The New York Post is reporting that Sid was invited to do the Top 10 on David Letterman while the Pens were in New York last week, but turned it down. Puck Daddy did their own Top 10 List of reasons why Sid may have turned them down. Personally I think it’s because he’s on Team Coco. 
Maybe Sidney Crosby is a fan of Jay’s or maybe he was upset at not being invited to Dave’s Super Bowl bash with Oprah, but folks around the NHL sure would be interested in learning even one of No. 87′s reasons for rejecting David Letterman’s invitation to host his Top Ten while the Golden Boy was in New York this week.
Upon learning of the snub, Slap Shots was told that this wasn’t the first time Crosby, who last year declined to appear on NBC’s “Today” show following Pittsburgh’s Stanley Cup victory, had rejected a request from Letterman’s “Late Show.”
We only can imagine the demands on Crosby’s time. Yet, in the days that hockey was front-page and back- page material after Canada gold, U.S. silver in overtime attracted more television viewers in the States than any game since the Lake Placid Miracle in 1980, it’s difficult to understand why the NHL’s most recognizable player and ambassador refused to spread the gospel.
Rest assured that league personnel who have been ridiculed for not having the imagination or wherewithal to capitalize on hockey’s Olympic exposure, are miffed.
Maybe Crosby thinks that World Wide Pants belong to Alex Ovechkin.
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Worth its weight in gold … provided the guy with the gold is up for it. Larry Brooks of the NY Post wrote on Sunday that David Letterman’s show extended an invitation to Sidney Crosby when the Pittsburgh Penguins were in New York last week, and were denied.
What better way to examine this decision than with a Top 10 list, right?
From the NY Post:
Upon learning of the snub, Slap Shots was told that this wasn’t the first time Crosby, who last year declined to appear on NBC’s “Today” show following Pittsburgh’s Stanley Cup victory, had rejected a request from Letterman’s “Late Show.”
We only can imagine the demands on Crosby’s time. Yet, in the days that hockey was front-page and back- page material after Canada gold, U.S. silver in overtime attracted more television viewers in the States than any game since the Lake Placid Miracle in 1980, it’s difficult to understand why the NHL’s most recognizable player and ambassador refused to spread the gospel.
Well, it’s not that difficult. But it is a bummer. So, from the home office in Cole Harbour, here are The Top 10 Reasons Sidney Crosby Declined the Letterman Invitation:
10. Crosby and other high-profile Olympians for the U.S. and Canada went beyond the call with the media and appearances for a few weeks, and once the last beaver was deflated at the Closing Ceremonies it was back to NHL business — especially for a guy with Crosby’s focus. So it’s understandable that he’s turned the page on the Olympics and that he’s probably exhausted by them, too.
9. Worried that Letterman would only leave him sloppy seconds on the cute staffers.
8. Crosby was worried about the bitter U.S. fans in a New York audience receiving him the same way the Ryan Miller loyalists did in Pittsburgh.
7. Took “how to grow the game” media relations advice from the Russian Olympic Team. That said: If we’re going to kill the Russians for not speaking to the media during the Olympics and failing to promote hockey, then Crosby deserves the same rhetorical smack upside the head for declining a major crossover guest spot like Letterman.
6. Worried that Pierre McGuire will drug Paul Schaffer and replace him on stage, leading to uncomfortable leering during segment taping.
5. He doesn’t believe a Letterman appearance is a way for the NHL to capitalize on the Olympic momentum in a smart, hip way, and without selling out by fundamentally changing the game for casual fans. He would be very, very wrong, of course.
4. He , or Reebok, found the content to be offensive. Or, after seeing what the New York Rangers had to do with Madonna in their last appearance on Letterman, was worried he’d have to be a human rickshaw for Lady Gaga.
3. Refuses to do any more late night television until Scott Gomez is invited for a guest spot on The George Lopez Show.
2. Doesn’t understand that the most popular player in a given sport — LeBron James, Peyton Manning — has an obligation to that sport and its fans to capitalize on moments of ultimate success in order to attract more fans and raise the profile of the sport. Or, in the short form: Does anyone believe Ryan Miller wouldn’t have been on Letterman last week if the U.S. had won gold?
And the No. 1 reason Sidney Crosby Declined the Letterman Invitation …
Two words: Team Leno.
