Posted on 09/07/2014 5:04:53 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Fox' Pam Oliver in the October issue of ESSENCE magazine writes a first-person account of being replaced as the net's top NFL sideline reporter by Erin Andrews and noted she "knew they hadn’t brought [Andrews] on just to be a benchwarmer" when the net hired her two years ago. Oliver: "Without official confirmation about a change in my position, I decided I was going to do my work like I always had. Still, I was humiliated."
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Does that mean they are all female, too?
Well at least it wasn’t because they are racist.
Only the NFL is racist.
She looks good for 53, but that is not 36. Oliver does herself no favors by publicly whining about their decision. This is show business, when all is said and done. In a decade or two, the same thing will happen to the new lady.
Like sports, TV “journalism” is a tough, darwinist business for the young.
Her butt looks like a bread basket-happens to black women. Ask any black man: Who would you rather b—g?
There are a lot of women her age who look very good — and not “for their age.”
Yes, white folks are severely underrepresented. :)
So in the best of darwinist tradition the smart "journalists" prepare early on for the day when they will have to move on. Those that don't whine about how unfair it is that they are being forced out.
FWIW, every business except govt has the issue of competition driving, motivating, the people in it.
Never cared for Pam Oliver just came across as arrogant and ignorant, good riddance.
Personally, I’m of the opinion that female sports announcers are about as useful as teats on a boar hog.
Except maybe for volleyball, ping pong, gymnastics and ladies’ soccer.
Go ahead, call me sexist.
I prefer a less-is-more approach to broadcasts. I don’t generally enjoy sideline reporters. I don’t think reporters (mostly male, by the way) at ice level during hockey games adds much to a broadcast. Often times, these reporters have to shout above the crowds because they aren’t isolated in press boxes. I don’t need a sideline reporter in college football to tell me that a player has an ankle injury when I can see his ankle being wrapped.
I generally watch sports on TV with the sound off.
Truly, we do that also. If we want to hear from someone, it is not the sideline chathead bimbo, it’s the pro’s in the box.
Exactly.
........but for her being black there would have been no touchy feely meeting on her future at the company and her agent would have been notified that “her contract will not be renewed next week” and that would have been that.................
Amen. They are worst during the preseason. "Well, we appear to have missed three plays while I inanely tried to talk to the third string quarterback, but you wanted to hear me anyway instead of the game."
Oh, by the way networks. I am ready for football, not a five minute song and dance introduction. Get to the (2@*#($ game or at least have some good announcers talk about football instead of having someone sing about it. This isn't some Wagnerian conflict needing an aria.
As if this is a prestigious position. If she had a brain, she would consider removal a promotion.
I wonder her salary and total hours of work for talking sports. I assume she earned a healthy paycheck and with any business savvy is likely set for life. There are others who aren’t famous and have to face far more adversity.
Let’s see, you get hired for the job of being the eye candy during the football game and you’re shocked that once you get older and don’t look as hot anymore you are replaced?
Pam, how many 53 year old cheer leaders are there in the NFL?
Pam, how many 53 year old football players are there in the NFL?
Pam, get over it.
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