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Shocking that an espn HACK resorts to this type of journalism...hmmm where have I seen this before?
********: Skip Bayless Poised To Aggravate Troy Aikman All Over Again
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CoCo;2655356 said:
Uh yes, Haggard did condemn them. Further, sleeping with gay prostitutes, most likely using church money, while snorting drugs surely is stepping on territory outside of 'trouble walking the path of beliefs'... Hypocrisy is different then a person who tries to walk a certain path, but fails along the way.
I suspect Haggard to be a hypocrite and the fact he even shows his face on TV after a mere year or two, shows he has no shame..
But that is besides the point.. The analogy between AIkman and Haggard is just absurd...
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How Does Skip Bayless Sleep At Night?
The Self-Loathing TV Host Takes Another Limp-Wristed Slap At Aikman
By Mike Fisher -- DB.com
For what it’s worth, John Edward Bayless II is 57 and there is no record of him ever being married and no record of him ever fathering children. He is trim and neat and rather delicate. He used to live in the Oak Lawn area of Dallas. He refuses to eat press-box food and arrives at games with a baggie of sliced vegetables. He wears makeup. He prances a bit when he walks. He over-brags in print about his hetero conquests. He favors Richard Simmons-style running shorts. In adulthood, he officially changed his name to match his mother’s nickname, “Skip.’’So why does this self-loathing creep keep regurgitating the rumor he started – the financially lucrative rumor he started -- regarding Troy Aikman’s sexuality?
Along with being in denial, Skip must also be in debt.
Bayless, the former Dallas-based journalist, continues to forge a handsome career as a high-volume muck-raking contrarian at ESPN. (You say “po-tay-to,’’ he says “Barry Bonds is a good guy.’’) His profile and tax bracket were greatly raised by the third of his three books on the Dallas Cowboys, “Hell-Bent,’’ which is largely centered around a vicious premise:
That Troy Aikman is gay.
It’s evil enough to out a person against his will. It’s beyond evil to out a person who isn't established as even being gay. But the topper: a full 13 years after the release of that unfortunate book, the hate-mongering Bayless is dishing anew about Aikman’s sexuality.
This week, Bayless is telling Ths Starting Five, “The Troy Aikman gay rumors had been in Dallas for several years. I did talk radio in Dallas and I would get at least one call a week from someone asking if Troy Aikman is gay…
My only regret about the book is that it does not say that Aikman is gay. I had no idea and nor do I care to this day. A number of the black players -- with whom I was close -- contended that he was bisexual.’’
This is territory that I’ve trod before. But because Skip dredges it up again… for reasons I truly cannot comprehend, unless he’s seeking another payday at the expense of an unwitting victim… and because it is getting traction from the national level (like ********, Awful Announcing and The Big Lead) to the local level (like D Magazine)... and because I was a full-time presence in the Cowboys locker room at that time -- with a collegial relationship with Bayless and a working friendship with Aikman -- I feel qualified and obliged to hammer away at it. Item by item:
▪ “The Troy Aikman gay rumors had been in Dallas for several years.’’
But I have some empathy for Bayless, too. Because if he has any conscience at all, when he goes to bed at night – regardless of whomever or whatever it is he crawls in next to -- I have to assume John Edward “Skip’’ Bayless II does not sleep well.
The Self-Loathing TV Host Takes Another Limp-Wristed Slap At Aikman
By Mike Fisher -- DB.com
For what it’s worth, John Edward Bayless II is 57 and there is no record of him ever being married and no record of him ever fathering children. He is trim and neat and rather delicate. He used to live in the Oak Lawn area of Dallas. He refuses to eat press-box food and arrives at games with a baggie of sliced vegetables. He wears makeup. He prances a bit when he walks. He over-brags in print about his hetero conquests. He favors Richard Simmons-style running shorts. In adulthood, he officially changed his name to match his mother’s nickname, “Skip.’’So why does this self-loathing creep keep regurgitating the rumor he started – the financially lucrative rumor he started -- regarding Troy Aikman’s sexuality?
Along with being in denial, Skip must also be in debt.
Bayless, the former Dallas-based journalist, continues to forge a handsome career as a high-volume muck-raking contrarian at ESPN. (You say “po-tay-to,’’ he says “Barry Bonds is a good guy.’’) His profile and tax bracket were greatly raised by the third of his three books on the Dallas Cowboys, “Hell-Bent,’’ which is largely centered around a vicious premise:
That Troy Aikman is gay.
It’s evil enough to out a person against his will. It’s beyond evil to out a person who isn't established as even being gay. But the topper: a full 13 years after the release of that unfortunate book, the hate-mongering Bayless is dishing anew about Aikman’s sexuality.
This week, Bayless is telling Ths Starting Five, “The Troy Aikman gay rumors had been in Dallas for several years. I did talk radio in Dallas and I would get at least one call a week from someone asking if Troy Aikman is gay…
My only regret about the book is that it does not say that Aikman is gay. I had no idea and nor do I care to this day. A number of the black players -- with whom I was close -- contended that he was bisexual.’’
This is territory that I’ve trod before. But because Skip dredges it up again… for reasons I truly cannot comprehend, unless he’s seeking another payday at the expense of an unwitting victim… and because it is getting traction from the national level (like ********, Awful Announcing and The Big Lead) to the local level (like D Magazine)... and because I was a full-time presence in the Cowboys locker room at that time -- with a collegial relationship with Bayless and a working friendship with Aikman -- I feel qualified and obliged to hammer away at it. Item by item:
▪ “The Troy Aikman gay rumors had been in Dallas for several years.’’
