OT: Ernie Johnson Classy move

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Ernie Johnson wins Emmy, presents it to Stuart Scott’s daughters. Classy move, just when you think there is nothing to like about sports this happens. 

 

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DrMantisToboggan

May 6th, 2015 at 8:27 AM ^

Sports are terrible arghh! Every athlete is a woman beater and professional athletes don't give millions to charities every year!! I'm a member of a sports blog but I hate athletics, competition, and community!! Down with sports!

Great move from Ernie though.




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BornSinner

May 6th, 2015 at 8:38 AM ^

We're also going to selectively cover what we're going to be outraged about! Today's flavor is domestic violence! Rape is so yesterday. 

What's that? 

Ben Roethlisberger and Peyton Manning both sexually assaulted women in their pasts?  

Shhh... we don't talk about that.

I rather grandstand with Michelle Beadle about Floyd Mayweather beating women when her co-worker on The Fight Game, Jim Lampley, also beats women. 

But hey who needs to know about that when everyone knows black athletes are more polarizing and easier to hate in America. 

 

:) 

ijohnb

May 6th, 2015 at 9:14 AM ^

I hate to say it, but you kind of have a point.

Josh Gordon = thug

Josh Hamilton = disease

There are quite a number of these examples you could point to.

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BornSinner

May 6th, 2015 at 9:42 AM ^

Tom Brady = passionate 

Richard Sherman = thug 

Floyd Mayweather = coward, runner, ducker, wife beater 

Manny Pacquiao = God fearing people's champion (drug abuser, gambling addict, serial adulterer, anti-gay) 

Johnny Manziel prior to draft = Just likes to party; ends up in rehab. 

Shane Ray prior to draft = habitual drug user after testing positive for.... pot. 

 

BornSinner

May 6th, 2015 at 9:53 AM ^

You're right. I should have said Dez Bryant is the thug for his sideline antics from last year. 

 

Meanwhile Brady can get away with faulting networks for not censoring his "potty mouth" 

http://nesn.com/2014/12/tom-brady-on-his-in-game-swearing-blame-cbs-and…

 

Oh and here's the funniest one yet. 

Nick Saban and Alabama had a literal drug king pin on his football team, yet it never even made headlines for more than 3 days. 

Meanwhile, Honey Badger over at LSU gets hounded for a whole year regarding his "pot addiction." I'll let you guess which one is the white guy. 

This shit is just hilarious at this point. Seeing the N word trending on twitter next to Mayweather on Saturday night was icing on the cake. 

ijohnb

May 6th, 2015 at 9:59 AM ^

original post, how in the world in Big Ben still playing football in the NFL?  Should he not be enjoying the same perma-ban that many are advocating for with Frank Clark, Ray Rice, Greg Hardy, etc?

And while it doesn't fit the overall narrative of this conversation, how is Kobe Bryant still an active, and very popular NBA player.  I love me some Black Mamba but should he not be in league mandated pergatory as well?

SalvatoreQuattro

May 6th, 2015 at 1:49 PM ^

People who call him that don't know what the word " thug" means. Brady can be an asshole. So can Harbaugh. All three men are actually very similar in one important way--the drive to be great. They are so driven that their social skills at times suffer.



I think the issue of race being portrayed here is a bit simplistic. Magic fooled around, got HIV, and everyone pitied him. Conversely, a gay white man can do the same thing and some would say "Serves him right".



Jamieis Winston was accused of numerous crimes(is anyone calling him a thug?) and gets away with it. If an average dude did what Winston did he'd be in lockup.



Real social analysis requires us to look at the entire picture and just part of it as people are wont to do.

JamieH

May 6th, 2015 at 10:22 AM ^

but I agree with you that there is a definite double-standard in the media for athletes when it comes to race.  Not that this means that every media story about athletes is wrong or anything close to that, but I think anyone that thinks race doesn't filter into the tone of how certain athletes are perceived is kidding themselves. 

BornSinner

May 6th, 2015 at 10:34 AM ^

So me pointing out SJW double standards in the media somehow makes me spout SJW bullshit? 

Your avatar is pretty accurate of where your heads at. 

westwardwolverine

May 6th, 2015 at 10:50 AM ^

Let's roll through your stupidity:

"Ben Roethlisberger and Peyton Manning both assaulted women in their past". Okay. Equating these two things are ridiculous. Peyton Manning was accused of, at worst, pretty much pulling the  sit-up prank from Heavyweights while he was a college student. 

