Denver Post Hockey Writer Wins Stanley Cup!

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

We can all be a little much sometimes.

Sir I have no idea of what you are speaking.

 

[Liut]

I have three of these in my family and have to leave the room, if possible, when a game is on. Annoying as heck. They're never wrong, "everyone" hates the team including "every" announcer and media person, and the refs screw the team "all the time."

I know they don't go on the fanboi sites, though, because two of them are 75+ years old and one is in his 40s but doesn't give a flip about those sites (thankfully).


The golden-glad BuffaCheer TV anchor doesnt surprise me. Dress up blingy, "yay team" fangurrll with all her supporters who go apeshirt if anyone disses her, and climbs the market ladder to the job with FOX or ESPN. Similar process with the guys who fanboi on the team.

Is that terrible? Nah, it's the career path they want and chose. Is it journalism? Nope. But in today's skewed world where viewers slobber over Rachel Madcow or Tucker Asshole and can't or won't tell the difference between opinion and news, it hardly matters. To them it's just another shiny-faced TV person reporting on YayMyTeam!

Awesome take.
EDIT: just wanted to add this @SixToe: Been a reader since my paternal grandmother taught me to love it as a child. In the last 20 years or so, I've been ... yeah, it's cliche ... a voracious reader. The final two grafs you wrote probably explain why.

 

[Woody Long]

I have three of these in my family and have to leave the room, if possible, when a game is on. Annoying as heck. They're never wrong, "everyone" hates the team including "every" announcer and media person, and the refs screw the team "all the time."

I try to avoid watching games with people in general, and especially with people who are "big fans" but have a limited understanding of sports. Generally, they don't know that they're understanding is limited, which results them asking questions about why "everyone hates my team!" and "the refs are always screwing us!"

Sometimes, I just kinda nod along, give them a sentence or two, and leave it at that. Others, I'll tell them that the announcers and officials are trying to do the best job they can, leave the stadium unscathed and get home to their families. They seldom understand until I explain that I've been both a traveling pxp guy and officiated sports. If they then come back with something along the lines of, "Well, it's different in the pros, because Goodell/Bettman/Silver/Manfred can control the outcome!" I finish my beer and make an Irish exit.

As my high school coach used to say, "Never argue with an idiot, because an idiot never knows when they've lost the argument."