Cowherd Leaves ESPN
I take full responsibility for the sudden and surprising news that Colin Cowherd is leaving ESPN. Less than a month after my comic, he’s gone. I love it. Yup, totally me. I shamed him into leaving. I am a god. Tell me readers, who shall I remove next?
In less joking terms hahaha F**k Yes he’s gone, eat it Cowherd you overpaid windbag. If you say your name fast it sounds like Coward and that’s what you are you big ‘ol bum who won’t argue with callers and just cuts them off. Also your name isn’t Chet but you look like someone who would be named Chet, and I’ve never met a Chet who isn’t a dick, so I’m giving you honorary membership in the Chet hall of fame for dicks.
Okay okay in serious terms what’s going on at ESPN? In the past few months they’ve cut Bill Simmons, Keith Olbermann and now Cowherd is leaving. I feel like I’m forgetting someone else. ESPN is doing some gutting on popular people. I’m eagerly anticipating a departure with Stephen A. Smith because it seems like he’s gotten in trouble with the network a few times this past year just like Simmons. Do it, ESPN. Cut him. Send him on his way so he can go groupie with Floyd Mayweather. Anyway I hope this leads to more Bomani Jones, because I love Bomani Jones.
Cowherd is apparently headed to Fox Sports, which is fine by me because I don’t go near Fox Sports outside game broadcasts. If he ends up on camera for pre-game I’ll still miss it. Go there and stay, Cowherd. Stay in your little corner where you can preach to your dumb fanbase and everyone else doesn’t have to deal with you through osmosis. You bum. I hate you so much.
Can you write a comment about Steve Simmons? pleasethankyou
Can you write a comment about Steve Simmons? pleasethankyou
Can you write a comment about Steve Simmons? pleasethankyou
I don’t even know what I did there
Are you responsible for Olbermann too?
I wish, but that guy digs his own graves
The things you miss when you’re at work.
Or in this case, the things I WON’T miss.
PS Dan LeBatard and Stugotz please.
Two words: Budget Cuts.
Disney finally told ESPN to slash the budget drastically in some way. Olbermann, Cowherd, and Simmons all were due for contract renewal, so it was best for ESPN to not renew the contract as cost cutting measure.
The budget cut has begun. More people are likely to get fired from ESPN also.
As for Cowherd, get ready to hear him on FOX Sports Radio. (Which in Dave’s case, Rip City Radio 620)
I’m not exactly sure where he fits in on Fox Sports Radio, though. When your 9a-3p is Dan Patrick, Rich Eisen, and Jay Mohhhhhhhhthere it is.
(I actually kind of like Mohr’s show.)
You forgot Joe Buck the robot (even though he works for fox).
Add Peter King and Mike Florio to the list
In Voodoo-related news, the Arena Football League’s New Orleans Voodoo (2-12) are now owned by the league and are giving away 6,600 of the 7000 available tickets for their home game (last one of the season) against the Tampa Bay Storm (6-8) tonight. Also, their game with the Las Vegas Outlaws (who are now under league ownership; 5-9) for week 18 (the current week is 17 out of 20; each team gets 2 bye weeks) has been canceled. This will be the first time in the 29-year history of the Arena Football League that a game was canceled.
I never understand why people don’t like Chris Collinsworth, or Joe Buck. Personally I really like Collinsworth, I’ve never watched a game when he’s commenting and thought he sounded stupid or annoying.
It must be a hard job to go on the air for 3 hours every week and try to be fresh and interesting without sounding dumb at least a couple times. People loved John Madden and that guy said the dumbest things ever, and Jay Gruden can’t stop saying how amazing everyone is on the field, which I kinda enjoy.
If we used Voodoo to remove everyone someone hated from broadcasting, there’d be no one left, sadly, I think that includes Bob Costas.
I can’t stand Collinsworth. He’s actually admitted that he just compliments whoever is winning and rags on whoever is losing. If you were sitting next to someone in a bar and they were doing that it’d annoy the shit out of you, so why would you think it’s more tolerable in a broadcast? He also just seems really annoying.
Joe Buck comes across like an idiot to me and his ultra-conservative thinking in everything he’s ever opened his mouth about drives me nuts, it’s like a team going for it on 4th down in literally any circumstances is a personal insult to him.
I think the issue that people have with Joe Buck is that he seems so out of place commentating on football. He’s a decent baseball announcer, because baseball is a slower, more subdued game. Joe Buck seems to be incapable of sounding invested in and excited by a football game. Listen to how he calls David Tyree’s helmet catch in Super Bowl XLII. He calls it like he’s ordering at Starbucks, and it is one of the most improbable, exciting plays in NFL history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27XeNefwABw
I think they should just get those guys who do the radio commenting to start doing TV. I feel like they actually get excited when they do their job. I don’t feel like any of the TV guys have that jump out of your seat mentality.
I would love to see the Bucs and Eagles raido announcers call a game on tv for more than local brod casts of preseason games.
Collinsworth has a penchant for stating the obvious, and his voice has a tendency to get so nasal that it drives me crazy.
Yes, Madden also liked to state the obvious, but he came across as that “lovable grandpa” that you got to see at Christmas. Collinsworth is like that smarmy uncle who thinks he better than everyone.
Collinsworth started out really well but he’s gotten into serious “Spout cliche” territory for me. He also has this horrible, horrible tendency to pick 1 or 2 players he likes and just praise them non-stop all night long. Every replay becomes about how that player affected the play, even if he was barely involved. I like that these are usually lineman because they don’t get enough love, but he takes it to such an extreme that he kills it.
