I hate Billy Packer.
Billy Packer is an annoying loudmouth color commentator for men's college basketball, and I hate him.
He hates Carolina and he loves Duke. He can not miss an opportunity to put UNC down, no matter if they are in the game he is calling or not. During the championship game (congrats Kansas!), I have a new reason to hate him. He is an idiot.
Three comments from just the OT period I can not get out of my head:
1. With Kansas up 69 - 62, Billy, needing something to say, enlightens the audience with "Memphis is only down two possessions." Okay, technically, they are down only seven points, which can be reached in two possessions, but on this planet, coaches and players usually don't consider the 4-point play a "gimmie"
2. Billy's pontificating on this games importance in the grand historical scheme"These Kansas kids are use to seeing OT losses in national championship games. They lost to North Carolina in triple overtime."
One big problems with this statement: Kansas did in fact lose in 3OT to UNC in the Championship game; however, that game was played in 1957, over 50 years ago. I don't think much of the current student body is in their mid-50s and remembers this event. Plus, that game was not televised.
3. With time winding down, Kansas' Chalmers is milking time off the clock and gets fouled. "I don't like Kansas' strategy at all. They are putting a 70% free throw shooter (actually 75%) on the line and he hasn't missed all night."
WTF?
I thought not missing a free throw counted as a "good thing".
And if that wasn't stupid enough, after Chalmers makes the first free throw "I don't like Kansas' plan at all - now it is a two possession game (for Memphis)."
Double - WTF?
Then after Chalmers hits the second free throw, Billy, still sticking to his guns but realizing he may - may - have said something stupid says "I still don't like what Kansas is doing."
How he still has a job is beyond me. For the love of college hoops, please retire. Go away to some cave and never come back. And while you are at it take Bill Walton and Stephen A. Smith with you. But leave Brent Musburger behind - he is GOLD!
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1 comment:
Hello?!? Billy Packer does NOT love Duke. He is always putting down the Blue Devils in every single Duke game he covers. It is a well known fact that Dickie V. loves Duke, but definitely NOT Billy Packer, my friend. He's an equal opportunity hater and deserves to be hated, not because he loves Duke, but because he is an arnery old man.
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