Bob Costas: Why Vince McMahon wanted to rip my head off
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- Опубліковано 22 лют 2022
- World-class broadcaster Bob Costas looks back on his 2001 interview with XFL and WWE founder, Vince McMahon. Costas remembers the “unremitting tension” during their interview on HBO’s “On the Record with Bob Costas” and McMahon’s subsequent comments - that he wishes Costas were bigger so he could have fought him.
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Dude, I'm surprised your channel hasn't blown up or a network hasn't picked you up - you're one of the best interviewers anywhere, and your guests open up to you. Always surprised by the questions you ask and research you've done. Keep up the great work!
He works for himself and that's all he needs
The show is on it’s 12th season and is carried in different regions by the four major networks. I think it’s CBS where I live
His show is syndicated across the United States. The show may not just be in your area.
He has over 600K subs. What are you talking about?
Him and Chris VV
TV today is missing intelligent eloquent men like these. I miss Bob Costas. He was such a huge consistent figure in my youth. Nice to see he’s still looking young
Big money surgery will do that
I miss Bob. Graham needs to work on not smiling all the time. It’s unsettling.
He colors his hair
He’s also a gun grabber
Thank his plastic surgeon.
Agree. Bob Costas had no fear in his interviews and he held everyone including himself accountable. Absolutely the GOAT
I remember watching that interview on HBO, it's always been one of my favorites. Say what you will about Bob Costas but I respect the guy in that he didn't back to down to Vince when Vince was trying to intimidate him.
Yeah Bob was pretty brave since a lot of interviewers just get scared and move away
Big respect to Bob! I’m glad I saw that interview just a few months ago. Great attitude from Bob, especially answering the phone call from Vince wanting to do another interview.
Bob Costas leaning forward toward Vince McMahon in response to Vince doing that to him with some intimidation, in their first interview, is the same thing that Bill O'Reilly used to do in interviews if someone leaned forward toward him to make a point. Good for Bob.
Bob had the balls to take Vince to task. Most interviewers just praise him and kiss his ass. Made for a memorable interview.
True. But they were just showing small parts to make him look bad. The women end up beating vince up buy they cut the videos off before that part. Im not fan of wrestling but i did think he had point. I think wrestling is stupid but i understand why he got mad
Costas shit his panties
I couldn’t stand that Pat McAfee interview. I saw it trending on Twitter and several comments that said, “So refreshing to see the human side of Vince.”
That interview was nothing but McAfee blowing McMahon and Vince doing his schtick where he pretends to be humble, but low key brags about himself.
“What time do you go work out Vince?”
“Around 1 or 2 in the morning.”
RAW doesn’t even go off the air until 11 Eastern. So if he’s in Florida, he’s gotta fly back to Connecticut. If he starts his day at 1 AM, he literally never sleeps.
But Vince is full of bullshit stories like that. In an A&E documentary, he claims that when he was 14, he enjoyed spending his weekends going to the bar in North Carolina and beating the shit out of 20 year marines fresh out of boot camp.
From everything I gather, Vince McMahon is a tough guy and a workaholic. But he goes overboard and starts making up fantasy stories. Which is funny considering he claims that he hates pats on the back.
@@StuUngar exactly the macaffe interview was an ass kiss the whole time. All part and parcel to promote WrestleMania and jerk off Vince's ego. Vince is macaffes boss FFS.
I agree with the BS Vince stories as well. They always talk about how he grew up in a trailer park poor with nothing meanwhile his father ran the largest wrestling territory in the country. Those promoters were raking in millions back in the sixties and seventies and he's trying to tell everybody that he grew up in a shack I don't buy it
@Sick of your White guilt Im well aware of that. They say he sleeps around 3-4 hours a night. According to Vince’s story, he’s sleeping none at all, which is physiologically impossible.
An example of Vince exaggerating his stories.
He was a boy genius and remains to be one of the brightest people to ever be in front of a camera. The Sandusky interview is great example of Bob being the best in the business. Just so sharp.
Graham is a great interviewer; I do wish you would have asked Bob about his relationship with Bob Uecker because it's I love when they talk to one another.
