Bob Costas

[The AD]

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.

[dipstik]

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????

[Artie Fufkin]

Originally posted by The AD
...the opening ceremony...

Opening ceremony for what?

[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.

[AKPogue]

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.

Lucky bastard, I got it on but ain't watching it.

[mr_gyptian]

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.

[yogachik]

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.

[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...

[Benny Profane]

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

[mr_gyptian]

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.

[poostain]

Originally posted by mr_gyptian
There isn't a sportscaster with wider knowledge and more insight in a booth today.

You are like a sea gull:
always regurgitating all over yerself.

[mr_gyptian]

again, the ad hominem. Can you argue against my point?

[poostain]

Originally posted by mr_gyptian
again, the ad hominem. Can you argue against my point?

I agree your posts are "ad hominen."

Do you ever have an original thought?

[iceman]

Costas is good, but there are others just as good - Michaels, Jim Lampley, Marv Albert, Joe Buck all come to mind.

[poostain]

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.

Chris Berman.

How about Howard Stern and Rush?
That would be sick. I'd tune in for sur.

[mr_gyptian]

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?

[Benny Profane]

Joe Buck??? Feed him to the animals!

And Marv? Teeheehee

[The AD]

I realize some people like Costas. I'm not questioning his knowledge, which seems impressive. He just strikes me as a bigtime pompous ass.

[Benny Profane]

Costas?? bring me this turd. We'll show him who roools in ahbdoo jahreeb. Yo, who's got my camera?

[Steven S. Dallas]

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!"

[Aldo]

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...

[The AD]

Originally posted by Aldo
Sportscasting really has lost it's edge when the announcers stopped boozing on air...

A moment of silence, please, for Harry Caray.

[Benny Profane]

Johnny Miller, Jim Katt, Joe Morgan, Jackie Stewart.

Bill Lee, where are 'ya?

[iceman]

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...

[iceman]

Havlicek stole the ball!!!!