John Clayton Pulls A Vanishing Act
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
It's always great when graphics completely fail on live television, but this one cracked me up more than that sort of thing normally does. Jay Harris was double boxing with John Clayton, and talking about the Bears, when Clayton just....POOF!....vanished into thin air.
WHOA! He even has his own theme music when he disappears. That's just awesome.
(Thanks to reader JT for the clip)
Someone On Sports Center Was A Little Bit Gassy This Morning
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
A few emails came in right around 10:30 this morning saying that either Josh Elliott or John Clayton ripped one during an NFL segment. Being your intrepid video reporter, and an expert of flatulence, I'm here to provide the clip and tell you that it certainly sounds like someone had too much broccoli last night. Listen closely around the :11 mark....
While it could be a mic mishap, I'm pretty sure that it wasn't. I'm putting my money on Clayton, but we should get a definitive word on it either way soon enough. Your thoughts and guesses in the comments.
Update: Via Deadspin....
ESPN's media relations machine "could not possibly comment about that", but Elliot did say that he asked the newsroom "What the F was that?" after the incident occurred, but denies having personally "dealt it."John Clayton's A Little Gassy In The Morning (Deadspin)
Sean Salisbury Loses His Mind (But He's Right)
Thursday, February 07, 2008
This actually went down last week, but here are Sean Salisbury and John Clayton debating who's better for the Giants rookie TE Kevin Boss or Jeremy Shockey. Clayton sort of changes the question around and Salisbury goes off on him. Good times at the 1:10 mark....
See what happens when you just have people yelling and debating all day long? Sooner or later two of these talking heads are going to come to blows.
Salisbury rips Clayton on-air: “Tales from the Crypt” (TBL)
As If ESPN Didn't Mess Up Enough Yesterday, John Clayton Magically Appears During Redskins' Press Conference
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
During the height of yesterday's press conference that aired on ESPN (before they cut out early) watch as John Clayton magically appears and then disappears on screen. Watch carefully...
The timing of the appearance with Joe Gibbs speech is about the only thing that got me to smile yesterday. It wasn't funny at all, but just so ridiculous. John Clayton is like the
Good editing ESPN. Unfortunate to say the least.
ESPN Reports The Falcons Sign Byron Leftwich OJ Simpson?
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
I don't know how hard (or easy) it is to add production elements to a broadcast, but this seems like something that should have been caught before it was aired. According to Construda, John Clayton and Mark Schlereth were on Sports Center to talk about the Falcons' signing of Byron Leftwich when the graphic below was placed on the screen.
You know what? The Juice is 60, but I bet that he wouldn't be that bad of an addition to the Falcons. He'd probably split carries with Warrick Dunn just like every other back that's been on the team.
O.J. Simpson is Byron Leftwich (Construda)
