Skip Bayless took the money and ran to FS1.
I don’t begrudge him for that, if someone was offering me $6 million to basically troll all day, I’d take it too.
What is interesting in this interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Skip says he was being held back by ESPN.
Skip Bayless says his move to Fox Sports 1 – with a new daily program that is set to bow Sept. 6 – will allow him to remove the “handcuffs” he’s been compelled to wear at ESPN, where he hosted the popular ESPN2 program First Take with Stephen A. Smith.
“Too many people in charge at ESPN, for my taste, were a little too fearful,” Bayless tells The Hollywood Reporter in an interview officially revealing his move. “It’s a Disney network. There are just certain boundaries that you can’t even tiptoe along. Not that we won’t have boundaries at Fox because we will. [But] they will trust me to go a little deeper. I can be completely honest on everything.”
If you do decide to watch the show that debuts on September 6th, you will be getting Skip Uncut.
It will be curious to see if his audience carries over to FOX or was he a product more of the ESPN Juggernaut.