Greg Gumbel’s class and Gus Johnson’s energy would still remain.
My problem with Joe Buck is that he isn’t very good and is treated as heir apparent of his father. Jack buck was a god in st louis and in broadcasting, it’s like when the networks heard his son was going to be a broadcaster they fired all their talent agents and said “he’s the seed ofJack, no need to see if he’s good, let’s just hire him for everything.” Joe is not a 1/3rd the announcer jack was, it’s time to stop giving the guy every big event. You can guarantee he will mention tom brady in a key moment of every game regardless of who’s playing (and sometimes regardless of sport) and will then act like whatever athlete in the booth was by far the best player of all time at their position. The game is on the field Joe, every one knows Troy was on a dominant team, no one cares, please tell us what’s going on on the field.
Sorry, for the over reaction, I’m from the St. Louis area, and around here the hate of joe buck is our soft spot, we can’t help but try to separate his awfulness from the greatness that was Jack Buck.
I might be a Cincinnati homer, but I enjoy Collinsworth. I think he knows a lot, and while he’s not giving you the real ‘deep dive’ insights all the time, I don’t ever doubt that he knows the game very well. I would take him over Gruden 6 days a week and twice on Sunday.
Joe Buck is the worst – he is so full of himself that not only does he like the smell of his own farts, he thinks other people like it too.
I’m with you man. I like Collinsworth. I have a couple friends that hate him and every time we watch SNF I just point out all the actual intelligent stuff he spots. He has a lot of pre-snap comments that pan out. He knows football pretty well. I’ve even got a few of my friends to admit that he may be good, but just like sports they get invested in hating something or someone and can’t break out of it.
Leave Suzy Kolber out of it, Rappoccio. That’s all I ask. Otherwise we have a problem.
I write for KissingSuzyKolber. Trust me man, I love Suzy Kolber.
Can you send Steven A and Skip to Telemundo?
You know he’s just leaving ESPN, not planet Earth.
Considering how many people actually watch Fox Sports outside of the actual games he might as well be.
Cowherd was never of this planet anyway. Now he’s off to the sports face of Bullshit Mountain, he’s just going home.
How about the Aikman/Buck commentating duo? I’m still petitioning the president and the NFL to outlaw Aikman during Cowboys games. I have to watch those on mute
Wait, is that a Sexy Rexy app on the phone?
I’m more shocked by the Digg app. I can’t believe that site is still around.
Worth noting: Olbermann more or less signed his own exit papers months ago after he got into a twitter spat with a charity run by Penn State students where he basically called them disgraces and held them in contempt over Sandusky’s actions. I still dislike Penn State over the Sandusky scandal myself, but those kids were doing a genuinely good thing, and were not related to that any more than he is to nuclear weapons, given Cornell’s connection to the Manhattan Project. He was condemned near universally and suspended for two weeks, and like he always does, he talked his way out of his job.
Olbermann is basically the liberal version of Rush Limbaugh, except less funny, more opinionated, and less informed– and note, I am not making a claim that Limbaugh is funny, informed, or unopinionated. Just that Olbermann is even more deranged.
Olbermann is seriously the worst. I can’t stand him even on the points I agree with him on.
NO NOT CHRIS BERMAN
Rewatch some old NFL Primetime on youtube Dave, and you will see how amazing Chris Berman can be (search Andy Provin. He has about 30 episodes worth of primetime, including the true birth of RedZone, 1999 week 17).
Can you add one for Mike Mayock?
Mayock isn’t bad. He’s one of the more reasonable guys on TV. He always backs up his opinions with film at least.
You forgot SVP. He’s also leaving radio (maybe fully). Loved him and Russillo as they usually talked about sports like it’s a pastime, not a lifestyle.
Also, down with Collinsworth.
SVP got a promotion inside ESPN and I think he’s on TV now, so I can’t count him. I loved SVP & Russillo too but good for SVP, he deserves the advance.
What’s going on at ESPN? Simple. As cable moves to a la carte by market force, ESPN is having to face the realization that they are spread dramatically too thin. Sure, if I have my current cable package paying $20 of my bill every month for the entire ESPN packages, then ESPNews can get compensated. ESPN Deportes gets covered. ESPN2 and ESPNU get their checks. ESPN Goal Line and ESPN Fullcourt (or whatever their basketball packages may be) are not covered fully by the subscriptions.
BUT, now move forward , into an ala carte world, where I want only ESPN and ESPNU. Or ESPN and ESPN2. Or just ESPN and the ESPN3 / WatchESPN extras. Suddenly I’m not paying $20 for this in my package, but $4.50. Multiply that by a lot of people, and ESPN , a company within a company that was losing a lot of money as it stands, now loses even MORE money.
They see the writing on the wall. They know they can’t sustain a market that goes ala carte.
wait digg is still relevant
I actually liked Cowherd because he was a sports radio guy who didn’t just read the sports page, but the entire newspaper as well. I disagreed with him more times than not, but he always made me think.
Collinsworth knows his stuff, but can be too much after 3+ hours.
Robo Joe Buck needs to go away.
And Rich Eisen and Jay Mohr are TERRIBLE as radio hosts
I think we need a sequel to this one now.
I’d have to ask you to write something about Collinsworth. The pure joy you hear in his voice whenever he’s calling a Niners game and they are losing irritates me to no end.
well, the new standard IS for the twitter thought police to bully two people out of their jobs each day over stupid nonsense, so I guess this is par for the course.
Please do Skip Bayliss next.