The theme song portion of both NBC’s Sunday Night Football and ESPN’s Monday Night Football are similar:  They both portray a fictitious football stadium in the middle of a city.  Even though NBC has Pink (and I stare at her prominently displayed chest through the whole song), it’s better.  ESPN’s theme song ‘video collage’ is awful.  Afraid to choose one team to represent the show every week, a nonexistant team with blue jerseys and white helmets (not quite the throwback Chargers) is shown.  It’s ugly.  They almost look like the Steelers — why not just go with last year’s Super Bowl champ?  countless video games have gone that route.  Every football fan would see a Steelers uniform before the game and — regardless of the Steelers’ record — would know exactly why ESPN picked that team to play out the intro every week.

Instead, ESPN went with the fake team and bad CGI special effects.  Helmets appearing over a guy’s head, followed by the facemask?  It all sort of looks like goop, and none of it looks good.  One guy gets that (ugly-ass) giant, silver and black Motorola coach’s headset.  It does the same thing:  manifests out of the ether.  Still looks like goop.

Yes, NBC’s Pink makes me cringe a little, but ESPN’s intro makes me groan.