Just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to all you folks out there. As I type this, I’m getting ready for a mini vacation to where I’ll be back on Friday. When I get back, hopefully my friend will send me the stuff that I need for the concluding of 1vs100 week.
In the meantime however, I’d like to share with you a couple of my favorite Thanksgiving skits:
From Mega64:
From Homestar Runner:
Anyway, have a happy gluttonous and safe Thanksgiving!
I’m not going to deny it, I’ve become a HUGE fan of 1vs100 on Xbox LIVE mostly because of the notion that I can actually win something from it (which I have!). Along the way though there’s been some memorable things from last season. Things like when before they officially gave away prizes, we all saw the one run the table and outlasted 100 mob members or how during one night the game was cancelled due to an outage towards the live servers, Joel McHale dropping by to plug The Soup on E! and Community on NBC, or my personal favorite…how big of a putzface Chris Cashman is hosting the show.
Aside from that, one of the big things that stood out from Season 1 were the people chosen as The One. Some with there goofy avatars, others with unique Gamertag screennames. Names such as:
…”JewWap”. Yes, somehow something that offensive slipped through the screening process and proceeded to give us all hiliarity with his name. The only other one that I can think of that close to being that offensive was one that had the name of “IMPEACH OBAMA” and had an avatar that was dressed up like the real Barack Obama.
Hopefully we’ll see even more great names this go around with what Season 2 has to offer us as tonight’s the premiere Live Show starting tonight @ 10pm EST. You can join in on the fun and who knows may be a contestant or even the One yourself. All you gotta do is have an Xbox Live Gold account, navigate towards the game marketplace and “VIOLA!”, you’ll be answering questions in no time.
Back in the late 80′s/early 90′s MTV used to not suck by having a handful of TV shows like Beavis and Butthead and The Real World, more imporantly they would also y’know PLAY MUSIC VIDEOS…a concept that’s currently lost in today’s society. One of the the MTV programs that I watched when I was little was Remote Control, a game show that incorporated funnyness with pop culture for its time. It also was the launch pad to fame for careers such as Colin Quinn, Dennis Leary, and Adam Sandler.
This past weekend the host of Remote Control, Ken Ober, was found dead at his home due to causes that are currently unknown at this time. In honor of him, I want to share an episode that I thought was definitely quite fun to watch. Enjoy
I’d like to point out that the eliminations were the only thing that were etched in my memory about this show prior to internet, mostly because they were kinda scary at the time back when I was around 4 or 5. Also, what the fuck is up with 2009 being so damn harsh on the cool celebrities?
For quite some time I’ve been adjusting to the Xbox 360 after a couple of years of putting up with the Wii. Mostly because the Wii had nothing but shitty titles outside of the big name titles that would be a gurantee to generate money. So fed up of games like ”Food Preparation Simulator”, “Unnecessary Attachments Adventure”, and ”Gimmicky Stick Waggler 4000″ I focused my time, energy, and cunning into Bing’ing an Xbox 360 which I got back in May of 2009.
So after a game or two to break in the console, I noticed something after I accomplished a mediocre task. A little thingy came up and told me that I unlocked some sort of achievement and that I earned something called Gamerscore points. As excited as I was in unlocking it, the excitement quickly vanished once I realized and researched that Gamerscore is nothing but a form of e-peen to tout around amongst your friends. That’s right, the step towards next-gen gaming is to have a mechanism in games today that has to support a player’s ego by making them think they’re good at something by having them jump through various hoops. There’s nothing at all to actually gain from achievements. Some of you might say, “There’s the satisfaction in completing everything”…like I said, there’s nothing at all in getting achievements.
Now normally I probably wouldn’t be attacking achievements if it wasn’t being put ahead of important parts in a game, like say the gameplay. Case in point, Season 2 of Xbox’s rendition of 1vs100 is coming out Nov 19th (and to help celebrate, I’ll be sharing some moments of the game from Season 1 along with 1vs100 oriented posts all this week.). In the weeks leading up to the premiere, the developers working on the game have been releasing tiny tidbits about the changes. The modifications for the most part have seemed generally positive, that is until it was revealed a few days ago that one of the live game shows would be moved from the Saturday timeslot to a Tuesday timeslot, a change that a lot of people are unsatisfied with and are up in arms about. When someone questioned about the show’s long term schedule, a developer commented by saying:
…Yes, the season starts and ends on the same dates for all 6 supported regions – which are the same as last season.
