Thoughts on the Olympics (a quote from Bryant Gumbel)

"Just the Tip" ^ | February 13, 2006 | Todd Christian

[DennisR]

Mr. Gumbel's statement: “Because [the Winter Olympics] are so trying, maybe over the next three weeks we should all try too. Like try not to be incredulous when someone tries to link these games to those of the ancient Greeks who never heard of skating or skiing. So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world’s greatest athletes, despite a paucity of Blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention.”

[DennisR]

Mr. Gumbel - who evidently spends way too much time thinking about skin color - has shown himself again to be the ignorant racist he is by erroneously deriding the GOP for what he perceives as a "paucity of blacks."

Please contact HBO at http://www.hbo.com/apps/submitinfo/contactus/submit.do?title=Real%20Sports&questiontype=realsports to let them know what you think about this.

[PigRigger]

The man is a racist....everything is about race to him....He deserves no respect....

[GOP_Party_Animal]

What a pathetic, little man. His only good role was on Family Guy.

[Mayflower Sister]

Is this for REAL? This is disgusting.

Remember what they did to RUSH over the McNabb remark.

I will contact HBO.

[guitar4jesus]

He's just over compensating for his lack of black mannerisms.

He is trying to make up for all of the years of ribbing he's taken from black comedians.

[siunevada]

I hope Mr. G has given up his bad habit of playing golf at exclusive country clubs that lack racial diversity in proportions reflective of the general population so that he may remain a pure and undefiled example of righteousness to our poor world.

[Maria S]

And didn't Bryant divorce his black wife to marry a white woman?

Bryant Gumbel was so full of himself on "Today"...I think that's when I gave up watching any of the morning shows.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

"White people like Wayne Brady because he makes Bryant Gumble look like Malcolm X."

[CharlesWayneCT]

So Bryant is saying that blacks are the worlds greatest athletes,that whites simply can't compete with blacks in athletics, and that if you aren't black, you can't be the worlds greatest athlete.

I'm still trying to decide why you need separate men's and women's teams for Curling? If there ever was a sport where you'd think the sexes could compete equally, it would have to be one where you slide rocks on ice.

Rush Limbaugh doesn't like curling, although he did say that it was nice to see women using brooms again.

[pikachu]

So, Bryant, let's take a peek at HBO's biggest shows. Sopranos are not exactly paragons of diversity. Deadwood, #%*#& &$%#% right again. Taxicab Confessions, maybe? Some other shows may have a couple minortities. And gee, isn't the latest lady in your life a white? Dang, Gumby-boy, you have been infected!

[Clock King]

Yea Bryant, just ignore the fact that Blacks have reached the highest positions of REAL responsibility in this GOP administration. OBTW, I'm a black man who skis, so there's nothing to prevent black people from coaching their children to Olympic level capability in the next few years.

[Laz711]

"The broom babes"

[OldFriend]

Reminding us once again why Gumball is so despised by just about everyone.

Some people just can't resist another 2 minutes of being on the stage.

[HamiltonJay]

Well, like it matters anyway.. have to listen to the American fru fru figure skater trying to pretend he's some poofer bad ass and going to stick it to the red state republicans.... Of course he got his well worn rectum handed to him by the Russian anyway....

Or have another supposed "bad ass" talk his jackass game, only to watch him get DQ'd for missing a gate.

Hey guys, if you truly are as rebel and tough and all that other crap as you want to pretend you are... shut your damn mouth and let your actions speak for you... of course if you did that... you might actually win.

Trash talk <> Gold Medal... dumbasses.

[carumba]

Well you have the Jamaican bobsled team, some figure skaters...so give kids from Chicago ski passes. Open a curling rink in Philadelphia. Invent a winter sport kids from low income families can get into. Like hickey bobbing on the back of cars. Go down the bobsled chute on Converse sneakers. Slush volleyball. There has got to be a way to make him happy.

[KenmcG414]

"The man is a racist....everything is about race to him....He deserves no respect...."

You nailed it, he's also a blowhard phoney!!

[maggief]

...despite a paucity of Blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention Howard Dean's gubernatorial cabinet.”

That works.

[Mount Athos]

What a grumpy, bitter man

[RightOnline]

omg he really didn't say this, did he???????????????

[RightOnline]

Preach it.

[Kenton]

Yeah, and I guess we can't look up to Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant, because of the paucity of white faces in the NBA.

But setting that aside - Bryant Gumbel suddenly "going black" after all these years reminds me of OJ suddenly remembering his roots after he got arrested, or Michael Jackson suddenly getting chummy with the Nation of Islam when he was up on charges.

