“A little Jones on Jones crime.”
-NFL Red Zone anchor Scott Hanson, narrating one of Cardinal linebacker Chandler Jones’ four sacks of Giants’ QB Daniel Jones.
Dude, just… No.
As with just about any sports personality, some people love Hanson, and others can’t stand him. I happen to think he’s pretty all right for a bro-y football dude and self-proclaimed Christian, especially after seeing this reaction to the Diggs catch against the Saints two years ago (you may want to turn your volume down first before hitting play).
I don’t mind listening to him all day Sunday, and I don’t tend to trip that hard when people say stupid shit like this, especially when it’s clear they had no real malicious intent and were just trying to be funny on the fly. I mean the dude is in the studio entirely alone for about seven straight hours, just trying to fill the time and be entertaining while talking about what he sees on the screen. But when stuff like this pops out on the air it does offer a glimpse into the weirdo conservative bubble most of these guys live in, and it probably never even occurs to them that echoing one of Fox News’ ten thousand shitty, racist, shamelessly fabricated catchphrases is just a tiny bit fucked up, especially when you’re talking about actual dudes that are directly affected by that kind of evil white supremacist propaganda.
Also look, I wasn’t personally offended by the reference. I am rarely offended by even the most inadvisable joke, as long as the people telling it aren’t obviously shitty. I’m not the so-called “comedy police.” But I will still listen when people say that they are offended by something like this, even if at first it seems ridiculous and overly uptight. Because I know that I don’t know everything, I haven’t walked in everybody’s shoes, and I wanna have as many backs as I can have. I also get that when you are making jokes on as big of a platform as NFL Red Zone, well, you just gotta be careful how you say things. Now I haven’t heard anyone else mention this unfortunate turn of phrase, so maybe I’m the only one who noticed it. But it sure popped out at me when he said it.
Still, later on in the broadcast Hanson made the same dead-on Vader joke that everyone else later made when he was showing Aaron Donald pick 206-pound Devonta Freeman up by jersey during their on-field brawl (for which Freeman was tossed from the game for throwing a punch at his tormentor).
So all is forgiven, right?
“I love luck. I’d much rather be lucky than smart. Smart– smart you gotta execute. But luck works every time.”
-David Tepper, owner of the Carolina Panthers. Tepper seems like a pretty decent guy for a billionaire NFL owner, at least from what I’ve seen. He seems more in the down to earth, actual human mold of the late Paul Allen than his predecessor, fly-ridden shitweasel Jerry Richardson. Richardson was forced to sell the team in 2018 for being an overtly racist sleazebag, which given the sort of people who own NFL teams and the culture of the league in general, says a lot about how horrible this dude was. Tepper, a self-made billionaire investor and a previous minority owner in his hometown Steelers, bought the Panthers outright when Richardson was pushed out (part of the condition of the sale, famously, was that the team had to keep Richardson’s giant creepy statue out in front of the stadium forever, despite his being run out of town in a cloud of shame). Continue reading “WEEK 7 RECAP: Luck Works Every Time”
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