In about what is as big of a joke as the piddly Ray Rice suspension, ESPN has banned Stephen A. Smith for a week from the network for his rant.
Anybody want to make a guess he serves the suspension and then walks to Mad Dog on Sirius XM?
And, once again, the news coverage -- the embarrassment -- got the suspension, not the act itself:
From an ESPN memo leaked to the Yahoo! post above:
"As many of you know, there has been substantial news coverage in the past few days related to comments Stephen A. made last Friday in the wake of the NFL's decision to suspend Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice for two games following charges of assaulting his then fiancée, now wife, a few months ago.
We've said publicly and in this space that those remarks did not reflect our company's point of view, or our values. They certainly don't reflect my personal beliefs."
THEN SHOW IT, ESPN!! Stop giving these motherfuckers and this sport, which is ENTIRELY misogynistic, a free pass...
(I state this as an "absurdity" because he should be fired, but readers of the blog have already told me that, given the Sirius deal, that may have been the idea behind all this.)
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Well, Catheter Guy is in trouble.
For his YouTube rant, where he pulled out his catheter and pissed all over the grave of former Browns/Ravens owner Art Modell, he faces a felony charge of "Disorderly Conduct in a Cemetery", which can gain two years in prison and a $500 fine.
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The death of Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson has led to a bidding war for the team.
Donald Trump is involved, and, although the homophobic piece of shit would probably fit in well with the likes of Tony Dungy and the Goodell NFL, he has no illusions he believes he will win (Why? Because you don't think the team is worth anything? Because you'd move them somewhere like... Las Vegas??)
(Actually, judging by the linked article, it sounds like the value is not there for the POS.)
But it's the proposed bid by a Canadian-led group fronted by rocker Jon Bon Jovi that has gotten the most heat -- because it's almost certain that, should they win, the only question is how quickly can the Bills burn their lease and do the long-rumored move to Toronto, Canada? (Hint: He's already scouting venues there.)
(Timetable for the sale appears to be league meetings this October, so the Bills get at least this season in Buffalo...)
Let me be blunt: Buffalo is one of at least three cities I can name off the top of my head (Jacksonville and Oakland are the other two -- the latter's lease on their stadium expires after this year and Roger Goodell has openly proposed sharing, at least temporarily, the new 49ers stadium in Santa Clara.) who must lose their franchises for them to be ever relevant again.
But Buffalo is PISSED. Over 200 Buffalo-area establishments (see above-linked article) have banned Bon Jovi's music.
New Hall of Famer Andre Reed has many less-than-complimentary words for Bon Jovi, according to Deadspin and New York magazine.
It's probably no mystery in saying the league is going to take a bit of time here in selling the Bills: The Steve Ballmer purchase of the Clippers, finally slated to go through, will reset all sports franchise valuations, with the Bills, worth $870 million (third-least -- Jacksonville $850M and Oakland $825M, according to Forbes in 2013) pre-Ballmer, could the Bills now be worth at least $2,000,000,000 or more, simply for the fact that they are an NFL team?
There's now serious consideration that the price of a franchise in LA just went to $4,000,000,000 or so -- that might be the one thing keeping the NFL out of LA.
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