Falcons’ Matt Ryan cites Oprah during ‘audible’ on Sunday
AP photo of Matt Ryan during the Falcons-Vikings game. In this place, he fumbled but recovered the ball.
How about this for a strange Oprah reference?
Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan was caught yelping “”Four-Oprah!” to his offense during the team’s 24-14 victory over the Vikings on Sunday.
He said this during an “audible.” In football terms, an “audible” alerts a quarterback’s teammates that he’s changing a play at the line of scrimmage when he notices something different in the other team’s defensive coverage.
James Duthie, a broadcaster for Canada’s The Sports Network, overheard Ryan’s “Oprah” call.
“I thought I was hearing things, but the guys on the broadcast [Brian Billick and Thom Brennaman] mentioned it briefly in passing,” Duthie told the New York Post. “And a couple of plays later I heard it again. It was bizarro.
“I actually like the fact that they have a little creativity. They can really say anything they want at the line [during an audible] and it’s usually mumbo-jumbo, letters or ’slant this, post this, corner that.’”
The Falcons declined to comment.
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And this is...
November 29th, 2011
6:13 pm
…worthy of an “entertainment report” because why?
And, the guy did not “overhear” anything – the audio from the game picked up all the audibles (Mercedes, Chevy, etc ), which were heard by every viewer in addition to the announcers and this dolt you are quoting, so why not comment on all the free advertising rather than this non-story…
David Smith
November 29th, 2011
6:52 pm
It’s nice to get some worldwide pub. I couldn’t care what Matt yells out at the line of scrimmage as long as we get the win at the end of the game.
Rater
November 29th, 2011
7:04 pm
KimZ……Congrats! You are first. The first racist comment. It only took 43 minutes. Kudos.
kreedham
November 29th, 2011
7:05 pm
Not to mention Ovie’s injured and out for the year!
prettyprincess
November 29th, 2011
7:09 pm
KimZ..such a stupid comment..
Name (required)
November 29th, 2011
7:09 pm
Rater….are you implying that Oprah and Ovie aren’t black? Kim Z’s post may have been stupid, but it certainly wasn’t racist.
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Barbara Sussman
November 29th, 2011
7:19 pm
Kim Z’s comment was not only stupid and racist, but a disgrace to everyone. She should just keep her thoughts and comments to herself.
Rodney Ho
November 29th, 2011
7:23 pm
I deleted Kim Z’s comment and the blog commenter is now on probation whose comments will now be moderated by me before they post.
Enemas for Easter
November 29th, 2011
7:46 pm
Rodney, do you even know what football is?
I agree with the first poster. This does not warrant a blog post in the Radio/TV section. If you have nothing to write about, then don’t. Every time you do write about something you have little to no knowledge about, you just expose yourself as the idiot you are.
Rodney Ho
November 29th, 2011
7:56 pm
@Enemas For Easter. This story was actually in the New York Post first, then Fox Sports. I just thought it was interesting, even if yes, my knowledge of football, is relatively minimal.
Harm
November 29th, 2011
8:01 pm
Tell em’ Rodney!
Fred
November 29th, 2011
8:06 pm
LOL Just damn Rodney. I hope you call a mulligan on this one.
But at least once again you made me laugh.
DK
November 29th, 2011
9:02 pm
Yet another reason I do watch Football..
DK
November 29th, 2011
9:03 pm
Yet another reason I DO NOT watch Football..
grahzny bratchny
November 29th, 2011
9:52 pm
Does “Oprah” mean big play? Calling Turner’s thighs? She’s not Roddy ‘White’? We’re not passing to Stedman, but Steadyman Gonzalez? I’m throwing to Phil DonaHugh Douglas? Sorry
Sally S
November 29th, 2011
10:05 pm
Rodney, you’re fabulous.
Paul From Milton
November 29th, 2011
11:20 pm
I heard it and it made me laugh. Ryan called Benz 661 a lot also.
