Why the pre-game shows can’t pick them like Phyllis George or Jane Kennedy any more baffles me. All we have had for years are fuckin’ ninnies on the sidelines or in the studios in Bristol in addition to that annoying Pam Ward. Save Alex Flanagan and Pam Oliver perhaps.

Dude you misfire more than a 12 year old jacking off for the first time.

um, i’m not really sure what to make of this.

beter make the biopic soon, or whatsername from Flashdance and The L Word is going to be too old

but, Jesse Jackson is emperor of all black people, isn’t he?

/south park’d

If by strange, you mean predicable, then yeah, I agree with you.

Predictable would be younglefty making some misinformed statement about sports and trying to cover it up with lame sarcasm. Dude you misfire more than a 12 year old jacking off for the first time.

The analysis of him, however, was perhaps not as critical as it should have been, especially when handling the racist incident.

Jimmy the Greek did not make an off-color joke interpreted harshly. It was no borderline gaffe. He used considered logic to argue a point that was explicitly racist. There was neither tact nor sublimation. It was sentiment found only in Nazi tracts or a Thomas Carlyle manifesto.

I don’t think your analysis is correct here.

Your opinion is one many carry, but I’m of the “he’s of an older generation camp” as I am in most of racial gaffes. My reasoning is from personal experience and his intonation. With the latter, I think he was trying to come off as complimentary to black athletes. Doing so by declaring them genetically superior probably wasn’t the PC way to go, but the intent didn’t seem malicious.

If I say that blacks have changed the nature of some sports. Black culture, isolated from white society, from slavery right up to integration, developed styles of playing basketball, football, baseball, and boxing, that whites had to learn to accommodate to or get out of the sport…some would vilify me as a racist, ignoramus or uninformed.

Well what if I told you that Harry Edwards said that? He did.

That’s why I think Musburger’s analysis was spot on; Jimmy didn’t have the education of others he was working around and felt like he needed to prove that he was a smart, astute guy and he talked himself into a hole.

I also give people the benefit of the doubt on such gaffes (pure hate speech is no gaffe and this was not vile, inciteful speech) since it can be such a generational thing. If my grandparents call someone Oriental would I shudder? To not acknowledge that times were different is a bit dishonest. A man who was born in 1919 in small town Ohio is going to have distinctly different views on race not because he’s inherently evil, Ty Duffy, but because “it was what it was.”

I like Darrell. He draws lines in the sand in strange places though.

If by strange, you mean predicable, then yeah, I agree with you.