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LOOK: CBS broadcast confuses fans with questionable color choice for LSU score bar
By Paul Harvey
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CBS chose an interesting color to represent LSU on the score banner Saturday.
CBS traditionally uses one of each team’s dominant colors to display down and distance when that team has the ball. Florida was shown with its dominate shade of blue, but CBS decided to use yellow for LSU’s down and distance.
The decision has made for a confusing afternoon for many fans. The down and distance in yellow is also shown where CBS indicates if there is a flag on the play or not. As a result, it looked like there was a flag on every play that LSU ran Saturday.
Here is a look at the score bar with LSU’s yellow in the down and distance bar:
Many fans on Twitter shared in the confusion:
This yellow LSU score banner that CBS uses makes me think there is a flag every play
— sentinole (@armweak28) October 7, 2017
The down and distance box on @CBS is yellow. It looks like there is a flag on every play. Change this, please.
— CaptainTouchback (@CaptTouchback) October 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/ChopAttack/status/916771040247902214
https://twitter.com/ConnorCaligiuri/status/916770381171757056
Hey CBS, let's drop the Yellow rectangles for for the down and distance…making me think there's a flag on da play…
— walt nash (@waltnash) October 7, 2017
why tf is the down marker on cbs yellow lmao makes me think there's a flag after every play
— brock (@KindaFaithful) October 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/cheelydawg/status/916764236507942912
https://twitter.com/GaryDaniels0/status/916764087563976704
https://twitter.com/Spreadapedia/status/916760717872660480
Not a fan of the CBS Scorebug using Yellow as the down/dist color for LSU. Makes it look like there is a penalty on every play.
— Blake Davis (@CoachDavisRR) October 7, 2017
Another reason to hate CBS broadcasts: the yellow down marker on the score graphic makes me think there's a flag every play…
— Tyler Curry (@tylercurry_PT) October 7, 2017
Maybe purple would have been a better choice for LSU.
Paul Harvey lives in Atlanta and covers SEC football.
