Ben Domenech Quotes

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

Over the years, I've enjoyed working for WFAN and MSG - two sports giants in the industry. There couldn't be a better fit due to the long-standing history both entities have had with NY sports.

You're really in a bubble if you're not watching the league.

Sport on TV is so boring.

Sports entertainment in general, it's a very competitive business.

Nobody's tuning in - let's check the TV Guide listings and see what game Joe Buck is calling. Nobody cares. They want to see the Cubs. They want to see the Packers. They want to see the Cowboys. They don't care who's calling the game.

I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.

I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.

NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.

Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.

In L.A., nobody is talking about football. No television stations. You see it nowhere.

As with instant replay, NFL Films' use of slow motion, camera angles and the narration of Facenda was not just a technical breakthrough but a conceptual breakthrough.

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

Monday Night Football started in 1970, and when it started, it was something extremely special because sports had not been aired in prime time. So, it was a novelty, and a lot of people thought it wouldn't work, and, of course, it worked spectacularly well.

Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.

I think for me, personally, I'm a guy who has watched ESPN ever since I've been growing up. You turn it on, and it's one of the first stories - the Blackhawks and hockey, which you don't really see on that station. That's cool to see.

E! didn't like it when we'd make fun of clips from ESPN - they'd be like, 'That's sports! That's not our audience!'

We in the NFL unquestionably are in sports and competition, but we're also in entertainment, and that's the entertainment capital of the world. It just bowls you over when you see the opportunity in L.A.

Sanitizing ESPN of politics and opinion would make it a relic; sports fans have dozens of places online to go for scores and highlights.

If cricket can be so glamorous and lucrative, I don't see why wrestling should lag behind.

We handle it from both sides of the coin: from the sport aspect and the entertainment aspect. You gotta have both because we're if not doing solid ratings, we're not going to be on TV.

I love being on Sky Sports, the big hype around the games and stuff like that.

Being a huge football fan, the chance to work for the NFL and do a show combining sports and entertainment is truly a dream come true.

Whether it's NASCAR or whether it's football, or whether it's the NBA, any time something spills over to the point where somebody makes a WWE reference, I always think it's a good thing.

Right before I left ESPN, someone suggested doing a NFL story in the spring. The person was laughed out of the room.