To Whom It May Concern

Jim Rome, Ignoramus

I drive around quite a bit at work, as most of you know. I enjoy listening to music mostly, but I need variety to avoid getting bored out of my mind, and so I listen to quite a bit of sport's radio. We get two stations in Omaha, ESPN 1620 AM and Fox 1490 AM. In the morning the listening is pretty good, 1620 has Mike and Mike in the Morning, one Mike is Mike Golic, an emmy winning ex NFL player, and they are witty and pretty knowledgeable about sports. I'm not sure who Fox has on as their morning guy, but he's not too bad either. Both programs are nationally syndicated, as are most of the programs on both stations during the day. Unfortunately, on 1490, at noon each weekday, they put the Jim Rome show on for 3 hours.

If you have never heard of Jim Rome, you are fortunate. For those of us who have heard of him, he is the epitome of ignorance and pessimistic review, he bashes everyone, yet the closest he ever got to playing sports was licking the sweat off Bill Walton's jock strap, I don't think Rome ever even played college sports, much less any pro sport of any kind. He is a complete pompous ass and a disgrace to the sport's media profession. He has his own special name for the brain dead tards that actually follow his show and write in and call him, he calls them 'Clones'.

His interviews are absolutely atrocious. Rome can spend a week bashing a guy, then he'll have the guy on his show on the following Monday, and he's got the knee pad's on doing a Monica Lewinsky on his guest, as though his guest is the greatest guy he's EVER had on. I suppose he is like this because of his history...

Years ago on ESPN2, probably the funniest thing I have ever seen in sports, or at least in the top 10, occurred in 1994. ESPN2 was a relatively new channel, a 'spin-off' if you will, from ESPN. A show called Talk2 had started the year before, and was hosted by Jim Rome, who was relatively unknown at the time. Basically, all that Rome was known for was his insulting comments towards people. Jim Everett was an NFL quarterback at the time, playing for the New Orlean Saints. Unfortunately for Everett, he had gotten several concussions and was seriously considering retiring.

Jim Rome, being the ass monkey that he is, spent about 2 years calling Everett "Chris Everett", trying to compare Everett to the tennis player, saying he was not a real man at all. So then came the day when Jim Everett was a guest on Talk2:

http://home.swbell.net/jdougs/everett.mpeg

(I am not linking it, some people can't get it to work that way, copy paste this into your address bar on your browser.)

If you can't see it, basically Everett tells Rome not to call him Chris again, and of course, Rome, being a childish idiot, calls him Chris. Everett tosses the table that separated them and smacks Rome around and then right off the stage, it's really the crowning moment for Jim Rome in his broadcast career, and almost immediately afterwards he was fired from ESPN. Rome should have invited Chris Everett on the show too, so she could kick his ass for being a chauvanistic pig.

Unfortunately, this was not the end of Mr. Rome. Fox, who specializes in the hiring of baboons and other primates, hired Rome to do a radio show for them. And for the last 8 years or so that is what he has done, much to the irritation of any human with a brain. So, he has spent his time ridiculing and insulting everyone he can in any sport you can imagine, from baseball to football to NASCAR to the Olympics, his rectal rhetoric knows no boundaries. He uses moronic slang, calling money "mad jack", and of course, his "clones" comments. And what an egomaniac, he finishes almost every interview with "wow, that was just an amazing interview, I'm so good, look at me, blah blah blah."

Then, for whatever stupid reason, ESPN was moronic enough to hire Rome's lame dimwitted ass back on, for a show called "Rome Is Burning". I won't ever watch it, it's bad enough having to deal with him on the radio, much less having to look at his ugly face on television, the man, er, boy has no common sense at all as far as etiquette, and I'm sure he'll end up getting his ass kicked on television again, except, this time he doesn't actually have people on the show with him, they are 'teleconferenced' in with him.

I think the only way I would watch this show is if someone actually did light him on fire, then "Rome Is Burning" would really be a meaningful show to watch, a real family pleaser. Stay tuned to local listings for time and channel.