Hate that dam thing
How Mike Tirico not black? He's 100% Italian?
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I would love for him to write a tell all book about behind the scenes at his gigs.
Olympics
SNF
ESPN
I want to know if he laughs along with whites when condescending or snide remarks are made about Black athletes.
Just an athlete
Not a prototypical QB
Doesn't know the playbook
Not a team player
All that subliminal stuff.
Has he ever been called an N (of course) and how did he react?
He could actually have some insight on navigating corporate America and gaining respect and the best assignments...just wish he could have done it without denying his Black heritage but it was never ingrained in him.
Olympics
SNF
ESPN
I want to know if he laughs along with whites when condescending or snide remarks are made about Black athletes.
Just an athlete
Not a prototypical QB
Doesn't know the playbook
Not a team player
All that subliminal stuff.
Has he ever been called an N (of course) and how did he react?
He could actually have some insight on navigating corporate America and gaining respect and the best assignments...just wish he could have done it without denying his Black heritage but it was never ingrained in him.
NBC's Mike Tirico Once Said That He Wasn't Sure If He's Black
These days, Mike Tirico is simply a feature of NBC's sports coverage. In the early 1990s, though, he made headlines for a different reason: a quote about his race.
www.sportscasting.com
Mike Tirico still regrets race comments in 1991 interview
Tirico, who left ESPN for NBC Sports last year, says he doesn't want to be the story.
Mike Tirico - Wikipedia
Mike Tirico reveals most 'un-Italian' thing about him, confirms Al Michaels vegetable aversion
NBC’s new play-by-play voice, Mike Tirico, answered questions about the oddities of his predecessor and talked about some of his Italian heritage.
www.audacy.com
“I try not to eat the extra piece of bread,” he said. “When we grew up — my dad’s African-American, not in my life, my mom’s Italian — and her family, my grandmother cooked a lot for us. One of the things you do is you take the extra piece of bread and they usually take the bread plate away from you after the salad. In an Italian household, usually it stays around.
FINALLY
So it took this B.A.N 10 years to finally identify as negro.Mike Tirico - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
Mike Tirico reveals most 'un-Italian' thing about him, confirms Al Michaels vegetable aversion
NBC’s new play-by-play voice, Mike Tirico, answered questions about the oddities of his predecessor and talked about some of his Italian heritage.
“I try not to eat the extra piece of bread,” he said. “When we grew up — my dad’s African-American, not in my life, my mom’s Italian — and her family, my grandmother cooked a lot for us. One of the things you do is you take the extra piece of bread and they usually take the bread plate away from you after the salad. In an Italian household, usually it stays around.
FINALLY
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That Nigga is a straight up ho for this
I wonder WHAT happened or WHO FINALLY talked some sense into him?
TIrico: it was the day I rooted for Mr t over Rocky I knew I was different… I craved Mac and cheese over ravioli
I mean......If you were raised by one side and the other side wanted no parts of you then how would you identify?
We have dudes on this forum right now who wont claim being African because of Africans role in the slave trade centuries ago, you expect this dude to identity with a guy who wronged him that he had to see walking around?I feel like biracials are in a lose-lose situation. He aint black. He had a black birth dad for sure, but hes raised italian around italians. If he went in the opposite direction(a la Kap) he would end up miserable just like Kap. Trying to grab an identity that isnt him, and living a lie to satisfy people who forgot him soon as he stopped being paid to throw a ball around.
So I went back and found this quote from one of the articles posted in this thread:
I say all this because Mike's mom may have been doing something similar. She was embarrassed about how she got pregnant and wanted to sell a fantasy to her son. Son loves his mom and doesn't question it. At some point, he finds out, either mom finally admits it or he does a DNA test, either way he finally knows/admits what EVERYBODY else already knew.
This reminded me of a similar story where this bi-racial woman' s white mom had an affair with a black dude and got pregnant. When the husband found out (white, Jewish dude), he stayed married to the woman and decided to raise the child as if it was his. As the girl grew up, it was obvious some things were "different" about her (darker skin tone obviously). People would ask, she would say no cause her parents would tell her that she was white. She never questioned her parents.. Decades later, she finds out the truth and writes a book about it.
I say all this because Mike's mom may have been doing something similar. She was embarrassed about how she got pregnant and wanted to sell a fantasy to her son. Son loves his mom and doesn't question it. At some point, he finds out, either mom finally admits it or he does a DNA test, either way he finally knows/admits what EVERYBODY else already knew.
Black for convenience
I mean......If you were raised by one side and the other side wanted no parts of you then how would you identify?
I feel like biracials are in a lose-lose situation. He aint black. He had a black birth dad for sure, but hes raised italian around italians. If he went in the opposite direction(a la Kap) he would end up miserable just like Kap. Trying to grab an identity that isnt him, and living a lie to satisfy people who forgot him soon as he stopped being paid to throw a ball around.
Mike grew up thinking his dad was a white man and that their italian "ancestry" accounted for his skin tone..... he only acknowledged his being black after that infamous 1991 interview, I think mom's finally told him the truth and an "ancestry" test may have been the proof of what was so obvious to others read below
I've got to read back over his bio but I thought there was a white "father" in the home. The father of his siblings, but maybe I'm not recalling correctly.
But yeah what you stated seems very likely, plus growing up around them.......and knowing how they speak about us behind closed doors, that definitely would put a young kid in a very awkward place.....
Going by this logic, what are you going to say next, that Dale Gribble's son is really John Redcorns?
Yeah right!!!! No freaking way!!!!!!
The man in the mirror BEEN hollering at that man
I don't think he SAW who we SAW though
Somebody must have recently called him an N word and he woke up
So this is the negro that wypiopo claim as their ''black'' friend
And Mike would have been greatly offended if he ever heard them say that.
Must have been some meeting or memo during George Floyd
And he was like ummm why you asked me here?
Real talk?
Apparently it was his kids that helped him finally find and accept himself
Apparently it was his kids that helped him finally find and accept himself
If he ever went on this show, it will be must see TV
LMBAOOOOOO!!!!
If this is the same story I watched a couple of months ago, the fucked up part of it was that the Mom would invite the girl's birth father to dinner and outings the family had while she was growing up... she knew the man who she would find out later as her birth father very well. It wasn't until after his death that she finally met his side of the family. Even though her Dad said her mother never spoke on it, I'm sure he knew the whole time and lived with that betrayal the whole time. Once the girl started her quest to know the truth, her Dad became distant... sad.
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