Paul From Milton
November 29th, 2011
11:21 pm
By the way, you got a lot of angry and bitter people following you, Rodney.
jay
November 29th, 2011
11:47 pm
Anyone else find it strange that the crowd was so quiet and disinterested that you could actually hear the audibles on the field?
Gandalf the Wise
November 30th, 2011
2:49 am
“OPRAH” Means the big fat person is coming up the middle…usual indicated a bootleg right
Floating IP
November 30th, 2011
5:19 am
All of Matt Ryans audibles, are PHONY. They call the play, walk up to the line of scrimmage, then Ryan starts screaming Oprah, Mercedes, Chevy, whatever, then they run the original play called. Its all a phony diversion, trust me.
dennis r
November 30th, 2011
5:21 am
jay. if you knew football you would know that the crowd should be quiet when the home team has the ball so they can hear the audibles and snap count
Me Too
November 30th, 2011
6:16 am
Matt also used “Advanced Auto”. These audible spots should be sold as advertisements for the companies. The money could be given to charity by the Falcons.
Rodney Ho
November 30th, 2011
8:04 am
@Paul From Milton. It comes with the territory!
Rodney Ho
November 30th, 2011
8:07 am
KimZ’sPackage is defending himself that his since deleted comments calling Oprah fat and black were not racist. You can argue it either way. But it was what one would call gratuitous race baiting, a way to get people to react so he could then lay claim that the world is too P.C. It’s a common pattern on these blogs, unfortunately. If he wants to do that, he should do it somewhere else.
Justin
November 30th, 2011
8:13 am
@ Rodney Ho
Thanks you for policing the blog. I like to check out the entertainment stories daily, but I’m usually deterred to post anything due to so many racist comments. Again Thank You!
Rodney Ho
November 30th, 2011
8:15 am
@Justin. Under the current anything goes anonymity policies on this blog, you have to police after the fact and moderate or block IP addresses the best you can. We have to unfortunately do so regularly. Trolls are always out there, esp. the ones who race bait.
Rich Black
November 30th, 2011
8:27 am
29th.
tc
November 30th, 2011
8:29 am
Rodney, I would say that you “race baited” with this blog. You chose to write about Oprah instead of the many other audibles called out. Can you explain other than to say that it was written about in other places.
E Pluribus Scrotum
November 30th, 2011
8:42 am
More white people drive Mercedes.
Baiter!
The Reverend Baby Doctor Bedpan
November 30th, 2011
8:46 am
Really? Race baiting? How about you wrote a crappy blog….Again….and are using the guise of race baiting to conceal the fact you wrote a crappy and uniformed blog.
Leave the sports to the sports writers and stick to your wimpy TV, radio and American Idol blog. I assure you that will eliminate any of this so called race baiting which is just really people pointing out your lack of football knowledge.
Rodney Ho
November 30th, 2011
8:54 am
@The Reverend Baby Doctor Bedpan I know I’m no sports expert but that blog entry was only there because it had an Oprah reference, that’s all. And the story originated from The New York Post, not me.
Rodney Ho
November 30th, 2011
8:56 am
@tc I know zip about audibles. I just saw the item from the New York Post, thought it was interesting given the Oprah reference and posted it. Nothing more, nothing less. Oprah is in the wheelhouse of the readership of this blog. It made for an odd juxtaposition, which is why the Post wrote about it, too. And for them, there wasn’t even a local angle.
The Reverend Baby Doctor Bedpan
November 30th, 2011
9:08 am
So what you are saying is, you sourced another publication for this, which is why it is so crappy?
Try again……Better yet, try to understand what you share before you share it. It will save you from exposing your inept journalism.
Free advice.
JOURNALISM?
November 30th, 2011
9:13 am
…who calls this stuff JOURNALISM…….
Rodney Ho
November 30th, 2011
9:14 am
@The Reverend Baby Doctor Bedpan Thank you. I’ll take that under advisement.
