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Hate to tell you, but with parents consent it is really without a doubt legal, just check your states laws !

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Originally posted by Glenn Wells
Hate to tell you, but with parents consent it is really without a doubt legal, just check your states laws !

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Originally posted by truly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfAM3dxXLYQ
Phil suggests that you marry a 15 year old, cause they will "pick your ducks" rather than your pockets.

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Originally posted by trackdriver
Wow! The things christians say.

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I don't care one thing about the Phil thing. I do find it interesting though that the same people that are saying phiks freedom of speech was violated were the same people that were calling for Bob Costas to be fired when he said something about gun control on Sunday night football. Freedom of speech is freedom of speech but I guess it only matters if you agree with what the person is speaking. If Phil being canned would be violating his freedom of speech how would costas being fired be any different?

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Originally posted by Matt McKinney
I don't care one thing about the Phil thing. I do find it interesting though that the same people that are saying phiks freedom of speech was violated were the same people that were calling for Bob Costas to be fired when he said something about gun control on Sunday night football. Freedom of speech is freedom of speech but I guess it only matters if you agree with what the person is speaking. If Phil being canned would be violating his freedom of speech how would costas being fired be any different?

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Originally posted by Matt McKinney
I don't care one thing about the Phil thing. I do find it interesting though that the same people that are saying phiks freedom of speech was violated were the same people that were calling for Bob Costas to be fired when he said something about gun control on Sunday night football. Freedom of speech is freedom of speech but I guess it only matters if you agree with what the person is speaking. If Phil being canned would be violating his freedom of speech how would costas being fired be any different?

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Originally posted by conhtr1
I find it comical that the two that do not believe anything negative about what Obama said if it's in a youtube video would use that same media to vilify Phil with youtube. what's the word I'm looking for?
As for age, my wife was 17 when we married....for over 35 years now.. My mom was almost 9 years younger than dad....married over 50 years when he died.

As for Phil in the video...he mentioned a guy's age to choose a 15 year old?

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I agree neither examples i gave were freedom of speech issues. Both issues were employee / employer disputes if you ask me. I honestly don't even think the Phil thing was real I think it was a ploy to make that cash. I just thought it was funny that people were appaulled that he could possibly be terminated but they were ranting about how costas should of been fired back when he said whatever he said. just shows the hypocrisy in people.

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Originally posted by trackdriver
I never thought phil should've been fired but freedom of speech is in the eye of the beholder. Money makes strange unions.

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Originally posted by Matt McKinney
I don't care one thing about the Phil thing. I do find it interesting though that the same people that are saying phiks freedom of speech was violated were the same people that were calling for Bob Costas to be fired when he said something about gun control on Sunday night football. Freedom of speech is freedom of speech but I guess it only matters if you agree with what the person is speaking. If Phil being canned would be violating his freedom of speech how would costas being fired be any different?

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Originally posted by trackdriver
Take the word "not" out and apply "my hero" and repeat standing in front of a mirror. You want yours at the age of 11,12,13,14,15 marry a grown man then have at it.

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Costas is the face of ABC because he is on thr network once a week? If Phil said he hates god and god isn't real and AE fired him would you care?_


QUOTE]Originally posted by rance56
1 difference is costas was the face of the network where phil is a reality tv show
2nd difference is one said it on live tv on the network of employer while the other was in a magazine interview [/QUOTE]

EXACTLY!!!

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Originally posted by TomPurdy
I agree Matt! No one has done anything wrong. It's not about free speech, Phil had the right to speak, and did so, and A&E had the right to fire him. A&E made a business decision, along with some other companies. Then the citizens spoke, and those companies saw the error of their ways, from a business standpoint, and quickly reversed their original decisions!! It's one of the beauties of a free capitalistic society!! We the people decide how businesses operate, not the government!!!

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Originally posted by Matt McKinney
Costas is the face of ABC because he is on thr network once a week? If Phil said he hates god and god isn't real and AE fired him would you care?_


QUOTE]Originally posted by rance56
1 difference is costas was the face of the network where phil is a reality tv show
2nd difference is one said it on live tv on the network of employer while the other was in a magazine interview

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Costas. Pat O'Brien. Jimmy Fallon and Ryan seacrest. Jim lampley hist every fight on HBO but he isn't the face of the network. I understand costas was on live tv when saying that but your arguement that he is the face of the network holds no water.

