Bravo. The best part about it, is that it really seems like something Lou Holtz would say.

Hey, O, this is funny and all, but really, what is your plan for the monocle bowl this weekend? Dustin’ off the tophat yet?

Well done O., you have successfully channeled Dr. Lou’s next episode… funghi of conquest and all.

You have no idea how happy I was to move away from Ohio and escape the rickets and starvation.

Which is Dr. Lou’s “something to love,” though, the rapier or the ham sandwich? No — forget I asked that.

This incident makes me all nostalgic for the days when our high school coaches would show us “Triumph of the Will” only for its subtle motivational aspects.

So, if Coach Rod is Hitler, who the hell was Toledo? or Penn State? I dont recall Coach Rod going to his underground office and offing himself…….yet.
I know Mel Gibson is behind this, I just know it……

Low Hangin’ Fruit Dept:

Now I know why Dr. Lou is such a fan of Charlie Weis….
…Charlie reminds him of Sergeant Schultz of the old Hogan’s Heroes TV show.

(I think Holthhhh deserves a reprimand on his latest brain fart, but should not be fired.)

Mama Cass would totally take Lou’s skinny ass down for a rapier full of ham sandwiches/

Also, RE: Skeletor. Douchiest villian ever. All hail Mumm Ra.

Let’s face it… Lou is getting pretty old, and old people don’t quite say what they mean all the time. I’m pretty sure Lou didn’t mean to say Hitler was a GREAT leader, but just A leader, like Rodriguez.

I’d give the guy a mulligan on this one. I definitely wouldn’t perpetuate any politically correct nonsense by reprimanding him. Only a USC boner would do that.

I don’t get it, what’s so funny about just copying the transcript of Lou’s halftime monologue from Saturday night?

Imagine me, in my cubicle… grey matter leaking from my ears.

My reality has, completely and irreversibly, just been bent over a barrel and beaten with vanilla-potpourri-and-razor-wire switches.

Good to see a shot of Boris Badinov. Reminds me of the days when our enemies were clearly defined.

Orson, does it scare you that you’re so able to channel Lou Holtz so effectively?

Please, ESPN, protect me from any insinuations that Hitler could be “good” at something. I may have been a history major at a third-tier public commuter college in Texas, but I know Hitler was a bad person. Give. Me. A. Break.

The most influential person of the 20th century was… discuss!

Low Hangin’ Fruit, Part 2:

I understand well that in Domie-Land being racist is tolerated to a degree, but, in the real world of broadcasting the fastest way to get fired is to make Hitler references.

I thought I was being magnanimous by not recommending firing but a simple reprimand, since I do not think Dr. Lou is a racist, but just made a stupid remark. If you are going to fire someone for stupidity, then, there would not be anyone to broadcast games, except Uncle Verne.

Speaking of racist institutions. Will the University of Washington be considered racist once they let go of Tyrone Willingham? I wonder if Mark May and John Saunders will slam the Huskies any chance they get like those two assclowns do when they talk about Notre Dame.

Plus Mark May will probably predict Washington to never win a game again, while John Saunders calls on Miss Cleo to put some kind of psychic hotline voodoo hex on them as well.

SKLM @ #17…au contrair! Uncle Verne, as the only broadcaster I know who has a masters in stupidity, would be the first to go…and Hitler was exceptional at what he did; doesn’t make it good, just that he was good at it…

Brilliant, as usual, but is there any way to somehow incorporate a lispth into that diatribe?

Make it happen. Thanks in advance.

HAVE A GREAT DAY!

Pelican Pants @7: That would make Toledo the Serbian partisans. Yugoslavia (mainly Serbia) was the only country the Germans took who managed to drive them out again without being “liberated” by the Allies. Obviously the beating the Nazis were taking on the Eastern and Western fronts allowed it to happen, but it was still quite a feat.

yum-yum love me some ham sandwiches

While I cannot dispute that making references to Hitler is not particularly good for ones career path, saying Notre Dame fans (Domie-Land?) are tolerant of racism is idiotic.

That’s like like saying USC fans tolerate double-homicides.

