Most annoying sports personality ever

[mvd]

Right now, I'm really mad that Larry Brown left Philly to win with the Pistons - he's 63 and had a few more years left to build on the nucleus - but my choice could change later.

[Selwynn]

1. Bill Walsh.

Hate 'em.

[Rowdyboy]

2. At 27, you're a little young to remember

Howard Cosell. His voice was like fingernails on a chalkboard, his analogies-offbase and wordy, his arrogance-unequalled and totally unjustified.

Howard Cosell's retirement was the best thing to happen to professional sports in the 20th century.

[pauliedangerously]

5. I second that, Rowdyboy!!!!!!!!!!

I used to mute the tv and turn on the radio for Monday Night Football.

[Rowdyboy]

6. Howard was embarrassing

and America evidently ate him up! Never understood the charm, myself.

[tjwash]

31. He was just a man.

Diminutive in stature. Yet an athletic prowess about him never seen. If one tried. One would have. To say. Greatness.

The dude was annoying on his sports broadcasts, but he did do a hell of a lot for african-american athletes. He had a knack for interviewing people, and leaving them room to answer difficult questions, comfortably.

[Spinzonner]

12. I think he was more pretentious than arrogant

Still, he wasnt just another pretty face and he had things to say that the typical ex-jock or professional sports announcer wouldnt.

But, OTOH, there was that toupee ...

[Feanorcurufinwe]

13. I really thought there was no question.

[bearfan454]

23. Retirement ?

I thought when he said "look at that little monkey run" was when he had to go.

[Rowdyboy]

24. Can you believe, I had forgotten that?

I think you're entirely right!

[CO Liberal]

27. HOW-uhd Co-SELL...

As he used to say his own name.



Source: http://www.midatlantic.net/

[playahata1]

35. But when he was at his best, he asked questions and took stands

that NO other sports figure -- on the field or in the press box -- would ask or take. He was one of the FEW sports journalists who stood up for Muhammad Ali when Ali refused to go to Vietnam. People forget that.

[Brahma Bull]

3. John Madden.

Need I say more?

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. Most annoying? John Rocker. Or maybe Ty Cobb.

Of course, I consider "annoying" to be something which is a product of inherent personal characteristics, not of, say, going somewhere else to make more money, which is perfectly understandable.

[devilgrrl]

7. Obnoxious sports personalities O-Rama

Hockey: Eric Lindros, Darcy Tucker, Tom Barrasso, Paul Kariya

Football: Jeremy Shockey, Steve Largent, Kurt Warner, future obnoxious punk Eli Manning, and the hugest bust in NFL history... Ryan Leaf.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

8. Uh, all of them.

nuff said.

[devilgrrl]

11. Yeah...

I'd have to agree with you there - they are a bunch of fuckwits aren't they?

:headbang:

[maveric]

9. Dennis Rodman.

Hands Down.

[Solar]

10. I don't know his name...

... but he's one of the commentators for the Houston Astros. I had to listen to him during a game when I was down in Texas.

dryest. boring. monotone. voice. ever.

He makes the NPR people sound like an angry Al Sharpton.

[Bluzmann57]

18. Would it be Milo Hamilton?

He really sucks imo. How he ever made the HoF is beyond me. He is arrogant and seems to want to be the show instead of calling the action.

[GOPisEvil]

19. Nah...Milo isn't boring or monotone.

He just isn't very good anymore. Alan Ashby, perhaps? He's Milo's color man, who does play by play for a few innings a game.

[lpbk2713]

20. Sounds like Don Criqui but

I know it's not him.

[Awsi Dooger]

14. I can't stand even one second of Jim Rome, an overrated mediocrity

Rome is the sporting version of George W. Bush. I click the channel immediately when their voices or images are imminent.

I know plenty of DUers disagree, based on previous polls. They say Rome's politics are decent, down the middle.

I never allow him to get that far. If someone is obnoxious and loud, I expect and demand accompanying brilliance, or at least unique opinions. Jim Rome spouts the most cliche and unoriginal sporting theories of all time, yet in a voice and tone like he's the only one who knows this stuff. I am absolutely flabbergasted he has any following at all. Sports Analysis for Simpletons, 101.

Last year's debut of Rome's ESPN show was perfect evidence, classic Rome: In a preview commercial be unleashed the all time blase opinion that the NFL draft is a crap shoot, then as evidence shouted that Joe Montana was a 4th rounder. Disregard that Montana was actually selected in the 3rd round by San Francisco in '79.

His other preview commercials unleashed these Rome-alone brainstorms:

* Barry Bonds is doing great things in baseball, especially for his age

* It's wrong for little league baseball parents to go overboard during the games

Gee, I really should check out Jim Rome's show this week. Maybe I'll learn the Lakers will be a different team next year, or Phil Mickelson probably won't win the Grand Slam.

[pretzel4gore]

15. geebush...the nadir of (cheerleading)!

mygod i despise that man!

[Somawas]

16. Vitale

'nuff said.

[lpbk2713]

17. John McEnroe

He may have been talented but I always thought of him as a punk.

[Commendatori]

21. Charles Barkley, Phil Rizzuto, John Sterling, Harry Caray

I could go on for a while, but these clowns are as bad as Cosell was.

[markses]

22. Deion Sanders, hands down

n/t

[Darth_Ole]

25. In no particular order:

Howard Cosell, Randy Moss, Deion Sanders, Keyshawn Johnson, Kurt Warner, Kurt Warner's wife, Mike Martz, Jim Fassell, Warren Sapp, Mike Sherman, Jerry Jones, Brian Bosworth, Peyton Manning, Dan Fouts, Dan Dierdorf, Dennis Miller, Boomer Esiason, Terry Bradshaw, Mike Tyson, John Rocker, Roger Clemens, George Steinbrenner, the WGN Chicago Cubs and White Sox announcers, the baseball announcers for FOX, John McEnroe, Anna Kournikova, the entire LA Lakers team, Jeremy Shockey, Marty Cordova, Bill Parcells, NFL cheerleaders, Ryan Leaf, Dennis Rodman, Dick Vitale, Zinedine Zindane, Darryl Strawberry, Ty Cobb, Lou Holtz, Jim Mora, the Cowboys teams of the 90's, Bud Selig, Daunte Culpepper, Danny Almonte's father, David Wells, Latrell Sprewell, Bobby Knight, and hundreds of others I can't think of right now...

edit: spelling

[Bertha Venation]

26. Joe Morgan

what a lousy baseball commentator

[Magrittes Pipe]

28. It's unfortunate, too.

Possibly the greatest second baseman ever (the only real competition for that title coming from Rogers Hornsby, who played 20 years before the integration of the sport). And more importantly, he was such a smart player. Never tried to steal when he couldn't make it. Never swung at a bad pitch. Always in position defensively.

But damn, is that guy a moron when he's on TV....

edited to change the HTML brackets, 'cause DU's dumb that way. ;)

[Bertha Venation]

33. no one would know Joe Morgan like a Reds fan

:bounce:

Great assessment.

I can't watch more than a few innings in an Angel game on ESPN because of that guy. Back home, I could just tune in the radio & watch the TV w/ the sound off. Sigh.

[Loonman]

29. Deion Sanders and Corky McBats

Sammy Sosa, that is.

[AngryAmish]

34. Sammy Sosa is the greatest living American

It has been proven empirically.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

30. Alain Prost... no, wait...

Although the Teutonic Chin is catching up fast...

Crap, how could I forget DAVID BECKAM?

[The_Gopher]

32. Tim McCarver. Major league a**hole.

[FredScuttle]

36. OJ

C'mon people! It ain't even close!

Howard Cosell never committed no double murder!