[SR 50]

From what I've heard, blacks just can't take the cold. It interferes with their concentration.

[maggief]

Bryant and Hilary Gumbel

[Eighth Street]

Wow I didn't know the Olympics banned Blacks...

Anyways, what makes him think Blacks are naturally better athletes?

Blacks (those with origins in western Africa) may be able to run faster for shorter lengths, but that isn't everything in Athletics.

[xp38]

Ah the Dusty Baker school of athletic theory. :)

[Skooz]

The most hateful man on television, and he has been so for at least 20 years.

[maggief]

Olympics ping

[SR 50]

Nice dog collar.

[onyx]

LOL! I was waiting for that!

[maggief]

:-D

[ExpatGator]

"despite a paucity of Blacks that makes the Winter Games look like my bedroom.”

[JRios1968]

What a pathetic, little man. His only good role was on Family Guy.

[randita]

When you factor in the summer Olympics, i.e. the U.S. track and field team, you get a pretty nice balance of races (not that it's important -- the best athletes should be there, regardless of race).

It's the European teams from the European countries that are so enlightened, so superior in every way to us (/sarcasm) where a black face is not to be seen (with the exception of a few on the GB team), whether it's winter or summer Olympics.

Yet we're the stone age people according to Gumbel - go figure.

[theDentist]

Thoughts on the Olympics (a quote from Bryant Gumbel)

Who?

[Fruitbat]

Too bad for Gumby that the GOP leads in "First black appointed/elected to..." in just about every category!

Sounds as if Gumbo is ignorant!

[Fruitbat]

...including first black person to be seriously taken for a Whitehouse bid!!!

Hello McFly (Gumbo), anyone in there!

[auboy]

The cold interferes with my concentration.

I must be black. /sarcasm

[Beowulf]

BG is an arrogant, ignorant, no-talent lout.

[maggief]

"What a f****** idiot!"


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[NonValueAdded]

ROFL

[kevkrom]

In Salt Lake, a member of the U.S. 2-woman bobsled team became the first black athlete to win a gold medal at any winter Olympics. But is it really that surprising that there are so few top black athletes in these sports? So many of them are "money" sports, in that they are very expensive to participate in at all, let alone enough to become world-class. Even team sports like hockey require specialized equipment that isn't always readily available -- at least other "money" sports like golf and tennis are so widespread that there's always a local facility somewhere, and only recently are we starting to see black athletes make inroads into those two sports.

[N. Theknow]

A paucity of Blacks at the Winter Games?

Gee, weren't the ancient Greeks the first ones to field an all-Black Hockey team?

Three cheers for Antoine Federothopolos

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

I am not a regular on the slopes, but somehow, I don't really think you would see many blacks there. It is simply their choice not to participate in winter sports (with a few exceptions of course).

[bk1000]

Reminds me of the black congresswoman who complained of the lack of blacks in the volunteer Red Cross rescuing Katrina victims. Racist to the core.

[FormerLib]

So, a "sister" wasn't good enough for him?

[WV Mountain Mama]

I saw the special on the skater, what a flamer! It's a wonder he doesn't leave a path of melted ice behind him when he skates. Did you notice the CCCP letters on his jacket when he was posing. Of course that's all he is, a poser. He should learn that it is impossible to pull off the tough act when you are a male figure skater and wear make-up, not to mention the rhinestone leotard.

I don't mind Bode because at least he is gracious when he loses and doesn't act like it's the end of the world. I was at a youth hockey game and some parents watching their 6-8 year olds could learn from that...

[AgThorn]

I'm a black man who skis,

So that proves you're republican!!! ;-)

Just trying to respond like Mr G would if you had a conversation with him. ;-)

[Calvin Locke]

I'm still trying to decide why you need separate men's and women's teams for Curling?

More medals...(and opportunities for everybody involved. Companies get to sell more jackets, bigger rinks(?), etc.)

A one-time coworker said he and some friends got tickets to the 1976 Montreal gala. I think he said they ran in to
Gumbel and another NBC type on a subway train, and he was quite pleasant to talk to.

Maybe he's pandering to get a gig, or a bigger gig on BET?

Perhaps he's really mad that Couric is going to get to be the final nail, um, "anchor" in the coffin of CBS News?

[wmileo]

Mr. Gumbel is a very little man ( in fact, barely a man). I remember the way he used to belittle a real man, Ronald W. Reagan, 40th President of the USA. Enough said!!