GODDAMN IT

Hey what about Newton?!

It’s tough to watch him recede like this. I really didn’t think he’d be one of these hair today, gone tomorrow guys. Figured you could plug him into any system and he could expose all sorts of coverage issues.

I could see Deadspin spinning a story and savagely tearing ESPN apart for being tone-deaf if Lee called the game.

Not totally related, but I have a friend who named his daughter “Isis” - about 15 years ago. Oops!

Former Deadspinner and once and future asshole Clay Travis broke it because he is the lice on our collective scalp.

At first I reacted to this odd story by thinking ESPN was being idiotic. But the more I think about it, the more I don’t blame ESPN at all. The announcer, Robert Lee, is essentially an ESPN rookie, trying to build his career, and the network was concerned that he would be the subject of memes and all sorts of…

ESPN lets Robert Lee call game-
Internet: LOL LOOK AT THIS

ESPN quietly shifts Robert Lee to a different game, but some asshat knows the internet will eat it up-
Internet: LOL LOOK AT THIS

Arguing any other outcome is disingenuous

Can It Deadspin! You know damn well that you would have a written a faux outrage post with a screengrab of the announcer’s name

I’m still trying to figure out the endgame. I supported Kaep’s right to protest, but I always felt like he painted himself into a terrible corner by revealing that he’d continue the protest last year until he felt there was “progress,” which is ambiguous, subjective, and unlikely if we are talking about any sort of…

are we 100% they weren’t protesting being stuck on the browns?

say it to my face

I know they don’t get to run it often, but only the Browns would have to practice the damn victory formation.

I was sitting down when they played that anthem too.

yeah but fitz got that University of Phoenix diploma so who’s the real winner, huh?

He is a good case study in why football economics suck. Everyone in Arizona loved him, he had plenty of gas left in the tank but the hard cap lead the Cardinals to make the prudent-but-unfortunate decision to stick with Fitz and keep Boldin underpaid. In an NBA-like system, they would have been a great duo for a…

is it possible that the jets actually scored 56 points in a game, or was that showing their points scored for the entire season?

And Joe West didn’t even have to inflate his vocal sac.

The world doesn’t need any baseball Kaps.

Umpires: We will keep these wristbands on until we are shown the respect we deserve