Also, we have real Achievements, not just the cool new badges. 200 Gamerscore. -Tonchu
The latter of which has been a major staple of new things to come. Upon seeing the quote left a sour taste in my mouth which led me to say this:
“…Never really understood what the whole appeal to the concept of achievements and why it matters to have them in modern day games. Or in this case why they’re more important than the current problems that you’ve created, like the schedule. You can take your achievements and badges and shove ‘em for all I care.” -xSmootx
Moments later my statement drew a response from one of the regular 1vs100 lurkers:
Properly placed achievements can really addto the quailty of the game…Before achievements I rarely replayed a game at the more difficult level. I would just move onto the next. Now its almost the standard that I replay it 3-4 times. It might have started as a Marketing guys wet dream, but now has made people actually play games more. -Avatar o Apathy
Which leads me back to my point of WHO CARES!? Seriously the only other people who really give a rat’s ass about achievements are the ones that will sacrifice their schedule just so that they can max out gamerscore on Modern Warfare 2 or wanting to ace that last song on “Beat Your Wife Harder than Bobby Brown Does” difficulty” in Guitar Hero. It’s ridiculous. This type of system would work best for the Wii of all things because the Wii is so casual, it melts the word for a new meaning.
If achievements really were to be taken seriously, all they would have to do is to add some sort of prizes, either real prizes or ones for your avatar dude doesn’t matter which, that you could redeem your Gamerscore for…Instead, they take that idea and shit on it with an even MORE tedious system called Awards to where if you do even more trivial tasks you can unlock things for your avatar to wear, like the Explosion Man t-shirt for example. Why so asinine? Why not just roll the concept into one? It’s worked for quite some time just go into any arcade, earn enough tickets, and redeem them for the highest that you can get/want. Then you can proceed to tout it front of your friend’s faces (or be a winner and redeem it for a bunch of candy, that’s what all winners do of course =P). Now if you excuse me, I have an E74 problem to maintain and get under control. Catch ya folks later.
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Image crafted with Xara3D 6 and Adobe Photoshop.
Photo of Chris Cashman provided by his twitter twipic account.
PS: Did the best that I could with achievements image, though re-hueing the 3D whammy seems like it turned it into a neon gorilla.
PPS: Nothing wrong with those who just normally get achievements, I was mainly going after the ones who have to make a big deal about them while pitting achievements and themselves in the center of the universe. I have no quarrels if you happen to capture achievements at your own leisure.
This one’s been eating at me for quite sometime now and am glad that I have the opportunity to get this out of the way here. In my 22 years of me being alive, I’ve learned that nothing in this world is sacred. Books, religion, monuments,…nothing is safe from anybody just walking up to what you like most and taking a huge shit on it. This of course applies to the longest running game show in the history of television, The Price is Right. It all started back in the 1950′s where Bill Cullen and his aura of awesomeness first laid out the idea and general concepts of the Price is Right. In 1972, while doing Truth or Consequences Bob Barker picked up the Price is Right and over time crafted it into one of the best game shows ever made. That is until 2007 when Bob felt the time was right to hang it up. Many didn’t want to see that day come but it did unfortunately and again, many including myself wouldn’t have minded if the show’s run was kaput right then and there. It didn’t sadly as big-wig execs at FremantleMedia wanted to keep the show alive…more on them in a bit.
So withBob retiring and a search for who to replace him, someone with lots of television experience and wisdom in hosting game shows should be a suitable replacement, right? Not even remotely close. Y’see, apparently CBS gave Drew Carey what appeared to be a pet project for about a Season’ish and a half of hosting a game show that was a concept loosely based off from Card Sharks of guessing how many people said what on a question. Throw in the $1,000,000 gimmick schtick (more on how this and how it ruins game shows, at another time) and hey we got ourselves a game show. The show lasted during the Summer of ’07 and prior to appearing on the David Letterman Show, CBS declared him to be the one to fill Bob Barker’s shoes because apparently in CBS’s minds, any schmoe could replace Barker.
