Bill Simmons is writing the latest chapter in his beef with ESPN.
The Ringer CEO Simmons took a vulgar shot at his former employer ESPN on the latest episode of his self-titled podcast. Simmons was answering listener mailbag questions as part of a segment on his podcast, and one listener referenced an old video series from Grantland, the popular blog that Simmons used to run when he was with The Worldwide Leader.
Simmons then proceeded to rail against ESPN in response. He let off some steam about the fact that ESPN had liquidated Grantland’s YouTube channel, meaning that viewers could no longer watch old video features.
“You can’t see it because a little after I left ESPN, for some reason, because they’re vindictive f–king s–thead a–holes, they liquidated our Grantland YouTube channel,” said Simmons. “I still can’t believe they did it.
“There’s four years of videos that we did that were, a lot of them were ahead of their time,” Simmons added. “They were just like, ‘F–k it, we’ll just liquidate all of it.’ So they can go eat a big fat d–k.”
Simmons worked for ESPN from 2001-15, becoming one of their most popular sportswriters and eventually launching an impressive multimedia footprint as well with “The Bill Simmons Podcast.” But Simmons also had a tense relationship with ESPN during his time there, including a prominent suspension from the network in 2014.
Eventually, Simmons left ESPN and launched The Ringer in 2016. But the feud has continued to go strong over the years with everything from a war of words with former ESPN president John Skipper to Simmons more recently slamming the network over the way that they treated Jalen Rose.