Watching these series of interviews with Bob Costas jarred my memory. I really loved his off screen role as a radio baseball play by play broadcaster in the 1984 movie “The Natural”. Even though the film was set in the 1930’s Bob contributed so much to a pivotal point in the movie. The lead character Roy Hobbs of the New York Knights (played by Robert Redford) was in a slump at the plate. As Hobbs came up to bat against the Chicago Cubs in Wrigley Field you can hear Bob Costas setting the scene. The combination of seeing Hobbs break his slump by slamming a home run off a stadium clock (and breaking it!) along with Bob’s energy and enthusiasm in describing the mammoth clout was huge. It helped me reaffirm why I’m a baseball fan even though I live in a major Canadian city where hockey dominates.
I’m just happy Roy hit the homer against the Cubs! 😂
What I admire most about GB is he asks concise questions and allows the subject to fully answer the questions without interrupting. Charlie Rose could've learned a lot about interviewing people on camera from GB.
Charlie Rose was a horrible interviewer He would ask a question, explain the question and then answer the question. Rose was a circus without the big top and only one ring. The man was awful.
Please do 2 more interviews with Costas. He’s amazing
absolutely fantastic interview, Graham!
If you listen to a lot of Vince McMahon stories and even the interview w/ Pat McAfee you learn that - Vince actually enjoys conflict, he likes to be challenged in a respectful way. That interview with Bob Costas, Vince was actually enjoying himself and feeding off the energy.
He’s also a rapist.
Lol sure
Nah, he was getting pissed in that interview.
Vince said if bob was bigger he would have beat the shit out of him. He's quoted in some book on television and showbiz.
Vince is a republican. That should tell you everything.
This man stands alone, a class act if there ever was one.
You have to be kidding……this man has no class, don’t let the glasses and nice suit fool you.
Bob Costas did an amazing interview with Bobby the Brain, definitely worth checking out if you never seen it
One man to call one important game, Costas is probably the guy. Michaels is my favorite national play by play announcer but no one puts perspective on the biggest moments, within the moment, like Costas.
"The shoulders you have. I bet you are ready to play football now aren't you ? XFL was that it ? Oh that was a big one." - Roddy Piper
Bob is so poised and well-spoken.
Funny how Costas talks about liking wrestling as a kid after criticizing K. Malone in Game 6 of the '98 Finals for lowering himself into being booked to a wrestling event against Rodman.
If you watch the actual interview you’ll see Vince make some great points. Such as Bon antagonizing him and not listening to his explanations. He also called him pretentious and an elitist. Can’t say I can argue. Bob Costas has always thought he was God’s gift to the world
vince is much worse. Look up all of the steroid, and pain killer deaths while under his employ. Had a doctor traveling with the wrestlers to supply the drugs, got caught and got away with it. And until the Benoit tragedy would not push a wrestler not on that stuff. Great guy, that one. Not mentioning his dirty dealings putting other promotions out of business.
Bob Costas is a showmen, very elegant in his speaking!
Same with mcmahon
Vince is not 6'5" or 270lbs lmao
Back then a good 6'2 and around 240. Vince was huge..
Vince used to be huge back in the early 80s and 90s.
uh no
David Schulz was 6"5" & 270 back in January 1985
Yeah he was 6'2 and 250 JACKED
Bob put Vince in his element. If Costas was bigger both Vince and Costas could have made a lot of money on a PPV.
This goes deeper than a lot of people realize. At least '98, because Bob went in about Karl Malone and Dennis Rodman "lowering themselves" to participate in the WCW event during the NBA Finals.
6' 5"?? More like 6 feet flat. This guy couldn't have been serious when he said that.
That is a great story. I remember those interviews. Great tv…
The XFL was the real-life incarnation of the Sega Genesis video game “Super High Impact”.
Super High Impact was on SNES too.
@@osaji922 Indeed it was. TY
McMahon was 6' 2" at best- not 6'5". About 245 lbs. A brilliant marketer- McMahon got what he exactly wanted out of that interview. That's what Acosta never understood.
I didn't see McMahon ever having 2 inches on Bret Hart, who was 6'0 at best.
270 pounds is also exaggerated.
