"Stuffed suits at NBC,

"So you are staying with your countdown to no ratings host for your football studio. Good move, all of the america haters can join that JO, and watch another flop at NBC. Never thought that I would not watch football on Sunday night, however , leave it to all of the brains at your company to come up with this idea. I don't watch your station, although I will watch NASCAR when you have it, so you don't have to try to appeal to me, but I am not the only that feels this way. Good luck, maybe your ratings will be as good as the Countdown to no ratings show. Wake me he's gone.

"Steeler fan"

http://boards.nbcuni.com/nbcs/index.php?showtopic=785

How could anybody but the most blinded true-believers even think that NBC was going to do anything but water down Keith's "Countdown" act for the main network? As liberal as the NBC execs are, even they weren't going to go into the Steelers-Eagles game with another Olby Special Comment calling for Bush's resignation.

What really should disturb NBC is the reaction to the show. The network apparently believes that by inserting Keith into Football Night in America, they can ingratiate him with NFL fans who may not know about "Countdown", and would then give it a try. Judging by the reactions at the NBC website, NFL fans already know about Keith's political views and the bias of "Countdown" and don't want even the thought of those opinions or of him infecting their Sunday night football viewing.

For the Keith and the cocooned NBC execs who apparently believe millions are just waiting to have the light of truth shown to them by Olbermann, and that he can catch Fox News if only he can get their attention, this has to be a shock to the system akin to Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder finding out the audience loved Springtime for Hitler in "The Producers" -- they'll start mumbling something about "Let's see what the majority says" and hold their collective breaths until the Giants-Cowboys regular season opener.

"I agree with steeler fan. Olbermann isabout as boring as you can get. I can't believe NBC can be that hard up to put him on a prime time football show. When he was in LA station he was terrible and I doubt he has improved any."

http://boards.nbcuni.com/nbcs/index.php?showtopic=785

From NBC SPORTS

http://boards.nbcuni.com/nbcs/index.php?showtopic=314&pid=4278&st=80&#entry4278

"I wanted to sit and have a quiet night and watch some TV with the kids and up pops NBC's pretend news nut job. Man they sure know how to wreck a nice evening."

From NBC SPORTS

http://boards.nbcuni.com/nbcs/index.php?showtopic=314&st=20

"NBC has just guaranteed that I will never watch Football Night In America...ever. How could you think that hiring a guy like Keith Olbermann to do football was a good idea!?! Maybe Al Franken, Al Gore, and Bill Mahr can do play-by-play for you!

"The one place Americans can [generally] turn for pure entertainment without the partisanship and bias generally displayed in the news media is sports. Hiring this crazed, ultraliberal lunatic for what was shaping up to be a fairly good football show was a giant mistake.

"As an aside, in addition to his leftist rants, the other reason hiring Olbermann was a mistake is that he was just never that good as a sports guy on ESPN or Fox.

"A disappointed football fan."

From NBC SPORTS

http://boards.nbcuni.com/nbcs/index.php?showtopic=314&pid=4278&st=80&#entry4278

"Olberman? Just another reason to give up NFL football. I won't be watching on Sunday night, for sure. Perhaps they can replace him with a thinking man (or woman)."

The amusing part is looking at the posts that only have 1 or 2 prior posts or that is their first post. Not suprisingly, they are there to defend Olby and talk about how great he was and how happy they were to see him on NBC. They are in the vast minority however. And it's so easy to spot them it isn't funny. Real sports fans it seems have no use for Olbermann, or about as much use as his fellow panelists seemed to have for him last night, that's for sure.

While I didn't see either the football game or the Sunday Countdown show, I thought it was probably a bad idea to mix Olbermann with NFL football.

That said, I'll hold my opinion about how he actually did, because this is the absolute last place to find objective information about that.

The whole world is writing everywhere of how shitty and stupid that performance was last night, but Mike is going to knock people here for not being objective...thanks mike for that deep commentary

Mike, Im rolling around the floor, laughing my ass off like you like to do alot

Hey Mike, you didn't miss much. It was disappointing, a bit too much "fluff" stories. Olbermann seemed a little nervous (speaking a bit faster than usual). Although I would think he'd be a bit nervous.

As for the halftime show, I think they will definately have to work on the chemistry with all the "hosts" (I think there are too many).

Anyway, here's a good link that has a few more balanced comments pro & against Olbermann (originally from deadspin):

http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2007/08/keith-olbermann-implores-you-to-do.html

Joe- Ping! you have been tagged as an Olbyloon, writing Olby looked nervous and in effect why wouldnt he be, is a little out there my friend, no one cares how he looked

PING! OLBYLOOOOOON JOE, MEET OLBYLOON MIKE

So- the loons are defending KO at NBCSports with their usual vulgarities and name calling.

Too bad for them, the majority of the people will actually right them network letters and they won't be able to spew their hate for any anti-olbermann opinions.

