Still haven't heard from Cowherd
Colin Cowherd likes picking on Virginia football fans. Me, I'm beginning to like picking on Colin Cowherd.
The ESPN radio monkey, who famously dismissed UVa. fans in a rant that included, among other non sequiturs, the use of the word "fru fru," has yet to respond to my invitation to have his people get in touch with mine to set up a time for him to punch a real live Virginia person, namely, me, in the neck, as he claims to have wanted to do.
I'm not surprised. I mean, this Cowherd guy is expert at getting himself in way, way over his head.
Case in point: his ESPN show, which replaced Tony Kornheiser on the network's daily lineup when Mr. TK decided that he'd had enough of licking the boots of the radio division of the Worldwide Leader and began to focus his attention on the TV side and the boots of the people who run things over there.
The selection of the Portland, Ore., media sensation and Eastern Washington dropout turned more than a few heads - which promptly made moves to engage the hands attached below to change the dial.
In spite of this, as Cowherd's ESPN.com Web page describes, the host was named "Personality of the Year" for 2005 by none other than Sports Illustrated.
Seems to me that somebody was playing a joke there - and forgot to tell our buddy Colin. You know, how SI always gives ESPN a tough time, like, for example, when ESPN forgets that it pretends to be a media organization and declines to comment on its firing of one of its own, long-time "Baseball Tonight" analyst Harold Reynolds - so they thought they'd offer a carrot and give an award to one of the blowhards who hasn't yet run afoul of the suits in Bristol.
And then they had a devilish idea - to give the award to the campus idiot, you know, in the name of being ironic.
I realize, of course, that I shouldn't use big words like ironic if I'm expecting our Eastern Washington dropout friend to try to follow along.
Er, so what I meant to say there was that they thought it was funny to give the doofus who has no idea himself as to why he was given a national-radio gig out of the clear blue sky an important-sounding award.
In that context, it's not surprising that we see Colin Cowherd picking on Virginia football fans - the vast majority of whom actually graduated from college, one, and two, who root for a football team that, while it's not on par with Southern Cal, Oklahoma or Notre Dame, isn't known solely for having been beaten 95-21 by the University of Houston back during their run-up-the-score days.
That's right, Colin. We play better football, we're smarter, and at least a few of us can take a punch in the neck from a weenie from EW (school motto: "It is worth the paper that it's printed on, thanks for asking") without getting all that worked up about it.
My people are waiting ...