Hugh Jass
November 30th, 2011
9:36 am
Wow Reverend Baby Doctor Bedpan. You are truly the “master” when it comes to baiting.
My beer is colder
November 30th, 2011
9:49 am
Testify!
DC
November 30th, 2011
9:54 am
bahahahhaa please keep the comments coming..this is hilarious..you have people who know zilch about football speaking up…
But hey…it cant be any worse than hearing housewives talk about so and so on the x factor or american idol. Everyone is a singing expert…
T.I.
November 30th, 2011
10:35 am
Rodney I gues others are not so blind to your “Fishing” and that a poster used your”Bait” against you. Nothing Racists was said. The Audible could have been as KimZ said. T.I. is right you people are wrapped to damn PC tight. You are a lil asian man what do you know about football anyway?
Iceman
November 30th, 2011
10:40 am
Watching the game Sunday, I thought I heard someone onscreen yelling “MERCEDES! OPRAH!”
I didn’t what the heck was going on. lol
KimZ'sPackage
November 30th, 2011
10:59 am
Rodney you really wouldn’t have to “Police” your blog if you didn’t write about Crappy humans like the RHOA and the Kardashisluts. When you write about polarizing people you will get the lovers and the haters. That is what is GREAT about our country. We welcome different opinions and the right to voice them.
Earl
November 30th, 2011
11:25 am
@Rodney, nice hat
sad part is you could hear because of empty seats
November 30th, 2011
12:43 pm
Too many empty seats caused everbody to hear all that….
Spider-Man
November 30th, 2011
12:52 pm
And this was news worthy becaaaause?…..
sad part is you could hear because of empty seats
November 30th, 2011
12:52 pm
should quiet up when home team is at line of scrimmage, but not like that, where you can hear it so clearly on tv. Get to the games people
DC
November 30th, 2011
12:54 pm
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^not a football fan or this person would know that the home team fans should be quiet on offense…
sad part is you could hear because of empty seats
November 30th, 2011
12:55 pm
They’re all sold out, so any season ticket holder want to give me your tickets cause you don’t want to go, please let me know. I’ll be happy to support the team and not piss away your seats.
Got 2?
November 30th, 2011
12:58 pm
Since it’s all sold out, anybody that wants to give me their tix to game, cause they don’t want to go, I’m here.
DC
November 30th, 2011
12:59 pm
Also you know those big clear satellite looking things..those are mics so they can pick up on the commentary on the field and hear those big hits….no matter the stadium…and no matter the noise level…those mics can pick it up..they just chose to stay on the falcons b/c they were yelling crazy stuff out at the line of scrimmage.
Got 2?
November 30th, 2011
1:00 pm
DC…fans should be quiet while home team is at line of scrimmage, but never should it be that quiet to hear so clearly on tv…..He made good point too many empty seats.
Got 2?
November 30th, 2011
1:04 pm
Still willing to take your tickets if not using them…..and there are apparently MANY people not using their tix
DC
November 30th, 2011
1:11 pm
Watch a green bay game…those fans are crazy..but you’ll see how smart they are when rodgers is conducting his offense. Again they had mics on the sidelines that pick up everything. If you watch showtime they use that sound bites for their nfl show. Yes there are fans missing in the stadium..but thats at most stadiums in this economy…not all..but most.
Dr. Warren
November 30th, 2011
1:57 pm
I’m a lifelong Falcons fan, very intense about it, and I actually found this post interesting. Adds a bit of humor to signal calling, which I’ve always considered a very dry part of the game.
