I am reminded of an instance in Graig Nettles’ book “Balls” that he wrote back in the mid 1980s concerning his baseball career and particularly his days as a New York Yankee under the late George Steinbrenner. It concerned his memories of the 1982 season (the team that George built) and the first game Reggie Jackson came back to New York as a California Angel (signed as a free agent in the off season and George was very nasty to him in the papers).
In any event, Reggie apparently struck out his first two times up (George apparently gloated and laughed) but in the third he hit a long, powerful home run. As Reggie rounded the bases, the crowd at Yankee Stadium began chanting “Steinbrenner sucks, Steinbrenner sucks”. When discussing this with reporters, George apparently said that he could not believe that the fans would use that type of language. Graig writes in his book “It made me laugh. I thought to myself ‘Where has he been all of these years? Doesn’t he come to the ballpark? He must live in a dreamworld’”.
Pardon for the overlong post, but this is in a way captures my thoughts about CNN’s reaction. They give us 24/7 DNC coverage and the result is “CNN sucks, CNN sucks”.
I believe this is from Game 4 of the 1995 Stanley Cup Finals between the Detroit Red Wings and the New Jersey Devils. The background here is that the Devils' ownership was threatening to move the team to Nashville in a dispute over the team's lease with the New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority. The story floating around at the time was that NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman was pushing for the move, and there was a lot of bad blood among New Jersey fans at a time when they should have been sitting back enjoying a marvelous Stanley Cup run.
Fox Sports interviewed him between the second and third periods of the game, and you can hear the fans in the background right off the bat. They start with a vintage "Bettman sucks!" chant, then graduate to a more colorful serenade of "Aaaassss-hole! Aaaassss-hole!" around the 0:45 mark.
The reporter at the start even says he can barely hear himself talk because it's so loud.
As the YouTube posted says ... I gotta give him credit for taking it well. LMAO.