And then, even comparing Roethlisberger to Mayweather is hilarious: Mayweather beat a woman in front of his children. Let me repeat that: Mayweather beat a woman in front of his children. Roethlisberger has been accused of rape/sexual assault, but has pretty much lived quietly since. Mayweather is loud and in your face and is the biggest name in sports and seems to show no regret for what he did. OF COURSE HE'S GOING TO GET MORE SCRUTINY. And guess what? When all the shit about Roethlisberger occurred, he faced a ton of negative press. He's stayed out of the spotlight since, which is why the level of vitrol has died. Kind of like, you know, Kobe Bryant. 

Meanwhile, regarding race, this is the type of stuff that proves that brainwashing is real. 

"Tom Brady = passionate

Richard Sherman = thug"

Tom Brady does not act like Richard Sherman. I know, tv cameras caught Brady swearing on camera. During a game one time, Tom Brady got in someone's face. Congrats. It doesn't suddenly equate to acting exactly like Richard Sherman. But let's talk about some other black athletes. How about Andre Johnson? He whales on Cortland Finnigan during a game, but no one calls him a thug. Why? Because he doesn't act like Richard Sherman. Marvin Harrison was involved in a serious shooting incident, but there wasn't a rush to judge him as a thug. Why? Because he doesn't act like Richard Sherman.

While we are at it, who came up with the term thug in its most modern iteration? Think hard. 

"Johnny Manziel prior to draft = Just likes to party; ends up in rehab."

This was not the common sentiment (if it was at all). Just like it wasn't the common sentiment for a guy like Ryan Mallett. This is a thing one of your SJW buddies said once and you nodded along because it fit your ideology. 

More than anything, it seems like you want to turn this into a racial issue, so you give a bunch of examples that without context seem to prove a point, but upon further examination, don't actually hold up. More than likely, you've turned something you read on one guy on twitter with 20 followers into popular opinion and so you feel the need to rail against it. 

BornSinner

May 6th, 2015 at 11:20 AM ^

Brady one game? k lemme give you this. https://www.google.com/search?q=tom+brady+outbursts+gifs&espv=2&biw=192…;

On top of that you had the whole Bill Obrien blow up a couple years ago which everyone blamed Obrien for, not Brady. It is well known Brady bitches about everything during games and talks shit. Imagine a Dez Bryant doing that... oh wait... 

Secondly, what I'm getting here is.... regardless of whether an athlete paid his dues (Mayweather) his personality can dictate whether America can dig up 5 years old information on his DV issues? Why weren't you leading the charge in 2010 on his comeback fight out of jail? Where you then? Where was Michelle Beadle then? Hmmm?? Care to answer? Oh and btw why does he owe you anything regarding his private life? 

So Richard Sherman loud confident excellent player and Stanford grad warrants being called thug? Seems to me you like your black men nice quiet and docile. God forbid they have a personality.... ITS ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS to me that you equate Marvin Harrison, an actual thug, to Richard Sherman all b/c of his loud persona. 

Gee why would you do that? Oh b/c in your head black men are supposed to be quiet and anything remotely showing confidence to others = thug. 

Then again...any black athlete with any type of swag that doesn't conform to white hierarchy gets destroyed in the media. We even saw it here with the Fab Five. Mohammad Ali didn't gain appreciation until he became old and frail. Appreciation seems to come way after the fact. It's just nowadays we see how a lot of white america still feels about black athletes judging by Saturday night on social media. 

Why is it the pundits can scream fans support DV by buying PPV tickets for MayPac yet they don't scream that fans are supporting anti-gay sentiment? Why one, not the other? Why so selective? Wasn't gay athletes in sports the big thing just in 2014? 

Oh and btw Ben Roethlisberger wasn't just accused and quiet after a month or 2. Dude was accused/ or raped through a course of 2 and half years. Yet no one brings up his past ever and rather would dig up Dez Bryant's or Mayweather's. That is a double standard.

Oh and Peyton Manning had to settle twice with the chick he "pranked." 

 

ijohnb

May 6th, 2015 at 11:24 AM ^

large point of contention - Floyd Mayweather beating his girlfriend and Manny Pacquio being a political opponent of the gay marriage should not be discussed in the same sentence.  It is not an apples to apples comparison and really is not even apples to oranges.  It is more like apples to hot dogs.  One is a possible felony criminal offense and the other is an opinion/position as to a complicated social/political issue.

