LOOK: Darren Rovell tweets horrible take about LSU gymnastics billboard, gets ripped by gymnast and fans
This weekend, Oklahoma finished off an undefeated season to take home the NCAA women’s gymnastics championship.
Coming in second place were the LSU Tigers, a talented squad that turned in the best finish in school history. To celebrate that impressive accomplishment, the Tigers put up a billboard and tweeted a message thanking local fans.
If you thought the Grinch was only a Christmas villain, you’ve probably never met sports business reporter Darren Rovell, who started off his Easter Sunday by ripping the Tigers for celebrating second place:
No, you can’t put up a billboard for coming in second. https://t.co/wxDPqBNzNr
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) April 21, 2019
In a world where silver medals (and even, gasp, bronze medals) are handed out at the Olympics, Final Four banners are hung by teams that didn’t win the title and Holiday Bowl victories are celebrated in college football, this is a strange hill for Rovell to die on.
LSU gymnast Ashlyn Kirby had a great response to Rovell, adding insult to injury by calling him “Dave” instead of Darren:
Sounds like someone was runner up in their Easter egg hunt. There’s always next year, Dave. https://t.co/QfVqsvkIv2
— Ashlyn (@Ashlynkirby98) April 21, 2019
Kirby was hardly the only one to rip Rovell’s asinine take, as you can see below. And Rovell wasn’t backing down from defending his bad take, either:
Apples and oranges. Not close.
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) April 21, 2019
There’s a difference between earning it and celebrating it.
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) April 21, 2019
It’s a societal problem.
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) April 21, 2019
It is. But a billboard?
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) April 21, 2019
So say that.
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) April 21, 2019
They are in the arena. Not advertising it to the community. Huge difference.
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) April 21, 2019
I didn’t for the sake of my children.
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) April 21, 2019
No, the Tigers didn’t win it all, but it was a special season in Baton Rouge and deserves to be celebrated.
Poor Darren. Why be a negative jerk about this? He must be a miserable soul. Kinda like some posters here.
Be careful posting man… you never know who is stalking, I mean lurking in the shadows.
I know. The miserable lost soul is after me. The guy is completely nuts, but I’m getting tired of his act. It’s obvious he hates UK and is a Louisville fan, but he’s so stupid he thinks that if keeps lying, he will fool someone. He is just like the kids trolling, except he is supposed to be a grown man. Just sad.
It should make you feel good that most posters are on your side. I know you have handled it better than I would. By the way, congratulations on your teams showing. 2 National Champions and a second place finish is something to respect and be proud of.
The guy is just a nut. He is bent out of shape over being called a Louisville fan, which he clearly is. He has called me every name in the book over something so silly and obvious. I have taken as much as I’m going to. I do appreciate the support, but it hadn’t done anything to slow his nuttiness. He loves the attention. He can’t talk sports because he doesn’t know enough to contribute, so he just trolls Kentucky. In hindsight, I would never have said anything, but I didn’t realize I was dealing with a mental patient. Oh well. Take care.
Are you feeling sorry for yourself?
I don’t hate Kentucky. My father played football there.
I hate the athletic director who fails to hold coaching searches.
The same guy who signed a basketball coach on a napkin.
The same guy who tore down part of the stadium to put in a recruiting deck, which has resulted in lower ranked recruiting classes since it was build.
The same guy who allows the basketball coach to say he’s just as happy with putting players in the NBA as he would be winning a national championship.
The same guy who publicly says he tells the players to play for the name on the back of the jersey.
I am a SEC fan. I wear a SEC logo hat with logos of every team around brim.
YOU?
You can’t tell the truth.
I gave you the opportunity to say you lied but in your gutless mind you decided to continue to lie.
And of course you should feel go other posters are on you side.
You’ve been all about kissing a-s enough as you have here in this discussion to make them feel your MR. WONDERFUL.
Do you really think I care about what your ‘friends’ think of me?
I post what I want. I don’t solicit ‘friends’.
You lied about me. And instead of admitting you did, you continue to compound the lie.
So if you think the last two months have been uncomfortable, lol, its just the beginning.
As I said before You, me and the guy upstairs now who’s telling the truth.
I’m not trying to convince anyone of anything.
And the only name I’ve called you is ‘LEGEND’. Which you sincerely earned. You managed to get TWO discussions shut down with you racist comments.
BUT, hey, ain’t we having fun!
Keep searching!
I’ll discuss any SEC sport with anyone.
I will never search for anything about you. You are just a pathetic lost soul that keeps lying about everything. I try and be a nice guy. That’s what the man upstairs asks of us. With you, not do much. Every Kentucky fan on this site knows you are a fraud. Many others are now starting to realize that as your posts tell the real story. If you ever find yourself making a decent comment about sports, I may respond in kind. You want to continue this childish behavior, I will continue to respond in kind.
