ESPN Monday Night Football Yellow Down Bug Is Driving Everyone Crazy [UPDATE]

ESPN is making its regular season Monday Night Football debut this evening, and so far a lot of people on social media are being driven nuts by the fact that the down and distance marker on the bottom right of the screen is yellow and thus our brains are trained to think there is a flag on every play:

The yellow score bug thing is driving me INSANE

— Big Cat (@BarstoolBigCat) September 9, 2019

"Wait, was there a flag on that play? Oh, no, ESPN just made the down and distance box the same color as a penalty flag."
–Me, 17 times already during this game.

— Michael David Smith (@MichaelDavSmith) September 9, 2019

Looking at ESPN’s yellow downs counter trying to figure out if it’s a flag or just the next down pic.twitter.com/VXybMW1rWf

— SI Extra Mustard (@SI_ExtraMustard) September 9, 2019

ESPN needs to change the yellow graphic on the bottom right of the screen. I keep thinking it’s a flag. Whose idea was this?

— Landry Locker (@LandryLocker) September 9, 2019

RT this if you want @ESPN to change the color of the down and distance graphic on MNF.

We must stop this horrendous yellow penalty flag pump fake.

— Will Brinson (@WillBrinson) September 9, 2019

.@espn please take this yellow-green down-and-distance color and throw it into the ocean. It looks like a flag pic.twitter.com/jNyMSY7kZA

— Riley McAtee (@RileyMcAtee) September 9, 2019

We could go on and on and do hundreds or even thousands more of these, but you get the point. Hopefully ESPN will do us a solid and change the color of this graphic by this time next week.

UPDATE: We didn’t have to wait that long.

Breaking: ESPN is switching away from the new Down-And-Distance graphic it debuted in the first half of Monday Night Football. ESPN heard the fans’ feedback and acted, quick.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) September 10, 2019