I blame the interview. Nobody should ever try to interview a 60 year old ex-jock after he's just spent the better part of three hours drinking at a ball game. Particularly when he's got a rep as being an elbow-bender with the best of them. Kolber (and we) are lucky he didn't just whip it out and hose her down on the theory that she was a (somewhat attractive) urinal, and you know I JUST GOTTA GO NOW! 60 year old bladders are kinda weak in that situation also.
Wasn't the Namath interview with Kolber sponsored by Coors Light and Cialis? Of course you want to do a sideline interview with a hot chick on a drunk old guy ex jock. This isn't the NFL selling sex, this was the NFL keeping their sponsors happy.
For the Cialis demographic Suzy is pretty hot. After enough booze and a three and half hour erection you would be all over her.
This is from the bleacher report. That place let's anyone write. Just take a look at the article. Basically every sentence is a paragraph.
Female sideline reporters are the primary reason behind the "Mute" button on your TV remote. I purposely change the channel or lower the volume each and every time they come on screen. They add absolutely nothing to the game, serving only to take up space.
Very few sideline reporters add to the game, male or female. When was the last time you were excited to hear anything from the sideline report at all. I think the only sideline reporter I actually like is Tony Siragusa.
He's one that comes to mind. My rationale is that I hate having someone tell me about aspects of the game when they clearly never stepped foot onto the field. There are some announcers, like Bob Costas for instance, who never played a day of professional sports in their life, but they've taken the time to learn about every aspect of the game, in essence becoming pseudo experts in their trade. I recall listening to a few Yankee games on the radio at one point, and while the lady sounded like a complete lunatic, she certainly spent enough time and knew her stuff. The female sideline reporters are the complete opposite in that they know nothing about the game but can still manage to add some interesting tidbits like "They're losing bad" or "They need to score more points," or "The coach looks angry." At least some of the male sideline reporters have played the game and appear on-screen with some degree of credibility.
I personally really hate Bob Costas, he's basically a cut and paste reporter. He comes across super hifalutin like Joe Buck like he deserves to be respected for some reason or another. But both of them are play-by-play announcers. We're talking about the sideline reporter. Sideline reporters are people that aspire to be the play-by-play guy or the color commentator. But since most play-by-play guys come from radio, they never themselves never make it off the sidelines. But, since most of them make several hundreds of thousands of dollars to pretty much being an idiot on the sidelines, can you really blame them for being bad at what they do?
I have no problem with women working on the sidelines; however, there are only a few that I can watch. Many of these women don't know the difference between a home run and a touchdown. Lots of them are not attractive or are getting very old. That said, I would prefer the sideline reporter to be attractive, especially if the information/interview given isn't stimulating. But do me a favor, please... when the game is in action, please show me the game; I don't care to see your pretty smile with the football play limited to a small box in the top right-hand corner of my 50" plasma.
Sideline reporters are a way of getting women involved in sports. In the PC era we need a broad range of diversity in every job. Regardless of whether a former player with actual knowledge of the game would be a better choice to add something meaningful to the broadcast, the feeling is that you have to get some women in there. Obviously they can't stick a women with little to no knowledge of the sport in the booth so they stick them on the field with headsets and feed them questions to ask players at pre-determined times. And it is just common sense if they are going to be on air to make them attractive. It is non-sense, annoying, but this is just the reality of the times we live in. If networks won't hire women in sports some women's group would file a discrimination lawsuit.
I never got the big deal people made about that Namath thing with Kolber. It's not like he tried to grab her boobs or anything...
he was completely classless and drunk. he reminded me of a meathead college athlete. and i really cant stand meatheads.
Funny how peoples perceptions differ. He reminded me of my Dad at Christmas time, about the only time he lets it out. I didn't think he was classless at all , giggly and having fun yes. If you'd put him in any bar in NY, he'd have been an old guy out having fun, juts so happens hes Namath and there are cameras everywhere he goes.
hehe, i didnt mean to call your dad a classless drunk. i was completely ashamed of namath that night though. thats really the best way i can say what i felt when he was talking.
My dad would be thrilled to be called that , couldn't be further from the truth though. I was as drunk as a skunk when it aired and thought it was great TV, wanted to jump in too and give Suze a smoooooch
