The Mannings are terrific and they increased their viewership to 1.8 million over the first week where they only had 800,000. That is 132% increases and they were on ESPN2. It's unbelievable! They are going to cannibalize the main broadcast and take viewers away from Levy, Griese and Riddick.
ESPN is 1000% ok with that b/c people are still watching MNF
kinda like for the CFP, Espn will show the game on different channels with different commentaries.
this may become the new norm for sports.
for the NFL playoff game last year, I actually watched the Nickelodeon broadcast (with my kids) and it was entertaining.
Imagine the game was shown on a women’s channel and all the girls did was gossip about different shit during the game? More women non football fans would watch and their husbands would watch b/c their wife stays quiet during the game