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"She
reminds me of a girl I met in '44, at a canteen in Southhampton...
Hubba Hubba." - Photo Credit -
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Like he couldn't even come up with drivel on his own, Jim Ragsdal of the St.Paul Pioneer Press did all "drivel" fans a favor by posting a list of "drivel" from around the media world:
"Somewhere, Hubert Humphrey, the great patriarch
of Minnesota politics, is weeping.'' "
. . . Shame on the network of the Olympics, Sarnoff and
Garroway, Huntley and Brinkley, Gowdy and Costas, for
selling out to the dark side of gratuitous violence, tawdry
titillation and lousy football . . . '' "If
I can't trust what I'm watching, why watch it? And it's
impossible to trust a concept rooted in wrestling fantasy,
right down to the announced `sellout' in a stadium with
an empty third deck.'' "Canadians
can rejoice because we may just have witnessed the birth
of a league that significantly enhances the reputation
of the Canadian Football League.'' "There
isn't enough scripted low-life garbage to keep the pro
wrestling fans, and there's too much scripted low-life
garbage to keep the football fans.'' "
. . . There was little question the XFL is more about
spectacle than sport.'' "Mr.
Ventura's move from a career as a wrestler to the governorship
and this part-time gig . . . suggests the fluidity of
pop culture and politics.'' Article: Click here if you want drivel. |
It's easy to write trash about the the XFL - the new league presents such a wide target for news reporters who don't really have anything else to good to say.
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'A
BAD DREAM BEYOND BELIEF'
Friday, February 9, 2001
By PHIL MUSHNICK - NY Post
You can read the drivel by clicking here
We can just picture Phil Mushnick of the NY Times picking his nose and eating it as he typed this cutting edge news piece on his Commodore 64.
Now, he probably waits by his mailbox for his Pulitzer Prize to arrive.
Here is a reporter who reportedly went to the retirement home of Chet Simmons, the first ever president of NBC Sports, to get a cutting edge opinion of the XFL.
And guess what - Chet Simmons did not like the XFL!
We decided that there must be more to this news story, so we went across the street to the local retirement home to see how deep the dislike of the XFL really was.
We found out that 50% of the people we interviewed did not know what the XFL was. That's understandable - since Lawrence Welk was on A&E Biography last Saturday.
Another 40% of the interviewees did not like the XFL. Most of them were under the impression that "Matlock" was going to be on the show, when it didn't happen they were pretty torqued.
Another 9% thought the XFL was great. These were mostly gentlemen who thought certain cheerleaders looked like "fancy" girls they met during the war.
The final 1% of the interviewees said that they once knew a nice boy named Mushnick who would mow their lawn for a dollar. But, they didn't like the way he petted their pet cat "Frisky".
Now that's a scientific poll!