Michael Wilbon has become a sports TV pioneer through his work on ESPN’s Pardon The Interruption. He believes things are different than they used to be and not necessarily in a good way.
While making his weekly appearance with Waddle & Silvy on ESPN Chicago, Wilbon passionately spoke in favor of the Chicago Bears finding a new stadium south of Soldier Field along the lakefront in the Windy City.
The topic has been a hot one in Chicago for more than a year as the NFL franchise purchased nearly $200 million worth of land in the northwest suburb of Arlington Heights with rumors circulating the club planned to build a new stadium there and leave the city limits of Chicago.
When the topic was broached, Michael Wilbon shared his opinion that this item — and many others, for that matter — were much simpler than sports media members make them out to be.
“This is not hard. People can make this hard if they want,” Wilbon said. “That’s what we specialize in now, all of us in the talk industry. ‘Let’s make it hard so we can have many layers and several days (of content)!’ You can do that, but that’s not happening.”
“That’s not true,” Marc Silverman said with a chuckle.
