The 2024 Copa América game feed for USA-Uruguay started out so bad Stu Holden joked about it on the broadcast

During the 2024 Copa América Group C match between the United States and Uruguay on Monday night, fans at home got very sick and tired of the zoomed-out broadcast lens that made the action harder to follow at first.

Indeed, the first part of the Fox Sports broadcast from Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium was very difficult to make out, as the camera needed a much closer look at the players on the pitch than what viewers got on the live feed.

While Athletic reporter Chris Vannini noted that the camera feed and angle came from tournament organizer CONMEBOL and not Fox, fans still griped aplenty about how hard it was to watch the broadcast.

Here’s a sample of how widened the focus was on the live feed to start things out.

Game broadcaster Stu Holden even got a very funny jab with a Zoolander reference at the camera feed during the Fox Sports broadcast.

The camera angle eventually refocused to something more watchable for the fans at home, but we still got some good, frustrated reactions out of it.