RIP Red Zone. Everything ESPN touches turns to sh*t.
ESPN to mess up nfl red zone.
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Me: Rolling my head in frustration while my wife asks wtf is my problem now, ffs?
Really, when the Commanders, Ravens, or Eagles aren’t on, Red Zone is an enjoyable go-to. F this.
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Yeah kinda misses the point of the whole concept that made it so popular
Man has had 4 great inventions
1) the wheel
2) transistor/ semi conductor
3) yoga pants
4) the Red Zone Why mess with something great
I've never watched a second of Red Zone...but wow, is this pissing off a lot of my friends that do every Sunday.
They could finish if off by having Desmond Howard host it.
Whenever a team is in the red zone, RedZone will show those plays. There are quarter screens when multiple teams are in the RZ. Basically, you always catch a RZ touchdown live. I hope this is sufficiently clear.
you might want to define the RedZone in football. Its basically the +30 yr line going in for a score. I'll assume you know what the plus 30 yd line is.
Just to add to this description, there had previously never been commercials on the Red Zone. So the broadcast would continuously switch from game to game to show meaningful/exciting plays from every game that was being played at the time. Basically, it was constant football from 1 PM Eastern to whenever the last game of the day finished after 7 PM. Then at the end of the day, the Red Zone would show a montage of every touchdown from every game that day. It was football nirvana.
My prediction is that the first thing ESPN will do is put someone else with Scott Hanson as a co-host, or they will replace Hanson with someone that will be universally hated by football fans. This is what ESPN does.
ESPN has to come up with $$$$ to pay the NFL owners for everything in that massive contract they just signed. Expect more of this type of thing.
Good catch. I should have defined what a touchdown is, too.
Trivia. The term "touchdown" originated from rugby due to those players needing to touch the ball down in the opponent's goal area to record a try. The location of this "touchdown" is important because it dictates where the conversion kick can be. AFAIK, the term "touchdown" isn't used in rugby. Instead, they say the ball was grounded.
As we know, in American football there is no need to touch the ball down so the term "touchdown" isn't accurate.
ESPN would like you to consider how lucky you were to have a commercial-free RedZone Channel before. That’s simply not a sustainable business model. 
Yeah, it was sweet while it lasted. Still, if your next door neighbor would let you borrow his Camaro any time you wanted, just fill up the tank when you’re done, and all of a sudden tells you no more Camaro, you wouldn’t be singing and dancing.ESPN would like you to consider how lucky you were to have a commercial-free RedZone Channel before. That’s simply not a sustainable business model.
Oh I hear you. I was being sarcastic. It would be nice if a behemoth like ESPN could leave that little bit of revenue on the table given what fans are used to…
The "red zone" is the 20-yard line, not 30.
uh its a made up term, some coaches define the 30 in as the red zone, some say the 20, what the RedZone channel uses, I dont know.
Pro Football Reference uses the 20-yard line for their Red Zone statistics. You can’t have any ambiguity when it comes to statistics. Click Glossary.
2024 Red Zone Receiving Stats | Pro-Football-Reference.com
2024 Red Zone Receiving Stats
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its a made up coaching term, you can define it anyway you want, profootball reference defines it that way, ok great for themPro Football Reference uses the 20-yard line for their Red Zone statistics. You can’t have any ambiguity when it comes to statistics. Click Glossary.
2024 Red Zone Receiving Stats | Pro-Football-Reference.com
2024 Red Zone Receiving Stats
It's "made up," but it's very entrenched. I've heard it thousands of times, and each time it's referencing the 20. Coaches, players, broadcasters, betting sites ... everyone and anyone says you're in the "red zone" when you've marched to the 20-yard-line, or closer. If there's someone out there who decided to claim it's the 30-yard line and in, then they're doing their own weird thing.
My point is that when it comes to statistics it is universal to use the opponent’s 20-yard line to indicate the border of the red zone. When the NFL tv heads are discussing red zone scoring percentages, they are absolutely positively talking plays inside the twenty, exclusively. It’s like using the word “Xerox” as a verb. No, there’s no formal definition of the red zone but there’s also zero confusion unless you go looking for it.
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Stop...its generally accepted as the 20. Has been for years and years and years. Every stadium uses the 20 as well.
Then I’ll choose to define points in the paint in basketball as anything on the other side of half court…
The thing is, ESPN going to Olbermann for hosting the NFL Red Zone is not totally out of the realm of possibility. It is something that would be right in ESPN's wheelhouse.
There are only a handful of people who make me want to stick a fork in my eye more than him....
That’s not how this works. Everything is “made up.” “Butt” is a made up term, but if someone said “slap me in the butt” and you walloped them across the face, outside of you claiming they’re a “buttface” so it’s OK, if they looked at you with disgust for hitting them in face, you can’t just say “well, it’s a made-up term, so I can define it anyway I want.” There’s an accepted definition.
And it’s accepted that “red zone” applies to the opponent’s territory, between the 20 and the goal line.
Replacing Hanson would be worse than the commercials. He's fantastic as his job and is a big reason why Redzone is so good. I have tried watching similar formats in other sports such as the one for CFB, MLS, etc. and they all suck. Hanson is phenomenal.