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Will his career survive this?You may be right - no publicity is bad publicity. However, if the public put enough pressure on the sponsors to pull their ads, I think he's done.popcornjack wrote:My first response is that nothing's going to happen, at least not of consequence. He's already proven once that he's too popular, and therefore important to a media business's bottom line, to go away for long.
The only "saving grace" for him might be that Pac-man is not a sympathetic cause like the Rutgers women.ph4ever wrote:You may be right - no publicity is bad publicity. However, if the public put enough pressure on the sponsors to pull their ads, I think he's done.popcornjack wrote:My first response is that nothing's going to happen, at least not of consequence. He's already proven once that he's too popular, and therefore important to a media business's bottom line, to go away for long.
It will be interesting...but i say nothing happens...Johnny Miller made some reference about Rocco and being Italian during the US Open last week...not much was made of it!popcornjack wrote:My first response is that nothing's going to happen, at least not of consequence. He's already proven once that he's too popular, and therefore important to a media business's bottom line, to go away for long.
The Johnny Miller incident was such a crack-up to me.TommyBahama wrote:It will be interesting...but i say nothing happens...Johnny Miller made some reference about Rocco and being Italian during the US Open last week...not much was made of it!popcornjack wrote:My first response is that nothing's going to happen, at least not of consequence. He's already proven once that he's too popular, and therefore important to a media business's bottom line, to go away for long.
!NBC Sports golf analyst Johnny Miller apologized for his description of U.S. Open runner-up Rocco Mediate, saying the comments had "absolutely nothing to do with his ethnicity."
Mediate, a 45-year-old Pennsylvanian of Italian heritage, held a one-stroke lead over Tiger Woods during the fourth round Sunday. Miller said Mediate "looks like the guy who cleans Tiger's swimming pool." He also said, "Guys with the name 'Rocco' don't get on the trophy, do they?"
"I apologize to anyone who was offended by my remarks," Miller said in a statement Friday through NBC. "My intention was to convey my affection and admiration for Rocco's everyman qualities and had absolutely nothing to do with his ethnicity. I chose my words poorly and in the future will be more careful."
I almost never watch golf but I was watching when Miller made that comment, I never once thought it was raciest or about Mediate's heritage, I thought it was more to do with Rocco being a average Joe.TommyBahama wrote:It will be interesting...but i say nothing happens...Johnny Miller made some reference about Rocco and being Italian during the US Open last week...not much was made of it!popcornjack wrote:My first response is that nothing's going to happen, at least not of consequence. He's already proven once that he's too popular, and therefore important to a media business's bottom line, to go away for long.
!NBC Sports golf analyst Johnny Miller apologized for his description of U.S. Open runner-up Rocco Mediate, saying the comments had "absolutely nothing to do with his ethnicity."
Mediate, a 45-year-old Pennsylvanian of Italian heritage, held a one-stroke lead over Tiger Woods during the fourth round Sunday. Miller said Mediate "looks like the guy who cleans Tiger's swimming pool." He also said, "Guys with the name 'Rocco' don't get on the trophy, do they?"
"I apologize to anyone who was offended by my remarks," Miller said in a statement Friday through NBC. "My intention was to convey my affection and admiration for Rocco's everyman qualities and had absolutely nothing to do with his ethnicity. I chose my words poorly and in the future will be more careful."
