HBO's Gumbel: Lack of Blacks Makes Olympics 'Look Like a GOP Convention'

[Heyward]

you think the g.o.p. convention remark was a little uncalled for?.....

wasn`t that racially insensitive to black republicans?...reinforcing the uncle tom stereotype?....

heyward...i honestly think theres some basis in fact for what the greek said...as distasteful as it may be...

I don't think the convention remark was that offensive (of course, I'm not a Republican, but I'm trying to put myself in your shoes). There really aren't a lot of brothers at the G.O.P. convention. His comment doesn't say there's anything wrong with Black Republicans, it just implies that there aren't a lot of them. And, as far as I know, there aren't. I don't see anything remotely close to an "Uncle Tom" reference in his statement.

As for the truth of what Jimmy the Greek said, I don't really know. It's possible there's some truth to it, in some cases, but I don't know the history well enough to say either way. And I doubt that sort of genetic selection could account for the huge disparity in the black/white make-up of pro sports. In other countries, sports like football and basketball aren't very important to them. Kids in Nigeria don't have basketball programs at the YMCA, or school, or the local rec center. If you take a bunch of kids from Nigeria, and raise them in New York, Chicago, etc., I wouldn't be surprised in some of those kids excelled at American sports. The excellence of American blacks in sports has a lot to do with culture, I think. Nigerian kids are probably all playing soccer, anyway.

 

[smurphy]

gumbel has got to be his own biggest fan. did you see him replace costas on hbo nfl show? he completely sucked.

Yep, and I hated Costas on there too. Both those guys always need to run the show. I liked the old crew much more - all ex players - took themselves less serious and it was still more informative.

 

[yyz]

The funniest thing about this? Like most of you, I just heard about this, but I guess it happened last week?

Typical! If whitey would have said anything remotely close to that shit, it would have been front page fodder the next day!

Keep porking yer white ol lady, and wishing you were one of "us", you sad mutherfukker...............

 

[ctownguy]

The funniest thing about this? Like most of you, I just heard about this, but I guess it happened last week?

Typical! If whitey would have said anything remotely close to that shit, it would have been front page fodder the next day!

Keep porking yer white ol lady, and wishing you were one of "us", you sad mutherfukker...............

ABSOLUTELY CORRECTOMUNDO :iagree: :Yep:

 

[Heyward]

The funniest thing about this? Like most of you, I just heard about this, but I guess it happened last week?

Typical! If whitey would have said anything remotely close to that shit, it would have been front page fodder the next day!

I still don't understand who's offended by his comments. Are there a lot of blacks at the G.O.P. convention? Is the liberal media just not showing them on camera? I'm being serious, here. Why is it offensive to say that there aren't a lot of black folks at the Republican convention? There aren't.

 

[yyz]

I still don't understand who's offended by his comments.

Why not?


The guy basically states that the Winter Olympics are not worth watching, because the "sports" don't have any blacks in them!

He figures that since the "sports" involved don't interest him (and he takes it upon himself to represent "the struggle".....that's funny in itself!), then they are a waste of time.

It would be akin to some slightly paler spokesperson talking about music, and saying rap,soul, R&B don't belong at the Grammy's, because he doesn't play it on "his" IPod.


Oh, and last time I checked, Bryant........The Greeks weren't playin' any "round ball" "back in the day".

 

[smurphy]

It would be akin to some slightly paler spokesperson talking about music, and saying rap,soul, R&B don't belong at the Grammy's, because he doesn't play it on "his" IPod.

I like that analogy. Gumbel is supposed to represent the world of sports. Whatver his personal feelings are, it's HIS JOB to represent the world of sports fairly. His comments reveal either racism, ingorance, flat out geographic stupidity - or all 3. He's so pompous he probably is all 3.

And the Summer Olympics have no shortage of non-sports too. Rhythmic gymnastics??? Come on.

 

[yyz]

And the Summer Olympics have no shortage of non-sports too. Rhythmic gymnastics??? Come on.

Really! And c'mon.......the blacks should clean up in that MFer!

 

[DIRTY Diapers]

Could you imagine if Bob Costas would say the NBA is not worth watching because of it's thug mentality and it's like watching BET.

He would be fired and publicly ridiculed by the press. It's starting to become disgraceful.

 

[gjn23]

wait....did i just see that a brother won the gold in mens speed skating

was gumble watching?

 

[ImFeklhr]

What about Latinos? People complaining about this type of stuff need to realize African Americans aren't even the 'leading' minority anymore.

Neither olympics, summer or winter, are worth watching because there aren't enough Latin athletes on the US team.

And don't get me started on the Asian or Native American contingent. With Michelle Kwan out, I know the the US team doesn't have 3.7 percent Asians/Native Americans.

It's just....... wrong.

 

[smurphy]

Yeah, no kidding. I don't think any olympics has been worth anything since that Injun runner Billy Whatshisname took gold in Tokyo in 64. ...Thank goodness for that movie starring Robbie Benson, or that incredible story may not have been known to my generation.

 

[ELVIS]

winter Olympics=gop convention........nba=parolee convention. f'k u gumble. :fingerc: i am sure he resents the other gumble on fox because the other 3 are white.....

 

[djv]

I'll give NBC credit. If you do like the winter games. You can find them about any time of day on about 4 different Chanel's. For some reason the over the top hype. Just seems off a little. The games seem to be some what dull. Maybe because same countries seem to win what there best at over and over. And when as we did. Send a pro hockey team to the games. And it looks like they won't even medal. Maybe we should go back to desire and send the college players back.
As for gumbelhead. He's a none starter from get go. HBO should just bench him.

 

[smurphy]

Gumble is really looking like a douchebag now. That speed skater is one of the dominant stories of these olympics. Just shows Gumble is a complete idiot as well as an unprofessional narrow-minded racist. I would like to see him lose his job over this. Real Sports would be just as interesting and probably better without him anyway.

 

[BIG TIME LOSER]

I thought gumball was talking about is white wives or the white women he committed adultery with

 

[Chadman]

winter Olympics=gop convention........nba=parolee convention. f'k u gumble. :fingerc: i am sure he resents the other gumble on fox because the other 3 are white.....

I would probably watch a parolee convention. That could be a good premise for a reality show.

 

[Chadman]

On a related note, I'm surprised there has not been some kind of reality show along the lines of Judge Wapner and Court TV, where the case is decided by the viewers text messaging their verdicts at .99 cents a pop.

 

[smurphy]

Chadman - why are you giving out your billion dollar idea on a messageboard?. Thanks for the tip - I'll sell it to some of my eilte Hollywood friends with liberal agendas. They can always use a good show idea.

 

[Chadman]

smurph...as a lib, I'm all about helping people...you know that. It's not about ME...it's about the good of the reality-tv-show-watching public.