RIP Stuart Scott

Pretty much crap on the filmography list. I'm disputing the idea that "everybody" knew him. I think that would apply more to someone like John Madden, who had value as a commercial spokesman outside of sports.

 

I guess Deadspin isn't going to go back and look at the time they peeked over his shoulder to look at his text messages and wrote them up as proof that he was cheating on his wife. Very Deadspinny of them to ignore that today.

 

His TV filmography seems pretty heavy as a commentator on VH1's "I Love The..." series.

A year ago, whenever I read something about Stuart Scott, everybody pretty much hated him. He turned golden in the past year, I guess.

 

I don't think it's about how many people knew him, but how intensely those who knew him felt about him. Think about Dale Earnhardt's death. People were surprised about the outpouring, but people who followed NASCAR felt that death intensely. Selena, Tupac and Biggie - the same thing. There are people who really connect with an audience (or a segment of an audience) and it seems hard to deny that for many Scott was "theirs." He wasn't their dad's sportscaster, he did it the way they would do it if they had the chance. It doesn't diminish Scott, if you don't feel the impact. It doesn't make you "wrong," or the people who who are reacting to his death intensely as "wrong."
It's really just an outgrowth of our ever splintering media culture.

 

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/fo...8-nba-draft-thread.57853/page-15#post-1889204
http://www.sportsjournalists.com/fo...ris-wallace-happens.70896/page-5#post-2507085
http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/nfl-week-2-running-thread.60942/page-61#post-2048030
http://www.sportsjournalists.com/fo...oys-and-wtfs-thread.46215/page-2#post-2627569
http://www.sportsjournalists.com/fo...n-draft-fa-etc-etc.78215/page-58#post-2847711
http://www.sportsjournalists.com/fo...n-still-play-at-50.94818/page-12#post-3552422

 

Someone else who didn't like him:
http://www.sportsjournalists.com/fo...8-nba-draft-thread.57853/page-10#post-1888936

 

I was standing 10 feet away from him when he said to Ray Lewis, "Man, fuck those guys..."

I remember going to dinner that night with a bunch of other writers and we all just basically ranted about how much we hated Stuart Scott. Fuck him. Fuck that asshole. He got hit in the eye with a football. Good. Fuck him.

I ran into him a few years later in Indianapolis. I was at St. Elmo's with a group of writers, including three guys who worked at ESPN. He came over to say hi to one of them. Another one tried to say something to him and Scott dismissed him like he didn't deserve to breathe, much less speak. The guy who was with us who was friends with him said, "Yeah, I don't know why he's like that..."

That was about a decade ago.

Then, as you watch him on TV you realize how much weight he's losing. You know he has cancer. You ask a friend who works with him how bad it is. "He's dying."

Well, fuck. Then you read a few inspiring stories about how he's fighting cancer by training for MMA. You hear his incredible speech at the ESPYs. You see his kids. Suddenly the Ray Lewis incident doesn't matter anymore. Suddenly him being a dick to one of my friends doesn't matter anymore. Suddenly he's simply a guy who is dying of cancer.

 

Good point. Deadspin had Scott nailing the future Mrs Joe Buck

 

Exactly what I was thinking.

 

Fernando Tatis?

 

Thanks to poin for combing through the archives--I do remember a great amount of vitriol on this site for the man that seems to have been forgotten over the past year and past days.

Never met the man, but he seemed to exude arrogance coming through the TV screen. Not very likeable from my view. In a lot of stories from yesterday and today, that seems quite opposite from how he really was If so, I would gladly re-visit my opinion of him.. And then, I read posts like Recovering Journalists above that seems to confirm the persona.

The treatment yesterday and today does seem more than warranted to me--I don't buy the whole hip hop Pied Piper thesis. Maybe it was a combination of being Sunday morning on a playoff weekend. Certainly, his young age plays a major role.

In any event, it's very sad to see someone die short of a half century in years with young children left behind. Like him or not, exult him or not, no one deserves that fate. RIP.

 

It's also very powerful to see a genuine reaction from someone when delivering the news. If Rich Eisen had gotten the news 10 hours and not 10 minutes before he was on the air, his words might not have seemed as genuine. Same deal with Hannah Storm.