Finally, on CBS, the football matches the business cards

<i>Whatever the other failings of this redesign, the ampersand is a winner, a full-bodied, chewy soft pretzel of a thing. I want to bite into that ampersand and feel its warm, doughy goodness fill the spaces between my teeth.</i><p>I enjoyed this fun poke at television UX far more than I enjoy watching football. Thanks for sharing!

I don’t agree with a lot of this article. I think the font looks excellent, I appreciate coherencies across a brand’s design, and most of all, I think the purpose of a score indicator over a football game is to tell you the score, and get out of the way.<p>That being said, these are opinions, and I’m glad there’s someone else who pays attention to the design language used by football broadcasters.

Why don&#x27;t any of these score displays show the <i>field position</i>? It&#x27;s 3rd and 8 but are we in field goal range? Gotta wait for a camera angle that shows the field.

This article has no right to be as well written as it is.

What about possession of the ball? Only Fox seems to show this with a dot next to a teams score. I often glance at the score box when busy, but have wait to see which team takes possession to know the current state of the game before I can continue my busy work away from the TV.

Read through this whole thing thinking it was filling the &quot;Block &amp; Tackle&quot;-sized hole in my heart, only to realize by the end that this was also authored by John Teti! I&#x27;m glad he&#x27;s still doing it, cause B&amp;T was weekly reading for me back in the day :)

Anything that moves away from the CBSness is a good thing. Their broadcasts have been second rate mediocrities since they’ve had the rights:<p>- Completely bland theme music.<p>- Half-witted former QB analysts (other than Romo).<p>- The worst studio show.<p>The other networks (particularly NBC) do a way better job.

&quot;The vest is a remnant of 19th-century football rules, in which this role would have been held by a beekeeper, who tended the hive of angry bees used to mark first down.&quot;<p>Is this true? I can&#x27;t tell if he&#x27;s being legit here or just running with a joke.

&gt; It&#x27;s an iPhone 13 sort of update, with no compelling reason to exist other than somebody decided it was time for it to exist.<p>Funny he should mention that, because the CBS graphics look to me like Windows 11: flat, seemingly uniform, nicely subtly gradiented, but subtly inconsistent in an irritating, pebble-in-shoe kind of way.