Skip Bayless on Barry Switzer
Russ Smith
This might be old news to Cowboy fans, but it's news to me. On the Gary
Plummer show this morning on KSJO, 2 local DJ's who run the show revealed
a conversation they had with Skip Bayless that apparently took place after
they placed a prank call to Bayless as part of their morning show. They
called him back to tell him who they were and Bayless(off the air
apparently) told them the following.
At a press conference a question was asked about the personal relationship
between Barry and QB Troy Aikman, because the rumor is that Aikman can't
stand Barry. Switzer got very upset about the question and said to the
reporters(paraphrased) " ok guys, let's talk off the record here,if you
guys like rumors so much, how come nobody's asking me about the rumors
that Troy Aikman is gay?" According to Bayless, he was there, he heard
Switzer say it, and he called it the single worst personal attack he's
ever witnessed in pro sports. Bayless claims that Switzer was the original
source of that rumor which has been around at least as long as Switzer has
been the head coach.
It's ironic because local radio hosts on KNBR had arranged to have Bayless
call into their show earlier in the week. The original time was delayed,
they asked him to call back an hour later, then asked him to hold. When he
finally got on, Bayless complained about being jerked around. So hosts
Ralph Barbieri(who's a moron IMHO) and Tom Tolbert(ex NBA player) told him
off for whining and flushed the call. Barbieri then proceeded to proclaim
he'd never liked Bayless and regretted ever arranging to talk to him about
the big game.
Gary doesn't figure to factor much in the game due to a bad knee that will
get operated on after this game(cartilage tear) and he just said he wasn't
surprised at what Bayless had said but didn't really comment on it.
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Russ Smith
"At that moment Jerry, I was a marine biologist."
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Sullys Maze
In article <russ_smith-08...@magic-1008.macip.genmagic.com>,
russ_...@genmagic.com (Russ Smith) writes:
>
>It's ironic because local radio hosts on KNBR had arranged to have Bayless
>call into their show earlier in the week. The original time was delayed,
>they asked him to call back an hour later, then asked him to hold. When he
>finally got on, Bayless complained about being jerked around. So hosts
>Ralph Barbieri(who's a moron IMHO) and Tom Tolbert(ex NBA player) told him
>off for whining and flushed the call. Barbieri then proceeded to proclaim
>he'd never liked Bayless and regretted ever arranging to talk to him about
>the big game.
Ralph's truly a jerk, but I laughed so hard at this when it happened
that I had to pull my car over. I couldn't figure out who wronged
whom, but Tolbert's line about the Hungry Man Salisbury Steak still
has me chuckling.
Radnich replayed it for Dallas sports talk guy 'The Fish' today at
noon. The Fish said he's not much for shock radio, but got a big
kick out of this one...
I think they should change the KNBR pairings - put Tolbert on with
Fitz, put Franklin and Ralph on from 2-5 while I'm at work so I can
listen to sports talk without having to hear from either of those to
bloated windbags...
go niners
Mike
John Walkup
I wish sportswriters would go back to reporting facts about sports.
John
Spike
On Fri, 08 Nov 1996 09:09:51 -0800, russ_...@genmagic.com (Russ Smith) wrote:
>At a press conference a question was asked about the personal relationship
>between Barry and QB Troy Aikman, because the rumor is that Aikman can't
>stand Barry. Switzer got very upset about the question and said to the
>reporters(paraphrased) " ok guys, let's talk off the record here,if you
>guys like rumors so much, how come nobody's asking me about the rumors
>that Troy Aikman is gay?" According to Bayless, he was there, he heard
>Switzer say it, and he called it the single worst personal attack he's
>ever witnessed in pro sports. Bayless claims that Switzer was the original
>source of that rumor which has been around at least as long as Switzer has
>been the head coach.
So this was supposed to be at a press conference? Don't you think it would have
been pasted across the sports pages of every newspaper in America, if this is
what was said? Even though Switzer said "off the record"? Has anybody ever
corroborated the story?
FWIW, Bayless isn't even allowed at Valley Ranch...
