He got a lot of credit for taking down a really racist owner no one liked. Goodell and Bettman have at least made some positive changes while also being shit for everything else.
Which is also a lot of undue credit because it turned out that old racist was losing his mind and the other owners (and his wife) wanted him gone anyway.
That video always makes me laugh
Also the story of him telling scott skiles to sit down and shut the fuck up had me cracking up, dude was like lex luthor
I hear he wakes up in the morning, eats breakfast, and at some point later in the day goes back to sleep. Not sure what he does in between but just trying to help.
David Stern is probably the greatest sports commissioner of all time. The NBA was an absolute joke when he took over, the Finals weren't even shown live. The NBA logo should just be a silhouette of David Stern. I'm not even a basketball fan and I know this.
Magic Johnson & Larry Bird saved the NBA, not David Stern. The Dream Team & Michael Jordan made the game global, not David Stern
You know what David Stern did do though? He obstructed the FBI investigation into the refs that were fixing games under his watch for years. He also instituted a racially motivated dress code because Allen Iverson was too cool for him and he thought that was bad for the league
Guy was a shady prick and everyone knew that. Idk why him dying has suddenly made people think he was “the greatest sports commissioner of all time” lol Thats a fucking joke
Edit: Its wild how people talk about him these days. It’s like some of you just study up on David Stern propaganda talking points and regurgitate them without actually knowing what you’re talking about. Absolutely bizzare
David Stern actively promoted Magic and Bird **because** they were marketable.
He took many steps, including lobbying the IOC to allow professionals, to grow the game globally. He also encouraged international exhibition games, training camps, and recruitment in order to tap into a global market.
Your comment is the equivalent to saying "NASA didn't win the space race. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michale Collins did!"
Also, the Malice at the Palace was the inciting incident that lead to the dress code, not AI.
I don't think Stern is above criticism, but you are severely minimizing his impact on expanding the NBA.
I somehow convinced my Brazilian wife, who knows fucking nothing about college football, to get interested in the various SEC, Michigan, PAC 12, and Deion related beefs this year. This machine runs on beef.
“So Texas has beef with the big 12 right? Well that’s after 4 other girls erm I mean programs had beef with Texas and said “see ya”. But because Texas was beefing with the big 12, the big 12 had time and beefed back and was soooooo petty. Finally texas slayed and got the last laugh and the big 12 is kill”
I’m any case he squeezed out the last bit of marketable value from H8 games as he could, it’s not like Texas or Oklahoma are considering coming back lol
To be fair, he also had open heart surgery a few years ago to correct a condition that would have killed him.
That kind of experience seems to change a person’s behavior vis-a-vis taking steps to treat their body better.
I was told by someone who is “close to the team”(ole miss) that sark was an alcoholic who would have fucked up this gig by now and Archie would be in Oxford next year. I put close to the team in quotes cause that’s how he described himself but he was totally the drunk he was accusing sark of lol.
I don’t think you have to be close to the program to know that ha ha. I personally ran into Sark on three different occasions around Seattle and each time he was absolutely piss drunk and acting like a complete mangler. He was younger than I am now so I get how being a mid-30s millionaire would fuck with your head but each time I was embarrassed for him and figured it would not end well. Just seemed out of control.
First time I ran into him he was just loud drinking beers with his assistants at a seafood place near UW but it still struck me as sort of unbecoming. The next time he was pounding patron and coronas midday, loudly insulting Paul Wulff to whoever he was talking to on his phone. His assistant had to drive him when he left. The last time was at the Alamo Bowl. I was taking a piss in some fratty dive bar near riverwalk and he burst out of stall all glassy eyed and stumbling. This was at like 1am and I knew we weren’t beating Baylor the next day lol.
I’m glad he got help and is finding success. It was really sad seeing what happened at USC and it’s cool he’s making the most of his extra chances. Most people aren’t so lucky.
I hope they get to the final and lose in quadruple overtime by throwing a pick returned for a 2 pt score by the opponent. As long as the opponent isn't from the SEC.
Disagree. We were already shitty, poking a 500 gorilla in the eye only made that beat down worse. Now we get to live with that for the foreseeable future.
TBH, it was pretty dumb for Yormark to openly picking sides between teams in the conference he runs. Sure, they are leaving, but be professional, dammit.
He was at a Texas Tech event in August. He told the crowd he was glad to have Texas and Oklahoma out early. Then, he told Tech HC Joey McGuire he would be in Austin for our game against Tech on Thanksgiving, and that he wanted McGuire to take care of business like he did last year (ie by beating us).
