Uncle Tom Jackson Out At ESPN

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Reinscarf said:
i remember growing up i used to avoid looking at the scoreboards or watching hilights and just wait for the recap show

those corney boomer nicknames curtis my favourite martin, those music,

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That game was fukking embarrassing. shyt made me sick.

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no1es run this said:
People started calling him an uncle tom because he sat up there quiet as a mouse as Rush Limbaugh was burying McNabb and talking bout him getting so much love because he was black. Lost a lot of respect for all them clowns they ain't call him or nothing.

I remember that shyt happened back in 03 yall must be young



They ain't say nothing bout the black part
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Tom Jackson addressed this in detail right after it happened, came out strongly against it, and was the force behind firing Rush from the show.

Now I know, there is no equivalent to saying something right when it happens... but if you are going to "remember history," remember all of it.

JACKSON: An emotional Tom Jackson spoke next: "Much has been made about the fact that we did not speak out this week. I want you to know that no one prevented us from speaking. We chose this forum, our show. Let me just say, it was not our decision to have Rush Limbaugh on this show. I've seen replay after replay of Limbaugh's comments with my face attached, as well as that of my colleagues. Comments that made us very uncomfortable at the time, although the depth and the insensitive nature of which weren't fully felt until it seemed too late to reply. Rush Limbaugh is known for the divisive nature of his rhetoric. He creates controversy, and what he said Sunday is the same type of thing that he said on radio for years. A player in this league, who has a young son, called me this week, and his son now wants to know if it's all right for blacks to play quarterback. Rush Limbaugh's comments could not have been more hurtful. He was brought in to talk football, and he broke that trust. Rush told us that the social commentary for which he is so well known would not cross over to our show, and instead he would represent the viewpoint of the intelligent, passionate fan. We know of few fans, passionate or otherwise, who see Donovan McNabb ... somehow artificially hyped because of the color of his skin. The fact that Donovan McNabb's skin color was brought up at all was wrong, especially in the context of the brotherhood that we feel we have on this show. ... Limbaugh was not a fit for 'NFL Countdown.'"



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Jackson Responds To Criticism
TAKING THE HEAT: Berman: "There's been a lot of criticism as to why we didn't react to Rush Limbaugh's social statement when it happened last week. Look, I'm the host of the show, I missed it, I shouldn't have missed it. I've been kicking myself all week." Jackson: "When Rush began his statements, and I started to think about it in football terms and how to reply, do I wish that I had caught it? In hindsight, absolutely. Do I regret that I didn't, yes. But I'm human. Mostly I regret that I missed it for Donovan McNabb's sake." Steve Young: "Rush's mistake was his refusal to recognize that in the last twenty years the quarterback position has become blind to color. He missed the fact that there hasn't been talk about the distinction of a black quarterback for a long time. ... We all missed it, I missed it. And the truth is, everyone at ESPN missed it." ESPN's Michael Irvin: "I'm glad we're back here now, and I want us to get back to that atmosphere, that atmosphere of feeling, that feeling of having a good time and that brotherhood and allowing the people to peek in on our locker room" ("Sunday NFL Countdown," ESPN, 10/5).
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Reggie said:
ESPN getting rid of the older cats and getting the guys who have played more recently on their shows. It makes sense cause the average fan can relate better to someone who has played the game in the 90's and 2000's compared to the ones who played back in the 70's and 80's. It's a different game now and they need the new age players perspective of it.
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Also some of these kats like Hasselbeck they can get away with paying less.
 
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