Posted on 02/16/2006 7:25:32 AM PST by Airborne1986
There were some eye-opening remarks from Bryant Gumbel on the most recent episode of HBO's Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel. According to a transcript posted by a television columnist named Seth Frelich, Gumbel said the following in his closing monologue last week (emphasis mine):
"Finally, tonight, the Winter Games. Count me among those who dont care about them and wont watch them ... Because theyre so trying ... Like, try not to be incredulous when someone attempts 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 worlds greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention. Try not to point out that somethings not really a sport if a pseudo-athlete waits in whats called a kiss-and-cry area, while some panel of subjective judges decides who won ... So if only to hasten the arrival of the day theyre done, when we can move on to March Madness for Gods sake, let the games begin."
What a shameless diatribe. And on a broadcast in which people are paying for entertainment, not to hear the racists rants of little men with a black chip on their shoulder. I expect that HBO is going to hear a lot about this.
Can't wait, for 2008. When the American people can let there voices be heard in no uncertain terms, that they are fed up with the rants of bigoted little men.
That's just not fair. Gumball is the most intellectually sophisticated sports announcer anywhere. He understands the impact that the "Reagan years" has had on all those millonaire athletes he interviews. Truly, he is a great man in his community, one whom young black men should emulate ...that is, if they haven't got the brains to be doctors or scientists but have to settle for being a "stuffed shirt" instead.
I was going to do it anyway, but they didn't need to know that.
"Face it these Olympics are little more than a marketing plan to fill space and sell time during the dreary days of February."
What is February? Could it be ... perhaps ... Black History Month?
Do you think that Bryant is really just pi**ed off because some white folks had the audacity to play in the Italian snow during BHM?
I've got an idea. Bryant should take some of the sizeable check HBO is paying him and open an olympic-hopeful training camp in Vermont or Montana, or somewhere.
Your female blondness has bested my male brunetteness. :)
Nice catch. I think your on to something.
It is the double standard that requires conservatives to act like mature adults, while allowing liberals to act like errant children. I think the American people have tired of it too.
Sour gum ball
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/sport
sport (spôrt, sprt)
NOUN:
1.
a. Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively.
b. A particular form of this activity.
2. An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
3. An active pastime; recreation.
Actually, Figure Skating IS a sport.
Nope, not until they get rid of the judges. Until then it's a judged event without the kind of scoring system necessary to make it a sport. Don't care what the dictionary or anybody else says, no judged event will ever be a sport, period, non-negotiable.
So...boxing by your standards is not a sport either!
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