Fuck ESPN
24 January 2008 by Bob
Mike Downey, Trib Obsessed with Drunken TV Woman’s Rant
Female broadcasters are making the same career-ending blunders as their male counterparts these days, but in many cases, they’re receiving more negative press. Jacobson seems to have dropped the F-bomb a few times (gasp!) while deriding Notre Dame and the Touchdown Jesus, but videos of the roast haven’t been released, and accounts vary as to what she said exactly. [Ed note: Fuck Notre Dame, fuck Touchdown Jesus" and "fuck Jesus," apparently.]
Also:
Though ESPN won’t confirm Jacobson’s reported week long suspension, the network did confirm that her remarks were inappropriate. Those remarks were delivered during a Jan. 11 roast for ESPN Radio personalities Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic. Jacobson has often traded punches with Golic, a former Irish defensive lineman. That night, she delivered a wallop. Dropping the F-bomb three times, she reportedly slandered Notre Dame, the icon painted behind their goal posts dubbed “Touchdown Jesus” and finally Jesus himself. Jacobson would certainly not be the first television personality to go after Jesus. Just last year, comedian Kathy Griffin gave a rather unconventional acceptance speech when collecting her Emmy for “My Life on the D-List,” a reality show on the Bravo channel.
It’s difficult for me not to be sympathetic with the comment about females getting more negative press for the same behavior — but hey, I’m biased…
24 January 2008, on 11:02 pm
That night, she delivered a wallop. Dropping the F-bomb three times, she reportedly slandered Notre Dame, the icon painted behind their goal posts dubbed “Touchdown Jesus” and finally Jesus himself.
Oh no, she dropped the F-bomb. Run for your lives, civilization is over as we know it!!!
Holy Fuck, I just finished watching a clip of comedian Jeffry Ross from the same roast and he dropped the F-bomb about 10 times as much as Jacobson. And she isn’t the first, nor will she be the last person who uses Jesus to get a few laughs. It’s a damn roast. Haven’t they ever seen them on Comedy Central. They basically have to bleep out every other word.
And I agree with her on one point: Fuck Notre Dame. I’m glad they had a miserable season this year. They always get special treatment in the BCS and they are on TV every weekend. Join a goddamn conference if you want to play with the big boys.
25 January 2008, on 12:16 am
What a bunch of tight ass(?) fuckheads.
And, speaking (meta-whorically?) of extremely tight asses…erm…
’snip’:
(from Pete WinnCNSNews.com):
“Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, wants to know why. The video, he said, would confirm exactly what the popular co-host of ESPN2’s “First Take” actually said at the Jan. 11 event.”
“We know that Jacobson said ‘F*** Notre Dame,’” Donohue told Cybercast News Service. “What we don’t know is whether, as reported on some Web sites, she also said ‘F*** Jesus’ at the event. If she did, then that changes everything.”
If Jacobson did say, ‘F*** Jesus,’ then Donohue thinks the broadcaster deserves far more than a slap on the wrist.
“It is one thing to use an obscenity to rip a Catholic university, quite another to use the vilest of terms about Jesus,” he added. “If she didn’t, then all they need to do is make the video public — put it on YouTube. If she did, then it looks like we might be dealing with a cover up.”
Fuck Bill Donahue!
Or as Penn & Teller referred to him in their Bullshit (#31) show about “Mutha (’Missionary Position’) Teresa”…
“Catholic Boy”.
“Hey Bill…I mean…Catholic Boy?…
Bend over!…
There’s an extremely horny old priest cumming up behind you!”
“Or is it an Archbishop?”
“ARCH!!!”
25 January 2008, on 1:52 am
There is a very thin silver lining for the godless. Both Griffin and Jacobsen are accused of abusing the jesus, and they both got some negative press, and some fairly minor backlash, compared to what we might expect from past experience.
Imus and Richardson made some blatantly racist statements, and got absolutely creamed over it. Fired, ridiculed, and a big fuck you.
