One of my favorite Seinfeld episodes is the one where after
being heckled at the comedy club, he then goes to the ladies’ place of work and
heckles her until she runs out of her office crying. I think social media would
change tremendously if this would happen in real-life.
I love sports and I think it would be the sweetest revenge
for a coach to walk on the set of ESPN and heckle one of the pundits. Can’t you
see the former LSU coach, Les Miles, walking onto the live set one day and
getting on someone like Paul Finebaum?
“Hey Paul, you were 3 – 5 last week in picking games, do you
not watch any game film?”
“When did you last play football? Was it flag football in
middle school?”
“What qualifies you to talk about who should be hired and
fired? Have you ever employed anyone?”
“Aren’t you most famous for a lunatic woman that called into
your radio show?”
“You really do have a face for radio.”
“I just don’t get it. You are picking less than 50% of the
weekly games correct and you have absolutely no background in football. I can
tell you five people who would be better on this show than you.”
And then that wormy looking Amway Salesman Finebaum would
run off the set crying.
Now that’s a show worth producing, A Coaches Time to Evaluate the
Pundits.
I think some of these coaches on the hot seat ought to designate
some grad assistant to evaluate everything these guys say on TV. They then can
come up with the ammunition and go after these TV people.
Yet the TV people that just 2nd guess and give
the verbal click bait (soundbites that create hits to their twitter feed) have
a short shelf life. They eventually get banished to anonymity along with Bill Simmons,
Colin Cowherd, and Skip Bayless.
