We’ll Let Bernie Kosar Beat us in Checkers So He Wins Something
1-liner, College Football, NFL June 24th. 2009, 11:45am
Bernie Kosar: Dan LeBatard hangs out with the QB, who has fallen on hard times financially and physically, and his wife’s divorcing him. The man has a long history of losing: He was on the losing end of the greatest comeback in college football history (1984), the losing end of the Doug Flutie game (1984), the losing end of Elway’s Drive (1986), and the losing end of The Fumble (1987). [Miami Herald, Sun-Times]
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June 24th, 2009 at 11:55 AM
I swear the dude’s a drunk, i watch him do the play by play with Donovan for the Brown’s exhibition games and i swear the dude is wasted. He’s also pretty awful on TV and i thought watching Browns pre-season football was hard enough to watch already.
June 24th, 2009 at 11:57 AM
If I’m down big forget Elway, Peyton, and Brady. I’m giving the ball to Frank Reich
/Not really, but damn anchoring two of the biggest comebacks in college and professional football history is pretty damn impressive
June 24th, 2009 at 11:57 AM
PL Ive heard some crazy stories about him
June 24th, 2009 at 11:59 AM
+1 Badger. Frank Reich is a living legend
Machine Gun > Vinny T > Gino > Kenny Dorsey > Bernie
June 24th, 2009 at 12:01 PM
Bernie Bernie…ohhhhh…we gotta go….SUPERBOWL!!!
June 24th, 2009 at 12:01 PM
i feel kind of bad for the guy, but seriously, why does every retired pro athlete think they have to open a steak house?
June 24th, 2009 at 12:04 PM
guarantee the guy is still a millionaire. again, trump declared bankruptcy more than once.
June 24th, 2009 at 12:04 PM
2005 high school football coach of the year was shot at the schools wieghtroom.
I haven’t seen it in the comments yet.
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/9725214/Prominent-prep-coach-killed-in-school-shooting
June 24th, 2009 at 12:07 PM
Dudeer, have you seen him on TV? He slurs his words for chist sake. Not good at all.
June 24th, 2009 at 12:09 PM
We’ll Let Bernie Kosar Beat us in Checkers So He Wins Something
He won a National Title at the U
June 24th, 2009 at 12:10 PM
I think hes great on TV but yeah hes always twitching
June 24th, 2009 at 12:13 PM
This guy is a loser.
June 24th, 2009 at 12:16 PM
MSU – post coming on that, been trying to track down the shooter. email me if you find a name
June 24th, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Thread jack
Holy jeebus the reviews for Transformers 2 are horrifying. I am still seeing in on Sat in IMAX, but good LAWD!! the reviews are hilarious.
End thread jack
June 24th, 2009 at 12:23 PM
i feel bad for bernie…he’s still the man.
June 24th, 2009 at 12:33 PM
Spencer – You see this trash from Fanhouse this morning?
June 24th, 2009 at 12:57 PM
I just read that. What a f-ing moron!
I would love to have seen Tiger and Phile switch tee TIMES the first two days. Tiger was battling mother nature the whole tourney like no one else and he was still the only golfer to post three rounds in the 60’s. If he doesn’t get as unlucky as possible for the terrible weather his first two rounds, I think he wins that tourney going away.
June 24th, 2009 at 1:14 PM
Spencer – You see this trash from Fanhouse this morning?
The week before the Open they said he was better than ever because he has his best driving week ever. Now, he clunks it along and can’t putt, and he’s done. People are idiots.
on Bernie, I wrote this last night on here…
I called into LeBatard’s show for the first time today. He was on talking about his Kosar article (Sunday round-up-I sent to CRM), and how it was received so negatively, and he couldn’t understand it. He thought people should have more empathy for him (big football hero, tough times, etc).
I said how so many people down here had very little, and then lost that, and no one cares about them, so why feel sorry for a guy who had millions and lost it.
He still felt people should have compassion. Sometimes, his contrarianism surprises even me.
June 24th, 2009 at 1:20 PM
Dan LeBatard is a great writer, and I like that he’s also done a few interviews here. But I honestly don’t know how to feel about Kosar; Not the first story of a beaten-up former athlete who is broke, and won’t be the last either. LeBatard is so far doing a good job of making me lean towards sad, but like jpq said, there are several others who are worse off, and it’s not our fault he mismanaged his millions.
June 24th, 2009 at 1:41 PM
I love it when former NFL players describe their injuries and talk about how they can barely walk and are in so much pain, and then say:
“Let me tell you something, bro,” he says. “It was all worth it.”