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I need some assistance with refreshing my memory on something. I apologize that this borders heavily on politics, but it's something I have to ask. Was Craig James hated as a commentator? I seem to recall several sites (including TFF) being very glad he was fired from ESPN, and then fired again from Fox Sports 1. I was very apathetic about the man, but I don't recall him being that major of a loss. I ask because the local whackjob evangelical station I tune in to hear some delusional rantings about the country was having some guy on and acting like it was a major loss to no longer have him on the air. https://www.libertyinstitute.org/fox-sports-testifies-lying-to-media-over-sportscaster-craig-james-alleged-firing Here's a reference to apparently what they're bitching about. Again, my apologies for bringing politics into this, I'm just trying to determine if the guy was just an rear end in a top hat that just also happens to bring very lovely points of view about things to the table
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FuzzySkinner posted:I need some assistance with refreshing my memory on something. Tremendous rear end in a top hat, who got beloved coach Mike Leach fired from Texas Tech for not playing his son. His helicopter parenting defamed a great coach, leading to the internet meme of Craig James' killing of five hookers while at SMU. quote:At the start of the regular season, James's position coach, Lincoln Riley, called him into his office to inform him that he was being demoted to third string, citing poor effort in practice. James disagreed. So Riley showed him practice film to prove his point. When James left the office that day, he took his anger out on the door. AsInHowe fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Aug 7, 2015 |
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Aug 7, 2015 06:12
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Yeah he was being framed as a martyr on the show. Also apparently College Football fans are really either a.) Apathetic or b.) Anti-LGBT rights, thus the network was wrong in firing him. To be honest it sounds like Fox Sports 1 realized they made a big mistake and just used the comments as an excuse to kick his rear end off the network.
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CJK5H came around well before his political stuff or the Leach thing, I think it's safe to say he wasn't very well liked. e: Oops maybe it started with Leach. I could have sworn it was older than that.
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Aug 7, 2015 15:44
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Grittybeard posted:CJK5H came around well before his political stuff or the Leach thing, I think it's safe to say he wasn't very well liked. Well yeah he may or may not have killed five hookers when he was an undergrad at SMU.
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Aug 7, 2015 16:18
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FuzzySkinner posted:Yeah he was being framed as a martyr on the show. James was a big rear end in a top hat but it did lead to him getting amusingly toasted in this piece over his conflicts of interest: quote:8. Do you trust Craig James when it comes to reporting on the Big 12? Think about what a massive cock you have to be to get multiple members of your industry to simply unload on you.
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Copernic posted:James was a big rear end in a top hat but it did lead to him getting amusingly toasted in this piece over his conflicts of interest: holy poo poo 
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Aug 7, 2015 18:57
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Frank Gifford died today 
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Aug 9, 2015 20:51
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NBC signed a 6-year extension to keep US EPL rights: http://awfulannouncing.com/2015/nbc-premier-league-agree-to-six-year-contract-extension.html
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DJExile posted:Frank Gifford died today I always felt Frank Gifford died when he got busted by Kathie Lee for getting some anal sex off a stewardess and had to be the henpecked husband for the remainder of his days.
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Here's the FOX NFL lineup: 1) Joe Buck, Troy Aikman and Erin Andrews 2) Kevin Burkhardt, John Lynch and Pam Oliver 3) Kenny Albert, Daryl Johnston and Laura Okmin 4) Thom Brennaman, Charles Davis and Tony Siragusa 5) Chris Myers, Ronde Barber and Jennifer Hale 6) Dick Stockton, David Diehl and Kristina Pink 7) Sam Rosen, (rotating analysts) Chris Cooley/Matt Millen/Kirk Morrison/Brady Quinn, (rotating reporters) Peter Schrager/Holly Sonders/Danielle Trotta Kenny, Moose and Goose got split up 
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Aug 12, 2015 19:11
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I don't mind Erin Andrews but it's still a crime that Pam Oliver got bumped from the top group.
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Dick Stockton will call every Washington game on FOX because they will be terrible and they always get Dick Stockton. Also Stockton will call him "Robert Griffin Jr." for the entire season.
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Aug 12, 2015 19:21
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If Millen winds up calling any Lions games 
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Mind_Taker posted:Dick Stockton will call every Washington game on FOX because they will be terrible and they always get Dick Stockton. Also Stockton will call him "Robert Griffin Jr." for the entire season. Dick Stockton and Don Criqui are my two favorite announcers that should have hung it up a long time a go. Both have called some of the greatest moments in the NFL, yet yeah...are not very good now.
