Wow. I think the same thing. Sports talk radio is the worst. People flying team flags on their cars, trucks or homes especially when the team is in another state.
I just hate how they hype up the sport so much. I guess they are effective.
I went to a party months ago. It turned into a state u is playing a ball game on TV party. Well state U got beaten by AL. The school where the idiot fan poisoned Auburn’s beautiful trees.
Anyway, one of the guys at the party went on suicide watch because his alma mater got crushed. It was weird.
Sports talk radio out here in Columbia SC is very sad for what little I have listened to it.
There are all these 30s+ guys on there just hyping any and every high school ball player plus rattling every piddly stat they have on the kids since they could apparently walk.
I lost my interest in sports in the early 80s when I turned 12 or so. Staring at sports lost all appeal.
When I was at the PBS network here in SC, the last couple of years there, the sports wackos became dominant. It was really a couple of good ole boy managers that pushed the milktoast president around. They were also the guys who made the big bucks doing the network stuff and played gatekeepers to make sure things and people stayed idealogically pure.
For a couple of years using a production truck that wasn’t meant for sports, tying up everyone just about every weekend all over the state for all kinds of crazy hours on the same money plus crying about giving comp. time, and demoralizing the hell out of everyone else, ETV sports went on and on. I shudder to think about how much money was spent. I left out the part where some friends were hired on freelance basis to direct and do graphics. No one on staff was good enough.
I did very little sports mainly as a protest to being blatantly screwed on promotion since my overseer was chief sports wacko. He almost got himself and the agency sued by me on veteran’s discrimination but that is another story.
Since Nikki is really talking about shutting down that relic, most people here in SC won’t miss it. I hate to see the 99.4% of good people still left there get hurt. Seeing 6 or so overpaid management trouble-making crybabies out on the street helps a little. Of course they will be last to go, everyone else will be sacrificed first.
If/when it goes, I can see USC taking over that property, most likely knock the building (which I helped build) and expand Williams Bryce stadiums parking offering premium spaces at probably really absurd costs.
I can tell other stories of massive waste there that would be endless Dilbert fodder.