Colin Cowherd is now settled into his new career over at Fox Sports 1 and is coming clean about why his relationship with his longtime employer ESPN ended so abruptly.
Cowherd laid out the interesting relationship ESPN has between pleasing their Disney owners and staying atop of the sports entertainment market catering to sports fan’s interest in things like betting. Really interesting discussion:
If I can be critical of ESPN, they have become incredibly reactionary over the last three or four years for a variety of reasons. They’re going to have 300 layoffs here. It’s incredibly sad. There are a lot of executives protecting their space and pensions, and they have become incredibly reactionary. But there are a lot of great people over there. But here’s the thing: Sports gambling isn’t going anywhere, but ESPN is in a very odd place with this because they wanted to buy DraftKings. This company [Fox] owns 10 percent of DraftKings. ESPN wanted to own 10 percent of DraftKings. They made a bid for it, Disney said ‘No you don’t.’ There is a struggle with that company, the former employer, right now about gambling. ESPN is owned by Disney and when you think of Disney you think of ‘Lion King’ and you think of ‘Frozen’ and you think of ‘Dancing with the Stars’ and you think of ‘Pocahontas’ and kids and theme parks. Their morning show ‘Mike and Mike in the Morning’—we used to call it ‘Mickey and Mickey in the Morning.’ It’s very Disney, it’s very safe, it’s very likable.
Cowherd brings up a lot of good points and he’s not being at all insulting. Overall, no matter how you feel about Cowherd he’s telling the absolute truth.
But about that new haircut…
H/T Geeks and Cleats