ESPN Sports Center

[DBillyP]

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.)

[leomaxfrank]

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.

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

[musical medea]

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 :) )

[DBillyP]

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

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

[insomniak]

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

The world is coming to an end.

[LittleFish8386]

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.

[BWayBoy88]

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?

[DBillyP]

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

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

[BWayBoy88]

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

Yeah there arent too many of guys like you.

[MargoChanning]

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").

[wickedrentq]

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.

[DBillyP]

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!

[Hairspraydoll]

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."

[Enjolras77]

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.

[kyguy78]

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.

[ALWrules]

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

[DBillyP]

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

Someone did some digging to revive this thread!