We promise not to get deep into politics - you can get that from a myriad of other places. But we have to comment on this Sarah Palin sportscast.

First, the clip from Saturday, March 5th, 1988. Palin was working at KTUU-TV in Anchorage, and in our opinion wasn’t too terrible. Then we read this comment from Ed Glosser, Trivial Psychic (play on an old SNL sketch) featured on Deadspin.com:

“Palin must’ve stunk because around that time they added a guy named John Carpenter who (by Alaskan standards) was way better,” Ed said. “I grew up in Anchorage and I can say definitely she’s the worst sports anchor any state”.

And let the bitterness begin.

We can’t judge Palin’s TV career on one clip, but we have to assume every sportscast she did is not as bad as what Ed describes, and we severely doubt she was the worst sports anchor ever. What we saw wasn’t too bad - she didn’t fumble or stumble, seemed somewhat confident, and didn’t say anything terribly assinine. So she used a little schtick? We’ve heard and seen FAR worse, some of it on ESPN.

Keep in mind she was 24 years old, which is not terribly unusual for markets like Anchorage. No offense to the city - I hear it’s pretty - but that’s market 150 out of 210, just ahead of Panama City, Florida, Terre Haute, Indiana, and Bangor, Maine. You’re not going to get Dan Patrick in Alaska. People start their careers in those markets and move on.

I was a sportscaster at 24, Thermocaster worked in a similar field at the same age, and I’m sure we’d both rather not remember some of our broadcasts at that age, much less have them dregged up and mocked two decades later.

If there’s one thing you can criticize, it’s this - the over the shoulder graphic:

Honestly, Lots of Dogs? You couldn’t find something better than that?