to “make it simpler”. No thanks. NFL games are already ugly enough these days and once you include the the upcoming rule changes that are going to drive us all crazy, I don’t need any more changes in my life. When it comes to NFL football, I subscribe to the K.I.S.S. theory that Michael once told Dwight.