Boo yow

[Kaos]

Stuart Scott died last night at 49.

He, dan Patrick and Keith olbermann were sports center to me.  I'm not black but despite all the talk about Scott being a trailblazer and bringing hood mentality and hip hop to whitebread ESPN, I didn't have to be of color to appreciate his personality.  His delivery worked for me and I enjoyed it greatly.

Odd that it's now silenced. 

[GH2001]

Agree. He was awesome.

Rip

[Snaggletiger]

No doubt.  He was one of the good ones.

[Saniflush]

No doubt.  He was one of the good ones.

One what?  You were gonna say African Americans weren't you?

I had not even known he had been battling cancer.  I knew the couple of times I had seen him on TV he looked really thin but I just figured he had been on some health kick diet.  I, like most of you spent a lot of my young adulthood seeing him highlight games on Sportscenter.  I connected with him because of age probably how my father connected with Howard Cosell.

[WiregrassTiger]

See, you guys are gonna make me go here today. I don't want to because the classy thing is to remain silent, this soon.

Not a fan. I respect that he was extremely successful and entertaining to his audience. Not for me.

I know I'm supposed to be his target audience but I'm just too old fashioned.

I don't like the ear bobs on male reporters Hate Bradley on 60 min and didn't like seeing it on Scott.

Could handle some of the street talk but he took it over the top for my taste.

Still, I realize I'm the minority and he was great to most. And, I will miss him.

[dallaswareagle]

See, you guys are gonna make me go here today. I don't want to because the classy thing is to remain silent, this soon.

Not a fan. I respect that he was extremely successful and entertaining to his audience. Not for me.

I know I'm supposed to be his target audience but I'm just too old fashioned.

I don't like the ear bobs on male reporters Hade Bradley on 60 min and didn't like seeing it on Scott.

Could handle some of the street talk but he took it over the top for my taste.

Still, I realize I'm the minority and he was great to most. And, I will miss him.

Agree on most, he took the reporting of events and made it more about him. (IMO)

[Kaos]

Boo yow bitches. Boo yow.

[Snaggletiger]

I enjoyed Scott.  Been listening to a lot of sports talk about him the last couple of days.  It sounds like at first, the network was really divided over letting him report the way he did with more of the "street talk", if Boo-yah (yow) is in fact, street talk.  But think about it. IMO, that opened up some exposure to a whole other segment of viewers for ESPN.  His reporting style was funny, with a lot of catch phrases, but I didn't find it over the top. 

I've heard and read a lot of takes saying Patrick and Olberman kind of got the whole fun in reporting thing going.  But that actually goes back to the inception of ESPN.  While most feel like Berman outlived his usefulness years ago, he was actually the groundbreaker in that area.  When ESPN first started, I lived for his baseball highlights just to see what play on words he would come up with for the players' names.  Bert "Be Home" Blyleven???  Come on, that's gold.  Especially for the early 80's.   

[WiregrassTiger]

What I find interesting is that it seems that the majority of people on here who enjoyed Scott's style are much, much older than I am. And white. And nerds. Interesting.

[Snaggletiger]

What I find interesting is that it seems that the majority of people on here who enjoyed Scott's style are much, much older than I am. And white. And nerds. Interesting.

Hey, I am NOT a nerd.

[GH2001]

Agree on most, he took the reporting of events and made it more about him. (IMO)

He actually made sportscasting cool and interesting. Buncha vanilla old WASPs, all of yas.

[dallaswareagle]

He actually made sportscasting cool and interesting. Buncha vanilla old WASPs, all of yas.

In the begining, yes, later on, no.

[GH2001]

In the begining, yes, later on, no.

Berman is the one who really got/gets under my skin. He's cheesy. Never been funny.

The trio of Scott, Patrick and Olbermann was the golden age of SC.

All three had cool but not cheesy catch phrases that were original.

En Fuego, Its deep and I don't think its playable, and As cool as the other side of the pillow were all gold.

[AUTiger1]

Berman is the one who really got/gets under my skin. He's cheesy. Never been funny.

The trio of Scott, Patrick and Olbermann was the golden age of SC.

All three had cool but not cheesy catch phrases that were original.

En Fuego, Its deep and I don't think its playable, and As cool as the other side of the pillow were all gold.

Call him Buttah, my mans on a roll!

[GH2001]

Call him Buttah, my mans on a roll!

But Berman said back back back back...gone. Oh and Barry "U.S." Bonds. 

[AUTiger1]

But Berman said back back back back...gone. Oh and Barry "U.S." Bonds. 

Berman's best contribution ever was back in the 90's when he said something like "and Brad kissmy Ausmus holds on the ball for the out".   He used that one once or twice and never again.

[The Six]

[Godfather]

You're with me leather