If you turned on Comedy Central on Tuesday night at 10:30, you might be fooled into thinking you were watching Sports Network. The music is the same, the lights are the same, and the set is the same. But that deception wouldn’t last long, as the “sports broadcasters” started on the list of inappropriate topics that were covered in the 30 minutes of the Onion SportsDome on Comedy Central.

Instead of choosing the famous names in sports to ridicule and target, the SportsDome chose the obscure second string players, and created false accusations about them. If you are going to attempt to libel an athlete, at least make the story believable. No one is going to believe that the Miami Heat wrote new rules for basketball, and kicked out all the other teams of the NBA.

Among the segments was a section called “Who Would You Kill,” where sports/comedy “experts” decided who to murder in order to save the sanity of sports. Some picked obscure sports managers, while others decided on players to kill. One “expert” even decided to kill off a whole offensive line. But it takes more than a couple of mildly funny skits to fill up a 30 minute television spot.

Before airing on Comedy Central, the Onion posted sports parody clips on their website. The clips were to the point and hilarious, but when the show had to fill up half an hour, the skits dragged on for an unnecessarily long time. Having a name affiliated with the Onion creates some pretty high expectations, and unfortunately, the Onion SportsDome didn’t live up to any of them.

SportsDome was just too much of a good thing. Stick to news parodies and the internet.