Tag: Dan Le Batard

"I believe that Mike Tomlin has been better at broadcasting than any newcomer that we have seen since Tony Romo in terms of surprising people."

"If Griffin truly wants to champion sports journalism, his fight shouldn't be with the people entertaining audiences. It should be with the companies that decided entertainment was the better business model in the first place."

"We don't give hot takes. I have an opinion, and I will give that opinion. And it will be as informed as I can make it. You say hot takes, I'll knock your ass out. Hot takes are empty. They're bull***t."

"If Joe Buck did want to break up with Troy Aikman and try to keep everything good there, my guess is the way that Joe Buck would do that is just the way that it happened."

"Sports always had a starch to it where the gatekeepers didn't allow a lot of what we provided. We changed the industry in many ways, and I don't know if we get the proper respect for it."

"As good as anyone in football."

"Joe Buck is the very best. When I say he's the very best, I mean that Troy Aikman could be a hundred different people from football, and Joe Buck would make them Troy Aikman."

"It was a matter of time. Colleagues of my age have been joking for years, what would last longer, our career or the newspaper industry itself. I won't even pretend I was overwhelmingly disappointed."

"He's reminding me of a golden time in the industry when a big-time personality introduced me to the wonder and discovery of a sport. I was following him, and he was teaching me. Something inside me died with him last night."

"I just wonder if you guys notice that the sport is disproportionately black, and the broadcasters that get hired are disproportionately white, and it's on purpose. I'm asking the question. It's to make it palatable to the broadest section of people."