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FromShouri
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
United States862 Posts
May 02 2015 14:51 GMT
#1
Colin Cowherd's Epic Meltdown

Guy railing against blizzard's heroes of the storm(he calls it league of legends like a fucking moron) with standard bull shit about us fat nerds and w/e. Just thought people would be interested in seeing.
He talks about how we all love harry potter or what ever, Iunno I was having a hard time seeing his point of view.

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Limited Edition, lets do some simple addition, $50 for a T-Shirt is just some ignorant bitch shit.
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24761 Posts
May 02 2015 15:12 GMT
#2
Notice that most people are downvoting the video haha.

His viewpoint kind of reminds me of a family guy scene where Quagmire doesn't know what internet porn is, and says something like "huh? I thought computers were for nerds!"

My personal opinion? I feel the same way about 50% of the other stuff ESPN covers as this guy feels about esports.
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FlaShFTW
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States10347 Posts
May 02 2015 15:28 GMT
#3
He's another ignorant shitface who doesn't have a clue about generalizations and gaming in general. Just ignore him, these kind of people will disappear on their own.
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PhoenixVoid
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Canada32746 Posts
May 02 2015 15:58 GMT
#4
Don't follow ESPN but from second hand testimony it appears he is the equivalent of Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly for sports fans. Boisterous, makes huge leaps in logic and loves generalization because it's a lot easier to illicit a reaction. As "entertaining" he is supposed to be you have to admit he does reflect the mindset of baby boomers in their 40s-60s who think e-sports is absurd and if it's not football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer, swimming, etc it's not a legitimate sport or competition.
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JieXian
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Malaysia4677 Posts
May 02 2015 16:02 GMT
#5
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/general/484088-esports-covered-in-mainstream-news-espn2

someone already made a thread
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KingAlphard
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
Italy1705 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-05-02 17:08:37
May 02 2015 17:08 GMT
#6
I don't understand why you are so angry about it. Personally it made me smile. Maybe it's because I don't follow heroes of the storm.
TelecoM
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10700 Posts
May 02 2015 17:52 GMT
#7
We need positive exposure into ESPN not stuff like this T_T
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itsjustatank
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Hong Kong9169 Posts
May 02 2015 18:20 GMT
#8
this is bait
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N.geNuity
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States5112 Posts
May 02 2015 18:24 GMT
#9
On May 03 2015 02:52 GGzerG wrote:
We need positive exposure into ESPN not stuff like this T_T


5 years cable tv will be dead

who cares about espn negativity (or positivity; doesnt really matter)
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Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States5003 Posts
May 02 2015 18:26 GMT
#10
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Djzapz
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada10681 Posts
May 02 2015 19:00 GMT
#11
I don't think he's going to be asked to cover something he's that ignorant about
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Profile Blog Joined August 2013
Mexico2170 Posts
May 02 2015 19:51 GMT
#12
On May 03 2015 03:24 N.geNuity wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 03 2015 02:52 GGzerG wrote:
We need positive exposure into ESPN not stuff like this T_T


5 years cable tv will be dead

who cares about espn negativity (or positivity; doesnt really matter)


More like 50 years
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y0su
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
Finland7871 Posts
May 02 2015 20:06 GMT
#13
the guy has to read his outrage from a script...
RoieTRS
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States2569 Posts
May 02 2015 20:10 GMT
#14
On May 03 2015 03:24 N.geNuity wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 03 2015 02:52 GGzerG wrote:
We need positive exposure into ESPN not stuff like this T_T


5 years cable tv will be dead

who cares about espn negativity (or positivity; doesnt really matter)

No there is too much money and power in cable tv right now. They'll leverage that power to keep it alive for much longer than 5 years
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LuckyFool
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States9015 Posts
May 02 2015 20:33 GMT
#15
I could never stand Colin Cowherd. I'm glad this video is getting downvoted hardcore.
Amazonic
Profile Joined September 2010
Sweden239 Posts
May 02 2015 21:06 GMT
#16
Wow what a fuckface.
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ninazerg
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States7291 Posts
May 02 2015 21:26 GMT
#17
On the one hand, moba games are bad and should be slam-dunked into the dumpster.

On the other hand, I always enjoy a good round of lulz hearing some asshole who doesn't understand the internet or computers talk about anything technology-related. We get to hear some golden quotes, like "The internet is a series of tubes". My gripe, though, is that this attitude towards information technology is systemic throughout the mainstream media. I can't even tell you how many Dateline NBC documentaries and ABC specials show 'the dark side of the internet', playing ominous music while depicting chatroom text scrolling. And in segments on the regular networks about anything tech-related, there is always a condescending undertone, and anyone into technology is painted as a socially-backwards nerd. People who play games are asked ridiculous questions, like "Do you have a girlfriend/boyfriend?" and think about that - it's a perfectly normal question for a normal conversation. In what other setting would a journalist ever ask such a stupid question?
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Vortok
Profile Joined December 2009
United States830 Posts
May 02 2015 22:13 GMT
#18
Strikes me as someone ignorant trying to troll to get a response, and simply looking like a dumbass in the process due to practically no knowledge of the subject they're talking about.

He likely doesn't -actually- hate gamers/think they're all dwellers of their Mom's basement, but was trying to illicit a response + aiming at the majority of his viewerbase that probably knows just as little about gaming and general nerd/geek culture. His job is to get/maintain viewers for the network. Bashing points of view that aren't yours works well enough for politicians to get people to support them, makes sense for a network to use it as well. At least ESPN is poking fun at themselves rather than another network.

Probably honest about not wanting to cover esports, and ESPN management wouldn't be stupid enough to have him cover esports as anything other than a one time joke cast.

So basically a rather bad troll. Spend more time on internet forums, Mr. Cowherd. We have trolling gurus that will gladly provide you with a trial by fire so that you can graduate from being a trolling padawan.
BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
May 02 2015 23:45 GMT
#19
meh, doesn't really matter to me. I dunno why some people are angry in this situation. I mean, sure, it's not great when he speaks from ignorance but if you know that he is doing it purposely to get a response, then why give him that response? In this case, sounds like he succeeded lol.
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SynC[gm]
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States3127 Posts
May 03 2015 00:04 GMT
#20
Keep in mind this is a guy that will openly try and bash the best athletes in respective sports. He talked badly about Kevin Durant, despite Durant being easily one of the best prodigies in the NBA for awhile. I believe he also said some player would turn out to be a criminal because he didn't grow up with a father figure. This guy will talk about anybody and anything he can to illicit a response, which goes for many other folks with their own radio show, especially on ESPN, like Mike & Mike.

Pretty much everything Vortok said goes true, so in the end, it's whatever. I'm sure there are eSports supporters that stereotype athletes in sports such as football or basketball as stupid and air-headed with their only way of succeeding in life is by throwing around a ball.
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