ESPN has suspended controversial media personality Bill Simmons after he dared the station to punish him for making some off-handed remarks about NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
The statement from ESPN reads as follows:
Every employee must be accountable to ESPN and those engaged in our editorial operations must also operate within ESPN’s journalistic standards. We have worked hard to ensure that our recent NFL coverage has met that criteria. Bill Simmons did not meet those obligations in a recent podcast, and as a result we have suspended him for three weeks.
Simmons had this to say about Goodell during his podcast (via Business Insider).
just think not enough is being made out of the fact that they knew about the tape and they knew what was on it. Goodell, if he didn’t know what was on that tape, he’s a liar. I’m just saying it. He is lying. I think that dude is lying. If you put him up on a lie detector test that guy would fail. For all these people to pretend they didn’t know is such f—— b——-. It really is — it’s such f—— b——-. And for him to go in that press conference and pretend otherwise, I was so insulted. I really was.
He then went on record challenging ESPN to take action against him for these statements.
And that’s exactly what the station did on Wednesday.
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