BETSPN

[wiffleball 4,640]

So, with the death of Stewart Scott - and quite frankly, long before that, ESPN has been very clear that they are doing their best to cater to the "urban" crowd. Here's my question:

 

"Why?"

 

I mean this sincerely:

 

 

Blacks represent about one tenth of American society. Black men? Half again. Black men who aren't incarcerated and/pr aren't employed? Perhaps about 80% of that figure.

 

So, why is there such a focking push by BETSPN and their advertisers to keep pushing for the next Jamarcus Russell, Vince Young, etc. (See, Ru ssell, Newton, Shermann, etc.)

 

I get it, Andy Luck looks like a homeless Amish dude with the personality to boot. I also "get" that Manning never found a camera he didn't love. But that's the exception.

 

 

BUt, end of the day, the media /BETSPN keeps throwing in more and more "urban" music/references, admitted full-on that was why they hired that lazy-eyed bojangles that recently died, why NFL network has more blacks than a a gang conference, - What gives? 40 y.o. white guys have a shiit load more purchasing power.

 

Honestly, why would you want what is at best a 5% market at the risk of losing a 40+% market? Seriously, are any white guys watching Steven A Smiff or Mike (cokehead) Irving?

[patweisers44 697]

What about all the 10-40something white/Hispanic/asian guys that like the urban rhetoric and want to emulate that lifestyle to some degree?

[Bert 1,091]

What about all the 10-40something white/Hispanic/asian guys that like the urban rhetoric and want to emulate that lifestyle to some degree?

They should be shot in the face or sent back to Philly/NJ where they came from.

[peenie 1,690]

They are actually catering to white people when the look like they're catering to black people.

(I have no idea what you're talking about but I assume you're questioning why ESPN has black hosts and uses an urban/hip hop format.)

[Giants Fan 85]

Why is Fabiano on TV giving FF advice?

[GobbleDog 816]

The urban act caters to the young and stupid, which vastly out number old and intelligent.

 

 

Carl Reiner who wrote a lot of the early TV shows like the D*ck Van Dyke Show, once said "early tv was written for a smarter audience. Once TV's became common in every household, we had to dumb down the writing."

[peenie 1,690]

Why do they have to be stupid?

So if they had a country/middle America slant they'd be genius?

[Giants Fan 85]

The urban act caters to the young and stupid, which vastly out number old and intelligent.

 

 

Carl Reiner who wrote a lot of the early TV shows like the D*ck Van Dyke Show, once said "early tv was written for a smarter audience. Once TV's became common in every household, we had to dumb down the writing."

Who said that first sentance? You? That's pretty awesome, if so. I want that on a bumpersticker.

[wiffleball 4,640]

Why do they have to be stupid?

So if they had a country/middle America slant they'd be genius?

if you can't wear a baseball hat the right way and or don't understand how to pronounce the word ask, pretty good indication you're an idiot.

[GobbleDog 816]

Why do they have to be stupid?

So if they had a country/middle America slant they'd be genius?

 

ESPN gets the big commercial money because they have the most valuable audience in all of advertising: "men 18-49". That demographic obviously likes some urban talk on the shows, or ESPN wouldn't do it.

 

I just want them to act professional and using urban slang isn't. It's a sports news broadcast, but still a news broadcast. I've mentinoed it irked me when Stuart Scott interviewed John Madden years back and said something like "so, whatchu think of that game, dog?" Regardless of anyone's race, calling someone "dog" as if he was your homie on the street during a tv intervew is classless and unprofessional. It was especially wrong when that "dog" was legendary John Madden. Apparently, most of ESPN's audience disagrees.

 

[SUXBNME 1,335]

if you can't wear a baseball hat the right way and or don't understand how to pronounce the word ask, pretty good indication you're an idiot.

Please essplain to me the "right way" to wear a baseball hat.

Just so you know, it's called a baseball CAP, not a hat, you fockin nazi

It's a damn fashion statement. No more, no less.

Pants on the ground? Yea...Dumb looking as all hell, but not as dumb as bell bottoms, imo. (well, mebbe dumber, but it's a close call)

 

A nig is a nig. Pretty much an all encompassing term for a worthless person to me. Nothing to do with the hue of the person in questions skin color, but how said person acts in society. Pretty much the same as a kvnt is a kvnt. Quite possibly the two most derogatory terms we have today, right?

