Kobe, Bonds & Costas: Seven flavors of Insufferable…
Chris Erskine of the LA times has compiled his “All Ego Sports Teams”. Here is what it takes to make it on his lists:
… [ it ] isn’t about steeling self-confidence. It’s about bloated ego, about heads too big for the helmet, and mouths too big for the microphone. It’s about the real-life Apollo Creeds. Being merely obnoxious doesn’t get you on this list. You have to be seven flavors of insufferable.
The list includes first teamers Kobe Bryant, Bob Costas, and Barry Bonds. No disagreement here. Pretty soon these guys will need their own planets to support the weight of those massive cabezas….
