Comments on: Unreal: Cameron Crazies Mad at ESPN!!

By: atlas

atlas — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:12:08 +0000

Yes, we are elitist….we whine….don’t care about black people playing basketball and football for their teams as long as they win

Tallguy-you just reaffirmed every duck fuke comment here.

By: the_unreliable_narrator

the_unreliable_narrator — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:17:50 +0000

So essentially Duke got bashed in a article on ESPN and the writer feels no one should take pot shots at their precious team based on legitimate facts [Final Four appearances, ACC championships, etc.]? Boo hoo. Get over yourselves, Dukies.

Pull over here. Someone needs to get out of the Whaaaaambulance.

By: tallguy

tallguy — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:07:25 +0000

good lord people…seriously, jealousy isn’t a virtue. Yes, we are elitist (though I’m pretty sure we’re not racist…just because Duke throws out a whitewash every now and then, we definitely have embraced our share of black stars over the years), and we whine…but at the end of the day our team wins more than yours, and we support our team a helluvalot better than you support yours. Notice how people always say “We’re better than the Crazies” not “We’re the best fans in the nation”…the Crazies are the standard bearer, and will always be the best.

I don’t disagree that Dicky V gets on his knees for us and UNC-though trust me, we’re as sick of him as you are…between him and Billy Fucking Packer (his official name in every non Wake Forest ACC household) college basketball announcing has as much to do with college basketball as the View does. However, ESPN really ought to be on their knees for us- of the top 10 rated college basketball games ever on ESPN, a huge majority of them involve Duke and/or UNC…and that’s with regional blackouts in ACC country. ESPN made Duke basketball a national brand, and they’ve profited tremendously on Duke’s success. So it is rather hypocritical for ESPN to take potshots at Duke…the proverbial killing of the Golden Goose. You don’t think Fox Sports would jump at a chance to sign an exclusive deal with the ACC to broadcast all of their games?

Oh, and back to the racism claim. That’s by far the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard, mainly because racists don’t care about black people playing basketball and football for their teams as long as they win. My grandfather- HUUUUGGGEEE racist…but he certainly cheered for Michael Jordan, Worthy et al when they were at UNC. Most Duke fans are from NYC anyways, so there’s not nearly the overt racism that there is in the country areas of NC/SC that predominantly root for UNC (even though about 99% of UNC fans haven’t even been within 50 miles of the campus).

By: jgp3553

jgp3553 — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:16:11 +0000

Hell, imagine what would have happened if Joe Torre was shot.

By: cbh49er

cbh49er — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:07:43 +0000

Speaking of ESPN their coverage of Sean Taylor yesterday was piss poor. Rest assured if that had been Roy Williams of the Cowboys there would round the clock coverage and then Stephen A. Smith would have come on with the label of ESPN basketball analyst and talk about football and that Roy Williams was killed because he was black.

By: jgp3553

jgp3553 — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:54:02 +0000

In ESPN’s defense (*gasp*), I don’t think they really “love” or “hate” Duke.

I just think that ESPN’s research and ratings numbers tell them that Duke draws bigger audeiences.

The problem comes in here: Duke draws big audiences, so ESPN interprets that as “America is ONLY interested in Duke. Therefore, they only get Duke.”

That’s what I hate. Just like in MLB. The Yankees are more popular than the Rockies. Therefore, we get 71 Yankees games and ZERO Rockies games. It would not kill them and it would not be a ratings catastrophe if they decided to televise another team every now and then.

By: aehite

aehite — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:31:59 +0000

I may be mistaken because I don’t watch a lot of college Bball, but doesn’t ESPN have something called ACC tuesday, or thursday, or whatever day? Isn’t that just a veiled attempt to put Duke on as much as possible. This post makes no sense and comes directly out of left field. Common knowledge is that ESPN LOVES (or gives reach arounds, slurps, blows, sticks finger in asshole) Duke. No one has ever claimed that WWL has anything but respect for Duke. Weird

By: jgp3553

jgp3553 — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:27:40 +0000

“if you look at the crazies notice the high amount of asians.”

Asians don’t necessarily like black people.

By: Mac G

Mac G — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:18:33 +0000

This is like the Republican party firing off a press release saying Fox News screwed them over. Bizzaro World indeed.

By: jgp3553

jgp3553 — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:14:32 +0000

I am not “hating” Duke. I am just pointing out that my experience tells me that Duke Fan pulls for Duke because they are closet racists.

I will not watch Duke tonight. I have not watched Duke in years. And I will not watch Duke this year.

Unfortunately, because I am forced to rely on ESPN for college basketball, I am pretty much shit out of luck if I want to watch college basketball and I don’t want to watch Duke, Indiana, Bobby Knight, or the Big East.