Colin Cowherd rips ESPN's coverage of e-sports

[mehyaM24]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dll8eMJnTEE

:roll: i think he went hard AF. my thing is, if people want to call bowling & chess a sport, why not video games? i don't play either professionally but just saying.

[Akrazotile]

Sport is a word relatively open to interpretation.

People are too uptight about the definition of a sport. Seems like it's the faux macho, soapbox warriors who want to talk about how if theres no blood sweat and tears, dont you DARE call it a sport!!! To the barricades!!!!!!

Like seriously who cares what someone calls bowling. It doesnt matter.

[Timmy D for MVP]

Sounds like he had 3 minutes to kill and that was the filler they came up with that day.

It was a classic get off my lawn rant, he didn't have a lot to actually say, I don't like Cowherd but I respect that he does what? 3 hours all by himself. But sometimes it'll be something like this.

To talk about the validity of major coverage of esports: As it grows so too will the amount of coverage. If the money gets to a certain point with sponsorships we will see more traditional coverage. Whether you call it a sport or not is irrelevant.

[Velocirap31]

I enjoy some occasional Bloodborne, but I can't help but wonder how many of these e-sports 'athletes' are like my 34 year old loser cousin. He does nothing but play video games. Never had a job, girlfriend, car, cell phone. He literally has no work, life, or social skills and just sits on the PS4 in our grandma's basement.

It's one thing to be an occasional hobby, but if you spend substantial hours playing at the expense of life and work, you're a negative to society.

[Timmy D for MVP]

I enjoy some occasional Bloodborne, but I can't help but wonder how many of these e-sports 'athletes' are like my 34 year old loser cousin. He does nothing but play video games. Never had a job, girlfriend, car, cell phone. He literally has no work, life, or social skills and just sits on the PS4 in our grandma's basement.

It's one thing to be an occasional hobby, but if you spend substantial hours playing at the expense of life and work, you're a negative to society.

If you are a top level play that is your job.

That would be like comparing a pro athlete to the guy that goes to the gym all the time to play ball with no life outside that.

[CelticBaller]

So there's is a way to get rid of him?

[ItsMillerTime]

If you are a top level play that is your job.

That would be like comparing a pro athlete to the guy that goes to the gym all the time to play ball with no life outside that.

This. The top level players make serious money playing these games. Plus if you stream on Twitch.tv on top of that? We're talking 100K+ a year in tournament winnings & Twitch subs alone.

There was a DOTA tournament last year where each player on the top team received over 1M a piece :biggums:

[Thorpesaurous]

Sport is a word relatively open to interpretation.

People are too uptight about the definition of a sport. Seems like it's the faux macho, soapbox warriors who want to talk about how if theres no blood sweat and tears, dont you DARE call it a sport!!! To the barricades!!!!!!

Like seriously who cares what someone calls bowling. It doesnt matter.




Sounds like he had 3 minutes to kill and that was the filler they came up with that day.

It was a classic get off my lawn rant, he didn't have a lot to actually say, I don't like Cowherd but I respect that he does what? 3 hours all by himself. But sometimes it'll be something like this.

To talk about the validity of major coverage of esports: As it grows so too will the amount of coverage. If the money gets to a certain point with sponsorships we will see more traditional coverage. Whether you call it a sport or not is irrelevant.


Both of these answers are spot on. I've never been a fan of Cowherd. For the most part I find him to be a no nothing pompous jackass. But since coming to ESPN and getting flooded by him, I have come to appreciate his ability to fill air time by himself. It's something almost no one else does. And he does it in part by taking these ridiculously firm stances on things, to draw a line in the sand that he can play off of one way or the other. I don't think he actually believes any more than say 25% of what he actually says. And that actually makes him a little more tolerable to me.

My biggest gripe is when he gets too specific and you realize he doesn't know what the **** he's talking about. Like when the Knicks traded Stoudamire to Dallas, and he insisted Stoudamire was one of the leagues premier rebounders, which just doesn't make any sense at all to anyone who actually pays attention to basketball, and was never true even at his peak.

[Crown&Coke]

So there's is a way to get rid of him?

oh snap

[BurningHammer]

This same network used to broadcast Magic: The Gathering World Championship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DECaN66tm0k

Jon Finkel :rockon:

[Pushxx]

Tastosis destroys every single commentating tandem ESPN has on board.

And e-sports are great. Maybe that's why millions of people watch e-sports events regularly and watch entertaining personalities play video games daily.

[lilandywiggins]

I can't stand listening to Cowherd.

[Graviton]

I enjoy some occasional Bloodborne, but I can't help but wonder how many of these e-sports 'athletes' are like my 34 year old loser cousin. He does nothing but play video games. Never had a job, girlfriend, car, cell phone. He literally has no work, life, or social skills and just sits on the PS4 in our grandma's basement.

It's one thing to be an occasional hobby, but if you spend substantial hours playing at the expense of life and work, you're a negative to society.
Actually almost all of them are like 16-25, just kids with natural talent and reaction speed. Being 25+ in E-sports is like being a 35 year old NBA player.

They happened to be good at something and are making legit money off of it. Some of them streaming on Twitch make like 100-200k a year.

[Pushxx]

Actually almost all of them are like 16-25, just kids with natural talent and reaction speed. Being 25+ in E-sports is like being a 35 year old NBA player.

They happened to be good at something and are making legit money off of it. Some of them streaming on Twitch make like 100-200k a year.

The top few Twitch personalities make more than $500k including donations, sponsorships, subscriptions, ad revenue, and more.

It's not easy keeping people entertained almost daily for several hours straight while playing video games. These people are talented.

That's not even talking about the incredibly skilled pro players who can make a respectable salary just by streaming themselves playing without saying a word.

[Graviton]

The top few Twitch personalities make more than $500k including donations, sponsorships, subscriptions, ad revenue, and more.

It's not easy keeping people entertained almost daily for several hours straight while playing video games. These people are talented.

That's not even talking about the incredibly skilled pro players who can make a respectable salary just by streaming themselves playing without saying a word.
Yea 100k-200k is just from subs/viewers alone, if you add their own salary, sponsorships, ADs and other deals it's definitely much higher.

I wonder about their taxes though, do they have to pay the same rates when it's all online?