Microsoft buys out SportsCenter ad space, for a night [update 1]

Why the crap is Floridans not allowed to enter?

It's not only Microsoft and this contest, I've seen plenty of contest but exclude Florida.

WHY? Is there some kind of law or something? Can anyone give me a reason?

It's because Floridians are old.....and...smelly.....lol

D:

Ya it sucks because I also live in Florida, the reason is because there are tougher regulations on sweepstakes in the state so most companies don't bother to jump thru all the hurdles.

OK, first, I'm a 360 owner, and I love the 360. But I think it's lame that SportsCenter will just whore itself out to one advertiser like that.

Earlier this year, they did that with Nike, where Nike and LeBron James pretty much took over the whole frickin' show for a night. Then, I think it was the next night, ESPN televised a Cavaliers/Wizards game, and ESPN's announcers spent the whole game raving about James and his general awesomeness. They even went into this lengthy discussion about how James is this great clutch player and how you want the ball in his hands at the end of the game.

(Last year, the story line going into the NBA playoffs was how James had never hit a game-winning shot, choosing to defer to teammates or taking the big shot and missing it. Then he managed to hit a couple of big shots against the Wizards last year and became Mr. Clutch.)

I also love that, now that ESPN is owned by Disney, you get these stupid tie-ins where they do the show from Disney World or something, like it's some sort of novel event and not a giant frickin' ad for another division of their company.

SportsCenter is lame. I'm sure the next week or two they'll do stuff like talk about video games or show footage from games in lieu of highlights or some nonsense like that. Thank god for the NBA's channel.

I went through all that crap to see that Florida wasnt on the list.

Louis S., Microsoft knows that you "is" poor grammar skills and decided that it was likely the quiz would simply give you too much trouble. They then decided that you were representative of the entire state.

Florida, because of its heavy ties to the travel and leisure industry, has attracted bunko operators of one sort or the other, bilking the general public with come-ons incuding false discounts on vacations, bogus sweepatakes, etc., to the point that the people of Florida took legislative control. Sorry bout 'dat.

ESPN and every other TV network sells ad space. That's what they do. Why would anyone care if they sold it to a single entity?

And it isn't like you have to watch it. The only time I really dislike it is when it is seemless integrated, like when Monday Night Football will have an actor join them in the booth who just happens to be the star of the networks premier show or something.

"ESPN and every other TV network sells ad space. That's what they do. Why would anyone care if they sold it to a single entity?

And it isn't like you have to watch it. The only time I really dislike it is when it is seemless integrated, like when Monday Night Football will have an actor join them in the booth who just happens to be the star of the networks premier show or something."

That's exactly the kind of thing I was talking about in my post, when a company buys up a whole hour, then suddenly you start seeing that product (in Nike's case LeBron James) praised relentlessly, even for stuff that previously was regarded as a shortcoming. Hence my comment, " I'm sure the next week or two they'll do stuff like talk about video games or show footage from games in lieu of highlights or some nonsense like that."