Crying Kids on TV

[EastCoast2]

What's the deal with this? Why do they feel the need to find the 1 or 2 crying kids after every game and zoom in for 30 seconds? We all know this tournament is emotional, but this is just weird and cruel.

 

[rhcuse]

Well, you know, the NCAA likes to protect and enable perverts and such.

 

[Zippy1808]

Michael Jordan wasn’t in the building.

 

[Ghost]

Posted this yesterday, but I'll post again today since it applies...again!

RANT:

I gotta say, weirder to me than the crying kid shots, are that everyone notices them and really takes them to heart. But for the fact that everyone has a coronary, I see them, think, "awe, that sucks...sports are so emotional," and never think of it again. I mean, if it's the team we just beat, and I hate that team, I may take some special delight in seeing some tears shed, but otherwise, it's such a nothing moment I wouldn't even think to be bothered at all. Spots are passionate! I mean, are some of you feeling a need to repent for beating up crying children earlier in your lives?

I feel like they've always done this, and nobody cared until like one or two years ago...and now it's like CBS sponsored terrorism when they show it.

 

[edowd26]

NCAA likes to exploit kids. Get on board.

 

[longislandcuse]

I'm ok with it. If you want anonymity, I request the networks superimpose a crying Jordan face over the child.

 

[kmart128]

I have no issue with it... It is what it is. It will be a cool story to have when he is older that he became a meme and was on live tv

 

[Shark58]

its the new Black

 

[EastCoast2]

I have no issue with it... It is what it is. It will be a cool story to have when he is older that he became a meme and was on live tv

I can see kids Twitter and Tinder bios in 2030... "I once cried like a B**ch on national TV. I love cats! Closet nerd LOLOLOL I'm so random!"

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Hot wives when the team wins...

crying kids in a loss.

 

[NateW]

I’m not offended by it, but it is odd how all-in CBS is on this shot.

 

[texascpa]

Actually, the video that they kept showing was some middle-aged woman balling here eyes out. Not sure who she was, but I assumed it was an MSU fan and I smiled.

 

[OrangeTarheel]

Actually, the video that they kept showing was some middle-aged woman balling here eyes out. Not sure who she was, but I assumed it was an MSU fan and I smiled.

I pretty sure you meant bawling ... although if she was balling her eyes out that would make me smile too!

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[ForCuseSake]

If I’m ever in that position, as that ASU kid & mom, then I’m flippin a preemptive bird for when those cameras come looking for my child.

That could stymie this absurd trend.

 

[Scooch]

It’s sh!tty and CBS should knock it off. Particularly when they’ve shown the same kid crying repeatedly. For the life of me I don’t understand how this helps tell he story of the game. It’s a cheap, exploitative gimmick.

Perhaps CBS should send a camera to the producers house and they can broadcast him crying when he learns of a loved one dying. Wouldn’t that be a hoot?!