... And We're Also Not the Only Ones Who Think Skip Bayless is a Maroon

I dont mean to come out the wrong way but am i alone thinking that John Madden is the sexiest man alive

Jose Cortez also disagrees with you, Skippy.

Uh, does Skippy have a reddish hue? Or did you mean “moron”? :)

what does skip bayless know about anything. all he does is sit there, say controversial or anyoing remarks to upset people. Hes ESPNs (PPP)Piss people off Promoter.

skip baylor, john madden, and joe buck…shut up…

skip bayless is below a mediot………he is just a pure idiot!

if skippy’s face gets any tighter it’s going to crack … which might be kind of fun to watch.

skip ruins cold pizza – which otherwise might be a good show. his modus operandi is to say the opposite of what everyone else is saying or thinking in the most outrageous way possible.

show host: the Cardinals bring the best record into the playoffs. will they win the world series?

skip: the Cardinals are AWFUL! how can you say that? they have no chance, especially since their manager is gay!

can we put Skip and Joe T in a room, lock the door and throw away the key?

Skippy is on that pathetic show because he is doesn’t cost
them any money ……….you get what you pay for!!!

Hi Everybody!

Len, Oiler Troll is glad that you raised the issue of Skip being a “maroon” as opposed to being a “moron”. Oiler Troll believes Bayless to be a complete and total jackass, and perhaps this site should seek donations of both cash and legal talent so Troy can get his wish and pop the guy (c’mon, it would be fun…not that Oiler Troll promotes random violence), but that’s all beside the point.

Oiler Troll believes that “maroon” in this context stems from one of the greatest short feature cartoons ever written and produced – the one where Bugs Bunny makes his wrong turn at Albequerque and winds up in Spain in a bull ring.

Momentarily getting the better of the bull and laughing harder to himself with each comment, Bugs says:

“What a nin-cow-poop. What an ultra mooroon (later basterdized in pop culture to "maroon”). What a gulli-bull."

Truly a great moment in American cinema…

Which gives Oiler Troll an idea – why don’t we put Bayless and a Kicker in a bull ring with a live bull and just see who survives.

Not only would Oiler Troll bet that the kicker would fare better, but also that the bull, whom you gotta think would come out ok, too, would make a much better commentator on ESPN with better, more interesting and more accurate insight compared to the wanker that is Skip Bayless. Real bull vs fake bull – what’s to ponder?

Ultra maroon, indeed.

OT

Len,

The Troll wins the prize. I was quoting that wise sage Bugs Bunny.

Either Time or the NYT declared Bugs Bunny the greatest actor in the history of American entertainment. I owe he (Bugs), Hawkeye Pierce and Tom Landrythe most for influencing my maturation.
I use maroon liberally, and I’ve never once stopped to think about what it means.
So I researched it…
http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19970731
A writer posits…
“In Bugs Bunny cartoons, the "wascally wabbit” sometimes refers to stupid people as “maroons,” as in “What a maroon!” I’m wondering if this put-down has a racist genesis and what, if anything, it has to do with being “marooned” on a desert island."
It is neither racist nor related to maroon ‘to abandon’ (though this word does originally refer to fugitive slaves), except through their identical pronunciation.

The word maroon ‘a foolish or obnoxious person’ is simply a jocular mispronunciation of moron. It is probably reinforced by the existence of maroon ‘abandon’ and maroon ‘brownish red color’ (which are themselves unrelated, by the way, giving us three different unrelated maroons).

Our maroon is first found in the 1940s, and was not coined by Bugs Bunny (though his use of it surely did a great deal to popularize the term). It is part of a number of words from that general period which represent jocular mispronunciations of common words. Some other exampes are anyhoo, fox paw (for faux pas), martooni, and nertz.

Maroon is too kind a term for the likes of Skip Bayliss. It’s vile and repugnant that that no-talent hack is employed as a televisions sports persona. He brings down the viewer, the medium, sports and language in general. He makes Stephen A. Smith and John Madden look like Noel Coward and Dorothy Parker of the Algonquin Round Table.
I guarantee that garbage-monger never owned a baseball mitt or even a pair of sneakers, and wore a perennial atomic wedgie up over the back of his head like a hood.

I concur: maroon and moron are way too kind for Skippy. he seems to live to do nothing but inspire controversy, play the race card, call people out and be generally as difficult as possible.

the term “jerk” seems to fit pretty well.