Absolute bollocks .....that interview showed mcmahon losing his cool and getting emotional because he wa challenged and couldn't justify it
@@jonjohnson1978. McMahon getting emotional? That was his normal baseline! All these years later- who are you still talking about?
When Vince said I wish Bob was bigger so he could kick his ass he's unconsciously letting people know he's not a bully 🤣 🐐
You'd think that Vince would've had Bob on an episode of Raw at one point
I remember Bob's immidiate funny comment about it. "I know he wasn't gonna hit me because we didn't rehearse it that way".
Bob Costas is arguably the greatest broadcaster ever ! Plus he's of incredible character. I'm confidant to say you'll never read about sexual assault or harassment or domestic violence or other stupid shit about Costas.
If it’s possible, this story just made respect and adore Bod even more.
Bob Costas, former utility infielder for the Toledo Mud Hens and pitching coach for the ‘62 Mets.
Didn't know he played pro ball.
Not too many people know, but there is history between Bob Costas and Vince McMahon. Bob Costas was supposed to make an appearance at wrestlemania seven back in the hay day. But Bob canceled weeks before the event so I am not surprised there’s still some bad blood because of that still
bob costas demonstrates is decided weakness as an interviewer during the vince mcmahon interview, Ncmahon demonstrates his skill of navigating the field of traps which costas continually laid out for him (thus demonstrating his weakness as an interviewer and for that matter, his weakness as a man.)
McMAHON better watch himself!..COSTOS has always reminded me of guy that appears straight laced but knows a lot of shady ass people..he don't go out his way to associate with this type but he definitely knows them
McMahon - 6'5" 270 lbs????? In what universe? One with a magnifying glass perhaps. He's around 6' and maybe 230lbs including quite a bit of body fat. Next you'll be telling me Hulk Hogan was really 6' 8".
Lol right? I was like "I didn't know McMahon was that large". That's because he's not. He's 6'1. Maybe 220?
@@Garrett9339 Yeah and that 6' 1" was in his twenties - he's now 76 - if he's 6' I'd be quite shocked.
Bob Costas is a broadcast hall of famer. Vince McMahon is iconic.
Bob a great report Vince is Vince but is a brilliant person and the wrestling fan's love it
At the end Bob Costas got the last laugh
“They went toe to toe with their mouths…”😂
Costas is the GOAT
Exactly.
Bob Costas is 70 yrs old but looks great!!
the same TV stations that aired the XFL POORLY promoted the games , Most of the Stations didn't even cover the games in their News . Bob Costas Is Great at what he does I just feel that in the short interview time you can't get what you need from Vince McMahon
As someone else who is not tall, I've noticed quite a few larger people who don't like disagreements or try to use their size to intimidate. That only makes you look worse.
When it doesn't work, and that's all you got, it's funny.
Must suck to be a manlet. I promise us who aren't the size of children don't do that, it's just the short man syndrome you're showing.
@@Alexander_Grant The mere fact that you went out of your way to say so tells me that perhaps you do and are overly defensive that you know that your tactic doesn't go unnoticed. In the _30 for 30,_ you can clearly see Vince McMahon lean in, and he says in an interview that if Bob Costas were bigger, he would have beat him up for asking hard questions about the viability of his league.
@@wvu05 🤣I can feel your short man syndrome through the internet.
@@Alexander_Grant Considering that you had to repeat yourself, I can feel your "too stupid to think of a comeback" energy.
Vince has created one of the most iconic and loved brands in all of entertainment.
Bob talks about other people.
And he doesn’t pay simple medical for his “stars” He made millions of these people and doesn’t offer them something so basic.
And he's made millions of the backs of people while they end up crippled, addicted to drugs&alcohol, and broke. Making sure they're only "contract" workers so he never has to pay a dime for their medical expenses or retirement. Alot of them die young from those medical issues and addiction. He's made sure that he's the only game in town so to speak so they have no choices if this is what they want to do all while he makes sure he owns their name and 98% of their merchandising. We won't even go into how he's treated and portrayed minorities on his program or kept a PPV going while someone just died in the ring because of his cheapness and irresponsibility and his blood was still in it because profits over people OR let rampant sexual harassment and assault go on in his company.
Are we supposed to be impressed that he's become filthy rich running his business like a sweat shop and treating people like livestock?
