Aaron Rodgers Loves ESPN

Kornheiser was really a struggle to listen to. But if you listen to the interview, He totally nails Mike Tirico being maybe the best play by play guy in football. I think we can all learn to appreciate Mike Tirico even more than we do.

Kornheiser is alright in my book, but I agree that everyone else is terrible. Dilfer shouldn’t be on an NFL analysist, but he’s better than most chumps on there.

…to express my admiration for your QB. Kornheiser IS an idiot, and it’s high time that someone brought him to heel for it. You might have expected it after old Tony called for motorists to intentionally hit bicyclists and then, by way of apology, had Lance Armstrong on the show, but no. Sadly, it took Rodgers, who seems not to have realized that anyone was listening, to finally give a realistic, unvarnished opinion.

Here’s hoping Kornheiser gets the axe.

It’s ridiculous how much flak Rodgers is getting for his comments. Not only the comments about Kornheiser, which I tend to agree with, but for his list of top 5 qbs (and OMG leaving out Favre) and his perceived “attitude”. Seriously, I the Favre loyalists will look for any little thing to criticize Rodgers.

I listen to Homer fairly consistently and people need to understand that the sarcastic/condescending tone is just the dynamic between Aaron and Homer. It’s playful banter that the haters want to take as him being a genuine asshole.

I think the game has changed a lot since Jaws played it, he knows players, but I think Gruden is by far the best analysis guy.

I think Rodgers should have just said that what the ESPN analysists motivated him to work harder to improve. Instead, he did call them out. On the other hand though, I appreciate his guts to call out somebody he doesn’t have respect for. It’s not easy to play the game against the media. If somebody was saying crap about me, I’d do everything in my power to prove him wrong. After that, it is human nature to point it out when you succeed.

The NFL teams have done a good job of keeping its players less vocal towards the media. However, Rodgers is at that point of stardom. He will be called out if he falters. I’m sure he is well aware of the risk. Overall, this whole thing does not bother me.

Guys like R4F are just idiots. Like Favre never called anybody out? Favre called out his own teammates! When has Rodgers done that? Now you tell me, which one is the A-Hole? Just for the record though, I did support Favre for calling out guys like Javon Walker. Point is, Rodgers and Favre have both done it. So the Favre lovers have no leverage in this argument.

 he was a funny little print humorist/columnist, and I (my younger, less wise self) looked forward to seeing his syndicated column each week.
Then, the first time i ever saw him on TV was, of course, on ESPN (PTI, I think) and I immediately realized that it was just wrong, and that he needed to go back to exclusively print (more accurately, we needed him to).
I thought he was awful back then, and he has never done one thing to even nudge that opinion.

Two years ago, right after Rodgers starting debut win over the Viqueens (when Bertt Favre’s career was still in a holding pattern with the Jets), ColdHardFootballFacts.com ran an article about Kornheiser’s coverage of the game.

We know Kornheiser is clueless because his entire commentary during Green Bay’s 24-19 win over Minnesota Monday night revolved around one player and one player only – one player who wasn’t even playing.

Kornheiser’s role on Monday Night Football is to be the Joe Six-Pack "everyman" – just the regular schlep who throws in his two cents, but leaves the real analysis to the expert (Jaworski).

(They like Jaws a lot over at CHFF. :)

It might be a good shtick, if not for one problem:
We know a lot of Joe Six-Packs, folks, and so do you. None of them are like Kornheiser.

This article is a couple of years old, but is relevant to the topic at hand, and is still well worth the (re-)read.