There are a lot of unfunny things that are said during broadcasts, but Digger Phelps might have just taken the cake this past weekend. During the College Basketball version of Gameday on Saturday, Rece Davis commented on a green carnation that Phelps was wearing in honor of the show being at Notre Dame University. Of course Digger couldn't just say that he was wearing it because he used to Coach in South Bend. No, he decided to make a joke that he robbed a corpse at a funeral earlier in the day....

"This has been thirty five years old, this....yeah. I stole it from a grave yesterday, it was a funeral, I went and got it."- Digger Phelps

Not funny. There are certainly worse things that can and have been said, but that comment just made me sick to my stomach. Good job by everyone else on the set moving on, and not coming up with any tacky "Grave Digger" followup attempts at humor.

Now if you want funny, you need go not go any further than ESPN.com's unintentional headline in regards to the same game....



Mmmmmmm.....Steak. Now that's funny!

(Thanks to DH for the screenshot)

If you're looking for a slight distraction during halftime, I've got one for you: the wonderful men at the Stephen A. Smith Heckling Society of Gentlemen recorded what happens when you decide to catch some Z's at a Mets game: people balance empty beer cups on your head.



So wrong, yet so wonderfully right.

(posted by OMDQ)

It's always a sad day when Chien-Ming Wang pitches and the best headline anyone can come up with is, "Beckett wins 19th as BoSox pound Yankees". If only the Boston.com headline writers had a sense of humor.

Or maybe they do. Consider this beauty about the New England Patriots defensive coordinator in charge of preparing a game plan to contain LaDainian Tomlinson and the rest of the San Diego Chargers offense:

Pees ready for test

Not the greatest use of juvenile humor ever, but at least they appear to be trying on this one. (Perfection? It woudn't quite work because of the positions of all involved, but it couldn't possibly get better than "Merriman ready for Pees test".) The guy who wrote the Beckett headline could learn a thing or two.

Photo: Ultimate Yankees

(posted by OMDQ)

This was nearly used as the picture for the weekend preview. Upon further review, however, I decided that it most definitely warranted its own post.

I don't know why it's funny. It just is.

(In a related note, I was disappointed to realize that Awful Announcing did not have a tag for "Juvenile Humor". As you can see, this grave injustice has been remedied.)

Photo: USC Song Girls