Howard starts things off with the really strange George Michael – oh he of The Sports Machine – rebuttal. Michael is credited with launching Howard’s career, but I have absolutely no idea how he factors into Russini’s reporting. Though perhaps only the page view, money-pile-diving-loving side of me wants the Eagles to sign Tebow, I now want this to happen solely so Howard can be the second Eagles “reporter” in under a month to question Russini and have it backfire on them. It happened to Geoff Mosher last week. Russini, who’s been a guest on our podcast (and a good sport about a lead-in conversation about pooping), is typically well-sourced on NFC East matters.
On the sports reporting spectrum, you’ll typically find nerdy middle-aged men on the left and attractive local news chicks on the right. To pretend that the former doesn’t few the latter with a degree of sexism would be largely incorrect, and I have to wonder if Howard would’ve had the same reaction to this report if it came from someone who looked a little more like him. Or, you know, maybe he’s just a jackass:
Love, love, LOVE Howard calling others out for loosely-sourced reporting. LOVE IT.
UPDATE: A reader points out that Russini works at Michael’s former station in D.C. So there’s the connection.