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A) they shouldn't have to, do you shut off social media on your free time so you can focus on your job? B) this is nothing new in our society, shown by the words of Elton John: Even when you died Oh the press still hounded you All the papers had to say Was that Marilyn was found in the nude That was how long ago? C) This is newer to sports though, and I think we can point to Tiger Woods as the tipping point, although the coverage of TO by espn, putting some of their best journalists (funny they used to have a ton of those) on TO watch was a very jarring shift to me at least. That was staged by the agent too, probably with the promise of future exclusive info. I've cut the cord though so haven't had espn in my life basically for the last four years. Grantland (rip), Dan Le Batard Show (I've been in South Florida for the last 4 years and have been listening quite regularly well before he went to espn), and well written in depth articles that come across my Twitter feed is how I do sports now. Really sad to see how espn devolved into what it is now. Cold Pizza compared to First Take enough said.

I don't know, if I see something I don't like I will typically say something. If he raised what is a valid concern and something that could lead to espns eventual downfall (manufacturing news, and being basically a gossip, hot take rag) and then was told to go f himself essentially, I fully support what he did. In some situations quitting is the most appropriate course of action, but other times more subversive means to bring about change, or to start a conversation, are necessary. What if they told him right before they started filming, 'we don't care what you think, don't forget that espn makes the people, not the other way around, we pay you to read the teleprompter, not to have opinions.' On top of that they are having massive layoffs and he is probably seeing talented disruptive leaders being let go, while kiss asses and followers keep their jobs.

They have production meetings where they choose the topics that will be discussed. Those choices are typically made by the show's producers, not the talent. Producers get their marching orders from the executives, so no he doesn't get to pick what he talks about. Actually similar to coach/gm relationship. GM picks the players, and coach chooses how to use them. Sounds like Edwards is getting sick of his GM (producer) forcing players (topics) on him that don't match his scheme (desired discussion topics). Think he might even be thinking about it that way, because he said pretty much exactly that right before he really blew up.

What I took from that is his underlying frustration is the huge amount of time spent discussing and moralizing on what players say, instead of breaking down games. Throw in deflategate, Hardy, Rice, TO, etc I think he just had enough. I think his anger at shady is more that if players would just not talk about that stuff, the media wouldn't have anything like that to talk about, and they would talk about the games. He was about to walk off stage in protest, and I'm sorry but no way dude is getting that worked up about what one player said to the media. This is a much deeper issue for him, definitely wasn't what he signed up to discuss and hopefully this leads to some changes in how espn does things (it won't, but would be nice).

I think that might be going too far, because he spoofs himself as a race baiting blowhard all the time. He is no Sully though, who is of the 'current/past' generation, that's for sure!

If you don't already you should listen to Lebatard. This is one of the main tenants of everything he does on his radio show. Entire show is a spoof on sports radio.

Thanks for the detailed breakdown!!!

How much does the Jets win hurt? Assuming Bills win out including week 17 against the Jets.

You can make a ton more money playing baseball though. Could football's key to survival be that it isn't played all year long, like baseball and basketball, so the cost of developing the players is more heavily the responsibility of the school districts than the families. Elite go to elite camps over the summer, sure, but I'm sure you get scholarships for that.

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Absolutely, but what about their moms? What if the general perception shifts and football isn't seen as an appropriate suburban and urban sport, and is relegated to both really densely populated areas with real low per capita income, and really rural areas, where cost of living is low so, a little goes a long way. What if Lebron played football? What if TO played basketball? Shoot, what if Hogan played lacrosse? Pegula should of brought a basketball team back to Buffalo or Rochester before investing that much in a sport that has substantial risk (especially at that price). Happy he did of course. A 19 year old is definitely going to feel invincible, but they are more going to feel guided by their friends to play a more glamorous sport. Also, don't discount a kid's morality...they are hitting the kids who will later have head injuries, and they are hurting future loved ones. Thinking lacrosse has a chance to get big actually. Played for a long time, and the sport has surprisingly few head injuries from my experience and is a ton of fun, with really good college scholarship opportunities.

If I told you you could live till you were 90, but the last 10 of those years were in a near vegetative state, the last twenty in severe pain where any kind of movement hurts, and the last fifty (since you were forty) you are a complete jerk to everyone around you. Literally having crazy intense mood swings over truly nothing, where your family has no idea if you will straight up murder them, because it's that bad and they watch the news and others with CTE have done that, and even more have killed themselves. Would you sign up for that at 19 fully knowing the future? Would you sign your future family up for that? Seriously, would you?

That should have been a late hit on Tyrod, and that's where hurt his shoulder too.

The Wiz, what I'm trying to say is if you cut the super bowl audience down to 10% the advertisers aren't paying that amount for the ads. Basically, if they show a super bowl ad in the forest, does anyone see it? The answer is no, there is nothing to show because it doesn't get made.

First pretty sure the non profit status was revoked this summer, anyway it's only related to the league office, which is pennies and forces them to disclose executive compensation. Second, I would say at least half of the people who currently watch the super bowl, if not more, only watch for the commercials and halftime show. A huge reason you can charge so much for those ads is because you are getting such a crazy diverse demographic watching a single show for three hours...that never happens. They would easily lose 75% of their audience (I wouldn't pay unless the Bills were in the game), and probably 90% of the their non standard demographics. Plus people watch the super bowl at parties...

Super interesting, thanks for sharing!

Beat ya to it Mangled that quote, but that game was clearly the sound of street cats making love toward the end. Huge win though, extra rest before the Pats too...

Oh it looks like rain, the rain is surely gonna come

Nah, think using a different word for it is giving it a free pass. Call it what it is. Race is just an arbitrary classification of combined characteristics, and treating someone poorly because of one of those characteristics, be it skin color, gender, religion, sexual orientation, hair color, etc is racism. Otherwise it's a bit like people in the 1700 saying they weren't racist because slaves were property not people. Empathy, humility and passion it where it's at, and people who forget that will wake up one day, realize the world has turned and now they have some arbitrary physical characteristic they have no control over and they will understand the true nature of racism, be it skin color, or being left handed, or having a disability. Anyway, speaking out classification, that qbr does not do the best job! Does it do better with a season's worth of data?

You going for funny there? Cause it just makes you look like a racist piece of sh$t...but don't worry, not going to explain it to you. Let me guess, you're one of those people who think anti bullying campaigns are the pc police gone wild.

We thank you Dr. Dareustein...very cool s/n!

Let's not forget the public is also paying for these stadiums...double whammy

What happened to the posts between 5 & 7:30?

Terrorist! Those words lead me to think you might be a terrorist, or at least an enemy combatant, which means a secret court can grant a warrant to review your internet searches and phone calls from the last however long they have been being stored in that server farm I'm Utah. Fourth amendment is literally shredded, but instead of people getting angry about it we support our Troops (notice the capital T,the individual troops make huge sacrifices, I'm talking about the support for the military industrial complex which is really the propaganda we are being fed), and get all riled up about fringe issues, like gun rights, immigration, gay marriage, abortion, welfare. All those issue are really important, but we are so set to have hot takes, and instant solutions that we lose the bigger point...those problems are complex, and the only way to solve them is to agree that they need a complex solution, that focuses on the cause and not the symptoms. Back to military buying spots at sporting events. They get a discount and preferential access to those spots (walmart would love to sing the national anthem I'm sure, and I mean really walmart, because corporations are people, haven't you heard?), and the it's no coincidence they are involved in the opening ceremonies of games. It's simple behaviorism, people are happy at the start of games, they see the military while having good feelings, and next time they see something military, they get happy feelings. Propaganda 101.