Bit it didn't look like that, did it? Unbelievable!
Sent from my Galaxy Tab Am 02.08.2012 18:37 schrieb "Eric Rex" <[email protected]>: > LOL > > I like Grantland, and I enjoy their humour, but this was in an article on > Olympic fashions, or faux pas, and although the tone was a bit over the > top, the criticism wasn't written to be funny. Unbelievable. > > Violating rules here, but the attached photo (NSFW) shows what it sounds > like he is describing. > > As Always, ER > > http://groups.google.com/group/omnisport > http://speedorex.blogspot.com/ > http://groups.yahoo.com/triathletepix > > ------------------------------ > *From:* asc490 <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Thursday, August 2, 2012 6:23 PM > *Subject:* Re: [omnisport:19975] Is Bill Simmons a Prude? > > That created a stir? A bare male chest in an interview just right after a > match that was played in a pool so therefore in trunks so therefore without > a Jersey??? That created a stir??? > Unbelievable! > Sent from my Galaxy Tab > Am 02.08.2012 16:53 schrieb "Eric Rex" <[email protected]>: > > Grantland.com <http://grantland.com/> is a project of ESPN, meaning to be > a trendy hip site regarding sports and pop culture... It is a good site, > and Bill Simmons does a good job with it. The site very much embraces > our post modern culture and glorifies today's attitudes, and has good > coverage of sports, or course, media, Hollywood, etc. One of their best > and funny monthly columns is a survey of the previous months wedding > announcements in the New York Times, and a ranking, according to their own > guidelines, of each newly wedded couple, straight or gay, just out of high > school or elderly: family, education, and 10 or so other criteria. > > The one thing the site almost never is, is prudish. Well, that is until > most a recent post, when an Olympic athlete is criticized for not covering > his chest during a TV interview. It is done with good humor, yes, but is > still a jibe. Apparently Americans are liberated in all things except for > in fashion, when we seem to have regressed to a standard of a hundred years > ago. Here is the quote: > > "Take Tony Azevedo. On Sunday after a narrow defeat of Montenegro, > Azevedo, of the American water polo team, conducted his post-match > interview in a USA-branded terry cloth robe that he didn't bother to belt. > He just stood there with his chest and torso aimed at the camera and the > robe's hood on. He looked like a man whose aprés-swim tinnitus is "Let's > Get It On." When the hockey analyst Pierre McGuire told Azevedo to "have > fun with it," he was talking about the team's next opponent — but it was > just as easy to imagine that he meant Azevedo's performance in *Magic > Mike 2*." > > My, my, can you imagine an Olympic athlete showing a bare chest and abs ON > NATIONAL TV? Oh, the horror. What's next, being interviewed in bare > feet? Oh the humanity. > > Apparently, showing that you actually have muscles is a major fashion faux > pas to Grantland writers who just sit and write about sports! We will > take any shots of Tony Azevedo with an uncovered front, but if you Bill > Simmons or you Wesley Morris want to do be interviewed bare chested, > please, mercifully, follow your own standards... > > Here is the article. Enjoy > it,<http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8220839/terrible-fashion-2012-london-olympics> > > As Always, ER > > http://groups.google.com/group/omnisport > http://speedorex.blogspot.com/ > http://groups.yahoo.com/triathletepix > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "omnisport" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/omnisport?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "omnisport" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/omnisport?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "omnisport" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/omnisport?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "omnisport" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/omnisport?hl=en.
