Skip Bayless

[playthrough]

He was hungry then. And shouting sportswriter shows didn't yet exist.

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

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

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

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.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Bayless was always a forking 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.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Off topic, I know, but do you know what Ray Ratto is up to these days? Thanks in advance.

He's at not-Deadspin, I believe.

 

[HanSenSE]

Off topic, I know, but do you know what Ray Ratto is up to these days? Thanks in advance.

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

 

[Liut]

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.

 

[heyabbott]

Did Dickless Bayless, that raging forkhead, 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.

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

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

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

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

… and then continued acting like an asshole.

 

[heyabbott]

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

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.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

https://nypost.com/2021/03/04/skip-bayless-gets-32m-from-fox-sports-after-espn-pursuit/

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Bayless was always a forking 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.

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