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#1

ESPN Sports Center

Posted: 12/30/04 at 12:12am

The sportscaster on ESPN Sports Center just sang "No one mourns the wicked" while describing a football game.

(Yes, I am a football-loving, showtune queen.)

"I am open, and I am willing, For to be hopeless would seem so strange. It dishonors those who go before us, So lift me up to the light of change." Holly Near

#2

re: ESPN Sports Center

Posted: 12/30/04 at 12:13am

This is the 2nd time something from Wicked was mentioned on Sportscenter..i mentioned the first about 6 weeks ago. Stuart Scott sang some "Popular". I thought it was a dream.

But I won't live alone in a house of regret.

Updated On: 12/30/04 at 12:13 AM

#3

re: ESPN Sports Center

Posted: 12/30/04 at 12:14am

are you kidding? who did the singing? i hope they replay it during the morning reply. (im a college football fanatic :) )

#4

re: ESPN Sports Center

Posted: 12/30/04 at 12:19am

It was Stuart Scott. He was describing a play in the Houston Bowl.

"I am open, and I am willing, For to be hopeless would seem so strange. It dishonors those who go before us, So lift me up to the light of change." Holly Near

#5

re: ESPN Sports Center

Posted: 12/30/04 at 12:20am

The world is coming to an end.

#6

re: ESPN Sports Center

Posted: 12/30/04 at 12:28am

LOL SOM!

Yeah, my brother practically begs to watch ESPN Football, and I always turn it off. If I would have known a Wicked song was going to be on it....then I would have still turned it off.

#7

re: ESPN Sports Center

Posted: 12/30/04 at 12:41am

Are they trying to appeal to a new demographic? Do that many people who watch sports center really know the music to Wicked?

#8

re: ESPN Sports Center

Posted: 12/30/04 at 12:59am

I suppose it is for the random gay man who enjoys sports...like me!

"I am open, and I am willing, For to be hopeless would seem so strange. It dishonors those who go before us, So lift me up to the light of change." Holly Near

#9

re: ESPN Sports Center

Posted: 12/30/04 at 1:28am

Yeah there arent too many of guys like you.

#10

re: ESPN Sports Center

Posted: 12/30/04 at 2:17am

Stuart Scott has made a career of tossing in obscure quotes (and yes, Wicked is obscure to 99% of the viewers of Sports Center) during his recaps of games. Whether it's lines from commercials, movies, South Park (every Tim Duncan highlight for the last three years has been punctuated with an ecstatic "TIMMY!"), or some other pop culture touchstone -- that's just what Scott and his buddies at ESPN do. The fact that Wicked, has for the time being entered into the lexicon of quotes is a fortunate happenstance for Broadway (if I'm not mistaken, Scott has a young daughter, which probably explains how he knows about the show and "Popular").

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

#11

re: ESPN Sports Center

Posted: 12/30/04 at 11:39am

Yeah, additionally about a week or 2 ago when describing an NFL play, Scott said it was a play that was "unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe." At first I couldn't place it and then I realized it was Wicked. I guess he probably quotes Wicked a lot.

"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli

#12

re: ESPN Sports Center

Posted: 12/30/04 at 12:19pm

Yes, BWayBoy, I am quite special.

; )

Though, I live in a house with two other gay men who also love college football. Though, one of them is not a fan of the musical theater! Now that is unusual!

"I am open, and I am willing, For to be hopeless would seem so strange. It dishonors those who go before us, So lift me up to the light of change." Holly Near

#13

re: ESPN Sports Center

Posted: 1/8/06 at 8:05pm

While describing a slam dunk he sang that guy's going to "be popular, he's gonnna be popular." My husband and I and were crying we laughed so hard. The other announcer said back "That sounds really Wicked."

Be the change you want in the world....

#14

re: ESPN Sports Center

Posted: 1/9/06 at 12:57pm

Stuart Scott does in fact have several children--and at least two daughters. I saw him out with his family once while I was eating at the Jekyll and Hyde Club. I am sure that they have gone to the show while in the city and that his daughters probably adore the show.

"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man

#15

re: ESPN Sports Center

Posted: 1/13/06 at 11:05am

Yeah, Stu Scott's hitting up the Broadway catchphrases now. He sang popular again about two weeks ago during a college basketball highlight.

#16

re: ESPN Sports Center

Posted: 1/13/06 at 11:11am

I guess Scott has that Popular catchphrase now. During the NLCS highlights when showing a steller Jim Edmonds catch, he said " He's gonna be pop-u-lar." Must have liked the show

Keep your morals, I don't have time. Keep your lovers, I'm changing mine! -The Likes of Us

#17

re: ESPN Sports Center

Posted: 1/13/06 at 11:25am

Someone did some digging to revive this thread!

"I am open, and I am willing, For to be hopeless would seem so strange. It dishonors those who go before us, So lift me up to the light of change." Holly Near

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