Up until this point, call me biased but I grew up withhaving a TV legend and others to turn to for those days when I was sick and stayed home from school. Or during the days of Summer vacation and as a side effect to being up early, you could tune in and cheer/boo the person who couldn’t get the big wheel all the way around. It’s just the way it was at the time. So to see someone coming into the house that Bob Barker built and utterly crapping all over it, killed a part of me on the inside. I sat down, watched the first episode with Drew Carey and vomit started to fill in the back of my throat. Goofin’ around, jerkin’ off, just all around dumbshit that didn’t sit well withme AT ALL. Not only that, they swabbed down the entire set giving a completely new look while at the same time erasing almost everything associated with Barker’s run. Going so far to make everything from props, set designs, podiums, pricing games…all redone to be HDTV friendly.
Recently while watching TV, noticed a blurb about TPiR’s 7000th episode. Debating about whether or not to watch it, I actually tuned in via online because again, I wanted to tackle this and figured I could incorporate into here. (That, and I was woken up prematurely to which I almost elbowed a toddler. Story for another day.) Now, keep in mind whenever a special event comes along, Price is Right usually makes a big deal out of it. Season premieres, salute to [insert branch of military here], Episode #6000, $1,000,000 spectaculars…hell, they could make up something unrelated to the show and still make it enjoyable. Something like “Price is Right’s Honors to Columbus Day!” or “Price is Right’s Salute to Leif Ericson”. Point is, they can practically take any gimmick show like one of those and cram pack it filled with cars and luxurious prizes….that was the case until Thursday’s episode. Don’t get me wrong, I know the auto industry to say the least is shit right now and in a recession the last thing people want are cars but,….you’ll see what I mean in a moment her. To save you the trouble here’s a summary breakdown of the show:
(IF IMAGES ARE TOO SMALL, CLICK ON THEM TO OPEN THEM IN A NEW WINDOW/TAB. Also, to save time and reading, I’ve left out certain things like the names of the contestants just so that I can go straight to the good parts)
Alright so the first contestant gets up on stage and gets a crack at “The Most Expensive”. For those who aren’t familiar with this game, all you gotta do is pick out the prize that’s the most expensive:
Here we see a chance at three trips, Trip to Africa, Trip to India, and a Trip to Australia. After Rich reads the plug for each one, Drew informs us that each trip is OVER 7000….miles. Each trip’s over 7000 miles, yippee I guess? The contestant chooses Australia as the most expensive trip and to save you the suspense, he’s chose incorrectly and loses the game…
BECAUSE A TRIP TO AFRICA IS 18 FUCKING GRAND:
A trip to bumfuck India is $13000 some odd dollars and THE Land of Bizarro World aka Australia, is 8k. :
Maybe Drew should’ve said that all three trips were all over $7000, THAT would’ve been some useful information. Seriously, $18,000? You better be nabbing some children to take home with you or shaking Nelson Mandela’s hand or something. Afterwards some chick plays the “Grand Game” and withsome groping of one of the prizes, ends up winning $10,000. Nothing other worth mentioning here. Finally to close out the first half of the show, a contestant has a shot to win a truck at “Lucky $even”. Seeing how it was the 7000thshow, they gave the contestant 7 $1000 stacks to play with:
Optimistically, I was hoping for something to where if you miss it, you still pay the host a dollar for each number you were off. So if you said 376 and the next number of the car was 3, you have to give Drew $373. Sadly, this wasn’t the case as it was played under normal rules only with higher currency which to me, they should’ve at least given the guy a chance to walk away. That’s a good chunk of money. Instead the contestant shanked the car away and we’re left with only 1 winner so far.
Standard go around at the big wheel to which afterwards, Drew informs us that the next three games will be the same games from the first episode in 1972. For a moment I thought they were going to break out one of the retired games, like “Give or Keep” or the Phone Home game for ONE DAY ONLY! Instead, it’s “Any Number”, “Bonus Game”, and “Double Prices”.
