If you somehow haven’t heard, Aaron Judge is sitting on 60 home runs on the season, one shy of the American League and New York Yankees record of homers in a season of 61. It has been a big deal in the sports world for a few days now, but for some college football fans, the media coverage has gone too far.
On Saturday afternoon — a day reserved for NCAA football in the fall — ESPN and ABC did the unthinkable by cutting into game action of No. 5 Clemson at No. 21 Wake Forest and Missouri at Auburn to show Judge’s at bat against the Boston Red Sox.
Ok, maybe not the UNTHINKABLE, but football fans were irate that they had to split screen and listen to the audio of a game they were actively not trying to watch. In his second plate appearance, Wake Forest drove the field and scored a touchdown to take the lead as Judge hit a routine fly ball to center.
Folks were not happy.
I deleted Twitter over 8 years ago. I made a new one just to get on here and tell @espn to stop splitting the screen to show us Aaron Judge striking out. If CFB fans wanted to see that…we’d turn the TV. STOP IT.
— Daniel Geddes (@Daniel_Geddes_) September 24, 2022
Bahahah Wake Forest just drove the entire length of the field in less time than a single Aaron Judge at-bat.
— Alec Sawyer (@AlecSawyer) September 24, 2022
lmaoo the mizzou and auburn game so bad they puttin aaron judge trying to hit 61 homers on the screen
— jaxmostwanted (@jaxmostwanted) September 24, 2022
Clemson and Wake Forest fans when ABC pans to Aaron Judge for the third time today: pic.twitter.com/01emLtdUoy
— Brian Y (@byysports) September 24, 2022
Wake Forest just scored a TD to go up on #5 Clemson and we missed it for an Aaron Judge fly ball lmaooooo
— Rodger Sherman (@rodger) September 24, 2022
It’s like I’m always telling people, my favorite part of tuning in to the Clemson game has to be the Aaron Judge at-bats.
— TK-80NK (@MatchewMiller) September 24, 2022
ESPN going split screen for another Aaron Judge at-bat while Wake Forest is on the move in a tight game against Clemson. Truly awful decision-making going on here.
— Kevin McGuire (@KevinOnCFB) September 24, 2022
Sam Hartman with a DIME to Donavon Greene for the 28 yard TD — with the Yankee game call because ESPN keeps forcing us to watch Aaron Judge not hit a HR/strike out. pic.twitter.com/9k1qQoXKeV
— 𝗙𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗢𝗪 @𝗙𝗧𝗕𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗱𝟳 (@FTBeard7) September 24, 2022
There is going to be some *incredible* Auburn message board content this week about ESPN split-screening away from the football game to show Aaron Judge's at-bats.
— Alan Cole (@Alan__Cole) September 24, 2022
ESPN…I really do not care about Aaron Judge and his 61st home run. It means nothing to me. Please let me watch football in peace
— Brian Rauf (@brauf33) September 24, 2022
I cant imagine a more tone deaf idea than to cut to NY Yankee baseball on all ESPN platforms during a CFB Saturday because of something Aaron Judge is doing. So dumb and an idea from 1980's world of content
— Ingram Smith (@IngramSmith) September 24, 2022
JOHN SAMUEL SHENKER JUST GOT A FIRST DOWN @espn I DON’T GIVE A FLYING YOU KNOW WHAT THAT AARON JUDGE IS ABOUT TO STRIKE OUT TURN THAT CRAP OFF
— Recovering Grief Counselor/Auburn Fan (@sheabooskyy) September 24, 2022
LMAO College Football fans eyes are bleeding rn being forced to watch Aaron Judge’s EVERY at bat on ESPN & ABC 😂😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/QeZ5OKUEeP
— BO’S POSTSEASON BURNER (@boflowsburner) September 24, 2022
— no context college football (@nocontextcfb) September 24, 2022
they really SWITCHED THE AUDIO tho?
— Lauren Brownlow (@lebrownlow) September 24, 2022
Old man rant inbound:
Dear @espn,
Aaron Judge is having a fine season. If I cared to watch him attempt to do something that’s already been done many times, I’d be watching his game. Don’t cut into my mediocre football game.
Thank you. #espn #sec #mizzou #auburn
— Patrick McGee (@Cali_Patrick_) September 24, 2022
