And with the NFL and ESPN, the jokes keep writing themselves...

Two more racism stories today...

First, Colin Cowherd punched his immediate ticket out of ESPN yesterday.

We knew since last week that Cowherd was going to be a victim of the cost-cutting at ESPN (some estimating up to $100,000,000 of salary was to be cut) and was going to be gone anyway.

Today, he's been fired completely (he's technically been removed from the air), probably by his own design.  There is already word he's been penciled in at FOX Sports.

ESPN fired Cowherd today for these racist comments made Thursday on his second-to-last show:

(Source of the transcript:  Deadspin.  Emphases mine.)

"I mean, the Marlins put a general manager in their dugout. People freaked out. You know, like, “Whoa!” It’s baseball. You don’t think a general manager can manage? Like it’s impossible? The game is too complex? Like, I’ve never bought into that. “Baseball’s too complex.” Really? A third of the sport is from the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic is not been known, in my lifetime, as having, you know, world-class academic abilities. I mean, a lot of those kids come from rough backgrounds, and have not had opportunities academically that other kids from other countries have. Baseball’s like any sport. It’s mostly instincts."

And today, according to ESPN themselves, he may well have doubled down!

"I understand that when you mention a specific country, they get offended," Cowherd said. "I get it. I do. And for that, I feel bad. I do. But I have four reports in front of me ... where there are discussions of major deficiencies in the education sector at all levels. ... It wasn't a shot at them. It was data. Five, seven years ago I talked about the same subject. Was I clunky? Perhaps. Did people not like my tone? I get it. Sometimes my tone stinks."

With Cowherd already a step or two out the door to begin with, today was his last show.

Second, Charles Haley, NFL Legend, with some advice for the rookies entering the San Francisco 49ers, courtesy of Yahoo!:

""I know they probably got mad," he said, according to the San Jose Mercury-News, "but I said, ‘Why don’t you all act like the white guys? You never see them in the paper getting high or hitting people. Why don’t you act like that?’ They all looked at me crazy.”"

The link was in the article, but at least it allows for the credit.

The Yahoo! article does, then, immediately note that a white player for the 49ers was charged with misdemeanor vandalism and pled no contest.

""The hardest thing is these guys, they have an attention span of a 5-year-old," Haley said. "I’m not the most gentle and kind person to sit there and deal with that crap. I’m a little more confrontational. I think I got my point across.”"

Oh brother.