ESPN is creating ESPN8: 'The Ocho' for one glorious day
This actually isn't a joke, they're actually doing this.
Here is the programming schedule for next Tuesday:
Time -- Event
12 a.m. -- 2016 American Disc Golf Championship.
2 a.m. -- 2016 WFTDA Roller Derby Championships.
4 a.m. -- 2016 Sky Zone Ultimate Trampoline Dodgeball.
5:30 a.m. -- Firefighters World Challenge XXV.
8 a.m. -- 2016 Kabaddi World Cup Final.
9 a.m. -- World Darts Championship.
11:30 a.m. -- Arm Wrestling: Best of WAL 2016 Championship.
12:30 p.m. -- 2017 Championship of Bags.
2:30 p.m. -- EVO 2017 World Championship - Street Fighter
5:00 p.m. -- Moxie Games.
7:00 p.m. -- U.S. Open Ultimate Championships
Yeah. Dodgeball. On The Ocho.
If you told me Jason Bateman would be announcing, I might have to stay up to watch it.
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I know I use this a lot, but it fits a lot.
It's one day and funny. Soon ESPNU will be ACC network anyway.
Admittedly, it's funny and they have us talking about ESPNU when we normally would not have been.
Or it will become ESPN3, then ACC takes over ESPNEWS.
I think it's pandering, not funny
I play disc golf as a side hobby....regular golf is really my thing but disc golf is fun too.....
I like it. I'd watch most of that stuff over their talk shows if I wasn't at work on the glorious Tuesday they are doing this on.
Hehehe the parody became real.
Good on you, ESPN.
Where di this originate? Was it South Park? I bet it was South Park.
Dodgeball.
Where did it originate??
Not the true, US version, of that quote, but nice pull nonetheless.
This might be the greatest thing ESPN's done this decade
I dunno man, did you see what ESPNU did on Christmas? They literally had Mike Golic Jr in his pajamas eating cookies and drinking milk for an entire hour. No words.
Until this moment, I didn't recognize he played this role..... dang
Reminds me of the old ABC Wide World of Sports. Plus I play disc golf and will likely DVR that.
leg for disc golf
Do you play? I see youre from NJ too. I play tuesday night luck of the draw doubles at the Cook Douglas campus in New Brunswick occasionally during the summer, and sometimes play in the Jersey Jam tournament which is next weekend. My brother Jeff Mahler is a Pro level disc golfer who plays all over the place. Bob Graham is a good friend too who runs the tuesday night doubles.
Fellow disc golfer here, I watch good bit of tournament coverage on youtube but still am excited it's on TV.
That's almost as great as the American Dodgeball Association of America (the ADAA) or the 5 D's of dodgeball: dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge.
Patches O'Houlihan would be proud.
...if he weren't crushed by 2 tons of irony.
World Darts Championship is worth a watch. I worked that a couple years back and the fans/players are absolutely nuts.
If it's almost a sport...
Hey back in the day, ESPN broadcast a bunch of these "non-sports." I remember watchin 9-ball pool tourney's in the 80's. I wouldn't be surprised if they did launch another channel dedicated to this stuff.
Oh man they had even more obscure stuff than that. Does anybody remember beach soccer? Then there were the lumberjack competitions. What about bass fishing?
Unfortunately, they got rid of all those quirky time-fillers in order to replace them with more talking heads rehashing the same nonsense.
They air the timbersports on ABC.
They also had Ausie rules football which was awesome.
They had that in the early 90's on our local cable access channel in WV for some reason. And yeah, it was awesome.
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They were still showing those in the 90's. Spent quite a few afternoons in the dorms watching Jeanette Lee.
The Black Widow!
I miss the World's Strongest Man competitions they used to run at 2am. I can't count how many times I stumbled home after closing down the Hokie House to watch those competitions. There's something oddly mesmerizing about watching a giant neckless Icelander drag a bus around a parking lot while shouting "I'M A VIKING!!!"
I'm so glad I wasn't the only one watching this drunk/hungover/at all
I'm fairly certain we greatly outnumbered our sober counterparts.
I wish they still did the hunting and fishing shows on Saturday mornings. Great way to wake up. If they can show the world series of poker, they can show those.
Where is the Drone Racing League coverage? Or is that enough of a sport to remain on ESPN2....
I'm not joking about this guys - it's really being covered on ESPN2.
Stanford and several other PAC schools have scholarship drone teams.
It's not money paid out by athletics YET, just private money, but it's coming. Drone pilots are needed for the future and the racing leagues are fun way to expand the drone acceptance.
I hear they're even making a movie
Word is, French sprung for tickets to the premiere.
This was on one of the TVs in the gym the other day. My initial reaction was, "What the hell am I watching?" It is pretty mesmerizing with the fluorescent colors and obstacles, but so many crashes.
This is exactly how I felt. I saw it on the other day, turned on as a joke to see how long I would last watching it, and I ended up watching the whole hour
I like it when they switch to the camera on the drone. You'll catch yourself leaning and dodging stuff while you watch it. Add in the constant buzzing of their engines and it is strangely hypnotic.
I am not ashamed to admit that I have watched the DRL. It's pretty entertaining. Some of the courses they concoct are absolutely nuts.
It surprises me how much I enjoy watching DRL and how much I detest watching NASCAR.
Why should it surprise you? It's not like it's a bunch of drones making left turns.
Is this really necessary?
10/10
This was basically the original idea for ESPN2. Does anybody remember watching inline street hockey on ESPN2? The best part was the banking at the end of the rink.
I didn't even know this was a thing....pretty awesome