Bob Marshall
In article <russ_smith-08...@magic-1008.macip.genmagic.com>, russ_...@genmagic.com (Russ Smith) writes:
> It's ironic because local radio hosts on KNBR had arranged to have Bayless
> call into their show earlier in the week. The original time was delayed,
> they asked him to call back an hour later, then asked him to hold. When he
> finally got on, Bayless complained about being jerked around. So hosts
> Ralph Barbieri(who's a moron IMHO) and Tom Tolbert(ex NBA player) told him
> off for whining and flushed the call. Barbieri then proceeded to proclaim
> he'd never liked Bayless and regretted ever arranging to talk to him about
> the big game.
I heard this exchange as it happened, and I thought what had happened earlier
was that at the time they were supposed to talk to Bayless he was in the middle
of talking to a different radio station. So, Barbieri/Tolbert had to wait on
him. Then, when Bayless finally got on he was a complete jerk. The exchange
went something like this :
Bayless: First you guys kept me waiting for seven minutes and then for
ten minutes.
Tolbert: Geez, a little bit testy because the Cowboys are sucking it up?
Bayless: If this is the direction this call is gonna go then I'm hanging
up this phone right now.
Barbieri: You know good and well this is the direction the call is gonna go.
Look, Skip, why don't we just forget about it. First you blew us off, and
now you come on and complain. I never liked you much in the first place, and
I like you even less now.
Bayless: (Click)
By the way, all three of the guys involved are immature, egotistical morons;
it's a requirement for sports talk radio.
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Chris Cannon
Why does anyone give a rats ass what Skip Bayless says about
anything or anybody?
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Scott Stanford
Russ Smith wrote:
>
> This might be old news to Cowboy fans, but it's news to me. On the Gary
> Plummer show this morning on KSJO, 2 local DJ's who run the show revealed
> a conversation they had with Skip Bayless that apparently took place after
> they placed a prank call to Bayless as part of their morning show. They
> called him back to tell him who they were and Bayless(off the air
> apparently) told them the following.
>
> between Barry and QB Troy Aikman, because the rumor is that Aikman can't
> stand Barry. Switzer got very upset about the question and said to the
> reporters(paraphrased) " ok guys, let's talk off the record here,if you
> guys like rumors so much, how come nobody's asking me about the rumors
> that Troy Aikman is gay?" According to Bayless, he was there, he heard
> Switzer say it, and he called it the single worst personal attack he's
> ever witnessed in pro sports. Bayless claims that Switzer was the original
> source of that rumor which has been around at least as long as Switzer has
> been the head coach.
>
> call into their show earlier in the week. The original time was delayed,
> they asked him to call back an hour later, then asked him to hold. When he
> finally got on, Bayless complained about being jerked around. So hosts
> Ralph Barbieri(who's a moron IMHO) and Tom Tolbert(ex NBA player) told him
> off for whining and flushed the call. Barbieri then proceeded to proclaim
> he'd never liked Bayless and regretted ever arranging to talk to him about
> the big game.
>
> get operated on after this game(cartilage tear) and he just said he wasn't
> surprised at what Bayless had said but didn't really comment on it.
>
> --
> Russ Smith
>
> "At that moment Jerry, I was a marine biologist."
>
> ----George Costanza on pulling the golf ball out of the whale----
little respect in the industry, and it is tragic that ESPN will have
anything to do with that guy. I think most people can agree that Bayless
is a bad, biased reporter at best, and probably more like a tabloid
"journalist" than a sports reporter. I wouldn't believe anything he
says. On another note, I know a woman who dated Troy for a while, and
she seems to think he's straight to a fault. I'm not going to call him a
womanizer, because I didn't date him, but according to her ...
Do we really care if he's gay or not anyway?? He plays football for a
living. He's got 3 rings. What does it matter? Bayless is an idiot AND a
bigot, apparently.
Marty McMahone
> Russ Smith wrote:
> >
> >(snip)
> > Bayless claims that Switzer was the original
> > source of that rumor which has been around at least as long as Switzer has
> > been the head coach.
himself to be an idiot as well as a liar.
Read some of Bayless' books if you can find them in the library (for goodness sake don't
waste your money on them). He's a hatchet job yellow journalist. He gets no respect in the
journalistic community. (Except for from Dale Hansen in Dallas -- a local Switzer hater)
Marty
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