"Cracker" just doesn't cut it for me as a derogatory insult.

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Am I racist? Of course I am. I hate idiots of all races equally. Sometimes I hate idiots of one race more than idiots of another race, but that's on a case by case basis.

You can all suck my lily white average length cack. (Peenie first...I like her boobies)

[Giants Fan 85]

Please essplain to me the "right way" to wear a baseball hat.

Just so you know, it's called a baseball CAP, not a hat, you fockin nazi

It's a damn fashion statement. No more, no less.

Pants on the ground? Yea...Dumb looking as all hell, but not as dumb as bell bottoms, imo. (well, mebbe dumber, but it's a close call)

 

A nig is a nig. Pretty much an all encompassing term for a worthless person to me. Nothing to do with the hue of the person in questions skin color, but how said person acts in society. Pretty much the same as a ###### is a ######.. Quite possibly the two most derogatory terms we have today, right?

"Cracker" just doesn't cut it for me as a derogatory insult.

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Am I racist? Of course I am. I hate idiots of all races equally. Sometimes I hate idiots of one race more than idiots of another race, but that's on a case by case basis.

You can all suck my lily white average length cack. (Peenie first...I like her boobies)

You shouldn't use the n word if you are white, unless:

 

a) You are using it to refer to someone who said it and it shocked you. "He just said "######" right there in front of me. How am I supposed to react to that?"

 

two: You are quoting Blazing Sadles and you follow it up with "They could never make that movie today."

 

And C:

 

You aren't using it in the prejoritave. See: "My niggas."

 

And even then, prolly not a good idea.

 

Q: Can be used to call out a racist place, "They hang niggers in Alabma."

 

V: You are explaining to a white person why they shouldn't use the word. ....

 

Z: HIGHLY NOT RECOMENDED: a term for a worthless person

[Giants Fan 85]

Just say monkey instead.

 

Monkey is not a bad word.

 

:wink:

[peenie 1,690]

Sux had his Wheaties this morning!

[SUXBNME 1,335]

Z: HIGHLY NOT RECOMENDED: a term for a worthless person

Says who? The term is commonplace. The word is part of our lexicon. No changing that. Now it's just an issue of how it's used.

 

 

fwiw, I don't say the word '######' at all. My boss does sometimes and he uses it in the wrong way. (he's from Arkansas..What can you do? )

I'll call someone a kvnt, but never a N.

I'm just trying to point out the two most offensive words that we have in society today. (besides "liberal" )

[Giants Fan 85]

Don't get me started on the word "liberal". I got in a huge argument with my friend over the definition, and I thought he was smart.

 

I define myself as a liberal. I'm ok, with the word. i am also a lesbian trapped in a man's body. I want to be a butch lesbian, but with a peemis.

 

I know a lot of black people, and I never use the word in front of them. I do use it ... rarely, for comic effect with my white friends. Well, only the racist ones.

 

:wink:

[Giants Fan 85]

The K word is not specific to any race, so it's OK. just like a guy can be an a-hole.

[Giants Fan 85]

https://screen.yahoo.com/white-000000112.html

[Mookz 1,287]

And how about these doosh tards who stick their windshield wipers straight out in anticipation of snow? What's the matter, doosh tard? Don't want your wipers to get coated with ice and stuck to your windshield, and then destroyed as you attempt to chip it away to free them? Is that the matter?

[rallo 132]

 

ESPN gets the big commercial money because they have the most valuable audience in all of advertising: "men 18-49". That demographic obviously likes some urban talk on the shows, or ESPN wouldn't do it.

 

I just want them to act professional and using urban slang isn't. It's a sports news broadcast, but still a news broadcast. I've mentinoed it irked me when Stuart Scott interviewed John Madden years back and said something like "so, whatchu think of that game, dog?" Regardless of anyone's race, calling someone "dog" as if he was your homie on the street during a tv intervew is classless and unprofessional. It was especially wrong when that "dog" was legendary John Madden. Apparently, most of ESPN's audience disagrees.

 

 

very true... but you are forgetting the "E" in ESPN... Entertainment

 

That said... they sure beat you over the head with it... talk about pandering

[Magnificent Bastard 190]

I used too love when black guys in my platoon would call me a cracker. I thought it was the funniest thing in the world. Then sometimes they would call me a "cracker ass cracker". It made me laugh inside.