The DUMBEST NFL Announcer Moment in NBC HISTORY | Reggie Rucker

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In a 1984 NFL on NBC game between the Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals, color commentator Reggie Rucker, who was a rising star in the broadcasting industry before the game, made a comment about Bengals head coach Sam Wyche and running back James Brooks that was completely made up. The seemingly stupid white lie wound up destroying his reputation, destroying his credibility, and ending his broadcasting career. This is the story behind the crazy controversy involving the NFL on NBC
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@jacobhayes4404 3 года назад

Not to get political, but lying on TV used to be a bad thing.

@buccizero 3 года назад

You’re not getting political. It’s the truth.

@humanbeing2420 3 года назад

It's still a bad thing; what changed is the Republican organization and its voters. They're totally fine with people, including the former President, publicly making sh:t up out of whole cloth every day.

@whatsthebigfndeal 3 года назад

@@humanbeing2420 You're the embodiment of the Dunning-Kruger effect

@storm14k 3 года назад

@@whatsthebigfndeal naw....they aren't. They're just looking at the most recent and outrageous example of lying in the media. But this all really got rolling with the removal of the fairness doctrine. Wait don't tell me you're one of these folks that listens to fringe and RWM telling you that everyone else is lying....🤦🏾‍♂️

@tkk85 3 года назад

@@humanbeing2420 corn pop

@JojoQuik 3 года назад

Odd how we hold sports journalists to a higher standard than actual journalists.

@CamaroSS-sy2ei 3 года назад

Couldn’t agree more.

@croc313 2 года назад

😮 never looked at it like that 🤦🏾‍♂️. That’s deep asf but it shouldn’t be as deep frfr 💯

@A-small-amount-of-peas 2 года назад

Who do you mean by "we"? Sports fans? In the journalism world sports journalists are looked at by serious journalists like doctors look at dentists

@raekwonw359 2 года назад

@@A-small-amount-of-peas serious journalists= lazy biased clowns, from both sides only believed by the ignorant.

@A-small-amount-of-peas 2 года назад

@steven milstead i didn't. I just think it's a generalisation and not true

@alfjgist 3 года назад

His broadcast rating on that day was 28.7, which is worse than if he did nothing but spike the microphone into the ground on every single play.

@Bruce12867 3 года назад

Or a mic drop.

@hiramlewis3873 3 года назад

LoL 😂. I was hoping Jaguar would bring something up like that

@jamespgray6928 3 года назад

>< that gave me a good laugh lol. Thanks

@sparkythesecretsquirrel4013 3 года назад

Truth is spoken.

@00kt86 3 года назад

Touché

@jeffvanmeter1330 3 года назад

“Of the 20,000 games played in the history of the NFL, this was definitely one of them...”. Al Michael’s couldn’t have put it better.

@zagnorch1336 3 года назад

Looks like JG9 is aiming to be a color commentator himself.

@flintknudsen2155 3 года назад

lol

@insertcolorfulmetaphor8520 3 года назад

The truth is the truth, even at its most inane

@richardburns4194 3 года назад

Fake news.

@dozaarchives2225 3 года назад

Love that Deslock avatar.

@pronkb000 3 года назад

Rucker didn't help his own cause by dragging Howard Cosell into things, saying, "We all know that Howard didn't have dinner with all those people he talked about on Monday Night Football."

@amerikagaijin 2 года назад

It is true though. Plenty of commentators did the same thing Rucker did. In other sports too. One guy was just mad at what he said.

@markbrian7179 3 года назад

The moral of the story: Don't lie about who You had dinner with.

@volzman2172 3 года назад

I had dinner with 1990 Cindy Crawford last night.

@jeffreyhutchins6527 3 года назад

@@volzman2172 woke up with a smile on your face and cramps in your hands eh?

@BP7BlackPearl 3 года назад

I had dinner with Jesus last night. Oddly, there was no food in the house, yet somehow we had 5,000 loafs of bread and plenty of fish. I told Him, next time we should eat Italian or Mexican. He said ok, then left in a whirlwind.

@illiogicalphilosophy2481 3 года назад

@@BP7BlackPearl clearly never to be seen again.

@amarirasheed6 2 года назад

All this over fake dinner with a bum coach boasting a historic 44 win percentage

@markbrian7179 3 года назад

Alex Hawkins, who during the 1977 NFC Championship game, said that Roger Staubach "ran like a sissy" and was fired by CBS the very next day.

@pronkb000 3 года назад

I always jump on that story when anyone complains about "PC culture" or "cancel culture" today. There's a lot of shit that would have gotten you fired even 50 years ago. Granted, Hawkins had also gotten a DUI and was also insulting one of the NFL's golden boys, which didn't help, but that wasn't shit you could say on the air even back then.

@pronkb000 3 года назад

Tom Brookshier had a Rucker-esque decline the year before this. After plugging a Louisville basketball game, he said, "They have a collective IQ of about 40, but they sure can play basketball." That got him suspended for next week's game (the final game of the year). He came back for 3 more seasons but his reputation definitely took a hit. He was different from Rucker in that he'd been already been around forever and probably would have been about done by 1986 regardless.

@Jelperman 3 года назад

@@pronkb000 He was already in hot water after a game where a defender was playing with a broken hand in a cast and broke the other hand in the second quarter. Hawkins said he wasn't sure if the guy would play the 2nd half with both hands in casts, but he WAS sure that if he had to pee, he would find out who his real friends were on the team!

