SALISBURY STEAK, ETHICS AND RATINGS

Now tell me that isn’t the craziest three-way combination outside the porn industry? Ok, enough of the dirty talk, its time to get down to business. Before we begin, I need to take a shot at reality television. C’mon, I take more shots than Ted Kennedy when it comes to reality TV. Apparently the new big one on NBC involves a bunch of average Americans dancing their way to Broadway stardom in front of Olivia Newton John. Tell me that as a male, you don’t check your masculinity at the door when you audition. How can you explain yourself to your boys at the Super Bowl party when you tell them that you cant put in for pizza because you lost your job after quitting to try and become the next male superstar in the Broadway musical “Grease” and fell flat on your face?. Exactly no excuses offered, and none accepted. GARBAGE. Sounds like a slippery proposition to me

Lets move on to some Salisbury steak….gravy. Everyone in the blogging world wants to jump on Sean Salisbury because he slipped and said “jew” instead of “chew”. Look, the guy made his statement and he’s sticking to it. He said chew, and contrary to prior belief, chew did have something to do with that dissertation on Peyton Manning. He talked about killing and CHEWING the clock, so YES, he meant to say it. Since when has Sean Salisbury been mistaken for Mark Furman or Adolf Hitler? The guy isn’t an anti-Semite who hates minorities, leave him alone. Do we really need to jump on this guy for slightly mis-pronouncing a word?? Leave the guy alone. Like it or not, he’s opinionated, he’s colorful, exciting to watch and he’s one of the hardest working guys on ESPN’s NFL crack staff. Leave the guy a lone.

This article here.. http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2831037 made me laugh. Apparently the National Restaurant Association is angry because Nationwide Insurance’s commercial featuring Kevin Federline poses an unfair stereotype of restaurant workers that work the fry station. Ask most of the guys that work these stations around the world if they’d love to trade places with or be confused with K-Fed. Most of those guys/girls would be honored in some way. I mean c’mon, have you been to a fast food restaurant lately? I cant remember the last time I went to a local fast food joint and seen the guy working the good old grease pot with his pants higher than his boxers or his hat worn properly. I’ve got no problem with it, to each their own, but to say that this is an unfair stereotype is ridiculous.

Look, if you’ve seen me lately, you know I’ve got mad respect for the National Restaurant Association, God knows I’ve done my fair share to keep them in business by expanding my waistline. Why are these guys surprised by the fact that someone is ripping the fast food industry? Its not like they’re mocking the head chef who’s cooking gourmet dishes for the white-collar elite. Do you think anybody actually wants to be the head fry guy at your local fast food joint? Absolutely not. The story is ludicrous, if everyone had a complaint about the ethics in the Super Bowl commercial then the complaints would never end.

If ethics of Super Bowl commercials really mattered then the NAACP would have been all over Budweiser for stereotyping a group of African American Males calling each other while the game is on and screaming wuuuuuuuuuuuzaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!! Its funny, you’re allowed to poke fun at each other in commercials, that’s why those who aren’t even football fans watch the big game. Relax, it really isn’t that big of a deal.

Although if you are Kevin Federline, how awful has life gotten for you? You go from fulfilling every man’s dream of marrying Brittney Spears and wearing jump suits that say “pimps” at the reception to being the butt of every lead joke on late night talk shows to failing miserably in the music industry, to this??? Wow. Maybe being Brittney’s baby’s daddy doesn’t have its benefits.

Finally, as my partner eluded to before, the NHL All Star Game on a Wednesday makes about as much sense as putting Gary Coleman, the midget from Jackass and Paris Hilton on the interior of the Cleveland Browns’ offensive line. This story here… http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/hiestand-tv/2007-01-28-hiestand-weekend_x.htm is laughable.

How in the world do you fail to draw fewer than half a million viewers for this game? The ratings for this game are down 82% from 2000. That’s insane, it almost sounds like a Conan O’Brien in the year 2000 skit…..In the yeeeeeeeeear twoooooo thousaaaaaaaaaaaand…the NHL All Star Game will draw fewer than half a million viewers and be outdrawn by HGTV’s Design on a Dime, The Food Network’s Ace of Cakes, and re-runs of the Andy Griffith show, officially placing NHL in GOMER’S PILE!! BOOOOOOOM!!!!

I used to love the NHL, but I don’t get the “Versus” network and I have completely lost interest in the game. How much more will it take for Canadian fans to start hating it? Something has to change, and I’m not quite sure what it is. I don’t care if the game is more exciting as the experts say it is. Hell the dialogue in porn may be improving, but it doesn’t matter if only 10% of the population has access to the playboy or spice channels. They have to get this sport back on a cable station with some kind of reputation. Too many of us don’t have access to the station its currently on, and most of us have lost interest. Its time for a change. I’ve had enough fun for one night.