This has felt obvious for years. The sideline reporter at the game is completely useless. The best is when a player is laying on the field grabbing his knee, writhing in pain and they help him off. Then later in the game they go to the sideline reporter who tells us he is "questionable to return with a knee injury" no shit haha -- “I’ve said this before, so I haven’t been fired for saying it, but I’ll say it again. I would make up the report sometimes,” Thompson said in a recent interview on “Pardon My Take,” “because, A, the coach wouldn’t come out at halftime, or it was too late and … I didn’t want to screw up the report, so I was like, ‘I’m just going to make this up.’” Thompson, 41, added that she assumed that “no coach is going to get mad” if she misled viewers into thinking they had simply voiced some well-worn clichés, such as, “Hey, we need to stop hurting ourselves, we need to be better on third down, we need to stop turning the ball over and do a better job of getting off the field.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/11/16/charissa-thompson-fabricate-sideline-reports/
I always wondered what the point of most of these sideline bimbos that don't actually report anything are for...
Perfect example last night was Burrow. Questionable to return right away even though he didn’t have his helmet in any of the clips. I think Browning was 2 drives in after halftime before “officially” being ruled out.
I just dont understand why the NFL and their broadcast partners can't have fun with their jobs. Its a game at the end of the day If they went to the sideline reporter and she said "I havent had a chance to speak with coach [ ] but clearly they can't pick up a damn 1st down so I imagine he would say he wants to fix that" and then made a funny joke or something, what's wrong with that? People would enjoy that. Instead they gotta be so serious to the point where they are making up stuff
I thought about this the other night, can't even remember what game it was but there was a HC trapped by one of those sideline bimbos after halftime and she wouldn't stop asking him questions. The guy's team was snapping the ball on the field already and he's standing there giving her a death stare. I was incredulous that situation could even happen.
Maybe I'm getting old, but I just decided against about 15 different tawdry responses. I'm sure Clarissa was a nice lady.
It's not like those sideline interviews give us crazy riveting information that nobody would have known. Coaches always answer those questions as generically as possible, it's pointless to even have them.
Considering half of what goes on in the NFL is rigged, this is the least concerning thing happening. Sent from my SM-S906U using Tapatalk
I'd take her too..... but granted Mark Sanchez never really crossed my mind... despite being guapo as fuk. to each their own
Our eyes. It’s the politically correct way that we can admire them. Not quite as good as the old Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader days.
