Tuesday, May 04, 2004
Great game, great series, but...
Watching Calgary upset Detroit in game 6 of their second round series last night, knocking them out of the playoffs, was something special to watch. Two contrasting team personalities: Calgary, the blue-collared hard-nosed worker bees lead by their superstar. Detroit, a virtual all-star team more reliant upon their skill than their drive.
But on the running ticker espn2 has at the bottom of the screen, there was a tidbit of "NFL news." I use quotes because that news was the replacing of Monday Night Football sideline reporter, Lisa Guerrero, with Michele Tafoya. Who cares? No one who watches football, I'll tell you that. To sound completely chauvinist while still maintaining a sense of irony, it's never mattered who the sideline reporter was, what kind of outfit she's wearing, how she does her hair, because the result is always the same: a pretty face asking mundane, stock questions, to athletes and coaches who are spent by the end of the game and determined to answer every question with the same answer. So now the skirt on the sideline has another name. Big deal.
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But on the running ticker espn2 has at the bottom of the screen, there was a tidbit of "NFL news." I use quotes because that news was the replacing of Monday Night Football sideline reporter, Lisa Guerrero, with Michele Tafoya. Who cares? No one who watches football, I'll tell you that. To sound completely chauvinist while still maintaining a sense of irony, it's never mattered who the sideline reporter was, what kind of outfit she's wearing, how she does her hair, because the result is always the same: a pretty face asking mundane, stock questions, to athletes and coaches who are spent by the end of the game and determined to answer every question with the same answer. So now the skirt on the sideline has another name. Big deal.
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