Chip Shots: Quickshots: Buddy Ryan Tells Tony Dungy To Shut The %^#$ Up

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Chip Shots: Quickshots: Buddy Ryan Tells Tony Dungy To Shut The %^#$ Up

Quickshots: Buddy Ryan Tells Tony Dungy To Shut The %^#$ Up

Buddy Ryan is your typical grumpy old man, but that crustiness is a charm to be sure. And when holier than thou Tony Dungy came out the other day and said Ryan's son Rex was too crass and crude to be coaching an NFL team, Buddy Ryan called bullcookies . This whole thing about swearing is out of control. Coaches swear. Athletes swear. Broadcasters swear. It happens. How anyone can judge a coach's ability to coach on his language is beyond my comprehension. Tony Dungy was a successful coach without using swears, where Bob Knight was a successful coach who swore a lot. It's not about the language, it's about your ability to coach. I wonder what Tony must think about Ozzie Guillen.
The Score is about to extend their broadcast rights with the White Sox for five more years. This comes as a relief to those of us who live outside the area but can still pick up the Score. Had the Sox signed with an FM station, many Sox fans who live outside of Chicago would not be able to listen to the games. Take away the games and you take away the passion. Trust me on this one, folks.
Here's something I want to get off my chest in regards to the above. Because the younger generation fails to acknowledge AM radio, many broadcast companies are making the migration to putting their news/talk.sports formats on FM. Here's why this doesn't work. People listen to what they want to listen to. If I have to switch frequencies to listen to a ballgame, it's no big deal because that's what I want to listen to. Putting NTS on FM doesn't really help gain you any listeners because if the audience wanted to listen to it, they'd find it. NTS sounds crappy on FM anyway.
Now the cable companies have joined the NFL in screwing consumers . Someday the NFL may get off their high horse and realize that people aren't going to pay out the backside for their programming, especially during the economic downturn we are experiencing . Then again, pigs may fly before that happens. My cable company, Time-Warner doesn't even offer the NFL Network because they two can't come to an agreement. I don''t hear people complaining.
Why do people keep bugging Green Bay Packers Mike McCarthy about Brett Favre ? McCarthy has nothing to do with Favre and hasn't for three years. Kudos for Mccarthy for walking away.
It looks like the Caray family is upset with the Ricketts family because the Cubs want to move Harry's statue. Hey, at least Harry has one at the ballpark. All Jack Brickhouse got was a stupid pennant.
Today's List: The best sports commercials of all-time . On my list would be several of the Mller Lite commercials of the 70's (take your pick: Billy and George, Uke in the upper deck, Marv Throneberry, they were all good), Michael and Larry for McDonald's, Bo Knows and the Frank Howard for Nestle Quick spot from way back in the day (if you can find it on the Internet, please let me know.) Not on my list, the Albert Pujols spot for Wheaties Gold.