Super Bowl 57 wasn’t only a momentous occasion for players on the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles. After Sheryl Lee Ralph performed “Lift Every Voice and Sing” and Chris Stapleton sang the national anthem, it was time to start the game. And it was apparently time for FOX to unveil a new feature for the millions of people watching the big game at home.
As has sometimes been the case in recent years, the network unveiled a new scorebug (the item at the bottom of the screen that tells the relevant information like score, time, timeouts, quarter, etc.).
From an initial glance, it seems as if the football world widely derided it:
Fox debuts a new score bug for the #SuperBowl. Thoughts? 🏈📺 pic.twitter.com/OqcLzAHpPn
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) February 12, 2023
Woof, yeah. I mean, it is pretty unnecessarily large and doesn’t have the best aesthetic.
NFL fans crushed FOX’s new scorebug for being way too big, among other things.
the new FOX scorebug looks like it’s for an unlicensed video game
— Justin Ferguson (@JFergusonAU) February 12, 2023
New Fox scorebug is very chunky & bold. Very reminiscent of the 2000s, but I think that’s what Fox wants thanks to them probably never going away from Cleatus the robot. // #DesignGeekTweet https://t.co/AyK4PMwGck
— Brad Davis (@Bgamer90) February 12, 2023
Seems like a bad place to have a giant score bug.
— Ms. Mambo (@Ms_Mambo) February 12, 2023
television nerds unite as they all file complains about the new score bug which is entirely too big. why does it look like a NFL blitz bug
— sean yoo (@SeanYoo) February 12, 2023
Why is the new Fox score bug so big that it covers the receivers at the bottom of the screen? Did nobody test this before the game?
— Yaya Dubin (@JADubin5) February 12, 2023
The score bug is as big as the scoreboard in Dallas
— Seth Toupal (@sethtoups) February 12, 2023
the scorebug is distracting, back to the drawing board, fox
— katie dzwierzynski (@kdzwierzynski) February 12, 2023
this score bug is entirely too large
— James Brady (@jamesbradyisme) February 12, 2023
The new Fox scorebug looks like a pair of sunglasses.
— Chris Ramirez (@CRamirezCalif) February 12, 2023
