Chris “Mad Dog” Russo bought a bit carried away Wednesday on First Take. I know, that’s his job on the present. The man invented sports-talk radio quantity. His takes are one way or the other louder than his voice. In small social media clips I discover Mad Dog entertaining. I even discover a few of his views on life fascinating. While I get a kick out of him generally, he’s greatest taken in small doses. Too a lot Mad Dog and also you’ll hear one thing stupefying like when he stated on Wednesday that Shaquille O’Neal is the fifth-best middle of all time.
Mad Dog has been yelling no matter is on the highest of his thoughts into microphones for many years. I am positive he’s accustomed to athletes, or ex-athletes, being upset with him. However, even amongst the best athletes in the world, O’Neal exists on his personal stage. He is without doubt one of the few those that makes different massive human beings say, “damn, he’s big.”
O’Neal additionally takes his “G-14 classification” as an all-time nice massive man severely. Nothing will get below his pores and skin extra on the TNT set than when Charles Barkely makes wisecracks about his sport. At least Barkely is deliberately making an attempt to trouble him. O’Neal might need thrown one among his turntables when he heard what Mad Dog stated on First Take.
I’ve met Shaq a few instances. For those that haven’t, you can’t presumably think about the scale of that man. He’s like a constructing that may stroll. Had he not been knowledgeable basketball participant, he might have had a profession in the WWE because the Undertaker’s different long-lost brother. I don’t need him mad at me, so think about me as flabbergasted as Stephen A. Smith and Jay Williams had been.
How dare this radio gasbag besmirch the identify of one of many biggest gamers in NBA historical past. Fifth-best middle? Poppycock! Mad Dog can discuss all he desires in regards to the NBA again when gamers traveled by steam engine and performed in Chuck Taylors. I may pair the Orlando Magic model of Shaq with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to make the very best frontcourt of all time.
The Super Bowl is in Las Vegas this yr. O’Neal has a restaurant on the market and hosts an annual Super Bowl celebration. First Take will probably be on website, and Mad Dog Radio will in all probability have a sales space on radio row. He had higher purchase out Big Chicken for an evening to get again on O’Neal’s good aspect.
I don’t know Mad Dog, however I wouldn’t have the ability to take pleasure in myself in the identical metropolis as an individual if I angered an individual whose brief model of his identify turned a synonym for enormous.
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