I've been saying this for years. Whenever there's a big sports story I'll usually tune in at 2 for the first segment because I'm curious how Felger will go against the grain of the prevailing attitude, regardless of the topic. It's remarkable that the formula has been this sustainable in terms of ratings when the narrative is so predictable and cliched.
So today after the Celtics went up 3-1 on the Heat and can close out the series tomorrow night, Felger is going to yammer on and on about the KP injury and how he's made of glass and "I told you that he's not someone they can depend on" and now they are screwed moving forward, no longer the favorites in his eyes.
It's a pretty simple formula. You know the Pats are at 3, they know the Pats won't/can't/shouldn't pick Penix at 3 so they start talking up Penix. That way if they draft anyone but Penix, the Pats were wrong. Then if the Pats take Penix at 3 it was a huge reach "You know I love Penix, but at #3?? You can't do that and needed to trade down!"
They called his take on the Tatum / Bam play as “excellent” and went on to put 100% of the blame on Tatum for shooting after the whistle. They do realize Bam was called for a flagrant 1, correct?
or they know that it'll rile up the fans if they take the "Tatum had it coming" route, and they don't actually care at all.
Correct. They just lean into wrestling heel schtick ad nauseum.
Of course they are spot on, it's a negative result. If they had won 17-0 the talking points would be along the lines of, "Maple Leafs are frauds...Bruins will be lucky to win a game vs Florida."
well they want the bruins to win the other 3 teams they hate with a passion
"Celtics winning is boring so we're talking Pats." Stewart/ Murray"Blahhh blahhhh but Celtics won last night so the fans want us to talk Cs" - Click - change channel. Only thing interesting about this show now is the opening segment twist out of curiosity.
That may have been accurate but I think we've (d)evolved from misery to anger. Whenever I hear or see Felger lately, he seems like the Boston sports answer to a screaming Alex Jones.
They also did not start with the Bruins right before game 6. Leading with Drake Maye caused me to turn off the show. Not out of principal, but I wasn't interested vs the playoffs.
Joking about Monty "having to go back to rehab because he was drinking the panic juice" is funny?
JFC. I mean it's one thing to troll us as sports fans, and as much as that frustrates me I admit to finding it entertaining at times. But trolling someone about alcoholism is just flat out gross.
It's really not hard to just say "We didn't mean it that way but now that you point it out, it was shitty of us. We'll stop."
I'm not going into V&N territory here, but this is the new apology from people in power. They don't take ownership for their mistake (they were just screwing around with locker room talk!) and they'll never admit that they're wrong (how could they be wrong, they're rich!). In fact, they'll put the blame on you for finding fault with what they said (wokeness, people being too "touchy", cancel culture, shit like that).
He said the exact same thing the year that the Pats beat the Falcons in the Super Bowl. "Mike, there's no 1990 New York Giants or 1990 San Francisco 49ers. All of these teams stink!"
Im sure he followed that up by mentioning the Nuggets defeating 8/4/7/8 seeds last year!
To his credit, even Felger said he didn't agree and that this was a ridiculous take.
I was about to respond that he was pulling this straight out of the old embarrassing Shaughnessy Patriots playbook, except Dan is still at it too. If they win it means nothing because they beat "tomato cans", if they lose they're a joke for losing. Great way to guarantee you can bash the local teams no matter what.
To be followed in the finals by some reference to a "Yahoo Town", especially if the opponent is OKC.