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Originally posted by Matt McKinney
Costas. Pat O'Brien. Jimmy Fallon and Ryan seacrest. Jim lampley hist every fight on HBO but he isn't the face of the network. I understand costas was on live tv when saying that but your arguement that he is the face of the network holds no water.



did you happen to watch the Olympics? who was the host? get back to me when you do a little research

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Yea what's your point? He's a sports anchor and you provided.a bunch.of stuff proving he anchors sports. When I think of NBC I still don't think of bob costas. If anything When I think of the face of a network I think of the local news team since they are on everyday 4 times a day. Costas MAYBE the face of NBC sports but he is not the face of the network.

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NBC Sports[edit]

When Costas was first hired by NBC, Don Ohlmeyer, who at the time ran the network's sports division, told the then 28-year-old Costas that he looked like a 14-year-old (a story that Costas would recite during an appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien when O'Brien commented about Costas' apparent inability to "age" normally). Ohlmeyer presumably based his reaction on Costas' modest stature (Costas is 5' 7" in height) and boyish, babyfaced appearance.

Costas has been an in-studio host for NBC's National Football League coverage and a play-by-play man for National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball coverage. Costas has teamed with Isiah Thomas and Doug Collins for NBA telecasts (from 1997–2000) and Sal Bando[6] (1982), Tony Kubek (from 1983–1989), Joe Morgan and Bob Uecker (from 1994–2000) for baseball telecasts. Before becoming the studio host for The NFL on NBC in 1984, Costas did play-by-play of NFL games with analyst Bob Trumpy.

Since 2001, Costas has been the co-host of the Kentucky Derby.[7] Since 1995, Costas has also hosted NBC's coverage of the U.S. Open golf tournament.[8]

In 2009, he hosted Bravo's coverage of the 2009 Kentucky Oaks.[9]

With the introduction of the NBC Sports Network, Costas also became the host of the new monthly interview program Costas Tonight.[10]

Olympics[edit]

Costas has frontlined many Olympics broadcasts for NBC. They include the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000, Salt Lake City in 2002, Athens in 2004, Turin in 2006, Beijing in 2008, Vancouver in 2010, and London in 2012.[11] He discusses his work on the Olympic telecasts extensively in a book by Andrew Billings entitled Olympic Media: Inside the Biggest Show on Television. A personal influence on Costas has been legendary ABC Sports broadcaster Jim McKay, who hosted many Olympics for ABC from the 1960s to the 1980s.[12]

During the 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta Opening Ceremonies, Costas' remarks on China's teams' possible drug use caused an uproar among the American Chinese and international communities. Thousands of dollars were raised to purchase ads in the The Washington Post and Sunday The New York Times, featuring an image of the head of a statue of Apollo and reading: "Costas Poisoned Olympic Spirit, Public Protests NBC."[13][14] However, Costas' comments were made subsequent to the suspension of Chinese coach Zhou Ming after seven of his swimmers were caught using steroids in 1994. Further evidence of Chinese athletes' drug use came in 1997 when Australian authorities confiscated 13 vials of Somatropin, a human growth hormone, from the bag of Chinese swimmer Yuan Yuan upon her arrival for the 1997 World Swimming Championships. At the World Championships, four Chinese swimmers tested positive for the banned substance Triamterene, a diuretic used to dilute urine samples in order to mask the presence of anabolic steroids. Including these failed drug tests, 27 Chinese swimmers were caught using performance enhancing drugs from 1990 through 1997; more than the rest of the world combined.[15]

Along with that of co-host Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer, Costa's commentary of the 2012 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremonies came under fierce criticism, with Costas being described as making "a series of jingoistic remarks, including a joke about Idi Amin when Uganda's team appeared"[16] and the combined commentary as being "ignorant" and "banal".[17][18][19]

Costas later appeared on Conan O'Brien's talk show and criticized his employer for its decision to air a preview of the upcoming series Animal Practice over a performance by The Who during the London closing ceremonies. "So here is the balance NBC has to consider: The Who, 'Animal Practice.' Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend -- monkey in a lab coat. I'm sure you'd be the first to attest, Conan, that when it comes to the tough calls, NBC usually gets 'em right," Costas said, alluding at the end to O'Brien's involvement in the 2010 Tonight Show conflict.[20]

See also: Olympics on NBC

Major League Baseball[edit]

