Thoughts on NFL Licensing

[Orleanian In Exile]

Originally Posted by gridironpainter

I saw Bob Costas act like a fool on a game day show a couple of years ago trying to run an electric football board. They obviously had the board set way to fast, the players had to have been adjusted intentionally to run soor poorly ,and he was making it seem like a pathetic game. Did any of you see that show? There was an obvious bias by the producers to minimize electric football in the eyes of viewers. That was shortly before Miggle lost the liscense. I say this because there was an obvious agenda. My question is what was that agenda?

I doubt if there was any sort of agenda to the spectacle. Probably it was a last-minute decision to throw in an electric football segment to Costas' show and it was slapped together in a hurry, by people who really had no idea of the most basic methods to get controlled play with figures even if they're just mounted on rookie bases. It is certain that there was not an experienced gameplayer advising Costas' production crew or Costas. Most likely, they proceeded in ignorance and went with the assumptions of electric football being an "unplayable" game with figures that either just fell over or spun in circles, and of course they would have no idea how to properly adjust the board. Ignorance and haste are the likely culprits here.