My favorite scorebug phenomenon is when the digital connection to the stadium's clock breaks, and the broadcast frantically has to switch over to using a live feed from a camera literally pointed at the scoreboard (if you see the clock numbers change to black and white, and/or a different font, this is what happened).
I know this used to be a common way of showing the clock, it seems like particularly in basketball. An extra treat was when some event would cause fans to go wild and the clock would wobble just a bit in its little overlay.
Even NASCAR started using an overlay on their broadcasts that shows a live picture-in-picture of one of the caution lights around the track in the closing laps so that fans can get a better idea of the exact "moment of caution" in the event of a late-race wreck that could sway the outcome based on the timing of when the caution is officially triggered.
*5:39* Nice of the Phoenix Suns to not run up the score too much on the Dallas Mavericks, only beating them by 7,696 in the 3rd quarter instead of 7,700+.
I got a scorebug crime. For the first few rounds of the 2024 college football championships. Espn would show the cfb championship logo they designed, that has a football with a yellowish gold tinge, On the screen and then it would merge into the scorebug and the logo was shown and merged after ever replay. And the yellow gold pretty much exactly matched the same color of a penalty flag being announced on the scorebug and it was one of the worst graphic decisions ever. Also, loved them when they were introduced because my pops would always want to switch over from cartoons to a game and say "just until they show the score" and I missed a lot less cartoons after they were introduced.
@@detlef2902 In the CRT TV era, FoxTrax genuinely helped inexperienced viewers track the puck, but with higher quality devices it looks like a video game gimmick at best. Even in the best-case scenario it wasn't going to last long, as people upgraded their sets. In contrast, a score bug is basically a strict improvement in any era, provided it's unobtrusive enough. Looking at you, Bally Sports.
Because that is impacting the viewing experience of the actual sport, not just giving the viewer information. We also have the digital ad boards now and it is just a distraction from the game that adds nothing but Ad money. At this point, I am finding PWHL games more fun to watch as its all free on UA-cam and there aren’t any digital boards or digital Ads on the ice surface/netting, at the cost of watching a game that has the skill and speed around ECHL level, with less physically but more skill
It was in the fucking thumbnail and I was tempting to NOT watch this video because of it. Now I just wonder if the person that slapped this video together is a Saints fan, because lazy is their hallmark trait, exemplified by their want to "troll" Falcons fans with a score from a game they were never even close to appearing in. And now Falcons fans get to troll them back with replays of Beastquake & "Diggs.. Sideline! Touchdown! UNBELIEVABLE!"
With how much a scorebug impacts the sports viewing experience I'm shocked that, despite only learning about the word scorebug less than ten minutes ago, isn't an official word.
A few years ago, brazilian channel Sportv introduced a new feature to their scorebug: a timeline. The idea was to show when important events of the match like yellow cards and goals happened on a vertical timeline on the left side of the screen. There was so much backlash that it only lasted for that weekend
Last year I was watching a race and the scorebug showing the race order was bugging out and disappeared for a dozen laps. Felt like a blind man during that time.
A random short video-essay about something I never really think about, especially as I rarely watch sports (not that I don't enjoy it when I do)? Neat!
Can we all agree though that early to mid 2010s was the best era for scorebugs? Not too big or flashy, just had all the info you needed for the game (take notes bally)
I don’t understand how my parents did it for all them years, I absolutely need a scoreboard to watch sports like what. Nobody feels like keeping count of the scores in their heads
One of my favorite parts about the Super Bowl over the past 5 years or so is seeing the new scorebug the broadcaster debuts for the game. Usually they are terrible, but it is still fun.
the scoreboard is the one in the stadium (used to be on actual wood board), these are called "bugs" because that's the TV term for the little network logo in the corner that used to persist on every channel
NFL score bugs peaked with the 2014-16 FOX design. Compact, unobtrusive, tells you everything you need to know. I still don't know why they ditched that design.
Especially those fox score bugs from like 2017 to 2019 was so bad the worst font I’ve ever seen in white and solid color that didn’t even match the team sometimes.
