NFL Players Mentioned the Most on SportsCenter

[Champ]

On “SportsCenter,” there was Tebow and then there was everyone else. After the Broncos’ sixth consecutive win, he was mentioned more than 40 times in the next morning’s edition of the show.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/02/04/sports/football/most-mentioned-players-on-espn.html?ref=sports

[EmpireWF]

Terrelle Pryor was talked about more than Rey Lewis and Ray Rice?

[G-men]

Kinda shocked that Suh and Rex aren't larger.

[Len B]

Kind of shocked that these people have no fucking life and waste their time on this. Money well spent, NY Times.

[Raidersabc123]

Terrelle Pryor was talked about more than Rey Lewis and Ray Rice?

They only talked about Pryor a little bit because of the four games suspension I doubt he should even be on there

[Raidersabc123]

nvm

[NWSaint]

.. can't forget about da' hoopa' turned NFL bad mf'er!!

[dj_morton]

pretty cool picture...hopefully Tebow goes 0-16 next year

[ram29jackson]

Eli..the quiet assassin

[NAHSTE]

Kind of shocked that these people have no fucking life and waste their time on this. Money well spent, NY Times.

The best part is they copied this story idea from Deadspin.

[Warner2BruceTD]

I don't know, I find stuff like this interesting.

I wish somebody would compare the top NFL athletes to the top MLB, NBA, NHL, etc athletes. We all know ESPN is the NFL/Kobe/Lebron/Tiger network, but i'd love to see the statistical proof.

My favorite "ESPN doesn't care about anything aside from NFL/Kobe/Lebron/Tiger" moment recently was the day of the Gio Gonzalez baseball trade.

Gonzalez is a pretty good young pitcher, and he was traded for a really good haul of prospects. It was pretty significant baseball news. Anyway, I watched an entire one hour SportsCenter, and the only mention of the trade was at the very VERY end, as the music is playing and the credits are flashing, with the anchor saying something to the effect of "..and in baseball today, Gio Gonzalez traded to Washington for minor leaguers. What a steal for the Nats! Thanks for watching SportsCenter." dada da! dada da! Show over.

No breakdown, no analysis, no token two minute remote from Tim Kurkjian's den, NOTHING. I can assure you that whatever happened during that random Wednesday in the NFL was not as big of a story as that trade, but that's ESPN and i'm sure they spent three segments on the 4-5 Eagles or stroking Aaron Rodgers.

[NAHSTE]

I don't know, I find stuff like this interesting.

I wish somebody would compare the top NFL athletes to the top MLB, NBA, NHL, etc athletes. We all know ESPN is the NFL/Kobe/Lebron/Tiger network, but i'd love to see the statistical proof.

My favorite "ESPN doesn't care about anything aside from NFL/Kobe/Lebron/Tiger" moment recently was the day of the Gio Gonzalez baseball trade.

Gonzalez is a pretty good young pitcher, and he was traded for a really good haul of prospects. It was pretty significant baseball news. Anyway, I watched an entire one hour SportsCenter, and the only mention of the trade was at the very VERY end, as the music is playing and the credits are flashing, with the anchor saying something to the effect of "..and in baseball today, Gio Gonzalez traded to Washington for minor leaguers. What a steal for the Nats! Thanks for watching SportsCenter." dada da! dada da! Show over.

No breakdown, no analysis, no token two minute remote from Tim Kurkjian's den, NOTHING. I can assure you that whatever happened during that random Wednesday in the NFL was not as big of a story as that trade, but that's ESPN and i'm sure they spent three segments on the 4-5 Eagles or stroking Aaron Rodgers.

Well, there was this:

http://deadspin.com/bristolmetrics/

TIME DEVOTED TO INDIVIDUAL SPORTS
NFL: 114 minutes (34.7%) (last week: 34.5%)
NBA: 73.75 (22.5%) (last week: 18.2%)
College basketball: 51.5 (15.7%) (last week: 12.1%)
College football: 2.25 (.7%) (last week: 10.8%)
MLB: 2.25 (.7%) (last week: 3.5%)
NHL: 5.75 (1.7%) (last week: 2.5%)
X Games: 10.75 (3.2%) (last week: n/a)
Tennis: 10.75 (3.2%) (last week: 0.8%)
Other sports: 10.75 (3.2%) (last week: 3.3%)
SportsCenter staples (things like the "Top 10," "Encore," "What 2 Watch 4," etc.): 48.25 (14.7%) (last week: 14.1%)

