Jeff Fisher upset over Bernie Kosar's on-air comments

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Jeff Fisher upset over Bernie Kosar's on-air comments

As the NFL's preseason schedule kicked off Thursday night, NFL Network's offices were abuzz about the return of local telecasts and its announcers featuring blatant "homerism."

In the case of Bernie Kosar and the Cleveland Browns, it often goes a few steps beyond to a bizarre realm of laughter, head-scratching observations and brutal, unleaded honesty.

But this time Kosar managed to raise the ire of St. Loius coach Jeff Fisher after tearing into several Rams players in Thursday night's 27-19 Browns victory.

The most egregious comments were directed at Rams backup quarterback Kellen Clemens, of whom Kosar said, "I can't stand watching him play."

When Browns play-by-play man Jim Donovan relayed an anecdote about Clemens giving autograph to Pope Benedict XVI, Kosar quipped, "Bless me father for I have sinned. I have to watch him the whole fourth quarter."

Kosar went on to call rookie Tavon Austin and the Rams receivers "horrible," while suggesting their parents "would be embarrassed" if they were watching the game.

"First off, let me say this: the Cleveland Browns' organization is a first class organization from top to bottom and it has been that for years and years and years," Fisher said in response Saturday. "I guess I'm a little disappointed. ... I'm just surprised that Bernie has such a lack of respect for players and this game. To be honest with you, I lost a lot of respect for him. It's highly unlikely he knew anything about our football team, but felt the need to make those comments. I don't think they were justified."

Fisher even referenced Kosar's "well documented issues," which include problems with finances, taxes, a divorce and the potential effects of brain trauma from his playing career.

In the buttoned-up NFL world of the 21st century, we're surprised the Browns would allow an admittedly immature, marble-mouthed loose cannon in their broadcast booth even for preseason games.

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I was on an island in Michigan. I paid $20 to watch that one game and had to listen to that a-hole because the video was spotty due to poor Internet. What a moron! That was, by far, the most biased and absurd commentary I have ever heard for a professional game. He hammered the Rams for play calling that the Browns emulated with no comment. If that wasn't a career ender, I have no respect for the profession or locality.
 

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You should read the comments from the PFT article. Browns fans have no idea that the Rams played very vanilla, played slow and didn't care. They were all ripping the Rams and agreed with Kosar. I seriously cannot believe it. The real games will start soon and the Browns will look terrible again.
 

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It's hilarious all these Brown's fans taking the first pre-season game so serious. saying how they kicked our ass and Weeden is such a beast and blah blah blah and how we just sucked and everything lolol. It's preseason guys, i know you're the Browns and all, but let me repeat, IT'S PRESEASON!!!! I even read some comments in places with people prediciting a 12-4 record and division title and possible SB. -sigh-, guess they will never learn.
 

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Thankfully, I live in STL! Get to listen to Faulk & Holt! Kosar must have brain damage!
 

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i live here in akron ohio & have had the misfortune of meeting that so called great qb kosar -
to brag about having played for the browns in the 1st place shows just how big a moron he really is let alone his bankrutpsy filing, losing his house in florida due to bad business decisions (imagine that brainiac!), his love affair w/ bob golic (another dikweed) & how big an ass he was when i met him - those in glass houses should not throw stones- people may claim he has head trauma but playing football did not cause his self inflicted drug & alcohol abuse - i guess his parents were not too proud of him either - if they let him continue to be a comentator they too should have their heads examined - best thing to happen to the browns would be if their crook owner files chapter 11 & sells the team
 

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Even Peter King has commented on twitter about Kosar now:

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Tron said:
It's hilarious all these Brown's fans taking the first pre-season game so serious. saying how they kicked our ass and Weeden is such a beast and blah blah blah and how we just sucked and everything lolol. It's preseason guys, i know you're the Browns and all, but let me repeat, IT'S PRESEASON!!!! I even read some comments in places with people prediciting a 12-4 record and division title and possible SB. -sigh-, guess they will never learn.

Even though I think Brandon Weeden is gonna be a good QB....and that Cleveland could have a winning record this year, c'mon on one preseason game. Anyway, internet fans on national sites are always either drunk or just stupid so yeah whatever.
 

