A Knight to remember
STEINER COLLECTIBLES this week introduced its newest “signature” hire: Just in time for Christmas, Bobby Knight. The man who regards “Good morning” as none of your bleepin’ business, is now in the mood to impersonally sign autographs for all his admirers and supporters.
“Extremely rare” Knight autographed photos start at $150. “Extremely rare” Knight autographed basketballs start at $250, $300 if, “1976 320” is added. See? Some fools he can suffer.
Stuart Scott may portray himself as the slickest rooster in the Bristol barnyard, but Monday night, after Bears49ers, he sounded like a gushing groupie over the play of Niners’ backup quarterback Colin Kaepernick. And when Kaepernick appeared on ESPN’s onsite set, Scott spoke as if he were going to faint.
Scott’s best of his worst: “Twenty five point win on Monday Night Football, the third biggest win ever for a quarterback making his starting debut onMonday Night Football.”
Professional broadcasters once would have been embarrassed to say such a thing on national TV. And no network that respects its audience and employees would have one of its pros parrot such silliness. But at ESPN, no matter how cool you think you are, that’s how it goes.
For all the “Thanksgiving means family” stuff and stuffing coming from NFL telecasts, yesterday, there are now three NFL games played on Thanksgiving.
If family is so important to the NFL and its obedient networks, how many thousands of stadium and broadcast staffers— ticket takers, beer vendors, parking lot attendants, security personnel, ballpark and TV and radio operations folks — are pulled from their families on Thanksgiving to work NFL games?
Analysis of the Week: Solomon Wilcots, CBS analyst on Chargers Broncos went on and on about how a San Diego touch down would be disallowed via replay review — even as replays showed receiver Danario Alexander to have had the ball when it broke the goal line.
Wilcots spoke knowingly, authoritatively. Although he might’ve been the last to know he was wrong — the TD counted — he just moved along as if he’d said nothing to the contrary, as if we’d never heard him.
Reader Doug Gibson, Marlboro, N.J., asks if the horizontal striped black and yellow jerseys worn by theSteelers, Sunday night, “comewith a ball and chain?”