re: Who was Buddy D?

Sid in Jefferson is your grandpa?

"Tricky from Westwego, you're on the point after"

Buddy D

Amyone remember the call Sid made after the Saints lost to the Eagles in the playoffs after the 92 season? Acted like he was on life support in the hospital and every breath may have been his last.

Sid in Jefferson.

Somebody like Buddy Diliberto could only have made it in radio here in New Orleans. I remember a biography, they said he had a "Lazy Tongue" growing up and couldn't pronounce things. That's why he went into print journalism, and was a fantastic writer. In his last years he wrote a column for the Clarion Herald the newspaper of the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

When the three major television stations in New Orleans started newscasts, then added sports in the 1960s, television news was so new they simply found the best sportswriters in the city and hired them. That's why we got these ugly old cusses who couldn't SPEAK well like Hap Glaudi, Jimmy Steele, Vince Marinello and Buddy Diliberto. These guys, especially Buddy and Hap were QUITE intelligent and good writers, just not TV material.

That they succeeded for decades in TV and radio is testament to that fact. When both were forced out of TV, they had a ready and willing audience already for radio where they could REALLY let their passion for sports and the Saints shine.

The term squirrel was quite specific, though. It wasn't for people who simply disagreed. A squirrel (yakkin' in'na trees) was a caller who was overly optimistic about the Saints and who parroted the Saints organization's talking points, the coaches' talking points, the GM's talking points---especially Bill Kuharich after Mr. Finks died.

The exception of course was Bubba on the Magic Carpet. According to Bubba, the Saints were going undefeated every year and making the Super Bowl. He always had room on the carpet. I remember one Sunday during pre-game, Bubba calls in. "Buddy, I'm flying in for the game, I'm over the Lake...OH NO....the traffic plane almost hit us as it checked traffic on the Causeway, and Rob Nelson just gave me the finger...."
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I am not originally from New Orleans but due to the signal strength of WWL, I was vaguely familiar with him for years. I remember wondering why a guy with what sounded like a speech impediment was doing in radio! After moving to NOLA in '99, I became a big fan of his and an especially good way to soothe the pain of another Saints loss was to listen to Buddy D on The Point After (i think that was the name of his show - WWL has a number of them). He would often begin sentences with "let me say this to ya ..." He was an inveterate gambler and had touts on his Friday show who just talked point spreads and pimped there 800 numbers where you could pay for picks. When one of the touts would pick an underdog, he'd say, "hey, we got another barking dog," and the sound of a dog woofing would play in the background. Others have already mentioned "squirrels" and the immortal - though nonexistent - "Dontae Stallpepper." He also nurtured the radio persona of a caller named "Abdul da Tentmakur" who used to boast that he played in the TFL ("Terrorist Football League") and spoke with a thick but ingenuine Arab accent. They were simpler times .

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"Let me say THIS to ya...." YES.
Abdul is still around, he's got a band that plays all over town, and they still play Saints' songs. He calls into the show, and often does remote broadcasts with Bobby Hebert and Mike Detillier, the Second Guess, on Monday nights. Abdul lead off the Dress Parade on Sunday.

Barking dogs, yes!!!!

How about Buddy trying to advertise for Mitchubeetchee (Mitsubishi) on DUBBLEYOO, DUBBLEYOO ELL.

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Abdul is still around, he's got a band that plays all over town, and they still play Saints' songs.

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Unfortunately, they made him largely kill the un PC arab schtick, and he's not quite as entertaining as himself.

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Sid in Jefferson

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my namesake!

Always wondered if your name was a nod to him.

Sid is probably the best call-in radio talk show caller of all time. I would always get sad when Buddy would occasionally piss him off to the point that he would go a couple of months without calling.

an old, inarticulate superfan that had a radio gig. It would be like Dandy Don broadcasting LSU games.

One of my favorite Buddy malapropisms....."Rush, weak on football!"