Is there one so tawdry it towers above?
I have licked my lips all morning over the latest Anthony Wiener sexting scandal. And of course you know Anthony Wiener. He was an up and coming political star. An angry dynamo with a funny name but passionate liberal heart.
He was a congressman and oh how he would scream about injustice etc. etc. face bulging. Neck bulging. He was so passionate, so on point, that the Clinton family even tapped him to be Hillary’s number one aide’s husband!
Huma and Anthony were married and now he was part of the Clinton machine. Future assured!
Except he tweeted pictures of his penis bulging to a woman and got found out.
It happened lots more times and he was totally disgraced but Huma stuck with him until yesterday when it happened again. This time with his penis bulging next to his toddler sleeping. It don’t get any worse!
He is a sexting monster!
All of it made me wonder, though. What is surfing’s greatest ever scandal?
Kolohe Andino sexting Danny Clayton’s girlfriend?
Very funny.
Very very funny.
Very very very funny.
Do it get douchier than Danny Clayton? I think it can’t!
But surfing’s greatest ever scandal?
Matt Warshaw, are you there?
Anyone?
What about Sally Fitz shacking up with that NRL player? How could the little minx get involved with him? A NSW player no less. Tragic…
Does Eddie Rothman count? Mainland Jew-not that there’s anything wrong with that-running da hui? That seems ass-backward to me…
Luke Davis vs. Reef
the Raoni Monteiro accidental text “send the sluts up to my room” to his pregnant wife is a good one.
by the way aint he out on drugs or something?
Classic, I hadn’t heard that one!
Ouch!
AI catching dengue in Portugal was clearly the biggest scandal ever. And Occy and his coke binges. And TC and his meth. And everyone in Santa Cruz and their meth. Actually, this list is way too long to even start this time of night.
Definitely Sarge and his, er, um… ‘scrapbook’ in Poll position.
Billabong’s IPO – a close (but not too close.. ey ey!) second.
Fanning’s infamous “Fcukn Jew” moronic harangue – a distant third.
Every semi-illiterate Surf ‘Journalist’ who actually believes their own (contrived) advertising. And finally: the circumstances of Andy’s tragic death, deserves an unfortunate mention. RIP
Brock Little steaming the windows up with 18-year-old Kate Bosworth during Blue Crush shoot was a juicy if harmless little scandal. As the only responsible man on the North Shore, Brock was hired to chaparone Kate around the island and keep her pure and out of trouble. But zing! Another Cupid bullseye. Brock-Kate lasted longer and were twice as glam as Kaipo-Madanna.
Way to come through with the juice, Warshaw. Love your work.
chas smith scamming an entire book out of the dubious premise that hawaii is more dangerous than the middle east.
But that was just pure genius, with style.
The WSL peddling the King’s artificial wave as the future of public surf parks. Nick Carroll rightly called it fantasy economics because it won’t be sustainable for years, if ever. Don’t get me wrong, I love Kelly and I dig the contribution proper man-made waves can make to surfing at all levels.
But his pond is 700m, it’s only a right, and produces 5 or 6 (perfect) waves per hour…invite 2 friends and you’re set. The golden ticket promotion is great marketing, but it proves it’s only for the lucky few or just the elite still.
Please Chas Smith, you must follow the financial donation trail to WSL Pure, a brand new organisation with no charitable contributions to date. Don’t turn gay for the King just yet and please be true to journalistic integrity and research your heart away.
And why is nobody talking about Wavegarden? They have quietly held pole position in the industry for years. Yes, everyone wants perfect 4-5 foot tubes and Kelly definitely makes his wave look big. But how is that scalable in volume or height?
P.S. it’s boring to only do only one maneuver on a wave, even a perfect tube.
Kelly answer all those questions in occy podcast
no, Kelly not answer all podcast
My dream, prairie flatland with a wave ditch. You could buy a farm or ranch and have it pay for your own wavepool, 160 acres in Kansas $200k
My top 3 scandals would be sarge, sarge and sarge with sarge and sarge rounding out the top 5.
