ESPN has suspended "First Take" co-host Dana Jacobson after demeaning her remarks during Mike and Mike's roast to be "inappropriate." The comments were made about the Notre Dame football program which Mike Golic is an almunus of. Apparently these remarks did not sit well with the Catholics who are all in tizzing forcing ESPN to take action against Jacobson......Except, the mere point of a roast is to say inappropriate things about the people being roasted and the things they love. And that if someone has made the catholics upset, they probably did a good job roasting, because people are supposed to be offended. If everyone laughed and had a good time, then it's more like a Victoria Secret Super Bowl party than a roast. If ESPN wanted a politically correct roast that would have made Mickey happy than they should have wrote the script, analyzed it, sent it to their lawyers, and then maybe have some minorities take a look at it to make sure that nobody's feelings got hurt and called it Mike and Mike's family fun roast. Maybe it could have been hawaiian themed, I'd say they should have a pig roast, but PETA would have come after them. Instead they decided to go edgy. Make those 18-34 males laugh their asses off and get their two friends to start listening in because, "those guys are way funny." And then those two guys get two guys and all of sudden ratings have gone up. Well look where that got them. A suspended co-worker and some pissed off catholics. Congrats ESPN on another horrible idea. Can we just have plain old sporting events and highlights now?
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