Sports Gone Insane, Going Back A Couple of Days: Has ESPN Heard Enough NFL Exposing?

Deadspin again.

Someone (my anonymous friend again) is beginning to wonder whether ESPN is trying to can Bob Ley, much like CBS basically caught out Dan Rather a couple years ago.

On Thursday's Outside the Lines, Ley is revealing some of the cover-ups the ESPN article spoke of on the part of the Baltimore Ravens, and he said the following, apparently reading from his script/teleprompter:

"Ravens officials have said that they did not have a full picture of what happened in the elevator until the video was made public, but sources said the Ravens had a cell phone copy of the inside elevator video all along and that a casino employee had also given a copy to an NFL security official."

There's a key word there:  The script said that it was a "cell phone copy" of the video.

No such video exists, and, yes, Ley backed from it later and corrected his error.

But one has to be left to wonder if there are people inside ESPN, on orders from the league, told to try to force the same fate Dan Rather got on the likes of Ley and Olbermann and anyone else who dares desecrate Thy Holy Shield of Football Manhood...

Because, if the true purpose of this "New Personal Conduct Policy" -- eradicating all penalties for personal conduct (except those which will help the league in one form or another) -- is what I think it is, people like TMZ and OTL are getting far too close to the truth.