Clarissa Thompson admits to fabricating sideline reports.

[Captain Hindsight]

32 minutes ago, LeviF said:

 

A lot of them are taking to twitter saying things like "yes we have super serious big girl jobs nobody should undermine that! NOBODY!!!"

Probably because they are worried about their jobs now, I don't blame them. I personally don't think sideline reporters add much to the broadcast, but I also know more about the game than most fans because of sites like this 

[Mr. WEO]

48 minutes ago, Captain Hindsight said:

I don’t care personally, it’s just filler in the middle of the game. But saying that kind of puts sideline reporters jobs in jeopardy. If people know it’s a farce, from a sideline reporter, it makes the rest of them vulnerable. 
 

If I was a sideline reporter, I’d be pissed. Erodes trust in the profession 

 

vulnerable to...what?  being fired for getting actual useless quotes from coaches who never want to talk to them---and never ever offer any useful insight?

 

I don't understand what a sideline person would be worried about.  It's not like she broke a fake story--she made up the quotes these guys give her 100% of the time.  where's the harm?

 

Sideline reporters should worry that network execs will wake up one day and ask: "why are we paying these people to do this?"

 

 

[Captain Hindsight]

4 minutes ago, Mr. WEO said:

 

vulnerable to...what?  being fired for getting actual useless quotes from coaches who never want to talk to them---and never ever offer any useful insight?

 

I don't understand what a sideline person would be worried about.  It's not like she broke a fake story--she made up the quotes these guys give her 100% of the time.  where's the harm?

 

Sideline reporters should worry that network execs will wake up one day and ask: "why are we paying these people to do this?"

 

 

This is exactly what I'm referring to. Networks are cutting costs, now that this is out, sideline reporting is an easy target

[colin]

3 hours ago, C.Biscuit97 said:

This one of the dumbest stories ever. She was on PArdon My Take and was having fun. People have to find things to get angry now. Lay off my ex. She’s a great person. 

 

you're just defending her because you know she reads the board and you are waiting for that late night text.

 

respect.

[strive_for_five_guy]

Just now, colin said:

 

you're just defending her because you know she reads the board and you are waiting for that late night text.

 

respect.

“hey Biscuit - you know what really gets me going?  when I see you defending my honor on TBD”

[Mr. WEO]

11 minutes ago, Captain Hindsight said:

This is exactly what I'm referring to. Networks are cutting costs, now that this is out, sideline reporting is an easy target

 

did the fire her the last time she admitted this before today?

 

Sideline reporters are almost always women in the NFL--it's the networks very cynical display to show "look, we have women reporters--and they are doing vital things!"

 

They are safe....

[Big Turk]

Amazing admission of lack of ethics and even worse to be bragging about it.  If I was in a relationship with her, I would immediately walk...this type of behavior doesn't happen in a vacuum and this is not a person I would want to be associated with. Only thing saving her from getting fired is because she is hot, which is sad since they get free passes from people all the time for poor behavior in pretty much all aspects of their life.

 

When people tell you who they are, believe them.  

 

 

 

 

[strive_for_five_guy]

24 minutes ago, Big Turk said:

Amazing admission of lack of ethics and even worse to be bragging about it.  If I was in a relationship with her, I would immediately walk...this type of behavior doesn't happen in a vacuum and this is not a person I would want to be associated with. Only thing saving her from getting fired is because she is hot, which is sad since they get free passes from people all the time for poor behavior in pretty much all aspects of their life.

 

When people tell you who they are, believe them.  

 

 

 

 

You mean to say if she was ugly, she’d be fired already?

[Big Turk]

5 minutes ago, strive_for_five_guy said:

You mean to say if she was ugly, she’d be fired already?

 

Well, likely she would never have been hired in the first place, but if she was then 100% yes.

[stuvian]

Most MSM is bs, no surprise 

[JakeFrommStateFarm]

That is one good looking woman.

 

I don't care how much she lies to me

[UConn James]

2 hours ago, Captain Hindsight said:

This is exactly what I'm referring to. Networks are cutting costs, now that this is out, sideline reporting is an easy target

I think the only reason broadcasters have sideline reporters is to give some jobs to women to be able to say they hired women, and to give some time to some eye candy to fill in the dead moments between the approximately 11 minutes (and, yes, this is an real thing) of actual gameplay in a 3 hour broadcast. Gotta keep short attention span Americans watching the screen by jumping between fifty cameras.

 

I often watch with the sound down very low because honestly, I don’t really wanna listen to two or three shmucks in a booth tell me what I just saw with my own eyes and make blabbering empty-talk. I watch Wimbledon and on the outer courts in earlier rounds they just have a live feed, no commentators or ones that only rarely speak to o point out actually important things but otherwise STHU. It’s like you’re sitting in the stands but with THE best view and replays. Would that we could have that for NFL… but then it’d be patently obvious how terrible it is to watch football as a spectator with so many tv timeouts and such.

[Thrivefourfive]

5 hours ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

You mean those stereotypical cliches that come out of an off camera "coach interview" at the half can be fabricated? Shocked. 

 

They can do away with those mid game on screen coaches interviews as well. 

Let’s not forget the insane enthusiasm most of these sideline reporters think they’re selling to the audiences. 

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

5 hours ago, Gregg said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/11/16/charissa-thompson-fabricate-sideline-reports/

I'm amused by the fact that a Bezos employee is being reported on by other Bezos employees

 

[JPL7]

As if these dumb “sideline reports” weren’t useless enough, now we can assume they are all fabricated anyway. Honestly, what would be missing in game if those gals weren’t around? 
 

Quite frankly, football doesn’t need women involved in anyway to thrive. Football without cheerleaders, without these “sideline reporters” and desk hosts would be no different. 

[Reks Ryan]

5 hours ago, C.Biscuit97 said:

But it hurts all the truly great sideline reporters!!!! Would anyone honestly care if they didn’t have sideline reporters? They are about as useful politicians. 🥁

It really is pointless.  They could just put a pretty girl on the screen talking about any nonsense for 2 minutes and most of would be just as happy. 

 

I've watched thousands of pro & college football games on TV, and the only 2 memorable in-game interviews I remember are when Namath told Suzy Kolber he "I don't give a damn about the NY Jets, I just wanna kiss you" and when Peyton Manning called out his "idiot kicker".   So about once every thousand games you get something interesting.   

 

Post-game are occasionally interesting when players or coaches are all fired up after a win or depressed after a loss, and say something genuine before they have time to cool down.

 

[Steptide]

Everytime I hear a sideline reporter say on a broadcast "I talked to so and so at halftime and"..... I immediately think to myself "no they didn't". So easy to fabricate this stuff 

[C.Biscuit97]

2 hours ago, colin said:

 

you're just defending her because you know she reads the board and you are waiting for that late night text.

 

respect.

[Aussie Joe]

16 minutes ago, JPL7 said:

As if these dumb “sideline reports” weren’t useless enough, now we can assume they are all fabricated anyway. Honestly, what would be missing in game if those gals weren’t around? 
 

Quite frankly, football doesn’t need women involved in anyway to thrive. Football without cheerleaders, without these “sideline reporters” and desk hosts would be no different. 

It doesn’t “need it”… but I suspect that women sideline reporting (on all male sports … both in the US and my country) is here to stay …

 

Anyway … I see she has apologised ….and has qualified her comments to emphasise that she has “never lied”…

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67456034

 

 

 

 

[Best Williams Available]

Good thing no one listens to those reports anyway.