Dennis Dodd interview tantrum

Depends on what their agreement says.

 

Back to the rights debate. No "owing." No "obligation." Complete sovereignty.

When a famous athlete and his movie star girlfriend roam around on the court - not wearing passes, from the pictures I saw - it's natural to go "hey, tell us about why it was important for you to do be down here." Pretty natural. It's a thing any reporter I know would do because the best QB in the world and his girlfriend - distinctly not wearing team colors -- showing up on the court to watch people they sort of know cut down basketball nets is a little bit of a non sequitur to the scene at hand.

I've clearly inadequately explained what seems to me to be a rather natural feeling for a person to have, so I'll just leave it there.

 

It is absolutely natural to ask that. It's also natural for a famous athlete who's there as a spectator to say he's not doing interviews. And for a reporter to accept that and move along rather than publicly bitching and moaning about it -- and about the mere fact that the famous athlete was there in the first place.

 

I agree that it is natural to want an interview with him, to try and ask him a few questions. If I were a reporter there, I might do the same thing. What I wouldn't do is cry about it on Twitter to people who are almost always going to side with the athlete.

Instead, I'd probably get drunk and tell a colleague about how Mr. Discount Double Check and his butter-face girlfriend big-timed me. Then I'd move on.

 

I do get why Dodd would ask Rodgers a few questions. I don't get the tantrum when he got turned down.

 

Neither do I. I wouldn't have given the tantrum.

But I get the emotions behind it.

And my original point is that another reporter - presumably one who also asked Rodgers for an interview - thought it was "classy" that Rodgers said no. A notion I find absurd.

 

Do you find the word "classy" absurd or the idea behind his usage of it? He probably used too strong a word there, but I generally agree with his thought. Or at least what I think his thought was.

 

Classy? No. Smart? Yes...

He says anything other than "Go Badgers" and he'd be accused of trying to steal the spotlight.

I would have said, "Go Badgers, this is really about them, not me." and walked off.