So mid-way into Any Number, the board looks like this:
So the contestant calls for a “4″ next…:
…and into the piggy bank it goes. Now whichever spot fills up first, the contestant goes home with that corresponding prize, so if the next number goes into the piggy bank they go home with 5 bucks and some change. The next number called is “3″. Alright so hopefully it won’t go into the piggy bank. Surely, they wouldn’t set it up to where they would trap the contestant in a descending pattern…:
…Yup, they would. Now granted you could argue in that situation that she should’ve guessed lower and that it’s just as fair had the numbers not have gone in a descending order. And normally I’d give you the benefit of the doubt…that is until I saw the Bonus Game right up next.
In “Bonus Game” the contestant has a chance to win a Bonus Prize. This time around the Bonus Prize is an entertainment setup that includes a reclining chair with compartments and attachments, a widescreen HDTV, and apparently a jukebox
In order to win the Bonus Prize, you have to secure each window by correctly guessing if the smaller prizes are either higher or lower than the price of what’s given. If the word Bonus is by any of the windows you’ve secured, you win the bonus prize.If you get all 4, you of course auto-win the game.
Now the first three prizes were:
Contestant aces all three prizes and just needs to get this last one to win it all. The prize? A warming tray to keep your food warm. This is where I start to have a problem. The fourth prize is a warming tray. You plug it in and it warms your food. Not something every person would or would want to have but whatever. The listed price is $150
contestant says lower…
and ends up being wrong. Well alright, contestant’s in good shape. Has 3 out of the four right, a 75% chance of winning the bonus prize. Surely there’s no way that they would gyp him out of prize over a cafeteria appliance, something that comes standard on a RONCO Showtime Rotisserie. They wouldn’t screw him over like that, not on the 7000th episode, would they really?…
Yes, really. That’s right folks, Price is Right has gotten to the point where you can’t even rely on the quality of the games anymore. More on that as well in just a few moments. Later, the final game of the day is Double Prices, always a good closer and it’s for this Rolex watch:
and the one right price is either the one close to $7000 or the one close to $8000:
Of course it’s the one closest to 7000…
…and the show closes out on a 2 out of 6 wins. Going back to the contestant who played Bonus Game for a sec, interesting moment during the showdown to where when he spun the wheel, it looked like he had 85¢, but at the last moment the pointy noisemaker slips off and lands on 30¢…
…and chooses to stay on it…
WHO THE FUCK STAYS ON 30 CENTS!?!?A person who had the deck stacked against him and was thus goldbricked out of an awesome prize, that’s who. The showcase itself wasn’t anything major, they stuck prizes in that were “this is what we gave on the first show, so you get shit” (One of the prizes was literally floor paneling from the 70′s but with a different color) But anyway, that’s not the only swindling going on during the Drew Era. Check out this ridiculously hard setup in the game “Hi-Lo” from 2008:
I find it a little contradicting to the game’s name where you have 5 prizes that the prices are clustered together around in low to mid 10 dollar range. To quote one of the commenters on that video, ‘Bob would not have stood for such chicanery’…and I think I can prove it. Again if you will, take a look at this playing of the “Range Game” back in 1997:
…a close narrow finish and I mean barely touching if at all. It was close enough to where Bob gave him the snowmobile. Something that close wouldn’t be duplicated until 2008 during one of the primetime million dollar spectaculars and thus Drew’s shitty hosting abilities and lack of saying power comes to light:
(Click here to see a split of the two) Again, you could argue that “it was a technicality and that it’s not fair to base judgement off of that”. Okay Mr. Opposition, try this one then. December of 2008 one of the biggest highlights in the show’s history would take place in the showcase. The unimaginable, unthinkable, and almost unduplicatable would happen. That’s right, I’m talking about the perfect showcase. Watch how unenthused Drew’s reaction is:
Now granted once the contestant placed his epic bid, he broke the show because the producers wanted to make sure there was no chicanery (Gotta love that word) which there wasn’t. The contestant admitted that had help in the audience from someone who’s seen those particular prizes which before you cry cheater, keep in mind that getting help from the audience is a major staple of the show and in my mind there’s nothing wrong with multiple audience sittings, having a good memory, and being able to help someone win some prizes. So after it was proven that there was no chicanery, Drew could’ve been a little more excited seeing how it’s not everyday you see a perfect bid in the showcase.