@davanmani556 3 года назад

Hawk had no credibility is how he sold himself. He was funny and candid. His problem was that his drinking made him serious, mean and bitter.

@sludge4125 3 года назад

@@Jelperman That’s just plain funny!!!

@genebaker6964 3 года назад

Rucker then “I found out there’s never any excuse to not be 100% accurate in the broadcast business”. Media news today: Giggles at the idea of accuracy.

@grinningchicken 3 года назад

Sports news is actually the most accurate media we have in America. We know who played, we know who won, we know the players, we know what the score was, we know who did what, we know where they played, we know why they played. Afghanistan we aren't sure who we fought, we aren't sure why, we aren't sure what we were doing, we don't really know why it didn't work, we don't know who won, we don't know how many people died. In local politics much of that we don't know either. We might know who the mayor is but we don't know anyone else, we don't know the plans, what's being voted on, why its being done, or who will it effect.

@danevertt3210 2 года назад

Hahahahaha ask Trump about accuracy. Jesus Christ

@danevertt3210 2 года назад

@@grinningchicken this is one of the dumbest things I’ve seen someone post

@CatsClaw44 2 года назад

You mean Fox News

@manuelper 2 года назад

@@danevertt3210 WTF does that have to do with his post ya weirdo?

@FFEMTB08 2 года назад

“NBC won’t allow something to happen like this again.” That aged well.

@glennhubbard5008 Год назад

👍

@martinedwards4522 Год назад

😂😂😂

@annoyedatthis1 Год назад

From now on, NBC will feed the lies to its reporters

@TheSonicsean 3 года назад

"Father Time is undefeated" at this rate I think Tom Brady might at least get a tie

@philthornton1382 3 года назад

Father Time has requested a move to the nba, according to Reggie Rucker he said ‘im too old for this shit’

@shadowraider964 3 года назад

Everything comes to an end eventually he can't play forever

@JohnDoe-od7ye 3 года назад

He put up 48 points today at age 44. Father Time is at least nervous at this point.

@GeneralBuckNaked 3 года назад

@John Doe... And George Foreman was knocking muthafuckas out at the same age, even older.. Even he got beat by father time eventually

@artpalombo4126 3 года назад

Rocky knocking people out at 70 lol.

@freedomring3022 3 года назад

Today Reggie Rucker would be given an emmy for this.

@frolianmoreno7297 3 года назад

he was sent to jail last year for stealing money from charities lol and 2016 he was arrested for assualt

@freedomring3022 3 года назад

@@frolianmoreno7297 sounds like a stand up guy

@hassansimpkins6023 2 года назад

Or a podcast

@goochfitness26 2 года назад

@@freedomring3022 sounds like a guy who had his life ruined because of one little mistake that wasn’t even that big. Goes to show how back than people were still super sensitive

@freedomring3022 2 года назад

@@goochfitness26 good Lord man. If you’re gonna flex on me at least learn how to spell correctly and type in proper grammar.

@CTubeMan 3 года назад

Fun fact, at 5:30 Browns Punter Steve Cox kicked the second 60+ yard field goal in NFL history.

@bigbigjoel9710 3 года назад

i remembered that, and how the announcer went completely bananas when Cox made it.

@fraz72 3 года назад

Steve cox was kicking consistent 50s back then like they were chip shots

@imnotabotrlyimnot 3 года назад

I didn't know you could punt field goals back then.

@23_CM 3 года назад

The fact that any straight-on kicker could kick accurate long FGs is amazing. My soccer-mind is bewildered anytime I see footage of old kicks haha

@imnotabotrlyimnot 3 года назад

@@23_CM Tom Dempsey definitely had somewhat of an advantage though.

@hezamachine 3 года назад

James Brooks revealed that he was illiterate during his proceedings for failure to pay child support. It hard to be tough for him to learn the playbook.

@MrRyan-wu4jx 3 года назад

Seriously? The man spent 4 years at Auburn, they must’ve really actively overlooked his academics.

@hezamachine 3 года назад

@@MrRyan-wu4jx When asked by the judge how he graduated from Auburn, Brooks said, “I didn’t have to go to class.”

@raypratt3611 3 года назад

@@MrRyan-wu4jx u know nothing about college sports do u ??

@MrRyan-wu4jx 3 года назад

@@raypratt3611 I mean I’m totally familiar with the preferential treatments student athletes get, but for the guy to be straight up illiterate four years into college is egregious.

@giancarlotoffoli6567 2 года назад

You must be referring to Dexter Manley

@timothyblevins9552 3 года назад

Back in 2018 Rucker and I got together for dinner. I asked him why he lied like that. He said cause I just thought it sounded good man. I laughed...then he laughed. We laughed together for awhile. It was a moment I had with Rucker I will never forget.

@beavcity Год назад

Bro what

@OsceolaNola7 Год назад

@@beavcity it’s sad that you honestly missed the joke

@nymike06 6 месяцев назад

Who paid for dinner? lol

@mrmoose6619 3 года назад

This episode should be MANDATORY viewing for any journalism student, even if they don't like sports. A cautionary tale about the dangers of not being 100% truthful about sources and material. Excellent job, JG9.

