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Kirk Herbstreit Hates Your Funky Dance Moves


I promised you more Kirk Herbstreit vitriol, and here it is. During Thursday night's Virginia Tech/Boston College game, Herbie delights in verbally lighting up Virginia Tech linebacker Brenden Hill.

Hill's the guy on the field dancing to music being played by the Boston College band in celebration of BC's 20-3 lead at that point. I guess Kirk Herbstreit would prefer that he ran immediately to the locker room when Boston College took the lead, and hung himself from a light fixture.

Herbstreit really seems to be enjoying himself there. It feels like Herbstreit is just aching to use profanity. If this had taken place on HBO, he'd have probably called the guy a pussy.

Who doesn't rock out to Neil Diamond? [Eagle in Atlanta]

5:22 PM on Sat Oct 14 2006
By MJD
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  • maybe he was just trying to stay loose. it was kinda cold up here in the northeast the other night.

  • I was just praying that Kirk was gonna throw out a "WHAT THE FUNGUS?!?" during his tirade.

    There's 5 minutes left in the game and all I wanna do is dance...dance...dance.

  • % of VPI players who own a tuxedo: 0%
    % of VPI players who know how to sail: 0%

  • This is kind of week...Herby didn't even come close to making a slur about the guy's racial heritage. Maybe ESPN can get Steve Lyons now that he's available. Then Fox can get Harold Reynolds to give some fair and balanced coverage to their female employees...

  • In college we hated the guys next to us who we shared a wall with. When we all left for a trip one weekend, we put all of our speakers against the wall and put Sweet Caroline on repeat. I'm glad this guy wasn't our neighbor.

  • At the very least, if youre losing, try to look like you care...

  • I guess telling him, "Hey, it's only football," is out of the question?

    That's what I thought--just checking...

  • Chauncey, first of all if you had done that to my room and left for a weekend, I would have broken in, masterbated on each guy's pillow, and taken a dump in your laundry hamper... but that's just me.

    Herbstreit be the way is completely within his rights to nail this guy for being a cocky bastard.

  • Is Kirk going through a rough divorce right now or something?

  • Did Kirk only get to bang three BC coeds before the game instead of his customary five?

  • Rights? Who said anything about rights? Of COURSE he's within his rights. Having that kind of a raging hard-on for college football and a somewhat rabid respect for the solemness of spectacles of male virility is obviously within his rights.

    It just also happens to be really, really creepy.

  • Najeh Davenport hates Sweet Caroline too.

  • Reverend, I'm guessing you never played football... but I assure you that if you're on a team that is supposed to be competing for a league title and you just got your ass kicked by a team you're supposed to beat...

    Dancing when behind by 2 touchdowns in the 4th is a pussy-move if I've ever seen one.

  • Ah, the gamer card. How so very douche. Thing is, different people get into it in differnet ways. Thinking there's only one way to play the game is stupid.

    But that's besides the point: Thing is, Herbstreit is NOT PLAYING. If his teammates want to kick Hill's ass, that's fine. But an old man in the booth really ought to get a grip.

    Maybe you should too?

  • OK, so maybe you're a bit creepy too.

    And I don';t mean this about being a football player or otherwise, I'm talking about having a little bit of emotional separation from a game you're not playing in...

    ...creepy guy.

  • Ha. I've got such a raging clue right now, Reverend.

  • I attended the game on Thursday night and This was not the only time a VA Tech player was dancing. Before the kickoff after the safety to make it 22-3, one of the VA Tech players was dancing before the kickoff during a TV timeout. I saw it at the game and I don't think the TV cameras say it and it was not the same incident posted above.

    I think it is time to get some of these renegade programs in the ACC under control like Va Tech and Miami. Va Tech has had like 4 guys suspended this season for rules violations. Plus the stomp last year vs Louisville. Miami had that brawl tonight with FIU. BC also had their kicker suspended for having a bar fight.

  • Image of PeteJayhawk PeteJayhawk at 11:13 AM on 10/15/06 *

    Brenden Hill's major is "Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management".

  • Herbie is DEAD-ON right! This guy is on the losing end of a butt-kicking and he is dancing to the opposing teams band?!!! Tells me all I need to know about Va-Tech's recent losses...

  • See? This is a man who knows what's important in life! Apparel!

  • My favorite is Herbie's classic maneuver to the second person.

    "The reason YOU get upset....

    Classic talkingheadspeak. Notsofastmyfriend.

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