Pardon My Take Archives

Brian Windhorst had NBA Finals hotels booked months ago

Now, why would he do that?

Scott Van Pelt calls out whiny fans angry at the Derik Queen no-call

"I could show you a video of a Colorado State guy that did the exact same thing."

ESPN attempted to squash Bill Raftery’s ‘onions’

"ESPN said to me, ‘We don’t want you to use that.’ So I stopped using it."

Dianna Russini didn’t know MVP votes would be made public: ‘It stunk’

"I wish I knew that because — it would not have changed my vote — but I love Josh Allen, and I am avoiding him for a really long time."

EA Sports adds Barstool Sports’ Big Cat, PFT Commenter to ‘College Football 25’

Big Cat and PFT Commenter will represent their respective alma maters in the game.

Adam Schefter explains why he included O.J. Simpson in his in memoriam post

"Every year, I keep a file of people who lost their lives. I'm just fascinated by it."

Ben Johnson tests Bears fandom of Barstool Big Cat during ‘Pardon My Take’ appearance

"Chicago Bears versus New England Patriots. Who are you rooting for?"

John Fanta: Dan Hurley doesn’t regret passing on Lakers job even after Luka Dončić trade

"If you got to the NBA, you become secondary if not tertiary ... you could get in the headlines, but not for the right reasons."

‘Pardon My Take’ applauds NHL’s 4 Nations Face-Off format: ‘Knocked this out of the park’

"It was the complete opposite of the NBA All-Star Game."

Big Cat hilariously pitches Adam Silver bizarre idea for player, fan grudge match

"Not a good idea."

Big Cat, PFT Commenter know they will always be better together on ‘Pardon My Take’

"We would never separately be able to reach 100% of what 'Pardon My Take' is"

Dana White reveals what sold him on Mark Zuckerberg’s invitation to join Meta board

"He said, 'You always seem to be on the right side of everything, and my company needs a backbone.'"

Kirk Herbstreit apologizes to Tennessee fans after quote taken out of context

"I don’t think that at all."

Kirk Herbstreit addresses why son committed to Michigan and reaction from Ohio State fans

"I know 80 percent of the people are thrilled, 20 percent are going to be jackasses."

RG3 dishes on times he felt Paul Finebaum didn’t ‘cover the athletes the right way’

"I just feel like there’s a way to tell stories the right way, and there’s a way to cover the athletes the right way."

Former CEO, ‘Pardon My Take’ hosts open up on challenges of working at Barstool Sports

"There's so much to be grateful and it provided so much and it enabled so many things, but in other ways it holds you back or it's with you."

Skip Bayless envies the freedom at Barstool Sports

"They can say the f-word! They can say pretty much anything they want to. Man, do I ever envy their autonomy, their independence. Their freedom."

Skip Bayless sees ‘Pardon My Take’ as heir apparent to his and Stephen A. Smith’s ‘First Take’

"I honor what you guys have achieved because I know what it feels like to be where you are now."

Skip Bayless says he is now ‘friendly’ with Troy Aikman

"If you had read my book, you would love the way I portrayed Troy in my book."

Troy Aikman might have a good reason for calling Taylor Swift ‘missus’

Is Troy Aikman vying to be Gannett's Taylor Swift reporter?

Dan Orlovsky explains origins of ‘shrine’ painting to his NFL career

"Please tell me someone gifted that to you and you didn't commission that."

‘Pardon My Take’ teases Jason McIntyre, Bill Simmons over discredited rumor of Jeff Bezos buying Celtics

The only story in sports media that includes Jeff Bezos, Bill Simmons, Jason McIntyre and Big Cat.

Ryen Russillo recalls how ‘Barstool Van Talk’ brought the worst out of ESPN

"Now it's every f***ing on-air guy going, 'what's going on with those guys? They're going to be doing something here? What's up?'"

Antonio Pierce recalls interning for ‘King of media’ Howard Stern

"If I could do The Howard Stern Show again, I'd love to do it."

Aaron Rodgers downplays his feud with media

Undeniably, his unpredictability and tendency to say ridiculous things is good for the headlines.