Cory's Corner: Sports on TV must dumb down coverage

I thought about this several times last year during the NFL season, but it crystallized when I was watching this past weekend’s U.S. Open at Chambers Bay.

Have games on TV become too Nintendoish?

What I mean by that is it seems every broadcaster is trying appeal to the younger demographic with crazy graphics, sound effects and oodles of camera angles.

Sports on TV was teetering on life support when the famed telestrator was introduced to the viewing public. That allowed guys like John Madden and Phil Simms to mark up the screen and totally confuse everyone.

But the telestrator as we knew it is a fossil. Now there’s a graphic that tells us the angle and flight path of the golf ball, microphones…