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On Sun, 01 May 2005 21:07:06 GMT, "B. Lafferty" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
><[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>>I saw that there would be two hours of coverage of an Iron Man on NBC,
>> so, taking into account it was NBC, I checked it out. Rogers often has
>> Iron man-world cup tri coverage, which is pretty decent. But after
>> about half an hour of NBC, I barely saw any coverage of the race
>> itself. Instead I saw:
>>
>> A profile of one of the athletes, firefighter and his braindead bimbo
>> wife, talking about their WEDDING. And various interviews with her
>> hairstylist friends in the salon on Long Island. It was like they were
>> trying to show us how cute they all were, but instead they were just
>> embarrassingly dumb and ridiculous, talking about a sport they totally
>> knew NOTHING about. They all talked like the woman on Seinfeld who had
>> the ugly baby.
>>
>> - more athlete profiles about overcoming the odds, ie handicaps,
>> diseases, etc.
>>
>> -lots of bizarre new age music
>>
>> -shots of various cyclist's legs as they pedal. OR their heads. I
>> think I saw a whole body maybe twice in an hour.
>>
>> -disco soundtrack
>>
>> -overwrought narration.
>>
>> I think for NBC, this is 'coverage'. I wasn't really surprised. Oy.
>
>Was Amy Fisher in the salon?
>
LOL no, but there was a young woman who looked very much like her.
I also found out later that the overwrought narrator was: AL TRAUTWIG!
I knew his voice was familiar.
wrote:
>
><[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>>I saw that there would be two hours of coverage of an Iron Man on NBC,
>> so, taking into account it was NBC, I checked it out. Rogers often has
>> Iron man-world cup tri coverage, which is pretty decent. But after
>> about half an hour of NBC, I barely saw any coverage of the race
>> itself. Instead I saw:
>>
>> A profile of one of the athletes, firefighter and his braindead bimbo
>> wife, talking about their WEDDING. And various interviews with her
>> hairstylist friends in the salon on Long Island. It was like they were
>> trying to show us how cute they all were, but instead they were just
>> embarrassingly dumb and ridiculous, talking about a sport they totally
>> knew NOTHING about. They all talked like the woman on Seinfeld who had
>> the ugly baby.
>>
>> - more athlete profiles about overcoming the odds, ie handicaps,
>> diseases, etc.
>>
>> -lots of bizarre new age music
>>
>> -shots of various cyclist's legs as they pedal. OR their heads. I
>> think I saw a whole body maybe twice in an hour.
>>
>> -disco soundtrack
>>
>> -overwrought narration.
>>
>> I think for NBC, this is 'coverage'. I wasn't really surprised. Oy.
>
>Was Amy Fisher in the salon?
>
LOL no, but there was a young woman who looked very much like her.
I also found out later that the overwrought narrator was: AL TRAUTWIG!
I knew his voice was familiar.
