And ESPN pulls the race card on it's jordon-jocking...

I knew it the moment I saw the headline, and really didn't need to do any more than confirm it.

Today, with great fanfare, ESPN released a set of survey results (they CLAIM it's from surveys ranking 200 African-American athletes on a scale of 1-10 stars from Survey Monkey (that's the company name of the company they used - you might actually see one or more such surveys running around)), and just ranked jordon the Greatest Black Athlete of All Time.

Ahead of Muhammad Ali, a cultural icon that changed the perception of Black men in a country and time where such change was needed, from his conversion to Islam to his protests against the Vietnam War Draft to his comeback to his place as an international ambassador the sports world has never seen.

Ahead of Bill Russell, whose grace and play allowed a Black man to have a place on Auerbach's Celtics -- in a city which still has problems embracing many of today's Black athletes.

Ahead of Jackie Robinson and Hank Aaron, who took innumerable slings and arrows, simply for the color of their skin, in redefining their sport as a National Pastime for all races, creeds, colors, and the like.

(Not including others that could go ahead of Foolish and Wretched One doesn't mean they don't -- this was just four which came to immediate mind!)

But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...

It has to be another round of jordon-jocking, with The Race Card and race-baiting being thrown into it.

I want ESPN to come out and publicly admit it:  That sports would not exist without this foolish and wretched one-dimensional ballhog who had the entire league rigged for him for over a decade.

They've done it every time they've lauded the motherfucker.  Naming him the Greatest Athlete of the 20th Century when there were several better choices (I just gave you four, and that doesn't account for a number of others!)...

I mean, let's be blunt:  This blog probably does not exist without jordon.

jordon is the reason that a lot of sports executives feel the need to manipulate their results for a certain end.  jordon and David $tern provided the template Roger Goodell uses today to push Tom Brady.

jordon is sports-as-professional-wrestling farce on a level almost unheard of outside of Vince McMahon.

jordon is Corporate Sports personified.  And ESPN is pulling this shit far too often, and this one with The Race Card attached.