John Clayton out at ESPN
 

ESPN has let go of yet another longtime NFL reporter.

John Clayton, who has covered the NFL for ESPN for 23 years, has been laid off, according to Sporting News.

Clayton’s ESPN Radio show in Seattle will remain in place, as the local ESPN Radio affiliates are not actually owned by ESPN. But he is done covering the league for ESPN on television and on ESPN.com.

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Re: John Clayton out at ESPN
 

"Moooom I'm done with my segment." *blasts thrash metal*

Re: John Clayton out at ESPN
 

Is ESPN going tits up or something?

Re: John Clayton out at ESPN
 

They're in a death spiral and they only have themselves to blame. As it's so accurately put here https://www.outkickthecoverage.com/e...-today-042617/...

Middle America wants to pop a beer and listen to sports talk, they don’t want to be lectured about why Caitlyn Jenner is a hero, Michael Sam is the new Jackie Robinson of sports, and Colin Kaepernick is the Rosa Parks of football. ESPN made the mistake of trying to make liberal social media losers happy and as a result lost millions of viewers.

Re: John Clayton out at ESPN
 

No...they're more successful than ever with their progressive, liberal staffing - ask 'em, they'll tell ya...

Because everyone wants to hear a former women's Div III collegiate basketball player, who has made it her mission for everyone to know her sexual orientation, raised on a Native American reservation by Persian refugees and how it's impacted her life, talk for four hours about the NFL and how it's society's fault former players with three recreational narcotic suspensions are broke, on dope, and CTE has 'em without a rope...

Cue Rodney :rolleyes:

Just give me the freaking scores and some amazing highlights, maybe some credible analysis from someone who's actually played or coached the game for more than ten years and move the hell on...

Re: John Clayton out at ESPN
 

Sports is not diverse. NFL, NBA both close to 80% black. There is no room for color and sexual orientation conversations on the field today because BEST athlete gets the job.

Anything outside of sports has to work with requirements to include a percentage of whites, blacks, disadvantaged women businesses, immigrants inclusion, Veterans...no room for any of that on the field / court. It's the one escape we have where skill is the only thing that matters. If you can't run fast you get beat, weaker you get beat, dumb get beat.

Re: John Clayton out at ESPN
 

Just as MTV lost their way and forgot about music, ESPN is losing their way forgetting about sports.

I usually go to their site for a few quick headlines, but no more after the way they handled this Tiger Woods thing. Possibly the worst reporting I've ever seen.

Re: John Clayton out at ESPN
 

ESPN Entertainment Sports PoliticallyCorrect Network?!?

Re: John Clayton out at ESPN
 

Doesn't make one difference to me, I've been done with ESPN for a very long time. Basically a few Monday Night Football games and that's pretty much it.

Re: John Clayton out at ESPN
 

I think there's truth to that statement. A perhaps more tangible reason is the sheer amount of money ESPN shelled out for programming rights. This was poor strategy considering how many people (me included) have "cut the cable" or eliminated subscriptions in favor of free news.

When ESPN was new, it was a revelation. Today sports highlights are everywhere and reporting is ubiquitous. ESPNs gamble to dominate viewership when paid viewership is declining was a bad one.

The lean left may be due to the fact that their advertisers are the only ones left paying them. So we have the tail wagging the dog.