F@#k you, NBC

by Raybin on Dec 30, 2007 5:41 PM PST Comment 5 comments

Saint, I don't know if you have rules against profanity in diary titles, so go ahead and edit this if you don't like it. But I'm so pissed off right now.Update: I changed it just to be on the safe side. I'm calmer now

The event that actually got me steaming was an hour ago, but I find it still rankles. So I need to vent here.

Living here in Steeler Hell, I didn't get to watch the Raiders today. Hoping to catch some highlights of JaMarcus throwing, I tuned into NBC's post-game highlight show. What I saw left me shaking with rage.

You know the only two clips they showed? JaMarcus' interception and fumble.

So if I didn't make it clear in the title, let me reiterate: FUCK YOU NBC.

This was a rookie who missed training camp making his first NFL start after a DISASTROUS outing last week that would have sent most rookie QBs into a funk.

What did he do? Sucked it up like a man, put his bad performance out of his mind, and completed over two-thirds of his passes for over 200 yards. That's a pretty good day for any quarterback, let alone a rookie in his first start.

But what does the general public who didn't follow the game get? They get Keith Olbermann and Bob Costas chuckling at how bad JaMarcus is and insinuating what a bust he'll be and how dumb the Raiders are. And that's the impression they'll have of J-Russ. They didn't see his touchdown pass to Porter. They didn't see the skill or maturity with which he moved the ball in the drive that ended the second half or the drive that ended with Rhodes getting stuffed on 4th-and-1.

Nope. The only impression they're left with is that of another Raider misfire.

Fuck off, NBC. I have no idea why you seem to get such giggles in running down what was a fine performance BY A ROOKIE IN HIS FIRST START. And a rookie that everyone acknowledged from the start was going to need a good bit of seasoning before he came into his own, at that.

But rest assured: J-Russ and the silver and black are going to cram your smugness down your grinning fucking throats next year and FORCE YOU to sit up and take notice.

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That's the way the national media works

People can't get enough of the Raiders struggling and love to pile on them. It is the same for all these jackass announcers -- many of them kiss the collective asses of the New York Yankees and believe that America is bordered by only the Atlantic Ocean.

Forget fair and unbiased reporting regarding our beloved silver and black because it is just like how officials in the NFL treat us like the doormat of the league.

Just a while back I was listening to a Westwood One broadcast of a football game in passing and they took a stab at JaMarcus saying he is more into getting 'bling' than working hard to be a quarterback and that they hoped he would get his act together before next year.

Come the fuck on!!

Honestly, he wasn't able to do much this year and the members of the national media love nothing better to do than to be a Rosie O'Donnell to our Donald Trump.

I really hope JaMarcus has sound clips of how people are talking about him because he is our incredible hulk -- I don't think you want to see him playing with a chip on his shoulder.

Black Battle Axe

by oaklandSMASH on Dec 31, 2007 9:13 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

I hear you, dude

Has there ever been less attention paid to #1 pick?

He got more press sitting on the bench than he has playing.

You're right, though. If you listen to the sports media, the entire NFL consists of New England, Indy, Dallas and Green Bay.

by Raybin on Dec 31, 2007 9:58 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I can't remember the last time

the firat pick in the draft was considered a bust faster than it has this season.

I'm convinced that if the Raiders do happen to win a Superbowl under JaMarc that the East-Coast Sports Priority Network will try to show people that anyone could have been the QB of the team and still win.

Seriously, could they showcase hoe much of a little bitch Rivers is because I thought that lack of professionalism would be all over the news if he pulled that BS against the Ny Giants.

Black Battle Axe

by oaklandSMASH on Dec 31, 2007 10:19 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Hate the Press

I have been following the Raiders for over thirty years now and it has been like this win or loose. I hate the broadcasters and those idiots. i live in Oregon and the best game I have ever watched was a this last pre-season when Plunkett and Atkinson were the anouncers and the local stations actually played them. Too bad we couldn't get a local Oakland satalite feed for each game or something.

by sabp on Jan 2, 2008 5:49 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

F**K the so-called "experts"

If anyone is a bust in their first year it's Reggie Bush...

NFL experts are just old overated players who love to hate on players who going to have a better career....that is if their not dick-riding the Patriots all year.

-And that's my two cents

Just Win Baby!

by avran2006 on Jan 3, 2008 8:02 PM PST reply actions 0 recs