Bryant Gumbel shot his mouth off, bringing race and politics and ruined what would otherwise be a valid point.

"Finally, tonight, the Winter Games. Count me among those who don’t like them and won’t watch them ... Because they’re so trying, maybe over the next three weeks we should all try too. Like, try not to be incredulous when someone attempts to link these games to those of the ancient Greeks who never heard of skating or skiing. So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world’s greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention. Try not to point out that something’s not really a sport if a pseudo-athlete waits in what’s called a kiss-and-cry area, while some panel of subjective judges decides who won ... So if only to hasten the arrival of the day they’re done, when we can move on to March Madness — for God’s sake, let the games begin."

Here come the bullets:

• Why didn’t they do what they did to Rush Limbaugh after stating that the press wanted Donovan McNabb to be successful because he is black? Even though Rush did not say anything racist, because he is right of center it was going to be racist anyway in the eyes of black people.
• Bryant Gumbel is doing the same shit they did at Coretta Scott King’s funeral. Bringing up politics where it does not belong. It took Bill Clinton of all people to remind the blacks at the church that there was a dead woman there.
• Besides football what winter sports do blacks play or do in great numbers? There aren’t any.
• The fact of the matter is, the winter games are booooring. Nobody there has personality. Nobody cares. It’s irrelevant. However, besides football blacks don’t play any other sport during the winter, let alone get to the Olympics.
• If there was a black athlete that couldn’t get in, the anvil of the NAACP, SCLC and Al Sharpton would rain down on anyone who would dare oppose their entry.

Bryant Gumbel loses yet another respect-point for being an ignorant black man . Hey Bryant, is Julian Bond’s number in your cell phone?