How to deal with a stroppy interviewer

Snickers Man

I know this is an old clip but maybe so old (1994) that the youtube generation has never heard of it or seen it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HNgqQVHI_8

The big guy is an NFL quarterback Jim Everett. Apparently he once in his life wussed out of taking a tackle and ever since the little annoying guy (a sports "shock jock") had been calling him "Chris" to liken him to the fragrant Ms Evert, at the time one of the world's top women's tennis players.

I don't think he ever did so again.

Wouldn't it be great to see somebody react to George Hook or Eamon Dunphy like this?

Amz

To be fair, I felt like punching the guy after watching that.

zAbbo

Thoughts of the female interviewer asking Steady Eddie if his job was safe coming springing to mind...

Wreck

I remember seeing that year's ago, its very funny.

zAbbo wrote: »

Thoughts of the female interviewer asking Steady Eddie if his job was safe coming springing to mind...

That was a valid question any interviewer worth their salt should ask.

zAbbo

Wreck wrote: »

I remember seeing that year's ago, its very funny.




That was a valid question any interviewer worth their salt should ask.

Yup, but why wasn't it asked before!

Amz

Because none of the men had the balls to ask it

zAbbo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CHGY6lEjQQ

He looks absolutely disgusted, obviously all those years of Tracy Piggot mollycoddling had lulled him into a false sense of security.

themont85

Funny clip, that interviewer was asking for it. Apparently the guy who plays Dr Cox in Scrubs character as a journalist in Any Given Sunday is based on that interviewer.

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Amz wrote: »

To be fair, I felt like punching the guy after watching that.

Exactly what i was thinking!

Peter B

Wreck wrote: »

That was a valid question any interviewer worth their salt should ask.

That interviewer was being pig-ignorant. That was not the time to ask Eddie about his contract extension. I disliked Eddie as Irish coach but in fairness he did try his best (not good enough) during the world cup. Eddie was right not to react badly to some ignorant journalist looking for the big scoop.

Eddie was still on the pitch gutted after their performance and this girl who know nothing about rugby brings up his contract extension which the IRFU offered him.

Amz

She knows a lot more about rugby than much of the Irish media who were commenting on his position as coach at the time.

juvenal

That's Jim Rome (without goatee), who you might see on 'Rome is Burning', and EPSN show that aired on NASN.

He's an annoying git, but that's his style, goading and being belligerent. I've never seen the tackle (or non-tackle) in question, but it's the stuff of lore among NFL fans that have. From what I can gather he was getting sacked all day, and he then fell over during a play in anticipation of a sack that never came.

juvenal

Here's the "phantom sack" that led to Jim Everett being referred to as "Chris"

Watch from 3:15 onwards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUbuz-syRGY

phog

Peter B wrote: »

That interviewer was being pig-ignorant. That was not the time to ask Eddie about his contract extension. I disliked Eddie as Irish coach but in fairness he did try his best (not good enough) during the world cup. Eddie was right not to react badly to some ignorant journalist looking for the big scoop.

Eddie was still on the pitch gutted after their performance and this girl who know nothing about rugby brings up his contract extension which the IRFU offered him.

+ 1.

Amz wrote: »

She knows a lot more about rugby than much of the Irish media who were commenting on his position as coach at the time.

Maybe, but she was standing in front of the host TV camera and being broadcast live seconds after we crashed out of the WC, hardly the time to ask that question, I thought that was poor standards for a national broadcaster. The following day maybe but not just after the final whistle.

Amz

As someone who was at that game, Eddie looked like he was on his way out the door. He was standing alone before the game started, none of the players spoke to him etc. It looked as if he didn't want to be there and that the players didn't particularly want him there. I think it was a perfect time for her to ask.

She asked the question quite politely too. She could have been far more nasty/blunt about it.

Danger_Dave

I would have liked a more direct approach like the lad on sky sports after Andy Robinson lost another match. When a Coach is losing that much. It needs to be said to them.

Sundy

that was the question on the lips of the viewers that night and she was dead right to ask it.

Jigsaw

Snickers Man wrote: »

I know this is an old clip but maybe so old (1994) that the youtube generation has never heard of it or seen it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HNgqQVHI_8

The big guy is an NFL quarterback Jim Everett. Apparently he once in his life wussed out of taking a tackle and ever since the little annoying guy (a sports "shock jock") had been calling him "Chris" to liken him to the fragrant Ms Evert, at the time one of the world's top women's tennis players.

