We get it: Kansas City Star sports reporter Mike DeArmond loves the University of Missouri-Columbia. He's Mizzou class of '72. He bleeds black and gold, even though he covers MU basketball and football for the Star. He's living every sports fan's dream. He's not impartial; he's a homer.
DeArmond put that on display over the weekend, with these comments on Metro Sports' Missouri-Nebraska pre-game show (watch the video below):
"There are Cardinal baseball fans, there are Kansas basketball fansInbred? Moral superiority? Cue the mushroom cloud; we have a media meltdown. (I tried to get DeArmond to respond, but he had "no comment." Editor Mike Fannin hasn't responded to an e-mail.) But it's not like anyone cares about objectivity these days. Everyone is Howard Beale, mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.and there are Nebraska football fans. They were all born of the same
parents. They're all inbred, separated at birth because they're all just
impossible to handle.
They think the world revolves around them. They think that no one
should possibly question their moral superiority and therefore anytime
anybody beats Nebraska it's a good day."
In the interview, DeArmond added: "When Missouri beats them, because I happen to cover Missouri, it's
easier to write a story when Missouri beats Nebraska because it's
impossible to write a story when Nebraska beats Missouri.
Yeah, you just happen to cover Missouri. DeArmond should be used to it by now: Nebraska has owned the series with 65 wins, 36 losses and three ties. DeArmond pulled off the "impossible" and wrote a straight-forward story about the Cornhuskers rolling the Tigers 31-17. He even dropped in a line about Missouri's players being in "denial." He managed to do it all without calling anyone inbred.
H/T: Sports by Brooks.
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Hey DeArmond, make sure you tune into the NU games next fall; each one will be on TV. The only time Missouri is on TV is when they play NU. So, I guess MU won't be on TV anymore, so you may have to get off your ass and actually go to a game in order to write about them. It is very apparent that you have never been to a college game before, let alone one in Lincoln.
By the way, how much more do we have to hear about this Gabbert puss? NU is so lucky he reneged on his word that he was committed to NU and when crying off to Missouri. The guy has no game.
How in the world the St. Louis Cardinals can be some of the BEST fans in baseball and the Columbia Tiger-pussies be the WORST in all of college sports, is beyond me.
Perhaps, Abe, maybe only assholes get beat up there. Which WOULD explain your experience, that is, if you and your banjo have actually been outside of the Ozarks before.
I've been to football games at most of the stadiums in the Big 12 - I would go back to Nebraska in a heartbeat. They're gracious, kind and friendly - all around good sports.
However, while in Columbia for a game, a Missouri alum shoved me into a cement wall at the stadium all because he thought that I was on "the wrong side".
Give me a break, pal. MU fans are some of the worst in the bunch. They're no better than KU fans (and that's saying a lot - KU fans are completely horrible).
Nebraska fans are the worst of the lot. No class, no dignity, they'll slash your tires and try and fight you inside the stadium. The "nice fans" thing is a total myth. They put a sign over the entrance gates proclaiming "Through these gates pass the Greatest Fans in College Football." If you are truly classy, you don't brag about it.
St. Louis fans are definitely inbred.
ku fans are not inbred, but they do have an amazing self sense of entitlement and are unbelievably obnoxious.
I'd be mad if someone put me in the same category as Nebraska fans, too. I still think it's funny, but I understand why it's offensive.
this from a resident of a state that voted against regulating puppy mills... sounds pretty inbred to me
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