The NBC Sports message board is on fire with Freepers saying they won't watch NBC's Football Night in America, football on NBC and even NBC because Olbermann has been named co-host of the former. They can't believe such a leftwing loony would be brought in to do sports, the vast majority of them oblivious to Olbermann's run on ESPN. It's totally undeserving, but he's getting what he really deserves on the boards about his "Worst Person in the NFL" segment
Last night he called out the Jet fans for cheering as a badly injured Chad Pennington hopped off the field to save a time out, then as back up Kellen Clemens came in. He writes: "And don't tell me they were acknowledging his guts... I'm from here." Bullshit. I was there and we were cheering his guts, having seen Vinny not get up once, and we were cheering Chad's likely successor to get things started because, despite Chad's stats, the team was flatter than the lines on the field. Only Olbermann's own cynicism prevented him from seeing this.
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Note NBC illustrates the story with a picture of Fireman Ed. He wasn't even at the game.
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