@charismatic9904 3 года назад

Naw. Liberal media like CNN MSNBC and others all do this crap with no consequences

@studogable 3 года назад

Sadly enough, I have to agree with Alex. In 2021, people pitch their own realities with relatively little consequence when they're proven wrong. When there were only three national networks and on alternative online media, you couldn't get away with that. Rucker lied, NBC shelved him, and that was that. Today, a guy like Rucker would have other options. Granted, this isn't NEARLY as pervasive in sports journalism as it is in political journalism. In political journalism, especially on the right wing, it's routine to create a false narrative and rant like a demon, then preemptively insult anyone who might call you on it and move on to your next narrative. It's tough to do that in sports journalism - if you rant for hours about how a team is falling apart, you look pretty damn silly when they win a title. Sadly, this has resulted in sports journalism having a MUCH higher standard for veracity than political journalism.

@charismatic9904 3 года назад

@@studogable all true except the left are the ones who make up things then get nasty when called out.

@BadOpticon 3 года назад

Maybe it should’ve been mandatory in the 80’s when the US had some standards and wasn’t a total joke from a media standpoint amongst others. Today you if you’re a “journalist” you can say a trusted source said something when it’s really something you thought up between writing $25 articles and flicking your bean

@katieandkevinsears7724 3 года назад

Theae days, Sam Wyche would be called racist and get fired for calling out the lie.

@randyhanson4973 2 года назад

I'm shocked that CNN hasn't hired Rucker. He has the perfect resume

@WTMNNJR 2 года назад

He must have not groped enough women to be hired by CNN.

@bryantsteury8910 3 года назад

Why lie about something SO easily disputed?! At least if you say "I've heard from people close to the team..." it can be a lie (which you shouldn't do to begin with obviously) but at least then you can say you heard bad info, which then only is partially on you for not corroborating it, but can be easily dismissed overall

@GarkKahn 2 года назад

Or say there have been rumors of ... So the people could believe you were telling the truth even if it wasn't the case

@blainecole5452 3 года назад

"Everybody's not great. Everybody's not brilliant." No wonder he never made it.

@msarzo 3 года назад

Ahh the good old days when an announcer gets caught in a lie and actually suffered consequences for it! Great work as usual, JG9.

@fisheyedfool1 2 года назад

😆 When black people get "caught" in anything we always suffer. Not so for those on the other side of the spectrum. FREE MOHAMMED NOOR!!!!

@goochfitness26 2 года назад

Yeah a small small lie but they say this generation soft😂😂 that’s the weakest reason I’ve ever seen someone lose their job basically.

@jacoblebold8462 2 года назад

Why do you want Mohammed Noor to be freed?

@bassman6692 2 года назад

@@fisheyedfool1 Always the victim huh?

@muhammadthefabulous Год назад

@@goochfitness26 you cannot lie to your boss that'll get you fired every time if you're new with a company.

@JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly 3 года назад

Before there was Brian Williams, there was Reggie Rucker.

@sludge4125 3 года назад

Janet Cook.

@Jelperman 3 года назад

@@sludge4125 Chris Jones -and I'll raise you a Judith Miller!

@lukem6180 3 года назад

Damn near every news broadcasters these days!

@bl18ce99 3 года назад

Please don't forget Dan Rather, Walter Cronkite, and Joy Reid. I hate liars. Oh, also 60 minutes and NBC News.

@c.l.freeman7654 3 года назад

The whole Fox "News" line up, except for a very select few

@adamplace1414 3 года назад

"It means you have to sound like you know what you're talking about." Sentient balloon animal Stephen A Smith: *evil laughter*

@tommcintyre8092 3 года назад

100%

@robertsprouse9282 3 года назад

Not just sound like..but, really know what you are talking about, and mistakes leading to incorrect info. will be forgiven, but only a very few times. Preparation, there is no substitute for it.. Don't LEAVE HOME, and enter the booth and put on the headset mic. WITHOUT IT.

@Joseph-lz5er 3 года назад

Especially when he is talking about MMA, which he knows nothing about.

@RRaquello 3 года назад

1-6 Browns vs. 1-6 Bengals. Yeah, that sounds like a typical "Battle of Ohio".

@JohnDoe-od7ye 3 года назад

Battle for draft position is more like it.

@Mistertbones 2 года назад

TANK BOWL!

@montanaelkwhisperer1744 3 года назад

If NBC execs had been clever, they would have written a sitcom for him called "dinner with Rucker", and have famous athletes make cameo appearances.

@rogerswab2131 3 года назад

I haven't watched it yet, but I'm on the edge of my seat wondering how you're going to squeeze "Which is worse than if he had spiked the ball into the ground on every single play" into this one!

@mrmoose6619 3 года назад

Actually... what Rucker did to his career is exactly that.

@mikeandreach3777 3 года назад

Dammit I was gonna say that lmao

@marcwhitlock5002 3 года назад

He should've done the RB version of it when he described Brooks season so far saying something like, that's worse than if you were Kalen Ballage in 2019

@hiramlewis3873 3 года назад

Sadly it got worse for him. In August 2016, Rucker was sentenced to 21 months in prison for embezzling money from the Cleveland Peacemakers Alliance and other nonprofits.He was released in May 2018, and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in November 2018. I guess saying what he said about the dinner years earlier and the punishment of losing his credibility wasn't enough. The information I suppled was from his Wikipedia page. A damn good receiver I remember as a player and a broadcaster just got caught up in too many schemes allegedly

@oaklandsportnewscom 3 года назад

This is correct. He lied and stole, went to jail for 21 months and then admitted this lie/theft also. This guy has a pattern.

