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ESPN’s SportsNation Aiming To Become Most Annoying Show Of All-Time

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SportsNation is actually built on a pretty interesting concept, that of a crowdsourced sports show, and though I can’t say I’ve watched much, it’s at least a decent idea. I’ll give it that much.

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But this? This is just not cool, guys. From USA Today’s Michael Hiestand:

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ESPN hopes to hype records for its Green Bay-Minnesota game Monday night. Literally. ESPN, says spokesman Mike Soltys, will announce that on next Monday’s broadcast of its ESPN2 SportsNation (5 p.m. ET), it will try to set a record for the most mentions of Brett Favre on a TV show — with Guiness World Records now looking for the current record.

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