"The Most Spectacular Weapon in Football" (1 Viewer)

[fantasycurse42]

I hate Skip Bayless and Stephen A Smith so much... Sure, Tucker is a good kicker, but how are these guys on TV? "The Most Spectacular Weapon in Football" - Skip's description of Tucker!

Fast forward to the 3:18 mark of this video - This guy is such a moron!

 

[Ghost Rider]

I hate Skip Bayless and Stephen A Smith so much.

Then why do you watch them?

And why are you trying to get us to watch them??

 

[Kool-Aid Larry]

yeah, I see pretty much zero skip bayless, and I think that's how I'll keep it

 

[fantasycurse42]

I hate Skip Bayless and Stephen A Smith so much.

Then why do you watch them?

And why are you trying to get us to watch them??

When I eat lunch at my desk, espn.com/video - The only clips that are longer than 30 seconds are his...

Where can I get a 10 minute, uninterrupted sports clip?

 

[Phenix]

Who cares what guys on TV think anyways?

If its not a beat writer, I do not listen. If they don't know, no one does.

Skips biggest fan is himself. Did he ever say that before last night? Prolly not.

That show intro too? WTF is that? "Whats wrong with all these haters, they lyin, they lyin?"

 

[Ghost Rider]

Uh, I am pretty sure their target audience changed, hence them replacing a white guy moderator with a hot black woman, making Big Mouth A. Smith a regular, and having an intro rap song about haters.

Sadly, I used to watch the show here and there, but it became unwatchable. Their football talk is simple:

-Bayless gets down on his knees and slurps Tom Brady.

-Smith gets down on his knees and slurps Aaron Rodgers.

-Smith makes fun of the Cowboys.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

 

[mbuehner]

Couldn't be happier we ran that turd out of Chicago. Couldn't take another article about how Jordan was so overrated.

Bayless is less than a joke, he intentionally says things just to piss people off. No idea why he has a job.

 

[fantasycurse42]

How is someone employed (by the biggest distributor of sports content in America nonetheless) that calls the kicker "the most dynamic weapon in football"?????

How is that possible? I'm surprised he doesn't get beaten up in public more often. His meals and food def get spit in quite frequently!

 

[MattFancy]

I have a bone to pick with Stephen A. Who the hell goes by their middle inital? What kind of assclownery is that? What doesn't he just go by Stephen or Steve or A?

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

The Great Dane, Morten Andersen, was an offensive weapon.

I can't think of any other kickers who meet that description.

 

[Adam Harstad]

I have a bone to pick with Stephen A. Who the hell goes by their middle inital? What kind of assclownery is that? What doesn't he just go by Stephen or Steve or A?

JRR Tolkien, George RR Martin, Gene A. Washington, Big E Smalls, Roy G Biv. I'm sure there are others.

 

[GregR]

Saw the title and I figured this thread was going to be about the Jaguars Cheerleaders,(NSFPYCSWIL: not safe for places you can't see women in lingerie) or Whitney Cowart in particular.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

I have a bone to pick with Stephen A. Who the hell goes by their middle inital? What kind of assclownery is that? What doesn't he just go by Stephen or Steve or A?

JRR Tolkien, George RR Martin, Gene A. Washington, Big E Smalls, Roy G Biv. I'm sure there are others.

Now George RR Martin went and stole one of his initials from someone else, which might be even bigger assclownery (to the extent a great writer can be an ######## that is...).

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Saw the title and I figured this thread was going to be about the Jaguars Cheerleaders, or Whitney Cowart in particular.

No reason it can't be....

 

[fantasycurse42]

Stephen A Smith is the king of circumlocution, just to be gasconading! That guy truly is unparagoned at the bottom of journalism.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

I have a bone to pick with Stephen A. Who the hell goes by their middle inital? What kind of assclownery is that? What doesn't he just go by Stephen or Steve or A?

Steve Smith is a pretty uncommon name afterall.

 

[GregR]

Spectacular weapons.

 

[GregR]

I have a bone to pick with Stephen A. Who the hell goes by their middle inital? What kind of assclownery is that? What doesn't he just go by Stephen or Steve or A?

Steve Smith is a pretty uncommon name afterall.

Yes, without the "A" we wouldn't know if he is the one who punches people out, or the one that people wish would be punched out.

 

[MattFancy]

I have a bone to pick with Stephen A. Who the hell goes by their middle inital? What kind of assclownery is that? What doesn't he just go by Stephen or Steve or A?

JRR Tolkien, George RR Martin, Gene A. Washington, Big E Smalls, Roy G Biv. I'm sure there are others.

Ah I guess you're right and I forgot about one of my favorites: Doug E Doug from Cosby Show and Cool Runnings fame. Although it doesn't matter, going by Stephen A is just dumb. Does anyone call George RR Martin, George RR? Or Big E Smalls, Big E?

 

[Adam Harstad]

I have a bone to pick with Stephen A. Who the hell goes by their middle inital? What kind of assclownery is that? What doesn't he just go by Stephen or Steve or A?

JRR Tolkien, George RR Martin, Gene A. Washington, Big E Smalls, Roy G Biv. I'm sure there are others.

