Will (should) Bryant Gumble be fired???
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:43 am
HBO apparently has pulled the transcript of “Real Sports with Bryant Gumble” Tuesday night 2/7/06, but I found this on another message board. It is to the best of the writer’s recollection, but it’s pretty accurate (IMO) from the sound bites I’ve heard on Rush’s show. Bear in mind when you read this, that Rush Limbaugh got FIRED from ESPN for voicing an opinion about a particular player, Donavan McNabb, who he considered to be less of a star than he was being played up to be, because he was black, and in a position that has historically been a held by white players. Rush was labeled a racist, the networks were all over that story and the bashfest went on for weeks.
So…read below and decide for yourself. Do you think Gumble will get anymore than a slap on the wrist for this?? Me thinks he won’t. Well at least he has March Madness to look forward to. J
"And finally tonight the Winter Games. Count me among those that don't like 'em and won't watch 'em. In fact, I figure when Thomas Paine said, "These are the times that try men's souls", he must have been talking about the start of another Winter Olympics. Because they are so trying, maybe over the next three weeks we should all try too. Like try not to be incredulous when someone tries to link these games to those of the ancient Greeks who never heard of skating or skiing. So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world's greatest athletes, despite a paucity of Blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention. Try not to point out that something's not really a sport if a psuedo-athlete waits in what's called a "kiss and cry area" while some panel of subjective judges decides who won. And try to blot out all logic when announcers and sports writers pretend to care about the luge, the skeleton, the biathlon, and all those other events they don't understand and totally ignore for all but three weeks every four years. Face it, these Olympics are little more than a marketing plan to fill space and sell time during the dreary days of February. So, if only to hasten the arrival of the day they're done, and we can move on to March Madness, for God's sake, let the Games begin."
So…read below and decide for yourself. Do you think Gumble will get anymore than a slap on the wrist for this?? Me thinks he won’t. Well at least he has March Madness to look forward to. J
"And finally tonight the Winter Games. Count me among those that don't like 'em and won't watch 'em. In fact, I figure when Thomas Paine said, "These are the times that try men's souls", he must have been talking about the start of another Winter Olympics. Because they are so trying, maybe over the next three weeks we should all try too. Like try not to be incredulous when someone tries to link these games to those of the ancient Greeks who never heard of skating or skiing. So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world's greatest athletes, despite a paucity of Blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention. Try not to point out that something's not really a sport if a psuedo-athlete waits in what's called a "kiss and cry area" while some panel of subjective judges decides who won. And try to blot out all logic when announcers and sports writers pretend to care about the luge, the skeleton, the biathlon, and all those other events they don't understand and totally ignore for all but three weeks every four years. Face it, these Olympics are little more than a marketing plan to fill space and sell time during the dreary days of February. So, if only to hasten the arrival of the day they're done, and we can move on to March Madness, for God's sake, let the Games begin."