@robertsprouse9282 3 года назад

JJ, WOW!!!

@robertsprouse9282 3 года назад

He didn't just get "caught up", he grabbed it by the throat willingly..WILLINGLY..

@mrlafayette1964 3 года назад

Sounds like he's just basically a dishonest person, probably stole many other times without getting caught too.

@robertsprouse9282 3 года назад

@@mrlafayette1964, stats show that is likely.. DENNY MCLAIN AND RUCKER stealing from the vulnerable..= GARBAGE MEN.

@creeper2054 3 года назад

You have to wonder how James Brooks felt about the comments and how they may have motivated him to turn things around. A possible silver lining in the whole thing.

@Jelperman 3 года назад

It was really just a matter of adjusting to a new role in a new offense. He went from a scatback for Air Coryell to the featured halfback in Sam Wyche's offense, which was patterned after Bill Walsh's offense in S.F. (where Wyche was the QB coach).

@monkberrymoon4042 3 года назад

Well, he did produce The Simpsons later..... so there's that.

@TheMailmanOfSteel 3 года назад

"This Michael Jordan guy is a scrub, he'll never amount to anything!" - Reggie Rucker commenting on an '84 Bulls/Pacers game, probably.

@LeonardStauffer 3 года назад

lol

@kurtperleberg8669 2 года назад

We know how mj turned out

@recordtime4750 Год назад

And he took it personally

@dentonyoung4314 2 года назад

"Of all the 20,000 games played in the history of the NFL, this was definitely one of them" made me laugh. Two 1-6 teams going at it, in a game where zero TD's were scored... the only reason it had any meaning at all was because it was a rivalry game.

@jonlanier_ 3 года назад

I'll never forget Reggie Rucker actually saying, "If they get a touchdown, they will get 7 points." Takes a genius for that and he was still wrong. LOL

@tadpole8677 Год назад

He wouldn't know how many points in the current xfl.

@joejay4646 Год назад

Classic John Madden material.

@ArticSun 3 года назад

The public should hold politicians to the same standard.

@tweachiemercer1589 3 года назад

Rucker also did color commentary for the Cleveland Indians from 1982-1984 with Joe Tate. Every game he would use some obscure word during the broadcast in an effort to make himself sound smart and to impress Joe Tate. The last time he ever did this he spoke some convoluted word that is rarely used and Joe caught him with a paper with the word written on it. Joe let it be known that he saw the paper and called him out on it, Rucker sounded like an idiot trying to explain what he had done.

@edwinearl4584 3 года назад

Just because you may be one of the best to ever play the game, doesn’t mean you’re qualified to be an announcer. Sincerely, Emmitt Smith. 🏈

@julianisaac6004 3 года назад

"Don't forget about me, Edwin"... -Earvin Magic Johnson

@Jelperman 3 года назад

If ESPN had the same standards as NBC had back then, Skip Bayless would have been gibbeted years ago.

@fredleeland2464 3 года назад

ESPN wanted Lebron controversy though That was their only way to get people to stay watching and Bayless was the perfect guy to head that offensive

@Jelperman 3 года назад

@@fredleeland2464 If Bayless was a heel commentator for pro wrestling, his lies and stupidity would be amusing. But he's not.

@ericthomas917 3 года назад

Stephen A Smith wouldn't be around now

@fredleeland2464 3 года назад

@@Jelperman tell that to all the people who found him and SAS amusing in 2010 and 2011 when that show really took off

@Jelperman 3 года назад

@@fredleeland2464 I will.

@jimclark6493 3 года назад

It shouldn’t have cost him his broadcasting career. I told him over dinner last night.

@deputay 3 года назад

Terry O'Neil in his book "The Game Behind the Game" refers to this comparing it to the amount of prep they were doing at CBS before games in the 1980's. It all seems easy to just say this kind of stuff, but you have to do the homework for what JG9 is saying - the viewers will trust you...but when they DON'T...you're done

@mikephalen3162 3 года назад

Even if you do your homework, viewers won't care for you if what you say is obvious and if you are an apologist for players and coaches. Viewers want real knowledge shared, like Tony Romo does. If you're going to state the obvious, you have to do it with excitement, like John Madden did. When the average fan can predict each week's games as well as the studio crew on Fox Sports, you have to wonder just how much former players and former coaches bring to the table.

@douglasstarr234 2 года назад

Al Michaels was being interviewed and he spoke about the first Thursday Evening Thanksgiving game at NBC and they invited the then retired John Madden to call the game with them. John Madden felt flattered but declined the invitation because he didn't feel like it would be fair saying he hadn't done the preparation. John Madden was a true professional that studied all of the team plays and tendencies during the offseason so that he would be prepared to announce games. Since he hadn't put in that work, he didn't want to be invited as a legacy announcer. What Rucker did was nothing short of gossip.

@adampender2482 2 года назад

Jaggator: Father time is undefeated. Tom Brady: Hold my kale protein shake.

@chichigotdayayo555 2 года назад

Father Time just went to take a piss...he will be bacc for Brady very soon

@LSBBD 2 года назад

Some athletes can slow time down, Tom Brady is able to slow down the Father.

