Wynalda vs. Rome: The Kickball Continues
Just when it seemed any verbal jousting between syndicated sports talk host Jim Rome and ESPN soccer analyst Eric Wynalda had ceased, Wynalda fired another ridiculous salvo while appearing on a Washington D.C. local radio show Tuesday.
According to the blogspot AwfulAnnouncing.com, radio host “Elliott in the Morning” was making a point about how Rome disliked soccer, even though his alma mater, UC Santa Barbara, won the national title last year. Wynalda said he invited Rome to that game, but Rome declined, saying he was more proud of his school’s 1978 national water polo title.
“That’s why I call him ‘Kim Rome’ now,” Wynalda said. “He’d rather watch a buy of guys in Speedos.”
This comes about a month after Wynalda served a suspension from ESPN for stating in an Internet blog interview Rome could perform a sex act upon him because of Rome’s distain for soccer. Wynalda eventually appeared on Rome’s show to apologize for that first statement.
Rome, who might just want to invite the Westlake Village native Wynalda to his annual “Smack Off” competition Friday, told me he has not responded to the latest Wynalda shot on his daily morning radio show this week because “I have better things to concern myself with than what Eric Wynalda is doing or saying. I will say this, the guy came on my show, apologized to me personally, in front of a few million people and then issued a similar apology which was read on ESPN – and obviously didn’t mean a word of it.
"Soccer, as ridiculous as it ever was.”