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Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by ColbertNation, May 17, 2007.

  1. That one left me speechless. Geez.
     
  2. Oz

    Oz Well-Known Member

    The stories posted here make me feel good to be sitting behind a desk while reporters take those calls.
     
  3. Tom Petty

    Tom Petty Guest

    but reporters know you love the blue bird of cocksuckery. evens things out.
     
  4. Mystery_Meat

    Mystery_Meat Guest

    You should call her back and tell her that the new dad went back to work, and during his first game, his baby died. That should make her feel like she's made a difference in the world.

    She probably won't object unless he was at the Catholic school game, though.
     
  5. JBHawkEye

    JBHawkEye Well-Known Member

    It left me speechless as well. You get some stupid calls, but this was one of those wow-just-wow moments.
     
  6. alleyallen

    alleyallen Guest

    I love even more people who get so emotionally wrapped up in something when they DON'T EVEN HAVE CHILDREN INVOLVED!

    Like the woman who said God was going to punish us because we hate the Dallas Cowboys, or the man who threatened to kill me because I wouldn't print that Michael Bishop sucked despite throwing five or six TDs in a losing effort in the Big 12 title game several years ago.
     
  7. bigugly

    bigugly Member

    Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding....we have a winner. Lock it!
     
  8. TyWebb

    TyWebb Well-Known Member

    Has anyone snapped at a parent? Saw a kid do that once. All I heard was his side of the convo: "Well she should probably play better if she wants to be in the paper more." Then hung up on the mother/father.

    He was given a long tounge-lashing by the ME and Exec Ed, but all us in the sports dept knew exactly where he was coming from.
     
  9. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    I don't snap at parents. I just exasperate them. It's more fun, really.
     
  10. pressmurphy

    pressmurphy Member

    There's always this tried-and-true response for the parents of a player on the losing team: "You're just mad because my team won."
     
  11. Bud_Bundy

    Bud_Bundy Well-Known Member

    Back when we used to do prep football picks, we had coaches ask us not to pick their team, so they could use that as motivation. We picked'em as we saw them, them dumped the picks a year or so later.
     
  12. zagoshe

    zagoshe Well-Known Member

    In my experience, if I had to rank which sports have the most insane parents, it woud be something like this (note, forget about the individual country club sports like tennis and golf -- those people are from another planet)....

    1.) Softball -- The most thin-skinned and angry at the world by far....

    2.) Basbeall --The most unrealistic and ridiculous in terms of delusional thoughts about how great their kids are.

    3.) Swimming -- Mad at the world because nobody gives a shit about their sport to begin with.

    4.) Soccer -- Ridiculous football-envy clouds their better judgement in terms of complaining about coverage.

    5.) Wrestling -- We never cover enough of it and when we do we send someone who just doesn't understand it.....
     
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