Dan Sileo, a morning show host at Tampa's WDAE was fired by the station after referring to three potential NFL free agents as "monkeys." (Brilliant, just brilliant.)
If Sileo looks and sounds familiar, he had a stint at KNBR in the late 1990's doing a show on 1050 AM and subbing on main outlet, 680 AM.
Sileo's demise in Tampa is not that surprising. He was known to try extra hard to stir the pot in San Francisco, albeit not as coarse as his remarks on-air in Florida.
Beyond that, he also exaggerated his stint as an NFL player, (he had a cup of coffee in the league); that shtick never worked well here, and now he's looking for a new gig.
Good luck with that.
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"If they got those three monkeys, I'm good. I'm ready, man. I'm ready. I want those guys. Those guys are great players.
ReplyDeleteI'm a black male and I'm familiar with insulting blacks by relating them to primates. Yeah this seems to be a Freudian slip of some sort, but to be fired ? Does he have a history ? Give an on air apology, and a mandate from management to watch his mouth and move on. We water down REAL acts of racism and by focusing on every little slip of the tongue of whites and perceived slights against us. Yeah "monkeys" raises an eyebrow, but shouldn't move the needle
Well said Anthony, very well said.
DeleteI forgot what a no talent he was during the beginnings on "The Ticket 1050". I think he played in college at Miami (thugs) and was a "Gay Raider" (Winking Buccaneer) ever so briefly.
ReplyDeleteI remember his 1st week at the old "Ticket". It was by far, the WORST radio I've ever heard. I couldn't believe KNBR let this clown on the air. College radio DJ's were more talented than Sileo.
DeleteAnthony...who are you, a latter-day Steppin' Fetchit? ("Yes, Massah...I done good, massah!")
ReplyDeleteSileo's statement is TOTAL grounds for immediate firing. One doesn't have to have a prior history to save him from saying something like this.
What if there was a Japanese radio host who, after Yu Darvish throws a no-hitter against the Yankees, says, "Man! That was TOO EASY! Just like Pearl Harbor, when our planes caught those lazy American sailors napping on the job on that Sunday Morning!"
When Nancy Reagan finally dies...my ass would be fired on the spot if I went on air that day and said, "Liberals everywhere!Time to break out the Three-Buck Chuck to celebrate! Don't waste the good stuff--just go to Trader Joes!"
Would everyone think THIS was funny?
March 14, 3:31, if you are on-air, you must be on KNBR because your logic is as illogical as the arrogant and brainless KNBR morons.
ReplyDeleteSileo was actually being groomed to host the sportsphone show but KNBR management at that time finally (1998) settled on Larry Krueger, who then hosted that show for the next seven years.
ReplyDeleteSileo was noisy, crazy, and really off the wall. He knew the NFL, but that was about it when it came to sports. His baseball knowledge was minimal, and that wouldn't have worked on the Giants' flagship! Sileo was also completely uninterested in the NBA, college hoops, hockey, tennis, golf, soccer,
or any other sport.
So why did KNBR hire Dan Sileo, even it was only part time, and then put him on with a list of forgettables on 'The Ticket'
(remember Ron and Don? Or Damon 'the Dog?')?
It was at about the same time that Dan Sileo came aboard that KNBR started to lose some of its luster. Most sportstalk stations such as KNBR also fell victim o the 'ESPN syndrome' in the late 1990s...local radio execs and PDs were so slavish and worshipful of everything ESPN radio was doing, that most of them just tried to do a cheaper copy of it on their stations. The end result has been a dumbing down of sports talk, and the on-air inclusion of noisy, empty headed buffoons like Dan Sileo!
3:31
ReplyDeleteYou sound like one of nature's misfires. What kind of comparison ts that to Nancy Reagan's death, what kind of sick little bastard are you? Why would that scenario come to mind, you dumb POS.
This guy gets fired but Michael Savage is entertaining. Ray Talliafero is accused of playing the race card but Michael Savage is entertaining.
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