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Anyone catch the Top Ten Plays of the Day on Sports Center? I saw it early this morning, so I am guessing it was from Tuesday night. "Play" number 6 was Usain Bolt's 200 meter race...pretty good stuff. Until the jerk announcer said something to the effects of: "Do you know the only thing more boring than track? Field!" I think I will have to start watching Fox Sports or something. What an ass! Editor's Note: ESPN anchor Scott Van Pelt wrote us to say it was not him who made the comment. His producer's alerted him to the thread. Apparently the comment was made but not by him as alleged further down in the thread |
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dude why did you have to post this?? Now I am just pissed. |
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Caught that this morning also...pretty sure it was Van Pelt. Sucks cause I was a big fan of his. |
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I heard that too, pissed me off. |
| Moog, for reals |
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I guess most people agree that track is boring. Watching a track meet on television can be pretty boring. And I agree, watching field events on TV is even more boring. I guess most people need the unpredictability of a bouncing ball to keep their interest. Still has a commentator ever ripped golf, baseball, auto racing, or the WNBA in that manner? It seems a lot of the younger generation of sports broadcasters harbor a hostility towards track. The ones who think they need to be provocative and outspoken love to complain about being sick of the Olympics when they are on, and how "nobody cares about these sports" I remember Keith Olbermann doing this when he was still on ESPN in 1996. |
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If it was Van Pelt, you could ask him about it on tomorrow: http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/chat/_/id/27358 |
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They either never were a trackster, or were forced to do it and weren't with a crap at it. |
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Seriously, all it would take is an ESPN anchor to get excited about Usain Bolt to make people actually care a little more about track. If the general sports-fan public got to see some of Usain's races and celebrations, there might be a little better following. |
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Well, at least they cut live during sportscenter for the 100 meter Bolt race in Canada earlier in the year. Ended up being a bunch of false starts and two sporscenter dudes not knowing how to call a track race but thats something. As far as the comment today, who really cares? |
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What a meathead. |
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I didn't see it but I actually find it somewhat humorous because my dad and I make that joke all the time. |
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A few items on this fool... Van Pelt began his career in sportscasting at WTTG-TV, a FOX affiliate in Washington, D.C. in 1990 and then moved on to the Golf Channel, where he worked from 1994 to 2000 as a studio host for some of the network's signature programs. While working for The Golf Channel, Van Pelt fostered a strong relationship with golf great Tiger Woods and when ESPN was looking for a new anchor, he was approached because of his on air presence as well as his close connection with Woods. ESPN undoubtedly offered him a job knowing that a close relationship with Woods would help the network as well as increase visibility of Golf on the national level. Van Pelt offered in an interview with "The Shield and Diamond" (The Official Publication of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity) that he and Tiger still maintain a close friendship and "it's nice to have [tiger] in my cell phone, he's a good person to have connections with and an even better man to call a friend." After that, he signed on with ESPN in 2001. He serves as an anchor for SportsCenter and is one of ESPN's golf correspondents, covering the Majors, and is also the co-host of Tirico and Van Pelt on ESPN Radio alongside Mike Tirico. Also ESPN Suspends Scott Van Pelt For Bud Selig Comments |
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I submitted my question through the above link as Monte from Utica, NY: "Why does someone who worked at the GOLF CHANNEL for 7 years feel he has the right to call watching any other sport boring? P.S. Utica is the home of the National Distance Running Hall of Fame, where real athletes are honored." |
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I must admit that Van Pelt is my favorite ESPN anchor. Isn't his brother or cousin (Bo Van Pelt) on the PGA Tour? |
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And ESPN does track in the US - shameful |
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I had never heard that they are related. I'm guessing the last names are a coincidence? |
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The bottom line is that every sport is boring unless you understand it. I spent this past track season "training" a new assistant coach. She had never seen a track meet before (I like assistants who know NOTHING about running- then they learn my system). She quickly became a fan of the sport and of the athletes. She had someone explaining each aspect of each event. A distance race was not runners circling a track, I was able to convey the meaning of each lap- split times, etc. What is a football game if you don't understand football? A bunch of men hugging each other and rolling around on the ground together. Sounds pretty gay, doesn't it? ESPN is not willing to take other sports seriously, so they make them "inferior" to their "mainline" sports. ESPN sucks. |
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I hate to break it to you guys, but track and field IS boring. Unless you know the backstories and the significance of certain times, it's pretty much all the same. But who cares? We don't love running because it's fun to watch, we love running because it's fun to do. It's one of the things that separates us from the 'game' sports. |
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Baseball is boring Basketball, in which the main drama involves strategic timeouts and guys driving to the basket in hopes of getting predictable foul calls...is boring. |
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