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DJExile posted:I don't mind Erin Andrews but it's still a crime that Pam Oliver got bumped from the top group. why it's not like any of those sideline reporters ever present anything interesting Richard Sherman screaming at Erin Andrews was pretty much the pinnacle of sideline reporting, and she just basically help up a mic.
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Aug 12, 2015 20:13
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ummmm this is clearly it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFOqgaRivpU no this is not Kissing Suzy Kolber
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Ungratek posted:ummmm this is clearly it what the hell hahahah
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THE MACHO MAN posted:what the hell hahahah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LzBx--DgII
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More Fox stuff. Cowherd's radio show will be on FS1 from Noon-3. Francesa gets relegated full-time to FS2, that's gonna sit well with him http://www.newsday.com/sports/media/colin-cowherd-joins-fox-bumping-mike-francesa-simulcast-to-fox-sports-2-1.10732940 Vertical Lime fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Aug 12, 2015 |
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Vertical Lime posted:More Fox stuff. Cowherd's radio show will be on FS1 from Noon-3. WAITUSECKIN WAITUSECKIN--AWM GETTIN BUMPED FOH COWTURD? GAWBIJ!
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Vertical Lime posted:More Fox stuff. Cowherd's radio show will be on FS1 from Noon-3. Who is taking over his ESPN slot?
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Copernic posted:Who is taking over his ESPN slot? They've been bumping up people from the local LA affiliate on a week to week basis right now (which was really weird when it was the lovely mid-day show the first week), but last I heard LeBatard's shop was the favorite to be the long term replacement.
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Aug 13, 2015 00:10
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Any rumors on Simmons reemergence. I miss his podcast a lot.
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euphronius posted:Any rumors on Simmons reemergence. I miss his podcast a lot. He signed a deal with HBO and has a show starting next year. Beyond that I dunno. He's still under contract with ESPN for awhile I think.
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Copernic posted:Who is taking over his ESPN slot?
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Vertical Lime posted:More Fox stuff. Cowherd's radio show will be on FS1 from Noon-3. Guess Fox sees the writing on the wall with Francessa.
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Benne posted:Kenny, Moose and Goose got split up Or it might have been when they cut to him and he had a fedora on his head that looked like what I would look like if I put a thimble on my head. Whichever of those happened first (pretty sure the first one) We got a lot of Goose and company during the lean Panther years.
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davecrazy posted:Guess Fox sees the writing on the wall with Francessa. It's partly that, partly also that for better or worse, Cowherd has a national presence and Francesca is only really known in NYC.
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DJExile posted:It's partly that, partly also that for better or worse, Cowherd has a national presence and Francesca is only really known in NYC. I wouldn't sleep on Francesa.
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R.D. Mangles posted:I wouldn't sleep on Francesa. Francesca sleeps on Francesca! E: Dammit i just got wooshed didn't i
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Ribsauce posted:I went from hating them to loving them. I still remember what changed it. They gave Goose a big screen TV in the end zone, with like 4 other TVs attached to it, and he got busted hiding snacks behind all of them. You were one of the lucky ones. The Seahawks got stuck with Chris Myers every week during their rebuilding years.
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DJExile posted:Francesca sleeps on Francesca! You did. Furthermore: do you, or someone you know, listen to WFAN? Do you also hate yourself? Well, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdXwzHiq8U0
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Oh no, I may actually have to listen to Van Pelt now:Scott Van Pelt @notthefakeSVP posted:So...this is happening. You wanted Winners? Done. We needed one thing: @Tromboneshorty Also done. Life is nuts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spwU1gigns8
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Kibner posted:Oh no, I may actually have to listen to Van Pelt now: Fuuuuck yes, Trombone Shorty owns
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euphronius posted:Any rumors on Simmons reemergence. I miss his podcast a lot. I believe his ESPN contract is up at the end of September so probably nothing until then. I wouldn't be shocked if he doesn't do anything until the NBA gets up and running.
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Kibner posted:Oh no, I may actually have to listen to Van Pelt now: A pro-click
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Christ Pseudoscientist posted:I believe his ESPN contract is up at the end of September so probably nothing until then. I wouldn't be shocked if he doesn't do anything until the NBA gets up and running.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I thought he signed with HBO? He did sign with HBO but he wasn't fired by ESPN. They publicly announced they weren't going to re-sign him and at that point it was agreed that he would stop working for ESPN/Grantland. I assume in exchange for getting his paychecks & not actively working for them that he agreed to not bad mouth ESPN and can't start working elsewhere until his contract actually ends.
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Simmons is starting to wake up more on Twitter. At the moment he's rolling Goddell and the Deflategate bull poo poo.
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