ericpoole1
Eric Poole
ericpoole1

It's the job of a PR person to try to manipulate the media.

Little known fact from my days delivering pizza. Pizzas are a liquid.

Here's my counter to the "It's Your Fault" video. Yes, I'm aware the video is satirical. But my newspaper column contains the following classic lines:

True story (Ambassador Dan Rooney confirmed this to me his own self): The Steelers' first Sunday home game was illegal.

I rode this train at Strasburg in 2007 when I went to Harrisburg to collect journalism awards. My son used to be hardcore into Thomas. I still read the stories to him sometimes. Before I became a newspaper reporter, I worked in a factory making springs for railroad cars, the M1A2 Abrams tank and intercontinental

OH NOES! Aaron Hernandez probably killed at least one person! My cherry's been popped! I'll never be able to admire an athlete again!

They picked the name Lady Antebellum only because Madame Auschwitz was taken.

A scrum, in rugby, is a regimented, organized alignment used to restart the game after a minor infraction.

Where's the "Worst Coach Ever to win a Super Bowl" list.

Yeah, Buddy Ryan was cranky and a lousy head coach (and probably racist, too). But can you blame him? His back hurts all the time from carrying Mike Ditka around.

And then the coach suspended all of the players involved for breaking curfew.

No one with working taste buds enjoys a Budweiser at any temperature.

This one is so much better than the one I made!

New violent sport? Rugby, duh.

Creeeeeeeeeepyyyyyy!

Hey, what's that place with all the shit on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?

Not near the worst thing Musberger's ever said. That distinction goes to his 1968 Chicago Tribune column in which he referred to Tommy Smith and John Carlos (the U.S. sprinters who gave the Black Power salute on the Olympic victory podium to protest poverty in this country) as "black-skinned storm troopers."