Rodney Ho
November 30th, 2011
2:19 pm
@T.I. You’re a class act all the way.
carla roqs
November 30th, 2011
3:06 pm
#1- rodney, STOP justifying yourself to these nuts. kimz is awful on everyone’s blog and not just racially, not black and white, not male and female, just..period. yes, please keep an eye on the blog- kinda ugly the other day- but under your radio and tv talk column, we support you and can take on your detractors. no worries. #2, people– football is tv and it is entertainment. #3- t.i. : wowww, so what does that make you? a non paid commentor on mr paid writer rodney ho’s blog. oooooh
Dr Flenderson
November 30th, 2011
3:19 pm
He should still have an understanding about what he is blogging about. He knows his understanding of the game is limited. he admitted it. To take that lack of knowledge and the criticism from it, the turn it in to something racial is reprehensible.
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Hugh Jass
November 30th, 2011
3:45 pm
Ya’ll quit hating on RoHo. He does a great job here. Find somewhere else to troll.
Steelbill
November 30th, 2011
3:58 pm
Can anybody define the term ‘Racist’? I think not. Besides, how can Atlanta have racism when it is 95% black?
Cyber
November 30th, 2011
4:20 pm
“Can anybody define the term ‘Racist’? I think not. Besides, how can Atlanta have racism when it is 95% black?”
based on racial intolerance; “racist remarks”
racial – of or characteristic of race or races or arising from differences among groups; “racial differences”; “racial discrimination”
2. racist – discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion
LOL Racists come in all colors and from all parts of the world.
KimZ'sPackage
November 30th, 2011
5:39 pm
carla roqs…………..What OTHER blog do you see me on? I post once in a great while on here and the Buzz. You don’t know what you are talking abut in reference to my posts. Find more than 20 different blogs I posted on this year.
gofigure
November 30th, 2011
7:20 pm
If you use the same audible every the other team will know the play. Baseball players do it all the time. Who cares.
jay
December 1st, 2011
2:18 am
@ Dennis: I PLAYED FOOTBALL but I guess you would know more than me because the only excerzise you get is sitting on your fat @$$ on Sundays bicep curling Nachos while you WATCH the games.
jay
December 1st, 2011
2:19 am
Dennis I PLAYED FOOTBALL but I guess you would know more than me because the only excerzise you get is sitting your fat aZZ on the couch on Sundays bicep curling nachos while you WATCH the games.
jay
December 1st, 2011
2:22 am
Dennis are you an idiot? It’s football not tennis. I know the crowd doesnt make as much noise when the home team is on offense but point to ONE other game this year where you can CLEARLY here what the quarterback is saying when he’s calling signals?
jay
December 1st, 2011
2:23 am
test
Shadowman
December 1st, 2011
6:25 am
KimZ forgot to add “rich”..to the Oprah description…
david
December 1st, 2011
8:21 am
carlaroqs thinks she is the blog judge. happens all the time
carla roqs
December 1st, 2011
9:10 am
david, i am . zimz, out of every comment i have seen you make over the last year or so, maybe one was positive. you are one of the most negative commentors i have ever seen. and when i are positive, you are soooo positive that i have complimented you on it. i did not see what you wrote on this blog and i do not really care, i just know that you are generally negative and i hit a lot of blogs. i get negative too, and sometimes i get mad, but dang, i kinda try to not let my FIRST comment of the day on that blog come out that way. you insult a lot of people and generally people just let it slide. i guess rodney didnt this time. not my problem. #herecomesthejudge
carla roqs
December 1st, 2011
9:11 am
oops, kimz.
carla roqs
December 1st, 2011
9:13 am
judge not that ye be not judged. lets try this again. david, i am . kimz, out of every comment i have seen you make over the last year or so, maybe one was positive. you are one of the most negative commentors i have ever seen. and when you are positive, you are soooo positive that i have complimented you on it. i did not see what you wrote on this blog and i do not really care, i just know that you are generally negative and i hit a lot of blogs and see your comments. i get negative too, and sometimes i get mad, but dang, i kinda try to not let my FIRST comment of the day on a blog come out that way. you insult a lot of people and generally people just let it slide. i guess rodney didnt this time. not my problem. #herecomesthejudge