Tagliabue can't find Gene Upshaw's leash...
 

This is too funny!!!

The job status of Bryant Gumbel, scheduled to be the play-by-play broadcaster on the eight late-season games on the NFL's in-house network, could be the subject of a discussion by NFL officials after Gumbel's suggestion that Paul Tagliabue show his successor "where he keeps Gene Upshaw's leash."

[url=http://www.nfl.com/nflnetwork/story/9612380]NFL.com - NFL News[/url]

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BRYANT GUMBEL said that?!?! I never knew he had it in him.

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If you read the article it only gets better...

"Before he cleans out his office," Gumbel said. "Have Paul Tagliabue show you where he keeps Gene Upshaw's leash. By making the docile head of the players union his personal pet, your predecessor has kept the peace without giving players the kind of guarantees other pros take for granted. Try to make sure no one competent ever replaces Upshaw on your watch."

I think it is funny...

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Any reason to bounce Gumbel as play-by-play guy for NFL network (he has never done play-by-play before) is a good one. That he is an asshole who says stupid things should not be a shock to anyone.

The team of Patrick and Riggo would be a big step up.

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Patirck needs a new job. Give it to him. Gumbel is a bitch.

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Gumbel is absolutely a whiny bitch. Just a few months ago he implied that the winter olympics are irrelevant not because they are stupid and arbitrary (which they are), but because there are not enough colored atheletes competing in them. Huh? He's crazy

Gene Upshaw is also insane, by the way.

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what makes upshaw insane? and gumbel says things that make me wonder if he isnt a borderline racist

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[quote=dmek25;206360]what makes upshaw insane? and gumbel says things that make me wonder if he isnt a borderline racist[/quote]

Saying Gumbel is a borderline racist is like saying that TO is a borderline team killer.

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[QUOTE=m240guy;206326]Gene Upshaw is also insane, by the way.[/QUOTE]

Huh? I think Upshaw is basically considered the best union leader in sports. He keeps his guys paid and the sport going without labor stopages. Not easy to do.

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this guy is an elitist arrogant self righteous better than any one else smarter than anyone else guy. he love's him some him. let him talk to himself. anytime i see him on i just turn the channel. i will not listen to him.hot air doesn't cover it. the laundry list of offensive judgemantal things this guy has said over the years is head shaking. time to say goodbye, permantely.

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I've met Bryant Gumbel and spoken on the phone with Greg Gumbel. Those two couldn't be more different. Bryant acts like his shit don't stink. Greg isn't some super friendly outgoing guy but at least he treats everyone with respect and you can have a conversation with him without feeling like you're wasting precious seconds of his life.

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there goes tafkas name dropping again:)

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HAHAHA, name dropping.
In fact, if Gumbel would have left Genes name out of it I'm sure it would have been a small issue. But wheres the Freedom of Speech, obviously they see no humor in dissing the NFL's head corporate monkey but shit its just Upshaw. I dont see why he should lose his job over that, he should lose it for being a white corporate deep throater as all these media personalities are. Was it said on HBO?? HBO should be free reign to speak and do whatever. They probably just want to make a lesson out of him for challenging authority which will always be the case anytime a man attempts to dethrone power or fail to knee before and suck the "Power Teet"
Fight the good fight Gumbel. Damn the man.

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i dont think u guys understand what he was trying to say. NFL players recieve very "organization friendly" contracts, which prevents owners from overpaying obviously. He's simply saying upshaw is and has not fought to make player contracts more "player friendly". If you look at player contracts in the NBA, NHL, and MLB, Gumbel is right

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I just think its dangerous to speak against position in powers and expect them to just takes it. That takes balls and what did he take a trip to the hood??

So it would seem that its not that Upshaw hasnt fought but rather that he will and will need to be controlled , correct?