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Posted on 9/23/15 at 7:39 pm to Grovewater
Posted on 9/23/15 at 7:39 pm to Grovewater
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How in the hell did this guy become so popular?
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Posted on 9/23/15 at 11:08 pm to Grovewater
His ratings thrive when the average citizens of Alabama call in. You get calls from people named "Tammy" earlier this week called into the show and started talking about her new sex toy she jams into her knot hole because she won't procreate with her husband due to auburn being a bad football team.
I can only assume you fall right in here with Tammy if you don't know why Finebaum is successful. I tune in and an auburn female fan with an extremely deep voice is talking about her new sex toy she got and that she has not got out of bed for 3 days. You bet your sweet arse I'm gonna tune in whenever I can. Solid gold on that show sometimes.....others not
I can only assume you fall right in here with Tammy if you don't know why Finebaum is successful. I tune in and an auburn female fan with an extremely deep voice is talking about her new sex toy she got and that she has not got out of bed for 3 days. You bet your sweet arse I'm gonna tune in whenever I can. Solid gold on that show sometimes.....others not
Posted on 9/23/15 at 11:21 pm to Grovewater
He was a pretty good writer for the now defunct Birmingham Post. He saw the writing on the wall and jumped to radio and found he could bait Alabama and Auburn fans.
It has worked for him.
It has worked for him.
Posted on 9/24/15 at 1:25 am to Grovewater
He owes some of his success to Harvey Updyke
Posted on 9/24/15 at 7:24 am to Grovewater
Finebaum is the jerry springer of college football.
Posted on 9/24/15 at 8:04 am to Grovewater
You pretty much sum up how I feel about him. No talent, not an expert, massive troll. I dont understand how people justify listening to him.
Posted on 9/24/15 at 8:12 am to Grovewater
He has developed the art of stimulating antagonism to Jerry Springer levels.
Posted on 9/24/15 at 9:23 am to Grovewater
good looking doesn't really matter on the radio my man
Posted on 9/24/15 at 9:35 am to Grovewater
The same way Jerry Springer made his. Get a bunch of people to come on your show and act like idiots, and all the other idiots out there will get fired up and listen to/watch the show religiously.
Posted on 9/24/15 at 9:59 am to Grovewater
Give the devil his due. I've never cared for him very much. Met him a couple of times and he's kind of a squirt. I've been sucked into calling him before and had him hang up on me one time. 
With that said, he was in college during Watergate as a journalism student. Set the wheels in motion as a sports writer for the college paper wanting Bill Battle canned. When he came to the Birmingham Post-Herald in the early 80's he was just a "reporter." He moved over to the sports dept in '83 coincidentally with Ray Perkins' first year as Alabama's new football coach.Couple that with Pat Dye's underachieving teams in 1984 and 1985 and he was off to the races. Finebaum basically would take turns poking Perkins and then Dye.At the time it was almost unheard of for a "local" writer to take-on/jab the prominent coaches. He would also slam the then All-American Bowl's selection causing a drop from advertisers in the P-H due to so many corporate head honchos saying,fine,we'll show you.
He then fell into a gold mine with Bill Curry and the rest his history.
With that said, he was in college during Watergate as a journalism student. Set the wheels in motion as a sports writer for the college paper wanting Bill Battle canned. When he came to the Birmingham Post-Herald in the early 80's he was just a "reporter." He moved over to the sports dept in '83 coincidentally with Ray Perkins' first year as Alabama's new football coach.Couple that with Pat Dye's underachieving teams in 1984 and 1985 and he was off to the races. Finebaum basically would take turns poking Perkins and then Dye.At the time it was almost unheard of for a "local" writer to take-on/jab the prominent coaches. He would also slam the then All-American Bowl's selection causing a drop from advertisers in the P-H due to so many corporate head honchos saying,fine,we'll show you.
He then fell into a gold mine with Bill Curry and the rest his history.
Posted on 9/24/15 at 1:58 pm to Grovewater
UT grad making a living off of sidewalk bama fans...
Posted on 9/24/15 at 2:07 pm to Grovewater
He's a carnival barker who feeds the beast what it wants to hear. It's not a mystery.
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