Duke fanboy loosers think Dookie V's ESPN is unfair to the Blue Devils?

ondeadline · Nov 27, 2007

<a href="http://www.dukebasketballreport.com/articles/?p=23877">
Incredible, but true. What? Did ESPN have the gall to cast the People's Republic of Kryzyzewskiville in a negative light? How about getting a thicker skin! Here's the ramblings from Duke Basketball Report:</a>

As you know, the Duke-Wisconsin game is on ESPN Tuesday night. ESPN will come in and do their usual thing - if Vitale is there, he’ll play along with the Crazies. The cameras will pan along the sidewalks and then along the bleachers, trying to get shots of you guys, all happy and energetic and waving, because that crowd shot is worth millions to ESPN, frankly. We’re not even referring to Duke; we’re talking about that shot in every gym they go to. That is a really key shot for their broadcast: just look how often it shows up on Sports Center.But while the crew in Durham is performing the usual shtick, flirting with the crowd and so on, other parts of the empire are actively attacking Duke.

So since in many respects, they’ve given Duke the bird, why is it that people continue to dance to their tune when they come into Cameron?

On the one hand, they love to come here, because they know they’ll get the ratings and the cool crowd shots, but on the other, why should anyone cooperate with them when they have, more than once now, crossed the line into either just terrible reporting or cynical exploitation of a marketing opportunity?

Well, here it is: Duke fans, and specifically the Crazies, have a chance to hold ESPN accountable. It would be great to deny them that money shot of Crazies in full splendor. It would be classic if, rather than that, whenever the camera panned over them, the Crazies just crossed their arms en masse and stared at the camera until it went away. It would be a mild but effective protest. It probably wouldn’t be as hard to explain as signs and cheers against the Bullies from Bristol, but hey - you guys are creative. We’re sure if you want to let ESPN know you object to their recent maltreatment of one of their major moneymakers, you can come up with something.

It would be fun, and rather fascinating, to turn their cameras against them, and then see how they explain it on the air. And everything else aside, ordinary people don’t get many chances to sock a major media company in the nose. That’s a story you can tell forever.
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BYH · Nov 27, 2007

Oh my fucking God.

I didn't think I could hate those fuckers any more than I already do. I was wrong.

Poor persecuted Dukies.

Fenian_Bastard · Nov 27, 2007

Holy mother of god.
Somebody stop the stupid train before we all fall off.

Bubbler · Nov 27, 2007

It would be an interesting protest on its own -- deny ESPN their cliched golden gooses -- but the motivation behind this reaches an elevated plane of dipshitery.

Is that anti-Duke Youtube "You Fucking Suck" video still up?

wickedwritah · Nov 27, 2007

I thought that was UF, Bubbler. Hoops just posted it again on the Heisman thread.

(And IJAG to the white courtesy phone, please.)

Bubbler · Nov 27, 2007

No it was a Duke video because at one point it made a (inappropriate ... cough ... hiliarious) reference to the Duke rape case. I think Moddy originally posted it.

GB-Hack · Nov 27, 2007

Um, how is ESPN supposed to have given Duke the bird? It really doesn't mention anything specific in the posted excerpt.

Flying Headbutt · Nov 27, 2007

Because Dook fans suck.

pseudo · Nov 27, 2007

"actively attacking Duke"... ?

Shit, they did that and I missed it? Dammit.

Bubbler · Nov 27, 2007

My guess is they're overreacting like the bitches they are to the coverage of the Duke rape case?

Oz · Nov 27, 2007

The other day, I was in College Joe's shop in Lawrence and passed on a shirt with the Duke font and colors that read "Puke." Reading that, I wish I would have bought it now.

imjustagirl2 · Nov 27, 2007

Yeah, because no other 20-year-old ever acts like a douche that goes to any other school.

Seriously? Rants on a fan board? That's the best you can do?

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