New WFAA Article/Feature: JJ has Dallas excited

[03Mustang]

http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/s ... 4496f.html

Good article - this is an AP article so I guess it will be in quite a few other places as well.

[Paladin]

Has there ever been a bigger 'rick with a p' than Dale Hansen ?

[kent dorfman]

Has there ever been a bigger 'rick with a p' than Dale Hansen ?

Heh, heh...I refer to Dale Hansen as "evil Norm Hitzges."

There was also a an issue with the sound. It went out a bit. Not sure if it was just my computer or WFAA's site.

[NavyCrimson]

He's such an encompetent individual but whatever

In the scheme of things, he's inconsequential.

Because when we start winning again, the venon from him will only get worse - so prepare for it folks.

[Mexmustang]

He even made big Jerry mad and he has never met a newsman he wouldn't talk to!

[kent dorfman]

Not to beat the Norm Hitzges/Dale Hansen thing over the head but they are two of the most prominent sports talk personalities in Dallas, if not the most prominent (Grandpa Urine Galloway is a FW personality who keeps his eye on all DFW sports but he is FW based).

Anyways- Dale Hansen comes off as a complete arrogant SOB. Norm on the other hand is like a kid in a candy store when he talks sports. One guy detestable and slimy, another guy endearing and likeable. Just my two cents.

[2112]

twenty one years later....and hanson still mentions the death penalty stuff at every chance.....what a [deleted]

[George S. Patton]

Like I do with all local news, I missed it.

[jtstang]

You guys crack me up. Ignoring the death penalty won't change the fact that it happened or that we have not won since it did.

If SMU wants the media to get over the death penalty, it should give it something else to talk about, like a few consecutive years of winning.

[couch 'em]

You guys crack me up. Ignoring the death penalty won't change the fact that it happened or that we have not won since it did.

If SMU wants the media to get over the death penalty, it should give it something else to talk about, like a few consecutive years of winning.

There is a difference between bringing up as a historical reference in an article about SMU, and bringing it up just to be a [deleted].

[2112]

he brings it up.....just to be an [deleted]

[NavyCrimson]

"... won't change the fact that it happened or that we have not won since it did."

And you can lay that blame at the foot of Turner & the administration. They chose to be a martyr & there ya go - 20 years of embarrassment along with a financial mess. This could have been turned around in 5 to 7 years or less & now - 2008, it would have been nothing more than a blibb on the radar screen. So there ya go.

[Dooby]

The sound issues mentioned above were in the broadcast. Very disappointing.

I don't mind Dale mentioning the death penalty; I just thought they way he did it was particularly obnoxious. The worst thing about the death penalty is that it labels us a cheaters, notwithstanding the fact that during the 1980's, every SWC except Rice was found guilty of major violations.

[jimhagle]

The thing about Hansen is he is ill informed on so many daily topics and yet he comes across as a sports sage. Maybe one day someone will have the hutzpah to burst his bubble at channel 8 but I won't hold my breath.

[PonyPride]

I don't necessarily have a problem with him bringing it up, but I've covered SMU for one publication or another for more than 20 years, and I've seen him on campus ... exactly once. He has said quite openly that his theory of sports journalism in this town is Cowboys first, 365 days a year, and then everything else, but I also have covered the Cowboys for a long time, and I think I've seen him out there only a half a dozen times. He used to go to their games, but rarely does that anymore, and he probably doesn't even know where Valley Ranch is. If he makes it to Oxnard, it's for the cooler temperatures and the golf. If he wants to bring up the DP, fine, but when he never shows up at anything, his comments about it seem sort of feel like the guy who turned you in for cheating in class 20 years ago and just wants to make sure a future employer doesn't hire you.