One of his most memorable broadcasts occurred on June 23, 1984 (in what would go down in baseball lore as "The Sandberg Game").[21] Costas, along with Tony Kubek, was calling the Saturday baseball Game of the Week from Chicago's Wrigley Field. The game between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals in particular was cited for putting Ryne Sandberg (as well as the 1984 Cubs in general, who would go on to make their first postseason appearance since 1945) "on the map." In the ninth inning, the Cubs trailed 9–8, and faced the premier relief pitcher of the time, Bruce Sutter. Sandberg, then not known for his power, slugged a home run to left field against the Cardinals' ace closer.[21] Despite this dramatic act, the Cardinals scored two runs in the top of the tenth. Sandberg came up again in the tenth inning, facing a determined Sutter with one man on base. Sandberg then shocked the national audience by hitting a second home run, even farther into the left field bleachers, to tie the game again.[21] The Cubs went on to win in the 11th inning.[22] Costas said when Sandberg hit that second home run, "Do you believe it?!" The Cardinals' Willie McGee hit for the cycle in the same game.

While broadcasting Game 4 of the 1988 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Oakland Athletics on NBC, Costas angered many members of the Dodgers (especially the team's manager, Tommy Lasorda) by commenting before the start of the game that the Dodgers quite possibly were about to put up the weakest-hitting lineup in World Series history.[23] That comment ironically fired up the competitive spirit of the Dodgers, and later (while being interviewed by NBC's Marv Albert), after the Dodgers had won Game 4 (en route to a 4–1 series victory), Lasorda sarcastically suggested that the MVP of the 1988 World Series should be Bob Costas.

Besides calling the 1989 American League Championship Series for NBC, Costas also filled-in for a suddenly ill Vin Scully, who had come down with laryngitis, for Game 2 of the 1989 National League Championship Series. Game 2 of the NLCS occurred on Thursday, October 5, which was an off day for the ALCS. NBC then decided to fly Costas from Toronto to Chicago to substitute for Scully on Thursday night. Afterwards, Costas flew back to Toronto, where he resumed work on the ALCS the next night.

Bob Costas anchored NBC's pre and post-game for NFL broadcasts and the pre and post-game shows for numerous World Series and Major League Baseball All-Star Games during the 1980s (the first being for the 1982 World Series). Costas didn't get a shot at doing play-by-play (as the games on NBC were previously called by Vin Scully) for an All-Star Game until 1994 and a World Series until 1995 (when NBC split the coverage with ABC under "The Baseball Network" umbrella). It wasn't until 1997 when Costas finally got the chance to do play-by-play for a World Series from start to finish. Costas ended up winning a Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Sports Personality, Play-by-Play.

See also: Major League Baseball on NBC, The Baseball Network, and Tony Kubek#With Bob Costas

In 1999, Costas teamed with his then-NBC colleague, Joe Morgan to call two weekday night telecasts for ESPN. The first was on Wednesday, August 25 with Detroit Tigers playing against the Seattle Mariners. The second was on Tuesday, September 21 with the Atlanta Braves playing against the New York Mets.

National Basketball Association[edit]

When NBC gained the NBA network contract from CBS in 1990, Costas hosted the telecasts and was teamed in the studio with ex-Lakers coach Pat Riley. He also hosted the studio program Showtime and did play-by-play for the 1991 All-Star Game. In 1997, Costas began a three-year stint as the lead play-by-play man for The NBA on NBC. NBC enlisted Costas' services after they were forced to (temporarily) remove Marv Albert from their broadcasts due to lingering personal and legal problems at the time. Costas stepped aside following the 2000 NBA Finals, in favor of a returning Marv Albert. Costas returned to call some games of the 2002 NBA Playoffs after Albert was injured in a car accident two days before the playoffs began.

While this, in essence, ended his active role on the NBA on NBC program (by this point, Hannah Storm and briefly Ahmad Rashâd had replaced Costas on studio anchoring duties), Costas would return to do play-by-play for selected playoff games. Costas also anchored NBC's NBA Finals coverage in 2002, which was their last to date as Hannah Storm also anchored it with Costas.

National Football League[edit]

In 2006, Costas returned to studio hosting duties on The NFL on NBC (under the Football Night in America banner), which was returning after a near ten-year hiatus. Costas last hosted NFL telecasts for NBC in 1992.