Now George RR Martin went and stole one of his initials from someone else, which might be even bigger assclownery (to the extent a great writer can be an ######## that is...).

He comes by both of his Rs honestly. Raymond was given to him at birth, and Richard was his confirmation name.

 

[Adam Harstad]

I have a bone to pick with Stephen A. Who the hell goes by their middle inital? What kind of assclownery is that? What doesn't he just go by Stephen or Steve or A?

JRR Tolkien, George RR Martin, Gene A. Washington, Big E Smalls, Roy G Biv. I'm sure there are others.

Ah I guess you're right and I forgot about one of my favorites: Doug E Doug from Cosby Show and Cool Runnings fame. Although it doesn't matter, going by Stephen A is just dumb. Does anyone call George RR Martin, George RR? Or Big E Smalls, Big E?

Lots of people called him "Big E". Haven't you ever heard the song "Hypnotize"?

Big E, Big E, Big E, can't you see?

sometimes your words just hypnotize me...

Also, my wife and I call Martin "Georgerr" (rhymes with forger). Does that count?

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

I have a bone to pick with Stephen A. Who the hell goes by their middle inital? What kind of assclownery is that? What doesn't he just go by Stephen or Steve or A?

JRR Tolkien, George RR Martin, Gene A. Washington, Big E Smalls, Roy G Biv. I'm sure there are others.

Now George RR Martin went and stole one of his initials from someone else, which might be even bigger assclownery (to the extent a great writer can be an ######## that is...).

He comes by both of his Rs honestly. Raymond was given to him at birth, and Richard was his confirmation name.

Hm, ok, not 100% up on the politics of initials but I'm gonna say most people don't include their confirmation name in their sig.

 

[Adam Harstad]

Hm, ok, not 100% up on the politics of initials but I'm gonna say most people don't include their confirmation name in their sig.

If Martin had the foresight at age 13 to select a confirmation name that began with the letter R so that when he was a 50-year-old successful fantasy author he could pay homage to JRR Tolkien, then he earned it.

I don't think there are really any rules for initials with respect to writers. Want to use your first and middle initial with your last name? Sure thing, C.S. Lewis, E.E. Smith, A.A. Milne, J.D. Salinger, H.P. Lovecraft, and E.E. Cummings. Got two middle initials? Okay J.R.R. Tolkien and W.E.B. Du Bois. Want to use your middle initial with your full first and last name? Go for it, Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. Want to use your first initial and your full middle name? Why not, F. Scott Fitzgerald, J. Meade Falkner, and M. Night Shyamalan? Think capitalization is for chumps? Then you must be k.d. lang. Want to just make up a name entirely? Who am I to tell you no, Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain)? Want to use a title instead of a name? Sure thing, Donatien Alphonse François (aka Marquis de Sade). At least Martin stands alone as the only guy I know of to use a full first and two middle initials. About the only rarer configuration would be one first initial and a full last name ("A. Harstad") or a full first and the last initial ("Adam H.")

With all the stuff everyone else gets away with, what's a confirmation name between friends?

 

[drummer]

Michael J. Fox

 

[Stompin' Tom Connors]

Hm, ok, not 100% up on the politics of initials but I'm gonna say most people don't include their confirmation name in their sig.

If Martin had the foresight at age 13 to select a confirmation name that began with the letter R so that when he was a 50-year-old successful fantasy author he could pay homage to JRR Tolkien, then he earned it.

I don't think there are really any rules for initials with respect to writers. Want to use your first and middle initial with your last name? Sure thing, C.S. Lewis, E.E. Smith, A.A. Milne, J.D. Salinger, H.P. Lovecraft, and E.E. Cummings. Got two middle initials? Okay J.R.R. Tolkien and W.E.B. Du Bois. Want to use your middle initial with your full first and last name? Go for it, Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. Want to use your first initial and your full middle name? Why not, F. Scott Fitzgerald, J. Meade Falkner, and M. Night Shyamalan? Think capitalization is for chumps? Then you must be k.d. lang. Want to just make up a name entirely? Who am I to tell you no, Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain)? Want to use a title instead of a name? Sure thing, Donatien Alphonse François (aka Marquis de Sade). At least Martin stands alone as the only guy I know of to use a full first and two middle initials. About the only rarer configuration would be one first initial and a full last name ("A. Harstad") or a full first and the last initial ("Adam H.")

With all the stuff everyone else gets away with, what's a confirmation name between friends?

No problem with people using their initials in their name. Only slightly perturbed by the lack of punctuation in some of them (like Tolkien and Martin).

But it's guys that eschew both punctuation and norms of capitalization that get my goat. Damn you to hell, ee cummings.

 

[amnesiac]

Hm, ok, not 100% up on the politics of initials but I'm gonna say most people don't include their confirmation name in their sig.

If Martin had the foresight at age 13 to select a confirmation name that began with the letter R so that when he was a 50-year-old successful fantasy author he could pay homage to JRR Tolkien, then he earned it.

