oh my gosh. Political correctness is going way too far. This is a good example.
How many times did Howard Cosell get away with “Look at that monkey run”?
This is getting scary.
I remember when Dodge (maybe it was Plymouth) won the Daytona 500 in 64 or so. It’s engine the 426 Hemi was called the King Kong engine. Clearly racist.
Innocent mistakes are destroying people’s lives because of hysterical idiots. It’s the new lynch mob mentality and it’s out of control.
Actually, it’s a compliment. He dominated the boards like King Kong. Man, people, get real.
Just did a lyric search for King Kong and they mostly seem to be rappers.
One name I have heard of was Ice Cube.
But then, they also include N in the lyrics.
White folks can use neither per the SJW.
Black, white, red, or yellow, if I was a high performing athlete I would want to be king kong.
Was it “fat shaming” when the Bears called William “Refrigerator” Perry “Biscuit” because he was one biscuit short of 350 pounds?
Adult language warning. Also helps if you’ve seen the movie “Training Day.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz6kXBxe7Ys
Just once I'd love to see, "Yeah, I said it! So what? Piss off!" and he still keeps his job.
My advice to all sports announcers.
Limit yourselves to proper names and these three adjectives only: good, bad, average. Say anything more and you’ll put your career at risk.
So - for example - if Quarterback Smith fumbles, just say “Smith bad”. And if Outfielder Jones bats 1 for 4 in a game, just say “Jones average”.
See? It’s simple. And safe.
This is pathetic.
when our Polish player was insulted by the bb announcer’s “wack a pole “ comment, nothing happened....
Never, never, never, never apologize when you've done nothing wrong.
Feuding with a head coach whose nickname was “White Magic” LOL
Still waiting for SJW’s to call for a ban on the teaching of evolution.
King Kong was in reference to his height and strength. This is ridiculous.
Anyone in media is a hypocrite or a slimeball. Let them all make their human sacrifices to their gods. This latest guy who gets burned for king kong has watched others get sacrificed and he did nothing. Screw am all
Pathetic! But it is the University of Iowa. A liberal SJW swamp. The AD is a joke. Word has it it was ONE email that set the whole thing off. Probably some feminist professor. The same one who complained about the mascot looking too intimidating. Funny thing, at the last game, a prominent donor to the athletic program dressed up like a dolphin with “Free Dolph” written on it. He should never have apologized. He and his color guy( are we allowed to say color guy) should have told the University to “F” off!
I know he didn’t mean it that way it sounded, but anybody in the public would do well to purge from his mind any simian references to blacks, or even anything that sounds like a simian reference. It will spare him a lot of trouble, not just because using those references, even without any intention of being offensive, is bound to sound wrong to a lot of people and they’ll pitch a fit about it, but because simian references have been used on purpose in the past. I don’t know how many people living today would know this one, but here goes. In one of the old Tarzan movies, maybe “Tarzan Goes to New York,” there is a scene in a hotel in which a black bellman has an altercation with Cheetah the chimp. At one point the bellman says, “Don’t you sass me, colored boy.” I cringed at that one. Those were different times too, and that excuse can justify some things, but not everything.
I am not one for political correctness, but I am one for avoiding unnecessary trouble, especially in today’s climate in which people are nuts and overreact and won’t stop until the “offender” is ruined. That’s a big price to pay for a slip of the lip.