Didn’t you say you weren’t going to respond to me?
ANOTHER LIE!
But seeing you whimp and whine about being mistreated is quite entertaining.
And to think you could avoid this by telling the truth.
OR
you could do as I suggested, scrap this screen name and get another one. You could come back as the angel of truth, justice and the American way.
But, I’m enjoying you not responding to be. Isn’t that what you said you were going to do?
The problem is simple. You got caught in a lie, won’t admit it and you thought I was going to go away.
How’s that thought working for ya?
See you later!
Or and keep searching!
LSUABC, you need to go read some of Seven Ts post to me.
Your material is getting old.
Heck, he slander my wife, try that one.
You got kids?
Do you call them out for lying?
Shame on you if you do.
I can’t believe there is a single woman in the world that would put up with the likes of a nasty human being like you. If you like her as much as you do Kentucky, she has serious issues too. Misery loves company though. I used to think Seven T was too hard on you. My apologies to him for ever thinking that. You deserve what you get. You are full on scum.
LSUABC, how’s it going today!
Good to see you still not responding.
Whatcha going to amaze us with today?
See you soon.
Darren, Yes they can post anything they want and you and your opinion doesn’t control what others can post, say or put on a billboard (yes, I know… Darren isn’t out here reading my response).
I don’t always agree with the SDS staff by Adam Spencer is correct on this one.
“Ann was getting too chummy. When people get too chummy with me, I call them by the wrong name just to show them I don’t care about them.”
Love that episode!
It sounds like something a bama fan would say to be honest. That and unless it’s football who cares.
Sounds exactly like the average Bama fan. Can’t wait for the “tide to turn” and the Gumps start losing. It will be sweet.
You are going to have to be patient.
Congratulations on your Final Four appearance. Roll Tide.
Does it really?… To be honest all I see is an Auburn fan talking about Bama on a LSU article that has absolutely nothing to do with Bama….
Sounds a lot like what Alabama fans do, right ??
I don’t see any Bama fans visiting other teams articles to bring up Auburn…
Congratulations to Derain Gobournre for her well earned National Championship. Roll Tide
Darren blew it on this one. He made a stupid comment and then instead of owning up to it decided to just dig in deeper. He looks more and more idiotic with every response. A “societal problem”? Really?
He’s just a person that doesn’t know just exactly how that works. The Gymnastics team put that up to thank everyone and to list their accomplishment on the season. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with doing that. What numbnuts is thinking about is the ole everybody gets a trophy mentality, when others tell you that it’s ok to come up short on your ultimate goal of winning something. Two totally different things in this case.
Oh and something else that most don’t know about. That very same jackass finished 21,400 and something in the Chicago Marathon and had his shoes bronze plated, then posted it on Twitter bragging about it.
Haha, true story? I think the twitter world needs to be reminded of that more! I agree completely, it’s two totally different things. I completely agree with the whole everyone gets a trophy thing being nonsense, but these girls earned that placement, nothing was handed to them.
Awesome post Pat.
LSUABC,
that didn’t take long.
you know kissing a-s.
‘smooch, smooch!’
You ever consider trying to be a decent guy. I know it would take a life change, but it would be better than going through life friendless, alone, and bitter. The tomb is empty, so anything is possible.
LSUABC, as soon as you tell the truth about never seeing a post from me declaring I’m a Louisville fan, yea, maybe.
BUT, you ain’t got the hanger downs to admit you lied so—-
we’re going to be having fun for a long time aren’t we?
Sad. You are so lonely and pathetic that you consider this insult fest fun. Figures.
What’s up with LSU and billboards? Seriously though, congrats to the team and their accomplishments. Also, major congrats to the 2 National Champions from the team that weren’t mentioned by name for some reason. I understand Darren is trying to say this is a participation trophy act. He is wrong.
We don’t seem to have a penchant for billboards. Maybe one of our boosters owns one of those companies or something.
Do seem.
He’s been a pretty good sport about all the razzing he has taken. He even appeared on local BR sports radio and was a good sport about it. I kind of agree with him, but an easy correction would be to remove the “Runner Up”. Replace it with something about the 2 Nat’l Champs or their highest score ever.
He may have been a good sport about it on the radio spot, but he certainly wasn’t in social media. I’m curious why you agree with him about the billboard? If your hometown had someone who earned a silver medal in the Olympics, would you be upset about putting up a billboard for that? Heck my hometown would probably slap ’em up all around town for someone even making it to the Olympics, never mind placing.