Drunken rant at roast for "Mike & Mike" goes over the line and ESPN co-host suspended
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From USA Today:
Dana Jacobson, co-host of ESPN2's First Take, will remain off-air
until Monday for comments at a social event she now says were "foolish
and insensitive."
Jacobson spoke at a roast of ESPN's Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic in
Atlantic City Jan. 1. Onstage there, according to The Press of
Atlantic City, she was "swilling vodka" and "cursing like a sailor"
and made "an absolute fool of herself" as the crowd booed.
That prompted her current one-week suspension. Says ESPN spokesman
Mike Soltys: "She's been disciplined."
Also at the roast, Jacobson, a Michigan grad, made vulgar references
about Notre Dame in trying to joke about the school with ex-Irish
lineman Golic. Those references involved references about Jesus Christ
- prompting the Catholic League to put out a statement entitled "ESPN
Anchorwoman Trashes Jesus Christ." Jacobson, in a statement of her
own, says she has "respect (for) all religions and did not mean
anything derogatory by my poorly chosen words."
Dana Jacobson, co-host of ESPN2's First Take, will remain off-air
until Monday for comments at a social event she now says were "foolish
and insensitive."
Jacobson spoke at a roast of ESPN's Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic in
Atlantic City Jan. 1. Onstage there, according to The Press of
Atlantic City, she was "swilling vodka" and "cursing like a sailor"
and made "an absolute fool of herself" as the crowd booed.
That prompted her current one-week suspension. Says ESPN spokesman
Mike Soltys: "She's been disciplined."
Also at the roast, Jacobson, a Michigan grad, made vulgar references
about Notre Dame in trying to joke about the school with ex-Irish
lineman Golic. Those references involved references about Jesus Christ
- prompting the Catholic League to put out a statement entitled "ESPN
Anchorwoman Trashes Jesus Christ." Jacobson, in a statement of her
own, says she has "respect (for) all religions and did not mean
anything derogatory by my poorly chosen words."
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I am sure her "roast" comments will attract the type of men she wants to meet!
i'm a notre dame fan and i think she should have been able to give golic and weiss (who was in attendance) the business, she's a michigan grad!! there isn't another catholic (i'm a catholic as well) university like Notre Dame, what other university has a touchdown jesus? isn't that insensitive in itself to jesus?
was the rest of the roast G rated, if so it must not have been that good of a roast. i think some people are just too sensitive when it was clearly a fun, booze induced night of ragging on mike and mike.
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In theory, yes, but in dealing with issues of religion or ethnic origin there is a point where someone can cross the line. Anyone remember years ago Ted Danson and the roast of Whoopi Goldberg at the Friars Club where Ted dressed up in blackface and did some kind of routine?
I have been trying to find out specifically what Dana said about Jesus and Notre Dame but haven't found an online source yet.
"F...Notre Dame,
F...Touchdown Jesus,
F...Jesus."
Believe me folks she wasn't even nice enough to just say "F," she said the whole word, but this is a family friendly article and you will just have to use your imaginations.
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truly lol.
she wasnt on the air, she wasnt on the clock right (not paying her to be there)
why is she getting suspended? thats lame. get her ass on the air, have her mumble "im sorry im a loud-mouthed drunken skank" and move on.
<< <i>drunken party girl at a quasi-celebrity roast. shocking.
truly lol.
she wasnt on the air, she wasnt on the clock right (not paying her to be there)
why is she getting suspended? thats lame. get her ass on the air, have her mumble "im sorry im a loud-mouthed drunken skank" and move on. >>
Doesn't really matter if she was on the air, she still represents ESPN by being an employee and this was going to come out on
the news anyway so ESPN had to do something.
I wonder if "Around the Horn" and "Pardon the interruption" would cover this incident? Since this is one of ESPN's own they
might just pretend it never happened as far as talking about it.
Give her a break.
She'll be cast upon a sea of fire to burn for all eternity for what she said.
Shouldn't that be punishment enough?
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<< <i>Give her a break.
She'll be cast upon a sea of fire to burn for all eternity for what she said.
Shouldn't that be punishment enough? >>
Agreed.
Everyone that uses the Notre Dame name in vain is destined to serve in Hades.
Go Penn State!
<< <i>This is what happens when the company you work for is owned by a mouse... There are roasts and Disney roasts. Apparently Jacobsen didn't get the memo. Next time instead of calling it a roast, they should call it a celebration of friends. >>
Agreed.
Maybe she thought it would be aired on Comedy Central.
Hello?! Is this thing on?
Try the veal?
<< <i>can someone invite her here? >>
LOL Anything she said there would have been light stuff on these boards.
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I guess what I'm saying is that the only thing I like about ESPN is Erin Andrews!!
<< <i>She was on the cover of Hartford Magazine this month and profiled in an article as one of the Hartford area's "most eligible singles".
>>
I thought she was a lesbian.
<< <i>ESPN sucks!! Let her have some fun. They try to be too politically correct all the time.
I think they had to draw the line on the "F" word, they couldn't just ignore this like it was no big deal and then
have to deal with the fallout over that. Under the circumstances they did the right thing and I think she got off pretty easy.
<< <i>Who even saw this event, besides ESPN people? Was it on TV? >>
It was not televised. There were apparently a number of media people from various organizations (including ESPN) at the roast.
ESPN has a tape of the incident but is refusing to show it. A Christian organization is holding a prayer vigil and demonstration outside
ESPN headquarters in Connecticut today demanding that she be fired.
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<< <i>She was on the cover of Hartford Magazine this month and profiled in an article as one of the Hartford area's "most eligible singles".
>>
I thought she was a lesbian. >>
Well, that's not what she told the magazine: