I watch a ton of ESPN on T.V. Ask my fiancee, Shannan. I DVR Around the Horn and Pardon the Interuption. I watch SportsCenter all the time, especially during baseball season. I watch this stuff so much that Shannan can recognize and name the hosts and commentators on other T.V. shows.

One thing about ESPN that drives me insane is their web site. Specifically their built in video player on their index page. It plays the default video automatically. So even if I don’t care about that video, it’ll start playing and making noise as I’m reading something else. Talk about annoying. It even woke me up one night because I left my laptop on one night with ESPN loaded in the current page. It just started playing on its own!

So, this is a note to everyone working on ESPN’s web page. Cut the crap. Don’t play the video by default. You might find you save your company money every month in bandwidth in the process too.