Costas is nicknamed "Rapping Roberto" by New York City's Daily News sports media columnist Bob Raissman.[24] Al Michaels also called him "Rapping Roberto" during the telecast between the Indianapolis Colts and the New York Giants on September 10, 2006, in response to Costas calling him "Alfalfa."[25]

See also: NFL on NBC, The NFL on NBC Pregame Show, Football Night in America, and NBC Sunday Night Football

National Hockey League[edit]

Costas hosted NBC's coverage of the 2008, 2009 and the 2010 NHL Winter Classic.[26] He was scheduled to host coverage of the 2011 event as well, but due to the game's postponement, Costas only hosted pre-game coverage before leaving to go to Seattle for his duties with NBC's NFL coverage the next night. He hosted the event in 2012 as well as a post-game edition of NHL Live on NBC Sports Network.

See also: NHL on NBC [/B][/QUOTE]

lol, but the LOCAL news anchor is more of the face of the national network. lol, I wont waste anymore time with you on this subject if that is your position.

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not just sports

Costas hosted Later with Bob Costas on NBC from 1988 until 1994. This late night show created by Dick Ebersol, coming on at 1:30 a.m. as the third program in NBC's nightly lineup after The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Late Night with David Letterman, was something of a break from the typical TV talk show format of the era, featuring Costas and a single guest having a conversation for the entire half hour, without a band, opening monologue or studio audience. On several occasions, Costas held the guest over for multiple nights, and these in-depth discussions won Costas much praise for his interviewing skills. The show was taped in GE Building's studios 3B or 8H at the Rockefeller Plaza with Costas interviewing the guest for 45 minutes to an hour before turning the material over to editors who condensed it down to 22 minutes plus commercial breaks.[27] More popular guests were given two or three part interviews that ran consecutive nights. In August 1991, Mel Brooks became the only guest for four consecutive nights in the series' history.

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Look at the links you provided. Only thing costas has hosted anything lately on NBC is some hockey and the Olympics and a little NBA while marv Albert was recoverying from a wreck. I'm watching football on NBC right now..no costas. Of course you won't waste time on me because my opinion differs from yours. Most of the stuff you provided was talking about 80s 90s and early to mid 2000s with a few things feom last year thrown in.

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not just sports

Costas hosted Later with Bob Costas on NBC from 1988 until 1994. This late night show created by Dick Ebersol, coming on at 1:30 a.m. as the third program in NBC's nightly lineup after The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Late Night with David Letterman, was something of a break from the typical TV talk show format of the era, featuring Costas and a single guest having a conversation for the entire half hour, without a band, opening monologue or studio audience. On several occasions, Costas held the guest over for multiple nights, and these in-depth discussions won Costas much praise for his interviewing skills. The show was taped in GE Building's studios 3B or 8H at the Rockefeller Plaza with Costas interviewing the guest for 45 minutes to an hour before turning the material over to editors who condensed it down to 22 minutes plus commercial breaks.[27] More popular guests were given two or three part interviews that ran consecutive nights. In August 1991, Mel Brooks became the only guest for four consecutive nights in the series' history.

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Again. Lol. 1988-1994. Not sure if you know but 1994 was 19 yrs ago

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Originally posted by Matt McKinney
Again. Lol. 1988-1994. Not sure if you know but 1994 was 19 yrs ago

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Okay I will say this. The stuff you posted I can buy that possibly at one time he may have been the face of NBC sports however that is not the case in 2013-2014. Seems like he at one time was a force in the sports world but he no longer holds that title. Now that I think.of it I can't remember the last time I actually heard him call a game. I've seen him interview players and coaches but rarely hear him anchoring the actual game .

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Originally posted by Matt McKinney
Look at the links you provided. Only thing costas has hosted anything lately on NBC is some hockey and the Olympics and a little NBA while marv Albert was recoverying from a wreck. I'm watching football on NBC right now..no costas. Of course you won't waste time on me because my opinion differs from yours. Most of the stuff you provided was talking about 80s 90s and early to mid 2000s with a few things feom last year thrown in.

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Forgive me. I thought we were discussing current bob costas. Not 19 yrs ago bob costas. He host some hockey lol during playoffs. FACE OF NETWORK

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Originally posted by rance56
its called longevity einstien

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On my tv is Chris collingsworth and another guy calling the game. Can't remember his name. Like I said costas interviews some players that's about it.

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Originally posted by rance56
HE HOSTS FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA EVERY SUNDAY NIGHT. WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO COSTAS ON FOOTBALL RIGHT NOW? YOU MUST NOT WATCH MUCH FOOTBALL

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