Stephen A. Smith owes part of his career to Skip Bayless, so he will never genuinely throw Skip under the bus.
Honestly, if someone calls you their brother, you want to have their back through thick and thin. There is something respectable about that.
Skip is going through it at the moment because of his tweets about Damar Hamlin. BSO reported that his relationship with Shannon Sharpe is going downhill.
Bayless’ “Undisputed” co-host Shannon Sharpe raised eyebrows by skipping Tuesday’s show.
That sparked speculation that the Pro Football Hall of Famer no-showed either as a protest of Bayless or as a statement of support for Hamlin, who remains hospitalized in critical condition.
One source noted it’s highly unusual for Sharpe to skip the embrace debate program the morning after “Monday Night Football,” when “Undisputed” viewership is typically at its peak.
Bayless, the longtime enfant terrible of sports TV, sparked widespread outrage Monday night when he asked how the NFL could possibly postpone the Bills-Cincinnati Bengals game so late in the season with playoff seeding on the line.
“No doubt the NFL is considering postponing the rest of this game – but how? This late in the season, a game of this magnitude is crucial to the regular-season outcome… which suddenly seems so irrelevant,” he tweeted.
The Hamlin controversy is not the only problem for the 71-year-old Bayless.
Another source said his relationship with the 54-year-old Sharpe has deteriorated to an “all-time low.”
Stephen A. Smith was given a chance to bury Skip, but he chose the high road. While stating he doesn’t agree with everything, Skip says he doesn’t believe Bayless ever has bad intentions and his heart is in the right place.
Stephen A. says that we all get caught up on Twitter and should be able to move on after apologizing.
Here is Stephen A’s full answer and some of the Twitter reactions.