BREAKING: ESPN Basically Got Cyberbullied Into Changing Down-And-Distance Graphic At Halftime

September 9, 2019, 9:03pm EST (Updated: December 26, 2022, 10:51am)By Darrelle Lincoln

Social media is powerful.

Through two quarters of the Saints-Texans game, fans became increasingly enraged on ESPN’s new Down-And-Distance graphic. The complaints were coming by the thousands.

The complianing worked. ESPN dropped it.

Breaking: ESPN is switching away from the new Down-And-Distance graphic it debuted in the first half of Monday Night Football. ESPN heard the fans’ feedback and acted, quick.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) September 10, 2019

During the 2018 season, fans absolutely hated the trio of Joe Tessitore, Booger McFarland and Jason Witten, which got better when Witten returned back to the Cowboys.

Not only that, ESPN had to scrap the ‘Booger mobile” because it blocked the view of fans who paid money to see the game upclose and not from a small TV they put on the back of the crane.

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This is how it was done:

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RT this if you want @ESPN to change the color of the down and distance graphic on MNF.

We must stop this horrendous yellow penalty flag pump fake.
— Will Brinson (@WillBrinson) September 9, 2019

Looking at ESPN’s yellow downs counter trying to figure out if it’s a flag or just the next down pic.twitter.com/VXybMW1rWf
— Out of Bounds (@SI_outofbounds) September 9, 2019

(Watching #MNF)

*Runs Play*
“Flag”
“Nope, 2nd Down”

*Runs Play*
“Flag”
“Nope, 3rd Down”

*Runs Play*
“Flag”
“Nope, 4th Down”

ESPN needs to fire whoever chose this yellow-green color for the ticker.
— Corey Lloyd (@CLoSkills) September 10, 2019

ESPN prod asst: "Everyone's complaining about the yellow graphics."

ESPN director: "LET'S DO MORE!" pic.twitter.com/wllpOTXO99
— Heavens! (@HeavensFX) September 10, 2019

ESPN, making the decision to use "penalty flag yellow" as the main accent color on their broadcast scoreboard graphic: pic.twitter.com/CHK34ufDng
— Tom Downey (@WhatGoingDowney) September 9, 2019

Like 80 percent of my timeline has complained about the ESPN down and distance marker being bright yellow and therefore looking like the usual graphic for “the ref threw a flag” and I really have no idea how multiple people looked at that and approved it.
— Rodger Sherman (@rodger) September 9, 2019

.@espn please take this yellow-green down-and-distance color and throw it into the ocean. It looks like a flag pic.twitter.com/jNyMSY7kZA
— Riley McAtee (@RileyMcAtee) September 9, 2019

Hey @espn

Yellow is for flags

Other colors are for other things
— Stuckey (@Stuckey2) September 9, 2019

Good work, Internet!