This is why the internet exists. This was a phenomenal video. The Fox Footy (paid Aussie Rules broadcaster) scorebugs are interesting as they on occasion have 2 at the same time. Upper left corner for the current game, and a smaller much simpler one in the lower right for a different game (if they were on at the same time). Both have the score and teams, upper has more detailed score and time while the lower has team, total score and what quarter it is. Meanwhile the free to air broadcaster (Network 7) has the bug in the lower left effectively all the time. There’s a lot of interesting designs with the different broadcast rights over the years in the AFL
I hate watching football clips from the era that preceded innovations like the score bug and the first down line. The lack of context just feels so frustrating and confusing if you can't tell from the moment the clip begins who's playing, what quarter, the time, the down, and the remaining yardage. American football made absolutely no sense to me before these things and now it's a joy to watch!
At the same time, I have a great appreciation for sportscasters back in that time. All of the information you see now in the graphics had to be provided verbally.
Even though the only sport I regularly watch is hockey, I have a certain fascination with scorebugs and their many shapes and sizes. Just within the NHL, there's so much variety, and I find it oddly exciting to see how different networks, both regional and national, convey the information. With regard to the NHL, for me the ideal scorebug should be in the upper left corner and show the score (obviously), the team names and logos, the time and the shot counter, the last of which so many broadcasts leave out for some reason. I personally think TNT has the best scorebug for the NHL because it shows all of that without being excessive.
I think TSN does it well, and sportsnets is ok too (the old one is better imo but that’s probably nostalgia) though everything else from sportsnet sucks when compared to tsn
Can you make a similar video about how F1, MotoGp, WorldSBK, NASCAR and Indycar have showed positions over the years? It was wild at first and only got crazier once they became racing's version of a scorebug
I'm from 1991 - Scorebugs weren't much common even in the early 2000s, at least in Europe F1 races only had graphics except every 60 seconds. MotoGp would often show just the top 8 places once a lap and not much more. Gaps during the major cycling races were often a complete mystery unless you had a stopwatch in hand. Football was probably the very last pro sport to embrace it and I often felt exactly like the great David Hill. Go watch old stuff here on UA-cam, it's legit crazy. What makes it worse is that certain half-solutions were rather easy. For example, during a 1986 NASCAR Cup race broadcast I watched like 2 months ago, I noticed they once used a ticker to talk about a change in programming. They never ever thought of listing the first few positions using that!
Could be wrong but I think one of the main reasons for this would be that it’s hard to read small text before HD. The modern F1 timing tower would be unreadable
@monkeykong5313 - I'm not saying they should've had a full timing tower BUT starting in like ¿1982? ESPN would reduce the image size to show live scores of other sports during the broadcasts at :28 and :58 on every hour. You'd be watching a NASCAR race and they'd tell you about MLB, NBA, NHL, NFL, tennis and even golf scores. This means every once in a while they could've showed at least 2-3 rows of text or just 1 scrolling text to tell you the top10 of the race that was being shown. Another thing that took ages to be shown on screen was who was a lap down. They'd sometimes block the whole screen to show you the top10 or top12 in 2 pages BUT either the announcers told you who was a lap down or you wouldn't know. I'm currently watching the 1987 season and they still don't add a simple -1 when they do that! 🤦🏻♂️
Love how the Blazers' scorebug is the one shown as the "plagiarist". Fits the team's ownership and management, honest. That said, I had zero clue they are called Scorebug. I always just called them the "scoreboard".
I completely understand getting mad about the change. They started putting up persistent advertisements in the scorebugs during the NFL preseason this year, and I kept a list of which companies I would never, ever, EVER be patronizing ever again. I’m so happy to live in an era where we have game highlights unmarred by fast food or gas station ads splattered across them 😧
great video. I originally thought this was about 'bugs' or glitches. I am pleasantly surprised by this journey into understanding the fear of change even in something as obvious and neccessary as knowing thescore in a game.
i love scorebugs. When i got my first fifa on the xbox 360, the thing i was actually most excited about was the game having the real in life scorebugs haha
The Bally Sports scorebug is the absolute worst for watching hockey, because they angle the camera such that the part on the ice is covered by it but the crowd above isn't.