@clementeclyde7035 3 года назад

I think the 21 months in prison for embezzling non-profits ruined his reputation more than this.

@fraz72 3 года назад

Agreed.

@snewz9089 2 года назад

Nonprofits of Clevland no less.the one City that kept his azz employed after NBC and had his back

@DMS-pq8 3 года назад

Then - If you lie on air your career will be over. Now - If you lie on air you get your own show with a multi-million dollar salary

@stevenbauer4799 3 года назад

Another proud moment to do is one for cbs. The time when during the nfc title game at rfk cbs had irv cross on the field to do an interview. One of jack kent cooke's henchmen came out there right while they were on the air and told him straight up to 'get the F off of the field'. irv was like 'i'm supposed to be here doing an interview for cbs before kickoff'. And they still escorted him off. Brent M. was like 'hahahaha' back in the studio then said 'this is the nfl...on c b s...'

@Jelperman 3 года назад

Cooke's security hoodlums (more likely George Allen's hoodlums) are the reason my cousins, aunt and uncle became Cowboy fans. Back around 73-74 one of my cousins was in a class that got to go on a field trip to the Skins' practice field. Well, that was where they were scheduled to go. When the bus pulled up, some crotchety old fart and several rent-a-cops told them no one was allowed to enter. The teacher produced the written invitation from the Skins' front office, to which the head mall cop shouted "I don't care! Get these #@!&-ing kids outta here!". Some were upset, some cried, most were pissed off at sitting on a bus for two hours for nothing, but my cousin went home and when she told everone what happened, they all became Cowboys fans for life.

@fishharvester9434 3 года назад

@@Jelperman why not colts fans. They were good in the early 70s and only up the street from the communist occupied Washington DC. Temporarily occupied till the call to arms is announced and we kick off the 2nd American Revolution ending with most democrats being tried for treason and crimes against humanity and publicly executed.

@kdogg7882 3 года назад

@@fishharvester9434 Because the Cowboys were division rivals and you could hate on Washington every year when they played each other

@montanaelkwhisperer1744 3 года назад

@@fishharvester9434 just curious....do the voices in your head get echoey when you wear the tinfoil hat?

@dylanandrich1949 3 года назад

I feel like announcers and reporters make up stuff all the time. Especially when they talk about speaking to a player or coach before or during halftime... It's always the same crap. It's like common sense questions they claim to ask... I remember in mid 2000s the cowboys were playing the Giants and it was a big game. Giants had some of their starting dbs hurt so a rookie who was on practice squad had to play and the lady was like "I asked Parcells if Romo and the offense were gonna try to exploit the young corner he told me.... Probably. I'm Rachel Nichols... ESPN." Like it was some kind of deep insight or something. It's silly.

@andrewhogan6533 3 года назад

Gotta fill time somehow

@jeffmiesen 3 года назад

To put it mildly, they don’t hire those sideline reporters for their brains, more so for their “assets.”

@CraigSmithII 3 года назад

Just watch ESPN, you can tell some of the stuff is made up

@johnmccall5576 3 года назад

@@andrewhogan6533 But they really don't. I miss the gaps in announcers saying things and you could watch the game and they highlighted it.

@anonymoususer450 2 года назад

People in media make up stuff all the time in general

@newtheis 3 года назад

I always loved how Ron Jaworski would say every week during his weekly show on ESPN " I watched every pass Yada Yada threw over the last two seasons...and I have picked up these tendencies.....". TFF, like Jaws held the title "The Master of the Quarterback Universe".

@thecatswillplay86 3 года назад

Bwhaahahaha. He's also famous for saying Kaepernick might be the greatest QB of all time when Kaepernick was at the top of his game.

@donmurphyii4291 2 года назад

@@thecatswillplay86 Kaepernick will, has, and always will be better than you ever were... How many times have you led a team to a Super Bowl appearance? Remind us all again... What round were you drafted in?!

@teen_laqueefa 2 года назад

@@donmurphyii4291 Trent Dilfer too

@tomkenniston9848 2 года назад

I remember watching a game he was on. After a big hit, he said the player was literally decapitated. Then I knew he was a stooge.

@diaz5292 3 года назад

Brian Sipe was really something for a while there.

@jimmiebeesapimp 3 года назад

No no he wasn't he sucked like all the other Brownies

@xdreampcs8554 3 года назад

Sure was, some great comeback games but his jump to the USFL hurt him

@mmaranta785 3 года назад

Until Mike Davis interception

@thatmanstumototours2270 3 года назад

Hank Stram could tell the play before the snap damn near everytime. Loved listening to him.

@cityhawk 3 года назад

Ken Stabler was underrated as a broadcaster as well. He should have gone higher up the rung than he did.

@kingfish4242 2 года назад

Jack Buck and Hank Stram were the best crew ever

@myklaaron7879 3 года назад

I remember a time when stephen a smith was anxiously and energetically anticipating a matchup between a player released and a player on season ending I.R. so lets give him a raise and the keys to the entire network

@escrapplem9454 2 года назад

Got rid of Max Kellerman. Don't watch First Take anymore.

@thecatswillplay86 3 года назад

If Reggie pulled that stunt today most news networks would just give him his own show.

@robertwhitten265 3 года назад

Yo can't call him colored commentator anymore. It's African American commentator.