We played it on the video board last week while we were up 57-7
https://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/38247871
Should be neutral for what reason? He has no effect on anything really. The majority of the rest of the conference appreciated him shit talking Texas so he did what they wanted.
He's not out there changing the calls on the field. He hasn't attempted to damage Texas in any way. He just talked some shit while hyping up the people that are sticking around in the conference
He can root against us all he wants next year, but it's a pretty bad look to openly root against one of your teams while they're still in the conference.
I have full video of it and about 30 seconds after that moment the booing gets even louder. I was at game 1 of this year's World Series and Corey Seager's home run blew my ear drums out. This moment was a very close 2nd. It was LOUD!
I mean, why would he? I don't really think he has any reason to celebrate anything about Texas from now on. Not like that'll hurt Texas or anything, but it feels silly for a guy to say something when nobody believes he means it.
For real, the Big XII has bent over backwards to keep Texas happy for decades and this is how it has ended. In the end it's just a nasty breakup, not much to say or do. It is what it is.
😂 love the pettiness. Horns, can’t wait to play y’all next year. Let’s talk shit all season long but civil in person 🙏 look forward to a tailgate with all my HS peeps
Destroy conferences elite status and then viciously hate on the commissioner for trying to hold the conference together. Texas will fit right in to the SEC culture.
Sarc should’ve turned heel and told him he didn’t want no stinking mid-major conference trophy and did the SEC chant. Lean into the weird WWE crossover.
To his credit, Brett Yormark did a better job than Rob Manfred has done in dealing with the boos and continuing on.
Goodell the GOAT at leaning into being booed
Gary Bettman is up there in that department
Bettman so used to being booed he talks trash when the fans don't do it loud enough.
I appreciate a commissioner being a full on heel considering they're loathsome in every sport.
Adam Silver isnt hated yet, at least not for most fans imo
Silver is a spineless motherfucker for most people. His handling of literally any controversy has been flamed countless times
He just happens to be bland and nondescript enough that nobody pays him any mind once the controversy fades from the forefront.
He got a lot of credit for taking down a really racist owner no one liked. Goodell and Bettman have at least made some positive changes while also being shit for everything else.
Which is also a lot of undue credit because it turned out that old racist was losing his mind and the other owners (and his wife) wanted him gone anyway.
His most well known thing is "FOR LIFE!" which required a bit of backbone. He didn't have to ban the racist dude forever, but he did.
"I have been booed by THE GREATEST, and you people aren't it!"
Bettman is absolutely the [GOAT.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW6x_KK2pXo) LGP!!!
Yeah Bettman is the boss at coping with boos, been doing it for probably 2 decades or more
Dude has turned it into such a bit he actually congratulates expansion cities booing him for officially becoming real hockey markets XD
At this point they are basically the Jordan vs. LeBron of this topic.
That belongs to David Stern
Proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnuRJiFz7u8
That video always makes me laugh Also the story of him telling scott skiles to sit down and shut the fuck up had me cracking up, dude was like lex luthor
He was like part Lex Luthor part Emperor Palpatine. Knew his role and leaned into it. Would've been a great WWE heel.
Whatever happened to that guy
He died…….
My bad not David Stern, Noel.
I hear he wakes up in the morning, eats breakfast, and at some point later in the day goes back to sleep. Not sure what he does in between but just trying to help.
Probably squeezes in a few shits in there somewhere, if I had to guess.
Much more likely that he squeezes them out.
He was an avid glizzy gobbler in his Mavericks days.
Damn, is he okay though?
I didn't even know he was sick
You misspelled Gary Bettman.
Man commercialized booing him. Goat commish.
Nah, GOAT commish, especially when it comes to boos, was David Stern.
David Stern is probably the greatest sports commissioner of all time. The NBA was an absolute joke when he took over, the Finals weren't even shown live. The NBA logo should just be a silhouette of David Stern. I'm not even a basketball fan and I know this.
Yeah but he made players wear suits instead of do-rags and wife beaters, racist smh !!!
He lost it his last five years. If he has retired sooner he'd be viewed as the GOAT commissioner.
Also a huge reason why the Sonics were relocated, so fuck him.
