Without fail, the intros used by the BBC and ITV when covering major sporting events always seem to be talking points.
Take ITV’s offering a couple of summers ago, for example. We struggled for months to get this out of our heads…
With France’s opener with Romania fast approaching, ITV debuted their latest fancy intro.
https://youtu.be/RC2aOK9FOhU
Starring animated versions of Paul Pogba, Robert Lewandowski, Gareth Bale and more, the opening titles certainly divided opinion on Twitter.
Many weren’t too keen:
https://twitter.com/randallbell/status/741332782975209474
https://twitter.com/rorsdm/status/741332705925816320
What the hell was that intro, @ITV? #EURO2016
— DL. (@AE_DL129) June 10, 2016
https://twitter.com/guztodd/status/741332871907008512
Harsh? Well, not everyone was quite so negative about it. Many other viewers were quite impressed.
https://twitter.com/IsMiseDaniel/status/741334111973986304
https://twitter.com/robbo_wwfc/status/741332831863988225
Liking the #Euro2016 intro on #ITV much better than #Rugby theme they had last year.
— David (@ploki29) June 10, 2016
(Poor Paloma.)
And with added Mark Pougatch, this man was really impressed with ITV.
https://twitter.com/aidanleape/status/741333054229250048
Like it or not, we’ll certainly be hearing / seeing plenty more of it in the next month or so.
Let’s see what the BBC have to offer on Saturday.
