Bill Simmons Takes A Shot At Emmitt Smith During His Marathon Chat (Updated: ESPN Takes It Down)

Wednesday, November 28, 2007


If you weren't aware Bill Simmons is "Chatting for Charity" today in what will end up being a 6-hour event to raise money for the Jimmy V Foundation. Right in the beginning of the chat came this exchange.....

Scott (Chicago, IL): You should have started the chat at 9:00 am, because you would have, easily, broken the record, seeing how everyone who is in this chat is at work, and would be on it til 5:00 with you. What are you going to do at 5:00 when everyone leaves work? I love you, but I don't love you enough to stay late at work just to chat about inane things going on in the world!

SportsNation Bill Simmons: (12:18 PM ET ) We thought about this, but 9:00 am equals 6:00am West Coast time, and I am incoherent when it's that early. I would have been giving answers like Emmitt Smith.

Zing! Don't know how long until they take it down so I took that screen shot for you. It is still up after an hour and a half of chatting, so maybe ESPN feels the same way we all do about Emmitt. I'm blowed away that they do.

Marathon Chat With Bill Simmons! (ESPN.com)

Update: And there you have it....after two hours it has been changed!

Scott (Chicago, IL): You should have started the chat at 9:00 am, because you would have, easily, broken the record, seeing how everyone who is in this chat is at work, and would be on it til 5:00 with you. What are you going to do at 5:00 when everyone leaves work? I love you, but I don't love you enough to stay late at work just to chat about inane things going on in the world!
SportsNation Bill Simmons: (12:18 PM ET ) We thought about this, but 9:00 am equals 6:00am West Coast time, and I am incoherent when it's that early.


Update #2- Here we go again!

Emmitt Smith: Would you agree that the NFC West is one of the worst conferences in the NFC? You're gonna smash the chat record. Don't quit, don't even quit.

SportsNation Bill Simmons: (1:20 PM ET ) I think the NFC West is going through a rice of passage right now, so you can't make it an escape goat.


That one might be inside enough that ESPN won't change it.

Posted by Awful Announcing- at 1:18 PM

24 Comments:

wow he looks like an alien there
appropriate since sitting through him talking is like what i imagine getting attacked by a face hugger feels like

BackBergtt said...
Nov 28, 2007, 1:46:00 PM  

Simmons complaining his wife didn't get a free pass to Disneyland? C'mon, he makes $1.5M a year (from a good source, oft-referenced buddy of his). Stop whining, just for once, you pathetic homer.

Anonymous said...
Nov 28, 2007, 1:56:00 PM  

Emmitt Smith: Would you agree that the NFC West is one of the worst conferences in the NFC? You're gonna smash the chat record. Don't quit, don't even quit.

Bill Simmons: (1:20 PM ET ) I think the NFC West is going through a rice of passage right now, so you can't make it an escape goat.

Anonymous said...
Nov 28, 2007, 1:59:00 PM  

"I"m blowed away..." Was that an honest mistake or are you trying to sound like Emmitt on purpose?

Anonymous said...
Nov 28, 2007, 2:16:00 PM  

On purpose DR

Nov 28, 2007, 2:17:00 PM  

someone mustave talked to Emmitt about "blowed away" because he corrected himself when he said it again on Monday night.

I wonder how Simmons feels about his chat being edited for content? I guess free speach doesn't apply when you work for tWWL.

Steve M said...
Nov 28, 2007, 2:20:00 PM  

speech..dammit

Steve M said...
Nov 28, 2007, 2:20:00 PM  

simmons is a total assclown. is the guy really making $1.5 mil a year to rag on Lebron and talk about how Videogate never happened?

Anonymous said...
Nov 28, 2007, 2:37:00 PM  

Free peach?

Sign me up, get me one.

E Buzz said...
Nov 28, 2007, 2:38:00 PM  

CBS does this publish first, edit later garbage also, mostly with a guy who is an equal assclown, though for different reasons, denis [name redacted*]

Anonymous said...
Nov 28, 2007, 2:38:00 PM  

who's bill simmons?
is she famous or something?

Anonymous said...
Nov 28, 2007, 3:08:00 PM  

At this point I am having trouble discerning between ESPN and Chinese State Media when it comes to censoring things.

Anonymous said...
Nov 28, 2007, 3:47:00 PM  

hahaha! Nice find man!

Chris said...
Nov 28, 2007, 4:23:00 PM  

Lou Holth thinkth thith ith dithpikible.

Anonymous said...
Nov 28, 2007, 4:28:00 PM  

See, Beel Simmonds can have all the free peach he have, because he can have them, as long as he run the ball first, set up the run with runnin the ball.

Baseball has been berry berry good to me Hane.

E Buzz said...
Nov 28, 2007, 5:06:00 PM  

That last one is lol funny.

E Buzz said...
Nov 28, 2007, 7:02:00 PM  

I don't remember when, and I didn't get a screen grab, but during the chat someone asked for Simmons' reaction to Jimmy Kimmel vs. Theisman. He said he couldn't comment on it for fear of it being removed, and then added "...like right now." Next time I refreshed, it was gone.

Anonymous said...
Nov 28, 2007, 7:51:00 PM  

Was he sitting in a chair like Malcolm Mcdowell in A Clockwork Orange?

I would rather remove all the skin from my body with a carrot peeler than ever work at that douchebag company.

Good Lord.

E Buzz said...
Nov 28, 2007, 8:39:00 PM  

Simmons is the worst thing that ever happened

Nov 29, 2007, 1:16:00 AM  

Billy Simmons with his little girl voice was on the air???? Good God, that little creep sounds like the Sports GAL. Somebody pays this dorkface???

Anonymous said...
Nov 29, 2007, 1:34:00 AM  

wags,
I will give you the peeler.
Come on do it.

Anonymous said...
Nov 29, 2007, 7:51:00 AM  

Why bother responding to anons?

Knowmsayin?

E Buzz said...
Nov 29, 2007, 10:23:00 AM  

I'm sick of Simmons and his tired schtick too, but at $1.5M a year, I'd work for ANYONE. Yes, he makes that much.

Anonymous said...
Nov 29, 2007, 11:48:00 AM  

There was also a reference to Leo DiCaprio playing a "Masshole" in The Departed that was later changed to "Massachusetts street tough".

Anonymous said...
Nov 29, 2007, 12:33:00 PM  

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