Cleveland News Anchor and Atlanta Scribe Engage in Really Weak Verbal Jousting
Media Gossip/Musings May 8th. 2009, 10:00amIf you’ve ever ventured into the comments section here, Cleveland sports fans – easy to spot one; just look for the large chip on their shoulder – are equal parts passionate and deranged. The same could be said of Cleveland news anchor Bill Martin, who was angered at Mark Bradley of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently for a jab he took at The Mistake By the Lake.
“This city, as you’d expect, is pumped. We Atlantans moan over the state of our franchises, but Clevelanders have it way worse. For one thing, they have to live in Cleveland. For another, they haven’t seen a pro title since the Browns beat the Colts 27-0 to win the NFL title in 1964.€
After Bradley wrote that in a column, Martin went on air and challenged him to a fight. What followed is perhaps the geekiest TV verbal exchange we’ve seen in the sports realm. Why couldn’t the co-anchor step in and say what everyone was thinking: Both cities have endured plenty of sports futility over the last decade – for Cleveland, it’s been a lot longer – can’t we all just get along?
Fox 8’s Bill Martin Vows to Fight Atlanta Reporter (Cursed Cleveland)
28 Responses to “Cleveland News Anchor and Atlanta Scribe Engage in Really Weak Verbal Jousting”
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May 8th, 2009 at 10:05 AM
I fail to see whats wrong with that statement, obvious tongue in cheek. If you ask me they are both shitty cities.
May 8th, 2009 at 10:09 AM
The best part is Rizzo laughing in the background at the 250 mark.
May 8th, 2009 at 10:10 AM
But not too weak to omit making it a post for your website.
May 8th, 2009 at 10:10 AM
And I am disappointed that the Crunch championships again get overlooked.
May 8th, 2009 at 10:11 AM
No one ever wins in a battle against Cleveland….You either win and no one gives you credit, because cmon its Ohio…..or they bring you down to their level and you get shit all over your clothes…
May 8th, 2009 at 10:13 AM
well played St. Bear.
May 8th, 2009 at 10:13 AM
Rizzo is hilarious Duder..I interned for him.
May 8th, 2009 at 10:15 AM
UfMeUgetSTD, I believe that goes to the old proverb, “Never wrestle with a pig – you’ll both get dirty, and the pig will love it.”
Obviously in this situation Cleveland (women) would be the pig.
May 8th, 2009 at 10:20 AM
cursed…was rizzo just in rehab? brinda said something about it when he was filling in recently, but rizzo was back on the next week.
May 8th, 2009 at 10:20 AM
Are you freaking kidding me? That is so pathetically lame and unprofessional I don’t even know what to say. You’re going to physically threaten a journalist for a jab at Cleveland during a playoff series? Wow. Good job buddy.
There was a dude here in DC who threatened to beat up a film producer on air just yesterday as well. This recession has these on air personalities going mental.
May 8th, 2009 at 10:24 AM
Ohioianites are a bunch of wackos. I heard their main export is crippling depression.
May 8th, 2009 at 10:25 AM
Yeah Rizzo seems like a good guy
May 8th, 2009 at 10:31 AM
A city boasting a jailed dog fighting QB prob has little room to speak.
May 8th, 2009 at 10:32 AM
I bet that anchor still uses a payphone.
May 8th, 2009 at 10:48 AM
This is what happens when we get overexcited about LeBron James. Cleveland fans will be insufferable when/if the Cavs win it all.
/bring back teams led by Dejuan Wagner and Trajan Langdon
//Cleveland fan
May 8th, 2009 at 10:51 AM
Wrong. They are blessedly imbued with the peacefully omnipotent aura of their man-child god-king, and seek only to spread His holy word against those who believe he has ever committed a foul.
May 8th, 2009 at 10:52 AM
i can’t fucking wait.
May 8th, 2009 at 11:17 AM
What are you clueless? NO!
May 8th, 2009 at 11:22 AM
Both towns are full of douches at least as far as sports fans go, and I lived in Atlanta to know that well enough too. The Braves crowd is okay though. These are just typical smaller city wannabes overshadowed for too long by arrogant New Yorkers and Angelenos all around, but as they have little of substance or distinction to offer the country I am not pulling for these towns. Atlanta did come of age between 2000 and 2006 after I had left, with ironically the highest growth rate in population in the country during that time not to mention also the highest rate of new households, but when I left it was Blandlanta to me.
May 8th, 2009 at 11:47 AM
“Blandlanta???” Wow…that was pretty weak, Paolo.
May 8th, 2009 at 11:59 AM
But not weak enough for you there in Atlanta to ignore? ‘Nuff said. But your town has come of age since I left mind you. Focus on that. It was lame when I lived there and still when I left. After the Olympics, it hardly looked anything like they were there and definitely was not a “global” city by any stretch of the imagination other than that of small-town Southerners.
May 8th, 2009 at 12:06 PM
Paolo is just so damn cultured.
May 8th, 2009 at 12:08 PM
He’s been to Vegas.
May 8th, 2009 at 12:36 PM
At least Cleveland has actual sports “fans”. If it’s not the University of Georgia, there are no real ATL fans.
May 8th, 2009 at 12:41 PM
Nope, I LIVED there.
Mak is too harsh but closer than is atlantasportsfan. Other than for the Braves for whom they are solid and the Falcons for whom they are just plain cheesy, they are lame fans in Atlanta. Typical big-small town fair weather types, but hey the Braves and Falcons in that order are the best two things in sports they have going for themselves down there in all fairness.
May 8th, 2009 at 12:50 PM
Falcons games WITH Deion Sanders and the Circus tent that he said he built wasn’t sold out with regularity. Braves fans started to disappear around 2000 or so, and there is no such thing as a Atlanta Hawks fan.
May 8th, 2009 at 1:58 PM
Wow. That was terrible and stupid and awful and jesus christ what the fuck man. Totally unprofessional.
May 8th, 2009 at 1:58 PM
I thought someone would put a legal hat on, so seeing that no one has to play armchair attorney, I will. Basically, I don’t know if this created a stir within the office of the Cleveland station’s legal counsel, as a direct verbal threat to fight was made on public airwaves. If this happened in Nevada, by law nothing would come of it, as Nevada is a “mutual combat” state in that it is not illegal to challenge or fight another man (or woman on woman) in public per se` if BOTH parties consent to UNARMED combat (but still it is illegal to do so and disturb the peace and without proper permits and so on). If there are other “mutual [unarmed] combat” states like Nevada, that would be good to know. I know of no state where mutual armed combat short of paintball is legal. And for you martial arts freaks, even black belts are considered armed with a deadly weapon if they engage in any combat in public that is not in self defense in some states, but for purposes of this discussion they do not count.