ESPN broadcast changes graphic after complaints on social media

The ESPN broadcast took flak on social media for the color display of the down and distance graphic during the Texans-Saints “Monday Night Football” contest.

The graphic, which was in the bottom right corner of the screen, appeared yellow, resembling a penalty flag alert. After numerous complaints on Twitter, producers changed the color to something more neutral at halftime.

Rob Tornoe

✔@RobTornoe

Everyone is complaining about the yellow in ESPN’s new scorebug, but it looks neon green to me. Anyone else?

See Rob Tornoe’s other Tweets

✔@RileyMcAtee

The flag graphic is less yellow than the normal down-and-distance graphic. Incredible

65 people are talking about this

ADVERTISEMENT

No one was happy.

Riley McAtee

✔@RileyMcAtee

The flag graphic is less yellow than the normal down-and-distance graphic. Incredible.

65 people are talking about this

[email protected]

Hey @espn

Yellow is for flags

Other colors are for other things

241

43 people are talking about this

Rodger Sherman

✔@rodger

Like 80 percent of my timeline has complained about the ESPN down and distance marker being bright yellow and therefore looking like the usual graphic for “the ref threw a flag” and I really have no idea how multiple people looked at that and approved it.

71 people are talking about this

Landry Locker

✔@LandryLocker

ESPN needs to change the yellow graphic on the bottom right of the screen. I keep thinking it’s a flag. Whose idea was this?

84 people are talking about this