Posted on 10/11/2017 5:45:16 AM PDT by C19fan
ESPN doesn’t deserve to retain the services of Jemele Hill, its opinionated “SportsCenter” anchor.
Proof? On Monday, the Disney-owned sports-broadcasting colossus suspended Hill for issuing an insightful tweet about the NFL, a league that ESPN supposedly covers. At issue was Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, a guy who is sounding a lot like the president of the United States these days. “If there’s anything that is disrespectful to the flag, then we will not play,” said Jones on Sunday after his team sustained a difficult loss to the Green Bay Packers. “Understand? We will not … if we are disrespecting the flag, then we will not play. Period.” The Dallas Morning News reported that two Cowboys players had raised their fists toward the end of the anthem before the Green Bay game.
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My eyes don’t deserve to be subjected Erick Pimple’s rants.
His article OMITS Jemele Hill's tweets that got her suspended:
Don't ask Dak, Dez & other Cowboys players to protest. A more powerful statement is if you stop watching and buying their merchandise. 6:55 PM - Oct 8, 2017
If the rationale behind JJ's stance is keeping the fanbase happy, make him see that he is underestimated how all of his fanbase feels. 7:19 PM - Oct 8, 2017
Or, how about not patronizing the advertisers who support the Cowboys? You can watch and do that, right? 7:36 PM - Oct 8, 2017
This play always work. Change happens when advertisers are impacted. If you feel strongly about JJ's statement, boycott his advertisers. 7:45 PM - Oct 8, 2017
According to an article in Sports Illustrated, Jemele Hill’s ratings are down 20% from the same week last year.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3593799/posts
But, according to Erik Wemple and the Washington Post, ESPN doesn’t deserve Jemele Hill, who is too good for them, because she makes anti-Trump tweets. Nevermind that her ratings have tanked and that she is attacking the NFL’s and ESPN’s advertisers.
A lot of the showboating that has become the norm in sports from the pros to the peewees can be dropped in the lap of Mickey Mouse Sports. Well before Facebook and YouTube made it possible for anyone to be a "celebrity", SportsCenter practically encouraged athletes and those watching it to do crazy stuff in order to get their mugs on the show.
My favorite is when a receiver doesn’t catch a pass. Even when the defender has nothing to do with it, they run 15 yards put their arms out like an airplane and make two or three safe calls like an umpire, point to heaven as if god is on the side of their team, and now they make black power salute. The legendary coach Paul Brown told a guy who celebrated in the end zone, act like you’ve been there before.
“She is terrible and knows nothing about sports.”
That applies to most of the local and national so called sports channel’s affirmative action/pc hires.
I know, I will be shortly. I look forward to that phone call to cancel.
WP is right. They should let her out of her contract, so she can get the fortune she deserves. I hear the DMV is hiring.
“WP is right. They should let her out of her contract, so she can get the fortune she deserves. I hear the DMV is hiring.”
Our California DMV’s have higher standards, she couldn’t get hired out here.
None of us do.
+2 laughing on floor!
America doesn’t deserve the Washington Compost.
Eric Wemple is an SJW of the lowest order. Her show has lost at least 20% of viewship compared to last year.
Wemple sits when he pees.
True!
I am something of a sports fan and spent half my life playing sports including div 1 baseball. I watch every game with the audio off. Baseball still has ex-players giving commentary on most games. ESPN has babes analyzing a game they have never played, the closest they have been is sleeping with the players. I don’t need their analysis, been there, done that!
That was Tom Landry.
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