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ESPN's Berman: "Feets Don't Fail Me Now"
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| Mark Finkelstein
Posted on 12/31/2005 5:11:20 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Boomer jumped the shark years ago. Unwatchable.
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posted on
12/31/2005 5:12:52 PM PST
by
Petronski
(I love Cyborg!)
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ESPN/NewsBusters ping to the Today Show ping list.
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posted on
12/31/2005 5:14:17 PM PST
by
governsleastgovernsbest
(Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
"Feets don't fail me now" is racial?! Bugs Bunny says it.
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posted on
12/31/2005 5:14:23 PM PST
by
discostu
(a time when families gather together, don't talk, and watch football... good times)
To: Petronski
Agreed. If Berman finds an excuse one more time to air that 20-year old footage of himself catching a pass in a Bucs jersey, I will throw one of my new Timberland boots through my new HDTV screen!
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posted on
12/31/2005 5:16:05 PM PST
by
governsleastgovernsbest
(Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
To: discostu
Bet you anything Bugs hasn't said it in 20 years.
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posted on
12/31/2005 5:16:47 PM PST
by
governsleastgovernsbest
(Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
To: governsleastgovernsbest
"Feets Don't Fail Me Now" - a great Little Feat album. No doubt, the pop-culture loon was referring to that - not something racial.
Pahleeze.
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posted on
12/31/2005 5:19:07 PM PST
by
JellyJam
(Best headline ever: "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists Are Muslims!")
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Bugs Bunny hasn't said much in 20 years, other than Space Jam there hasn't been a new Warners classic character cartoon since the 60s. "Feets don't fail me now" might be in Space Jam though. Never heard that phrase associated with race ever.
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posted on
12/31/2005 5:20:07 PM PST
by
discostu
(a time when families gather together, don't talk, and watch football... good times)
To: JellyJam
Actually, it's titled "Feats Don't Fail Me Now."
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posted on
12/31/2005 5:20:13 PM PST
by
JellyJam
(Best headline ever: "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists Are Muslims!")
To: discostu
"Feets don't fail me now" is racial?! Bugs Bunny says it.
True... Kind of a stretch I think. He didn't even say it pertaining to a black athlete.
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posted on
12/31/2005 5:20:24 PM PST
by
vlad335
To: governsleastgovernsbest
"Feets don't fail me now" An excellent Little Feat album.
Racial? Never knew. ....and there's no way Berman meant it to be so.
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posted on
12/31/2005 5:21:12 PM PST
by
Mr. Mojo
To: governsleastgovernsbest
That's the name of a "Little Feat" album from about 1970.
To: JellyJam; scott says
Sorry, guys, but you're wrong.
The expression goes back way further than Little Feat. It was a classic racial stereotype of the frightened black man, a bug-eyed Stepin Fetchit type, who, scared of something, wanted to run away and hoped that his feet wouldn't fail him. And that is exactly the sense in which Berman, old enough to be well-acquainted with the phrase's history, used it.
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I think "Feets, don't fail me now" is one of those phrases that has entered the common vernacular. I wouldn't even have realized it ever had any racial connotation if someone didn't point it out and I don't think most people would.
This kind of overreaction has gotten ridiculous.
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posted on
12/31/2005 5:23:34 PM PST
by
saquin
To: governsleastgovernsbest
And that is exactly the sense in which Berman, old enough to be well-acquainted with the phrase's history, used it. While the Stepin Fetchit-type racist character may have been the origin of the phrase I don't think anyone in 2005 uses it in that context at all.
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posted on
12/31/2005 5:25:29 PM PST
by
saquin
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Nah - everybody knows y'can't say anything racially-offensive about a white guy -
1) there isn't much to say and
b) we're more mature than to take seriously anything those kinds of beings say
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posted on
12/31/2005 5:25:32 PM PST
by
solitas
(So what if I support an OS that has fewer flaws than yours? 'Mystic' dual 500 G4's, OSX.4.2)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Feets dont fail me now is a Little Feat song. Berman often employs parts of classic rock songs and word plays on players names.
To: governsleastgovernsbest
C'mon---
Berman is a knucklehead and wasn't making a racial slur- he was trying to be hip and was referring to this song---
To: governsleastgovernsbest
No, sorry, you're wrong. True, that phrase has a long history. But, I'd bet a steak dinner that Berman was referring to the Little Feat album.
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posted on
12/31/2005 5:26:25 PM PST
by
JellyJam
(Best headline ever: "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists Are Muslims!")
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