Would Johnny Weir be Accepted in Mainstream Sports Broadcasting?

You serious, Clark? What kind of knowledge does Johnny have regarding ball sports?

I saw him last night for the first time.

He'll be lucky to get out of Putin's Russia alive.

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ou serious, Clark? What kind of knowledge does Johnny have regarding ball sports?

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Well unlike 95 percent of sports writers and sports anchors and play by play announcers he has actually done a sport at the highest level.

Seriously, I actually think he would better to watch on PTI and Pardon the interruption than the current crew and the other talking heads on sports who never played the game.

Plus he has flair. I got to give him credit. The dude is not boring and knows sports and yes he's flaming but he's more interesting than Michael Wilbon or Chris Berman or Bob Costas or Al Michaels or Buck.

Also, have your wives and girlfriends not stopped talking about the guy? He could bring a whole new demographic into sports if you're looking at things from an advertisers standpoint

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Well unlike 95 percent of sports writers and sports anchors and play by play announcers he has actually done a sport at the highest level.

Seriously, I actually think he would better to watch on PTI and Pardon the interruption than the current crew and the other talking heads on sports who never played the game.

Plus he has flair. I got to give him credit. The dude is not boring and knows sports and yes he's flaming but he's more interesting than Michael Wilbon or Chris Berman or Bob Costas or Al Michaels or Buck.

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One thing you're overlooking is that practically all of the talking heads on TV are either former jocks in one of the major sports or trained sports journalist, most with degrees from Syracuse or Northwestern. Also, many of them spent years as print journalists, where you must do you homework, before they made it to TV.

EDIT: And comparing him to Bob Costas, Al Michaels, Brent Musberger or anyone of that ilk is utterly ridiculous. Being on PTI isn't the same thing as being a public address announcer, where you must have a certain kind of voice.

please go back to north korea comrade

sports is the one area that hasn't been totally infected by this bullshite, the one escape from the total breakdown of the rest of the culture

please keep it that way

watch figure skating and gymnastics if you like that crap

I thought he did a pretty good job calling figure skating. I don't know how well he would do with other sports.

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One thing you're overlooking is that practically all of the talking heads on TV are either former jocks in one of the major sports or trained sports journalist, most with degrees from Syracuse or Northwestern. Also, many of them spent years as print journalists, where you must do you homework, before they made it to TV.

EDIT: And comparing him to Bob Costas, Al Michaels, Brent Musberger or anyone of that ilk is utterly ridiculous. Being on PTI isn't the same thing as being a public address announcer, where you must have a certain kind of voice.

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The best talking head is most likely Charles Barkley since he knows his stuff and says stuff that is interesting and entertaining. If you want boredom have a former jock talk. For the most part they never left the fraternity of sports.

In all honesty sports is where you find the least amount of Journalism. The guys who dig up NCAA scandals and gambling scandals and crime scandals are more likely real journalists who have the skills to actually investigate crimes and the like.

Vin Scully, Howard Cosell, and Pat Summerall were not trained sports journalists and they are generally regarded as the best of the bunch. I mean would you put Chris Berman up there with Vin Scully?