D.B.'s of the Week - Everyone at ESPN

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Since the NFL has suffered this year and as some of its members have received the D.B. of the Week Award, you kinda' could've guessed that ESPN wouldn't be far behind.

ESPN and the NFL are partners in the crime of just controlling the minds of the pigskin-loving-freaks that cover this great land.

Watch the coverage of the league on ESPN.

It's absurd.

There's a show on every half hour and the announcers and talking heads are stuck saying the same thing...over and over and over again.

"Step it up to the next level in the NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE."

"The ball moves fast in the NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE."

"The coaches work 23 and a half hours a day every week, even in the off-season in the NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE."

"It's impossible to know if the commissioner saw the tape of one of the athletes in the NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE knocking out the women in the elevator, but the good people of the NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE will work tirelessly to make sure that the shield of the NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE is not damaged."

In other words...ESPN is simply an apologist for the league.

Well, this week, one of the guys who works for them, Bill Simmons, stepped out of line and called Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE...a big freaking liar.

Then Simmons almost dared ESPN to discipline him for the truth that he was saying...

...and they did.

They suspended him for three weeks...

...or a week longer than what Goodell wanted to suspend Ray Rice for knocking out his fiance.

D.B.'s all around there.

Yet what sealed the deal for me was Keith Olbermann going on a rant about Derek Jeter being overrated and basically the worst sports star ever.

Olbermann knew it wasn't true.

ESPN knew it wasn't true.

But they allowed the crap to go on the air because everyone would either defend Jeter, or quote the garbage that Olbermann was spewing.

Olbermann hates the Yankees.

He used to sit front row at the stadium, but shortly after Chuck Knoblauch hit Keith's mother with an errant throw he went on a rampage against the 27-Time World Champion Greatest Franchise in the History of Organized Sports.

(My guess is that they wouldn't hire him for something).

I've been in twitter arguments with Olbermann about his hatred...but this time he went way overboard.

Anyway...all of ESPN gets the award this week.

They kiss the ass of the NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE every minute of every day.

They suspend a guy for speaking the truth.

And when they have a really great sports story they allow one of their biggest dopes to poop all over it.

Perhaps they can announce the award on their ESPY show.

And then show ten straight dunks as their top ten plays of the day during the NBA season.

(Just an aside...we get it...the big guys can dunk).

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