Deadspin analyzes the use of the word "thug" to describe Richard Sherman's post-game comments, finds Boston media led the country in using the term yesterday, almost entirely because of John "Little Joe" Dennis and Callahan:
In Boston, nearly all of its country-leading mentions of thugs came from the TV broadcast of WEEI's Dennis & Callahan, which at one point reached a peak of 12 "thug"s in two minutes.
That would be an insult to gay men.
Ed. note: Post updated to reflect the fact that Felger was filling in for Callahan.
Seems the boys are avid readers of the Boston College student newspaper, the Heights, and they spent 15 minutes on Tuesday discussing an article on male friendships on campus. Only being the bottom dwellers they are, it was more like they spent 15 minutes thinking up ways to call the students quoted in the article "gay," as the Heights reports:
The commentators made a number of derisive comments about students who they specifically named on air. They asserted that the students are in fact homosexual and that the friendships they share with other men are not as they say. At one point, the commentator referenced a particular student, and, upon reading his name, said, "If that's not gay, I don't know what is."
And then, after their show was done, Dennis and Felger shared a manly chest bump and smashed a couple of beer cans against their foreheads.
Charles Foster Kane would have thought the last people to attack somebody over a botched joke would be Dennis and Callahan:
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