Wiener by name…
What ever happened to the story on Lindsay Lohan spending a night in one of the houses at Pipe? Did we not secure footage of the ensuing gang bang?
She and her weird p.a left in a hurry the next day cause no one would get in bed with her. Or actually the one she wanted wouldn’t
Sarge giving the Vatican a run for it’s money?
The biggest scandal is the surf media not reporting scandals
I’d like to know who’s stoned, and what drug they’re on
Just you wait!
Kolohe is paying $250 for the win at Trestles he’s fully capable so my question is $1, $10 or a $20?
If Kolohe is paying (the judges) $250 for the win in Trestles, that’d make a good scandal …. oh ok, gambling question, my mistake
lay the big bucks, do it for Pauline Menczer!
What about Kelly telling Occy on his podcast that Michel Bourez has a hideous unwatchable style?Seriously, minute 37 he compares Cheyne Horan to Bourez but with the disclaimer that Horan had style.
Occy has a podcast? where is?
https://youtu.be/wpLBjqNt82M
You made it that far?
Sad indictment of self
What>!? I could listen to Occy’s sweet marble mouth gargle vegimite as I laud of to sleep any night of the week. *nohomo?
Surfing’s boys club stays so tight lipped. Maybe in a couple decades some of the goods will slip out in some ghost-written memoir when none of us care anymore, but the Hobgoods realize that their Fox checks stopped showing up and they have 3 more years until social security kicks in.
Damo has a good financial advisor, which is more than we can say for our favorites here at bg. How’s GoPro doing these days chas?
Kolohe: “Dad! What are these pictures? Were you using my phone while I was in the water again?”
P.S. If Kolohe rooted Danny Clayton’s chick or at least ruined their relationship through some other form of impropriety, he is now my favorite American surfer.
Khloe “scandal”: weak. Much better are Wardo’s domestic violence incidents and of course the untold story behind Andy Iron’s demise. Yet to come is Medina becoming Gabriella (tits and all), in order to be able to win multiple Women’s World Titles.
That shit that went down with “Rabbit” Bartholomew on the North Shore was pretty scandalous, downright egregious, certainly dangerous and funny fucking Australian situation-ous
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
I wish Eddie would have let nature take it’s course with that one. Those guys should have had to feel the consequences of all that shit talking they were doing.
I agree, Australians should be somewhere between Austrian and Japanese surfers on surfings hierarchy ladder.
If Eddie had just let things roll out naturally. The brash, loud, set-taking traveling Australian surfer of today would be nothing but a meak, limp wristed inside surfer, having to buy set waves off his Balinese surf-guide.
It’s never to late though… maybe the 30th of August could be “International Bash an Ozzie Surfer” day from now on forward?
EXACTLY!!!!! I think it should be a date sometime in the winter (in the northern hemisphere) that way there will be plenty of chirping Aussies to choose from when the date rolls around.
been to Indo lately?
it’s Russians that need pegging back.
See Drago over there paddling like a spastic wildebeest…….you take him……I’ll cheer from the beach and be first on the scene with a cold bintang.
So you are saying that they would still be ahead of Kiwi surfers on the hierarchy?
Is there another a country on earth with a quality coastline the likes of which NZ has but still manages to produce so few decent surfers?? NZ will never even have a top 10 surfer let alone a world champion.
We even garnered a mention on the hierarchy list?? That’s fantastic news Ryanno.
They used to say the same about Brazil.
Mate, sadly I have to agree with you. My fellow countrymen are truly woeful when O.S. Embarrassing actually. We’re generally ignorant, disrespectful and insensitive to local custom, particularly when Alcohol is involved. Almost-but-not-quite justification for Jihad.
We’re not quite on par with our Pommy compadres, and nowhere near the entitled, coked-up n greedy Brazilian travelling surfer. Yet.