Published February 21, 2011 - 8:00am
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Paul Finebaum is one of the biggest and most controversial media personalities in the South. He is also a huge voice for SEC football. While some of his callers cannot put complete sentences together, others are very astute. Finebaum fires up the rivalry between Auburn and Alabama as he eggs on the callers from the respective programs. As such, there has long been a debate on whether or not Finebaum is good or bad for the rivalry and for SEC football.
The Finebaum Show is where the infamous Harvey “Al from Dadeville” Updyke first reported his poisoning of the trees on Toomer’s Corner. With fans in an uproar, Finebaum is now receiving some of the blame as fans point fingers at the antagonistic radio host.
I’m sure Finebaum is soaking up all the attention. He’s a radio host who wants listeners and ratings, and the closest he’s probably ever been to athletics is putting the ball on the tee for his boy. However, you have to hand it to the guy – he knows how to get attention and make himself relevant on the SEC scene.
Everyone loves to hate Finebaum, but I would argue that he’s good for SEC football, and he’s good for the South. Leave the guy alone. Focus your attention, rather, on this guy.
Finebaum is a tool. I have quit listening to his show because he is terribly polarizing to to the fan-base of both schools. He is the Jerry Springer of talk radio. That is a shame too beacause when he wants to, he has great shows that deal with real topics. Unfortunately, the masses want “Dirty Laundry” and fat, naked, trailer trash dwellers fighting it out on radio.
I never listened to the guy because he’s not on where I live, but I know about him. I listened to him last week for the first time and it was brutal. He seems to intentionally let on the classic stereotypical moron redneck football fan and then just let them talk garbage while he eggs them on for 20 minutes. I didn’t hear any analysis or anything interesting about sports. I’m kind of surprised people listen to him.
Finebaum is the Jerry Springer of sports. I listened to his show once and swore to never hear it again. His written “prediction” articles are usually wrong and he spends a lot of time writing “hindsight 20/20″ articles that try to make his predictions look like they were right.
This is nothing new for Mr. Paul “Fart Mouth” Finebaum. I’ve gave up on listening to his a** a long time ago. Matter of fact, I can’t even tell you the last time I’ve actually listened to one of his radio shows or read one of his newspaper columns?? And how a former Volunteer grad has a radio sports/talk show in the State of Alabama is still a miracle to me. Knowing Finebaum though, he’ll beat this incident like a dead horse and soak up all the glory.