Al Michaels on Monday Night Football: "It's Clinton-Speak - You Don't Know What to Believe!"

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[governsleastgovernsbest]

On last night's Monday Night Football, play-by-play man Al Michaels was chatting with color commentator John Madden about impending coaching changes in the NFL.

At one point, Michaels said: "the way they [team executives and potential new coaches] discuss the situation, it's all obfuscation, Foggy Bottom, Clinton-speak - you don't know what to believe!"

[Snerfling]

I'm devistated.

[mr.pink]

I do now,someone in the liberal media actually spoke the truth....

I think Micheals is GOP.

Earlier this season, on the MN game prior to the election, MNF halftime show gave a sample of the ESPN program "Pardon the Interruption" and Tony Kornheiser of PTI made a quick (and snarkey) refernece to Al M being a republican.

[rejoicing]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!! I wish I had heard it!!

[JimVT]

"Route" and "rout" are homonyms

Sorry to disagree but they're not.

Homonyms are words that have the same pronunciation but different meanings.

The 'route' that Meredith was referring to was a planned direction of travel for a pass receiver. I don't think he meant to imply that a disaster awaited the poor fellow.

[stevio]

I missed the comment but watched the game, which turned out to be an exciting end to the regular season.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

A+! Thanks for the post.

[Wolfie]

According to my dictionary they are homonyms.

[Leclair10]

Dennis is far from liberal the last few times he's been on Leno he's really been hard on the democrats and very respectful of bush sometimes I have no if between segments he just picks up a dictionary and uses the largest word he can find in a sentence but he does seem to be a good guy.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

someone in the liberal media actually spoke the truth....

Not so sure. I've always known Al Michaels to be squarely on the right side of most issues.

At least that's the impression I got from hearing him speak during interviews...particularly the times he was on Stern's radio show.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"Mendacity" is the quality or state of being mendacious.

"Mendaciousness" is how one would characterize another's propensity for deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth.

Either one works. So, I guess you are correct...."mendaciousness"="mendacity"

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

So why should these regional dunces prefer to describe a football play as a "down and out pass rout" (sounds like 'lout') when they mean route.

They shouldn't. The word "rout" (sounds like lout) should be used to describe what the Jets did to the Packers on Sunday (da bums). Not to describe the running of a pass pattern. Or a road with the label 66.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

but watched the game, which turned out to be an exciting end to the regular season.

What game were you watching? TB vs. Chicago? Zzzzzzzzzz.

[HighWheeler]

". They would prefer liberals like Dennis Miller in the booth, but no one wants to watch football with a coffee shop lefty."

I have watched the last three times Dennis Miller has been on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. His rantings about Clinton and his unwavering support of Bush would put him at the top of the standings of all posters here at FR. He was so good he even bolstered the conservatives in the audience to clap and cheer. He stood with Bush on every issue, including the war with Iraq.

The 9-11-01 attacks, and Bush's presidential response of strong leadership, changed Miller and a lot of other semi-libs into conservatives. I have seen the same change at work, in stores, and in my neighborhood. Conservatives don't hesitate to speak out now where they feared to tread in the past. The libs are on the run, and only the die-hard neo-nazi, socialistic, satanic leftists are left to represent the Democrats.

[Mudboy Slim]

"I have a dream"

Me, too...MUD

[JimVT]

Right you are, Sam!

I never thought I'd be ROOTING for a one-game subway series in the NFL.

Who gets the SuperBowl? FOX,CBS,NBC?

[stevio]

What game were you watching? TB vs. Chicago?

Uh, this was last night. It was St. Louis vs. San Francisco. At the start it looked like a usual Monday night blowout, but the Rams came back in the end to win. Even though it was a "for nothing" game it was an exciting finish.

[N. Theknow]

Did he mean to say that it is a lie...or that it sucks?

[Mike K]

Widespread improper use of loose/lose is a pet peeve of mine that almost makes me lose my mind. ;-)

That's just in the printed word though, it could be a typo.

I'd rather pick on people for what they say, my favorite is "mute point". Hearing it makes my head turn slightly and my eyes narrow in judgment of the speakers' intellajinse.

[Charles Henrickson]

What, are you homophonic or something?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Dang, missed it. I did catch the Howard Cosell's "Look at that monkey run!" and Rick Barry's "Watermelon Grin". Cosell groveled his way back, Rick Barry was and remains toast.

Remember they did consider Rush for that position, I thought Al Micheals was a good choice, don't anything about his politics.