he was talking about NE's football schedule the next 2 yrs, rattled off a bunch of schools, including VA TECH, and proceeds to say, "Well, none of these schools are exactly on murderer's row"--meaning football prowess, but sheesh!
2007-05-04 03:12:50 · 31 answers · asked by PhoeniXoXoXoX 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I think if he had family or friends that died at Virginia Tech, he would have never made that remark. He also would be offended by that remark if someone else had made it about his family and friends.
2007-05-06 09:12:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Obviously, people aren't understanding the reference or the context if they're getting so in a wad about the "insensitivity" of this guy's remardk.
Clearly he wasn't thinking, and didn't realize what he had said.
Surely someone later told him, and he felt bad.
End of story?
Not by a longshot.
I bet it will be only 1 or 2 days before the whole country is an an uproar to the extent that he makes some big giant public apology and the station officially reprimands him, etc. etc, ad infinitum.
This is what we have come to, people. Free speech means "only if I am completely unoffended, and I am going to parse every word just to be sure you haven't personally offended me in some way."
And secondly, for all of you who are so offended by this newscaster's insensitivity, please tell me that you reported Cho Seng-Hui's avatar to the Yahoo! folks each and every time you saw it. I mean RED FLAGGED it. Did you?!
Please.
2007-05-04 10:21:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some people...including sportscasters...have a tendency to rattle off at the mouth before the thought reaches their brains. Meaning they speak before they think. This was probably just one of those situations...and I'm sure the he feels really bad about it!
2007-05-04 10:18:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
OMG so freaking what? He didn't mean it in that context! All of you knew what he really meant. Don't be so sensitive. Even you said he meant football-wise. I mean it is important to think before you speak but there is a point when it becomes ridiculous.
2007-05-04 10:20:02 · answer #4 · answered by Shannon 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Where does stupid fall? If that's his best "off-the-cuff" remark, then he needs to start writing for a newspaper with a really good Editor, instead of babbling on the air-waves.
2007-05-04 10:18:44 · answer #5 · answered by tatertown_94 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I doubt that it was intentional,of course--he was certainly referring to the nickname of the overpowering 1927 Yankees team.
He was just trying to be "colorful," and therein lies the problem.
I blame Chris Berman.
I wish sportscasters would stop trying to be entertainers and just tell me the damn scores.
2007-05-04 10:25:26 · answer #6 · answered by x 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
0.
I 'm sick of over-sensative americans!
It is getting to the point where you can't say anything without someone claiming it's racist.
i don't think Imus, O'Donnell, or Ann Coulter were out of line. They can say whatever they want. You can change the channel. The problem is the biggest racist in our country is on every channel...GWB...ask him how many Texas Black Inmates he pardoned while governor...???
0.
2007-05-04 10:17:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Haven't you ever said something that you realized it didn't sound right immediately after saying it ?
We're all human. I don't think it was insensitive at all.
But, what is a dicksmack ? lol
2007-05-04 10:19:16 · answer #8 · answered by Eveready 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
10! He is an insensitive cad.
2007-05-06 14:58:28 · answer #9 · answered by Elijah 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'll rate it a 7. Sounds like a Freudian slip to me.
2007-05-04 10:20:56 · answer #10 · answered by Max 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