Bill Simmons Pod with Willie Mac: Interesting bit on Super Bowl 31

[Oswlek]

You provided the answer in your post.

Oh, I thought you meant something more nefarious.

 

[Jackson 2]

Oh, I thought you meant something more nefarious.

No, no I meant nothing involving evil or serious poor conduct. He has always just struck me as you described him and I believe he thinks he presents as anything but.

 

[Oswlek]

No, no I meant nothing involving evil or serious poor conduct. He has always just struck me as you described him and I believe he thinks he presents as anything but.

Firing him was EEI's best move of the past decade. Too bad they didn't have the brains to stick with it.

 

[Bill Lee]

Bill Simmons will be OK with me if only for the fact that he long ago publicly, and correctly, identified Glen Ordway as a fraud. Kudos to him for that alone. He also earlier on than most others called out his employer at the time, ESPN, for its anti-NE bias.

And took on the Fraudger on the Ray Rice controversy:

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***ing b***s**t, it really is, it’s such f***ing b***s**t and for him to go in that press conference and pretend otherwise, I was so insulted. I really was.

It's the kind of straight shooting we all say we want but we so rarely see. It ended up costing him a lucrative gig at BSPN.

As for this podcast, I was hoping he would ask Willie what it was like to be on the highest rated TV broadcast of all time (I think) telling the Pats players to "kiss the m*****f******!!!"!!!

Also thought his experiences hanging out with the LA rappers of his time was fascinating.

I'd love it if Willie wrote a biography that covered all the things he covered in the podcast, both on and off the field.

 

[TB_Helmet]

And took on the Fraudger on the Ray Rice controversy:

It's the kind of straight shooting we all say we want but we so rarely see. It ended up costing him a lucrative gig at BSPN.

As for this podcast, I was hoping he would ask Willie what it was like to be on the highest rated TV broadcast of all time (I think) telling the Pats players to "kiss the m*****f******!!!"!!!

Also thought his experiences hanging out with the LA rappers of his time was fascinating.

I'd love it if Willie wrote a biography that covered all the things he covered in the podcast, both on and off the field.

Yeah, this board should have nothing but respect for Simmons IMO. He was the only one at ESPN who spoke out against the company's coverage of DeflateGate and against Roger Goodell. Then he said "Come on, fire me, I know you want to" or something like that on his podcast. Had a chance to delete it but left it in before it posted. And he got fired. He went to the mattresses for the Patriots.

He might not be as knowledgeable about the details as some, but he had a huge media platform and used it to defend Brady when everyone else was piling on.

 

[luuked]

Bill Simmons did a really bad podcast on the topic of: The 25 Greatest Patriots Wins of the Brady-Belichick Era (Ep. 245)

There were errors, and he didn't even do a quick check to make sure it was correct before he did the podcast. It was bad. He got some dates and games wrong.

Interesting how opinions differ. I thought the podcast was despite some factual errors essentially Patriots Porn and enjoyed it mostly because it made me recall personal memories of those games.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Firing him was EEI's best move of the past decade. Too bad they didn't have the brains to stick with it.

I cannot stand Orway.

I like Felger more than Ordway for Pete's sake.

 

[Wheelman]

Interesting how opinions differ. I thought the podcast was despite some factual errors essentially Patriots Porn and enjoyed it mostly because it made me recall personal memories of those games.

Yeah, I got a severe gripe with media making errors. It's unacceptable to make mistakes like that. After he made his top 25 list, all he had to do was go thru it and double check the dates quickly. It's especially damaging to the uninformed hearing this. Now they're misinformed all thanks to Bill Simmons. Just not ok in my book.

I'm tired of media in general. They're all pieces of ****. so now I hold them all to a strict standard. And Pats biased media has to come correct too.

Heck I'm upset with some stupid NESN article that was on the Pats local newsfeed.

The title was something "Browns troll Brady" or some **** like that. It wasn't even true! Just searching for clicks. Well f*ck them clickbaiters! Like Drop dead!

And that ends my rants of the piece of **** media!

 

[Bill Lee]

I cannot stand Orway.

I like Felger more than Ordway for Pete's sake.

Leave Pete out of this!

[ Ya know, Pete Shepard ex of EEI.... ]

 

[RobertWeathers]

Leave Pete out of this!

[ Ya know, Pete Shepard ex of EEI.... ]

I like Ole Shep. Lacks polish and brains but he was geuine and a total fan boy