ESPN’s first “Monday Night Football” telecast of the season was met with negative fan reaction centered around the network’s confusing new yellow graphics package.
The graphics included neon green/yellow timeout bars beneath each team and worse, a neon yellow/green down and distance arrow. The color of the arrow made fans think a penalty flag had been thrown on every play.
Definitely just thought there was a penalty after that Hopkins no catch when the yellow came into the screen. My bet is that ESPN changes it for next week.
— Jimmy Traina (@JimmyTraina) September 9, 2019
The yellow score bug thing is driving me INSANE
— Big Cat (@BarstoolBigCat) September 9, 2019
Hey @espn please change the color of the down and distance on #MNF from yellow pic.twitter.com/YFOh8mDz6x
— Christian Harder (@realcharder30) September 9, 2019
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
Fans were instantly calling for a change. ESPN has to be hearing the feedback. The question is whether they would consider a change. Media reporter Andrew Marchand believes a change would probably take a week.
I’m told from by a producer at a rival network that he doesn’t think ESPN will be able to change the yellow color in down and distance until next week.
— Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) September 9, 2019
You may recall that NBC had the same issue last year for their Notre Dame-Michigan game.
UPDATE: ESPN listened to the complaints and made a change before the start of the second half.
