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| Posted: Sat Sep 5th, 2009 10:52 pm |
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Neo Head Loon - Original M.A.I.M. 
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http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33380 Why KO Sunday Night Football? by Jed Babbin 09/04/2009 In the Golden Age, there was ABC Monday Night Football. Those of us of a certain age remember the days of Howard Cosell, “Dandy Don” Meredith and Frank Gifford. They, along with funny, colorful characters such as Alex Karras and perhaps the greatest sportscaster of all time -- Keith Jackson -- were a part of our families every Monday night. Then, disaster. ABC Sports, the Roone Arledge hall of perfection, was suddenly supplanted on Monday nights by ESPN. And when they took over and they gave us precisely what? Joe Theisman. We endured, suffering boredom and boorishness. It was, after all, still football. Now it’s something less. We have Dogface Michael Vick’s return, unbidden. Thank heaven that Plaxico “Accidental Discharge” Burress won't play this season (nor will Dante “Killer” Stallworth). The NFL Rogues' Gallery won't be headquartered on the field. It couldn’t possibly get worse, could it? Yes, it could. And it did, thanks to NBC-Universal CEO Jeffrey Zucker and NBC News President Steve Capus. Thanks to these hyperliberals who run NBC, this season we’ll again be repulsed by the voice and face of MSNBC’s dolt laureate, Keith Olbermann, on Sunday Night Football. It’s just too much. With Olberboy on the screen, it’s not even football any more. The uberpompous Olbermann became a familiar figure on SportsCenter by wisecracking with the subtlety of a crack-back block. But since he was Peter Principled into political commentary he has become a caricature of liberal hysteria. This is the man who told Playboy in 2007 that Fox News was worse than Al Qaeda: “Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of FOX News. Fox news is worse than Al Qaeda -- worse for our society. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.” Then you have Olbermann’s melodramatic rants against President Bush, like this one in from 2006 on "Countdown": "We now face what our ancestors faced at other times of exaggerated crisis and melodramatic fear-mongering: A government more dangerous to our liberty than is the enemy it claims to protect us from.” As Olbermann kept ranting about the subject, he got even wackier: “We have never before codified the poisoning of habeas corpus, that wellspring of protection from which all essential liberties flow. You, sir, have now befouled that spring. You, sir, have now given us chaos and called it order. You, sir, have now imposed subjugation and called it freedom. ... These things you have done, Mr. Bush -- they would constitute the beginning of the end of America." This is the same analytic genius who once told President Bush to “shut the hell up” and said of now-former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that he was a “quack” pushing “fascism.” And NBC can’t pretend that Olbermann’s political unwisdom is kept separate from his sports “analysis.” For example, Olbermann couldn’t resist a cheap shot at Sarah Palin during last season’s SNF coverage. When Trent Edwards was carted off the field in a game against Arizona due to a concussion, Olbermann reported the quarterback was “okay otherwise but he said, ‘I can see Russia from here.’” As HUMAN EVENTS’ AWR Hawkins reported on Wednesday, the NBC Sports team began last year to have co-host Dan Patrick do the “color commentary” for Red States and Olbermann do it for the Blue States. But the NFL wants to stay out of politics, right? (Will someone give the commissioner a cup of coffee and wake him up?) NBC wants fans to be stuck with Olbermann’s odd mixture of politics and sports for three more seasons. His current contract with MSNBC -- put in place during last year’s presidential election -- is for four years and reported to be $7.5 million a year. (I bet you thought “Cash for Clunkers” was a car trade-in program.) Turning off the sound isn’t enough. Turning off NBC is the only solution. Maybe ESPN can buy some of those old Monday Night Football shows and air them opposite KO. A rerun of a 1973 Monday Night Football with Howard and Dandy Don would be vastly better than KO live. Enough. Calling NBC is useless because Zucker and Capus bow daily before the Olbermann altar. Call your local NBC affiliate and tell them to get Olbermann off NBC Sunday Night Football. They may actually listen.
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| Posted: Sun Sep 6th, 2009 03:27 am |
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Fuck you Olberman chimp knocking the Klan like that. Fuck you. Cosell was pretty god for a Jee.
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| Posted: Sun Sep 6th, 2009 05:32 am |
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Neo Head Loon - Original M.A.I.M.
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GravyBoat wrote: Fuck you Olberman chimp knocking the Klan like that. Fuck you. Cosell was pretty god for a Jee. Uhhhhhhhhh....what YOU said..."I think"  ....
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| Posted: Sun Sep 6th, 2009 01:39 pm |
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The Klan is all-American so it's part of our heritage. I meant "Jew". Cosell the Jew.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 7th, 2009 02:25 am |
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Neo Head Loon - Original M.A.I.M.
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Thanks for the clarification........
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| Posted: Wed Sep 9th, 2009 10:19 pm |
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There's plenty of football on tv. Bears might kick ass. We'll see. On my Sunday nights I happen to like a fresh episode of the Simpsons. Followed by all those other jackass shows which make my Sunday night comfortable. Helen usually falls asleep during that which makes my exit to the solace of my own bed and reading materials very appealing.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 10th, 2009 04:05 am |
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Neo Head Loon - Original M.A.I.M.
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OMNT wrote: There's plenty of football on tv. Bears might kick ass. We'll see. On my Sunday nights I happen to like a fresh episode of the Simpsons. Followed by all those other jackass shows which make my Sunday night comfortable. Well THIS Sunday night it's the Bear v Packer in Green Bay, Wisconsin. LamBeau Field, home of Vince Lombardi & Bart Starr. Home of the Super Champion I & II Green Bay Packers. Can't take that away from them bastards, no more than you can take away a Dick Butkus, a Gayle Sayers, a Mike Singletary, or our "Sweetness" Walter Payton let alone the "Shuffling Crew" from our beloved "Bear" team of 1985. So......Sunday Night Football! Bear v Packer Go Bears! Da Bears!
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| Posted: Fri Sep 11th, 2009 08:35 pm |
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You got your sentiments in the right place, Neo. I was in college when Monday night football made its debut. Me and my childhood buddy Denny, were living in a shack on the outskirts of Macomb, home of the Western Illinois Leathernecks. They were ranked 6th in the nation among small colleges led by quarterback Bobby Majka, a fellow alum from Homewood Flossmoor High school, who I had the the pleasure to block for as a tight end on JV. Enough of my bragging Me and denny would buy a half case of Pabst Blue Ribbon and watch Dandy Don, Howard Cosell and Frank Gifford call the game on an old b&w tv I think I bought for 10 bucks. The year was 1970. I was convinced at that time that I would never grow old.
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