A Lot of (Succ)Sex Leads A Female Reporter To Be Fired... For Being A Female

When I first heard this story, I laughed like almost everyone else.

Then I heard the rest of the story, and then talked to some friends about it, and it, as usual, has gotten completely out of hand!

Susannah Collins, outside the Chicago Blackhawk locker room just before Game 1 of the Western Conference Quarterfinals, made reference to Chicago's President's Cup winning season.

It was how she did it that should've been the subject of chuckles, web fame, and maybe 15 minutes having to explain a pretty bad (though, and I say this as a person who's done college radio, very reasonable) Freudian Slip:

For this, she was FIRED today by Comcast Sports Network, and many believe it was at the insistence of the Blackhawks.

For the record, this is the same outfit that has not (YET!) fired Kendall Gill for assaulting a male counterpart after a heated discussion of a foul in a Chicago Bulls game.

The official reasoning is that the network claims that Collins' Freudian Slip has put light on raunchy parody videos she used to do on a sports parody show.

To wit I have one thing to say, and ignore the video part of the context here:

How much of bullshit is this?  How much of this is "Get that fucking woman back in an outfit like this Stephanie McMahon job, her only real presence in sports?"





(Yes, that IS actually Stephanie McMahon.  Pretty much present-day.)

Anyhow:  So how do I know that being the only justified place that the Blackhawks and Comcast Sports Network believe a woman has in sports?

Well, try no less than these:

• Courtesy of The Howard Stern Show and YouTube, the honorable Vin Scully.
• This one is about as bad of at least a near-slip as the Susannah Collins one.  Outside the Lines, ESPN, and a discussion on the lack of African-American jockeys in horse-racing led to this head-scratcher that got Bob Ley shook up pretty good.  (From Deadspin)
• Reggie Miller letting his inner Golden State Warrior out in classic fashion last night. (Deadspin again)

Let's hope that, if they aren't man enough over there in Chicago to give her her job back that she at least gets not only new work (quickly!), but is also given the same kind of treatment this guy got just a couple weeks ago...