HE DOESN'T LOVE FOOTBALL ON TV: The New York Post's perpetually pissed-off sports-TV critic Phil Mushnick has written the inevitable slam of John Madden's paralyzed-player-eats-Outback commercial, only about a week after I did. But then Mushnick follows that with about ten more things about the week in TV sports that he feels like bitching about; the headline, "Tasteless, Vulgar, and Everywhere," could've gone with any Mushnick column from the last five years. And watch him go apoplectic tomorrow about Monday Night Football having ended at 1:00 AM.
I think we can say at this point that sports have passed Phil Mushnick by, and his various beefs are less constructive criticism than pure hatred- Phil doesn't appear to have actually enjoyed sports in at least a decade. How about handing the critic's job over to someone who actually likes sports?