I recall a post-game news conference that included a lineman who’d picked up a fumble and run it back for a touchdown. He was asked: “Were you aware that was your first NFL touchdown?”
The look he gave to the reporter asking the question was eloquent.
Stupid, but not as much as something I saw on TV some years ago.
Show presenter interviewing some museum manager
Museum Manager- … and we have brought in a dinosaur from Patagonia…
Presenter interrupting- Really?, alive?
In all three cases, cause of death will be confirmed to be that the subjects stopped living.
Considering this was in Detroit, they probably just caught an airborne strain of the Death epidemic circulating the city for the last 50 years.
Debunked by snopes:
The Detroit News programs are doing stories on marathon runners and heart attack risks. They say that when you engage in vigorous physical activity , you are raising your chance of a heart attack 6 fold, during it However if you survive, your overall risks drop considerably.
This is especially true of knife fights.
As an Irishman, I take umbrage at the suggestion of a Welsh background. As an Irishman, I also take umbrage wherever I can find it.
Take note, Skaldorama, my umbrage brages with the um of a thousand brages. I will brook no more gobsmacking from you!
Stupidest reporter question I ever saw was when a cube fan full of 20-somethings coming home from a rave flipped over and crashed on a busy highway. They were in the back of the cube van, unrestrained of course, so you can imagine the injuries (thankfully no deaths.)
(not directly quoted, this was many years ago, but you get the gist)
Reporter: “So what did you guys do when the van flipped over?”
Kids: “Uhh, we got out and called 911…”
Reporter: "No, I mean what did you do while the van was actually flipping over? Did you hold hands or something?"
Kids: “No, we were all like…” (pretends to fall all over each other)
Stupidest. Question. Ever.
Not a question (and maybe this is just an urban legend), but I seem to remember someone doing an interview back in the 80’s of a woman who falsely accused a man of rape and the guy who had just gotten out of jail. The woman apologized and the man gracously accepted (after something like 10 years behind bars) and the reporter came up with:
“How about a hug, you guys?”
Pretty stupid
All 3 had ages. Coincidence? I think not.
Mary Whitehouse has taken Umbrage (no surprise there)
If I remember correctly, that was Phyllis George during The CBS Morning News, and was one of the most cringe-worthy moments ever on television. No, they did not hug, but looked very, very uncomfortable.
Unless this is one of those things that everyone claims to remember but never happed (“Eat me, Bozo, eat me!”).
ETA: Ah, found it! It really happened. And the victim didn’t forgive her rapist; rather, she recanted the rape.
Phyllis George was the interviewer (see here The Early Show - Wikipedia)
Well, this did go down in Detroit. Maybe the guy was flummoxed by the fact that the causes of death weren’t bullet wounds and he just didn’t know what else to ask.
Poor Phyllis…we’re still talking about how stupid it was almost 30 years later!
OTOH, I still remember what a babe she was. Beautiful But Likely Stupid should be the motto of the Miss America Pageant.
I think she was one of the first experiments of using a hottie for sideline interviews of football games. A very successful experiement, as far as I was concerned, and the big mistake was taking her out of her element.
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At the winter olympics sometime in the '90’s, speed skaters had fallen several times during a day of competition. Sports dork was interviewing a team coach:
dork: Looks like the ice is a little slippery out there today.
coach: Ice is always slippery.
“Did you survive?”