Awful Announcing
"I would remind you that, throughout this world, one of the things that exists is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I don't see folks outside the Jewish community talking about that too often."
"The only people that are worse than him are, I think, if I remember correctly, Cam Newton and Luke Voit. And Cam Newton is hurt, and Luke Voit, I didn't even know who the hell he was until guys got injured."
Tebow's points missed the mark for a lot of his fellow ESPN personalities.
"You take your privilege filled with failure, and troll just for attention."
This is the first part of Gold-Onwude's "next chapter" post-Turner, but it's unclear what else she'll be doing, and whether that will be at ESPN or not.
In 2016, Max Kellerman said that Tom Brady is "going to fall off a cliff" and "be a bum in short order."
"LaVar, can I switch gears with you because I have a question here?" "You can switch gears with me any time."
Max Kellerman's take upset Williams so much he walked off.
“That. Is. Not. Truuuue! It's not true at all!”
"It's an absolute and utter fool's errand to go back through history, decades, someone who's been passed away for 30 years, incidents that occurred eight decades ago, and apply modern historical standards to something you can almost reach a century."
"Me, I was an ignorant fool. I had to go back and watch the tapes. My bad."
In 2017, Zucker spoke to The New York Times about his love of sports and about First Take's influence on CNN's programming.
First Take criticisms of Derek Carr led to Carr shooting back, and to Stephen A. Smith and Max Kellerman shooting back again, and to the hot take cycle continuing...
Stephen A. Smith is clearly aware of who New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees is. He’s been effusive...