I don't think he ever did so again.

Wouldn't it be great to see somebody react to George Hook or Eamon Dunphy like this?

That quarterback is the man I want to be. That interviewer was a little yank kunt and I hope the Everett bloke stoved the front of his face in, thereby reducing the pr1ck's broadcasting career to tatters.

pucan

Jigsaw wrote: »

That quarterback is the man I want to be. That interviewer was a little yank kunt and I hope the Everett bloke stoved the front of his face in, thereby reducing the pr1ck's broadcasting career to tatters.

Eddie?

Snickers Man

Jigsaw wrote: »

That quarterback is the man I want to be. That interviewer was a little yank kunt and I hope the Everett bloke stoved the front of his face in, thereby reducing the pr1ck's broadcasting career to tatters.

Actually, the best evidence that Everett is a softie is that he DIDN'T hit Rome half hard enough. He is right little twunt (Rome that is) who is to sports reporting what the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Mark Steyn are to political commentary: smart-ass, offensive, bigoted and too tied up in the fact that they are the message and not the medium.

You want to hear what he has to say about "sawker" and other non American sports.

Diamondmaker

I think there was absolutely nothing wrong with it.
When would the question be aske otherwise ? At a staged interview days later? He went dark for weeks later after that if I remember correctly so lucky the question was asked as we heard nothing from him for ages..

razorblunt

Danger_Dave wrote: »

I would have liked a more direct approach like the lad on sky sports after Andy Robinson lost another match. When a Coach is losing that much. It needs to be said to them.

That was disgusting, Sky had been trying to pick the English team all though his reign which they are still doing now and undermining him on every occasion, the interviewer Will Chignell had his arm across Robinson to prevent him from leaving and asked him the question repetedly, the same guy was acting the twat with Byron Kelleher before the HEC final this year as well.

jdivision

Diamondmaker wrote: »

I think there was absolutely nothing wrong with it.
When would the question be aske otherwise

+1 I find it ironic she's been given so much credit for doing her job. It highlights how terrible sports broadcast journalism is in this country.

Peter B

I think had someone gone to Brian O'Driscoll straight after the match and said "Are you going to reconsider your position as Captain?" straight after that match it would have been completely bad form. Same for Eddie. As much as I disliked the guy these questions should be answered after people had time to reflect on the game and competition as a whole not in the heat of the moment straight after the match.

Amz

Head coach and Captain are two quite different roles, let's be fair here. You're not comparing like with like.

[Jackass]

I think it was a question that needed to be asked, but it was a mickey mouse reporter asking the question, which probably caught him off gaurd the most, tabloid stuff. It would be better to come from somebody with rugby and journalistic credentials..I mean no offense to anybody...but I've seen a lot of this womans reports and they are just scripted mish mash...she was supposed to get about a 2 and a half minute interview out of Eddie and when her second question didn't go to plan (I don't think she realised she was being as controversial as she was in the situation and expected a response or answer from Eddie) she just repeated her first question again and Eddie repeated his answer again.

I thought it was slightly unfair to question Eddie seconds after the final whistle...he had hard questions to answer, but maybe not on live TV whilst still on the pitch. I think the panel member who said "she musn't want a career in broadcasting" was going that way until the host defended her then he decided not to have a debate and said fair play..but I think his initial reaction was correct. But makes good TV I suppose.

As for origional vid...Mwahahahaha brilliant! Maybe Eddie should have 'nutted your wan!!

Peter B

Amz wrote: »

Head coach and Captain are two quite different roles, let's be fair here. You're not comparing like with like.

I was just trying to make some sort of a comparison. If I was coach of a team and we just got knocked out of a competition and an interviewer asked am I going to reconsider my position as coach in the post game interview I would be unbelievably annoyed. I would want to be asked questions about the campaign or the match itself. Not my position, especially if my employers had just extended my contract a few more years just before the competition.

While I thought Eddie was not a great coach for Ireland and his time as coach should have expired soon after the world cup if not before the people most at fault were the IRFU for extending their contract when they did. Eddie was under the opinion he was doing an excellent job and that was backed by the IRFU.

zAbbo

The question was more in context of Eddie have his 4 year contract before the RWC, and then not meeting the objective of getting out of the group, while later he admitted to making a 'balls' of the whole thing.

The question should really have been to the idiots who gave him his contract.

Should have done what Wales did, and sack him in the lobby (even carpark would do)