Haha I was on Vinces side on that interview. Bob was antagonising and pushing for a reaction and then pussyfooted around when he got caught out.
thats an interviewers job. To ask tough questions. Vince is a bully and a schmuck.
@@TheJpep2424 journalist don’t need to provoke a reaction, bob pushed way to far at times.
Bobs behavior was out of line. He was looking for a fight with Vince
@@bigjwiz Vince was warned ahead of time that he was gonna get tough questions and he agreed to it. So it’s not Costas’ fault if Vince couldn’t handle it and decided to act like a Roid Raging spoiled brat.
@@coolcat6303 wasn’t the questions that were the issue it was his agenda and the way he interviewed him, asking hard questions and being a tool are two different things!
You’rrrrrrrrre Fiiiiiiiiireddddd.
HHh line is great
Bob a great report and Viane
Bob Costas is and was always a class act.
I remember that interview ( Bobby Knight interview not so much ).
I think the Costas-McMahon tension dates back to the Late Night With David Letterman Third Anniversary Special. Go to 4:18 of this video and you’ll understand: ua-cam.com/video/r1t7FWou_Dw/v-deo.html
and now the Rock owns xfl and has made a huge deal with nfl as a testing ground and will be bringing it back.
Where is he getting 6'5 270 pds??? Vince is 6'2 and around 230 here.
vince loves the challenge
Vince McMahon could NOT do an interview that wasn't scripted..........
Vince's LIFE is SCRIPTED as is the WWE....
Vince can't do interviews where he's being asked challenging questions. Only interviews he can do are the scripted kind like you said or softball questions.
Bruh what? Ik u guys don’t watch wrestling and can’t tell with real and fake but bob basically calling the Xfl the worst program ever to appear on prime time tv and mentioned Owen harts death yeah it was scripted… weirdos
2020s XFL caught in a bit.. Til you know what shut it down. They also created the eagle cam that the nfl uses
Ole pink eye is a real tough guy
Vince would have kicked bobs ass
Vince knew that
bob knew that
everybody who watched the interview knew it
and Vince STILL came off as a ignorant bully.. so...
Vince McMahon is 6'1 not 6'5
Bret Hart knocked Vince out cold. Bret is 5’11 and stood about equal to Vince in height. Vince is nowhere near 6’5. Hogan is around 6’5.
"I wish that Bob was bigger because then I could've kick the crap out of him" no fact check needed here that definitely sounds like something Mr MacMahon would say, gravelly voice and all Lol!
If I had been Bob, I would have said, "don't let my size stop you. My larger brain will take care of you".
@@timhawks6101 eh...50/50 on that comeback
@@HulkVahkiin Thanks!
dont doubt vinces intelligence he turned his dads product from ny to world wide...Bob talks about news ...Vince makes it
Vince completely blew that interview. He clearly has a media coach these days.
Vince fucking rules
Thank you Bob Costas for putting that sex pervert in his place. The best line you delivered in that interview was “Vince you have no wrestling skills, you are a human punching bag when you get in the ring” This man completely turned a wrestling show into a sex expose, filled with filthy language, and vulgar story lines. How many wrestlers is he responsible for killing by requesting that they bulk up with steroids ? I’m glad he’s under indictment right now for sex trafficking and illicit perverted sex acts. Maybe he will have to pay some of his billions to the victims of his horror show.
Vince Mcmahon is NOT 6'5". Why do people always exaggerate stories for effect? He's 6'1
Instead of seeing the premise in a positive way as Vince saying he'd beat him up if he was bigger, as a benevolent admission by Vince that he would never hurt Bob, instead of seeing that premise positively, Bob sees it as what he claimed (of course it's silly, because it wasn't the premise) and it's a further degradation of Vince's character. It wasn't just so Vince could look big and strong and rationalize hurting anyone, as if he was never challenged before and was that immature, that's a blatant invalidating blanket statement, if that was true he couldn't run his business, it was him saying he'd never hurt Bob
it makes perfect sense. you ran your mouth because you knew he would not touch you. since he did not see you as a rival. like when you're 12 and your 8 year old brother taunts you and then runs behind mama's skirt.
