What is wrong with ESPN??

[dgack]

You guys have to remember that these are ESPN talking heads we're talking about here, guys. With all due respect, SS, how many sexual harrassment suits and stories have come from those guys? Harold Reynolds, Sean Salisbury, Mike Tirico, Berman... all of these guys have been linked to fairly skeevy "off-the-field" activities, yet they have no problem taking a holier-than-thou angle on a guy like Sean Taylor who is dead.

And, to be frank, if Sean HADN'T had a fiancee and a daughter, I can guarantee you the media reports would have been even more harsh. That's just life as an American media celebrity, though. We love to build up idols and then bring them down when they fail to perform or amuse us any longer.

Call it the gladiator mentality.

[dgack]

Originally Posted by dgack

Harold Reynolds, Sean Salisbury, Mike Tirico, Berman... all of these guys have been linked to fairly skeevy "off-the-field" activities, yet they have no problem taking a holier-than-thou angle on a guy like Sean Taylor who is dead.

Just to be clear, I'm not saying that any of the above-mentioned ESPN "analysts" are saying anything negative about Sean. Just that ESPN has plenty of skeletons in its OWN closets. Unlike most NFL players, however, huge media conglomerates are able to afford to pay lawyers and other damage control specialists to keep the majority of this stuff out of, well, the media