Shank Goes Into a Full-on Backpedal About His Texans Column
Houston Media Watch – After writing a blistering article about the Texans , Dan Shaughnessy joined the J&R Show on Sports Radio 610 to basically say, I don’t know football. I will reserve all smack talk until after the game but I can tell you one thing. This guy has a job waiting on him in Houston, Texas. What’s the qualification these days? Not knowing football and crushing the local team… [The clip] is a little mix of Dan telling Rich Lord and Seth Payne how much he don’t know about football and very sympathetic sounding.
Sigh. I write this reluctantly. Dave already put Shank in his place after Arian Foster used his article as an avatar. We know Shank was trolling when he wrote it. You know he was trolling. Even the Curly Haired Boyfriend knows it. Writing over-the-top, inflammatory claptrap and hoping it gets attention is the only club he has left in his bag. It’s how he stays- I use the term loosely- relevant. The only reason I bring it up is what I’ve been saying for years: How does anyone still mistake him for the Voice of Boston? This uniformed, out of touch anachronism belongs in a museum of 1980s sports journalism, not going on Houston radio pretending he speaks for us. A buddy of mine heard these sound cuts this morning on Toucher & Rich and actually thought Shank was being funny and clever the way he handled these questions. He wasn’t being ironic; he was being honest. He doesn’t know much about football. He has been following the Patriots for “10 or 11 years.” Do any of us honestly think he’s watched a down of Texans football since they played the Pats a month ago? So he goes on the air and can’t respond to their points so he just admits he’s a pig-igorant know-nothing disguised as a sportswriter. Which is fine. I don’t care. If Houston radio wants to take the cheese and invite him on for an argument, that’s fine by me. My only beef is the world has to stop thinking he speaks for us or that the rest of New England is as clueless as he is.
PS. Like I told Toucher & Rich a few weeks ago when they had bloggers on to respond to Shank ripping us, I just wish Patrick Chung could go into a backpedal this fast. @JerryThornton1
P.S I said something witty, let me repeat it here and give myself full credit for it’s origination a few weeks ago.
fuckin smithers
Sigh. I write this reluctantly…….but $20 bucks is $20 bucks eh Larry
Shank knows nothing about sports? Barstool should hire him.
backpedal? He completely played his card out. “I’ve only been watching football for 10 years, you guys are the real experts” Those hosts were DYING to get a soundbite from him, but he kept toying with them. I’d say its genius, but i’ll never give Shank that amount of credit.
Ya Man, I’m pretty sure he was being sarcastic
Saw this ginger chump after a Celts game in Sullys and, dare I say it, ordered a glass of wine. A glass of wine sitting at Sullys. Totally fucking unacceptable. Oh, and if that’s not outrageous enough the chick he went in with left him at the bar.
Writing over-the-top, inflammatory claptrap and hoping it gets attention is the only club he has left in his bag…………….. <———What is most pathetic about you Jerry is that you write this without a hint or irony or satire. Other assigning grades to teachers that fuck kids it is the only thing you do. you are the absolute worst
Holy fuck you are so proud of that horrible joke you needed to bring it up again? Fuck Smithers, you are the worst kind of asshole.
BTW, you aren’t funny in the least. The fact that you think you are, especially with your horrible call ins to the Felger and Mazz show is one of the all time douchiest cringe worthy things someone can hear in their lifetime.
He should stick to writing articles about red sox players from the 70′s
He should stick to writing articles about red sox players from the 70′s
I dance just like ray lewis
Yeah Shaughnessy sucks. That being said, you have the audacity to compare your shit site to this award winning sports journalist whose been writing columns in this city since your first yarmulke got too small? Fucking arrogant jew bastard what you are.
Shaughnessy is a petulant, whiny sports media hack. He’s been locked behind The Globe’s 99-cent paywall which everyone thinks is 99 cents too much. That’s like a little boy being sent to bed without supper…every night of his life. Imagine bashing out a column that you KNOW only seventeen people will read. How do you combat that? Rattle the cage so that 18 people will read it. Or something. This fossilized sports media hack is crying for attention.
How about the tits on todays smoke? Just perfect!
Tits? How about her mouth and lips .. that girl was born to suck dick.
Tits? How about her mouth and lips .. that girl was born to suck dick.
But agreed .. her tits were exceptional.
the sheep dog better pull a belcher soon
just throwing it out there, but he sounded like he was being REALLY sarcastic to the 2 rednecks.
Well I think Shaughnessy is a self righteous blow hard, but as has been said it was completely clear that he was BRILLIANTLY being sarcastic in that interview. Not really sure how anyone couldn’t pik that up after his “10 years” comment. Excellent. The Houston hosts had no idea how to del with it. I went from hating Shaughnessy to actually kind of liking him in that one interview.
Sorry for the typos, IPad keyboard.
“Uniformed” or “UNINFORMED”, Jerry?