Did I quote you? I was referring to GH still missing the point and bitch about how the documentary focused too heavily on the past two years. It's a documentary about the past two years.
As for your point, take it from someone who actually saw the movie, Finebaum and his callers' parts in the movie were not completely central. Yes, there was a lot about Updyke, but again, that was a big part of this film's purpose. The crazy shit on and off the field that has gone on the last two years down here. And it's pretty hard to tell the Updyke story without putting into the context of Finebaum and some of his other lunatic callers. It's not like Tammy got equal air time to Bo or Barkley. They only played a couple of 5 second clips to set the scene for what Finebaum is about to put into context the infamous Al from Dadeville call.
Mountains, molehills, etc. etc.
Just watch the thing or shut up about it. You can't have both. I know you'll argue for 15 pages that you can, but you'll be wrong.
I did watch it this morning. I'm not wrong. I'm righter than I was.
The entire show was driven by Finebaum. Almost every segue was in the form of a caller's rant. Finebaum sat smugly by pretending he wasn't a primary factor in the devolution of the rivalry over the past five years or so.
It reminded me of that belltower scene in the 1989 Batman movie. Batman's got Joker by the throat and Nicholson's Joker cackles "you made me."
For that douche to fake disgust at Updyke when if it weren't for his show and the relentless wave of vitriol, Harvey would have remained a worthless fat fuck sitting round a kerosene stove bitching about them damn Aubrens? That's the height of fraud.
Harvey, Tammy, Legend, Shane, Charles, Darryl, Jim and that whole bunch don't exist without Finebaum. At least they don't exist on the broad scale. He's not merely giving true voice to the rivalry, he's manipulating it, directing it, prodding it, poking it and coordinating it to serve his own needs.
There have always been a handful of loons who rant and rave and show their ass. In most cases the more rational elements of the fanbase take care of that themselves. I've seen Auburn people tell other Auburn people "that's enough" when things escalated. They've always been pretty much isolated.
Finebaum makes that behavior seem like the norm. He glorifies it. It emboldens idiots like Legend -- a psycho murdering fuck. Listening to that wall of daily shit gives Harvey the idea that not only will it be okay for him to kill Toomer's Corner, he'll be a hero for it.
The rivalry didn't create Harvey, Finebaum did. He made him.
I was sickened by the show and the way it portrayed us all. Nobody came off looking better for having participated. I wish to hell I'd stuck to my guns and refused to watch it now.
Now iff'n ya'll'll scuse me, I gots to go out heah and scrub down mah outhouse. Tha dam thang been stankin' to high heavens lately. And 'sides, I gots to set a new Rebel flag up in deah, de ol' one done gots tattered. Aftah that, I's gonna go out in yon field and snatch me up some turnips and okrey. Gon' fry up a mess'a catfish, mebbe stew up a squirrel and make me some moonshine. Ya'll come back now, ya heah?
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