For the past umpteen years, Patriots 5th Quarter has been as anticipated as the games themselves. I mean, who else didn't want to see how hammered the legendary Bob Lobel would be? I swear the man swilled vodka like it was Poland Springs while watching the games, and you got Unfiltered Bob when the cameras started rolling at the end of the game.
Of course, I'd take a hammered Bob Lobel over most any sports anchor alive.
This makes the decision by WBZ TV to release Lobel that much more incomprehensible. For generations of Boston sports fans, he, along with Mike Lynch at WCVB, was one of the true 11 pm news heavyweights in town, and he did it in the "toy department".
MFTM Contributor Bobby told me a story about how one of his first sports memories was of Lobel going bananas over the 1980 USA hockey team beating the Soviets, and how he became a sports fan that very day. I'm sure many of us share the same type of story, and to see him booted out because he makes a little more money than the almighty budget allows is a shame.
There are certain civic institutions that should be allowed to go out on their own terms. Bob Lobel was one, and WBZ has lost at least one viewer because of it.
Boycott WBZ News - they believe in dollars above sense.
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