Tenacious D
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Does anyone else notice the nuclear levels of
condescension amongst those in the local media when taking questons about possible new coaches?
I'm sitting here listening to John "Fulmer with a Beard" Pennington and Wil "I hung around long enough until they hired me" West on the Sports Animal.....and they were just flat insulting to several of the callers.
It sounded like I was listening to two frat guys making fun of fat girls at a sorority party - several jokes about Haslam not playing golf, rumors, etc.
Also, heaven help someone if they wanted to mention their preference for a coach who's name did not begin with a "B" and end with a "utch DAvis". You would have thought that someone was making fun of the blonde waitress that Pennington brings onto the set each Sunday during his show. Lots of scoffing and snickering.
I have never been one of those people who say that someone from the media has to be from around here, or even a "fan" of the program per se, but after hearing this, maybe it's more important than I thought. In this case, I think that these guys don't understand that this is so much more than a "story" to many of us, because they simply don't share our passion for it.....beyond what it does for their own wallet, or sense of superiority.
Maybe a call to Pennington's deity - David Hall with Hall's Salvage- is in order?
Also, if anyone was listening today - could there have been any more man-love for Butch Davis?!? Geez, they just wouldn't consider anything outside of him.
Am I the only one that notices this?
condescension amongst those in the local media when taking questons about possible new coaches?
I'm sitting here listening to John "Fulmer with a Beard" Pennington and Wil "I hung around long enough until they hired me" West on the Sports Animal.....and they were just flat insulting to several of the callers.
It sounded like I was listening to two frat guys making fun of fat girls at a sorority party - several jokes about Haslam not playing golf, rumors, etc.
Also, heaven help someone if they wanted to mention their preference for a coach who's name did not begin with a "B" and end with a "utch DAvis". You would have thought that someone was making fun of the blonde waitress that Pennington brings onto the set each Sunday during his show. Lots of scoffing and snickering.
I have never been one of those people who say that someone from the media has to be from around here, or even a "fan" of the program per se, but after hearing this, maybe it's more important than I thought. In this case, I think that these guys don't understand that this is so much more than a "story" to many of us, because they simply don't share our passion for it.....beyond what it does for their own wallet, or sense of superiority.
Maybe a call to Pennington's deity - David Hall with Hall's Salvage- is in order?
Also, if anyone was listening today - could there have been any more man-love for Butch Davis?!? Geez, they just wouldn't consider anything outside of him.
Am I the only one that notices this?
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