Is the most pompous man on earth. Sorry, just don't like the guy. The combination of him and Katie Couric forced me to look at this forum rather the opening ceremony after about 25 minutes.
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Is the most pompous man on earth. Sorry, just don't like the guy. The combination of him and Katie Couric forced me to look at this forum rather the opening ceremony after about 25 minutes.
god they were terrible, they killed the whole ceremony. what a bunch of ignorant and arrogant people.
oh, and where the fuck was the Yanni appearance????
Opening ceremony for what?Quote:
Originally posted by The AD
...the opening ceremony...
I finally wised up and switched to CBC. I have a feeling I'll be doing that lots over the next couple weeks.
Lucky bastard, I got it on but ain't watching it.:mad:Quote:
Originally posted by The AD
I finally wised up and switched to CBC. I have a feeling I'll be doing that lots over the next couple weeks.
He's the best sport's caster on earth. Imagine being stuck next to Katie Couric for that long. How would you do?
edit: a tie with Al Michaels. I just dodged a lightening bolt.
He was calling some of the countries national dress as a "get-up" (so offensive and disrespectful), then said the same thing about Bjork's dress "that's some get up!", and yet Bjork's dress fabric unwound and became a world map over the Olympians and it was a beautiful moment. The guy is an ass.
Totally agree - I was embarassed for him. Between the "get up" comments, and saying things like "Here's the team from Djibouti.... you bet your Djibouti!!", I was horrified. Especially at this moment in history, we don't need to be making bigger asses of ourselves.
Ruined it for me. I'm Greek, so was REALLY looking forward to this, and the moment was extremely tainted. Need to find another way to watch...
The opening ceremony I'd like to see is a battle between the moslems on one side and christians and jews on the other. Everyone is naked and armed to the teeth. And they drag Costas and clown face Couric out in the arena to be beheaded as a pre event blessing. yeah
puhleaaaase...he was forced to commentate a parade for five freaking hours. give me a break. There isn't a sportscaster with wider knowledge and more insight in a booth today.
This is why humps like Matt Lauer, Couric, the stapled stomach guy, and Willard Scott bring us Macy's parades. It's all they are capable of doing.
I guess a positive of these opening ceremonies is there were no "Yankee go home" signs that I saw(I didn't watch the whole thing, but I haven't seen any reported). Finally we're taking those South Korean Olympian's advice.
You are like a sea gull:Quote:
Originally posted by mr_gyptian
There isn't a sportscaster with wider knowledge and more insight in a booth today.
always regurgitating all over yerself.
again, the ad hominem. Can you argue against my point?
I agree your posts are "ad hominen."Quote:
Originally posted by mr_gyptian
again, the ad hominem. Can you argue against my point?
Do you ever have an original thought?
Costas is good, but there are others just as good - Michaels, Jim Lampley, Marv Albert, Joe Buck all come to mind.
Chris Berman.Quote:
Originally posted by iceman
Costas is good, but there are others just as good - Michaels, Jim Lampley, Marv Albert, Joe Buck all come to mind.
How about Howard Stern and Rush?
That would be sick. I'd tune in for sur.
skidmark how was my first post claiming Costas as the best sportscaster an attack on anyone? AD opened the thread with how supposedly pompous he is.
Personally, Jim Nance, Costas, and Al Michaels are in a class of their own. Both Buck's father(deceased) and son are a pleasure, but aren't in the class of the aforementioned three?
Joe Buck??? Feed him to the animals!
And Marv? Teeheehee
I realize some people like Costas. I'm not questioning his knowledge, which seems impressive. He just strikes me as a bigtime pompous ass.
Costas?? bring me this turd. We'll show him who roools in ahbdoo jahreeb. Yo, who's got my camera?
He's actually a really great guy. I worked for NBC Olympics in New York and Sydney for a little while, and had to hang out with him a bunch while he was doing studio stuff. He was always really friendly and cool towards me, even though I was just an intern at the time, quite unlike some other NBC personalities I had to deal with. Harry Smith, for example: total db.
The thing that I noticed about the TV announcers I spent time with is that they all seem to love the sound of their own voices, in a literal way. Most of them had really full, strikingly sonorous, voices, but they just wouldn't stop using them and would go on and on just to hear themselves talk. Watching the triathlon with the aforementioned Smith, for example, was super-irritating because he wouldn't stop saying things like "my God! Look at that sonofabitch go! Go! Go, you little fucker! You skinny sonofabitch!"
Costas is way too full of himself. Nobody can doubt his knowledge, it's very deep. But he's much too tight to the script for me. I like an anouncer to go out on a limb, Costas rarely does.
Give me Jon Madden, Earl the Pearl, Terry Bradshaw or Johny Miller. Please keep Berman away from the booth during ABC's coverage of the British Open, he's a butcher. Sportscasting really has lost it's edge when the announcers stopped boozing on air...
A moment of silence, please, for Harry Caray.Quote:
Originally posted by Aldo
Sportscasting really has lost it's edge when the announcers stopped boozing on air...
Johnny Miller, Jim Katt, Joe Morgan, Jackie Stewart.
Bill Lee, where are 'ya?
My favorite sportscaster is on the radio - Jon Miller. Had the privilege of listening to him for a number of years when he did the O's games.
