Manny Pacquiao team fumbles on Floyd Mayweather Sr. rants

If leather lunged Keith Jackson was “announcing” the Papa Mayweather charges about Manny Pacquiao is on steroids and maybe HGH furor, he would be talking about Pacman the way he used to about running back Herschel Walker.

“That Megamanny…well, he’s just a horse and a half,” the ABC Sports gamecaller would intone. “Look at him go! Whoa, Nelly!”

As for the ongoing flap about Mayweather’s mouthings, KJ would compare it to a Georgia Tech home game going right down to the wire.

“It’s a barnburner!” KJ would shout.

In his latest tirade, Poppa M went into a brand new bag, alleging that the Pinoy Idol may have used a cocktail combo of HGH and steroids.

Well, here’s what this former ABC Sports producer says about the whole mess:

“Fumble, Team Pacquiao! I do believe the Mayweathers have recovered the ball.”

I know some of you more overt Pacjewelhuggers will say, there goes AWG, Average White Gorilla, nitpicking the Pacman team once again. There goes Marley the faultfinder and player of the blame game.

That would be so wrong but you emotionally stunted people will go there. Please stay there and do not pollute the comment section which is so well maintained by Bernie Vee, Arcadia, #1floydfan and a few other stalwarts. (Bernie Vee says he may watch "Darna" on GMA and opt out of the Marquez-Mayweather dance. Perhaps BV enjoys the great costume, I don't know.)

Where did the Whacky Packy crew err? So delighted you asked.

Like this:

1. One denial. Pacman himself should have been the only one to deny this unless conditioning guru Alex Ariza was prepared to do so. Too many comments from the peanut gallery are muddying the waters. Ariza, ostensibly an expert, should be able to demolish Floyd Senior’s rants.

2. Botched PR technique. Freddie Sternburg competently reps Top Rank in terms of Manny PR but who is Pacman’s own spokesperson? Is there such a person?

3. Ignore. The key word, after one blanket denial from MP and/or Ariza, should’ve been to ignore windbag Mayweather. Instead, this has been given the kind of attention the Pope would get if he suddenly announced he was becoming a Baptist.

4. Fact sheet. Pacquiao was tested for banned drugs by the Nevada commission after he fought Hatton May 2 whereas in retirement L’il Floyd has had no such tests in his 21 month hiatus. So who can say he’s surely clean, at least clean as of that May 2 date? Manny can.

5. Trash talk as opposed to libel. There’s a big difference. Any layman knows that so all this chatter about sueing Papa M is needless noise.

The best response on this so far has been Coach Freddie Roach’s jock reply.

“Look at the scoreboard!” Coach Roach yelled, referring to how he and Megamanny trampled Floyd Sr. and Hatton on May 2.

Btw, if you bet that fight to go over six minutes, you lost.

Finally, Pacman inflating himself with drugs, at the end of the day, is just more grist for the publicity mill.

Over in Naptown, the always alert Prof. Guillermo labels Mayweather's rants as boxing hype but considers the speaker a gutter rat sort of individual.

Coming: March 2010, Megamanny against L’il Floyd.

As KJ would say, “Now that’s one horse against another. That’s going to be a barn, barn, barnburner!

“Whoa, Nelly!”

Source: http://www.examiner.com/x-5699-NY-Boxing-Examiner~y2009m9d17-Manny-Pacquiao-team-fumbles-on-Floyd-Mayweather-Sr-rants