Vince’s comment regarding size - he’s keeping it 💯
Ole skool lol
I dig it
Will Smith would have slapped Bob. 😂😂😂😂
And yet the NFL took from the XFL after it first folded. XFL was football, if there was "schlock" then what do you call that military-industrial complex content that snuck its way into the NFL in the 2000s?
Bob Costas is a national treasure!
Yuck
And then Costas shit his pants.
Who was interviewing McMahon when Vince slapped the papers out of his hand?
Vince was not 6'5" or 270 lbs. He was 6'2" and 250 lbs but definitely way bigger than Bob Costas lol 😂.
xfl was not crap. i attended a game at the LA Coliseum. It was great. The play was awesome and the only reason it failed is good old bobby "do no wrong" costas and every other person / company / advertiser making money on the nfl disparaged the xfl at every moment they could. here is bobby some twenty five years later bad mouthing xfl still.
Stuck in the middle huh kinda like me publishers clearing House - WWE
MICRO MACHINE MINI DOZER !!
Bob was lucky that day.
This is even funnier now with all of the Vince allegations. What a narcissist goof.
Vince is 6-5, 275 😯Ha, ok, producers don’t exaggerate or anything
The HBO rep proved how biased the media is. He admitted Costas hated the WWE for years. How do you think the interview is going to go? The media believes it has super-rights to treat people like garbage and no one can call them on it.
Vince and Trump are the kinds of leaders we need. The ones who fall apart at the first sign of criticism.
It's a work
Also Vince was around 200 pounds and 6' 1 maybe even 6'2 at the very most but not nowhere near 6'5 and weighting in at 270 pounds, that's ludicrous. Lmao. Wtf is wrong with people over exatiating to just get attention or more viewers. Something's just never change.
I wonder if Bob and Vince are in a good relationship now
That doofus called Vince 6”5 270. Vince is 6”1 and about 220 at his biggest. Douche chills
Some dude on there 265 pounds and 6'5 who gives a crap! Costos would 4 '2 150 pounds and owned wwe! Turns that wreck into a ✔️
The funny thing is how steroids was always the main media poke at Vince and then Bob's beloved sport became an HGH factory. I love all sports, but Bob should've crapped all over MLB when Mark, Sammy, and Barry all turned into Incredible Hulks.
McMahon was in character. Poor Bob thinks he got him.
he was definitely not in character. Vince was getting legit pissed
to be fair, the interview was kind of unprofessional. Costas kept interrupting Vince. I'm honestly surprised Vince kept his cool throughout 60% of the interview because anyone else getting interrupted as much as he did would have flipped out
Yeah Vince was definitely mad lol, bob also mentioned Owens death and u can tell Vince was straight livid
Vince seemed like he was experiencing a roid rage moment during the interview
That I'd most likely what it was
Vince is 6’1 probably 230lbs.
I wonder if Bob Costas still watches WWE
Costas had an agenda in the McMahon interview and his interview was as fixed as any of the WWE matches
Exactly Bobs behavior was out of line.
It amazes me so many people falls for this BS thinking it's a real interview and not scripted
Dude did cut vince off alot. That gets to be really annoying really fast when you are trying to talk with someone lol. Not saying it was right to get all angry. But i can understand getting majorly annoyed when it keeps happening
vince mcmahon is not 6'5" 270
Smh. I wish Costas would have tried what he did with Vince McMahon on the legend the great bill watts instead. Lol
Oh God it was typical wrestling hype..
Surprisingly I have to side with Vince McMahon on this one because many Sports reporters have it an unnecessary chip on their shoulder about pro wrestling even though we have known it is scripted for years, the local Sports Anchor, a real gem Named Dave Staley was visibly irritated one-a-day because all sports were canceled because of the pandemic and the only thing he had to mention on his segment was WrestleMania, that was the best sports segment Dave Staley ever gave
Maybe Bob needs to be jabbed with a finger since he thinks pointing is jabbing. Vince probably would've put the little cocky know-it-all in traction with a finger jab of doom, a slight variation of the finger poke of doom. Costas tried his best to show who the bigger ass was in that so called interview
Is the answer the same as every other sports personality that gets sick of little Costa’s mouth?