@eugenedenbrook322 3 года назад

😆

@jamestepera3356 3 года назад

Awesome!

@leerussell586 3 года назад

That's crazy

@williamcoolidge9884 3 года назад

Actually now they are back to saying "black."

@getintothewildwithjeffruma8777 2 года назад

Crazy thing is if he could turn the lies up he would be a perfect fit as an actual journalist today. Guess he was just ahead of his times🤷‍♂️

@doncarpenter1040 3 года назад

3:13 Christ, look at all of those empty seats at Arrowhead.

@redngold3005 3 года назад

Yeah, I remember my dad taking me when I was a kid in the 80s, and you could walk up and buy lower level tickets on gameday.

@BigRobParty 2 года назад

Yeah they were shitty in the 80s. Loved DeBerg, but ....he was the QB 😂

@rhythmjones 3 года назад

We'd be playing EA Sports Rucker NFL22 instead of Madden

@ecembrew 3 года назад

No Madden was already star in the booth after the 81 super bowl

@eugenedenbrook322 3 года назад

You may be right

@Bishop228 3 года назад

A 12 minute video & you didn’t even include the clip that was the subject of the entire video? Are you kidding me? Take this dislike. What an utterly unbearable 12 minutes.

@LeonardStauffer 3 года назад

Agreed

@donnydonnybrook8131 2 года назад

100%

@pronkb000 3 года назад

Per Terry Pluto's book The Curse of Rocky Colavito: Rucker, trying to break into broadcasting, got a job doing color commentary for the Cleveland...Indians. "Only the Indians would make a decision like that," wrote Pluto. One of his big thinkpieces was, "If I were managing, if there was a runner on 3rd I'd put one of the outfielders *behind* the catcher. That way he can't score on a wild pitch." Pluto: "Not only is this strategy stupid, it's illegal. Only the catcher may be in foul territory at the time of a pitch. Rucker's broadcaster Joe Tait just had to silently sigh to himself and pretend he didn't hear him."

@Bruce12867 3 года назад

I read about this. It's a head scratcher as to why they hired a football guy for the job. Maybe no one else wanted the job.

@pronkb000 3 года назад

@@Bruce12867 The early '80s Indians made the '00s and '10s Browns look like the...well, 1950's Browns.

@jamestepera3356 3 года назад

I once put an outfielder behind my catcher when I coached my sons in little league on an intentional walk to keep a baserunner on 3rd from scoring on a wild pitch. The umpire allowed it. Lol.

@urbanleftbehind 3 года назад

@@pronkb000 yet they would end up with a w-l much closer to .500 than whoever was in the lower half of the AL West.

@Raddlesby 3 года назад

There's one big problem I have with this story. Reggie Rucker is presented as a "star on the rise," someone who's caught the eye of the bosses and is being seen as getting the better assignments. Then, he makes his mistake...in a game between two teams that are 1-6. Sorry, folks, I'm not buying it. A "star on the rise" is NOT getting an assignment between two teams that are 1-6. THAT GAME is at the bottom of the barrel, the worst broadcasting crew is getting that game, the crew that IS ALL READY AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DEPTH CHART is getting that game. So no, Reggie Rucker wasn't a rising star--one article written by one biased writer with an agenda to sing the praises of a black man, does not make one a rising star. Reggie Rucker wasn't a rising star; he was never there in the first place.

@jamestepera3356 3 года назад

All the suits at NBC saw was a guy who could fill a quota. No different than the brother on Hogan's Heroes

@JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly 3 года назад

Once you lose credibility as a journalist, it can NEVER be recovered.

@maxwellsiegel6538 3 года назад

Skip disproves that

@glennmorris4295 3 года назад

Tell the so-called journalists on CNN that 🤷‍♂️

@williamcoolidge9884 3 года назад

Brian Williams is employed by MSNBC. So that theory is out the window.

@Agent-xn1hr 3 года назад

@@glennmorris4295 you spelled Fox wrong

@glennmorris4295 3 года назад

@@Agent-xn1hr you are a clever one😂🤣. Your Pres is doing great things.

@jackkitchen737 3 года назад

I remember this. I remember Wyche's comments after he heard about the comments. I also remember Reggie Rucker still doing some games I watched. If I remember correctly, he and Jim Donovan announced the week 2 matchup between New England and Minnesota in 1988. The Vikings won, 36-6. He wasn't a great announcer, but he was capable. I'm glad he's found work since then.

@l_Live_In_Oregon 3 года назад

I liked the combo of Hank Stram and Jack Buck for MNF

@mcneildelancy1340 3 года назад

Bob Trumpy, and Don criqui I like calling the Orange bowl games,Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen were great team also

@TheJohnnySlick 3 года назад

I looked this guy up and… on one hand it looks like he got his broadcasting career at least somewhat back on track, as he started doing stuff for the Cleveland Browns in the 2000s. On the other hand, he was then convicted of embezzlement in 2018…

@DarrylFord33 Год назад

Speaking of dishonesty….He ended up going to prison for embezzlement after stealing money from a nonprofit in Cleveland back in 2016.

@yoopernow 3 года назад

Nice to be reminded about Sam Wyche - a coach so innovative that the NFL had to INVENT rules in midseason to slow down his no-huddle offense...

@CatsClaw44 2 года назад

If he had done this today Fox News would immediately hire him as a token black guy.

