Well thank you all for making me feel better about my addiction.


Ahem, My name is Chad and I am a ESPNaholic.

I especially liked the girls chiming in.

Right now I'm too ghetto to have my Directv hooked up, but when I had it, the only channels I bothered to watch were ESPN related. Especially when March madness was in full swing, I'd sit on the couch watching from the time I got home until I fell asleep. I'm pathetic.

I do like Sports Center, but they play it too frequently and provide the same information over and over again.

I've watched ESPN
 

Since the late 1970s, when it debuted. The channel's gotten sooo much better over the years, namely when it added pro sports.
:)

Re: I've watched ESPN
 

It's amazing how much the network has changed.

My hometown is actually where ESPN began and is still based (Bristol, Connecticut). Growing up around ESPN was awesome, and when I got into high school I actually did a few stories for the local newspaper on ESPN personalities, the opening of ESPNews, the 20th anniversary, and a few other of the goings-on down there.

Talking to the people who have worked down there the whole time (not just on-air talent, but the technicians, researchers, and everyone else), you get a sense of how a network goes from low-profile to high-profile.

The great thing is that many of the anchors are still really cool people. Stuart Scott, Rich Eisen, Chris Berman, Dan Patrick, Karl Ravech, Bob Ley, and a bunch others have been nothing but friendly and extremely approachable in every instance I've had talking to them. In fact, Keith Olberman was the only anchor who was a jerk.

Pretty impressive considering how big they've become.

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