Thrashen
Hall of Famer
At halftime of the Steelers-Chiefs game, did anyone else see Bob Costas’ segment concerning Stevie Johnson’s touchdown dance (in which he mocked Plaxico Burress) and the clownish behavior of the NFL’s players in general?
Costas, ever the odious corporate-slave, actually made some fantastic observations about the pandemic of constant showboating, taunting, dancing, gyrating, and poor sportsmanship routinely exhibited by the NFL’s current crop of employees. Sure, Costas didn’t mention race, but of the dozens of clips that were played while he spoke, only two featured a white athlete (Tony “Wigger” Scheffler and Mark Gasteneau).
Costas was tremendously sarcastic, slighted a popular reality TV show, longed for “good old days,” and used terms such as “buffoonery,” “obnoxious,” “knuckleheads,” “stupid,” “graceless,” “mindless,” and “self-indulgent” to accurately describe the myriad of black players who exhibit such behavior. Here is the full transcript…
This nationally-televised discourse was quite shocking, especially when uttered by a limp-wristed, Judeo-Corporate finger-puppet such as him. Costas showed more balls than I’ve ever seen displayed on Network Talmud-I-Vision. I’m now waiting for the squeals of “insensitivity,” “ray-o-cism,” and requests that Costas apologize, be fired, or “step down.”
Costas, ever the odious corporate-slave, actually made some fantastic observations about the pandemic of constant showboating, taunting, dancing, gyrating, and poor sportsmanship routinely exhibited by the NFL’s current crop of employees. Sure, Costas didn’t mention race, but of the dozens of clips that were played while he spoke, only two featured a white athlete (Tony “Wigger” Scheffler and Mark Gasteneau).
Costas was tremendously sarcastic, slighted a popular reality TV show, longed for “good old days,” and used terms such as “buffoonery,” “obnoxious,” “knuckleheads,” “stupid,” “graceless,” “mindless,” and “self-indulgent” to accurately describe the myriad of black players who exhibit such behavior. Here is the full transcript…
Bob Costas said:“For those of you too busy keeping up with the Kardashians to notice, we live in a culture that in many ways grows more stupid and graceless by the moment. Sports both reflects and influences that sorry trend, so on playing fields everywhere, true style is in decline, while mindless exhibitionism abounds. In the late '60's, the Giants had a receiver named Homer Jones. He invented the spike - and it was great; a simple, elegant punctuation that somehow has devolved into ridiculously excessive celebrations. Given the tone of the times, it's probably too much to expect that most players would appreciate that back in the day, [business-like Barry Sanders] was much cooler than [showboat Mark Gastineau], or that there is a difference between spontaneous and/or good-natured displays of enthusiasm and calculated displays of obnoxious self-indulgence. No, that train has already gone so far down the wrong track, there's probably no turning back. So our suggestion here is a more modest one: Hey, knuckleheads, is it too much to ask that you confine your buffoonery to situations that don't directly damage your team? Week after week, game after game, we see guys who think nothing of incurring penalties for unsportsmanlike conduct, costing their team's valuable yardage, even late in close games. Today's most conspicuous culprit: Buffalo's Stevie Johnson, who after a TD catch vs. the Jets thought it would be a good idea to go Marcel Marceau, pantomiming, among other things, Plaxico Burress shooting himself in the leg. But in this case, it was Johnson, who shot himself in the foot as his display cost his team a 15-yard penalty on the ensuing kickoff. And given a short field, the Jets proceeded to score in a critical game that wound up, 28-24, New York. Which raises this question: where are the coaches in all this? Guys are routinely benched or called out for blown assignments. When is a coach going to make an overdue statement and sit a guy down on the grounds of pure selfishness and unprofessionalism detrimental to his team? By the way, late in the loss to the Jets, Johnson dropped a pass that could have led to a Buffalo win. Shockingly, he didn't follow it with a rehearsed ‘my bad’ dance of apology. Maybe he just forgot.”
This nationally-televised discourse was quite shocking, especially when uttered by a limp-wristed, Judeo-Corporate finger-puppet such as him. Costas showed more balls than I’ve ever seen displayed on Network Talmud-I-Vision. I’m now waiting for the squeals of “insensitivity,” “ray-o-cism,” and requests that Costas apologize, be fired, or “step down.”