ESPN kept interrupting college football with Aaron Judge at-bats, and fans were furious
If you somehow haven’t heard, Aaron Judge is sitting on 60 home runs on the season, one shy of the American League and New York Yankees record of homers in a season of 61. It has been a big deal in the sports world for a few days now, but for some college football fans, the media coverage has gone too far.
On Saturday afternoon — a day reserved for NCAA football in the fall — ESPN and ABC did the unthinkable by cutting into game action of No. 5 Clemson at No. 21 Wake Forest and Missouri at Auburn to show Judge’s at bat against the Boston Red Sox.
Ok, maybe not the UNTHINKABLE, but football fans were irate that they had to split screen and listen to the audio of a game they were actively not trying to watch. In his second plate appearance, Wake Forest drove the field and scored a touchdown to take the lead as Judge hit a routine fly ball to center.
Folks were not happy.
Feature image courtesy of ESPN.