"I heard a lot of people complaining, more than I’ve ever heard, just about that one guy…"
The Pensacola surfer and comic Sterling Spencer has added his considerable voice to the attack on Erik “Elo” Logan following the sudden, and still mysterious, disappearance of the WSL’s high-profile CEO.
Logan, who is fifty-two, was disappeared by the WSL mid-event at the Vivo Rio Pro, no reason given, only a curtly worded press release that neither thanked nor exalted their high-profile CEO.
“Today, the World Surf League (WSL) announced that CEO Erik Logan has departed the company, effective immediately. As the WSL begins the process of identifying a new CEO, Emily Hofer, WSL’s Chief People and Purpose Officer, and Bob Kane, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Legal Officer, will jointly lead the company and continue to drive the WSL’s mission to showcase the world’s best surfers on the world’s best waves as the global home of competitive surfing.”
Despite cultivating what may have felt like enduring friendships on tour, at one point world champ Filipe Toledo edged close to BFF status, any allies of Logan have been conspicuously silent. Even the WSL’s preferred media outlets joined the pile-on, their sudden shift pointed out earlier this week by Chas Smith.
Now, Sterling Spencer, who is thirty-seven and the son of Gulf Coast legend Yancy Spencer III, and who hit worldwide fame in 2010 when he posted a dubbed video of a kid trying to get Jeremy Flores’ autograph at J-Bay, with Flores strangling Spencer at the Surfer Poll awards the same year in revenge, has added his voice to the harangue.
After pointing out Logan’s non-surfing bona fides with several brutal archived clips, Spencer delivers his coup de grâce.
“Everyone hated the guy… I heard a lot of people complaining, more than I’ve ever heard, just about that one guy, everyone hated him, poor guy. I wonder what it feels like for him, literally, an entire surf community hates you and all he wanted to do was good.”
There is a slight upside, as Spencer points out.
“I think he’s rich so he can be depressed in a nice house.”
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The entire structure of the WSL is ridiculous. And surfing contests are boring to watch, even for fans. A suggestion;
30 minute heats.
No priority.
Highest total score wins the heat.
Must ride a wave concurrently within time frame (every 2 minutes eg) or there are point penalties. – No dropping in. Unside surfer has priority. Snaking is acceptable. Paddle battles are acceptable.
That would be a start.
Surf comic. Right. Sort of like Derek and Charles and journalists.
Spencer kills it like no other
you got that right! what are we going to play for an encore?
I don’t know much but I do know if I listened to that I would leave dumber than when I started.
Do we still like Jonah?
https://www.complex.com/pop…
only if he shines in the upcoming Jerry Garcia bio. brutal article in Complex: surfer girl turns both cheeks against Jonah. nothin like the wrath of a woman! great ass…
I like Hill even more after this story. He told this girl what he was ok with, if she didn’t like it they could split. One yeah later this nobody longboarder that only had her 15 minutes of fame because of Jonah is publicly posting private messages! If she is sponsored, and I was her sponsor I’d drop her immediately!
Watched the first 30 seconds and the question I have is does that fat fvck hiding his gut with a pillow surf?? They seem very very concerned that ELO doesn’t. The irony
You all continue to rant on ELO but the reality is he was hired by DZiff and surfing has been getting fucked over since that worm got hold of the WSL , starting hating on the source Dirk Ziff the king Kook.
All he wanted was to do good.
Fark off you apologist cuntee.
The executive producer was a giant dick head. Promoting himself far beyond anything imaginable. We’ve never seen a bigger ego wank than this, oh cept for the Slater.
Cheers, a
Let’s not forget Nick Carroll
Hahahar – yes well there’s a life long Slater apologist that found a corporate teat to suckle late in life.
Can not. Will not. Nope.
ELO exit is definitely somehow related to the global leftist cabal.
That was contextual link equivalent of a Skeleton Bay tube
yep. holding my breath waiting for the end. gasp!
Can a designated badge boy please send sterling spencer a ‘flogging a dead horse’ badge. Thanks.
This pile on is petty.
Blame the people who appointed him, they are the ones who wanted to turn it into a media company. He was just the tool brought in to implement it.
Doesn’t look like he was sacked due to the top 5 and pipe decisions being stupid decisions. So get ready for an elo clone to carry on the same course.
Or else Dirk pulls the pin and we go back to a bare bones tour, probably with ppv.
I Sing the Body Electric
By Walt Whitman
1
I sing the body electric,
The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.
Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?
And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead?
And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?
And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?
2
The love of the body of man or woman balks account, the body itself balks account,
That of the male is perfect, and that of the female is perfect.
I think there’s a lot of truth to your comment. He definitely is not blameless, but his bad calls don’t absolve the people at the very top of the WSL ladder … Although I don’t think it’s petty to hold a ceo of a sports league accountable for bad stuff. Goodell / Silver / Manfred et al get crushed for their decisions by the fan base on the regular (less so in silver’s case) … it comes with the territory. You want to be the king then you need to be ready for the world to try to dethrone you and celebrate when it happens. He could have stayed in his OWN bubble. He took a swing, and he whiffed. So be it.
perpetual, postural, peripheral, vertigo induced from both Skeleton Bay and postural podcasts. double whammy!
CAll TMZ. They nail stories.
I get tired of that guy always standing sucking on his starbucks straw
Considering he shunned our sport for amateur, contrived story telling, no story of his own of his demise.
Surely the next episode of “Sell Out” will air the footage?
I’m confused. You hating on Spencer?
Course not.
Making fun of the fact Elo tried to take our sport and make a reality series out of it to expand their horizons. Their, not ours. He mocked pro surfing with his wall of positive noise as if reality didn’t exist and they paid for it in the worst surf of any tour in my memory (and there have been bad ones).
I just couldn’t recall the name of the WSL series so I named it Sell Out.
That was all the WSL was good at. Is good at. FUCK THE ZIFFS.
blue stamps?
It’s always about you
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amazing
Sterling silver surfers belt-buckle!
Finally something that makes sense of it all