Conclusively, who’s to blame here? Well I think you gotta point the finger at everyone from Drew Carey to Fremantle Media all the way up to CBS itself. The product that aired back when Bob hosted it certainly isn’t the same thing now. Hell Bob has gone on the record in saying that he doesn’t even watch it, and I can’t really blame him. If I had to do the same routine for 35 years and had some jackass come in and tarnish it with their ignorance, I wouldn’t want to look back either and trust me, be glad that I spared you the stupid skit segments during the showcases that involved fried chicken, pies being thrown at each other, and making Rich Fields doing stupid stuff. Talk about someone who deserves better, as in, I think he’s qualified to host the show himself to be honest.
During Drew’s tenure at the helm, 4 games have been retired (Buy or Sell, Joker, Poker Game, and Make Your Mark), 1 on what appears to be heading into retirement (Credit Card), 1 game with a shitty rules/gameplay change (3 Strikes), 1 they keep waffling on deciding they want to keep or not because of how old the game is (Barker’s Bargain Bar), any only 1 new game (Gas Money) so far cycled in.
As for FremantleMedia, they’re nothing more than a bunch of rating-whores who don’t care in quality and just push a product out there who are threatened when someone points out there mistakes.
Quick example, Big Jon’s PC games (www.bigjonpcgames.com) is a place that you could get games made after your favorite games shows. Shows like Deal or No Deal, Wheel of Fortune, and of course The Price is Right. That is until FremantleMedia sent him a Cease and Desist letter about his games back in August 2009, a battle in which he’s currently fighting to get his games back by trying to cite under fair and educational use. Now, while some of Jon’s games had quite a number of bugs in them, they were precise and dead-on balls accurate to the real thing on TV. BigJon’s TPIR game included all the pricing games in current rotation and just about all of the ones in retirement. That’s about 100 games total right there and that’s not including some of the newer ones he crafted himself. Oh and it was free to download. In late September FremantleMedia released the 2010 edition of The Price is Right onto PC, WII and DS. That has about 30′ish pricing games on it. Which do you think is the better bargain was threatened by it? The FremantleMedia Press Your Luck is all over the fucking place (Yet another thing I’ll tackle at a different time). I guarantee you had they not gone and produced another TPIR game, they wouldn’t have seen BigJon’s work on the radar.
One final note and I’ll let you guys go on this (Kudos to all of you who’ve read everything on here so far.) before I go, is it just me or is CBS recruiting everyone from ABC. Think about it, you have Craig Ferguson who replaced Craig Kilbourne on the Late Late Show. Drew Carey took over for Bob Barker. Wayne Brady’s now doing Let’s Make a Deal.
Jeez, what’s next? Kathy Kinney as Mimi being one of the models on Price is Right. Yeah, like that would ever hap…
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PS: If Drew or anyone else from CBS happens to see this, I think Drew is a funny guy just in the wrong line of work.
PPS: Just to not play favorites, there was once a time during the Barker era that a contestant got screwed out of $1.00 on the big wheel and was never compensated for it.
One of the things in life that I enjoy a lot is American Football, (because apparently Soccer is starting to be a fad again) the thrill, action, and excitement are just a few keys that make games great. The other part that I throughly enjoy is the overlooked aspect that is announcing. I personally have a thing for certain commentators because certain announce teams, in my opinion, have a good rhythm and pace when calling games. Announce teams like FOX’s Kenny Albert, Daryl Johnston, and Tony Siragusa. Seeing how I’m in a zoned area that proned to get Washington game each week, Sam Rosen and Tim Ryan are a good pair. Dick Stockton and host of Discovery’s Destroyed in Seconds, Ron Pitts are good lead guys as well. CBS has some talent to bring to table as well like Greg Gumbel and Dan Dierdorf, Ian Eagle and former QB for the Raiders (back when they were not ass) Rich Gannon, Dick Enberg and former Monday Night Football announcer Dan Fouts. Solomon Wilcotts also gets a nod from me as well. The reason I highlight all these guys because 9 times out of 10, they do a hell of a better job than the top announcing guys. Guys like FOX’s Joe Buck and Troy Aikman and CBS’s Jim Nantz and Phil Simms.