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[tweet]http://twitter.com/SI_PeterKing/status/366353095086710784[/tweet]

[tweet]http://twitter.com/SI_PeterKing/status/366359380603568128[/tweet]

[tweet]http://twitter.com/SI_PeterKing/status/366359781537095681[/tweet]
 

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More Kosar

I don't understand how browns fan act so hard. What bothered me the most was that he was talkin about he would be embarrassed to be the parents of the rams receiver, pshhhht lol dude you the father of a porn actress. Funny how you run into some crazy info when all this happen. Maybe he's just trying to make the browns relevant again, or maybe he's just speaking out of his ass to get his daughters name out there.
Lexxi Silver- I didn't wanna link a picture or a site to her either. Just felt like it was in appropriate lol
 

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Re: More Kosar

chefRAMzy said:
I don't understand how browns fan act so hard. What bothered me the most was that he was talkin about he would be embarrassed to be the parents of the rams receiver, pshhhht lol dude you the father of a porn actress. Funny how you run into some crazy info when all this happen. Maybe he's just trying to make the browns relevant again, or maybe he's just speaking out of his ass to get his daughters name out there.
Lexxi Silver- I didn't wanna link a picture or a site to her either. Just felt like it was in appropriate lol
Did you know that Kosar's dad pretty much ripped-off Bernie financially. Bernie's dad also got the Browns to hire him as a "consultant" for a cool $1Million (because he was the star QB's "dad") without ever telling Bernie - I don't recall how Bernie eventually found out.

So, when I hear Bernie saying shit like "he would be embarrassed to be the parents of the rams receiver" I take that more as a reflection on his own family dysfunction than as a swipe at the Rams.
 

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Re: More Kosar

Stranger said:
chefRAMzy said:
I don't understand how browns fan act so hard. What bothered me the most was that he was talkin about he would be embarrassed to be the parents of the rams receiver, pshhhht lol dude you the father of a porn actress. Funny how you run into some crazy info when all this happen. Maybe he's just trying to make the browns relevant again, or maybe he's just speaking out of his ass to get his daughters name out there.
Lexxi Silver- I didn't wanna link a picture or a site to her either. Just felt like it was in appropriate lol
Did you know that Kosar's dad pretty much ripped-off Bernie financially. Bernie's dad also got the Browns to hire him as a "consultant" for a cool $1Million (because he was the star QB's "dad") without ever telling Bernie - I don't recall how Bernie eventually found out.

So, when I hear Bernie saying shit like "he would be embarrassed to be the parents of the rams receiver" I take that more as a reflection on his own family dysfunction than as a swipe at the Rams.
With THAT KIND of role model little wonder the next two generations turned out like they have.
 

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Stranger said:
[tweet]http://twitter.com/SI_PeterKing/status/366353095086710784[/tweet]

[tweet]http://twitter.com/SI_PeterKing/status/366359380603568128[/tweet]

[tweet]http://twitter.com/SI_PeterKing/status/366359781537095681[/tweet]
Sometimes these show up and sometimes they don't. It's the twitter API.

EDIT: Instead of "statuses", turn it to "status" in the URL.
 

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Let this loser say what he wants to say and the sheep in Cleveland can buy in to his comments however they want. At the end of the day our organization from top to bottom is better run and in the long run we will look back and laugh at this nonsense. I will enjoy our Super Bowl run in a few years while they continue to be the Browns.
 

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I think we have 3 or more threads on Kosar - can we consolidate?
 

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Stranger said:
I think we have 3 or more threads on Kosar - can we consolidate?

Yeah - I suppose it is bad enough that the idiot wasted so much oxygen the other night. Probably don't need him littering our forum to that extent as well.
 

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He criticizes Sherman Lewis and doesn't even know who he is. That right...the same Sherman Lewis who has been coaching in this league the last 25 years.
 

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pcdesloge said:
He criticizes Sherman Lewis and doesn't even know who he is. That right...the same Sherman Lewis who has been coaching in this league the last 25 years.

Ray Sherman, but I get your point.
 

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This might have been a double post didn't realize when I posted, My bad fellas!
 

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his dad scammed him and his daughter is a porn actressand he has the kahuna's to say someones parents should be ashamed of them???? Bernie was a mediocre QB and for him to talk trash on another QB is like a pot calling a kettle black. a classless drunk.