Heck I've been annoyed with the intrusion of stuff on the screen for years...the crawl across the bottom, then the screen titles, then the logos, all the stuff takes up maybe 1/4 or 1/5th of the screen.
I've whined several times, but apparently they don't get enough complaints or the networks don't care are gonna do what they're gonna do.
I was watching a golf match recently and couldn't see the golf ball half the time because it was covered by a lower 1/4 screen of graphics.
Think about it... in golf, the ball is normally on the ground, not at the middle or the top of the screen.
I've long been annoyed by all the flashy "reflections" and other such graphic innovations. Have TV networks become that desparate that they have to resort to flashy and zippy graphics for basic information just to get and keep viewers.
Since we have the internet, we don't NEED all the other games scores put up on the tV all the time. I can get full play by play just going to nfl.com. But maybe thats just me.