ESPN: Sean Salisbury OUT and Cris Carter IN

[FuzzyLumpkins]

They both suck. Its like taking spam and replacing it with tripe. All this really tells me is that the networks need to start looking to broadcasting schools who produce people trained for years for this kind of thing and start bringing those guys in.

The likes of K Johnson, Chris Carter, Sean Salisbury, Dan Marino, Emmitt Smith, Steve Tasker, and a whole slew of others are a case of horrible human resources management. I am sure Syracuse and other fine broadcasting schools can produce better talent then that garbage.

 

[CrazyCowboy]

Carter is an upgrade? Not sure but we will see...

 

[coogrfan]

Thank you, Lord. Think maybe you could do something about Bryant Gumbel on NFLN too?

 

[TellerMorrow34]

Meh. I couldn't care less, either way. I like Carter, so I'm ok with that but I wasn't a hater of Sean. The guy is your typical jerk jock but I wasn't at all angered beyond belief about his Crypt Keeper comment.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

They need to forget Cris Carter and just give Darren Woodson the work. He's easily one of the very best and most talented guys on the entire network. I'm sure they don't want "too many Cowboys" with Emmitt already in a prime time role, though... Which of course is stupid.

 

[CalCBFan]

They need to forget Cris Carter and just give Darren Woodson the work. He's easily one of the very best and most talented guys on the entire network. I'm sure they don't want "too many Cowboys" with Emmitt already in a prime time role, though... Which of course is stupid.

I coundn't agree more. Woody is a class act, very knowledgable and very good looking to boot...

 

[FCBarca]

Soooo glad he's done...Couldn't stand Salisbury...Good riddance

 

[theebs]

They need to forget Cris Carter and just give Darren Woodson the work. He's easily one of the very best and most talented guys on the entire network. I'm sure they don't want "too many Cowboys" with Emmitt already in a prime time role, though... Which of course is stupid.

I also like erik allen. I think he is right there with steve young as there best analysts.

I dont think he wants to be in bristol any more than 1 or 2 days though, cant say i blame him. If I lived on the beach in san diego I would never go to bristol!

 

[dogunwo]

"Also, he reportedly was suspended for showing cell-phone photos of his ***** to colleagues at the network."

Unprofessional as hell, but hilarious. What if a gay guy sued for sexual harrassment?

 

[dogunwo]

Maybe he should have taken that QB's coach for the Cardinals he was offered some years back.

 

[DaBoys4Life]

lol good ridance this guy was the pitts

 

[TellerMorrow34]

I also like erik allen. I think he is right there with steve young as there best analysts.

I dont think he wants to be in bristol any more than 1 or 2 days though, cant say i blame him. If I lived on the beach in san diego I would never go to bristol!

Young? Ugh. That is one guy I absolutely can not stand. He's always so annoying, to me.

Maybe I'm just being mean but Young is annoying and I'd LOVE IT if they got rid of him.

 

[JonCJG]

Per PFT

POSTED 3:00 p.m. EST, February 27, 2008

SALISBURY WANTED A SEVEN-FIGURE DEAL

How stoopid is Sean Salisbury? He's sufficiently stoopid not to know a good thing when he had it. And he's sufficiently stoopid not to realize that he'll never, ever be as exposed or as wealthy as he was while getting paid by ESPN.

But Salisbury convinced himself that he was underpaid and unappreciated by Bristol, and he says that he asked for a seven-figure salary in order to trigger a "mutual parting."

"I'm a free agent," Salisbury told the Los Angeles Times from his cell phone (snicker) on Tuesday. "I've been liberated. I knew this was coming, but I couldn't be happier."

The problem apparently was that Salisbury didn't get paid as much as more famous former football players.

"I'd grown tired of being punished for not being an NFL superstar," Salisbury said. "Analysts who don't work as hard as me, don't prepare as hard as me, and don't have my resume were making more than me just because of their ability to throw or catch a football." (Or, as the case may be, run with a football and then win Dancing with the Stars.)

"I'd done nothing wrong, and if you hear otherwise, it's not true. I did everything that was asked of me," Salisbury said, possibly in an effort to defuse any rumors that he was fired for calling John Clayton the "Cryptkeeper" on the air last month.

Salisbury claims that he has an offer from FSN, and that he might land in a "non-sports role with CBS." Maybe he's been hired to fire Katie Couric because she doesn't move her arms when she does the news.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Good riddance. That exchange with Clayton was absolutely shameful. He should have been fired on the spot... and I don't even like John Clayton.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi7XtBv94pE

I don't know about anyone else, but I loved it.

 

[khiladi]

Now, if ESPN would jettison Emmitt "I can't formulate sentences properly" Smith, Ray "I have absolutely no business being on TV, including cable access" Buchanon, Quadry "In terms of" Ismail and Keyshawn "large ego" Johnson, their NFL programming would be more watchable.

Now, before someone equates this to race, I'm also black. How these educated millionaires could be allowed to sit before us each week during the season and grace us with their fractured lexicons, dialects, and grammatical errors with little consequence, is beyond me. They are all embarrassing!!

What you talkin' bout Willis?!?!

 

[Concord]

Publishing? Please. (Unless, of course, you've got a proposal for "Cell Phone Porn for Dummies.")

:laugh2:

Good riddance. That exchange with Clayton was absolutely shameful. He should have been fired on the spot... and I don't even like John Clayton.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi7XtBv94pE

Totally agree that was shameful.

I'm still angry Inside the NFL won't be airing in 2008!

Damn I hadn't heard that...not that I watched it anymore...but I'm shocked.

They never should have gotten rid of Dawson and Buoniconti...they WERE Inside the NFL.

 

[JonCJG]

I don't know about anyone else, but I loved it.

I thought it was a cheapshot and low class.

 

[skinsscalper]

I thought it was a cheapshot and low class.

I agree, and it always seemed that Falsebury pulled this type of tactic when Clayton started to make him look like a fool.

I don't remember if that was the case when the "crypt keeper" comment was made, but I've noticed it for years. It always made him come off as a cry-baby jock that needed to rely on his intimidation factor when he was too stupid admit that he's too stupid to be a part of the conversation.

As far as him being p***ed about the fact that he was making less than some "superstars" on the BSPN line-up: get over it! There's a limit that a never-has-been reaches when he goes into the private sector. If it weren't for ESPN 80% of the NFL fans out there wouldn't even know who the clown is. When Quincy Carter almost doubles your career numbers in the league (while playing one year less), it's hard to take you serious on any level.

Buh-bye Dingleberry.

 

[lane]

can't stand cris carter..

great receiver i must admit...


don't want to hear anything he has to say........ever.

 

[tyke1doe]

Now, if ESPN would jettison Emmitt "I can't formulate sentences properly" Smith, Ray "I have absolutely no business being on TV, including cable access" Buchanon, Quadry "In terms of" Ismail and Keyshawn "large ego" Johnson, their NFL programming would be more watchable.

Now, before someone equates this to race, I'm also black. How these educated millionaires could be allowed to sit before us each week during the season and grace us with their fractured lexicons, dialects, and grammatical errors with little consequence, is beyond me. They are all embarrassing!!

From one black man to another.