Warthog

Blunt, Blustery Odds-Maker Who Never Sugarcoated a Thing

Jimmy 'The Greek' Snyder was famously thick-skinned and unfiltered, delivering his NFL picks on CBS with the gruff, unsentimental confidence of a man who had survived Las Vegas betting wars. Like the warthog, he was not polished or pretty but was tenacious and streetwise, having clawed his way from a Steubenville, Ohio gambling background to national television fame. His notorious 1988 interview — where he made blunt, racially charged remarks about Black athletes that ended his career — perfectly encapsulated the warthog's fatal flaw: a stubborn, hide-like obliviousness to social nuance that ultimately brought him down.