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2010 Winter Olympics: Shaun White wins gold, coach celebrates with swear fest
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Face it, the rules don't apply to snowboarding god Shaun White. And it appears they don't apply to his coach either.On Wednesday (Feb. 17) night, NBC decided to forgo the annoying tape-delayed coverage of the Winter Olympics and air the Men's Halfpipe live. Not to say this wasn't thought through properly, but this is the sport that White joked to Playboy has a lot of participants sweating their drug tests.
White already had his gold medal win in the bag, so his final run was really for himself and the fans.
Before he got started audio was captured of his coach, Bob Keane, giving White a pep talk.
"You freaking send that thing. And make sure you stomp the s*** out of it," Keane said, referring to White's signature trick, the double-McTwist-1260 (and, no, it does not get old listening to sportscasters say "double-McTwist-1260" over and over). He then stressed his pleasure at White's performance with a heartfelt and eloquent, "Way to f****** go, man."
Of course, east coast viewers got their tender ears offended with these vulgarities, while the horrible awful words were muted out for the west coast broadcast. Westerners still got to hear the announcers apologize for them though.
Considering how puritanical broadcast networks are (not as bad as newspapers, but close), it's a wonder as many obscenities slip through as do. Then again, if live television is anything to go by, the world of celebrity is one where if you can't add a colorful adjective in each and every sentence, it really wasn't worth saying in the first place.
Not that we're arguing with that, but dudes, you're killing us. If every time the folks leave you at home without a babysitter you get in trouble they're totally going to find a better hiding place for the liquor cabinet key.
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[For the record, a previous version of this story listed the event date as Jan. 17. The correct date for Shaun White's awesome gold medal-winning halfpipe runs was Feb. 17.]
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First sentence says surfboarding god...???? No Proofreaders for the late night shift?
Skateboard & Snowboard not Surfboard
I love it. That kinda thing just cracks me up.
Shaun White is a F....n p.i.m.p , his coach has right to free speach ! So f...k the whiners ! Everyone knew ot was live ! Bunch of jackasses !
Grow up AMERICA - they are just words. I wonder if NBC wuld have censored the footage if the coach had pulled out a machine gun and started firing it into the crowd! Perhaps you should join the rest of the world where swearing and nudity are acceptable but blood, guts, and murder are not.
just a heads up...nbc was on some sort of delay. here in canada, after the last canadian racer raced, a finnish racer hit the hill. on nbc, after the last canadian racer was shown, they went to commercial and when they returned, they skipped the finnish racer and showed louis vito. so they were on delay if they were able to cut out a racer. could someone have been asleep at the switch?
please, on the last episode of Survivor, after Boston Rob and Sandra completed that puzzle and they and there tribe climbed up the wall and celebrated under all the woo-hoo's and rah-rah's you can hear Sandra say "that puzzle was one mother fu**er" and she says it twice LOL
YESTERDAY WAS FEBUARY 17...NOT JAN.
Still, Wednesday's performance could give NBC some much-needed momentum going into tonight's men's figure skating final, which features American Evan Lysacek. American Olympians http://usspost.com/nbc-olympics-shaun-white-5971/
Who really cares??? you hear worse language just walking down the street or in the local wal-mart... are we going to need censors in these places too, to make sure no one get offended???
Actually, It was after 11 pm and from what I recall taking radio courses in college, cursing is actually allowed by the FCC after 10 pm. Kids should not be up that late and adults really shouldn't complain about this type of stuff. I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it didn't matter to most people except those with "sensitive ears". If your kid heard it, why were they up so late?
In any case, don't let your children watch Comedy Central after midnight on the weekend. They'll learn all kinds of new words...