If you’re a guest on a television program like “The Jerry Springer Show” there’s a good chance you’re gonna be involved in a fight. When you’re visiting “Jimmy Kimmel Live” the only punches are of the verbal variety and they’re thrown by the host. Unless Marv Albert crosses paths with 50 Cent and his entourage. Then you get a cross cultural incident of epic proportions.
The L.A. Times has the details:
As Albert arrived, with an entourage of one, TNT public relations specialist Jeff Pomeroy, there was a sudden scuffle when a multitude of 50 Cent protectors seemed unfamiliar with Albert. There was shouting (“It’s Marv Albert,” yelled a Kimmel show guard, a pronouncement that seemed to have no effect on the 50 Cent phalanx.) There were obscenities. A fist or two flying. A “Don’t you put your hands on me” pronouncement.
And finally Albert made it to his waiting room, relatively unruffled but slightly puzzled. “Did you see that?” Albert said. “I thought they were kidding, but then I realized they weren’t.”
Thank the lawd 50 had his protectors there to keep him safe from Marv F’n Albert. Even if they didn’t recognize Albert as a broadcasting icon the man is 68 years old. What the hell was he gonna do to a ‘roided out Fiddy? Recant old NBA stories until 50 killed himself like the passengers listening to Ted Striker stories in Airplane!? Nag him death about putting on a jacket? Bite him? Oh..
Marv Albert gets recognition from Jimmy Kimmel, but not everyone at show [Los Angeles Times]
