When the crap goes down, it's comforting to know that our nation's color commentators are ready.
In a television broadcasting display reminiscent of Jack Buck’s famed “That’s what you get for
f%#@ing with the S-T-L, bitches!” screed during a Cubs/Cardinals telecast in 1983, former University of Miami wide receiver and current Comcast Sports Southeast booth analyst Lamar Thomas was comparably dignified during an outbreak of unprecedented on-field violence between the Hurricanes and visiting Florida International:
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“You don’t come into the OB, baby. We’ve had a down couple of years, but you don’t come in here talking smack! Not in our house.”
It should be noted that this kind of behavior be distinguished from, say, coming into the O.B. and outplaying Miami, which is still openly encouraged. Thomas' Boltonian jeremiad is all a part of the University's larger effort, a bold new campaign to take the school into the early 1990s.
Update: FIRED!