Talk Radio

I am no fan of talk radio. I thought I should say that first. Rush and Dr Laura will both annoy me in less than 5 minutes if my radio finds their show. I digress. One of New Orleans sports personalities, Buddy Diliberto, died earlier this year. When I was a kid, he was on TV and had a column in the Clarion Herald. He had several jobs, all in sports, over the span of my lifetime but he found his real niche doing talk radio after another New Orleans sports personality, Hap Glaudi, died. Buddy took over Hap’s “Point After” radio show, which was a kind of Saints game recap with commentary, interviews with players and coaches, and sounding board for callers. It became Sports Talk with Buddy D when Buddy took over and expanded into a pre-game show, post-game show, and daily radio show. Hap and Buddy were both local guys who grew up in New Orleans, both were decent writers, and both were decent readers on the air but they both butchered the language when they were speaking without a script. Was one of their charms, really, and both had a sense of humor about it. Two more local guys, Bobby Hebert (Former Saints QB) and Kenny Wilkerson, took over from Buddy D. Its taking them some time to find their way. However, they have continued one tradition in a fine way as far as I am concerned. From Hap to Buddy to Bobby and Kenny, I can only take those shows in short doses. One of them or one of their callers is going to annoy me and I will turn it off and turn on some music.

Hard getting excited about NFL training camps. Commentators will be talking about how great a guy is doing one day and the guy is on the first list of cuts the next. I’m really not sure that anyone but the coaching staff and the players know what’s going on. The observers surely don’t. Speaking of observers, I remember one year the Saints defensive tackle Shawn Knight made the All-Rookie team. This meant the Saints had to pay him a bonus as that was one of the incentives in his contract. The thing is......the guy hardly played that year and didn’t make a single tackle. He wasn’t hurt that year. He simply wasn’t any good. He is easily the Saints biggest ever first round bust and, friends, on this franchise, that is saying something.

16 days until Ya Boys Auction, 25 days until CFFL Draft Day, and 36 days until football season begins...............

Quote of the Day

Delicate is the word we want to stay with while we are at the bottom of the orbiter. We don’t want to touch the tile if we can avoid it at all.

David Wolf, Johnson Space Center

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