First lemme start off with Joe Buck, back around in the late 90′s/early 2000′s Pat Summeral and John Madden were the faces that would cover the big games each week on FOX and to me were the Bert and Ernie of football. Sure you can make fun of Madden all you want but he makes the game fun to watch with all the Maddenisms and shit that you may or may not understand. Anyway when John was going to go do Monday Night Football with Al Michaels, Pat eventually went off to do radio covering Cincinatti Bengal games. This opened the door to Joe Buck, former Dallas Cowboys QB Troy Aikman and Cris Collinsworth to becoming the “A-Team” if you will. I didn’t mind Joe Buck’s work, sure he’s a little dry on the mic but was all around okay to listen to….that is until Summer of 2008 when he came out and admitted that sports, Baseball in particular, bore him:
During the MLB Postseason, Joe usually covers the World Series alongside Tim McCarver and to just blantanly say “I’m bored with the job that’s given to me, I rather watch The Bachlorette” shows me that:
A) he needs to get his man-card revoked
B) can’t be bothered to call a game, something I think a lot of people wish they would have as a job, so he makes jackass comments like these to get more money?
or C) he’s one ballsy motherfucker.
Ballsy or not, it’s a jackass maneuver to go out on some radio show and basically say I’m unenthused with my job even though being enthusiastic should be attributed with my job. So to say the least when this crap hit the fan, my respect for him immediately went into the toilet. His partner isn’t all that better. I’m not saying I don’t respect Troy Aikman, guy was one hell of a quarterback for the Cowboys (my favorite team FYI) at the time, but to those who don’t know, was forced into retirement because of racking up so many concussions. This, I believe at times, becomes a factor in the booth as he’ll say certain things that quite frankly should’ve been left unsaid. Cris Collinsworth eventually left “The A-Team” (good move) and went on to the NFL network and now is John Madden’s replacement on NBC’s Sunday Night Football (and he’s doing quite well)
Let’s shift to the other side of things here to CBS where we have Jim Nantz and Phil Simms. Originally Greg Gumbel was Simms’ partner but executives wanted to put Nantz up in the booth instead of behind a desk for whatever reason. (something that Greg also did at one time as well.) Either way, they’re both up in the booth and CBS swipped James Brown from FOX and yada yada yada. Now Nantz and Simms are generally okay when calling games, that is unless the teams who happen to be playing are either the New England Patriots or the Pittsburgh Steelers. Patriots especially because no matter what team they’re playing, they always fucking have to spin something around how great Tom Brady is. Don’t get me wrong, as much as I despise Brady, dude’s definitely going into the Hall of Fame someday and understandably so. Guy has incredible numbers and probably isn’t even in the peek (pique?) of his career yet. However these two goofballs in the booth have to fucking find a way to give him unnecessary praise like he was Jesus Christ himself ressurected who’s sole purpose was to whoop ass in football. They’re almost as bad with the Steelers and Ben Rothlesberger. Hell, Madden himself was trying to go for a new record by saying how he’s “so big and so strong”. Seriously, if you ever get a chance to watch the NBC telecast of Super Bowl 43, count how many times Madden says “so big and so strong”. It’s like when he said Bootleg 9000 times during Super Bowl 40 with the Steelers and Seahawks. Anyway my point being is that these 4 guys typically can’t be bothered to get excited. Whether it be that the action is too boring and reality shows are more exciting or that you been kaboshed in the head one too many times or whether it be you can’t excited unless the quarterbacks’ names are either Brady or Rothlesberger…these guys for the most part are rather bland when calling the action.
Now if you made this far, Bravo because I didn’t expect to have a mini rant in what was my initial rant that sorta has a point. As of late this season, there’s been one guy who has been slowly becoming to being an awesome personal favorite of mine and he is none other than, Gus Johnson. Gus has what I personally think, is the key ingridient of becoming an announcer, excitement. No matter who’s playing or what the score is, he has the talent to make it sound like he’s cheering right along side you.
