If your television gets a bit glitchy during ESPN’s college football broadcasts, don’t worry. It’s not you.
You have the sun to blame for any and all ESPN broadcasting issues, as it’s the week where that big, hot ball of gas gets directly behind the Disney satellite that helps keep its broadcasts going smoothly.
Texas and Oklahoma fans got a glimpse at that firsthand on Saturday after some glitches hit the broadcast feed during the Red River Showdown.
Yes, somehow, these ESPN problems are all the sun’s fault somehow. Does the sun not care about Saturday afternoon college football? Clearly not!
Reminder: it’s sun outage week. That means the sun is directly behind the Disney satellite, and ESPNs might be a little choppy today. pic.twitter.com/maCtScW9mi
— Sickos Committee (@SickosCommittee) October 7, 2023
You can see how messy the ESPN broadcast got during the Red River Showdown.
"We apologize; we're dealing with some serious technical issues (on this Oklahoma-Texas ESPN on ABC broadcast)… It's a power issue. Our crew is as good as any trying to get things in terms of the cameras and microphones back up and running."- Chris Fowler pic.twitter.com/r0VW3eFh07
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) October 7, 2023
This is the kind of bizarre technicality that only Mother Nature can influence, and we’re all ready for the celestial patterns to do their thing so that the Disney satellite can get back into proper position to broadcast games clearly.
Feature image courtesy of ESPN.