Colin Cowherd is a Sad Little Boy

Yesterday I speculated that Colin Cowherd had done something stupid. I was wrong. As of yesterday, Colin Cowherd was only planning on doing something stupid. In response to my question, some helpful commenter told me that Cowherd had some big announcement planned for today. I hoped that it was that he was getting fired, or quitting to pursue his musical career. I expected it to be something about strippers and how everything in life can be equated to them.

Turns out I was wrong. His announcement was something dumb about a web-cam. Also of interest, Colin Cowherd decided to shut down the website The Big Lead with a DNS attack. It's not entirely clear to me why, although Deadspin says Cowherd was mad because The Big Lead was saying stuff about him. Given his history, I'm surprised Cowherd didn't just repeat the information while claiming he came up with it.

Colin put a lot of planning into this. I noted yesterday that the wikipedia pages for Cowherd and his show were on lock down. This usually happens following a rush of fake vandalism (see anytime Colbert has his minions do something) but I'm pretty sure the wikilords will let allow a preemptive shut down of an article about a living person if that particular person requests it. I think Cowherd probably did this. If he put half this much effort into planning an entertaining radio show instead of spending 3 hours arguing strawmen everyone would be better off.

My question to Colin Cowherd, or any of his supporters, is: Why do you think this was the right thing to do? I read The Big Lead every day and I don't remember them saying anything that bad about you. But even if they did, you are a public figure. You are paid by DisneyCorp to talk about sports and, more importantly, be a personality. People are going to have opinions about you. Some of these opinions are going to be negative, especially since, at least as far as your on-air persona goes, you pride yourself on being contrary. Sorry, it's part of the job. If you can't handle that then find something else to do with your time. Or go into a hermitage on Eastern Long Island and record thousands of radio shows with explicit instructions that they are not to be played until the copyrights expire seventy years after your death.

Mr. Cowherd, have you ever said anything negative about an athlete, or coach, or group of fans, or city, or celebrity? If so, why is that acceptable while what The Big Lead did unacceptable? What if one of those athletes or coaches called in a bomb-threat to the ESPNradio studios, preventing you from recording your show? Why do you have the right to disseminate news and opinions? Why does The Big Lead not share that right?

I started off angry, but I'm ending up purely curious. I'm curious what thought process culminated in you thinking this was a good idea. I'm curious what you would say if someone deliberately jammed your radio signal coming out of Bristol because they didn't like something you said. I'm curious how someone who has been as successful as you have been in climbing through your profession could become so incensed over what I'm sure you see as a pathetic little website full of 30 year olds who live in their parents' basements. I'm curious. I'm very very curious, Cowherd.

***UPDATE***
I added a few more sites below. According to KSK, Cowherd just decided to do this for no reason, not because of some sort of animosity towards The Big Lead. I'm not sure if that bothers me more or less.

***UPDATE 2***
As of noon on Friday, The Big Lead is still down. Unless my computer is just having a caching problem or something. I added a few more sites to the list down there. The Big Picture article itself links to many other articles so you can find some more that way. This whole thing sucks. Hopefully, Pete will be by here soon to update you on the first week of Three Man Fantasy.

In addition to the Deadspin article linked in the text, Pacifist Viking has written on Cowherd's actions. I'll keep updating this post with new articles when I can find them.

Pacifist Viking
Deadspin
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Super Dee Duper
EDSBS
With LeatherThe Feed
Sports Hernia
The Big Picture