Tampa Bay Radio Host Gets Sensitive Over Anti-Lightning Signs

From NESN.com's Mike Hurley

Mike "Cowhead" Calta became known in Boston on Wednesday as the guy who led the protest to remove signs outside the TD Garden. The signs were playful attempts at humor, taking lighthearted shots at Lightning fans. But Calta rallied his listeners to call the Bruins' marketing people until they took down the signs. The Bruins eventually complied, prompting Cowhead to brag to the St. Petersburg Times that he and his listeners moved in "like Seal Team 6" ... as in the Navy SEAL unit that just killed Osama bin Laden.

As tasteless as the comment was, it was just the beginning. Cowhead, originally famous for his work with Todd "Bubba the Love Sponge" Clem, decided to engage with every person who sent criticism his way on Twitter. He called a woman from the Bruins' marketing department a "woman/dude" and a "wookie." He responded to an insult by saying "Holy [expletive] you people are retards." He told one person whose picture included a female that "you are an adorable gay couple!" He called a Bruins fan with a red beard a "ginger." "The best part about twitter is that I don't have to actually hear your retarded boston [expletive] accents!" he wrote.

Wow. So far in this Bruins postseason run, there has been no shortage of radio drama between the Boston market and radio hosts like Montreal's Tony Marinaro and journalist Pat Hickey. The exchange between the Montreal media and guys like Felger and Andy Gresh has been insightful, revealing, and most of all, fun for the audience.

All that was taken o the next level thanks to this jackass "Cowhead". I mean, urging your listeners to call a professional sports teams marketing department to take down signs because your feelings are hurt? What a pathetic fraud. For a guy who rips people on twitter like this to be so upset over playfully designed marketing initiatives speaks to the quality of both Tampa Bay's sports media as well as their fans. I know people compare Tampa to Montreal but this might be actually more pathetic than calling 911 for a hockey play.

I think this is all a stunt by Cowhead to drum up interest in a sports town that can barely support their baseball team, has an has an NFL team that is less than competitive, and cling to their 2004 cup like the holy grail. This town also referred to itself as TitleTown a few years ago. What?

Cowhead is clearly just a loud blowhard attempting to create some sort of rivalry, which makes sense. However he is obviously a cartoon character who will go right back to having twitter battles once Tampa is eliminated, because just like the rest of that town, no one gives a shit about sports. You want to get taken seriously, stop being such sensitive pussies and then talking tough on Twitter.