nfl.fanhouse.com - Take a situation where there are hours upon hours of live television time to fill and add in a collection of people not terribly comfortable outside the realm of discussing 40-yard dash times and you have a formula destined to produce an awkward moment. Like, for instance, the one ESPN analyst Matt Millen found himself in Saturday afternoon during coverage of the later rounds of the NFL draft. During a lull in the proceedings, Millen, the former general manager of the Detroit Lions, was engaged in an on-air conversation with Monday Night Football analyst Ron Jaworski. For some reason, the two got into a conversation about fried bologna sandwiches, at which point Millen said, ''Ask any polack from Buffalo how they like them, right Jaws." Jaworski, known during his playing career with the Philadelphia Eagles as "The Polish Rifle," joked back about trying them with fried onions.
So I'm trying to sober up between games of beer die on Saturday and then ESPN tries to fuckin ruin my day with a heavy dose of Matt Millen draft coverage. But it was only a matter of minutes before that retard went ahead and dropped one of his patented racial slurs and gets yanked off the air.
Calling Jaws a polack didn't immediately make me jump outta my seat but it definitely perked up the ears a bit. It just didn't come off right. Especially coming outta the mouth of a guy who called Johnny Morton a "faggot" and called out another player for being a devout coward. I think ESPN needs to consider the possibility that maybe a guy who was the worst GM in the history of professional sports and who is one more draft away from adding the N-word to his repertoire might need to be pulled off air. Dude is more of a liability than Charles Rogers' love of blowing 'er day.
Here is his ESPN forced apology.
PS - I think Mallard says it best in the background of this video. "Welcome to the NFL network buddy."
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