Happy 85th Birthday, Lee Corso!!

[BUBear]

 

[LouderVol]

85? I was thinking 75.

 

[Cmacsmokey]

Please ESPN put this guy out to pasture it’s been just sad watching him stumble thru Gameday the last few years after his stroke.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

 

[give_him 6]

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Not so fast!.........He was a "not so fast" halfback at Free Shoe U.

 

[BUBear]

Not so fast!.........He was a "not so fast" halfback at Free Shoe U.

Burt Reynolds' roommate

 

[RDU VOL#14]

Please ESPN put this guy out to pasture it’s been just sad watching him stumble thru Gameday the last few years after his stroke.

I agree that it’s been tough, but he’s fun and loves the game . Seeing Herbstreit and the Gameday crew get emotional about him a few years ago when he received some sort of an award after his stroke kind of solidified how I viewed him. I couldn’t stand him when I was younger, but really grew to love the guy as I got older.

 

[BUBear]

I agree that it’s been tough, but he’s fun and loves the game . Seeing Herbstreit and the Gameday crew get emotional about him a few years ago when he received some sort of an award after his stroke kind of solidified how I viewed him. I couldn’t stand him when I was younger, but really grew to love the guy as I got older.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

I agree that it’s been tough, but he’s fun and loves the game . Seeing Herbstreit and the Gameday crew get emotional about him a few years ago when he received some sort of an award after his stroke kind of solidified how I viewed him. I couldn’t stand him when I was younger, but really grew to love the guy as I got older.

 

[peaygolf]

Happy birthday to the best thing about Gameday! JMO

 

[05_never_again]

I agree that it’s been tough, but he’s fun and loves the game . Seeing Herbstreit and the Gameday crew get emotional about him a few years ago when he received some sort of an award after his stroke kind of solidified how I viewed him. I couldn’t stand him when I was younger, but really grew to love the guy as I got older.

I've started to like him more ever since ESPN made the pivot several years ago towards politics, the inane "debate" shows, and an emphasis on pop culture outside of sports. College GameDay and Corso are a couple of the very, very few things still on that network that are representative of what the network used to be, and a throwback to a simpler time where they just talked about sports.

 

[BUBear]

Please ESPN put this guy out to pasture it’s been just sad watching him stumble thru Gameday the last few years after his stroke.

He's better than Dick Vitale by a country mile.

 

[BUBear]

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[RDU VOL#14]

He's better than Dick Vitale by a country mile.

Unfortunately Dicky V has really made watching his games unbearable the last few years. He was always passionate about the game, but he’s really just gotten beyond annoying. Super nice guy, but not great at what he does anymore.

 

[05_never_again]

Unfortunately Dicky V has really made watching his games unbearable the last few years. He was always passionate about the game, but he’s really just gotten beyond annoying. Super nice guy, but not great at what he does anymore.

I think it's just a chance in consumer tastes too, plus it seems to be younger fans (aka people who get on Twitter to complain about him) who really dislike him. If you go back and listen to Vitale in the 80s, it's largely the same thing. He's kind of like a college basketball Chris Berman.

Both were tailor made more for what I'd call the "highlight era" of sports broadcasting, particularly Berman. When SportsCenter, NFL PrimeTime, etc. were a primary source of finding out what happened in sports, people who could make those shows entertaining were really loved by the audience. There's no need to watch those shows anymore, so a younger crowd just knows them as the loud, obnoxious older guy who's saying stupid stuff on ESPN. It's also disproportionately younger people who seem to complain about Corso too. Generational difference.