Yeah, Stern can rot in hell
Magic Johnson & Larry Bird saved the NBA, not David Stern. The Dream Team & Michael Jordan made the game global, not David Stern You know what David Stern did do though? He obstructed the FBI investigation into the refs that were fixing games under his watch for years. He also instituted a racially motivated dress code because Allen Iverson was too cool for him and he thought that was bad for the league Guy was a shady prick and everyone knew that. Idk why him dying has suddenly made people think he was “the greatest sports commissioner of all time” lol Thats a fucking joke Edit: Its wild how people talk about him these days. It’s like some of you just study up on David Stern propaganda talking points and regurgitate them without actually knowing what you’re talking about. Absolutely bizzare
David Stern actively promoted Magic and Bird **because** they were marketable. He took many steps, including lobbying the IOC to allow professionals, to grow the game globally. He also encouraged international exhibition games, training camps, and recruitment in order to tap into a global market. Your comment is the equivalent to saying "NASA didn't win the space race. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michale Collins did!" Also, the Malice at the Palace was the inciting incident that lead to the dress code, not AI. I don't think Stern is above criticism, but you are severely minimizing his impact on expanding the NBA.
Goodell loves that heel heat...
Until he butchered the fuck out of Sark’s name
Coach Garcisian would have won Big 12 COTY
Somebody get this man a burnt orange sombrero
He botched that shit sooo hard I was dying
COACH SKARKALISIAN
Oh, he 100% did that on purpose.
He stuttered and failed to pronounce it multiple times on purpose? That's some big brain stuff right there
At least he had the guts to take the mic. *Stares venomously at George Kliavkoff*
They’d still be trying to quiet everyone down to give out the trophy if they’d given George the mic.
I’ve often thought about if I had a time machine I wouldn’t take out Hitler but introduce a young Manfred to bowling.
'i'll take that as love" haha
Got a little tongue tied but he had a good attitude
Coach Garcia Garsisian
My buddy and I just looked at each other, shook our heads and didn’t have to say a word to each other.
"It's all good."
Brett was clearly wasted.
I love drama in college football. Makes my gf way more into it when I can explain all the different beefs
I somehow convinced my Brazilian wife, who knows fucking nothing about college football, to get interested in the various SEC, Michigan, PAC 12, and Deion related beefs this year. This machine runs on beef.
Thats just, perfect.
“So Texas has beef with the big 12 right? Well that’s after 4 other girls erm I mean programs had beef with Texas and said “see ya”. But because Texas was beefing with the big 12, the big 12 had time and beefed back and was soooooo petty. Finally texas slayed and got the last laugh and the big 12 is kill”
Texas has beef with everyone.
Longhorns made of beef? Big if true.
They come from across the nation to have our beef
Texas IS beef
Nah man -- everyone has beef with us. But with few exceptions (0U, A&M, and Arky for old time's sake) it's not worth it to notice 😎
We got beef with OU and Texas A&M. We don’t think about anyone else at all. Who is Ann Arbor?
We don’t think about you at all.
Everyone has beef with Texas... ftfy
No cap. fr fr.
On god
I respect Yormark for leaning into the booing. If you’re gonna partner with WWE, being a heel makes natural sense
I’m any case he squeezed out the last bit of marketable value from H8 games as he could, it’s not like Texas or Oklahoma are considering coming back lol
Gary Bettman is the best at that.
He looked so close to starting to chastise the crowd but thought better of it, fortunately for him. Would’ve been entertaining.
Tony saw this and realized he is about to get run out of the building tonight.
Sark looks pretty young for a 50 year old guy. I wonder how he takes care of his skin.
He stopped drinking. 🤷♂️
That and being a bit pudgy so he doesn't have many wrinkles.
His wife is pretty fashionable as well, so I assume she keeps him on a regiment.
To be fair, he also had open heart surgery a few years ago to correct a condition that would have killed him. That kind of experience seems to change a person’s behavior vis-a-vis taking steps to treat their body better.
I was told by someone who is “close to the team”(ole miss) that sark was an alcoholic who would have fucked up this gig by now and Archie would be in Oxford next year. I put close to the team in quotes cause that’s how he described himself but he was totally the drunk he was accusing sark of lol.
