Dana Jacobson vs. Kelly Tilghman: Who’s better? Maybe it started when Howard Cosell started, or maybe when the loony ESPN anchors started in the early stages of that network revolution, but somewhere along the line, the train jumped off the tracks, and our players started getting less. be like Jim McKay and more like Chris Rock host. We began to demand that they are consummate, funny, and if they could help, looking good. The science of sports has become secondary. Let someone else check out the web and write the darnscripts, we’d love to have fun.
Come on, be careful what you wish for, because hanging and funny can often be inflammatory, leaving us offended and insulted instead of entertainment. Kelly Tilghman from the Golf Channel for example. A few weeks ago, the former director of the University turned sportscaster became the focus of the controversy included, when in the name “edgy and funny”, The term lynch was finally used by Tiger Woods. What followed was an outcry from the common crowd, which spread across the country. For lack of judgment, or indiscretion, depending on how you view the whole thing, Tilghman received a two-week suspension from his job. Despite Tiger Woods accepting a public apology from Tilghman, his agent calls the whole thing “no way out.”
Then when ESPN’s Dana Jacobson came in this week, he was hell bent on proving that what Tilghman did in the name of sports entertainment was the rule rather than the exception. It seems that Jacobson, a former ESPN anchor co-hosted “ESPN’s First Takeover,” took a turn for stupidity when she won, stormed, and insulted Notre-Dame and Christianity are all ill-advised attempts to roast Mike Golic. The fact that Jacobson was consuming large amounts of alcohol did not help his judgment, nor did the humor in his use of the F-word in reference to
