Shut up, Bob Costas
On Sunday night, Bob Costas opened the second half of NBC’s Sunday night snoozer between the Steelers and the Chiefs with a rant about touchdown celebrations. He ranted, and raved, and screamed and sounded, frankly, old and dated, which is interesting because it seems he’s spent plenty of money to make himself look otherwise.
And all of it was just … ridiculous. Like keeping Jay Leno or canceling “Community,” NBC seems to do anything to keep the youth at bay, and the rant on celebrations by Costas was just another example of their decrepit outlook.
I’ll make this simple, because it should be simple; the National Football League is a sport … a game … and it is out there because it entertains us. It’s a movie in real time, fit with fake-looking men with fake-looking muscles running at speeds none of us can comprehend and hitting with power we only see in vehicles fit for a ranch. We are passionate about sports, we care about them, and they make or break our year, but at the end of the day, it’s entertaining.
Did people really hate when Joe Horn pulled that cell phone out of the upright? And Terrell Owens with the popcorn? Or even when Stevie Johnson took it a step further and mocked a player that had idiotically shot himself in his own leg with a gun at a nightclub? Did that really take away from the game we were watching? No. It can’t. It’s part of the entertainment.
Deion Sanders was famous because he was really fast and incredible at his position, but he was a superstar because he was outgoing and entertaining, and, to other fans, annoying. That’s part of the sport. Flagging players for excessive celebration is pointless. Spending two minutes ranting about it is a waste of my time, and frankly, Bob, yours.
