That could have been around the time that 60 Minutes ran an unflattering story on UL and Denny and the low academics of the basketball team.
Bizarre comments made by an announcer
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Rick Majerus:
Responding to Kentucky coach Rick Pitino's tongue-in-cheek assertion that his Wildcats would be the underdog in their 1996 NCAA Tournament game ...
"If we're getting in a sumo ring, he and I, then he's the underdog. I'll crush him. But on the court, we're in trouble."
[Salt Lake Tribune 3/24/1996]
About how the Utes' season keeps ending with a loss to Kentucky..
"When I die, they might as well bury me at the finish line at Churchill Downs so they can run over me one more time."
[New Orleans Times-Picayune 3/9/1999]
He said that he had tried to arrange a home and home series with the University of Kentucky, but they refused. "I'd play Kentucky home and home every year. Book it right now. I'd do anything to get them there. They want to ski on a mountain, I can get them a mountain to ski on. For privacy I can get them to Redford's place and they can eat like kings. But Kentucky ain't coming to play us." "I also said I'd like to date Ashley Judd and you know, she ain't gonna do that either. That was her dad that was here with me before. He looked at me and he's happy I'm not dating her either." "I am like Kentucky's favorite punching bag. People in Kentucky love me. 'I'd like me too if I lost every game."
[Louisville, KY newspaper, 2000]
Responding to Kentucky coach Rick Pitino's tongue-in-cheek assertion that his Wildcats would be the underdog in their 1996 NCAA Tournament game ...
"If we're getting in a sumo ring, he and I, then he's the underdog. I'll crush him. But on the court, we're in trouble."
[Salt Lake Tribune 3/24/1996]
About how the Utes' season keeps ending with a loss to Kentucky..
"When I die, they might as well bury me at the finish line at Churchill Downs so they can run over me one more time."
[New Orleans Times-Picayune 3/9/1999]
He said that he had tried to arrange a home and home series with the University of Kentucky, but they refused. "I'd play Kentucky home and home every year. Book it right now. I'd do anything to get them there. They want to ski on a mountain, I can get them a mountain to ski on. For privacy I can get them to Redford's place and they can eat like kings. But Kentucky ain't coming to play us." "I also said I'd like to date Ashley Judd and you know, she ain't gonna do that either. That was her dad that was here with me before. He looked at me and he's happy I'm not dating her either." "I am like Kentucky's favorite punching bag. People in Kentucky love me. 'I'd like me too if I lost every game."
[Louisville, KY newspaper, 2000]
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And, in the category of I can't believe he said that, Rick Majerus:
After Kentucky defeated Utah for the national title in 1998, Ashley Judd gave Utes coach Rick Majerus a hug, something he will never forget...
"She hugged me as a consolation because we lost," he said the other day. "I went to bed for two years with that as my sex life."
[St. Paul Pioneer Press, 03/24/2003]
During the last minute of a 20-point blowout of Tennessee by Kentucky...
"Well, there's not much to look forward to from here on out, so I'm trying to find Ashley Judd in the crowd. It beats the adult videos at the hotel."
[Heard on ESPN, 1/25/2005]
After Kentucky defeated Utah for the national title in 1998, Ashley Judd gave Utes coach Rick Majerus a hug, something he will never forget...
"She hugged me as a consolation because we lost," he said the other day. "I went to bed for two years with that as my sex life."
[St. Paul Pioneer Press, 03/24/2003]
During the last minute of a 20-point blowout of Tennessee by Kentucky...
"Well, there's not much to look forward to from here on out, so I'm trying to find Ashley Judd in the crowd. It beats the adult videos at the hotel."
[Heard on ESPN, 1/25/2005]
I remember that episode. I believe one of the UofL assistants said they had a player who would need to be watered if his IQ was any lower.
The end of Billy Packer’s career came when he declared a tournament game “over” because his precious ACC North Carolina was getting ran.
Basically telling your audience to a game off early doesn’t bode well for your advertisers and CBS
Basically telling your audience to a game off early doesn’t bode well for your advertisers and CBS
I remember watching that game when he made that remark…. There was dead silence for a good 15-20 seconds afterwards. No, he didn’t get canceled, not immediately anyway; but ABC MNF parted ways with him after that season (1983) was over.
Remember when Joe Namath was interviewed drunk on the sideline by a female reporter on live tv: " I want to kiss you right now" he told her. That was awesome!
Never will forgot that second one.
I hope someone put a piece of UK Gear in his coffin. Just to send it with him one more time.
RIP Majerus. You were always fun.
I love my KC Chiefs, so I say that all the time (and my wife rolls her eyes). Love me some Willie Gay.
That was Al Campanis, the president of the LA.Dodgers, who was being interviewed on Nightline, it was around the.same time as Jimmy the Greek's comments. They were commemorating Jackie.Robinson's 40th anniversary of breaking the color barrier because Campanis was a teammate and supposedly, a friend. People remember the swimming comments but it was worse than that. He was asked why there weren't black general managers, few coaches, etc. and Campanis said most lacked the tools or necessities required to do those jobs. Koppel tried to let him talk his way out of it and was like "well surely you don't mean if given the opportunity..." and the guy dug even deeper and said the mental capacity wasn't there. That's when he said white people being better swimmers because blacks lack the buoyancy that whites have. Koppel then said he was spouting a lot of garbage he thought we were past by now. The guy was fired a day later after being part of the Dodgers for 50 years.
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Some dude said that Roger Staubach "kind of runs like a sissy, doesn't he?" during a Cowboys game in the 70s. Verne Lundquist replied "WHAT?"
