ESPN Radio "Jock" questions NBC hiring Olbermann

Colin Cowherd said today that Keith Olbermann was "about as middle-america as a trans-gender film festival" and that he could not speak to "NFL fans". http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2007/04/schrutebag-vs-olbermann-round-1.html
It might be good to let Mr. Cowherd know how WE feel. His e-mail address:http://sports.espn.go.com/espnradio/news/story?page=herdmail

I'm gonna have a real hard time taking him seriously.

:rofl:

the rest are morons and I tend to agree

ESPN and him didnt exactly end on good terms.

but if another host is filling in he won't appear

edited to say...he's on almost a daily basis

can see "Keith"...means Olberman..on a daily basis. Only sports show I can tolerate...husband tells me Patrick has a law degree and thus is not among the moronic sports talk:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnradio/show?showId=danpatrick

Dan made the point that no other announcer on the show had ever been questioned as their politics or the region they came from. Why this is this an issue when it has nothing to do with sports? Just shows how far the muck raking has gone. When personal politics come over to the sports arena, I'm selling the T.V.

like I said...Dan is the ONLY sports show I can tolerate on long trips with husband. Can understand KO being on his show.

News to me!

Cowherd is hardcore wannabe tough-guy right wing (just one notch below Michael Savage, except he mixes in a lot of football talk)...I remember when I first started listening to him when he took over Kornheiser's slot, and he dedicated an entire 20 minute segment for bashing F/911, Michael Moore, France, and anyone that didn't think Bush was an OK guy after F/911 won the best film award at Cannes...Mind you, this was just two days after Moore had won it, so no one in the U.S.A. had even seen it yet...Spending 20 mins politically railing against a movie he hadn't even bothered to see yet told me all I needed to know about him...haven't given him a listen since...The bar was already incredibly low in sports talk radio, and ESPN just keeps digging underground

He's said before that if someone emails him to insult him or disagree, he knows he's got them, so he's doing something right. I can't handle the guy. It's not his politics, even, it's his complete idiocy about sports. He's on my radio on my drive to work, so I catch him sometimes when I get sick of the AAR PSA announcements. I can't listen more than a couple of minutes. He's obtuse, he's rude to his callers, he's got no understanding of sports at all, and thinks he's the only one who does understand it.

I wouldn't waste time emailing him. He's so vain, he'll think the emails are about him. He'll be a forgotten name and a bad pun long before Obermann retires.

politics aside, he just has a shitty show, and he's NEVER right about anything he bloviates about...granted, that makes him just like 90 percent of the other sports talk shows, but he has such a disgustingly ugly style he makes Jim Rome look like Dick Schaap

"but he has such a disgustingly ugly style he makes Jim Rome look like Dick Schaap"
Couldn't have said it any better! :toast:

said something to the effect that "he may have tipped his hand as to his political beliefs" that is a paraphrase, I don't know the exact quote but that was the general idea

I just can't get through 20 minutes of his show.

I'm enough of a sports geek to have my car radio set to ESPN radio on the first button and a backup ESPN affiliate on the second button in case I drive out of range of the first one but I just can't stomach "The Herd" :puke:

Here in the DC Metro area he replaced Tony K briefly right around
the time of F/911. He is both a republican asshat and a horrible
all around radio host. Thankfully he bombed here in DC and IIRC he
was off the air not to soon after. He sucks and is not worth the
correspondence. It speaks ill of ESPN that they employ him.

bullshit.

And Im a sports fan.

that he doesn't get the opportunity to "speak to NFL fans".

...and doing them on ESPN TV when this asshat was still pretending the soap-on-a-rope in his shower was a mike.

I know some people don't like Bob Costas, but I do, and so I am looking forward to Sunday night football....

they are not satisfied with :

the flag
(the other flag)
jesus
car racing
etc
etc

Football has been considered the "possession of the right-wing" since at least thirty years ago when I was growing up. You know -- manly men, working with discipline and near-military precision, out to crush and maul their opponents to bring victory to their school or town? Exactly the thing that could be held up by right-thinkin' folks as the exact opposite of them long-haired liberal hippie faggot pinkos. :sarcasm:

Cowheard is a blowhard and an idiot, and that's just when he's talking about football.

lol

my husband listens to him (I could give a rat's patootie about sports) and my husband has told me a couple of liberal-sounding things Cowherd has said before ...

He was our local sports guy for a while, and he never missed a chance to badmouth soccer and how the rest of the world were idiots for loving the sport. He's definitely a knuckle-dragging America-firster who never met an ignorant idea he didn't have an orgasm over.

Oh that's right...that was a comedian playing the role of sports commentator for Disney. And who did they replace him with? Another right wing asshat who ceased being funny when the last of his liberal writers quit. That's Disney...the same company that owns ESPN, ya know...and also a competitor to NBC. IRC, the radio network also has a contract for the Sunday night games...thus maybe this turdbowl was trying to reach the wingnuts out there to tune into their broadcast.

Either way, Olbermann's credentials as a sports journalist are solid. I was expecting a right wing blowback about this...and here it is.

Keith will be a perfect fit for doing some football analysis! He was doing ESPN YEARS ago, and he probably knows more about baseball and baseball history than a lot of the other talking heads they have on that station every season. Keith isn't going to go out there and make an ass out of himself. He will know his stuff, and he will have it down so well he will probably have some great insights... As ALWAYS!

Personally, I look forward to hearing his commentary when the Broncos play on Sunday night halfway through the season.

There are trans-gender "film festivals" happening all over middle America on the computers of guys just like Cowherd.

I think he revealed a little more about himself than he planned to.

:evilgrin:

LOL!!

and you can tell by my name I'm a BIG sports fan (NY Jets)but I haven't watched a full hour of ESPN since Keith was on MSNBC last time and left.It was during the Mark MacGuire Sammy Sosa HR chase in '98-the same time that KO quit MSNBC because of having to look at that banner "White House In Crisis day 335"

Back to ESPN yea they jumped the shark right around that 1998 mark for me

and Keith refuted them by pointing out all the credentials he had to do this work (including having covered a Super Bowl for Fox Sports) vs. the paltry credentials Dan informed him Cowherd had.

Oh, but he's not the only one. NewsBusters is also enraged at this "liberal" co-opting of NFL football coverage.

I was a fan of Tony Kornheiser's ESPN Radio show. It was all-around great listening. Then ESPN ditched him (allegedly) and in his place went with Cowherd (so I've seen this Sam Seder-type scenario before). I tried listening and thought it was the lamest, most amateurish and unfunny radio show I have ever listened to. And this guy didn't know jack shit about sports!

I'm not saying this because of what he said about Olbermann. I mean, Cowherd absolutely sucks, and I'm shocked he's lasted this long. He can't even carry Olby's jock. Olby helped turn SportsCenter into a broadcasting icon, and he's even called the Olympics and the World Series. What has Cowherd done besides do some silly morning zoo shtick?

As far as ESPN Radio goes, Patrick and Olbermann are still the best they've got. The rest I could really give a shit about.