by all accounts he's a gem of a human being too. so, I agree completely even as a non-fanAnother bad take by Double Dion... shocking
Gene tries to have fun and doesn’t care what people think. We could use a little more of that in society imo
Oh I still cringe, almost all the time... but with how long he's done it and the fact he's not a media parasite... I respect him, and even have to give him credit because to come up with that much cringey shit and have all of it be light hearted and non-offensive, it cannot be easy.I used to find the guy annoying and cringey....
However over time I realized how common it is (dare I say acceptable?) for people in the media to make up rumours for the clicks/views or to attack players and/or their families and it really bothered me. Gene Principe doesn't do anything like that; quite the opposite: he's very respectful when he's interviewing players and he comes off as a genuinely nice person.
That alone is enough to put him in my good books, and that's coming from a Flames fan.