The Bonehead of the Day award goes to a SEC Network reporter for his interview with LSU qb Joe Burrow yesterday.
A small plane traveling to the game crashed in Lafayette, Louisiana, killing five passengers. One of the deceased was Carley McCord, daughter-in-law of LSU Offensive Coordinator Steve Ensminger. The decision was made not to tell the team about it before the game as it took place a short time before the kickoff. The all-everything quarterback learned about it after the game from a reporter (1:50 in video). Classy. Props to the reporter for asking a clueless question and to the LSU PR staff for not informing the media the team did not know about the tragedy.
Sports Illustrated's (and CL alum) Ross Dellenger penned a poignant story today:
Somewhere in a corner of LSU’s locker room here at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Tigers offensive coordinator Steve Ensminger held the hardest phone call of his life. His daughter-in-law, Carley McCord, a 30-year-old TV journalist, had perished Saturday morning in a plane crash in Louisiana while en route to this very place. His son and namesake, Steven Jr., so shaken by the news that family members rushed him to the hospital, lay in a bed in a medicated state, on sedatives, in and out of reality—until dad called....
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| Source: Sports Illustrated |
McCord was one of six passengers on a small private aircraft that left Lafayette, La., around 9 a.m. CT bound for Atlanta. The only survivor, Stephen Wade Berzas, 37, was in critical condition as of Saturday evening. The eight-seat plane crashed in a parking lot about a mile from its take-off point, bursting into flames with such force that it blew out the windows of a nearby post office. Witnesses told a Lafayette TV station, KATC, that the plane hit a power line while presumably attempting to make an emergency landing through dense fog.Damn. Just damn.
Gretchen Vincent, 51, offered a seat on the plane to McCord, who had no other route to Atlanta. Steven Ensminger had planned to drive McCord to Atlanta, but he couldn’t get off work. He’s a chemical operator at a nitrogen facility on the Mississippi River in a small town between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. A company policy prohibiting employee vacations after Dec. 22 prevented him from getting time off.
In fact, he was at work without his phone when McCord texted and called him that morning before the flight. He missed both of them. “I don’t have my phone and she sends me a message saying she loved me,” Steven says. “I was in and out of a nightmare, not being able to tell what was real and what wasn’t. I can remember laying in the hospital bed repeating myself saying it wasn’t real and then one of the hardest things I’m dealing with is that I missed her text and I missed her call. It is by far the most pain, angst and terror and just darkest time of my life and I honestly don’t know how long it will last because I still don’t believe it. I don’t want to believe it.”... Rest of article.
19 comments:
Who gives a flying fuck? People die every day. Reporters and athletes aren't special.
You let this asshole post this cruel comment? THIS passed your "cull button"? What a hollow POS.
2:06, you'll probably have to hire pallbearers and folks to grieve at your funeral. Or you could be cremated and have the janitor flush your ashes down the toilet. Prick.
Sometimes I let scumbags show their true colors.
Hey 2:06 most people don't get that kind of news while on live national tv. You schmuck. The person that was killed was special you arrogant waste of space. May this world overcome people like you and excel with humanity.
The reporter has repeatedly and sincerely apologized. What more can he do
I agree with 2:06. Sportsball games are the opiate of the masses that allows evil to flourish in Washington. Literally the Roman Coliseum distracting from the collapse of the Republic.
Too many fathers would hand their own daughters over to illiterate and degenerate "athletes" that "play" for their alma mater.
The reporter likely thinks everyone knows. Toward the end of the game (especially considering it was a blow out) the coaching staff probably should have gotten as many players together as possible and informed them but in the fog the game, that probably was not considered.
@2:39 the world is ugly. You might want to crawl back into your hole.
The Bonehead of the Day award goes to 2:06.
My thoughts and prayers go out to all.
There's no way I could have continued working after such.
That speaks volumes about Steve Ensminger .
Along with Burrow.
That young man was obviously blindsided by the question, but he handled it better than I ever could.
And I could be Burrow's Grandfather.
Far too many so-called sports "reporters" make six figures flying around to these games.
Meanwhile the brilliant scientists from the far reaches of the planet are in labs at Universities all over the USA working on problems like child cancer research and can barely keep going with paltry $100k grants from who knows where.
All because beer swilling "successful" people will frivolously spend more than they earn worshiping low IQ goons chase after a ball. Oh hey, lets put a sportsball cap and jersey on dying little Reagan or Madison.
Maybe Johnny Football will come visit them before the blood cancer takes another life.
Careful who you call a scumbag KF. I agree with 2:06 but he didn’t have to use that language.
2:06 You a cold hearted POS.
“Any person death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
― John Donne, Meditation XVII - Meditation 17
The JJ comments are basically the Haters’ Ball of Mississippi.
And while I don’t endorse many of the sentiments, it sure is fun to watch.
I agree with 2:06... and you should too -- ONLY to realize there were 5 or 6 other people who died on that plane that you've heard nothing about... or seem to care about. Are they nobody's fiancee? ...husband, sister..brother?
It is sad when a coach puts a win above the lives of people. Knowing coach O this does not surprise me.
Those agreeing with 2:06 are likely 2:06.
As best I can understand the logic behind some of the comments posted above, it is this:
1 I should never empathize with anyone, unless I can equally empathize with each and every other person, known and unknown, who has suffered similarly.
2) I should never do anything I enjoy, as I should busy myself with hand wringing over the state of the nation.
3) I should live poverty until all sickness is cured, particularly that afflicting children.
4) I should preoccupy myself with judging the perceived shortcomings of others, instead of looking at myself, so that I can feel superior in my misery.
@11:23
Whatever you have to tell yourself to make yourself feel better about worshipping a ball game instead of addressing the problems you created for future generations.
This football worshipping nonsense started with baby boomers and you will carry the blame for these dying days of the Republic.
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