[Political Junkie Too]

Nobody has mentioned this yet, but I think the recent hyper-growth in political sports talk can be traced back to when Bob Costas gave his anti-gun speech on Sunday Night Football in December 2012.

-PJ

[a fool in paradise]

ESPN had hired Hunter S. Thompson years before that and he wrote how the abuses at Abu Ghraib sickened him WORSE than the worst NAZI attrocities. That was 2004.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1141560/posts
ESPN SCRUBS HUNTER S. THOMPSON BUSH BASH
Drudge Report ^ | 5/24/04 | Matt Drudge

In a column entitled, “Let’s Go to the Olympics,” Thompson went off on the Abu Ghraib prison picture scandal, exclaiming: “Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these [Abu Ghraib] photographs did.”

...The cleansed paragraph now reads:

“These horrifying digital snapshots of the American dream in action on foreign soil are worse than anything even I could have expected. I have been in this business a long time and I have seen many staggering things, but this one is over the line.

As with the original, Thompson still concludes with the thought: “Now I am really ashamed to carry an American passport.”

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http://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=thompson/040518

[Buckeye McFrog]

I think it can be traced to the day Roger Goodell took over as NFL Commish. That guy is firmly in the pocket of Democrat Party apparatchiks.

[LS]

Cosell was political, but way before ESPN, but he had Gifford to bitchslap him

[LS]

I think that’s a stretch. You might just as easily point to 24-7 sympathetic commentary on The Colon, or HeShe Bruce Jenner. This woukd be a very hard one to find one incident, esp when the study starts in 2015.