Of course you knew that this whole Buzz Bissinger/Deadspin saga would not be complete until it was presented in ballad form by Ryan Parker. It's The End Of Sports News As We Know It. Enjoy. And don't be frightened by the dinosaurs, or the manual typewriter!
The Buzz Bissinger Affair, In Song (And I Feel Fine)
4:30 PM on Mon May 5 2008
By Rick
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Needs more meth heads.
The "I'm sensitive" picture at the 2:24 mark is really the best part.
Six o'cloc, TV hour...! Mumble, mumble...
+1 for Ryan Parker.
Simply fucking brilliant.
/tips hat
Needs more Balls
@Doyle McPoyle: Como una sonrisa, eres tu, eres tu
Asi, asi, eres tu.
@Unsilent Majority: shorn or not?
Wait...where's Leonard Bernstein?
@Doyle McPoyle: that song is really just an excuse for drunk frat boys to shout "Leonard Berstein" in unison.
I don't know about you but i'm FEELIN PRETTY PSYCHED
That's right Will...go ahead and pop that collar!
Needs more emo
Somewhat surprisingly, I didn't hate the bastardization of a song by my favorite band.
But who started the fire?
♬ Oh where oh where can my sports news be
The blogs took it away from me
It gone to heaven so I got to be good
So I can read my sports news when I leave this world
@Lady Andrea:
Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs are pissed.
fireside chat with Will Leitch
I'm waiting for the "Eres Tu" version.
@Lady Andrea:
Wait, that isn't the late Dan Fogelberg?
Scary image of Dear Leader 55 seconds in.
Will's got to find and destroy that picture of himself with Simmons.
Dan Shanoff
Worst.Snubinaparodysong.Ever.
I love the "Risky Business" costume.
@UkraineNotWeak:
Longer than there've been fishes in the ocean
Higher than any Cardinal ever flew
Longer than there've been stars up in the heavens
Leitch's been in love with Rick Ankiel.
Deadspin is right round, baby right round, like a record baby, right round round round
That picture of deer-in-headlights Will with Simmons is unbelievable. What's the opposite of Nightmare Fuel?
@Clare:
We are all a living legacy to the Leader of the Band.
@Lady Andrea: On review, I think that's Will's "I'm tough" photo. "I'm sensitive" would have less brooding and leather.
They say the heart of sports reportin's still beatin'
And from what I've read I believe 'em
Now the old boy may be barely breathin'
But the heart of sports reportin', heart of sports reportin's still beatin'
@44 in a Row: duuuh. Ryan did.
So much for my parody of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot.
/smashes acoustic guitar
Cherokee Parks > Everyone
Every picture of Will in that video scared the crap out of me.
And good job Ryan Parker.
@Weed Against Speed: but did you give your love a chicken that had no bones?
While the song is good, the pictures of Will take the cake.
Theres Drunk will, Confused Will, EMO Will, just the best.
When need more Will on Redeye talking about this debate he had.
That's me in the newsroom
That's me on the deadline, I'm
Losing my subscriptions
Trying to keep up with blogs
And I don't know if I can do it
Oh no, I've whined too much
I haven't cursed enough
I thought that I heard you attacking
I thought that I heard profanity
I think I thought I saw you blog
@Laser Guided: shiny happy bloggers holding hands?
Is it just me or is Will going from Emo Bangs to Bama Bangs?
@Lady Andrea: everybody blogs?
♬We make our living on page views
Just get someone drunk, someone in the news
People love photos of the booze
They love dirty laundry
Well, we coulda been a beat writer, but we wound up here
We just need emo bangs, We don't have to be clear
Give something for old media to fear
Give us dirty laundry
Post em when they're up
Post em when they're down
Post em when they're up
Post em when they're down
Post em when they're up
Post em when they're down
Post em when they're up
Post em when they're down
We got the mustachioed Balls who
Comes on at five
He can tell you bout the locker room with a gleam
In his eye
Its interesting when people pry-
Give us dirty laundry
No, I'm stopping this now.
@Laser Guided: Some athlete's misfortune
A quip for a quip
Leinart's drunk again
Leitch starts flapping his lips
I never understood Big Daddy Balls
Uh huh
I'm finally watching the clip that was posted last week, and Will did very well.
Plus, whenever you can get a guy to yell, "Come on my ass!" you know you've got TV gold. That guy was a huge, curmudgeonly dick.
So we have our captain and now our anthem...which old newspaper writer should we kill first?
needs more Klige
No Leitch karaoke?!??!!??!?!?!
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