Brhino

December 17th, 2014 at 3:14 PM ^

Spent a few minutes on the guy's Twitter feed. I don't know why. If I had no other reason to want Harbaugh to Michigan, I'd still be rooting for it just to see this asshat eat crow.

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Brhino

December 17th, 2014 at 3:47 PM ^

he's doing regular reporting stuff now, the sparring with M fans seems to be over.  I just don't understand how him and the rest of the NFL types are so utterly dismissive of the possibility of Harbaugh to M.  His argument against it was literally "You can't win a super bowl at Michigan".  That's it.

 

Same argument really ought to rule out the Raiders, too...

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CRISPed in the DIAG

December 17th, 2014 at 3:15 PM ^

What is the backstory?

Generally, I've dealt with stringers, columnists and quasi-celebrity TV reporters ot his ilk.  It's best to avoid them - they're looking to feed off outbursts like this.

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robpollard

December 17th, 2014 at 5:23 PM ^

Herrera (the Raiders exec) was saying Kawakami was a liar, and that no Raiders person had ever distributed an article to the press critical of Kiffin. (That's what that other woman was saying about that her paper's beat reporter had also got one).

FWIW, Kiffin was fired one week later. So I'm not exactly going to hold this against the reporter. Oakland is/was an insane organization.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/sports/football/01raiders.html

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Victor Valiant

December 17th, 2014 at 3:17 PM ^

The other day he tweeted something to Jonathan Chait about how he "could care less" about what UM fans think of his writing. I tweeted at him, "How much less could you care, Tim?" BLOCKED. Seems like a balanced guy.

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superstringer

December 17th, 2014 at 3:17 PM ^

The Raiders management shoujld be less worried about negative columns and more worried about their ungodly $h!tty teams.  If you win, you won't see bad press.

People like that moron Ferrera who are taller and bulkier and hope to intimiate by getting in people's faces are simply the smelly poop of society.  I don't care who was right or wrong in that discussion.  No person should disrespect his organization and league by acting like that.  The NFL should have been embarrassed and should have fined that jerk.  If you have a difference of opinion, say it across the room, with a table between you and the other guy, don't go stand in his face menacingly and lean over him and try to look like you're gonna whup him.  What is this, central Ohio?  Grow up, stop acting like a mad 8 year old.  Pathetic.  Really pisses me off to see grown men -- even ex football players at a really bad team -- behave that way.

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Chaz_Smash

December 17th, 2014 at 10:09 PM ^

Raiders have a history of doing things like this. Every few years, they pick out a reporter to publicly berate in the hope other reporters will cower and think twice before writing anything negative.

On the other hand, when the Raiders were in LA, they used to invite every podunk paper in SoCal to travel to road games with the team, all expenses paid. Another version of trying to convince people to write positive.

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