joe buck and thuuuuuuuuuuuuuugs

[rottweiler]

Tell us about your favorite moment(s) when you saw the great Fox play-by-play guy hatin' some of the NFL players whom he apparently saw as typifying some of society's most rotten ( ) elements.

Easy for me. This one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dmqGg6Ccvw

West Coast thuggin'.

[c_hawkbob]

That ain't us, as much as you want it to be that crap just ain't us. And I'm glad it ain't.

[rottweiler]

That ain't us, as much as you want it to be that crap just ain't us. And I'm glad it ain't.

True, this thread is just for fun, bro.

But I'm pretty sure we both know that Buck likely sees the things Richard Sherman has become infamous for having done in the same light with what Moss did in that clip.

To me, Buck represents all the goody-goodies in society who don't understand the culture of those they perceive to be thugs.

I'm pretty sure he doesn't understand the Seahawks, either.

Heck, more often than not, I kinda think Buck doesn't understand a whole lot about the game of American football itself.

(You shoulda listened to "Leon" in those Budweiser commercials a few years back, and stuck to baseball, Joe.)

[HumanCockroach]

That ain't us, as much as you want it to be that crap just ain't us. And I'm glad it ain't.

Fairly sure that is posted tongue and cheek. Just playing up the thug stupidity that many have latched onto across the nation...

[c_hawkbob]

I know, and I get it. It's just that I prefer to think of Sherm more of a Deacon Jones/Muhammad Ali/Shannon Sharpe type than a T.O./Dennis Rodman/Randy Moss type. I can't see Sherman ever doing anything to hurt his team, which is where I draw the line.

[HumanCockroach]

I know, and I get it. It's just that I prefer to think of Sherm more of a Deacon Jones/Muhammad Ali/Shannon Sharpe type than a T.O./Dennis Rodman/Randy Moss type. I can't see Sherman ever doing anything to hurt his team, which is where I draw the line.

But, but, but TO was a Niner...... LOL

[jshawaii22]

I'm not ashamed of it, or feel like I'm less of a 'fan' because I felt the same way as C Hawk and as most of America, for about 24 hours. Being a 50 ish, white boy, I didn't like TO, didn't like Randy Moss and I didn't like what Richard did.

More than anything, he took away the moment from the city, the team, the NFL and put it all on him, that really bothered me.

However, three days later the tide is turning toward being "OK" as most of the 'jocks' and other 'black spokesman' like Hank Aaron are all Ok with it.
Only a few on the old white guys, like Ditka, Coach Madden and probably Joe Buck just don't get it. That was Richard!

Last night on NFL network, Marcelles Bently (or something) ... he was all 100% in on it being OK... just not the 'choke'...the Choke is the THUG, the chock is so 'Compton'...the rest of it is now OK, even Suzie baby has now said she wasn't bothered by it, her producer was yelling in her ear and she cringed. If you've ever worn a IFB, I can sympathize with her trying to hear something over the 12th man.

js

[rottweiler]

Fairly sure that is posted tongue and cheek. Just playing up the thug stupidity that many have latched onto across the nation...

Exactly.

Da Roach speaks fluent rott. I think it may have something to do with our ghetto roots — or some of them dirty rotten Sicilians with whom he's connected by blood.

Very proud to say I've myself met a few of them olive-skinned gents.

Historically, they've always laughed all the way to the bank when goody-goodys jump at the first chances they've gotten to bang their proverbial gavels and pass judgment on them for having been — in the naive views of the goody-goodys — sociopaths. Thuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugs, mane.

Most of them Roachesque, hellraisin' guinea miscreants have never the least bit minded being labelled as such. From what I've known and read, they've actually embraced the stereotype.

Coach Roach and I: we love our fellow thuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugs, baby.

I'm not ashamed of it, or feel like I'm less of a 'fan' because I felt the same way as C Hawk and as most of America, for about 24 hours. Being a 50 ish, white boy, I didn't like TO, didn't like Randy Moss and I didn't like what Richard did.

More than anything, he took away the moment from the city, the team, the NFL and put it all on him, that really bothered me.

However, three days later the tide is turning toward being "OK" as most of the 'jocks' and other 'black spokesman' like Hank Aaron are all Ok with it.

Only a few on the old white guys, like Ditka, Coach Madden and probably Joe Buck just don't get it. That was Richard!

I doubt Ditka and Madden have any problem with the WWF-ish personna that good ole dirty thug brutha Mista Sherman is actively crafting for himself. It's part of the theatre. And both Ditka and Madden understand people.

Joe Buck, on the other hand? He doesn't understand people, and again, he really doesn't understand football, PERIOD. The guy just S-U-C-K-S. GET THAT SOB OFF THE AIR, FOX — PLEASE!!!!!

Last night on NFL network, Marcelles Bently (or something) ... he was all 100% in on it being OK... just not the 'choke'...the Choke is the THUG, the chock is so 'Compton'...the rest of it is now OK, even Suzie baby has now said she wasn't bothered by it, her producer was yelling in her ear and she cringed. If you've ever worn a IFB, I can sympathize with her trying to hear something over the 12th man.

js

"Suzie baby"?????

You mean ERIN ANDREWS, right?

I posted a link on page two of that Sherman postgame comment thread (it's on page two of it) about that very thing: what Erin Andrews said about the ordeal.

Suzie Kolber has nothing to do with it, man.

And yes, of course it's okay. Richard Sherman is a grown-ass man, a leader on this team, and an inspiration for countless people across this beloved nation — including, and actually especially myself.

I love that guy, and wouldn't think twice about giving my life for him, if God forbid it ever came to that.

I have been looking for an inspiration to keep fighting in this horrible economy for years now, for people to treat me (a poor white guy with a high G.P.A. on his double major B.A.) with some measure of respect.

Honestly, I had all but given up. I have actually more than a few times considered suicide.

But thank God for Richard Sherman. God bless that guy. He is my new hero, my inspiration, and what he represents crosses all racial and ethnic borders. He gives me the will to live like no sports figure I've seen in the majority of my life. I love him.

Sherman can say and do what he wants. He can be himself. He don't owe anybody any explanations. And he needn't worry about what the cutesy Polo-sweater-wearin' mofos who spend their weekends on billion-dollar yachts think of him.

Thumbs up, Ricky. You my dogg, brutha.

[jshawaii22]

Oh, wrong cute sidelines reporter. See, that's what happens after 30 years of marriage bliss. They all just look the same. I don't even know where I got that name from.

On the Sherman thing, he has a degree in communications. He has stated his intent to further his career in 'communications' after his time in football.

If that is his intent, he's not starting his job search correctly, unless he's looking for a gig on WWF. He still has to be hired by those same rich white dudes, or rich black dudes... many of which may not view this as what they would be looking for, right or wrong.

And Yes, he can say anything he wants, that's no longer the issue. If he brings a few SB's to the NW then we're all good.

js

[HumanCockroach]

I seriously doubt that what Sherman said is going to keep him from pursuing a career in media afterwards, today isn't like the 50's, look around, the ONLY thing that matters is whether they can draw viewers, pretending like that won't happen because of a 30 second rant, you are missing what television is at this point. Rich, white guys don't "care about class" they care about MONEY. LOL