RIP, George Carlin - sports critic
Back in the day when folks used to play tapes in their cars (strange, but true!) I had a couple of George Carlin tapes that got very heavy use. He was one of the few stand-up comics that I followed closely. Heck, he was even the narrator on some of my kids' Thomas the Train videos.
So you can imagine that I'm bummed about news of his passing today.
I'm not going to try to write out some sappy tribute. Besides Carlin was not real big on sappy, emotional moments.
He was, though, a big sports fans. Thus, I provide links to two of his best sports bits.
First, the legendary baseball vs. football comparison.
Remarkably, the language on that first bit is entirely clean. Very rare for Carlin.
The language on this next bit, umm, is not. It also contains a reference to lacrosse at around the seven minute mark that is pretty homophobic, I'd say. So I'd suggest that you listen to this on your home computer and try to enjoy the rest of the bit aside from his unfortunate lacrosse remarks.
Here is Carlin's Sport, not a Sport bit.