I love the scorebug I hope to design future ones someday I’ve been working on my own for NFL NHL & even nascar when it starts Sport graphics overall are very fascinating
Recently was listening to the radio broadcast of a hockey game, and for a solid five minutes or so didn’t learn the score. I was driving, and so couldn’t check. I was miffed for sure. I can only imagine how frustrating twenty minutes of that would be!
This is part of the reason I subscribe to satellite radio: they have an information display that they normally use for the artist and name of the current song. But for live sports broadcast, they use it as a scorebug. They can’t update it every second, so they don’t put the game clock there. But it has everything else you need to see at a glance.
Really enjoyed this video, this is something that I feel like I think about way more than I should. At least, in relation to NBA basketball (since that's really the only sport I watch). I quite enjoy tuning into different national and local broadcasts to see what different scorebugs are being used. I know you mentioned it in the video, but I'm actually quite a big fan of the new ESPN scorebug that is used for their NBA broadcasts. I think it's really sleek and I like the utilization of colors to correspond to each team and what uniforms they may be wearing on a given day. Since my team of choice doesn't get very many nationally broadcast games, though, I tend to be stuck with the Bally Sports (er, FanDuel now, I guess) scorebug. I've gotten used to it, but I still really dislike it. Just as well, there's slight differences in each broadcast depending upon the team who you're watching. So, when I watch the Oklahoma City Thunder, they have the same layout, but there isn't much more information on display aside from the time, quarter, and the score itself. Whereas other regional broadcasts on the same network will give you information such as timeouts, the number of team fouls currently accrued, and the ol "12-incher" will scroll by showing various rankings and scores from the NBA and other leagues like the NFL, NHL, MLB, and even some NCAA stuff. I don't really know why there's so much variance, but I guess it doesn't exactly matter all that much. Anyways, great video. Keep it up!
Proof that people will resist change no matter what. Also am I the only one who wishes there was an option to display the score bug or remove it? Sometimes it’s nice to see the full field of players without visual clutter.
To be fair the Fox one that started with Chiefs Eagle SB57 was terrible. Peak scorebug to me was late 2000’s/early 10’s NBC like the Steelers Cardinals super bowl
Great video! Audio mix is weird, I don't know enough about it but google around for your video editor + audio normalization or compression. It's not just the mic quality its the mic track relative to the clips. Should be a quick fix for your next vid.
As someone who has designed GFX packages and score bugs, and who spends the first 2 minutes of any new score bug critiquing the hell out of it, I have to say, your research is almost entirely spot on. It's worth noting how ESPN FWC94's bug was really to make the sponsor graphic fit in somehow, and you missed a bit about how motorsport score bugs work. For MANY years, they were top of the screen (ESPN SW aside), but FOX managed to universally piss off NASCAR fans when they launched the first full vertical bug at Daytona (2014), it was initially on the right hand side of the screen, which messed up the way cameras capture action on an oval. There was also a time when everyone went down the 'hey, lets make all our bugs uniform in our company (ESPN 2015ish), then it reverted back to best bug for the sport in question. Great video overall!
So weird as to how controversial it was when i cant even imagine how annoyed id be if it wasnt there
My favorite scorebug phenomenon is when the digital connection to the stadium's clock breaks, and the broadcast frantically has to switch over to using a live feed from a camera literally pointed at the scoreboard (if you see the clock numbers change to black and white, and/or a different font, this is what happened).
I know this used to be a common way of showing the clock, it seems like particularly in basketball. An extra treat was when some event would cause fans to go wild and the clock would wobble just a bit in its little overlay.
Even NASCAR started using an overlay on their broadcasts that shows a live picture-in-picture of one of the caution lights around the track in the closing laps so that fans can get a better idea of the exact "moment of caution" in the event of a late-race wreck that could sway the outcome based on the timing of when the caution is officially triggered.
It makes the races so easier to watch and instead of having to hear caution.
Pointing to the scoreboard is some 1960s stuff 😂😂😂
*5:39* Nice of the Phoenix Suns to not run up the score too much on the Dallas Mavericks, only beating them by 7,696 in the 3rd quarter instead of 7,700+.
