ESPN Jacksonville Gaffe: Network Uses Wrong Footage During Monday Night Football (VIDEO)

Whoops.

On Monday night during Jacksonville's game against San Diego, a few viewers noticed something a little strange about the footage ESPN showed leading into and out of commercial breaks.

@jagus61
Jimi Gustavson

Watching Monday Night Countdown from yesterday and noticed @espn still lazy and using stock footage of downtown Jacksonville #Jaguars

December 6, 2011 8:55 pm via UberSocial for BlackBerry Reply Retweet Favorite

@IBJTheScore
IBJ The Score

1 issue with ESPN's footage of Jacksonville's skyline last night during MNF; it was Charlotte. That's like showing Lville during Colts game.

December 6, 2011 3:32 pm via HootSuite Reply Retweet Favorite

It turns out these viewers were correct. The footage used was not only outdated, it also wasn't all even footage of Jacksonville.

The AFC South Blog on ESPN.com published a statement by an ESPN spokesperson about the error.

The Charlotte aerial was an inadvertent mistake. It should not have aired. We apologize that it was part of the telecast. The scenics of Jacksonville that were used during 'Monday Night Countdown' were shot the night of the previous MNF game there in late October. We did not have a crew shooting scenics Monday. There were no graphic or audio mentions indicating the shot was live, though we understand viewers may have been under this assumption.

The statement only provides us with more questions than answers. Since when do TV stations use old footage of cities during games? Why didn't ESPN bother to have a crew take shots of Jacksonville? And when and where exactly did the footage of the UFO sighting that wasn't actually a UFO sighting in New Orleans take place?

(Hat tip to Sports Grid for the video)

Comments

[ladyvader]

01:01 PM on 12/08/2011

ESPN has ruined Monday Night Football. The people they have hired over the years to do their broadcast are horrible. Even when it was teams I didn't like to watch, I always had MNF on. Now, I don't watch at all. Packers games only and they seem to be more on Sunday Night than on Monday.

[triplettam]

02:58 PM on 12/08/2011

Jaworski is the worst.

[YanksWS96]

12:34 PM on 12/08/2011

There's football in Jacksonville?

[ladyvader]

01:04 PM on 12/08/2011

Yea, if their fans actually show up to watch the games. Weaver has covered many sections of seats to get rid of the blackouts. This after losing seats when they remodeled to get the Super Bowl. Which I doubt will come to Jacksonville again. No one wants to be doing outdoor activities in 40 degree weather which is at times the high in early February.

Upper 40's and lower 50's plus rain. That always makes for a fun time.

[YanksWS96]

02:02 PM on 12/08/2011

At least you have nice weather for most of the year.

[Tater Salad]

11:19 AM on 12/08/2011

Big deal. It was MNF. Let it happen during the Pro Bowling Championship and you'll see riots in the streets.

[jwfoust]

12:22 AM on 12/08/2011

Pretty funny. They apologized. No problem. If that's the worst thing to happen in your day it's a good one. I'm in Denver, it would be funny if they should show say, Phoenix instead of Denver. I'm not the one getting my butt chewed. A simple mistake. Unfortunately mistakes on TV have a bigger audience.

[Brian Childers]

12:01 AM on 12/08/2011

So effin what! Are you there to watch the game,or watch blah blah blah shots of the city? Who cares what the in-betweens are! The game is what counts, And The Jags got whipped like an racehorse down the stretch!

[ejljr]

11:12 PM on 12/07/2011

To IBJ. I would have said it would be like show Baltimore skyline during a Colts game!

[ridger84]

10:41 PM on 12/07/2011

The statement,he scenics of Jacksonville that were used during 'Monday Night Countdown' were shot the night of the previous MNF game there in late October", is a lie also. In the October game, ESPN showed shots of downtown Jacksonville that were not shot in October 2011. How would one know. The tallest building in the shot both in October and in a scene shown last Monday night had the word "MODIS" on it. Yes, this used to be the Modis building, but prior to the October game mentioned in the above quote by ESPN, MODIS was changed to WELLS FARGO. Modis were blue letters and Wells Fargo are yellow letters. Sadly, ESPN is not only too lazy to come and get live shots of Jacksonville, but they are now caught in a lie as their quote above is inaccurate.

[Brian Childers]

12:03 AM on 12/08/2011

Sadly? This makes you sad? Get real,it's TV! And you take the time to reflect that a small mistake is sad? Get a life!

[ladyvader]

01:06 PM on 12/08/2011

You are missing the point. The point is ESPN/Disney is lazy at doing their job. Then they lied on top of it.

ESPN has ruined MNF where I stopped watching it before I told Comcast to take their TV package and shove it.

[aevf101]

09:55 PM on 12/07/2011

ESPN, CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS, NPT all the same. They all spread around ample amounts of B/S. Don't have to be accountable becuase not many care. We are all boob tube addicts.

[sanityisneeded]

09:51 PM on 12/07/2011

ESPN's biggest mistake is letting Craig James comment on anything about football. Where is his whining son now - probably living with mommy and daddy.

[cjgdnight]

10:55 PM on 12/07/2011

He still plays football... and you?

[sanityisneeded]

10:16 AM on 12/08/2011

Where? His comments on how to discipline players during a recent broadcast game sounded like hypocrisy to me. Guess he believes his sone deserved special treatment different from what he said about others.

[musicproducerbh]

08:28 PM on 12/07/2011

It is Bush's fault

[jwfoust]

12:23 AM on 12/08/2011

Reggie?

[stealman1001]

07:42 PM on 12/07/2011

Change name of Charlotte to Jax, and Jax to Charlotte. Easy fix. Done.

[rikster]

06:08 PM on 12/07/2011

a sure sign of the apocalypse...

[ifished]

06:01 PM on 12/07/2011

Oh gee! The world is coming to an end!

[Dr Confuso]

05:53 PM on 12/07/2011

ESPN, or as they are snidely referred to as: 'The Mothership', is so busy promoting itself and hiring lawyers for its parade of seemingly mysogynistic 'personalities', its no wonder they can't get a simple film clip right.

[ntr721]

08:36 PM on 12/07/2011

It does seem that ESPN is having a bad season as well as the Chargers.

[Brian Childers]

12:05 AM on 12/08/2011

You do know what misogynist is,don't you? Maybe Erin Andrews is one,huh? Or Michelle Beadle, I could go on.