You Are Up For Adoption

mjdeadspin — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:00:00 EDT

As Will told you yesterday, Weekend Daddy no longer wants custody of you. I've got this weekend, and one more. I had planned to just surprise everyone with my last post, and throw up a full-frontal picture of Jeff Reed's genitalia, but I guess that's not necessary now. Of course, it seems like it's only a matter of time until you see that anyway.

I don't know who will be replacing me (I hear Will is in negotiations with Greg Oden), but Dick Butkus, The Judge, and that doofus with the mullet will still be in your life, loving and supporting you. You with your colorful sweater with the letters of the alphabet on it. That's what I'll miss the most.

Greg Oden's Blog [Yardbarker]

ESPN's Butkus Sham Finally Over

Leitch — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:10:19 EDT

Not to imply that the ratings for ESPN's "reality show" "Bound For Glory" weren't through the roof, but no one seems to have noticed — save for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — that the whole show was full of horse manure. Dick Butkus, who was "hired" to "coach" a Pennsylvania high school team, has left the team in the middle of the season, saying he had met his contractual obligations.

We're assuming one of those contractual obligation wasn't to actually coach; the Post-Gazette has detailed in great detail how Butkus has anything but a real head coach, with "real" coach Lou Cerro — who had been hired before ESPN invaded — running the team. ESPN is pulling its cameras from the series along with Butkus; Cerro says, "They're telling us that to do the final two weeks of the season would cost them between $1.5 million and $2 million."

You mean an ESPN series was based on pure fiction? No! Next thing you're gonna tell us is that Sean Salisbury and John Clayton don't really hate each other.

Butkus Leaves High School Team [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]

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You Are Up For Adoption

ESPN's Butkus Sham Finally Over