Sean Salisbury from ESPN -- Classic or Dud?

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Smug, arrogant, condescending prick? Or good sports broadcasting?

He grates me...big DUD.

― van igloo (van smack), Thursday, 10 November 2005 04:19 (twenty years ago)

For that first season of Battlebots, CLASSIC. As an NFL analyst... eh, he's okay.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 10 November 2005 04:21 (twenty years ago)

Salisbury is pretty grating and I used to totally despise him, but in the past two seasons, they have had him breaking down more film especially on ESPN News and he does that pretty well.

Sean Salisbury was a clipboard holder in the NFL, that is for sure. I know Gary Hogeboom and he was no Gary Hogeboom.

― earlnash, Thursday, 10 November 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

He irritates me no end...and I have no idea why. I think it's the smug factor. Is it just me or does he front like he actually played? that's the feeling I get...comes on with a little too much "I was in the shit" attitude, which doesn't sit well. I don't have a problem with his analysis...it's the 'tude.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 November 2005 06:03 (twenty years ago)

But he makes delicious steaks.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 10 November 2005 06:47 (twenty years ago)

tofu otm

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 10 November 2005 08:07 (twenty years ago)

Classic. At least with John Clayton. They're my favorite duo on ESPN, with that whole jock/nerd dynamic. It's like The Breakfast Club with NFL stats.

― Giants = Super Bowl (TCBeing), Thursday, 10 November 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

I h8 the st8k.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 10 November 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

I used to really like him a lot a couple years ago. I thought he was pretty incisive and usually spot on in his analysis. And he called it like he saw it without being a total dick about it. Where he lost me was *precisely* the whole shouting-match-with-Clayton schtick, which is so tired no matter who the participants are. I saw some thing around the time of the draft last year, when he and Clayton went at it, and it just struck me as really lame; Clayton was actually somewhat trying to have a discussion but the Steak was just acting like a moron.

so ... used to be Classic ... nowadays pretty much dud.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 11 November 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

I'll fucking hate him forever cuz of all the shit he was talking about Randy Moss....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 11 November 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Is there any truth to the rumor that Salisbury was arrested while a player in San Diego on a Felony???

Go SeaHawks!!!!!!!!!!!

― Billy Ray Wallace, Saturday, 4 February 2006 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

When analyzing the NFL, Salisbury acts like he is a four time Superbowl MVP instead of admitting the truth--that in his NFL career he was a complete failure. Salisbury is the most arrogant, self-absorbed analyst on ESPN. Perhaps Salisbury should be reminded of his pathetic career statistics (19 career touchdowns matched with 19 career interceptions--in a career Sean Salisbury could not throw as many touchdowns as Shaun Alexander made in one season [28]). Salisbury is nothing but a career bench warmer, clipboard holder, talentless, flacid, limp, sorry excuse for an NFL player. Salisbury has absolutely no right--or basis to analyze or critique anyone or anything. Salisbury "guaranteed" a Pittsburgh Steeler victory in Superbowl XL (Sportscenter 2/4/06) based on his "NFL veteran analysis and breakdown." When the Seahawks win on Sunday--I hope every Seahawk fan will flood Salisbury with e-mails and phone messages rubbing his face in another in his on-going string of bad decisions and losing ways.

― Joe Martin, Saturday, 4 February 2006 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

I wish he'd taken that ass't coach job in AZ.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 4 February 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Any guy with four rings knows a thing or two about football, regardless of whether he held a clipboard or not. Gary Kubiak spent his entire career standing on the sidelines watching John Elway play, and now he's a head coach. I'm not going to criticize him for not getting on the field... he was in the same meetings Elway was and probably knows quite a bit.

I think the problem is that Salisbury decided that the path to fame was screaming arrogance, which is part and parcel with the way televised sports 'journalism' is conducted these days. He is part of the John Kruk, Charles Barkley (who I love), Dan Patrick, Ben Maller, Michael Irvin, Stephen A. Smith, Jim Rome, JT the Brick, etc. etc. continuum, or what I like to call a Professional Douchebag.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Sunday, 5 February 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

OTM. In Salisbury's first couple of years on ESPN, he just wasn't this much of a smug, hollering douche. The style has taken hold, and I'm sure the on-air heads are changing to meet the demands of their producers, knowing that if they don't, there are a thousand telegenic assholes lined up to take their place.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 5 February 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

Let me clarify that I meant AFC Championship rings. :)

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Sunday, 5 February 2006 05:15 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

Bump for the upcoming season. Salisbury, still a douchebag.