MOST-COVERED TEAMS BY SPORT
New England Patriots (NFL): 40.25 minutes (12.2%)
Miami Heat (NBA): 28.5 (8.6%)
Murray State Racers (college basketball): 7.25 (2.2%)
Pittsburgh Penguins (NHL): 0.5 (.6%)
Texas Rangers (MLB): 1 (.3%)

(Note: The time allotted to college football consisted of 1.5 minutes for the Senior Bowl and 0.75 minutes for assorted national signing day. No one team was given any time on SportsCenter.)

MOST-MENTIONED ATHLETES
Rather than break down the amount of time a specific sports figure was covered, we counted how frequently names were mentioned in the transcripts from the week. The 15 most-mentioned sports people for Jan. 27-Feb. 2:

Rob Gronkowski: 69
LeBron James: 58
Peyton Manning: 53
Tom Brady: 45
Eli Manning: 36
Dwyane Wade: 34
Derrick Rose: 31
Tom Coughlin: 26
Bill Belichick: 25
Dwight Howard: 22
Rafael Nadal: 22
Novak Djokovic: 20
Tim Tebow: 18
Kobe Bryant: 17
Ricky Rubio: 16

CUMULATIVE STATISTICS, JAN. 7-FEB 2
Total time: 1,726 minutes
Time (minus commercials): 1,291

NFL: 472.25 minutes (36.6%)
NBA: 252.5 (19.6%)
College football: 95.75 (7.4%)
College basketball: 182.75 (14.2%)
NHL: 32.75 (2.5%)
MLB: 31.5 (2.4%)
Other sports: 67.25 (3.2%)
SportsCenter staples: 156.25 (12.1%)

[s@ppisgod]

I don't know, I find stuff like this interesting.

I wish somebody would compare the top NFL athletes to the top MLB, NBA, NHL, etc athletes. We all know ESPN is the NFL/Kobe/Lebron/Tiger network, but i'd love to see the statistical proof.

My favorite "ESPN doesn't care about anything aside from NFL/Kobe/Lebron/Tiger" moment recently was the day of the Gio Gonzalez baseball trade.

Gonzalez is a pretty good young pitcher, and he was traded for a really good haul of prospects. It was pretty significant baseball news. Anyway, I watched an entire one hour SportsCenter, and the only mention of the trade was at the very VERY end, as the music is playing and the credits are flashing, with the anchor saying something to the effect of "..and in baseball today, Gio Gonzalez traded to Washington for minor leaguers. What a steal for the Nats! Thanks for watching SportsCenter." dada da! dada da! Show over.

No breakdown, no analysis, no token two minute remote from Tim Kurkjian's den, NOTHING. I can assure you that whatever happened during that random Wednesday in the NFL was not as big of a story as that trade, but that's ESPN and i'm sure they spent three segments on the 4-5 Eagles or stroking Aaron Rodgers.

I'm waiting for ESPN to start subliminal advertising of certain players. Like during highlights they can say, "Jrue Holiday passes to Evan Turner for the win....Blake Griffin...just off the iron. And the Sixers winning streak ends at 6Tebow." while flashing a picture of Drew Brees' mole on the screen for 1/1000th of a second and super-imposing Kobe's face on 10 people in the audience. Because, let's be honest. Nobody cares about the Sixers playing BASKETBALL! I wanna now what Gisele Bundchen e-mailed her friends and family. Now, that's sports news.

[Bear Pand]

I'm waiting for ESPN to start subliminal advertising of certain players. Like during highlights they can say, "Jrue Holiday passes to Evan Turner for the win....Blake Griffin...just off the iron. And the Sixers winning streak ends at 6Tebow." while flashing a picture of Drew Brees' mole on the screen for 1/1000th of a second and super-imposing Kobe's face on 10 people in the audience. Because, let's be honest. Nobody cares about the Sixers playing BASKETBALL! I wanna now what Gisele Bundchen e-mailed her friends and family. Now, that's sports news.

I remember watching highlights os a Denver Nuggets home game and they used the fact that Corey Brewer went to UF to spend the whole time talking about Tebow instead of the basketball game.

Wasn't really subliminal but...fuck ESPN.