Sunday, September 12, 2010

Lingeries Football - OK / MTV Broadcast Sucked

I finally caught a LFL game on MTV 2 and frankly, I was very disappointed.  Not as much as with the game, but with the production work by MTV.  It was a series of clips.  They cut you from one play to the next, they bounce their graphics in and out of the screen, and it really takes away from the game itself.  In short, LFL on MTV 2 sucks, but what can you expect from a broadcaster that focuses on music videos.  If the LFL wants to build up their fan base, they need to somehow get someone like ESPN to broadcast their games (but not try to take over the league like they did with the old AFL).

As for what I could get out of the game itself, I watched two thirty minute clips, because the way MTV 2 has them set up, you don't get the entire game because the DVR thinks the program is only thirty minutes long.  What I did see showed me some fairly descent football, you could actually see past the scantily dressed babes in pads, and actually see a football game.  But the rules are definitely different.  One two kick offs, one at the beginning of the game and another at the beginning of the second half.  The referees don't get flag happy over fights, so it appears, and the locker room clip that they showed me was almost amusing, listening to this almost cartoon like voice giving those girls hell about the game play.  Well, let's face facts, they aren't going to get top coaches in this league.

I honestly believe that I would have enjoyed the game more if MTV hadn't cut it up as badly as they did, and just show the damn game in full.  It clearly wasn't being broadcast live, you can't butcher live feed like they did and squeeze thirty minutes of live game time into thirty or forty five minutes of broadcast.

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