@trentonnewman9683 2 года назад

I’m gonna miss Sam Wyche. Rest In Peace man.

@Tropicool 2 года назад

It's the classic "I talked with him before the game" saying that every commentator says; literally every game. But he took it up a notch and said he had dinner with him.

@toomanylies7716 2 года назад

It'd be interesting to see how it would go over now if this happened. I guess it would just depend on how much support or criticism he got on social media.

@Coffee-Stain-Music Год назад

There would probably be similar ridicule. Brian Williams lied about being in a helicopter that was attacked in Iraq and he was mocked and memed into oblivion and he was a top reporter and lied about a much more serious topic. People still don't take well to blatantly being lied to. I'm sure if someone like Tony Romo said he had a dinner with Belichick and he told him how he thinks Mac Jones is trash, but it never happened, he might get fired but would most certainly no longer be alongside Jim Nantz as a lead announcer.

@joeterzio7175 3 года назад

I just remember Rucker as a good receiver for the Browns.

@f1fan112 2 года назад

10:38 Reasons why Sam Wyche might be my favorite head coach of all time. That guy was hilarious. Coming from a Browns fan too.

@diehardnygiantsfan6569 2 года назад

I love how they put Super Bowl XVII for Sam Wyche even though he coached the previous one

@denisceballos9745 3 года назад

Great story about Reggie Rucker (33). His football career was solid, as a member of the 1980 Cardiac Kids - a lot of huge plays. He was a fan favorite. But his post career, not so much. Hopefully, he’s in a good place now.

@daBEAGLE1017 3 года назад

Well he did go to prison in 2016 for embezzlement. He got out a few years ago so i dont think its a "better" place but it is better than the pokey.

@e2go Год назад

Hopefully he's not embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars again from charities again like an absolute dirtbag.

@danclemente485 3 года назад

I'm real sorry that happened to Reggie. Though i never held down a professional media job I went to school for it. Little white lies CAN get you into trouble. He should've stuck to the basics.Don't say it happened when it didn't.

@allancole6660 Год назад

It didn’t happen ‘to’ him, he did it to himself.

@alice_evermore 3 года назад

I really liked Reggie Rucker as a colour commentator but I never knew about this story. He was really smart and insightful and articulate during the games I watched him broadcast. Once the announcer he was working with ( I believe Marv Albert) joked that he had to bring a thesaurus into the booth to understand all the rich vocabulary Reggie was using: it was very entertaining. Too bad things played out the way they did....

@tadpole8677 Год назад

If you watched him after this game then you probably saw a lot of meaningless games.

@kingjuju79852020 Год назад

I thought I was hearing this wrong but to see people type it I'm hearing it right. This is 2023 why are you using 1920 terms "colour commmentators" ? P.S. is ok to be racist in my book I like to know where ya stand in life no skin off my qzz.

@marcwhitlock5002 3 года назад

Ahh man you had a perfect opportunity to throw in an RB version of your QB rating spiking the ball into the ground, that's a worse rb season than if you were Kalen Ballage in 2019.

@SheltonWalden 3 года назад

wow - why in the hell would he make up a story like that? Shame, because he was a GREAT receiver for years with the Browns. BTW, something similar happened to Brian Williams of NBC News and he lost his job as anchor of the Evening News. He does a great job on his own show, The 11th Hour .

@tomservo75 3 года назад

An NFL announcer had his career ruined by telling a proveably false lie... now if only we held news journalists to the same standards.

@derangedhippo 3 года назад

God fucking dammit, it's basically everyday this dude post and basically EVERY SINGLE DAY, this dude's videos are top notch. It is insane how RU-vid isn't paying him more. I am going to have to pull a few strings and try to talk to some executives at RU-vid, I might have to threaten them how I will sell my Google stock.

@daBEAGLE1017 3 года назад

All of his videos are stellar also. The channels way undervalued.

@hrtvfan2870 3 года назад

And unfortunately this would not be Rucker's only run-in with controversy, as by 2016 Rucker did prison time on embezzlement charges related to stealing money from several Cleveland non-profits; later filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2018 shortly after completing his sentence

@doreybain 3 года назад

Depending on your politics or race, incidents like this are mostly ignored in today's journalism.

@stormbringercoming8105 3 года назад

The truth is an abandoned orphan lying by the side of the road in today’s world of “journalism”.

@CWYMAN77 Год назад

In 2023, Reggie Rucker would own NBC after filing a racial discrimination lawsuit

@chernosquare 3 года назад

On the field he reminds me of Marvin Jones Jr, never the #1 guy but has been doing it at a high level for years

@nathandebartolo8330 3 года назад

Who?

@closetedhippie Год назад

I grew up watching Reggie Rucker doing Cleveland MLB games as well as the occasional NFL regional game and I agree. The dude exudes stupidity. He was good as a player but absolutely sucked as a broadcaster. wasn't surprised a few years ago when he got caught stealing money from a charity he was connected to - ended up spending 15 months in federal prison for it.

@americankulak2294 3 года назад

Sounds like Reggie Rucker has a promising career covering politics for NBC. If that falls through he has a bright future with the FBI.

@damrgee8279 3 года назад

Bingo baby

@thetruth1635 3 года назад

If he was at Fox News today he would be a superstar.

