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Skip Bayless

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Splendid Splinter, Sep 10, 2020.

  1. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    I think this could apply to a lot of ex-scribes besides Bayless who have been cashing TV/radio checks for years. Are there any that make you say "he's so much better on the air than he was in print"? Granted, I'm biased toward newspaper sections of the 1980s. #old
     
  2. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    I am an old as well. But that's good. That's why we remember shit.

    The thing about Bayless is he would straight-up say he was a Cowboys supporter. He's always said he was a kid who grew up loving the Dallas Cowboys. And nobody cared.

    Not many other people covering the dynasty Cowboys in the '90s would have admitted the same thing.
     
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  3. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Bayless was always a fucking fraud who happened to glom unto the Cowboys when they ruled the roost in Dallas in the late '70s. Is it time for a second-hand Bayless story told me by a fellow Texas reporter I will not name? Why I believe it is. Under some protest, Skip was assigned to a basketball game, must've been college, where he had to keep running. He didn't know how and to his credit he asked. Someone told him, "well, when a basket is made, or a foul, just put down the player's number and then the time it happened." Game starts. Basket happens. Skip looks at his watch and writes 7:38 p.m. as time of score.
     
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  4. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    He’s at not-Deadspin, I believe.
     
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  5. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    I believe he's on the afternoon drive team on The Game in San Francisco.
     
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  6. Liut

    Liut Well-Known Member

    Thanks, guys. I've read Ray for years and enjoyed his takes on satellite television. Everything changes so damn fast anymore I cannot keep up.
     
  7. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Did Dickless Bayless, that raging fuckhead, know that Prescott’s brother committed suicide recently? How could someone that plugged in to the Cowboys not know. Makes his criticism even more disgusting.

    looking forward to skips obituary.
     
  8. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    Skip's one of those folks who found the Lord after acting like an asshole most of his life.
     
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  9. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    … and then continued acting like an asshole.
     
  10. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    I have it on good authority that Jerry Jones is not The Lord. Don’t know what skippy found, but it wasn’t The Lord.
     
  11. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

  12. Jake from State Farm

    Jake from State Farm Well-Known Member

    Even if this isn’t true it’s a great story
     
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