I got a scorebug crime.
For the first few rounds of the 2024 college football championships. Espn would show the cfb championship logo they designed, that has a football with a yellowish gold tinge, On the screen and then it would merge into the scorebug and the logo was shown and merged after ever replay. And the yellow gold pretty much exactly matched the same color of a penalty flag being announced on the scorebug and it was one of the worst graphic decisions ever.
Also, loved them when they were introduced because my pops would always want to switch over from cartoons to a game and say "just until they show the score" and I missed a lot less cartoons after they were introduced.
That yellow cfp animation bugged the hell out of me. I don't understand how everybody involved signed off on that.
Fox introducing the glowing puck on their NHL broadcasts a year and a half later garnered a similarly insane reaction
@@detlef2902 In the CRT TV era, FoxTrax genuinely helped inexperienced viewers track the puck, but with higher quality devices it looks like a video game gimmick at best. Even in the best-case scenario it wasn't going to last long, as people upgraded their sets. In contrast, a score bug is basically a strict improvement in any era, provided it's unobtrusive enough. Looking at you, Bally Sports.
Because that is impacting the viewing experience of the actual sport, not just giving the viewer information. We also have the digital ad boards now and it is just a distraction from the game that adds nothing but Ad money.
At this point, I am finding PWHL games more fun to watch as its all free on UA-cam and there aren’t any digital boards or digital Ads on the ice surface/netting, at the cost of watching a game that has the skill and speed around ECHL level, with less physically but more skill
6:24-6:33 Falcons fans still catching 28-3 strays
It never stops
Falcons werent as bad as Tampa in 1987. That 28-3 had no Kraft interference.
Good. They let the whole world down gift wrapping the Patriots a super bowl with their stupidity
It was in the fucking thumbnail and I was tempting to NOT watch this video because of it. Now I just wonder if the person that slapped this video together is a Saints fan, because lazy is their hallmark trait, exemplified by their want to "troll" Falcons fans with a score from a game they were never even close to appearing in. And now Falcons fans get to troll them back with replays of Beastquake & "Diggs.. Sideline! Touchdown! UNBELIEVABLE!"
@@Ruinah I'll give you one thing...I am lazy. Being called a saint's fan though...that's a first
With how much a scorebug impacts the sports viewing experience I'm shocked that, despite only learning about the word scorebug less than ten minutes ago, isn't an official word.
i could watch an entire 2 hour video on broadcast graphics like this. had no idea we invented it in the uk
Maybe the evilist video ever created, you decided to put every fan shattering score possible in 6 and a half minutes.
Great job.
A few years ago, brazilian channel Sportv introduced a new feature to their scorebug: a timeline. The idea was to show when important events of the match like yellow cards and goals happened on a vertical timeline on the left side of the screen. There was so much backlash that it only lasted for that weekend
In Australia our online sports streaming service shows this as an option and you can skip to a wicket or goal or whatever, works great online
I'm Brazilian, too, and want to add some more info: the graph only showed the game time in minutes, not in seconds, which pissed me off a little.
Nascar on fox added a similar feature and it worked really well.
@@albertmiller2electricbooga897 same thin here in India. You can skip to wickets and boundaries.
5:38 damn the Mavs are getting obliterated
down by 7696
Devin Booker scoring a 7,701-point free throw
@@eddelapena22Or he found the 7,701 point _NBA Jam: Tournament Edition_ hotspot.
Last year I was watching a race and the scorebug showing the race order was bugging out and disappeared for a dozen laps. Felt like a blind man during that time.
5:38 I love that you used the 7701-pointer play for this example
A random short video-essay about something I never really think about, especially as I rarely watch sports (not that I don't enjoy it when I do)? Neat!
Can we all agree though that early to mid 2010s was the best era for scorebugs? Not too big or flashy, just had all the info you needed for the game (take notes bally)
Forgot the F1 vertical bar.
