Super Bowl 57 wasn’t only a momentous occasion for players on the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles. After Sheryl Lee Ralph performed “Lift Every Voice and Sing” and Chris Stapleton sang the national anthem, it was time to start the game. And it was apparently time for FOX to unveil a new feature for the millions of people watching the big game at home.
As has sometimes been the case in recent years, the network unveiled a new scorebug (the item at the bottom of the screen that tells the relevant information like score, time, timeouts, quarter, etc.).
From an initial glance, it seems as if the football world widely derided it:
Fox debuts a new score bug for the #SuperBowl. Thoughts? 🏈📺 pic.twitter.com/OqcLzAHpPn
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) February 12, 2023
Woof, yeah. I mean, it is pretty unnecessarily large and doesn’t have the best aesthetic.
NFL fans crushed FOX’s new scorebug for being way too big, among other things.