Could ESPN and the NFL head to a showdown?

Add Bill Simmons to the list which now has to include Bob Ley, Keith Olbermann, Adam Schefter...

Simmons, among other things, does "The B.S. Report", one of a number of podcasts on ESPN's "Podcenter", which you can almost certainly use all the usual means to get (ESPN's own site, iTunes, etc.).

He may not be doing it much longer.

Business Insider reports that Simmons used a large part of his podcast Monday eviscerating Roger Goodell's press conference the preceding Friday and gives a money quote with this gem (from the Business Insider report):

"I just think not enough is being made out of the fact that they knew about the tape and they knew what was on it. Goodell, if he didn't know what was on that tape, he's a liar. I'm just saying it. He is lying. I think that dude is lying. If you put him up on a lie detector test that guy would fail. For all these people to pretend they didn't know is such f------ b-------. It really is — it's such f------ b-------. And for him to go in that press conference and pretend otherwise, I was so insulted. I really was.

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I really hope somebody calls me or emails me and says I'm in trouble for anything I say about Roger Goodell. Because if one person says that to me, I'm going public. You leave me alone. The commissioner's a liar and I get to talk about that on my podcast ... Please, call me and say I'm in trouble. I dare you."

Ruh roh.  Methinks there's going to be a meeting, Real Soon Now, between Goodell and the top brass at ESPN...