― van igloo (van smack), Saturday, 2 September 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

I like the combo of Salisbury and Clayton in a Laurel & Hardy sorta way.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Saturday, 2 September 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/SaliSe00.htm

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 2 September 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

John Clayton is an absolute moron.

I have no problem with the steak.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 2 September 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

i hate this dude.

― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 04:56 (eighteen years ago)

he wants you to hate him

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 18 January 2007 04:59 (eighteen years ago)

fuck

― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 06:32 (eighteen years ago)

him

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

gently

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

According to the goofs at Deadspin, he used his cellphone to take pictures of his wang then showed the pictures to his female co-workers at ESPN. The guy's a complete tool. I like Jaws much better.

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Friday, 19 January 2007 00:00 (eighteen years ago)

I thought that was Harold Reynolds?

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 19 January 2007 05:35 (eighteen years ago)

this thread should be banned. from my LIFE

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Friday, 19 January 2007 06:07 (eighteen years ago)

I thought that was Harold Reynolds?

I thought it was John Clayton!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

i thought it was suzy kolber!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

you know she's packing.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

if so, it makes me wish she'd decided to take namath home after all.

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

Namath in hot trannie action. Umm no thanks!!!

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Saturday, 20 January 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

Sean Salisbury would Jew all these Bradies.

― c(,,c) (Leee), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

LOL!!!111

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

so casual, so off-hand. it slipped over his tongue and out his mouth so easily it makes me think that perhaps, maybe, it wasn't the first time he'd used that expression.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

i was hoping he'd say that brady got jewed

― aidsy (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

maybe if the pats had played a more kike-ish style of defense lol amirite?

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 25 January 2007 00:00 (eighteen years ago)

maybe he meant "juke"?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 25 January 2007 01:20 (eighteen years ago)

not in that context.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

espn says he said chew as in chew the clock which (sorry dudes) makes sense in context.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

ESPN = CYA.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2006/070106_mfe_February_07_klosterman.html

^^^^^^^^^zuh

If you discount the print-media buffoons (Jay Mariotti, Skip Bayless, et al.) who go on TV with the express intent of destroying whatever credibility the newspaper industry once had, Salisbury is the least cogent, most wrongheaded voice in the sports media. He's an atrocity. Yet this broadcast lunacy has saved his gridiron legacy. Salisbury's career-passer rating was a dismal 55.1 and he never had one decent season, but in retrospect that production looks amazing. It seems impossible, but it's true: Sean Salisbury was better as a player. Which is just about the craziest sentence I've ever written.

^^^^^^^^^ah

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 29 January 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

ok I just LMBO'd my way through that entire thing. The Theismann capsule is awesome.

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

OK posting links to Klosterman here is a bannable offense from this point forward (the only reason this is not retroactive is because we are BFF, Jimmy M).

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Monday, 29 January 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

WTF GUYS

― roger goodell (gear), Monday, 29 January 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

I'm so glad this guy has been away for some time now.

― van smack, Saturday, 4 September 2010 03:40 (fifteen years ago)

whatever happened to him anyway?

― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 4 September 2010 20:02 (fifteen years ago)

I never bump this thread just in case it has a Candyman-like effect on him.

― no gut busting joke can change history (polyphonic), Saturday, 4 September 2010 20:05 (fifteen years ago)

Apparently he took a picture of his salisbury steak on his cell phone and texted it to a co worker at espn. Got canned.

― van smack, Sunday, 5 September 2010 03:19 (fifteen years ago)

lol at him having his own thread

― J0rdan S., Sunday, 5 September 2010 03:20 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

ok nothing to do w/ this sad, broken man but this seemed the best thread to post this story on: http://deadspin.com/5906658/is-an-espn-columnist-scamming-people-on-the-internet

― balls, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 03:12 (thirteen years ago)

damn thats interesting

― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 03:58 (thirteen years ago)

it is. Deadspin dug deeper and the story blew up in a big way; half dozen updates posted now.

― "in this super-sexy postracial age" (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 20:04 (thirteen years ago)

http://nilsenreport.ca/2012/05/01/former-espn-columnist-sarah-phillips-exposed/

― "in this super-sexy postracial age" (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 20:11 (thirteen years ago)

its funny people were at first suspicious that she was fake, she turned out to be real but she did steal some kids fb page

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 20:52 (thirteen years ago)

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