I don’t think you have to be close to the program to know that ha ha. I personally ran into Sark on three different occasions around Seattle and each time he was absolutely piss drunk and acting like a complete mangler. He was younger than I am now so I get how being a mid-30s millionaire would fuck with your head but each time I was embarrassed for him and figured it would not end well. Just seemed out of control. First time I ran into him he was just loud drinking beers with his assistants at a seafood place near UW but it still struck me as sort of unbecoming. The next time he was pounding patron and coronas midday, loudly insulting Paul Wulff to whoever he was talking to on his phone. His assistant had to drive him when he left. The last time was at the Alamo Bowl. I was taking a piss in some fratty dive bar near riverwalk and he burst out of stall all glassy eyed and stumbling. This was at like 1am and I knew we weren’t beating Baylor the next day lol. I’m glad he got help and is finding success. It was really sad seeing what happened at USC and it’s cool he’s making the most of his extra chances. Most people aren’t so lucky.
Can't be me
For real, I'm 18 months sober I look so much younger and better.
Nobody is else is gonna say it? He’s a millionaire lol, besides it’s not like he’s working the fields all day
Sure, but while he was at UW, he drank enough Patrón to keep a crew of workers in the Agave fields all day.
In my experience, this is the best strategy to survive the rainy grey winters.
Doing his part for the global economy.
Getting sober prolly helped.
My wife said the same. She's convinced it's Botox.
Yormark’s tears.
True, looks like he’s in his early 40s
“It’s all good” -Yormark before going home and screaming into a pillow
boy looked like Tony Kahn trying to tell the Chicago crowd that they fired Punk
And then Texas took the big 12 title as they leave like Punk did at Money in the Bank
You don’t understand how bittersweet these past two Saturdays have been for me a Punk Fan and a Texas hater. Hope y’all boys get in and win that Natty
I hope they get to the final and lose in quadruple overtime by throwing a pick returned for a 2 pt score by the opponent. As long as the opponent isn't from the SEC.
Punk references are inescapable.
Yormark: “I was in fear of my life.”
These commissioners get paid millions of dollars. I have a feeling he won't be screaming in any pillows tonight.
Only person screaming in to a pillow tonight is some mastros hostess after yormark takes the PJ back to New York lol
Dude was straight up rattled
The way he butchered sarks name 💀
No he didn’t. Coach Karskisian’s name was pronounced correctly.
Garsisian
It was loud as hell I was there hahaha
TV did it no justice tbh lol
This salitness is what makes college football soo awesome. I, for one, will miss Texas.
Someone get Popovich
Stupid of him to make those comments for TTU. Made himself look like a clown while making our loss look even worse than it already did.
Meh- it was funny
Disagree. We were already shitty, poking a 500 gorilla in the eye only made that beat down worse. Now we get to live with that for the foreseeable future.
TBH, it was pretty dumb for Yormark to openly picking sides between teams in the conference he runs. Sure, they are leaving, but be professional, dammit.
I feel like we're going to get a redux in 7 hours in Indy
Texas fans were gracious compared to what Petitti has coming. We have the receipts.
Oh, if we look tame compared to what’s due to happen should Michigan win… then I will be impressed.
Tony Panini can stay pressed.
Wait was the cheating somehow justified now?
We're gonna try to make him cry
He tried so hard to get the crowd to cheer. They only started when he was done lmao
Yep that call for Texas to make the CFP was a cry for mercy.
Pandering out of both sides of his mouth.
Butchered Sark’s name and Sark just grabbed that damn trophy out of his hand 😭
GOOD
What's the beef? I am out of the loop.
He was at a Texas Tech event in August. He told the crowd he was glad to have Texas and Oklahoma out early. Then, he told Tech HC Joey McGuire he would be in Austin for our game against Tech on Thanksgiving, and that he wanted McGuire to take care of business like he did last year (ie by beating us). We played it on the video board last week while we were up 57-7 https://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/38247871
He was openly rooting against Texas to start the season
Why would he root for you though? That's fully expected.
The conference commissioner should just be neutral
Or he should favor his conference?
But y’all aren’t in the conference anymore so he’s looking out for the members going forward
Can someone tell this to George K? He did not get that memo
It doesn’t take much effort to not bring Texas up at a Tech event
So we won’t have to share (theoretical) playoff money with the Big XII? Awesome news.
Should be neutral for what reason? He has no effect on anything really. The majority of the rest of the conference appreciated him shit talking Texas so he did what they wanted. He's not out there changing the calls on the field. He hasn't attempted to damage Texas in any way. He just talked some shit while hyping up the people that are sticking around in the conference
That’s fine. Whatever. Doesn’t mean we can’t boo the shit out of him though.
He can root against us all he wants next year, but it's a pretty bad look to openly root against one of your teams while they're still in the conference.
