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Of all the "Sweet Christ, Billy Packer is so full of equine excrement" moments, we have to say, the "Just Going For The Ball!" foul from Gerald Henderson on Tyler Hansbrough at the end of the Duke-UNC game is definitely near the top of the list. Whatever your thoughts on the reason for Henderson's attack on Hansbrough, Packer's willful — and aggressive; it's obviously he's not going to let Jim Nantz talk on this subject — refusal to even imagine that a Duke player might have hammered down a cheap, brutal foul veers toward the pathological. This man broadcasts the biggest college basketball games of the year, every year; this never fails to amaze us.
We would like to see Packer calling other gruesome feats throughout history. "The Hindenberg is ... still in the air! Yep, it's just doing fine! Oh, the grand success! Oh, the grand success!"
Duke, UNC Flagrant Foul Video [Loser With Socks]
Wow, How Embarrassing For Him And CBS [Gunslingers]
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We would like to see Packer calling other gruesome feats throughout history.
I smell a comedy pyramid!
I was just trying to cut a loose thread off the neck of Nicole's sweater.
-OJ
Hitler was just introducing himself to the neighbors!
Packer has been taking notes from the White House's PR policy on the War in Iraq: say it enough times and maybe people will believe you.
I was just trying to put the safety on my friend's gun
-PacManJones
"It looks like Barbaro is slowing down on his own accord and going to let another horse win. What a generous horse."
"Some kittens can fly!"
-My little brother circa 1993
Billy Packer also told us there were no American infidels in Baghdad.
Ruben Carter is guilty, there's no doubt in my mind.
-Billy Packer
but still, I love watching T-Hans bleed his own blood.
I just had a few people over for dinner
- Jeffrey Dahmer
Honestly, Billy might need shot for that piece of commentary. Kermit Washington was more subtle.
Artest just wanted to see if he needed another beer.
My goodness, Daryl Kile is offering curbside pickup!
There's no greater sportsman than General George Custer. He's calling off the dogs and letting Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse savor their victory. That's leadership, folks, plain and simple!
What happened to Professor Griff? He get fired?
"This bunch of college punks from the United States have callously and arrogantly stolen the USSR's deserved shot at a hockey gold medal. This is an embarassment to the sport and the Olympic movement."
(Can someone actually tell me why Packer still has a job? Nobody I know -- nobody -- likes him, or feels he adds anything to the game. He'd be about my 999th choice for color man, far behind Bill Raftery, Barbaro, Judy Tenuda, and a puddle of my own diarrhea.)
"Pacman was helping that stripper pick up the cash---with her lips"
It was DEFINITELY an intentional foul. You can clearly see that the ball is already gone, Henderson is staring right at Hansborough, and he follows through with a nice, non-Melo-like swing.
But James Earl Ray was just trying to shoot the guy with the suspicious look on his face standing right behind MLK Jr.
Roy Williams should have been going ballistic and called out Coach K for that garbage. That was a dirty foul and I don't see how anyone can conclude otherwise. Hard fouls are one thing- but elbowing a guy in the face is unacceptable.
Does anyone not named Packer think that Henderson's foul was just an accident?
"That is a disgusting act by Randy Moss and it's unfortunate we had that on our air live."
Oh wait, we're only doing *fake* horrible announcing?
So whose nose had the worst weekend?
I still say it's Israel Vasquez.
Have you ever seen the contract rider for your own diarrhea?
It's ridiculous...
The best was that he was trying to blame the victim - "What was Hansbrough still doing in the game?" Sorry, Billy, that short skirt didn't mean she wanted it.
It was also an incedibly tough call for Paker to make with Duke's collective balls slapping against his chin.
Say what you will, but the Tenuta-Waterpoop tandem is miles above O'Brien & Balboa.
"Dominic Rhodes was just simulating what you do while scuba diving to stay warm"
Ottawa and Buffalo engaged in a spirited but friendly bit of discourse last night...
Nehemiah Ingram laughs at Gerald Henderson's weak ass flagrant foul.
Put Sharon Tate in powder blue and Charles Manson in a Duke uni and Packer says she had it coming.
@Dave Ryan: What's wrong with Judy Tenuta? She was a guest on Space Ghost: Coast to Coast once!
Henderson was going for the ball. He swung, he missed, he hit Hansbrough in his ugly face (which should have been sitting on the bench with UNC up 10 and 15 seconds to play). The whole UNC team has already admitted it. Henderson's best friend plays for UNC (Ellington) - he has nothing against them. It should have been a foul, maybe a tech, that's it. I hate Packer with a passion but in this case, he's right.
Darren McCarty was performing plastic surgery on Claude Lemieux.
"The Japanese were just taking in the beautiful scenery that Oahu has to offer. It's really breathtaking..."
"Now Jim, look at this here. You can see by the replay that clearly Vice President Cheney was only trying to shoot the murderous pheasant. That bird was not only a few seconds away from killing Cheney's hunting companion, but he could have gone on a rampage that consumed all of Texas. Vice President Cheney should be considered a hero, it's just unfortunate that his friend had to get in the way, and be shot in the face. Just unfortunate, Jim."
Mike Cooper, a fine, upstanding young man with a bright future and attractive mustache, was clearly just doing research for his thesis paper at the public library.
Marty McSorley got confused and though Donald Brashear's head was the puck. He was just swinging at what he though was the puck
"What? A conspiracy?! What are you saying: a single bullet can't make 4 different entrance wounds in 4 different angles in 2 different people? You, sir, are crazy!" - Billy Packer, 1963
Packer says Henderson was "going for the ball." The freaking ball is not even in the frame when Henderson blasted Hansbrough in the face.
well Henderson said he didnt mean to hurt him, so that settles it.
"If Rex Grossman had better receivers, the Bears would be winning this game."
Chris Berman was just showing his commitment to PETA.
teddy dupay's foul on mateen packer wonders why it was glossd over.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still alive
Fred Smoot was just trying to show the girls that two heads are better than one.
As much as I hate to even come close to agreeing with Captain Douchebag... I didn't think the intent to injure Hansbrough was there. It looked like he came in with a hard, agressive foul - perhaps excessive - and missed, clocking him in the nose. Pat Forde's ESPN column gets it about right.
Reggie Evans was just doing a cup check.
-B. Packer
The replay clearly shows that Rudy T was trying to throw his face into Kermit Washington's open fist. No doubt about it.
"He was just trying to scratch Monica Seles' back"
*Seles's
Compare and contrast:
"Whoa! What's he doing to Wojo?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovj4DLeFIZ0
Packer is right.... the Duke player did nothing wrong.... absolutely nothing.
-Dick Vitale
God, I hate The Fudge.
That's almost as bad as listening to Brent Musburger call a Notre Dame football game
Look, those cells and tissue had no business even being near there at this point. You can't fault cancer, it was simply doing it's job. It's put in the game to mutate and multiply. You really can't fault cancer for doing what it's asked to do. The real concern Jim, is what were those lymphnodes even doing in there in the first place?
Albert Haynesworth was just trying to get some dirt out of the other man's eye...
"What, I like entertaining kids."
-John Wayne Gacy