@zagnorch1336 3 года назад

I just can't take my eyes off of Marv Albert's helmet-hair rug every time he pops up in this video. It's so mesmerizing that I had to rewind and rewatch those segments of the video quite often because I paid absolutely no attention to what was being said. It didn't help that my mind would also recall Albert's arrest back in the late '90s for his pervy literal back-biting shenanigans.

@chrisbg99 3 года назад

I wonder if he was wearing something fancy underneath his suit or if that was just in the hotel thing.

@jonlavezza2364 3 года назад

@@chrisbg99 *In Marv Albert voice "Yes!!!!"

@deeznuts8910 3 года назад

Search Chris Elliott's impersonation of Marv Albert on RU-vid.... freaking hilarious

@zagnorch1336 3 года назад

@@deeznuts8910 IIRC he did a few of those on Letterman back in the day, in full costume and everything. I'm almost certain I saw those clips recently on RU-vid.

@marvinkline5667 3 года назад

Rumor has it the only time it moved is when he was biting prostitutes....YESSSSS!

@robertward553 3 года назад

This is funny, a broadcaster getting called out for lying. If anyone got fired for lying today, man would have the camera men doing the news. As far as today's sports casters, they babble a out nothing just to hear their voice. Troy Aikman is the worst.

@bennylevine387 3 года назад

I predict a Lionel "Little Train" James video coming at some point. I think there was a 3-week window where he was the biggest star in the NFL. Nice job.

@yankees29 3 года назад

Wow i remember that.

@thefourhorsemen91 7 месяцев назад

It got so bad with announcers that the NFL in 1980 had a game with no announcers at all. That's how horrendous the situation was.

@williamhowe1 3 года назад

You cross the line as a announcer if you miss lead your audience.

@brucesmith1544 3 года назад

In August 2016, Rucker was sentenced to 21 months in prison for embezzling money from the Cleveland Peacemakers Alliance and other nonprofits. He was released in May 2018, and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in November 2018

@stevenbauer4799 3 года назад

Ahh reggie rucker. The frequent dinner guest of sam rutigliano.

@SuperWiseyoung88 3 года назад

Nothing was worst than when Dennis Miller was in the booth

@billslocum9819 3 года назад

Got to feel bad for Rucker. He lied to promote himself as an authority figure, but in about the most innocent way possible. It really should have been a blip in the guy's career. Was he really that great a broadcaster otherwise, though? I honestly don't remember him. Maybe being puffed up and pulled down by the same people was his real downfall.

@Bruce12867 3 года назад

He was OK, but I always thought he liked to hear himself talk, IMO.

@borganfreeman Год назад

Rucker was ahead of his time if he did this today he would get a contract extension

@gluserty 3 года назад

Yeah, I've watched some older NFL games on RU-vid, and announcing back in the early 1980s wasn't always as nuanced. This video also explains why I never heard much about the announcing career of Reggie Rucker and more from his very good pro career (to be fair, it was never difficult to rile up Sam Wyche, as he was usually pretty fired up). I have to ask though: are Reggie Rucker & Frank Gansz friends? They have the same knack for unnecessarily telling made-up stories and sabotaging themselves.

@frolianmoreno7297 3 года назад

he was sent to jail last year for stealing money from charities lol and 2016 he was arrested for assualt

@gluserty 3 года назад

@@frolianmoreno7297 Geez, I didn't know that; gambling debts, huh? Wow, and assaulting a golfer? Well, I don't know what to say about that second one really (loud music & golf are a bad mix), but his charity was for anti-violence? Well, his faux pas on NBC pales to his personal life I suppose. Maybe he really does have a brain injury, I'm not sure:-(.

@palaceofwisdom9448 3 года назад

The irony of someone being punished for false reporting in 1984 of all years. Meanwhile, in 2021 we are basically living in 1984.

@aegisofhonor 3 года назад

is this as infamous as the "look at that monkey run" moment from Monday Night Football from September 5th 1983? Howard got fired for saying that. RIP Howard Cosell.

@pronkb000 3 года назад

Howard wasn't fired for saying that, though it arguably exacerbated his straining relationship with ABC.

@jarodturner2029 Год назад

According to Wiki: In August 2016, Rucker was sentenced to 21 months in prison for embezzling money from the Cleveland Peacemakers Alliance and other nonprofits.[26][27] He was released in May 2018, and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in November 2018.[28]

@southlake631 3 года назад

Dang! Way to irrevocably damage what would have been a promising career, Mr. Rucker. He's my homie, too (Washington DC native, Anacostia High School).

@CrookedEyeSniper 2 года назад

I never knew about this, and how Reggie Rucker was an untrustworthy liar. But I was even more astonished to learn how much my ex girlfriend has in common with Reggie Rucker.

@michaeljohnson7493 3 года назад

3:13 How bad must the Chiefs have been that season, right? Or either the fans were disguised as seats. Playing for the Chiefs circa 1980 was like the NFL version of Witness Protection; however, I bet JG9 can name some players on those teams. Keep up the good work; a lot of these guys and their stories would have been forgotten, which would be a shame. Love these videos.

@urbanleftbehind 3 года назад

Looks like it would be 110 degrees at Noon, early season game.

@kweeks39 2 года назад

I was a Chiefs fan back then and a lot of games were never shown locally due to the blackout restrictions. A lifelong Chiefs fan isn’t and hasn’t always been the best, but we are loyal af!