BornSinner

May 6th, 2015 at 11:34 AM ^

Given the media's narrative of good vs evil, it is quite stupid of them to make Pacquiao the good one. Both of them have skeletons in their closets that America wouldn't generally approve of. The whole narrative was pathetic and gave rise to shameful responses to the fight beyond what happened in the ring. 

If this was the NFL and Manny's stance/antics were known, he would be blown up. But since it is not the NFL, the media swept it under the rug b/c Floyd is the easier one to make into a bad guy and thus generate revenue. His past DV record was convenient for the media to use to jade the audience. 

 

ijohnb

May 6th, 2015 at 11:38 AM ^

buy that.  Mayweather relishes the villian role.  He is essentially playing a WWE role and he essentially dangles his "skeletons" out in front of people because he knows that people want to see him lose and will buy more of his fights the more they hate him.  As for Manny's "stance/antics," he is entitled to his opinion on the issue just as anybody else is, it doesn't define to any degree what kind of a person he is, good or bad.  The drug use was never proven, as far as performance enhancing drugs go, nor was it actually even really actually made directly.  Yeah, it sounds like he lived fast and loose for a while when he was young and rich but what young and rich person other than Tim Tebow can say they didn't.

 

BornSinner

May 6th, 2015 at 11:51 AM ^

That's what makes Floyd a genius. You just excused Manny's fast and loose lifestyle for being young and rich. What makes Floyd any different? He realized people don't like him for the same reasons you just excused Manny of. So he monetized it playing off the "villain" role that would have been his designated role regardless even before the DV issues came up. 

That's the issue. Why excuse Manny for living the fast life and not Floyd? And back then nobody gave a shit about domestic violence and sports, so you can't say DV is the reason. That's the discrepency. Pretty Boy Floyd just turned to Money May to capitalize off of it. These discrepencies no matter how small or big fall under racial lines more often than not and that is disturbing. 

Either way thread derailed enough. Good chat. Cheers. 

Louie C

May 6th, 2015 at 12:58 PM ^

Why in the absolute fuck is Sherman considered a thugh? Because he's from Compton? His hair? Because he talks shit but can back it up? For many people, it's the latter, and if that's the case then just about every athlete can be called a thug. Shit, Larry Bird was the king of shit talk in the NBA. Does that make him a thug? When's the last time you heard of Sherman in trouble? I'll wait. 

Seems like the only time we are any good to anybody is as long as we know our "place", don't fuck up,do not wear certain hairstyles, talk a certain way, or become too opinionated; especially about controversial subjects. Now who came up with those unofficial rules? To quote you, think hard. 

ghostofhoke

May 6th, 2015 at 9:02 AM ^

Vine is the most worthless invention of all time. I can't believe that a "news" outlet actually uses it as a tool to report a story. What the hell does that 6 second clip actually convey?




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Moe

May 6th, 2015 at 9:49 AM ^

A thread about Ernie Johnson being classy goes into many posters being completely unclassy and talking about rape and domestic violence.  Time and place guys.

ijohnb

May 6th, 2015 at 10:02 AM ^

are right.  My bad.  Just did not like the tone of the Board on the Frank Clark thing.  But this is not about that.  In fact, it is like the furthest thing from that.  I withdrawal from that conversation.

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mgoblue0970

May 6th, 2015 at 1:39 PM ^

Why?  Ernie didn't commit domestic abuse.

Listen, I think that 99.9% of the population understands that domestic abuse is bad.  Therefore, the 99.9% of us knows how to keep Frank and Ernie separate.

 

Hardware Sushi

May 6th, 2015 at 10:21 AM ^

"Classy move" is such a trite comment, that's why I downvoted.

Everytime I ready "he was classy" or "classy move", I think "The person making this comment is dumb and does not use their brain to come up with something more substantial other than a trite platitude."

ijohnb

May 6th, 2015 at 10:31 AM ^

that is a slight overreaction.  There is only so much room for a thread title man, woudl you have prefered, "Ernie Johnson wins Emmy and Gives it To Stuart Scott's Daugters as Tribute to the Late Sportscaster."  I think classy summed it up fine.

Hardware Sushi

May 6th, 2015 at 12:32 PM ^

It is an overreaction, but it's not an inaccurate reaction. Calling someone "classy" is the exact definition of platitude. I have my pet peeves, this is one of them.

And yes - the title is a C-. A much better title would've been "Ernie Johnson Gifts Emmy to Scott's Daughters", considering the current title is just a name and no description, other than classy, on which we've already agreed to disagree.