All-time, you gotta go with Johnny Most.
so, he was a little bit of a homer...
Havlicek stole the ball!!!!
I like my sig with that pic
and to top it off what was with the innane political drivel that the two of them kept going into, WHATEVER your politcal beliefs isn't the olympics just about sport? It wasn't offensive or thinly veiled or anything like that I just thought it would have been better had it not been included.
As for great sportscasters how's about Vin Scully and Chick Hearn? Costas is a hack, how anyone can still support the idea of Pete Rose getting into cooperstown with a straight face like he does is just ridiculous
oooh, look at the pretty numbers....
http://www.peterose.com/Stats.html
134 HR . What a pussy.
I saw only part of the opening ceremony. Blessedly, it was while I was eating in a restaurant, and they had the sound turned off.Quote:
Originally posted by watersnowdirt
Totally agree - I was embarassed for him. Between the "get up" comments, and saying things like "Here's the team from Djibouti.... you bet your Djibouti!!", I was horrified. Especially at this moment in history, we don't need to be making bigger asses of ourselves.
Ruined it for me. I'm Greek, so was REALLY looking forward to this, and the moment was extremely tainted. Need to find another way to watch...
The "bet your Djibouti!" line made me laugh reading it here on the board (gotta love a lame pun), but it seems disrespectful and out of line in the context of the broadcast. Couldn't they have found some commentators with real brains, maybe some interesting historians or sumfin', to lend some smarts to the jibber-jabber?
For example, I'd love to have even a cheesy graphic onscreen showing where Djibouti is. Of course, I'll go Google it now, but it'd be cool to treat the event as the global gathering it should be.
Frickin' US TV!
actually that would be triples 160 would be the HR totalsQuote:
Originally posted by Benny Profane
oooh, look at the pretty numbers....
http://www.peterose.com/Stats.html
134 HR . What a pussy.
I thought that all night long. I wanted to know where these places were and something about the country other than, for example, Bob Costas saying, "Remember Bogart? Remember Casablanca? Heeeeere's Morrocco!!!"Quote:
Originally posted by Oopsie Daisy
Couldn't they have found some commentators with real brains, maybe some interesting historians or sumfin', to lend some smarts to the jibber-jabber?
For example, I'd love to have even a cheesy graphic onscreen showing where Djibouti is.
They did have some strange little globe up with a highlighted blobby area.
Ok fine. That was cheesy, but honestly what the hell was supposed to be said? He did a very good job with the former Yugoslavian countries. This was an incredibly long event. to nitpick four or five bad jokes is disengenous at best.
Matt Lauer is much better suited for that type of event.
My other favorite country is Dahomey. I think it's now called Benin, though. But, come on, how can you discuss either Djibouti or Dahomey and not make a pun? I gotta give Costas a free pass on that one.Quote:
Originally posted by Oopsie Daisy
The "bet your Djibouti!" line made me laugh reading it here on the board (gotta love a lame pun), but it seems disrespectful and out of line in the context of the broadcast.
he took a pretty good shot at the Saudi's, too.
Name a person that gets in front of the camera on purpose that isn't pompous and/or arrogant. Then multiply that by the fact that he is one of the best at what he does. You don't get to that level without having a certain amount of arrogance.
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
Bob Costas must die.
There was a time when I liked him, then he started getting "controversial." His problem is that he takes himself way too seriously. He's always trying to dig deeper, get the real scoop. You know what Bob, we want to see the friggen score. Maybe even some nice anecdote about the persons life. But fer christ's sake, we don't need to see an athlete cry because his grandfather's nephew's brother's uncle's cousin just shot someone and drove the Ford off a cliff. People just don't give a shit about that.
That's my main problem with him. I don't mind his play by play and such. It's when he takes editorial license to spout off a bunch of bs. Even worse are his interviews. He just gets way too personal. It's friggen sports, not the National Enquirer!!! The guy needs to learn when to shut up.
Bob Costas, Man of Controversy, Man of the People. Who woulda thunk.
Buenos noches.
Greece put on a beautiful opening ceremony. Spoiled only by the pretentious little cocksucker and empty-headed bimbo NBC put on the set. IMHO.
Butbutbut, why must we have a sports-expert, and perky talk-show person, handling the opening ceremonies? Save the stat-stuff and quips (Costas), and the human interest stuff (Couric), for the rest of the programming, if you must.
My dream "color commentary" panel:
The writer David Foster Wallace, for the general fucked-upedness and weirdosity of the ceremony.
That "Hero with a Thousand Faces" dude, J. Campbell, for all the canonical hero-quest implications.
The super-cool history prof I had at UCLA who knew how to have FUN with the subject. Eugen Weber.
Whoever the latest, greatest, sassiest fashion designer is, for bitchy commentary on the "get-ups."
Yogacheeks, I missed the blobby globe. LOL. Too busy stuffin' the ol' pie hole with 3rd Street Promenade foodstuffs. Goddamn, that place has too much amplified music! Hateful.
No joke.Quote:
Originally posted by Benny Profane
Bob Costas, Man of Controversy, Man of the People. Who woulda thunk.
But I got to say-- if I had a list, he would be at the bottom.