The Dean Goes Berserk...

((HT: BobsBlitz.com/GenerationYSports/790 The Zone, Atlanta))

Most of the HQ knows the "Dean" of Sports Talk Radio in Atlanta, Beau Bock...

He's been on the television side back in the days of film and has transmogrified into the grumpy, older voice of sports talk...

Beau has done outbursts like this one before, it's just the newest example...
Here's the argument... Decide for yourself...


Hom-uh...

He has always thought Jerry Glanville didn't get a fair shake and will be the first to tell you about the woes of the team and how the rest of the division needs to cower in a corner come September...

Now that 790 is the voice of the Falcons, we get elements like the one above...
Keep 'em coming... it's fair radio...

Brotherly Love In A Studio: A Stew-Pendous Fight

((HT: 790TheZone/AJC-Ho))

Five years ago, Doug and Ryan Stewart ((AKA The "2 Live Stews" on Sporting News Radio)) got into a brotherly-wrestling match on the air during their program over a topic that can only really set brothers off to wrestle like they're in their own backyard.

Doug, the older one, claimed to be the victor in that particular match-up.
Ryan, the younger one ((and the ex-NFL'er)) got his chance at a rematch in the studio in Atlanta. Ryan has always denied his brother's claim to the title since their is no video evidence to support the victory.

Tuesday, Ryan took umbrage that his older brother was making fun of the way their entertainment reporter, "Jazzy", was pronouncing names- somewhat incorrectly.

The bout starts, about, four minutes in...
Ryan claims the decision, but both ended up pretty sweaty in the process...



Ah, brotherly love...

Sports Talk Goes Head-To-Head With Christine Brennan

Christine Brennan has raised a few eyebrows in the last days over her comments on the Erin Andrews situation...

Here was Round One on her Facebook and Twitter elements...

On the Erin Andrews situation, a quick thought for those who have asked: There are hundreds of women covering sports in this country who haven't had this happen to them. I wish it didn't happen to Erin, but I also would suggest to her if she asked (and she hasn't) that she rely on her talent and brains and not succumb to the lowest common denominator in sports media by playing to the frat house.

Seeing this, and remembering their tete-a-tetes from the past, "Steak" Shapiro and co-host Chris DiMino hads Brennan as a guest on the "Mayhem in the AM" program Thursday morning on WQXI-AM/790 The Zone.

What the two hosts, seemingly, ignored were her follow-up comments to her original post...

When I said "play to the frat house," it was not meant to be pointed specifically at Erin, and I'm sorry if it was taken that way. It's a comment I use often in speeches and while talking to younger women to guide myself and all of us on how to live our lives as women in sports journalism.

I don't want us playing to the frat house; I want us talking to the 12-year-old girl on the couch watching sports with her Mom or Dad. As the hundreds of women who work in sports media know, we often still have to be twice as good to get half the credit. It's not fair, but it's the way it is. I have fought for years for opportunities for women in sports journalism, and will continue to do so. ...

and the last part... For those who think I am against Erin, nothing could be further from the truth. What happened to her is terrible, and she will always have my full support. That's all she wrote...thanks! :)

Here's their dust-up for all to listen to...

At the 4:30 and 12:30 marks of this are the major head-butting elements in the segment...

Those of us at OSG HQ think the act itself was wholly deplorable and completely "frat-house" like in its execution. This should happen to no one- ever...

Personally, we think the person or persons responsible should be executed...

But that's just us...

Card-Pitt: A Marriage That Went To Hell

65 years ago the 2 teams battling for the Super Bowl championship were one team.

Back in 1944, World War II was still raging and many NFL players were dodging bombs rather than catching them in the European and Asian theater. Wartime sacrifice was greatly effecting the NFL as teams could not even field a team. Some franchises folded while others merged.

The year before, the Pittsburgh Steelers were down to 6 players so owner Art Rooney got permission from then NFL commissioner Elmer Layden to merge with the Philadelphia Eagles, who were also down in numbers. That year the Steagles as they were known had moderate success.

In 1944 the Steelers merged with the Chicago Cardinals to form Card-Pitt. Now the Cardinals were in the middle of a 29 game losing streak so they were bad. Combined with the Steelers it became god awful.

The Card-Pitts were a team of no talent, no chemistry and no clue and finished 0-10.

It got so bad that 3 players on the team were fined for "indifferent play" following a 34-7 loss against the Chicago Bears. In today's terms, they were fined for playing like crap. The players were ticked off and fought with the coaching staff. So much for team chemistry.

Steelers owner Art Rooney called Card-Pitts “the worst team in NFL history.” That they were.

So when you watch Super Bowl XLIII lets hope the game doesn't go down the toilet like there combined efforts did in 1944.