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ESPN Knows Consistency

Posted by Terry Howard @ 9/06/2007

When it comes to fantasy football, ESPN is more consistent than anyone. Year after year they continue to deliver the same promise of botched live scoring on day one and complete system outages.

But, they upped things this year, and added in blaming the NFL stat feed for the problems. Nevermind that both Yahoo and CBS had no problem with keeping the scoring rolling, it's clearly NFL's problem. Nothing says integrity like throwing your content partner publicly under the bus at the first sign of tech failure.

But the fun didn't stop there! Predictably the users hit the message boards to voice their complaints and just try to learn what the heck happened. Instead of spending their time going into the boards and trying to talk to your users and explain what happened and when they might expect corrections, they went about the task of deleting posts and entire threads to try and cleanse the boards of any negative comments. As I perused the message boards trying to get information I was watching how conversations blink out of existence about as fast as they were created. Way to go ESPN!

For consistently sucking at a level most people can barely fathom, and to provide your users with increasing levels of disregard, I award you the prestigious honor of being named "Douchebag of the Week". Sunday is another week, so we are all on the edge of our seats to see if gameday brings you another consecutive back to back win in that category.

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