Connoisseurs of comical cornball Colin Cowherd

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  1. hood b. goode

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  2. Celemo

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    I wouldn't consider myself to be a Cowherd stan but I really enjoyed listening to him when he had a daily show based out of Portland. He was the only guy at that station that talked about CFB teams that weren't Oregon or Oregon State. Since he went national he's a caricature of his former self.
     
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    User CC playing the long game
     
  5. hood b. goode

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    your daughter fine af
     
  6. Corch

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    It's got to be incredibly hard to do a show by yourself for as long as he has and he's incredibly good at it.

    He still has a lot of clown takes though
     
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    this was true even when he went national for a bit

    college football received nowhere near the discussion that NFL, NBA, and MLB received and that's changed over the last 10-15 years. cowherd was definitely amongst the first guys who made CFB a bigger part of his show and coverage

    guy still sucks, though, despite his talent
     
  8. hood b. goode

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    On average i roll my eyes twice a video segment. Kinda like Bill Simmons where the cringe is part of the fan experience.

    I like him more than simmons though. Cowherd gets A+ guest appearances
     
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  9. Celemo

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    Cowherd is better than Simmons when it comes to talking sports
    Conversely, Simmons is better than Cowherd at the pop culture stuff.
    When Cowherd talks pop culture and when Simmons talks sports...yikes ensue
     
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    I like him more than I dislike him.
     
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    https://deadspin.com/remember-all-those-other-times-colin-cowherd-said-racis-1720163539


    Apologies in advance for the fucked up formatting, but I'll always hate that fucker for the John Wall shit where BILL FUCKING SIMMONS of all people backed him into a corner about apologizing to Wall on Cowherds own show.
    Remember All Those Other Times Colin Cowherd Said Racist Shit On ESPN?

    A Dwight Schrute cosplayer named Colin Cowherd said some really dumb things about Dominicans on ESPN Radio Thursday. Besides being wrong in several particulars, Cowherd’s musings were insulting and racist. On Friday, Cowherd addressed the rant during his show. Rather than apologizing or satisfyingly explaining his point, he blamed Deadspin for taking his words out of context. (They didn’t sound any better with additional context.) Later on Friday, ESPN announced that Cowherd had effectively been fired:




    At first this looks like a brave stand by ESPN, sending a strong message that the four-letter-network won’t pay for and promote ignorant, hateful speech.

    The problem here is that according to Sports Business Journal’s John Ourand, Cowherd’s final day with the network was actually supposed to be this coming Friday, meaning that all ESPN is doing is letting him go a week early. Later this fall, Cowherd is decamping from ESPN for Fox Sports; according to Variety, ESPN fought hard to reach a new contract agreement with him, including offering him a raise on top of his multimillion dollar salary.

    Cowherd has been spewing dogshit for years, and, as far as I can tell, he has never been suspended before. (ESPN PR doesn’t think he’s ever been suspended, either.) As soon as he spurns them for another network, though, they suddenly discover the ethics and drop him over what isn’t even close to the worst thing he has ever said. ESPN didn’t suddenly display a moral backbone here; they just saw an opportunity for good publicity.



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    As a reminder of what ESPN was willing to put up with right up to the point where Cowherd spurned them for a competitor, here are some of the terrible things Cowherd has said about race on ESPN airwaves over the years. If there are any I missed, please let me know in the comments.

    blames Sean Taylor for being murdered, even though he admittedly had no idea what he was talking about

    Sean Taylor, great player has a history of really really bad judgment, really really bad judgment. Cops, assault, spitting, DUI. I’m supposed to believe his judgment got significantly better in two years, from horrible to fantastic? “But Colin, he cleaned up his act.” Well yeah, just because you clean the rug doesn’t mean you got everything out. Sometimes you’ve got stains, stuff so deep it never ever leaves.

    My gut feeling with this story, and we said yesterday, yesterday was not really a day to go out, yesterday was sort of a day, you know, grieving, but we’re past the memorial part. It’s grown-up time, ask yourself realistic questions....Just because somebody cleans the rugs doesn’t mean there aren’t stains. No matter what those commercials, OxiClean, tell you on cable TV, some stains you can’t get out. And if you have bad judgment for 23 years of your life, even if you clean it up, your judgment doesn’t get great over night.

    No, all the information’s not in [on whether Taylor’s murder was random]. But I feel pretty confident that my gut feeling, like any of yours, by the way, is right and was right.

    questions John Wall’s character and intelligence because he did the Dougie, and says he’s not a leader

    Much like I called out Greg Oden, I’m gonna call out John Wall ... Before the game started, he spent 34 seconds doing the Dougie. That tells me all I need to know about J-Wow. Then he opened his mouth later and confirmed it: not a sharp guy. All about him. In that line last night, that 29-point line, when he was out of control, he had 8 turnovers. By the way, Rajon Rondo had 17 assists last night, 0 turnovers. Rajon’s got rings, Wall will never have one.

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    Oh, I’m gonna get a lot of callers — Colin, he’s just having fun. What he did last night, Rondo never would, Isiah never would, J. Kidd never would, Stockton never would, Nash never would, Magic never would. Point guard is like the quarterback. it’s an IQ-judgment position. The great ones are not about themselves. They’re about the others. Leadership is IQ, it’s not skills.

    J Wow’s 37-second Yo dawg look at me I’m the man [dance], and his wild, out-of-control style, everybody else is buying his stock, and it told me all I need to know. He’s gonna end up on the Iverson, Francis, Starbury [side]: great stats, nine All-Star teams, never play with good smart players and an elite head coach. He’s gonna drive people nuts.

    You have an opinion on John Wall. Mine’s not yours. I don’t want him as my longtime future. I do think he is an absolute Allen Iverson-level talent. Let me tell you something I’m a big believer in, when it comes to quarterbacks and point guards. Who’s your dad? Who’s your dad? Because I like confrontational players, I don’t like passive aggressive. Strong families equal strong leaders. Talent? Overrated. Leadership? Underrated. And you can say, “Colin, can you just go out and say anything crazy and people email?” That’s not the point. You wouldn’t email if I were an idiot, because you wouldn’t listen to the show. You listen to the show because I make good points. I simply have a different opinion on John Wall than you do. I like the character of Derek Fisher. I like the rebounding and distribution ability of Rajon Rondo. That’s what I like. That’s what I want from my point guards. You celebrate the assists more than the buckets. I don’t like Derrick Rose, he’d rather score than distribute. That’s not who I want as my point guard. I know he’s great. So don’t confuse “John wall isn’t good.” John Wall is an A+ talent. I don’t think he’s ever going to be an A+, win championships point guard. He was turnover prone in college, he is turnover prone in the NBA. He played a terrible NBA team last night. Watch him against the Celtics … not a terrible team, but not a great team. Watch him against the Celtics, watch him against the Lakers, watch him against the Orlando’s defensively. Watch his numbers. You can like him, and be part of the hype-fest, all I’m saying is don’t like the Dougie, don’t think smart guys do that, not my cup of tea, not my kind of leader, I like distributors not scorers. That’s my opinion, and maybe I’m wrong.

    good disciplinarian, and a father to black football players

    But the dirty part of the narrative, as Doyel points out, is “oh, black players are getting harsher sentences.” Here’s something that’s interesting if you look at basic metrics or numbers in this country. Seventy-one percent of African-American men, no dad at home. No disciplinarian. Fathers are often the louder voice, the disciplinarian. Many of those kids don’t grow up with a dad, raised by moms, sister, aunt, nieces, uncles, whatever. They go to college where they’re stars, and basically even their college coaches, as we saw with Ohio State, pretty much let the stars run the program.

    The NFL is one of the first places where many star places finally see discipline. Finally have an authoritative male figure [that says] “Buck stops here, I will make all the calls, you will not get an opinion.” It doesn’t happen in high school football. It doesn’t even happen for stars in major college football. If you look at basic numbers ... It’s amazing to me, Greg Doyel points this out, how often there’s a sense among NFL players that Goodell is racist. He let Vick back in. Into the league, after a felony! For the record, Donte Stallworth, vehicular homicide, let back into the league, quickly!

    abuses statistics to make a nonsensical argument about black players and Ray McDonald’s arrest

