As is recent tradition for NFL broadcasters, NBC released a new scorebug and graphics package for this year’s Super Bowl. In what will likely be in use until the next time NBC has the Super Bowl, it’s a more centered scorebug compared to the previous one.
Reaction to the new bug was largely positive. There was some criticism and that was totally fair, but it was positive overall. Considering change can cause a subsconscious negative reaction, having a positive reaction to the new scorebug, considering NBC’s old one looked pretty good, is a breath of fresh air for the network.
This is just a sampling of the reaction to the new scorebug.
https://twitter.com/Lauterbach__/status/1493006133958692866?s=20&t=kR1fIXPoRZgDa7f-AsIN2g
NBC usually never misses with graphics, but I'm not gonna lie this new scorebug is not it. Feels like a belt just chillin on the screen, not a fan at all pic.twitter.com/r0shTtGW8t
— Brett Morgan (@Sleegi) February 13, 2022
That Super Bowl scorebug is cleeeeeaaannnn
— Jake Yadrich (@JakeYadrich) February 14, 2022
I would like the new NBC scorebug if I didn’t hate change
— Eric Stephen (@ericstephen) February 13, 2022
The new scorebug sucks. Numbers way too big. Why do this too us on the Super Bowl
— Big Cat (@BarstoolBigCat) February 13, 2022
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┻┳| •.•) i like the new scorebug
┳┻|⊂ﾉ— PFT Commenter (@PFTCommenter) February 13, 2022
I do not mind the new NBC score bug. It’s pretty good. pic.twitter.com/CNfWjgFkv2
— Chris Vannini (@ChrisVannini) February 13, 2022
Sorry, Brad Pitt is the only score bug I care about pic.twitter.com/cqTTjA3b3p
— Russell Steinberg (@Russ_Steinberg) February 11, 2022
The new NBC scorebug is giving me Who Wants to be a Millionaire #SuperBowl pic.twitter.com/bUHS1QK2im
— Geoff Magliocchetti (@GeoffJMags) February 14, 2022
I can't fully explain it, but the NBC Super Bowl scorebug looks like a Mini Cooper center console.
— Brooke Pryor (@bepryor) February 13, 2022
My highly scorebug-critical wife (as well as our teen, who has absorbed a lifetime of mom's scorebug critiques) is okay with this, and so am I. https://t.co/8S74n9S04k
— Noel Murray (@NoelMu) February 14, 2022
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