TJ Simers Defends Fox NBA Announcers Who Were SuspendedTJ S
1-liner, Media Gossip/Musings, REligion, Race November 24th. 2009, 2:00pmTJ Simers vs. Iran: “The Fox TV executives who suspended him are obviously out of touch, and I wouldn’t be surprised to learn the folks who made such a decision were not based in L.A. … I didn’t know there was a proper way to pronounce ‘Iran,’ and maybe a broadcaster should, so shame on Lawler and Smith, but why was Towfighi watching the Clippers lose to Memphis? Talk about someone who needs to explain himself.” Apparently, one season-ticket holder (Twofighi) complained – if you have no clue what this is about, see here – and the announcers were suspended. Pretty lame on the part of Fox. [LA Times]
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November 24th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Everyone knows it’s “Eye-ran”, as in “Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb eye-ran”
November 24th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
He really didn’t know this? I thought he was intelligent. Guess I was wrong.
November 24th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
This reminds me of when Bush Sr. used to mispronounce Saddam Hussein’s name on purpose just to piss him off. He always said SAHD-am instead of Sa-DAM.
November 24th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
TBL is infatuated w/ TJ Simers. He puts every column the guy writes up here.
The announcers should have said Persia. That really fucks people up, because not only doe sno one in the US know where Iran is, they only know Persia from Disney movies.
November 24th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
He always said SAHD-am instead of Sa-DAM.
or Dick CHEE-KNEE
/Matthews’d
November 24th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Not so anymore, now people think Persia is the place the gay monsters come from that want to hurt the rippling man flesh that is the 300.
November 24th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
So sad, but so true. They would have then had people calling in asking what in the hell Persia was. It’s like when idiots refer to Iranians as Arabs and when corrected they say it’s all the same. We are such a great country, but damn we have some dumbasses.
November 24th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
this is literally all i know of persia. gay monsters attacking other gay men.
November 24th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
I despise T.J Simers
November 24th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
This made me laugh. +1
November 24th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Of course Simers would defend someone making fun of where someone else is from. His bread and butter is to make fun of other cities.
November 24th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
taguchi: good call. I forgot about 300.
THIS IS SPARTA!
November 24th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
I despise T.J Simers
stay classy, caddy
November 24th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
JP: It was after the Phillies beat the Dodgers and he called the fans here drunken uglies.
/I’m a drunken ugly.
November 24th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
my m60 cant differentiate
/something animal mother would say
November 24th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
He’s probably out eating Tacos!!!!
/Griesed
November 24th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
That sucks. I like Lawler and Mike Smith. They should get some leeway because they’ve had to cover the Clippers for so damn long.
November 24th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Arash Markazi of SI made a great point via twitter this morning.
T.J. Simers’ column defending Ralph Lawler actually contained a line that I found far more offensive than anything Lawler ever said on-air.
“Memphis has a player from Iran, and who else would have a player from Iran but one of the worst teams in the league?”
He also wrote, “I didn’t know there was a proper way to pronounce Iran.” Isn’t there a proper way to pronounce every word?