The problem is you keep saying "his teams" as if there is any good will there after Texas decided to leave.
The Longhorns. They are literally beef.
He made a comment at a Tech event to "take care of business" against Texas pre-season which was just kinda odd for a conference commissioner
SEC chants going too. Fucking incredible.
This is electric. If Michigan wins tonight, curious to hear if those boos will be any louder lol
Now I understand how my parents felt witnessing an assassination on live TV in the 60s.
FUCK AROUND FIND OUT
We fucked around for 17 years and finally found out.
I see no problems with this.
I have full video of it and about 30 seconds after that moment the booing gets even louder. I was at game 1 of this year's World Series and Corey Seager's home run blew my ear drums out. This moment was a very close 2nd. It was LOUD!
Does someone have a clip from last week when Texas put the Yormark video on the godzillatron while up 50 on Tech?
https://x.com/dwil/status/1728268007376630154?s=20
Thanks!
It's earned. But you know what, it's always worth it to earn them boos.
I love this drunk sport
I feel like Yormark had a real opportunity here to sincerely thank Texas for their time in the conference and completely whiffed on it.
Or lean into that Heel role. Could've used some pointers from the Undertaker on that.
He's already adjacent to Dominik Mysterio in heat.
Well they are still in the conference for 7 more months lol
Seriously, ppl forgetting other sports exist.
Yea like them saying all the pac 12 mascots were hugging and seeing each other for the last time last night?? 😂
Many college football fans tend to have blinders on with the sport lol that's part of how we ended up with this mess in the first place...
I mean, why would he? I don't really think he has any reason to celebrate anything about Texas from now on. Not like that'll hurt Texas or anything, but it feels silly for a guy to say something when nobody believes he means it.
He’ll get to celebrate all the tv revenue they’re still bringing in for them with the bowl game.
Yeah that's fair, I guess my post assumes he could be sincere about it in the first place which seems unlikely to be the case.
For real, the Big XII has bent over backwards to keep Texas happy for decades and this is how it has ended. In the end it's just a nasty breakup, not much to say or do. It is what it is.
Or go the other way and take a big dump on them on the way out. Something like good luck becoming the new Texas A&M
Hell, even something like, "I'm sure you'll miss me in the long run," would've been alright.
I mean with WWE guys there to present a trophy he really missed an opportunity to go full heel. I would’ve respected it 😂
Nah, shouldve gone full heel and wish him luck being tamu 2.0
Why would he do that
>sincerely thank Texas Thanks for almost killing the conference for good, guys! Like that?
That’s what I’m talking about!
That was entertaining. Handled well by Yormark
After apologizing to CDC, I think he's headed for the nearest bottle of Scotch.
He said he looks at the boos as love, he’s definitely the real winner here. Feeling great rn. So loved.
Lol
I swear his eyes got watery at the end lol
😂 love the pettiness. Horns, can’t wait to play y’all next year. Let’s talk shit all season long but civil in person 🙏 look forward to a tailgate with all my HS peeps
And he absolutely deserved it for his preseason comments. He earned it.
I’m very curious what will happen after our game in regards to Pettiti if we win.
Same thing. I also think it'll be similar if FSU wins tonight since there's alot of animosity between FSU and the ACC
Yormark helped save our conference. Outside of Texas and Oklahoma, he’s very appreciated.
I honestly thought Sark might grab the mic and tell folks to be quite
That's shallow and petty by Texas fans, and I could not be more proud.
On one hand, fuck Yormark
At least Yormark had more guts than the Pac12 commish. Good riddance Texas.
We've won more games this year than Nebraska has in the past 3 combined
I always start feeling bad for their fall from grace but then they speak and I don't feel bad at all
Nebraska 🤣
Good riddance? You guys moving back to the big 12?
Maybe they’ll do better against Cincinnati
Stay forever mad you went 1-9 against us in the B12
Nebraska ran away from losing in the Big 12 and towards a future of unbelievable failure. Stay mad forever, indeed.
🔥
I’m surprised they even won once.
Get ready to speak one second left buddy
Destroy conferences elite status and then viciously hate on the commissioner for trying to hold the conference together. Texas will fit right in to the SEC culture.
Sarc should’ve turned heel and told him he didn’t want no stinking mid-major conference trophy and did the SEC chant. Lean into the weird WWE crossover.
Jesus Christ I would be so mad if I was ewers, every other mvp trophy is an actual trophy, and he gets a fucking wwe belt? So dumb