Screw Billy Packer

[friend of the friendless]

Sirs, Madames,

I caught Raftery doing radio in the final four. Every game is like the best day of his life -- what a contrast to Packer. Top of the list of the guys I'd like to have a drink with -- now, sadly but safely, dry.

The General ... in the traditional ... man-to-man.

... with a smooch ...

YHS, etc

 

[Taylee]

My favorite from Rafferty: When Greg Odgen sealed a victory with a block, he screamed: "The Negator." I swear we had to rewind the TVo a few times to make sure he didn't say something else.
With Packer, he's a moron, not because of what he says (maybe that's part of it) but it's more for what he doesn't say. For example, in the final, Florida was the one of the few teams not to double-down on Oden. Team in the past have done this and given open looks to the OSU perimeter players. Florida played OSU straight up and in the process shut down the perimeter. It was the reason Oden finished with 25 pts. 12 rebs. and the team shot 4-for-23 from 3-point range. It was soooooo obvious.

 

[Kato]

I stand corrected ... from dictionary.com

Fag - verb - fagged or fagging
1. to tire or weary by labor; exhaust (often fol. by out): The long climb fagged us out.

Leave it to Packer to use that word in a sentence in 2007. Turns out he still has a grip on the language. He's still a dumbass.

ESPN should be ripped for the way it broadcast this story. During the report in which they showed Packer's apology/explanation, they called his comment controversial something like "despite the rather benign definition." Then they showed the clip from the Charlie Rose show. But they never gave the dictionary definition. They just Packer's comments hang out there.

I'm not much of a Billy Packer fan, and he strikes me as the type of guy who would use that word just so he can tell everyone what it really means. However, the 90-second ESPN report on it was completely unfair.