For example take Week 1 in what was mostly a dismal game between the Bengals and Broncos, Denver’s Kyle Orton throws a pass that gets tipped up in the air by Bengals defender Leon Hall and caught by Denver’s Brandon Stoakley to score an 87-yard game winning Touchdown. (Notice Rookie coach Josh McDaniels, mouthing “WE’RE GOING FOR TWO!” with 11 seconds left.) Gus, nearely has a seizure, heart attack, and a brain aneurysm all at the same time while calling this and his exciteability is partly what made that catch memorable. (other than the fact that it was a spectacular catch that gave them the game)
Fast forward to Week 5 where Carson Palmer of the Bengals, down by 4, looking to score on the final seconds of the game. Palmer connects with Andre Caldwell in the endzone to score the winning touchdown to win the game with Gus not-so-much screaming his lungs out this time around but enough to get you a picture.
Hell in other sports, Gus’ exciteability follows. Like during this NBA game about Al Harrington’s 3 pointer:
So when I got up yesterday and checked out the headlines of the day, I was a little upset and angry to see fingers pointed at Gus of what critics are claiming to be a racist remark that was said by Gus Johnson. The remark in question was during Week 8 when Tennessee Titan runningback Chris Johnson broke one loose against the Jacksonville Jaguars for a 52-yard touchdown. As Chris Johnson was breaking away from Jaguar defenders, Gus up in the booth chimed in with:
“He’s got ‘getting-away-from-the-cops’ speed” -Gus Johnson
A statement was issued by Gus to THE USA TODAY by saying:
“If there is a perception of racism in this analogy, it is not coming from me. People of all races have run from the law. However, to those who are offended, I apologize.” -Gus Johnson
He’s got a good point in which you have to have a dirty mind going into that quote to pull something dirty out of it. Everyone in this day and age is quick to jump on someone’s case about “Oh, you said something wrong about this person. I’m telling!”. Grow up people, there’s nothing wrong with what he said. I guarantee you if you flip on an episode of COPS, you’ll see anybody of any color or ethnicity, man or woman, running from the police. It’s just one of those things that society has degraded and warped the meaning of something over time. (Kinda like how the words penis, vagina, douche, retarded, and the now controversial “gay” have all alternate meanings) Besides, this isn’t even remotely close to racism, especially when you have these remarks were uttered on national TV (as provided by liquid generation):
So my point through all of this? Lighten up people. There’s nothing wrong with comparing a fast person to someone who runs from the cops.
(PS: As soon as I can figure out how to upload .flv files, I wanna resurface the clip of Phil Simms getting clocked by a snowball while calling a game. Classic stuff.)
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I feel obligated to let you folks know what’s been going on lately (consider it an obligatory once a month update). As around here, nothing much. I have some themes picked out, downloaded, and backed the this default scheme just in case I happen to break something (which after testing code, happens alot) so I’ve been timid as to place things where. The other part to this is that once I get what I want in place, I’d like to modify it. Like there was this one theme that had a box modeled after the profile icon box in windows messenger only it had some old dude’s picture in it. I thought this would be a good “Oh what kind of mood am I in?” type of thing cause I hear that’s what all the cool kids are into and plus I could fill with funny images I feel. The only problem with this is that the code was hard to cipher through because I know absolute jack squat in PHP. Right now I just wanna find a way to replace the shitty “Toyota Tahoma” font at the top and replace with the sweet ass title that I made one night to make it look like I’m attempting to make this site look bad ass.
The past couple of weeks here I’ve been bouncing around like a mexican jumping bean with papers with being a good dinner guest, all-around decent company to have, and my personal favorite of saying things to be a smart ass at the wrong possible times! Right now, I just want to settle down for a few days here and have some alone time in which I try to figure out this tangled mess. In the mean time I wanna choke down these dried out salty slim jims (which I’m now out of) and relax a bit. When I’m not doing either one of those, I’ll either be on Xbox LIVE telling someone that I’ll be shitting on their Dad’s chest or trying to untangle this PHP mess.
So yeah there’s your heads up on what’s been goin on. =P