I don’t understand how my parents did it for all them years, I absolutely need a scoreboard to watch sports like what. Nobody feels like keeping count of the scores in their heads
One of my favorite parts about the Super Bowl over the past 5 years or so is seeing the new scorebug the broadcaster debuts for the game. Usually they are terrible, but it is still fun.
First time I've ever heard them be called a "bug"
Thought everyone called it "board"
Same thought he was just saying scoreboard weird for the first minuet or so
the scoreboard is the one in the stadium (used to be on actual wood board), these are called "bugs" because that's the TV term for the little network logo in the corner that used to persist on every channel
12 inches bit was hilarious, great recommended feed pull and I appreciate your citing sources!
NFL score bugs peaked with the 2014-16 FOX design. Compact, unobtrusive, tells you everything you need to know. I still don't know why they ditched that design.
Because if you change the design it's better, duh.
I liked the scorebugs from 2006-08 that were on Fox and CBS!
2017-2021 MLB Fox graphics are FUGLY, the 3D bases looks so cool as a scorebug
It had like that windows 10 look, it was so dope
Especially those fox score bugs from like 2017 to 2019 was so bad the worst font I’ve ever seen in white and solid color that didn’t even match the team sometimes.
This is why the internet exists. This was a phenomenal video.
The Fox Footy (paid Aussie Rules broadcaster) scorebugs are interesting as they on occasion have 2 at the same time. Upper left corner for the current game, and a smaller much simpler one in the lower right for a different game (if they were on at the same time). Both have the score and teams, upper has more detailed score and time while the lower has team, total score and what quarter it is.
Meanwhile the free to air broadcaster (Network 7) has the bug in the lower left effectively all the time. There’s a lot of interesting designs with the different broadcast rights over the years in the AFL
0:22 Those who know 💀
Oh wow, I’ve been wanting a video on scorebug design for a long time! Love when a niche special interest gets a video lol
I will say my favorite is still the old FOX sports digital scoreboard ones. Very communicative, but still loaded with personality.
@@AdequateEmily My favorite scorebug was the one on FSN during the mid-2000s for hockey and baseball!
I hate watching football clips from the era that preceded innovations like the score bug and the first down line. The lack of context just feels so frustrating and confusing if you can't tell from the moment the clip begins who's playing, what quarter, the time, the down, and the remaining yardage. American football made absolutely no sense to me before these things and now it's a joy to watch!
At the same time, I have a great appreciation for sportscasters back in that time. All of the information you see now in the graphics had to be provided verbally.
now I get mad if they don't immediately show the score on the screen as soon as I turn the game on.
balley sports scorebug is brutal
The 3-28 Score over and over is quite funny.
The super bowl 54 scorebug is as good as it gets
genuinely baffled that you’re at under 100k let alone 1k, genuinely this is some of the most compelling content I’ve seen in a while
No way, an underrated UA-camr talking about my favorite random sports subject. It’s a miracle!
Wasn't expecting that SovietWomble clip, had to do a triple take to make sure I wasn't seeing things
Even though the only sport I regularly watch is hockey, I have a certain fascination with scorebugs and their many shapes and sizes. Just within the NHL, there's so much variety, and I find it oddly exciting to see how different networks, both regional and national, convey the information.
With regard to the NHL, for me the ideal scorebug should be in the upper left corner and show the score (obviously), the team names and logos, the time and the shot counter, the last of which so many broadcasts leave out for some reason. I personally think TNT has the best scorebug for the NHL because it shows all of that without being excessive.
I think TSN does it well, and sportsnets is ok too (the old one is better imo but that’s probably nostalgia) though everything else from sportsnet sucks when compared to tsn
Any scorebug that doesn't show the scores for other games is the best scorebug
I’ve started seeing betting odds for upcoming games in lower-third graphics (specifically a recent ABC broadcast) and it’s grim stuff.
Can you make a similar video about how F1, MotoGp, WorldSBK, NASCAR and Indycar have showed positions over the years? It was wild at first and only got crazier once they became racing's version of a scorebug
I'm from 1991 - Scorebugs weren't much common even in the early 2000s, at least in Europe
F1 races only had graphics except every 60 seconds. MotoGp would often show just the top 8 places once a lap and not much more. Gaps during the major cycling races were often a complete mystery unless you had a stopwatch in hand. Football was probably the very last pro sport to embrace it and I often felt exactly like the great David Hill.
