Dick Vitale
what started the billy packer/dick vitale feud?
I was watching an interview with Billy Packer on HBO last weekend and at the end Bryant Gumble asked the interviewer if he asked him about Dick Vitale and all the interviewer said was "no" and then chuckled.
I've checked a few blogs and articles these were the best (and most tame) description of the relationship.
From http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05093/482128.stm :
Are CBS analyst Billy Packer and ESPN Dick Vitale feuding? No. But they're hardly friendly, either. "I've never been to Dick Vitale's house," Packer told reporters earlier this week. "I've never had a meal with him. I think I've talked to him one time on the phone. I've never written him a letter. I've never written him a note. He's never written me a note. "We've never played golf -- I don't even know if he plays golf. The things we have in common -- I understand that he has a great family, a real neat wife -- I have likewise. But that may be the only thing we have in common." The loquacious Vitale insists there is no feud, either. "I have great respect for Billy, I really do," Vitale told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "I have great admiration for any man who has done what he has done over the past 25 years. We just happen to do it in different styles ..." Packer is calling the Final Four for the 24th consecutive year for CBS.
From http://www.controlscaddy.com/A55A69/bccaddyblog.nsf/plinks/CBYE-69G63U :
Hatfields and The McCoys in Durham, NC
There is a minor college basketball game going on in Durham, North Carolina tonite. #2 North Carolina is taking on #8 Duke. This tobacco road rivalry is one of the most intense in the country. But this is not the Hatfield/McCoy feud I wish I was there to see. There is an even better dislike under the roof at Cameron tonite with Billy Packer and Dick Vitale under the same roof. Packer does not like Vitale at all because Packer is, well, just Packer (not the most engaging man in the world). Vitale is calling the game for ESPN and Packer for Raycom/JP Sports. Oh to be a fly on the wall with these two men sitting not more than 20 feet from one another.
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