I'm getting tired of everyone in television attempting to be politically correct all the time. In the following, ESPN makes an apology, just in case. I don't see anything to apologize for. TV producers need to grow a set of balls.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/1...ts-about-jeremy-lin/

I guess this means for the remainder of the season there will be no more references to the Washington Redskins, or if there is, there will be an immediate apologize.

Earlier in this text I referred to someone growing a set of balls. I would like to apologize to anyone that may have been offended.

I thing all the sports programs are also trying to be politically correct by including one girl on each analyst team in the studio, and one on each sideline during the game, and one interviewing a coach at the end of each first half.

I would also like to now apologize for having used the word "girl" earlier in my rant. If I've offended anyone please accept my heartfelt apology for having demeaned women in general, and women on sports programs in particular.

Thank you and please accept my apology if I've kept you up reading this.

I apologize for reading it.

If I have ever offended any of you.....
Get over it

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I apologize for reading it.

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I don't know about the "apology" part of it and don't care enough to want to. Speaking for myself as a North American Indian, I like the name "Redskins". My forbearers were considered by some as the best light cavalry in the world. We knew how to fight even without very technically advanced weaponry.

And that's why I think it is no shame for a team to be called "Redskins". A team which knows how to fight it's way through thick and thin, gets my admiration, even if they don't win too many games.

I think the pussies who constantly try to hide the struggle which is indigenous to life are the ones who should be apologizing, if anyone should. They are making things tougher for everyone by pretending that "correctness" and more and more laws & social rules will somehow make us all happier forever. To all of that I say "Bullshit"! I taught my kids that the world is a rough place, and they need to learn how to deal with that. Sometimes a soft word is a good route. Other times the equivalent of a knuckle sandwich fed to the problem works better.

As for sports broadcasters, I personally don't think anyone who has not played the sport being telecast should be allowed to serve as a color commentator, or to judge technique, ability, or strategy on the air. It's like combat, folks. If they haven't been there they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

Some females make really great sportscasters, when working a sport where they have competed at the same level in the sport as they are covering. Then they know what works and what doesn't, how to train for the sport, what spells real ability to play well, all the other stuff which goes into useful intelligent commentary.

I don't know very many women who have been first or even second or third string players with any college or NFL football team.

The flip side of the coin is that males who haven't played the game are just as full of hot air as the women are when it comes to broadcasting.

It's analogous to some such fluff head, either male or female, telling David Tubb or Mitch Maxberry what he's doing right or wrong in an across-the-course rifle match.

End of rant. So if it really insults you, get over it or sue me. It wasn't intended to insult, but as we all should know by now, you can't please everyone. And at my age, I finally think I'm just as entitled to my opinion as anyone else is to theirs.

Take care out there, my friends. The world isn't for folks who can't contend.

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I think the pussies who constantly try to hide the struggle which is indigenous to life are the ones who should be apologizing, if anyone should. They are making things tougher for everyone by pretending that "correctness" and more and more laws & social rules will somehow make us all happier forever. To all of that I say "Bullshit"! I taught my kids that the world is a rough place, and they need to learn how to deal with that. Sometimes a soft word is a good route. Other times the equivalent of a knuckle sandwich fed to the problem works better.

OUTSTANDING Sir! Thank you for more of your words of wisdom.


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I'm certain that it was out of respect to the fighting ability of Native Americans that the name was chosen in the first place. So what's to apologize for?

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I think the pussies who constantly try to hide the struggle which is indigenous to life are the ones who should be apologizing, if anyone should. They are making things tougher for everyone by pretending that "correctness" and more and more laws & social rules will somehow make us all happier forever. To all of that I say "Bullshit"! I taught my kids that the world is a rough place, and they need to learn how to deal with that. Sometimes a soft word is a good route. Other times the equivalent of a knuckle sandwich fed to the problem works better.

OUTSTANDING Sir! Thank you for more of your words of wisdom.


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I agree with AC on all counts, with one possible reservation. Bear in mind, a reservation is not an out and out disagreement.

I would much rather watch some of the female football commentators, who are very easy on the eyes, than listen to someone who perhaps knows a whole lot more, but can't string a sentence together.

Now find me an ex-player who is intelligent and articulate, and I'm in full agreement. But if you do that, show the cheerleaders in the background at least.

Now that was polically incorrect.

Among the other things in my multicolored patchwork past, I spent a few years very early on as both a sportswriter and a sportscaster.

The way I look at it myself is like this: A sportscaster is like a newspaper reporter. He is there to tell folks what just happened and what is going on (who, what, when, where, why, and how). He draws a sketch with words to keep the listeners/viewers accurately "up to date" about the contest being watched by the sportscaster.

The "colour commentator" is like the kid with the crayon who fills in the blank spaces but instead of spaces of a coulouring book, the colour commentator fills in the spaces between the sportscaster's lines.

Just as the kid doing the colouring clarifies and completes the picture with accurate fill-in material, in the games they work the colour commentators need to know enough about the techniques, timing, effort, and so on of the athletes to clarify how things really are down on the field.

The kids doing colouring in the books need to know what colours are appropriate (and where they should go within the lines) to present an accurate picture. Likewise, the colour commentators need an intimate personal knowledge of the game to provide accurate colouring of their pictures, and they need to stay within the lines of their role..

No big disagreement from me either, just clarification of my stance. I think both sportswriting and sportscasting should be honest, skilled journalism, performed by people who really have researched and otherwise learned what they are reporting about.

It is not a movie they are colouring fantasy or fictional accounts in...it is the real deal and needs to be done right, if at all.

As to looking at the female sportscasters as eye candy....well, that is okay, but if I want to see pulchritudinous young birds. I look at the cheerleaders. They know and present the truth of their game, too.

So everyone is welcome to their own viewing pleasures, but what I have just described is, I feel, both higher quality performance, and more enjoyable to me.