What an inarguable justification for spreading a rumor. “It’s been around.’’ If Skip were half the reporter he thinks he is, he would know that “the-new-quarterback-is-gay’’ rumor is an unfortunate NFL tradition. A sick initiation ceremony, basically. Borne of the insecurities of men who wished they could be rich, handsome, athletic and alpha. Aikman joined a long line of quarterbacks who I personally covered – including John Elway and Steve Young – who were subject to “gay rumors that had been in Denver/San Francisco for several years.’’
This reasoning doesn’t even justify whispering such a thing to the ladies down at the hair salon – let alone profiting from writing a book about it.
▪ I did talk radio in Dallas and I would get at least one call a week from someone asking if Troy Aikman is gay.’’This reasoning doesn’t even justify whispering such a thing to the ladies down at the hair salon – let alone profiting from writing a book about it.
I’ve done a little talk radio, too. I’ve fielded calls once a week from people who think any number of things. Random phone calls from nameless, faceless fans. … That’s why Skip continues to perpetuate this myth? Because “Ernie in Waxahachie’’ told him to?
▪ “A number of the black players -- with whom I was close -- contended that he was bisexual.’’
Let me be very clear here, on two points:
One, this rumor, this contention, this myth. … was NOT started by “talk-show callers’’ or “cops’’ or “Switzer’’ or, as Bayless is now sadly claiming, “the black players.’’ This rumor was perpetuated by Bayless himself. Period. The Switzer family DID NOT tell Bayless about it; Bayless TOLD Barry’s daughter Kathy about it – and then shamelessly used the coach’s young daughter as his “source.’’
This is fact and this is irrefutable and (not that Aikman or Switzer need me as their defender) I would debate these issues – all this issues addressed here -- with Skip Bayless any time and any place.
Two, regarding Bayless being “close with a number of the black players’’: Bayless used his religion as a tool to get access to some of the less worldly young players who came into that locker room. And he victimized them, too, for the unworthy purpose of milking a column out of them. (He tricked Alexander Wright that way. He violated his trust and he destroyed that kid. But he got his 800 words out of it.) I was in that locker room every day for five years leading up to Bayless’ release of “Hell-Bent.’’ As a newspaper beat writer, I had personal and/or professional relationships of one sort or another with virtually every man in that locker room, black and white. I would be fascinated to hear Skip tick off the names of all those black Cowboys players from 1990-95 with whom he was “close.’’ I would be fascinated to watch the surprised reactions of the players as they heard their names cross Skip’s lips.
ESPN should put that on TV.
▪ “My only regret about the book is that it does not say that Aikman is gay. I had no idea and nor do I care to this day.’’One, this rumor, this contention, this myth. … was NOT started by “talk-show callers’’ or “cops’’ or “Switzer’’ or, as Bayless is now sadly claiming, “the black players.’’ This rumor was perpetuated by Bayless himself. Period. The Switzer family DID NOT tell Bayless about it; Bayless TOLD Barry’s daughter Kathy about it – and then shamelessly used the coach’s young daughter as his “source.’’
This is fact and this is irrefutable and (not that Aikman or Switzer need me as their defender) I would debate these issues – all this issues addressed here -- with Skip Bayless any time and any place.
Two, regarding Bayless being “close with a number of the black players’’: Bayless used his religion as a tool to get access to some of the less worldly young players who came into that locker room. And he victimized them, too, for the unworthy purpose of milking a column out of them. (He tricked Alexander Wright that way. He violated his trust and he destroyed that kid. But he got his 800 words out of it.) I was in that locker room every day for five years leading up to Bayless’ release of “Hell-Bent.’’ As a newspaper beat writer, I had personal and/or professional relationships of one sort or another with virtually every man in that locker room, black and white. I would be fascinated to hear Skip tick off the names of all those black Cowboys players from 1990-95 with whom he was “close.’’ I would be fascinated to watch the surprised reactions of the players as they heard their names cross Skip’s lips.
ESPN should put that on TV.
And this is The Essential Skip: When nonsense isn’t enough, cake it in lies, feign innocence and blame someone else. Skip is nothing short of obsessed with asserting his love for the black athlete and with asserting his powerful heterosexuality. If you read his first book, “God’s Coach,’’ you will find it is equal parts about Tom Landry and about how many chicks Skip bagged, with black Cowboys Dennis Thurman and Dexter Clinkscale as his wingmen.
He’s hip and he hangs with the black fellas and he bangs babes! Methinks he asserts too much.
Skip “doesn’t care’’ if Aikman is gay? Then why would he care to turn back the clock 13 years and have it in his book? But wait. … he did have it in his book! … And wait. … if he doesn’t care about the sexuality of a man who won three Super Bowls for the Cowboys, is a Pro Football Hall-of-Famer, has gone on to great success as a network broadcaster and an iconic figure and is a happily married father of three daughters, why is he participating in a lengthy discussion about it?
Skip Bayless judged Troy Aikman and defied ethics, morals and logic by suggesting he is gay. I can only imagine how difficult that was for Aikman. He’s hip and he hangs with the black fellas and he bangs babes! Methinks he asserts too much.
Skip “doesn’t care’’ if Aikman is gay? Then why would he care to turn back the clock 13 years and have it in his book? But wait. … he did have it in his book! … And wait. … if he doesn’t care about the sexuality of a man who won three Super Bowls for the Cowboys, is a Pro Football Hall-of-Famer, has gone on to great success as a network broadcaster and an iconic figure and is a happily married father of three daughters, why is he participating in a lengthy discussion about it?
But I have some empathy for Bayless, too. Because if he has any conscience at all, when he goes to bed at night – regardless of whomever or whatever it is he crawls in next to -- I have to assume John Edward “Skip’’ Bayless II does not sleep well.
