Every now and then, you learn something new about someone that has been in the public eye for so long, you forget that there are things about them that you didn’t already know. Chris “Mad Dog” Russo made an admission on his SiriusXM show Thursday that may have dropped some jaws.
Mad Dog has made ranting about streaming sports a regular thing in recent years. In discussing his lack of interest in signing up for YouTube TV to get NFL Sunday Ticket in 2023, he admitted that he has never owned a computer.
“The idea now that because they’re on YouTube, I got to get a guy in here, take this service out, get another service, learn how to do it, change the remotes, get a smart TV. I’m not doing it. I’m not doing it,” he said on Mad Dog Unleashed. “I’ve lasted this long without a computer either, so I’ve never been hacked. I am not going to go change my life because the Seahawks and Rams are on YouTube TV.”
Computer or not, Russo isn’t eager to stream any NFL football. He has said many times that leagues moving games to streaming services is an insult to fans. He added that for most people, Sunday Ticket isn’t really necessary.
“I’ll figure out a way to watch the games and there’ll be enough games on where, you know, I have Sunday night. I got Thursday night. I got Monday night, I got four. I got enough time where I can watch the games,” he said. “I’m not going to go crazy. I’m not going to go change my life around so I can sit on my ass for 10 hours every Sunday and watch the games.”
At 63 years old, Russo is proudly old school in his views on sports. Still, to think he has never owned a computer is shocking! In the early 2000s when computers became an inescapable fact of everyday life, he was still on WFAN with Mike Francesa. It seems like between that show and SiriusXM, some employer would have given him a computer to call his own.
To be fair, Russo never said anything about a smartphone. The computing power in mobile devices in 2023 dwarfs anything that he would have worked on in the early 2000s.
