Stuart Scott spoke straight to us sports fanatics

Stuart Scott RIP

ESPN is by far my favorite sports news source (channels and website), and I used to turn Sports Center on, hoping Stuart Scott was one of the anchors.  I loved his expressions (Boo Yah!), metaphors (He's butter, because he's on a roll), and slang (He must be the bus driver, cuz he was takin' him to school):

Among the features of the new ESPN studio in Bristol is a wall of catchphrases made famous by on-air talent over the years. An amazing nine of them belong to one man.

Reference: Stuart Scott dies at age of 49.

I felt he spoke straight to the crowd that adored sports, and watched sports, and play sports.  He wasn't an anchor per se, but simply one of the guys like us.  Clearly ESPN understood his talent.