Bad pop culture references

You know, if you build it, they will come.

 

ESPN The Mag. For readers who suffer from ADD.

 

I blame Canada (whoops!) and SI's Michael Silver. And does Mariotti mean Kobe is Star Jones, Shaq is Rosie, Lebron is Hasselback and Phil Jackson is Babs?

 

Like that new group the Beetles says, "I wanna hold your mams."

 

I won't call out specifically who did it, but a well-respected paper had a TV columnist lead a story with "They're baaaack."

That's nails on a chalkboard, right there.

 

You know what I think is funny about "They're baaaack," and its ugly cousin, "Be afraid. Be very afraid?" I don't think most people know what movies they're from.

 

Not to pick on him, but In the ARod Kreigel column that everyone was going ga-ga over (I can't find it now), I remember that there was one that I thought was pretty bad, that many here liked alot - Paris Hilton maybe?

 

Yes, well, some people here think of Mark as the martyr, and thus cheer his every utterance. No knock on Mark, a good writer and a good guy who certainly didn't lobby to become poster boy for the haters of a certain other columnist, but some of the praise on this site is a bit out of proportion for that reason. That said, find a three-dots person, sports or otherwise, who doesn't make (usually dated) pop culture references; it is the unfortunate nature of the gig. I'm pleased to see Kriegel seems to have stopped his weekly homages to 1970s AM-radio soul music, music I appreciate almost as much as he does, pop culture indeed but a pretty dated one.

 

The bad (i.e. obvious) pop culture references make me appreciate the work of Kenny Mayne and Olbermann that much more. Anyt ime I hear Olbermann start a sentence, "in the year...", I know something good is coming.