Jim Rome and his radio show callers...

pscatespscates
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Anyone else find this as silly as I do?



Was listening to it a bit today and Rome, with all his slangy catchphrases, names, and turns-of-phrase is bad enough.



But when callers call in and act like little hopped-up Rome-ettes - trying to mimic the jive, snap and patter - makes for some real cringe-inducing radio.







WAY too much testosterone and buffalo wings floating around that place...



Frightening stuff.



Almost - but not quite - as bad as suck-up Limbaugh callers who talk about cigars and use the phrase "vis a vis" because they've heard Rush use it a few times.



All talk Radio, except for Phil Hendrie, needs to be banned immediately. And if elected, I promi...



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  • Reply 1 of 28
    pscatespscates Posts: 5,847member
    BTW, Hendrie does a KILLER Rome impersonation. Voice, inflection, slang, etc. Funniest thing you've ever heard.



    Also impersonates the idiot "gonna take it downtown, smacking a deuce on the flapjack, hittin' HARD on the machinery..." callers, thereby doing an impersonation of a caller impersonating Rome being impersonated by Hendrie.



    Quite clever and amusing radio. The way it SHOULD be...
  • Reply 2 of 28
    groveratgroverat Posts: 10,872member
    Anyone else notice that pscates always posts twice?



    It's a trademark.



    On topic:



    Jim Rome sucks, the way he treated Jim Everett years ago proved what a worthless jack-ass he was/is and I haven't listened to a word he's said since.
  • Reply 3 of 28
    colanderofdeathcolanderofdeath Posts: 1,261member
    Jim Rome blows.



    John Clayton is god. He plays wacked out old school music, he looks like a total dork, he is genuinely nice and he knows who the ****in backup punter is on the San Diego Chargers, how much that guy's salary will cost against the salary cap in 2005 and what size bra that guy's grandmother wears. He knows everything about football. I think his radio show might just be local though, even though he does do national TV for ESPN. Regardless, he is god.



  • Reply 4 of 28
    jeffyboyjeffyboy Posts: 1,055member
    Cameron Crowe slaughtered Rome in Jerry Mcguire. Remember the goateed dofus talk show host lamely asking Jamie Fox to "give me some love?"

    <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />



    Sports guys putting themselves over the games and athletes has turned me off to all tv recap shows, even Sports Center.



    Jeff
  • Reply 5 of 28
    jeffyboyjeffyboy Posts: 1,055member
    I like Clayton, too, Colander, although I haven't seen him in a while.



    I also like the ESPN NFL Countown guys. The games are the focus, and they have fun in the context of that.

    Berman is probably sort of to blame for the current crop of annyoing ESPN "personalities," but he never got on my nerves.



    Peter Gammons is in the Clayton mold, I don't follow baseball, though.



    Jeff
  • Reply 5 of 28
    sizzle chestsizzle chest Posts: 1,133member
    Jim Rome will slam on a player one week, rip him to shreds and ridicule him, and then the next week when the player agrees to be on his show to tell his side of the story, Rome acts like they're best buddies.



    I actually used to listen to Jim Rome for a while a few years ago. The callers were ALWAYS annoying, but Rome was funnier then and not such a prick.



    It's true, though, the Jim Everett story makes him look pretty bad, especially since it happened before he had made any kind of name for himself.
  • Reply 7 of 28
    groveratgroverat Posts: 10,872member
    Keith Jackson is the god of football.
  • Reply 8 of 28
    sizzle chestsizzle chest Posts: 1,133member
    [quote]Originally posted by groverat:

    <strong>Keith Jackson is the god of football.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    True enough. He does a great job of making the games seem really important without over-hyping them. And when he announces a game your school is playing, he has a way of making you feel like your team is really "for real." Even a lousy football school like yours, Groverat!
  • Reply 9 of 28
    colanderofdeathcolanderofdeath Posts: 1,261member
    Clayton is OK on TV but his radio show owns. He actually seems friendly and he is witty, traits that are hard to tell if TV personalities have a lot of the time. Only sports radios talk show that I will listen to for more than a millisecond.



    I like Tom Jackson a lot. Sterling Sharpe is kind of annoying on that show. Berman I do kinda like but I agree that he is very much to blame for the stylized cult of personality shits that goes on with sportscasters now.



    Gammons is OK. He is unable to remain even close to objective when talking about his beloved Red Sox which is annoying. And he has kind of a drab personality. Plus he always says something, pauses, then says BUT with a large emphasis and then spins it the other way. But he does have some decent info and he'll throw something interesting out there every once in a while.
  • Reply 10 of 28
    groveratgroverat Posts: 10,872member
    sizzle:



    Them's fightin' words.

    Good luck next season without Harrington.



