Nice 30 second or so segment on Sports Center was just on. They showed Nicky going nuts after he saved the final PK to win the game.
Channel 4 lead the sports with the Wizards. Channel 9 teased United, but lead with the Wizards. Channel 7 lead with DC United! You know who I'll be watching from now on. I think Fox5 had that camera that was in front of the Barra, but I didn't get home in time to see any of their coverage. Thx, Jay!
Good to hear. I actually tried to watch last night's SC (which I usually avoid), but I didn't see anything. You'd think they would want to mention it since they (ABC) are doing the Cup broadcast. I'm sure MLS will get maybe a minute on PTI this week. Since Cornhole and Wil-cinna-bon are in DC, I hope they realize it's a big deal. The Comcast SportsRise piece was ho-hum.
The morning NBC News has been proming the game for Sports all morning..should be on in a few minutes..
Some great coverage last night and this morning. Mike, they keep showing the Carrol PK and a shot of the supporters right after. Is that you with your hand over your mouth? I gotta know what you were thinking at that moment?
That's because they're carrying the final next Sunday. They also had a Hillary Howard feature during the news itself on fans outside the stadium. I only caught the end of that. I expect they'll have the best local news coverage throughout the week, but don't mistake it for respect for soccer. It's really nothing more than using their newscast to promote their upcoming broadcasts. If the final were on another network, you'd get the kind of coverage the other networks give it now/
And every article and TV spot from here on in will contain the phrase "At least one team in this town knows how to rise to big occasions."
I think I had my hand over my mouth for every PK, thinking "make it" when United was shooting and "miss it" when the Revs were.
Comcast SportsNet had like 5 minutes of highlights/interviews. They showed every goal and a PK each from Adu and the last one that Rimando blocked. Also some DCU celebration, Rimando interview and Nowak comments after the game.
Dunno if anybody watched Ch. 9 on Friday at 6pm, but Topper (the weatherman) was wearing a DC United jersey during his forcast. And yeah I tend to agree, I don't think the fact that Ch 7 lead with DCU means they are any more friendly to the team or the sport for that matter, than any other station. Good to see all the media attention on our boys though. They absolutely deserve the limelight.
Just saw a recap on Comcast. After showing the highlights, one of the anchors said (to the best of my memory): "To give you an idea about how exciting that game was, here we are in the middle of NFL Sunday, and the folks in the newsroom are still talking about a soccer game from last night."
Topper is a long-standing soccer freak. I used to play with, and against, him in high school, lo these many years ago...
She was interviewing fans in 134 during the game. As she was leaving, I thanked her for stopping by and told her briefly that United will experience a return to glory first before the other team that used to play at RFK. The camera guy laughed.
We were pretty disappointed in Sunday morning's newscasts. Channel 9 usually gives us the best coverage, and they still did - but it was only Gomez' goal, Freddy's pk, and Rimando's block on Heaps. Channel 4 never mentioned it. Channel 9 also had a soccer ball on their weather forcast map on Saturday morning which was cool.
Channel 7 has some incentive to up their coverage because they are broadcasting the Final, but I think generally they have always beeen good to us.