Most inappropriate questions ever asked at a press conference

During a news conference, a reporter asked the surgeon who performed Mickey Mantle's liver transplant surgery about the donor's condition.

After everyone had a good laugh for about a minute, I think the surgeon replied, "You must be a sports writer."

 

AHL team I covered had like 13 players dressed for a game one night. They were a terrible team, yet managed a rare win. One of the TV blow dried types muscles in with his camera guy and says to coach Jacques Demers (who is hardly ever stuck for an answer)
"Coach, you seemed to have a lot of depth out there tonight?"
"Well," says Demers lapsing into coachspeak, "our guys worked hard, blah, blah, blah" He stops, midsentence, camera rolling and says "Tom...where de fuck did you see the depth out there?"

 

You left out the best part. The surgeon actually ran through a laundry list of organs they harvested from the donor Mantle's liver came from. That's what made the question so hilariously stupid.

Surgeon: Mr. Mantle's liver was harvested from a donor who also donated his eyes, lungs, heart and kidneys to other patients.

Sportswriter: Uh, how is the donor?"

(hysterical laughter fills the room)

Surgeon: You must be a sportswriter.

I'd love to know who asked that question.

 

Good for Lisa. When someone has been through what she has, nobody knows better than her how inappropriate a question like that truly is.

 

I'm going to guess it was a team in blue and white beating a team in red and white. I'm going to guess the team in red hit a home run in the top of the inning and thought it had rallied for a great victory.

I'm going to guess the coach of the losing team speaks in a monotone voice and had a deadpan look on his face when answering the question -- both times.

 

I had a press conference once where a news reporter asked me if there was any differerence between an outdoor football helmet and an indoor football helmet...

Since the press conference was dealing with a tragedy, I simply said "No"...I wanted to say, ``decals''

 

i asked tiger woods a really stupid question at a major about seven or eight years ago. i wasn't banned or escorted out but later in the week the lackey with the microphone was approaching me and i saw the tournament flack give him the signal to not let me ask a question.

 

Thanks for the posting the rest of it. I saw the ESPN clip of the news conference at a relative's home after my daughter had her own surgery, and all I remember are the question, the laughter and the doctor's response.

 

Harry Atkins asking Davis Love III what his father's name was.

 

I wasn't present for my favorite, but I trust the veracity of my friend who relayed it to me.

At the NCAA women's hoops tournament, when someone asked Kathi Bennett, then coaching the Indiana women's hoops team in a halo brace after a car accident...

"So, how many hours a day do you wear that?" With about 4 or 5 follow-up questions to clarify the point.