12 Other “MegaCast” Channels ESPN Should Consider
Bristol once again gave us 12 different ways (!) to enjoy the National Championship Game, but they could have given us so much more.

ESPN’s “MegaCast” for the College Football National Championship Game the past two years has been a mega-hit. (Apologies for the mega-awful play on words.)
Viewers can view the traditional broadcast on ESPN, watches coaches discuss the game in the “Film Room” on ESPN2, see ESPN talking heads talk out of their heads about the action on “ESPN Voices” on ESPNU, and listen to the in-stadium audio (no announcers!) on “Sounds of the Game” on ESPN Classic. And those are just a few. The network offered 12 different ways to consume the game this year.
But they could have given us so much more. Here are 12 more ways ESPN should offer the title game to us in 2016.
Draft Room
ESPN’s Mel Kiper and Todd McShay adjust their draft boards in real-time after each play of the National Championship Game while loudly arguing and doing lines of coke to have enough energy to complete the three-hour ordeal. (ESPN Draft)
The Existentialists
Depressed and disenchanted ESPN employees watch the game while wondering aloud what the big deal is and what it says about our society that this much importance is placed on a game played by 18-to-22 year-old amateurs. (ESPN Zoloft)
LeBronCast
Seven anchors stand by on the SportsCenter set to report if LeBron tweets anything about the game. (LeSPN)
The Pub
Second-tier ESPN analysts get drunk and complain about not being included in the more prominent parts of the MegaCast while also bitterly commenting on the game and calling their agents to see if Fox Sports 1 is hiring. (ESPN 100 Proof)
Haterstation
ESPN analysts who criticized one of the teams in the title game all season (Mark May!) watch the game and get to tell everyone why they were ultimately right … or suffer on-camera before a live TV audience as they are proven to be a moron (Mark May!). (ESPN D’oh)
Hittin’ It
ESPN personalities sit around watching the game while talking about which players and cheerleaders they would have sex with. Scheduled to appear: John Clayton, Dick Vitale, Linda Cohn. (ESPN After Dark)
PetCast
The traditional telecast of Oregon-Ohio State but with random birds and shiny objects shooting across the screen to keep pets entertained. (ESPN Animal)
Teen TV
ESPN personalities keep it freaky-freaky fresh and kick it rad-style with awesome graphics and totally hip pop culture references about the national title game that teens will love! Includes an anti-drug message. Featuring Lou Holtz sitting backward on a chair with his hat turned to the side. (ESPNsane, Yo!)
BoomCast
ESPN interns get locked in a room with a crop-dusting Chris Berman and are forced to laugh at his jokes for the entire game while getting him sandwiches and drinks and massaging his feet. (ESPN Awkward)
Melrose’s Closet
Live webcam footage of Barry Melrose watching hockey in ESPN’s Hockey Command Center/4th Floor Supply Closet all alone. (ESPN Hoc-key?)
Smoke Break
Just a live video feed of where ESPN’s Bristol campus janitorial staff takes smoke breaks. (ESPN Security Cam Channel)
MetaCast
ESPN executives sit in a boardroom and watch a wall of TVs featuring all 25 channels of their MegaCast and congratulate themselves on their creation while smoking expensive cigars. (ESPN Empire)
(Originally published at www.sportspickle.com on January 12, 2015.)