Go watch old stuff here on UA-cam, it's legit crazy. What makes it worse is that certain half-solutions were rather easy.
For example, during a 1986 NASCAR Cup race broadcast I watched like 2 months ago, I noticed they once used a ticker to talk about a change in programming. They never ever thought of listing the first few positions using that!
Could be wrong but I think one of the main reasons for this would be that it’s hard to read small text before HD. The modern F1 timing tower would be unreadable
@monkeykong5313 - I'm not saying they should've had a full timing tower BUT starting in like ¿1982? ESPN would reduce the image size to show live scores of other sports during the broadcasts at :28 and :58 on every hour. You'd be watching a NASCAR race and they'd tell you about MLB, NBA, NHL, NFL, tennis and even golf scores. This means every once in a while they could've showed at least 2-3 rows of text or just 1 scrolling text to tell you the top10 of the race that was being shown.
Another thing that took ages to be shown on screen was who was a lap down. They'd sometimes block the whole screen to show you the top10 or top12 in 2 pages BUT either the announcers told you who was a lap down or you wouldn't know. I'm currently watching the 1987 season and they still don't add a simple -1 when they do that! 🤦🏻♂️
Love how the Blazers' scorebug is the one shown as the "plagiarist". Fits the team's ownership and management, honest. That said, I had zero clue they are called Scorebug. I always just called them the "scoreboard".
I completely understand getting mad about the change. They started putting up persistent advertisements in the scorebugs during the NFL preseason this year, and I kept a list of which companies I would never, ever, EVER be patronizing ever again. I’m so happy to live in an era where we have game highlights unmarred by fast food or gas station ads splattered across them 😧
great video. I originally thought this was about 'bugs' or glitches. I am pleasantly surprised by this journey into understanding the fear of change even in something as obvious and neccessary as knowing thescore in a game.
i love scorebugs. When i got my first fifa on the xbox 360, the thing i was actually most excited about was the game having the real in life scorebugs haha
The scorebug and the first down line are the 2 biggest innovations in sports TV
The Bally Sports scorebug is the absolute worst for watching hockey, because they angle the camera such that the part on the ice is covered by it but the crowd above isn't.
Similarly, there must be a history behind the CGI yellow first down line across the field
I bet they lost their minds the first time they saw the yellow first down line
Glad the kid from Ghost Stories finally learned to talk.
I mean, I'm usually quite skeptical myself when it comes to change, but once in a blue moon we actually improve something.
This was one such case.
*Sad Falcon noises*
5:53 unexpected cera gibson
One of the best videos I have seen. Love scorebugs
5:08 i care about some technicalities
I love the scorebug
I hope to design future ones someday
I’ve been working on my own for NFL NHL & even nascar when it starts
Sport graphics overall are very fascinating
Now THIS is what I watch UA-cam for.
I thought this was a video about bugs with score bugs and stayed for the explanation and then there was a bug with score bugs. Nice 👍
pre 2020 espn college football scorebugs my beloved
5:47 damn I actually this one lmao 😭 great video 👍🏻
Recently was listening to the radio broadcast of a hockey game, and for a solid five minutes or so didn’t learn the score. I was driving, and so couldn’t check. I was miffed for sure. I can only imagine how frustrating twenty minutes of that would be!
This is part of the reason I subscribe to satellite radio: they have an information display that they normally use for the artist and name of the current song. But for live sports broadcast, they use it as a scorebug. They can’t update it every second, so they don’t put the game clock there. But it has everything else you need to see at a glance.
Nice video! Keep up your good work!
