Skip Bayless doesn’t appear to have many friends at the moment, having put out an exceedingly insensitive tweet on the night Damar Hamlin’s heart stopped during a football game.
It’s rumored that Skip’s Undisputed co-host Shannon Sharpe is ready to quit the show after skipping work the following day. Shannon voiced that he would like to see Bayless remove the tweet in question during his opening monologue on Tuesday morning but the controversial analyst remains intransigent and has so far refused to do so. He won’t even apologize.
He’s even claiming that people at FOX had no problems with the tweet and only asked him to clarify his words when they noticed it was being misconstrued.
Now, another member of the FOX team, Michael Strahan, has spoken on the matter, declaring that the claims over the network being fine with the statement is a flat-out lie.
“For sensible people like us here to say that it didn’t affect anybody at this network, nobody at this network minded – that’s a lie. Obviously, they talked to us,” he said during FOX’s pregame show on Sunday.
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Michael didn’t call Skip out by name, instead referring to him as “someone here at this network,” whom he also said did some things “that were inhumane.”
“You don’t have to be a football player to understand how big this was,” he added.
Strahan is not the first media personality to lash out at Bayless’s insensitivity. And he’s likely not going to be the last.
Meanwhile, Hamlin’s recovery is progressing well. The Buffalo Bills safety is conscious and breathing on his own again, having also taken to social media to thank everyone for their support.
