I Got Biffed

I've spent most of my time at this U.S. Olympic media summit wandering around, hoping to find Olympic athletes away from their official round tables, in order to get them to say mildly funny things on video. Like, yesterday I found Misty May-Treanor, the undisputed world
champion of professional women's beach volleyball, who attempted to demonstrate the sport of rhythmic gymnastics for me using a water bottle. That was fun.

Anyhow, I'm heading down this escalator yesterday, and there's a huge video operation at the bottom, with the camera trained directly on me. I'm turning around, trying to figure out what's happening, and it turned out that the camera was actually focused on Biff Henderson, the Late Show correspondent, who was there taping what I assume would be similar-but-a-hell-of-a-lot-more-amusing bits featuring Olympic athletes, for example, lifting large planters.

One production person woman immediately approached me and said I might be on television; another soon followed, thrusting a clipboard and pen in my face and telling me to sign a release. Definitely telling and not asking. Feebly, I asked whether I might score an interview with Biff in exchange for my signature. The production people women wouldn't promise me anything, but Biff reluctantly agreed to talk to me for about 60 seconds, after first insulting my video equipment and assuring me that I didn't really need video of him and he didn't really want to talk to me. Here's the result. (And I should note that I later talked to him away from the bustle, and he was quite charming. His daughter lives in Columbia. Who knew?)

By Dan Steinberg | April 16, 2008; 12:59 PM ET | Category: Media , Olympics
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Reading the title of this post, I thought you were gonna end up covered in manure.

Posted by: Johnny | April 16, 2008 2:26 PM

Biff is a d-bag?

Wow... never would have thought that.

Posted by: BucktownSkinsFan | April 16, 2008 2:27 PM

Boggers get no respect

Posted by: JDP | April 16, 2008 2:33 PM

Who is this slob and why is he on the today show? Sorry you got dissed by a nobody, I mean its like a fatter, tooth missing Charles Barkley

Posted by: Biff is a joke | April 16, 2008 3:10 PM

What an a$$!

Posted by: SteveO | April 16, 2008 3:13 PM

Biff Henderson is the premier sports interviewer on the Late Show! He gets the players to actually open up and do some funny segments. Not Mujibar and Sirajul good (you have to be an old fan to know them)...but check out his trip to Yankee Spring Training.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jz-LuEuCV9A

Posted by: evan | April 16, 2008 3:39 PM

See, I see him being a jerk for a rather obvious reason:

He doesn't have a clue how to do this. His stuff is funny because it's written or set up by the very very good writers at the Late Show. He's not funny -- people laugh at what he says and does 'cause of the writers.

So, for what it's worthy, my interpretation of this video is: the reason he's a jerk about it is becaues you're putting him on the spot. He doesn't know the answer to your question.

Posted by: Nancy | April 16, 2008 4:26 PM

I agree with Nancy. You cornered him. He actually looked scared. He's like the shy kid who everyone thinks is a jerk...but the kid's just shy, not really a jerk.

Posted by: Burn The Couch | April 16, 2008 5:34 PM

Awesome.

Posted by: E.G. | April 17, 2008 8:54 AM

I Got Biffed

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