Friday, July 18, 2014

Bob Costas Is The Devil

 Wednesday night Carol and I watched an MSNBC show we taped over the July 4th weekend.

It was one of their political/news junkies devoting a serious chunk of his show to sports.

Specifically Bob Costas.

Bob is one intense dude.

Steve Kornacki, the host, began by referencing the controversial quotes Costas has made over the years.

Costas' eyes literally lit up as he dove into this topic. His whole demeanor immediately went into intensity mode. He looked almost maniacal.

Kind of like The Devil.

And he never gave it up. Every answer, every discussion was over the top for Bob.

It was a great show. They covered a lot of relevant, a lot of controversial topics. The twisted relationship between college athletics, academia and money; violence in football, why football has enormously eclipsed baseball as the countries' most popular sport, Donald Sterling,  and much more.

Costas even criticized and challenged MSNBC for being soft on their coverage of some controversial issues.

Costas is good because he is intelligent and he mixes in political commentary with sports coverage in a way that he explained, and I agree with, is non obtrusive. He doesn't interrupt broadcasts to mount his pedestal. He ties in current topics with whatever sport he is covering in a way that flows. He does not introduce random topics just to bully from the pulpit.

My kids will kill me for writing those words.

The show got even better when they moved on to a mock game show. Question and answer covering sports, politics, history, entertainment and more.

There were two other guests on the show who participated in the discussion and in the game.

Frank Deford, who I also like ( my kids will kill me for that too) and Mike Pesca, who I don't even know.

Costas got incredibly intense during the game. His eyes were beacons of laser light. He was incredibly competitive.

I felt bad for Deford - he got his ass kicked but come on, for Christ sake, the guy is 75 years old. At the very least he couldn't slam the buzzer as quickly as the other two guys.

Costas didn't care. He was like a bomb ready to explode.

And he lost. He lost to Pesca and you could see Costas was visibly pissed about it.

Bob Costas is The Devil.

But he's got balls.

I like him for that.

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