Bally/Fanduel’s is the worst scorebug ever imagined in the history of mankind. Highschool sports scorebugs are even better
Really enjoyed this video, this is something that I feel like I think about way more than I should. At least, in relation to NBA basketball (since that's really the only sport I watch). I quite enjoy tuning into different national and local broadcasts to see what different scorebugs are being used. I know you mentioned it in the video, but I'm actually quite a big fan of the new ESPN scorebug that is used for their NBA broadcasts. I think it's really sleek and I like the utilization of colors to correspond to each team and what uniforms they may be wearing on a given day. Since my team of choice doesn't get very many nationally broadcast games, though, I tend to be stuck with the Bally Sports (er, FanDuel now, I guess) scorebug. I've gotten used to it, but I still really dislike it. Just as well, there's slight differences in each broadcast depending upon the team who you're watching. So, when I watch the Oklahoma City Thunder, they have the same layout, but there isn't much more information on display aside from the time, quarter, and the score itself. Whereas other regional broadcasts on the same network will give you information such as timeouts, the number of team fouls currently accrued, and the ol "12-incher" will scroll by showing various rankings and scores from the NBA and other leagues like the NFL, NHL, MLB, and even some NCAA stuff. I don't really know why there's so much variance, but I guess it doesn't exactly matter all that much. Anyways, great video. Keep it up!
Idk how this video came up with your sub count but this is incredible
Huh, I never knew the scorebug was a European invention. My favorite scorebug was the one used by ESPN starting in 2004.
Proof that people will resist change no matter what. Also am I the only one who wishes there was an option to display the score bug or remove it? Sometimes it’s nice to see the full field of players without visual clutter.
the only thing i could find wrong with this video was it wasnt 10x the length even if it wasnt neeeded
I actually like the more "visually busy" score bugs. I like having the extra flair. In my opinion, the NBC Rugby 7 ones are the best.
yup, you are about to blow up. keep up the vids.
This man has to be a Boston fan and I love it
My favorite scorebug is from MLB International (which is from MLB Network, they just took off the Network logo and put the classical MLB logo)
I remember the first one I was was in the 1994 world cup (in the USA). I loved it and hoped it would come to more sports (and thankfully it did).
this video is gonna get huge, i fucjen know it
using the Falcons-Patriots score in the thumbnail is evil
great video, but even better promotion of the video, i only clicked because i saw 28-3, who dat?
I hate that people don’t talk about them more
i hate you for reminding me of 2013 game 7
The John Doyle scorebug!
lol i like yiis tupws of videos they are actually interesting and the editing os good
I thought Fox’s 2020 score bug was the future when it came out, now it looks a little dated tbh
Oh my God. Legendary algorithm pull. Liked. Subbed. Also the Bally scorebug is trash garbage thank you.
Was that a SovietWomble reference???? What's going on??
Is your channel picture Keiichirou from Ghost Stories?
To be fair the Fox one that started with Chiefs Eagle SB57 was terrible. Peak scorebug to me was late 2000’s/early 10’s NBC like the Steelers Cardinals super bowl
5:39 excuse me
Great video! Audio mix is weird, I don't know enough about it but google around for your video editor + audio normalization or compression. It's not just the mic quality its the mic track relative to the clips. Should be a quick fix for your next vid.
I'm sorry was that a sovietwomble reference in a video about scorebugs?
I know right? I love womble
I’ve operated a scorebug before👀ama
I'm a simple man. I see 3-28, I click 😂
Cool video
1:13 ha 420
No video about score bugs is useless!
amazing video easy sub :)
Nice video!
Yay more people that like scorebugs
1987, Tampa Bay 28-3 missed.
And that was done back in the day without the 2pt try
Good video
here before this goes viral
Only 400 subs??
As someone who has designed GFX packages and score bugs, and who spends the first 2 minutes of any new score bug critiquing the hell out of it, I have to say, your research is almost entirely spot on. It's worth noting how ESPN FWC94's bug was really to make the sponsor graphic fit in somehow, and you missed a bit about how motorsport score bugs work.
For MANY years, they were top of the screen (ESPN SW aside), but FOX managed to universally piss off NASCAR fans when they launched the first full vertical bug at Daytona (2014), it was initially on the right hand side of the screen, which messed up the way cameras capture action on an oval.
There was also a time when everyone went down the 'hey, lets make all our bugs uniform in our company (ESPN 2015ish), then it reverted back to best bug for the sport in question.
Great video overall!
Yep
5:39
28-3*