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Does Bob Wischusen Search For Himself On Twitter Before Games?

Posted by on Sep 13, 2013 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Does Bob Wischusen Search For Himself On Twitter Before Games?

A few days ago, on September 9th I tweeted an insult of Bob Wischusen.  It wasn’t a personal insult, in that I did not comment on his character, I didn’t swear and I believe, I didn’t cross a line.  I tweeted that I think he’s bad as an announcer.  No one responded to it.  The family at AFRSports.com didn’t even know I sent that out.  Again, this was on September 9th.

I said I think Bob Wischusen was awful.

Here’s why I said that and why I feel that.

I’ve listened to the games.

Bob Wischusen spends 3 hours a week grinding his vocal chords and screaming at the top of his lungs about any particular play.

And if you’re driving and all of a sudden your speakers are broken because of a 3 yard out route to Kellen Winslow made Bob Wischusen scream like he was calling the Apocalypse, it might make you agree with me.  Now imagine, that on nearly any play with a gain of more that 2 yards that doesn’t immediately end, that happens, and you’ll understand.

He has no sense of the moment.  When you scream at every play, when a big play happens, it’s no big deal.

Two Important points that need to be made:

A) Bob Wischusen is not good because other announcers suck.  That’s not how things like this work.  You are not a good painter because I am a bad one.  You may be better than me, but that doesn’t make you good.

If you dislike Obama, that doesn’t make Bush a good president.  Same as disliking Bush doesn’t make Obama a good President.

B) If John Sterling, who gets hammered in the press by complete hacks like Bob Raissman for being a homer and wildly overcalling routine plays, can’t get away with it, then neither should Bob Wischusen.  They do the exact same thing.  Only Sterling doesn’t sound like a motorcycle with a shitty muffler. 

Back to the retweet

If you notice there’s one face in the retweet box.  You know who that is?

BOB WISCHUSEN!!!

Bob Wischusen retweeted a (in my opinion) fairly innocuous insult.

If you can follow the timeline it looks like this:  At approximately 8:05 pm on Spetember 12th, 3 days after the initial tweet.

He makes one more tweet, then he retweeted us.

I know he retweeted us before the game started because at about 8:12 pm we were hit with a lot of people defending Bob Wischusen.

The Jets-Patriots Drop-A-Thon started at 8:25 pm.

 

This means that 15 minutes before the game Bob Wischusen was searching for himself on twitter.

15 minutes before the game, that he was going to call on the radio began, he was playing on Twitter, looking himself up.

Or, as some have said to me, their could have been “people” who searched for him (interns, low-level production personnel).  To me, that’s worse.  That would mean that someone had to search Bob Wischusen, on twitter, filter through the literally, tens of possible tweets, find mine, go to Bob Wischusen during a break and inform him of it, then ask Bob Wischusen what he would like to be done about it.  Then, 15 MINUTES BEFORE THE START OF THE GAME THAT HE WAS TO CALL, Bob Wischusen had to make a decision about a single tweet that he was the subject of.

What a world we live in.

What’s funny is the only reason he could have had to retweet this, was to have his fans and followers deluge us with a barrage of “BOB’S GREAT YOU DICKHEAD LOLZ!! FUCK YOU BOB IS GOD! LMFAO!!

He was trying to be a bully.

You know what’s really awesome?

It didn’t happen.

Sure, we got a bunch of responses, but to a man, not one of them was out of line or insulting.

That was pretty representative of the responses we got.  I was surprised that no one got personal or went crazy.  Way to go Bob fans!

Can we call Bob Wischusen fans Bobbies?  The Wis-Chosen Ones?  Bob-bleheads?

 

I like the Wis-Chosen Ones!

 

I will now, in fairness, compliment Bob Wischusen, with legitimate and honest intentions.

  • Bob Wischusen, when not screaming and grinding like a madman, has a great voice for radio.

 

  • Bob Wischusen reads Ad copy phenomenally.  He actually makes it flow and isn’t super act-y.  Mike and Mike can get a lesson from him.

 

  • Bob Wischusen does a good job relaying a lot of information quickly.  Calling football can’t be easy.

 

I’d like to take a moment to invite Bob Wischusen to be interviewed by us.  If this ever gets to him, and I doubt it will, the interview can be on his terms, will not be hostile at all and he can call me any name in the book, completely off the record. 

But if he did respond to us, I wouldn’t back off of what I said either.  That would be dishonest.  Sure I got caught throwing a barb at someone who I didn’t think would notice, but I meant what I said, as much as I mean the compliments here as well.

 

And For Fun, here’s Bob Wischusen mixing up holidays, juxtaposing Christmas with what happens at Chanukah.

NOT MY VOICE!  NOT MY POST!

 

 Are You A Wis-Chosen One? 

I found out about the retweet when my phone started going crazy while driving through a rain storm that made it seem like the end of times was here.  Makes sense.

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