    Now it should be noted, in a league where about 70% of the players are black, they were arrested nearly ten times as often as white players. Some say that’s profiling, others say, according to statistics, there is a disproportionate rate of poverty and single parent backgrounds in the black culture. I am reading that from a study. Are you comfortable talking about this? Oh, you’re not. So let’s let Ray McDonald, this thing start. Keep going. Are you com-for-ta-ble talking about that stuff? Because people aren’t comfortable being uncomfortable. Because if we now say, “let’s get really harsh on arrests,” I’ve got the numbers here. Are you comfortable? I’m going to read the last 20 guys arrested. Rodney. Antwon. Ahmad. D’Qwell. LeTroy. Are we comfortable denying minorities jobs in America? A lot of people aren’t. This is a real issue. Even now. “Oh Colin, don’t talk about this.” This is what we have in society. WE just treat the symptoms. We have no interest eliminating the cause. We have no interest taking hard line stances. We don’t. We’re not interested. In medicine, athletics, sports. But this is going to be an issue. If we decide today, one-and-done, we are disproportionately going to affect, oftentimes, I’m looking at the numbers here, African American players. Are we going to be comfortable with that? Because you better be ready to tackle that issue, denying minorities in America, jobs.

    white people

    How about wonderful people, mostly white, that drink lots of beer and wine. Don’t screw with Oregon

    [...]

    Great people. NBA team. Seahawks up the road. Unbelievable wine. The coast. Oregon’s like a four-seed—Oregon’s really nice.

    baseball is simple because Dominicans play it

    I mean, the Marlins put a general manager in their dugout. People freaked out. You know, like, “Whoa!” It’s baseball. You don’t think a general manager can manage? Like it’s impossible? The game is too complex? Like, I’ve never bought into that. “Baseball’s too complex.” Really? A third of the sport is from the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic is not been known, in my lifetime, as having, you know, world-class academic abilities. I mean, a lot of those kids come from rough backgrounds, and have not had opportunities academically that other kids from other countries have. Baseball’s like any sport. It’s mostly instincts.

    Colin Cowherd’s warped takes and improper use of statistics aren’t just limited to race-based spewings, of course. He’s also said dumb shit about concussions; said women can’t survive in business because they can’t compartmentalize; threatened to quit if ESPN2 started running e-sports; blamed people living in the Midwest for being unemployed; vocally ogled Kate Upton; initiated a DNS attack against The Big Lead; and stolen material from a University of Michigan blog. Yet it wasn’t until he had already turned down a new contract offer that ESPN decided his speech was objectionable.

    I’m not buying it.
     
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  12. hood b. goode

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  14. LetItSoak

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    Wentz is all of us in that clip and Cowherd has always been a clown
     
  15. LeonardWashington

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    the backwards hat obsession is so weird
     
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    What the fuck
     
  17. Blu Tang Clan

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    His daughter is super hot, so he has that going for him (thanks to hood b. goode for bringing that to my attention). Guessing his wife must be attractive as well.
     
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  18. TylerDurden

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    Isn’t he on wife number 4?
     
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  19. Blu Tang Clan

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    probably. He lives around me and I’ve seen him in passing once or twice, but never with a wife or girlfriend-type person.
     
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  20. JGator1

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    I've never understood how people are entertained by the sports talk radio game of "who can say the hottest take and pretend they genuinely believe it".
     
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    Pretty sure she was a model at some point and yes she is very attractive
     
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  22. hood b. goode

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    I dont think Wentz is actually in that clip, just a picture Cowherd used to make his point
     
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  25. hood b. goode

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    He did this same bull shit with tshirts 5 years ago

     
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  29. LeonardWashington

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    he's got him down pretty good... especially nails the nonsensical comparisons Colin spends half his show making
     
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    The cadence, everything is spot on


     
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  33. hood b. goode

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    'sthehrd
     
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    :feedme: feed this useless beef bucky
     
  35. hood b. goode

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    More like cucky
     
  39. Tender

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    In all that hat nonsense he was proving his "point" with a velcro adjustable hat. Could he not loosen it a bit so it would fit?? Either time??
     
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    My favorite was when Auburn won on the Kick-Six and he took a fluke win as a sign that Gus Malzahn was going to own Saban and drive him out of Tuscaloosa.

    Surprisingly enough, it can’t be found on YouTube anymore. :laugh:
     
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  41. Colin Cowherd

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  42. 40wwttamgib

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    I do not like this man.
     
  43. 40wwttamgib

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    I can respect this. Can’t believe magnum is out their hawking that shit.
     
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    I would like to see Joy's big old titties.