There is nothing like a good sports rant, whether it's a coach, player, or broadcaster yelling at a player, co-worker, member of the media, or no one in particular.
I have compiled what I believe to be the ten best sports-related rants. Enjoy.
10. Chris Berman gets pissed. While taping a 2000 Monday Night Football halftime show, anchor Chris Berman disapproves of some things.
9. Mike Gundy is a man and is forty. After Gundy (Oklahoma State's head football coach) had been getting slack from local media about switching his starting quarterbacks, he finally blew his top at a press conference, defending criticism that had been levied at the benched QB.
8. Allen Iverson talks about practice. Apparently asking an NBA player (who missed two key free throws) about practice is off-limits. To be clear, practice is not like an actual game.
7. Hal McRae throws a phone. Pretty self-explanatory.
6. Kevin Borseth on offensive rebounding. After a 2008 loss to Wisconsin, Borseth, the Michigan women's basketball coach, got a little testy with the podium and the issue of offensive rebounding.
5. John Chaney threatens to kill Jim Calipari. It's pretty rare that you see one coach go after another coach in a postgame press conference.
4. Jim Mora: "Playoffs?" This is what happens when you ask the coach of a team that is having a subpar season about his team's playoff chances.
3. Dennis Green suggests crowning the Bears. This rant was after Green's Arizona Cardinals had given up a 20-0 halftime lead to the Bears and a 23-10 lead heading into the fourth quarter. So many nuggets.
2. Bob Knight locker room tirade. The best part of this is that he was yelling at a team that would go on to win the Big Ten title. I guess they took what he had to say to heart.
1. Lee Elia tells the Bleacher Bums how it is. Elia was the Cubs manager from 1982-1983. On April 29, 1983, he went apeshit on Cubs fans. As a Sox fan, this rant is particularly vindicating.
If you have any other rants you are particularly fond of, feel free to post the link in a comment.
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4 comments:
"Are you kidding me?" Mike Gundy should be #1 - the sheer amount of one-liners in that rant is head and shoulders above any others.
What about the brief but heart-warming table flip as Jim "Don't call me Chris" Everett goes after Jim Rome?
Good point, Weez. I love that clip. I wish Everett would have knocked Rome out. Here is the link.
This list is horribly incomplete. If you have 10 minutes, this absolute melt-down of a MSU radio host is absolutely classic.
http://houserockbuilt.blogspot.com/2006/09/msu-radio-host-melts-fucking-down-on.html
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