I don't think there are really any rules for initials with respect to writers. Want to use your first and middle initial with your last name? Sure thing, C.S. Lewis, E.E. Smith, A.A. Milne, J.D. Salinger, H.P. Lovecraft, and E.E. Cummings. Got two middle initials? Okay J.R.R. Tolkien and W.E.B. Du Bois. Want to use your middle initial with your full first and last name? Go for it, Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. Want to use your first initial and your full middle name? Why not, F. Scott Fitzgerald, J. Meade Falkner, and M. Night Shyamalan? Think capitalization is for chumps? Then you must be k.d. lang. Want to just make up a name entirely? Who am I to tell you no, Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain)? Want to use a title instead of a name? Sure thing, Donatien Alphonse François (aka Marquis de Sade). At least Martin stands alone as the only guy I know of to use a full first and two middle initials. About the only rarer configuration would be one first initial and a full last name ("A. Harstad") or a full first and the last initial ("Adam H.")

With all the stuff everyone else gets away with, what's a confirmation name between friends?

No problem with people using their initials in their name. Only slightly perturbed by the lack of punctuation in some of them (like Tolkien and Martin).

But it's guys that eschew both punctuation and norms of capitalization that get my goat. Damn you to hell, ee cummings.

i have no problem with ee.

 

[CoachJankySpanky]

How is someone employed (by the biggest distributor of sports content in America nonetheless) that calls the kicker "the most dynamic weapon in football"?????

How is that possible? I'm surprised he doesn't get beaten up in public more often. His meals and food def get spit in quite frequently!

Even at his brother's restaurants.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Who cares what guys on TV think anyways?

If its not a beat writer, I do not listen. If they don't know, no one does.

 

[drummer]

Michael J. Cox

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Yngwie J. Malmsteen

 

[Sweet Love]

I may change my handle to Sweet MF Love...

 

[drummer]

George W. Bush

 

[Vector]

George W. Bush

Or his father, George Herbert Walker Bush.

 

[The Duff Man]

I work with a lot of Danes and most of the senior management uses their full middle name.

I guess it gives some separation since there are so many Hansen and Sorensen.

 

[Late225]

Michael J. Cox

Michael J. Fox also.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

You don't have to be good at what you do to be heard in today's sports environment, sometimes you just need to be the loudest.

SAS's has value to tv sports talking heads shows and it is this: he has an opinion, he values it, and he is unafraid to say it and say it clearly.

I disagree with that opinion a lot (you can say he's not "good" because he's wrong, or he's uninformed, fine), but there's a big dearth of journalism and at least this guy gives it a shot. Give me more Smiths, fewer jocks on tv.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

You don't have to be good at what you do to be heard in today's sports environment, sometimes you just need to be the loudest.

SAS's has value to tv sports talking heads shows and it is this: he has an opinion, he values it, and he is unafraid to say it and say it clearly.

I disagree with that opinion a lot (you can say he's not "good" because he's wrong, or he's uninformed, fine), but there's a big dearth of journalism and at least this guy gives it a shot. Give me more Smiths, fewer jocks on tv.

I agree with the fewer jocks part but we still need something better than a loudmouth like Smith.

 

[fantasycurse42]

You don't have to be good at what you do to be heard in today's sports environment, sometimes you just need to be the loudest.

SAS's has value to tv sports talking heads shows and it is this: he has an opinion, he values it, and he is unafraid to say it and say it clearly.

I disagree with that opinion a lot (you can say he's not "good" because he's wrong, or he's uninformed, fine), but there's a big dearth of journalism and at least this guy gives it a shot. Give me more Smiths, fewer jocks on tv.

I agree with the fewer jocks part but we still need something better than a loudmouth like Smith.

Everything Smith says come back to race, pretty annoying.

 

[Ghost Rider]

Given how popular First Take apparently is now, Stephen A. Smith is now not much better than Al Sharpton, a known race bater. Back when I used to watch, Smith liked to play the race card, but he did it in a way where he tried to dodge responsibility, by wondering if race is involved, instead of directly saying it. That way, he could say, "I didn't say it was; I merely wondered out loud if it was," which was essentially the same thing. And considering who their target audience is now, all he does is stir up more race problems, as I am gonna assume he still does the same thing. Keep in mind too that he is the same guy who has reportedly uttered the expression, "N-word (with the -a at the end instead of -er, please," on live television, and then later denied saying it despite video evidence to the contrary. As annoying as Bayless is, he is still better than Smith; at least with Bayless, you know it is mostly shtick.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Michael J. Fox

Bufford T. Justice

 

[drummer]

Michael J. Fox

Bufford T. Justice

Alice B. Toklas

 

[MoveToSkypager]

Jim E Hendrix

 

[Kool-Aid Larry]

hmmmmm....misfire

 

[loser]

Can we get back to the cheerleaders now?

 

[Spaces Lines and Laces]

They got into field goal range a couple of times, and he didn't get the kick because they went for it--dictated by the score. But, on the 1 he did get, he missed. Just NOTHING really going terribly well for the Ravens as whole.

Still a stupid statement.

 

[fantasycurse42]

Happy I played this spectacular weapon in my title game

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Most S. Weapon.