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?
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✔@RileyMcAtee
The flag graphic is less yellow than the normal down-and-distance graphic. Incredible
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Riley McAtee
✔@RileyMcAtee
The flag graphic is less yellow than the normal down-and-distance graphic. Incredible.
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Hey @espn
Yellow is for flags
Other colors are for other things
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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.
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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?
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