I don’t know what you really call those annoying things that span the entire width of the screen during NFL and college football games but I call them the score bars.
My biggest complaint about the score bars? I don’t need them spread across the whole damn screen the entire game. The score might change once every 10 minutes in a really good game so why do I need to have this thing taking up valuable screen space the entire game?
I’ve seen several of these score blocks this season that are placed at the top of the screen and cut right through the players helmets or seriously impair my view of the field. And for what? So I can see that the score is 0 - 0 at the end of the first quarter?
Oh sure, the bars also have the time on them but how useful is the clock unless its the last 2 minutes of the game?
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I like the “bar”
Just like I am glad they don’t “hide” the scoreboard when I am at the game. It is always there so I can know the score when I turn on the broadcast, or if I forget. I’m stupid. And the time remaining, that is good to know just like I like to see it when I am at the game in person.
I like the bar too, but not across the top of the screen. The bar at the bottom works perfectly fine and doesn’t screw up my viewing.
I get just as much info at the bottom of the screen and there is much less to see at the bottom than the top of the screen. It’s much less annoying to have the score bar block the feet of the players or the near sideline which I can’t see anyway because the camera angle forces one team to always block it, than it is to have the bar cut across the heads of the players and action that can occur on the far sideline which is unobstructed in the natural camera viewing angle of a game.
I’m not trying to beat this to death, but I was watching a game today and my 6 year old daughter walks in the room and says, “Are they going to take that thing off the top of the screen? It’s running across the guy’s faces.”
That’s my girl.
For the record, ESPN and ABC seem to be the worst offenders. Their top scorebar headers cut off a good 10% of the top of the screen.