During the past couple of years I have written about Colin Cowherd a number of times.  A few days ago I wrote about Cowherd being diagnosed with diarrhea of the mouth and that prompted the following e-mail from a loyal reader:


Hey San Diego Sports Guy,
 
There was an article in the USA Today about how attendance in the NFL is slightly down.  Mike and Mike were talking about it this morning.  People are staying home to watch games rather than go to the actual games.  The NFL is not losing fans they are just staying home to watch their games.
 
Colin has been ranting for two plus years how much better it is these days to watch a game from the comfort of your home on HD TV rather than pay the high prices of going to the stadium and wasting all your valuable time of commuting to the game.  In addition, PSL's are soaking fans for every last dime they have.
 
Colin has been saying this for baseball and other sports as well as NFL football.
 
You have to give him credit on this one.  Don't you?
 
Your thoughts?


Even a clock is right twice a day. 

By the way, I've been saying the same thing about football for over a decade...way before the advent of HD TV.  It's precisely the reason that I can count the number of NFL and college football games I've ever attended on both hands.  Football is simply better to watch on television.  Period.  As far as I'm concerned this is patently obvious.

While driving into work this morning, I heard Cowherd lower his voice and slowly enunciate the following words: Sports is a business.  

Wow.  Really?  I had absolutely no idea.  This is just one more example of the No Shit Sherlock kind of pablum that passes for analysis on Colin's radio show on a daily basis.   Want others?  How about this:  "If I'm a starting quarterback in the NFL then I want to play for Bill Belichick rather than Tom Cable."  Or this one: "Top prospects want to play for big time schools.  I mean USC is USC , Texas is Texas and Oregon State is Oregon State."  

Please.  This is one of the best and highest paid sports talk show hosts in the country?  You have to be kidding me.  In one of my prior posts I called Colin the Dane Cook of Sports Radio.  The analogy is spot on.  Beneath the ability to convey and deliver common sense information (and in some cases other people's ideas, opinions and jokes) in a unique way, both performers really lack substance and creativity.    

A lot of smart and successful people listen to Cowherd every day and swear he is the messiah.  I just don't get it.  I literally can't listen to the man for more than ten minutes without turning to another station.  Why do I come back day after day during my morning commute?  The guests...and a lack of quality alternative programming.   If ESPN and Cowherd's producers didn't book good guests I'd never listen to him.  

Agree? Disagree?  If so, let's hear it.