Buzz Bissinger is a Grumpy Old Man

Oh waaaaah... I'm an old sportswriter and I hate blogs because they're ruining America.  Watch as "famed" sportswriter Buzz Bissinger gets all overheated and whiny about some funny stuff that shows up on Deadspin.  Costas gets kind of heated too, while the Deadspin guy is calm and collected and Braylon Edwards -- well I'm not sure what he's doing on this panel -- but he sounds more calm and collected than Bissinger and Costas, certainly, and he's like "what's the problem with blogs?" Which, you know, is kind of right.  Some funny stuff, though, seeing Bissinger overreact like this.  (By the way, Bissinger is most famous recently for writing the Tony La Russa book that I think is called "Three Days in August" about how Tony's "old school" coaching ways are far, far superior to the new Billy Beane-style "win by using your brains" way of baseball.  So obviously, the guy's got a small issue with a little thing called "progress," or you know, objectivity).  Fuck him. 

(He also wrote Friday Night Lights, which got turned into an excellent movie and a supposedly good TV series, so there's that.)

Dammit, I just discovered FJM got there first, and does a good job of making fun of Buzzy Buzz - sportswriter extraordinaire - both here and here.  Take a look.  It's some funny, funny stuff.

Okay.  So.  "Costas Now."

Tonight, I was interviewed as part of that program's multi-part investigation of Sports and the Media. What followed the tape piece was a live discussion among Will Leitch of Deadspin, Buzz Bissinger of "Friday Night Lights" and "Being Very Angry," and of course the one guy you go to for any discussion of Sports and the Media: Braylon Edwards of the Cleveland Browns.

If you didn't see it, the discussion went like this:

Bob Costas: There are some criticisms about blogs.  How do you respond?

Will Leitch: Well, I think some of them are valid--

Buzz Bissinger: I have to interrupt here.  (to Leitch)  Fuck you and everything you stand for.

Braylon Edwards: (to himself) I am going to kill my agent.

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