Thursday, January 10, 2008

Dan Le Batard's Comments on ESPN's Pardon the Interuption

What is this guy talking about? Is he attempting to offend as many people as he can in under 50 seconds, or is he just trying to get fired?

7 comments:

MisterJ said...

Why did he bring up race and religion? That makes no sense.

Josh said...

That's what I thought. I first read about this in an article that was in the Deseret News. I didn't believe it, so I decided to check it out.

Codester said...

Wow! And nothing happened to this guy? I've seen him on PTI before and never really cared for his opinions. I don't really see where relgion and race contributed to the Dolphins only winning one game.

Josh said...

I haven't checked into this lately, but the last that I heard nothing was done to him. I don't know that ESPN will have him back on because it is not worth the risk of having him say something else stupid.

His comments were ridiculous. I honestly laughed because I couldn't believe that he said what he did.

MisterJ said...

You know, you'd never hear this in wrestling. In fact, there have been world champions from all three groups.

Mexicans: Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio

Samoans: The Rock

Mormons: Don Leo Jonathan

(Jimmy Snuka won some minor world titles, and he's both Mormon and Samoan.)

Yet another reason why wrestling is better than other sports.

;)

Josh said...

You don't hear about this in wrestling because the people who get paid to discuss the athletes are not idiots.

There have been some pretty good football players from each group too.

Samoan: Junior Seau, David Dixon, Luther Elliss, Chris Fuamatu-Ma'afala...

Mexican: Anthony Munoz, Tony Gonzalez (latino, but born in California)...

Mormon: Steve Young (former 2 time league MVP and Super Bowl MVP), Brady Poppinga ([Green Bay] not great, but not bad either), David Dixon, Andy Reid (coach), Chad Lewis, Ryan Denny...

MisterJ said...

Chris Fuamatu-Ma'afala and Mormon Brett Keisel are both Steelers. Yay!