Joey 2zs,

You are correct. Maroon is even too stylish for Skip. What bothers me more than anything is why ESPN continues to employ this sorry excuse for a human being. It’s clear he has no credibility among his peers. I once heard a call in where Hank Goldberg, also an ESPNer, fielded a question from a fan who quoted Skip. Before the caller could finish, Goldberg stopped him and said, with a pained expression on his face, “buddy, don’t ever quote anything from Skip Bayless.” It was clear he put zero cerdence into Skip’s words.

Are there really no other announcers with an edge who ESPN could employ? Really? To me it shows how ESPN is slowly going down the tubes, which is another thread all by itself.

Hi Everybody!

Joey2zs – thanks for the edification on Bugs not coining the phrase but merely popularizing it. Oiler Troll stands corrected.

What a site – insightful football analysis, Bugs Bunny, etemology lessons…and the unrelenting indictment of Skip Bayless (a DFW are writer, so he had every shot of starting a loyal following).

Any other hacks out there for us to destroy – c’mon, Rafael, we are just getting started.

Here’s to killing all the hack “wabbits” with our spears, magic helmets and blogs.

OT

NFL Cowboy,

Hey I like Joe Buck!

Len,

I have my own reasons, but I want to hear it from yall: why exactly is Skip Bayless so repugnant? Give me a reason…

Another observer described 1st and 10 with Woody
and skippy as a cock fight.It doesn’t have to be about
sports they could argue about the color of the sky or
whatever.Its on such an infantile level and throw Jay
in the mix whose so stupid he needs CUE cards to
hold a conversation…..theres enough hair spray and
mousse in the room to give johnthan from Blowout
an erection.Has me longing for Kiana and the workout
chicks.

Troll,
Good to see you back, how are things going with
Trollette???I was a little worried when you didn’t post
for awhile …….thought “Ball Crusher” might have gotten
 her hooks in you.

Troll,
Good to see you back, how are things going with
Trollette???I was a little worried when you didn’t post
for awhile …….thought “Ball Crusher” might have gotten
 her hooks in you.

Isn’t maroon a shortened and bastardized version of “macaroon”? During the early twentieth century people who ate these now-accepted cookies were looked down on due to “coconut” being one of the main ingredients. Along with the obvious racial stereotypes associated with eating this food consumed by heathens and natives, you had the obvious deviation of the word coconut from both “coo-coo”, as in “You’re coo-coo (crazy)!” , and the word “nut”. Many more superstitious denizins of the south even considered eating macaroons to be a precursor to mental disease. It was the positive associations surrounding the word “Nuts!” after the Battle of the Bulge that started breaking down this pattern of discrimination against the macaroon and its supporters. However, the term persists to this day.

Len,

I’ll give you two reasons.

1. He started the ‘Troy is gay’ rumor. Actually, he didn’t start it. He just lent credence to it by putting it into print. At the time he said that he didn’t think it was true, but just HAD to print it, since it was floating around. Yeah, right, Skip!

2. He is a long-time Tom Landry basher. The last straw for me was when Landry died and every sports writer in the land wrote glowing articles of Landry’s life and coaching service. Every writer except Skip Bayless, that is. Skip took that opportunity to further his own petty vendetta against Landry and wrote a scathing, hate-filled article. I have never read a word of his since, and will not watch any show he is on. I have never seen Cold Pizza for that very reason.

I didn’t even know about Skip Bayliss until ESPN found him to be a foil for Stephen A. Smith in some contrived scream-off they’d add to “SportsCenter” every now and then.
He’s not a sports guy. God knows how he got a sports writing job. He’s ambitious in the worst way. Nothing he says has any integrity or meaning. There’s no insight or knowledge or value to what he says. He merely says things to garner attention, and to further his career. He just says the opposite of what other’s think – i’m CERTAIN that he doesn’t believe what he says.
As shrill and showy as Stephen A Smith is, he believes what he says and KNOWS what he’s talking about. That dude knows basketball, period. Skip Bayliss knows how to irritate and use that to get the spotlight on him. He should be an entertainment reporter, not involved in sports in any way.
He’s the absolute worst result of the ubiquitous nature of sports media and 24 hour programming, and the he is the manifestation of the lowering of the lowest common denominator.

Worst of all, he believes in his own celebrity. I can’t imagine he’s respected by his peers. At least his foil on “Cold Pizza”, Woody somebodyorother, doesn’t take himself seriously and is able to laugh.

I think Bayliss hates athletes. He ridicules every athlete’s indescretion and condemns them to hell from his pedastal as a media moralist. He loathes athletes who embrace their ethnic cultures or are off-beat in any way. He only supports players white and square like Johnny Unitas. And he’s never, ever right.

Joey,

I agree with you about S.A. Smith. I don’t
always agree with him but he knows his
b-ball stuff.