Keith is gone!

write NOT right

Good Grief Olbylooooon hunter, I have admited here numerous times that I watch Countdown. He seemed nervous compared to the MSNBC version. Why wouldn't he be, about 4 million + watched the show last night, (as compared to his average 600,000 or so) and the NBC version was pretty lame.

did you spot for him when he seemed nervous? :)

Ah im just funning with ya

sports are sacred. I dont want KO, Rush, BillO or anybody. Just keep news anchors/ pundits/ fringe psychos away from my fucking sports. Its the only place left where we dont have to listen to this shit.

My favorite Olbyloon defense of our pal's Vick commentary is that Olby was being ironic and we don't get his sense of humor. LOLOLOL!

Olby, please come back to SNF next week, do your normal show and invite John Dean, the Perfessor, Musto and Mary Carey to join you. Then give us a blistering Speshul Komment demanding that the entire Bush administration resign. And we will watch the pitchfork-wielding clear-thinking Americans march through midtown Manhattan to forcibly remove you from the anchor chair. Somehow I doubt that Bob and Chris will stop them.

Did anyone notice that Chris, Bob and Olby have no chemistry whatsoever? Chris and Bob have the spark, but when you throw Olby in the mix, the flame just dies. Chris seems to have the utmost respect for Olby's left-wing agenda, doesn't he? Can't blame him. No wonder Olby literally sits to the far left of Costas on that panel. It's just natural.

Hey look! OW got a mention on the NBC message board. Seems like Oblyloons just can't accept the fact that a lot of people just don't like Olbermann, (whether they never heard of OW---too funny!)

Bosch Today, 06:05 PM Post #129
Uh oh...
Looks like OlbermannWatch invaded the NBC boards. RUN!

The point is loons- there are dozens of people at NBC sports piling on. Only recently did you loons show up and start attacking people who DO NOT like him.

Face it- Keith's shit is tired and not appropriate for football. Its been a bad day for you loons. I listened to sports talk all day and the Keith topic kept coming up. He bombed- face it!

The joke is that it's very easy to tell who is a long time poster there and who are the recent "imports" and it's the long-time posters, the serious sports fans who hate Olbermann with a passion that makes those of us here at Owatch pale in comparison. And everyone seemed to notice just how much his fellow co-workers already hate him, an on-going pattern in Olbermann's life, alienating coworkers wherever he goes.

It must suck to have your diety pan so badly.
Of course he is going to be ripped here... its what we do.

But sports radio and blogs have been ripping him all day.

And seeing the loons attack anything anti-olby is classic.

And YES- Collinsworth did smack him a la Matthews style. Must be tough to sit next to that blowhard.

Clucker- I think you'd find people to piss and moan with at DailyKos. The sun is shining over here at OW. See ya!

WDYT, because Olby is a pathological liar, there is no way I could ever think he is great. Ever. However, as Olby is a self-absorbed egomaniac, I'm sure he thinks he is greater than sliced bread. Just ask him - he'll tell you so.

Just 3 minutes to Malkin time!
Lets see if KeithO's big media push can pull him UP to second place. Noooooot!

You are a racist 8:50!

I don't watch Malkin- just love it when she kicks your boy's ass!

Check the NBC Sports message board!

Post after post! Its more fun than this blog because some of these people just got their first taste of melonhead! Phhht! We've been teling you for years here... he has lower approval rating than the president and congress. He's just beloved by you loons! Bawah!

Well, patsy, looks like you were right with your "gone by monday" spew. You were just off by about 40 mondays! No casualties of war to post today? Keep looking. The fun loving muslims set off 2 bombs in Pakistan, today. Why didn't you post those articles? Don't fit your agenda?

These Keith haters sure do make funny noises like - "Bawah!, phhht".

I listened to sports radio today too. Funny they all thought Olbermann sucked ass and politics was never brought into the discussion.

NBC wears their ass as a hat
NFL doesn't mix with moonbat
Enter Keith "Newscaster"
The ratings disaster
NBC's like a tire gone flat

Keith's Number One fan has called in the troops to help out at the NBC sports blog. I guess the truth about how much he is really hated outside their band of 10 fans really hurts.

The Loons, do you have a link for 'The Call to Arms'.

Thanks,

Grammie

COUNTDOWN: DOWN FOR THE COUNT-
Keith Olbermann's Countdown will probably be counted out of contention for the pre-game slot preceding NBC's Football Night in America and Sunday Night Football, several analysts agreed Monday as overnight ratings indicated that the show attracted just 4.3 million viewers, putting it in last place among the four major networks. (The football game itself drew 10.3 million in its first half hour.) Although Olbermann had said that he did not intend to alter Countdown for its broadcast network showcase, some critics maintained that that's exactly what he did, watering down his often hard-hitting liberal commentaries.

http://www.movieweb.com/tv/news/10/22310.php

Keith's a failure, of that there is no doubt.