The point is, the people who verbally attacked other humans were treated much more severely than the ones who defamed an imaginary being.
Progress?
25 January 2008, on 4:56 am
Holy Jesus! For my whole life, I had never heard of Touchdown Jesus before today. What a hole in my culture. Anyway, I decided to look up some more and here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XnqAdSI5MU
The suckers there call it “The Word of Life”, ha ha. There is a funny point at the end where the guy says that Notre Dame is “where the church does its thinking”. Oh my Thor, “church” and “thinking” are not two words you would usually associate.
25 January 2008, on 12:20 pm
I’m so conflicted. I don’t know for sure if there even was a Nazarene named Jesus who got whacked by the Sanhedrin for his goofy, do-gooder rants. If he was genuine, NOT fuck him, fuck the asswipes who cancelled his check. Really, really, really fuck all the folks who use him to excuse their rape, xenophobia, war mongering, profieteering, etc.
Is that chick hot? I could really dig a, y’know, satanic, but hot ESPNotman.
25 January 2008, on 1:42 pm
I’ve never heard to touchdown jebus either. I have heard “Drop Kick Me Jebus Through The Goal Posts Of Life” which still cracks me up when I so much as read the title. HA!
One of my favorite less than famblee friendly jebus’ is the “Dress Up Jebus” at jesusdressup.com I think he looks fab in the tutu.
Thanks for that picture by the way. I laughed so hard I almost dropped my laptop.
It’s too good to just enjoy I’ve got to share it.
So I’m emailing it anonymously to my orthadox RC mother.
Bwahahahahahahahahhahaha! She’ll be complaining about it for years to come.
Thanks GIFS!!
25 January 2008, on 6:17 pm
I heard about this via an AFA.net Action Alert. It’s one of those “family” organizations that send out alerts when somebody or something offends them, urging all their followers / readers / members to send letters calling for action.
I sent a letter via their comments form basically telling them their idea that ESPN is being anti-christian because they won’t fire her is, well, bullshit. I then painted a graphic image of god, mary and jesus in a bisexual threesome and asked what they’d do about it. I got a simple reply:
“Pray for you”
So now I’m in a bet between myself and the guy from AFA.net that responded to me. He’ll pray for me and I’ll dance around a bonfire covering myself with chicken blood. The first one to be affected by the other will lose.
He took me up on the bet. Hah! I am so going to win.
26 January 2008, on 5:08 pm
JPOnion:
Please tell me that the chicken blood was purchased online from Santaria-R-Us and not gotten by actually having to kill one–or, at least save me a drumstick.
26 January 2008, on 9:20 pm
here in sweden we don’t bleep
29 January 2008, on 9:30 am
First, of course women get it worse than men for the same “misdeeds”. We live in a patriarchal country in a patriarchal world, and sports is one of the biggest upholders of the patriarchy.
Second, fuck Jesus.
Third, fuck Touchdown Jesus…I never heard of that before, but it sounds like a moronic icon.
Fourth…Notre Dame? Who gives a shit about Notre Dame? I went to a Catholic High School and the guidance counselors there wouldn’t say a WORD about me going to any school but Notre Dame or Villanova. I went to Cornell.
Fuck the nuns and the boy-touching priests. We had at least two boy-touchers at our high school and the principal, a nun, went out of her way to silence at least one complaint by a student who had been molested. The Catholic church should leave the gays and the world generally alone and try to make amends for its child molesting ways.
29 January 2008, on 11:32 am
very nice, indeed.
30 January 2008, on 5:34 pm
DBK: The Catholic church should leave the gays and the world generally alone and try to make amends for its child molesting ways.
Especially since it continues to resist efforts to make it answer to humanity for what it allows, enables, and covers up. How dare it place itself above human accountability? How dare it claim superiority to human affairs and hold its minions above human law? This outrages me every time I hear or see an example of it, not just with the RCC but with other cults and religious groups who would rather let abuse continue then be held accountable to the lowly, inferior rest of the world…/mini-rant