Special K Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Tell John Madden to take the rest of the year off. I know I'm stating the obvious, but the Michaels/Collinsworth combo is much easier to listen to...even though the game is a real stinker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetbaboo Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 i like that the girl doing the piggyback riding is hanging on to the silicone knobbers for support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrjsbu96 Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 to any network that employs Keith Olberman......F THEM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Fischer Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 to any network that employs Keith Olberman......F THEM! Hate much? It's football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffOrange Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 I like most of the NBC guys. However I can't think of anything in the world I care less about than what Tikki Barber thinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 i want to kick oberman and that other toad in the fkcning face and smash barber and costas in the step children with a hammer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDH Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 i want to kick oberman and that other toad in the fkcning face and smash barber and costas in the step children with a hammer. Someone needs to put their politics aside. How anybody can dislike Oberman when he does the highlights I have no idea. I'd say the guy is the best in the buisness at highlights - just like he was 10 years ago with Patrick. I don't remember anybody bitching about Oberman back then, but now that they know his politics suddenly people hate the guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tcali Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Hate much? It's football. Yeah but you can make exceptions for the Pol Pots,The Hitlers,the Stalins,and the Olbermans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefan66 Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Tell John Madden to take the rest of the year off. I know I'm stating the obvious, but the Michaels/Collinsworth combo is much easier to listen to...even though the game is a real stinker. :lol: :lol: I HATE MADDEN! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelso_Helmet Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Someone needs to put their politics aside. How anybody can dislike Oberman when he does the highlights I have no idea. I'd say the guy is the best in the buisness at highlights - just like he was 10 years ago with Patrick. I don't remember anybody bitching about Oberman back then, but now that they know his politics suddenly people hate the guy. 10 years ago, it wasn't an issue. He made a remark 2 weeks ago when Trent was knocked out...something to the effect of Trent being dazed and saying "I can see Russia from here," an obvious Sarah Palin reference. He has a right to put his ideological filter on his news coverage and analysis...people know what they're getting when they tune into Countdown on MSNBC. But once he started forcing them into a sports broadcast, I lost a bit of respect for him....I don't want him forcing his views into sports coverage any more than I want Al Michaels giving a conservative perspective or any more than i wanted Rush Limbaugh wasting my time on NFL countdown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dean Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Yeah but you can make exceptions for the Pol Pots,The Hitlers,the Stalins,and the Olbermans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IQ Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Keith Olberman has some of the most solid and lucid political takes on TV. Hating on his sports reporting because of his politics? That classifies one as an idiot (and probably redneck, pro-war Palin supporting fool). Oh, great game BTW. If we go 2-1 over the next three, talk switches to SB, not just playoffs. What a year. Anyone know where video of the game will be availabe (if at all?). I haven't missed watching a down since 1987 when I was 13 yrs old and it just feels wrong. I can't relate to any of the stats because I only got to see about 45% of the game. Talk about frustration! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Someone needs to put their politics aside. How anybody can dislike Oberman when he does the highlights I have no idea. I'd say the guy is the best in the buisness at highlights - just like he was 10 years ago with Patrick. I don't remember anybody bitching about Oberman back then, but now that they know his politics suddenly people hate the guy. i don't care about his politics, he is a crappy snooty melon head and his comments are just little weenie asides. he has no business doing what berman did so so so much better for so long. he's not the best in the business, he's garbage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dean Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 i don't care about his politics, he is a crappy snooty melon head and his comments are just little weenie asides. he has no business doing what berman did so so so much better for so long. he's not the best in the business, he's garbage. When did this thread become about Kenny Mayne? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deep2evans Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 wow, what is all this best in the business talk? Olberman is as obnoxious and unlistenable as they get.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Take it easy on the conservatives. Their Jedi mind tricks aren't working anymore and they are in the freaking out that Obama is going to win. They are just lashing out at anyone and anything. PTR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Vader Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 It's true that Olberman is an obnoxious ass, but he does an ok job on the highlights. I just wish he would just call the highlights and stop trying to be funny during the highlights. Of course I wish all the sports broadcasters would drop the stupid jokes and just deliver the news. Although I do love Chris Berman when he does the highlights, but he's more fun and not trying to go out of his way to make a punchline. Also he's a real football fan. Oh how I miss the old days of NFL Primetime. I like the highlight show on NFL Network, they do a great job of showing the highlights. But Rich Eisen is no Chris Berman, and NFL Network does not have the awesome NFL Primetime music, that ESPN still plays during the Berman highlights on SportsCenter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SectionC3 Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Yeah but you can make exceptions for the Pol Pots,The Hitlers,the Stalins,and the Olbermans. You forgot George W. Bush in that list. I'll stop the politics here, but to me, peering under a banquet table in joking search of chemical weapons is not a laughing matter when that "joke" cost 4,000 American lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExWNYer Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 I like most of the NBC guys. However I can't think of anything in the world I care less about than what Tikki Barber thinks. ...Marshall Faulk thinks. Before the game, Faulk picked against the Bills again (surprise, surprise) and his reasoning was "their quarterback thinks he's Batman." Great analysis, dumbass. Yeah, that concussion caused Trent Edwards to misfire on a whole five of thirty passes. Why the fug these networks continue to hire ex-jocks who can't formulate an analysis and back it up with sound reasoning is beyond me. You want to pick against the Bills? Fine by me. But lay it out for me with a well-thought response...not a flippant, childish remark with absolutely no basis. Ugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wacka Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Olberman has been an a-hole since he was at ESPN. When he left, he said "The best thing about ESPN was seeing Bristol in the rear view mirror." I lived about 1500 feet from ESPN for several years. It is your average suburb. Olberman can't drive because he has no depth perception and couldn't stand Bristol, CT, because, like any suburb, it isn't much fun if you can't drive. When he left, he acted like he was better than everybody else there. I haven't liked him since he left ESPN, long before he started spouting his political bile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fezmid Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Anyone know where video of the game will be availabe (if at all?). I haven't missed watching a down since 1987 when I was 13 yrs old and it just feels wrong. I can't relate to any of the stats because I only got to see about 45% of the game. Talk about frustration! NFL Network will probably air it, since they were recording. DirecTV also has a "Shortcuts" program where they cut each game down to 30 minutes -- every play, just without the filler in between. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alton Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 NFL Network will probably air it, since they were recording. DirecTV also has a "Shortcuts" program where they cut each game down to 30 minutes -- every play, just without the filler in between. I just watched DirecTV's "Shortcuts" of the Bills/Chargers. It was missing all the video from the power outage. It just had a note saying something about the power outage causing footage to be missing. I was pretty dissapointed. Great game though! Trent is the real deal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotwing Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Keith Olberman has some of the most solid and lucid political takes on TV LOL are you kidding me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarthur31 Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Tell John Madden to take the rest of the year off. I know I'm stating the obvious, but the Michaels/Collinsworth combo is much easier to listen to...even though the game is a real stinker. I've always liked Collinsworth and Esiason as color guys or breaking down "tape". They rank up there with Jaws. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefan66 Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Keith Olberman has some of the most solid and lucid political takes on TV LOL are you kidding me? Nope. Don't believe he is. I love Olberman, funny and to the point. Way better than those waste of flesh "news" men over on FoxNews. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kegtapr Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Keith Olberman has some of the most solid and lucid political takes on TV. Hating on his sports reporting because of his politics? That classifies one as an idiot (and probably redneck, pro-war Palin supporting fool). Oh, great game BTW. If we go 2-1 over the next three, talk switches to SB, not just playoffs. What a year. Anyone know where video of the game will be availabe (if at all?). I haven't missed watching a down since 1987 when I was 13 yrs old and it just feels wrong. I can't relate to any of the stats because I only got to see about 45% of the game. Talk about frustration! You forgot the 25 in your username. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fezmid Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 I just watched DirecTV's "Shortcuts" of the Bills/Chargers. It was missing all the video from the power outage. It just had a note saying something about the power outage causing footage to be missing. I was pretty dissapointed. Great game though! Trent is the real deal! Really? Wow, surprising since they showed some video from the power outages on the broadcast yesterday. Just assumed they were recording everything, but I guess not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kegtapr Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Really? Wow, surprising since they showed some video from the power outages on the broadcast yesterday. Just assumed they were recording everything, but I guess not. It was recorded. Other stations didn't get the footage though as they weren't able to record the live CBS feed. I'm sure they'll all get it eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SageAgainstTheMachine Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Keith Olbermann went to college at Cornell. While there, he was a member of the radio station WVBR. On WVBR he invented and hosted a show called Sports Roundup. The show is still around today and I am the current host of it. As part of a campaign to run for sports director at the station next year, I thought a good initiative would be to get in contact with Mr. Olbermann and try to convince him to do a phone-in interview on the show. (WVBR keeps good tabs on all its alumni so finding him wasn't so hard) After a grueling process of having a multitude of conversations with his underlings because apparently he just doesn't like answering phones, I convinced them to put me on with Olbermann himself. This is how the conversation went. Me: Hello Mr. Olbermann, my name is Jay Sage and I'm with WVBR sports. I host Sports Roundup and I was wondering if you could take some time out of your schedule for a short phone interview. The show is Sundays at 7. Keith: I'm going to stop you right there. I bailed you as*holes in 97 with the understanding you wouldn't bother me anymore. If your general manager had you call me, he can go to hell. Then he hung up. What he was referring to was a large donation he gave in 1997 which bailed the station out of some hard financial times. I couldn't believe how much of a complete dick he was to me. It seems Keith has forgotten his roots. ESPN and (to some extent) WVBR made him what he is, and now he is a pure and unadulterated as*hole to both. He can go to hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SageAgainstTheMachine Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 And by the way, I consider myself a political liberal, but Mr. Olbermann is a blowhard just like the rest of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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