See How Twitter Reacted To Disc Golf’s ESPN8 “The Ocho” Appearance

August 9, 2017 by in Opinion

The defunct American Disc Golf Tour, which aired online on ESPN3 in 2016, got a linear cable TV appearance yesterday as the opening sport for ESPNU’s one-day-only conversion to ESPN8 “The Ocho,” a callback to the 2004 comedy Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.

Of course, the average sports fan knows nothing about the intricacies of competitive disc golf and the various tours: they just saw a little disc golf on TV. Here’s a sample of their reactions:

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