I guess thats what passes for low hangin’ fruit around here…

It really is ridiculous that people are so sensitive that a reference to Hitler being a leader of men is seen as objectionable. Clearly he was an amazing and charismatic leader, but you have to separate that from what he was trying to lead them to do.

Stalin and Mao were strong leaders as well, and also genocidal maniacs.

His point was simply that just because one is a good leader, doesn’t mean they are good. I think.

Regardless, taking it as praise for HItler’s agenda is ridiculous.

This"Holtz sholdn’t get a reprimand" business is a joke, right?

I don’t think that Lou Holtz is a Brownshirt (his underpants may be another issue, but there’s no shame in that for a man his age), but as a general rule of thumb, invoking dictators of totalitarian states which undertook genocide is monumentally stupid and should be cause for apology – if only to the person at the other end of the comparison.

That’s got nothing to do with political correctness, and everything to do with common decency. Just stick to calling DickRod an asshat like a civilized person would…

While I’m on my soapbox: all this great leader stuff is bunk; Hitler wasn’t actually good at anything except getting the locals riled up. It’s well worth plowing through Ian Kershaw’s two-part biography of Hitler; the crux of his argument is that when it came to actually organizing anything more complex than a beer hall putsch, Hitler couldn’t actually find his keister with a map of the Eastern Front and two OberGruppenFuhrers to help. Thus the Nazis accelerated their inevitable loss because of the chaos from everyone trying to “move towards the Fuhrer” and him proving to be a moving target. Trying to pin it all on Hitler is tantamount to proposing omnipotence and absolving the many, many hands that made light work of mass murder.

And in the end, DC Trojan, Austria could only draw with Faroe Islands?

I once watched – on TV – Faroe Islands v Spain on the one island in the Faroes large enough to contain a soccer pitch and some portable aluminum stands of the Community Optimist Football League variety.

Spain 8, Faroes 0.

1. & #24… Ignorance knows no bounds. If your definition of a great leader is: to waste 40% of your resources exterminating civilians, (many of whom would’ve gladly fought for Germany, as the German Jews did in WWI) while at the same time trying to fight a war on several fronts and making one of the worst tactical errors in history by invading Russia before the winter (ala, Napolean) — than I’m sure you think Idi Amin is the 20th Century’s Abe Lincoln.

 That is of course getting beyond the obvious of perpetrating the worst act of human atrocities ever. Yeah, some great leader…

No joke here, just saying the guy misspoke, and since the topic of his mention was…OMG HITLER, there has been an outcry. Common decency, or not, there should be no reprimanding other than, as you pointed out, a “hey let’s not use totalitarian dictators in our college football analyses anymore” talk from his superiors.

The only reason why there would be a reprimanding for Lou would be for the sake of ESPN appearing to be politically correct and thereby providing justice against anyone who says the word Hitler on the air, even in jest.

Am I misreading above, or is Orson referencing Stalin as stopping the British army?

“That man didn’t stop the British army by being lucky. Nope! Ol’ Joe did it the same way Woody Hayes beat his opponents, using the best tools both of ‘em had plenty of: rickets and starvation. Still plenty of both in Ohio.”

Gen Stoopnagle @ 26 – I like to think that Austria’s draw with the Faroe Islands was all part of the global re-balancing of karma they earned for trying the “we had no choice, we were annexed!” argument since 1945.

And in case you were wondering, for Scotland it’s payback for taking the King’s shilling and shooting the locals around the world. Sure, the English claim that the verse in the national anthem about “rebellious Scots to crush” is just an anachronism, but we know better.

Mark @ 29:

I think you can assume that was intentional.

Scotland drew with Faroes?

I had no idea.

Gen. Stoopnagle – several years ago. In a national sporting history replete with disaster and humiliation, that stands out.

1. That made me laugh as much as anything else in O’s post.

BK @ #27…re-read what I wrote…nothing there about a “good leader”, but rather “good at what he did”, which, yes, was to direct mass murder. But far be it for me to get in the way of a fine rant…please, carry on with your descriptive and enlightening froth.