    Colander:



    [quote]Berman I do kinda like but I agree that he is very much to blame for the stylized cult of personality shits that goes on with sportscasters now.<hr></blockquote>



    I, personally, blame Living Colour for the cult of personality.
  • Reply 11 of 28
    colanderofdeathcolanderofdeath Posts: 1,261member
    Keith Jackson was a god. He needs to retire now. He messes up a lot, even though he still has style. But he is announcer, not like a talk radio or TV type of things so that is a whole different ball of wax.



    I blame Living Colour for making you blame Living Colour for the cult of personality.
  • Reply 12 of 28
    pscatespscates Posts: 5,847member
    What did Rome do to Jim Everett? I'm not up on this stuff too much.



    I'll keep this question to one post, 'rat.







    I'll see if I can track down a good Hendrie clip of him doing Rome. You guys will appreciate it.



    I think jeffyboy pegged it: some of these guys become the story or put themselves and their style/personality over the actual sports. I just hate that mentality in any field (would be like NASA Mission Control in Houston carrying on about themselves and THEIR problems on the ground and ignoring the orbiting shuttle astronauts...heehee), but in sports it's especially annoying.



    So anyway, what's with Rome and Everett? Secondly, who is Jim Everett?



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  • Reply 13 of 28
    colanderofdeathcolanderofdeath Posts: 1,261member
    Jim Everett was an NFL quarterback. Jim Rome thought it would be funny to keep calling him Chris Everitt during a TV interview, as in Chris Evert Lloyd the female tennis player. Jim Everett said "If you do that one more time...". Jim Rome did it again and Jim Everitt flipped the table that was there on the set and stormed off. Total jackass move by Rome but it worked, it got him attention and he became national rather than local.
  • Reply 14 of 28
    colanderofdeathcolanderofdeath Posts: 1,261member
    Search and ye shall receive:

    <a href="http://www.moderntv.com/modtvweb/qtclips/violence.htm"; target="_blank">http://www.moderntv.com/modtvweb/qtclips/violence.htm</a>;
  • Reply 15 of 28
    casecomcasecom Posts: 314member
    Never listened to or seen Jim Rome. Not my style. The only sports radio I do is some of the local stuff, no need for the national shows. Blah blah blah Shaq blah blah blah Allen Iverson blah blah blah Derek Jeter ... no thanks.



    Even SportsCenter is becoming harder to watch these days because they have to overdramatize everything. Slo-mo video paired with cheesy orchestral arrangements, etc. And too many of the anchors are 25-year-old Craig Kilborn (ugh) wannabes. I like Steve Levy, Bill Pidto, and the guy who hosts "Baseball Tonight," forget his name. I like Gammons too.



    I can't stand Fox. The promos for "Best Damn Sports Show Period" are so stupid I won't watch the show. (Tom Arnold?!? Hello!?!) And they have to have an animated promo every half-inning on Twins games here on Fox Sports Net. Grrrrrr.



    The state of baseball announcers is pretty bad, too. Joe Buck just doesn't do it for me. I like Bob Costas; it's too bad NBC doesn't do baseball anymore. He can be annoying sometimes, but he's real, and he cals a good game.



    The best national baseball anouncing team right now: Jon Miller and Joe Morgan on ESPN. They're great.



    Go Twins!
  • Reply 16 of 28
    casecomcasecom Posts: 314member
    Anybody watch "Pardon the Interruption" on ESPN? Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser. They got a really good review in Entertainment Weekly. It's never on when I'm home, though.
  • Reply 17 of 28
    jeffyboyjeffyboy Posts: 1,055member
    Oh, man I loved Joe Morgan when I followed baseball! I don't think any announcer in any sport puts across more knowlege during a game.

    I can't understand how he isn't a manager by now.



    Here in Iowa, college sports are the obviously the focus, and the talk radio is way different, less flamboyant hosts and hyper-critical callers. The coach of the teams are usually involved, too.



    It's much more typical to hear an 80-year old guy call up and compliment Luke Recker's sportmanship than to have a hipster wannabe "dis" Steve Alford for using a zone defense in the fourth quarter.



    Jeff
  • Reply 18 of 28
    pscatespscates Posts: 5,847member
    Hahahahaha! That's GREAT! Everett should've laid him out with a punch, in addition to the shoving!



    Oh man, that's hilarious! I've never seen or heard of that. Of course, not a big sports guy in general (football in particular), but I do know I enjoy seeing Rome knocked to the ground.



    Hahahaha! <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />



    That made my evening.
  • Reply 19 of 28
    jeffyboyjeffyboy Posts: 1,055member
  • Reply 20 of 28
    casecomcasecom Posts: 314member
    Looking at the Everett clip just now I have to wonder whether it was staged. Why did the director cut to the long two-shot just before Everett flipped the table? In a confrontation like that you'd think he would have stuck to the close-ups to capture the emotion.



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