DAN SILEO FIRED FOR CALLING PLAYERS “THREE MONKEYS”
On the first day of NFL free agency the Tampa Bay Buccaneers spent $150 million signing Vincent Jackson, Carl Nicks and Eric Wright. That has the whole town excited.
Unfortunately for radio talk show host Dan Sileo of WDAE he got TOO excited. Sileo referred to the players as “those three monkeys.” Sileo didn’t even last one day. He was fired by the radio station.
Naturally, some media people were outraged. Not about three African-American players being called “monkeys” but about Sileo being fired for using “politically incorrect” speach. Put Glenn Beck on that list.
Following yesterday’s stellar program from “First” at the Venetian, the radio show “600 Pounds of Ugly” is broadcasting live today from Ellis Island Casino and Brewery in Las Vegas. Nick The Intern reviews In-N-Out burger and the Double Down Saloon.
Join us as we do a live show from 10am-noon Pacific time. Oh yeah, FREE BEER if you join us at Ellis Island.
“600 Pounds of Ugly” is broadcasting live from Woody’s Pub & Grill 650 Vista in Boise today from 11:00 a.m. through 1:00 p.m. Join Mike and Anna as we give away free WWA Smackdown tickets for this Saturday.
The radio show “600 Pounds of Ugly” is broadcasting live today from Zoo Boise. Come down and see Mike Responts and Anna Flores. You can also catch us on the radio Monday-Friday from 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. on KTRP AM 1260 or listen live at www.ktrpradio.com .
Former Las Vegas sportscaster Ron Futrell is reporting on his Facebook and Twitter pages that legendary sports radio talk show host Papa Joe Chevalier has died. Papa Joe suffered a stroke in March and apparently hadn’t been doing well. Chevalier reportedly passed away in a Vegas hospital Saturday morning.
One of the most bizarre radio hirings in recent memory occured last August when Fox Sports Radio hired washed up pervert and egomaniac Pat O’Brien to join the cast of their “Loose Cannons” show. O’Brien was a high profile sports announcer with CBS in the ’80’s. He subsequently was a Hollywood gossip anchor on “Entertainment Tonight” and “The Insider.”
O’Brien had been ostracized and unemployable since his media career fell off he face of the earth following a crazy cocaine and alcohol fueled incident in 2006. A drunken O’Brien left an unknown woman a series of sexually suggestive voicemails. The woman released the voicemails on the Internet and O’Brien was briefly a national laughingstock. Nevertheless, Fox Sports hired O’Brien last summer.
Today, O’Brien, who has a long history of drug and alcohol abuse, didn’t show up for his radio show. Veteran sports talk show host Mike North is filling in for O’Brien. The show announced that O’Brien would be out “indefinitely.” O’Brien had been behaving bizarrely on the air recently. He started randomly crying during a “Loose Cannons” segment and t-shirt giveaway earlier this week. Last week, a rambling, incoherrent O’Brien went on a rant where he seriously talked about why he should be in the basketball Hall of Fame.
There was no reason given for O’Brien’s absence from “Loose Cannons” but his hiring seems to be another genius move by soon-to-be-unemployed Fox Sports Radio head Don Martin.
You can now follow the radio show “600 Pounds of Ugly” on Twitter (as well as our Facebook page.)
Check us out at Twitter@600 poundsofugly . You can also listen to the show online by clicking “630 listen live” at www.kidoam.com . “600 Pounds of Ugly” is NOT your typical sports show. We mix in a dose of politics, pop culture and satire Monday-Fridays from 11 p.m.-1 a.m. Pacific Time.
BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY STAR WIDE RECEIVER AUSTIN PETTIS WAS A GUEST ON “600 POUNDS OF UGLY”
Boise State University was victorious in the Maaco Las Vegas Bowl Wednesday night 26-3. Following the game, BSU wide receiver Austin Pettis made an appearance on “600 Pounds of Ugly.”
Ryan Hill and myself are hitting the road. We’re off to Las Vegas to cover the Boise State University football as they take on Utah in the Maaco Las Vegas Bowl.
THE VENETIAN: THE ONLY HOTEL IN THE WORLD WITH A RIVER RUNNING THROUGH THE FIFTH FLOOR-COMPLETE WITH GONDOLAS
We will be broadcasting live from FIRST at the Venetian Hotel and Casino on The Strip Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The show “600 Pounds of Ugly” airs 11:00-1:00 a.m.
Stop by to say hello and we will hook you up with a prize. Thanks again to our sponsors the United Dairymen of Idaho, Meadow Gold Dairy and Bakon Vodka.
Wednesday from 11:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. the radio show “600 Pounds of Ugly” will be broadcasting live from Quinn’s Restaurant & Lounge in Boise (1005 Vista Avenue.)
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