Thank you, God! No more imbecile comments from Eddy boy.
Ed Cunningham resigns
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He thinks he's a martyr. Really he's just a little girl.
I applaud him following his conscience, because he left little doubt what he felt about illegal, and legal, big hits in football. But I certainly won't miss him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/sports/espn-ed-cunningham-football-concussions.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/sports/espn-ed-cunningham-football-concussions.html
http://www.seattletimes.com/sports/...caster-citing-footballs-effects-on-the-brain/
“I take full ownership of my alignment with the sport,” he told The New York Times. “I can just no longer be in that cheerleader’s spot.”
“I take full ownership of my alignment with the sport,” he told The New York Times. “I can just no longer be in that cheerleader’s spot.”
If that is the way he feels fine, but I'm not seeing how he thinks his resignation brings anymore light to CTE or makes a "statement".
He is just calling the action he has nothing to do with what is happening on the field.
I'm going to enjoy these last years of football as we know it.
He is just calling the action he has nothing to do with what is happening on the field.
I'm going to enjoy these last years of football as we know it.
Good riddance. If he wanted to make this about concern for safety, then he should have confined his comments to that. Instead, he went after players personally on air that he thought were playing dirty. And he didn't just say it once, he kept after them over, and over again. I remember when he went after Larry Asante, and didn't even confine his criticism to one game. Just because of a play in one game where he thought Asante made a dirty play, then he continued to go after Asante in future games too. It was completely unprofessional on his part, and if he did it to one player, I'm sure he did it to others too. He wanted to be a one man judge and jury for who was dirty. ESPN should have dropped him long ago for that kind of unprofessional conduct on air. Now he's just grandstanding and looking for attention. I don't believe for a moment that him quitting now is about concern for player safety. He probably decided he wanted to do other things and had to try to get attention as he walked out the door. Goodbye Ed, I don't think anybody will miss you.
He should have just kneeled during his next broudcast
Genuinely disliked him as an analyst, he always seemed to be dogging on something when he did a game. He'd have his moment where he'd get all pissy about something and just keep riding it.
Dude, break down the game and let the talk radio set argue over how people should feel about it.
Dude, break down the game and let the talk radio set argue over how people should feel about it.
Do you mean Eric Martin? He was all over Martin for the hit on an OK ST player during a Niles Paul kick return for a score. Martin knocked the guy out. A penalty wasn't called, but the league took action and suspended Martin for the next game. Cunningham dogged Martin for the rest of the year and all next year. I don't remember the Asante incident you refer to.
Yes, I remember both of them too. I didn't mention Eric Martin because in that case, he was slightly more justified in going after him, although again he should have just let it go after he made his point.
I didn't read where he said his leaving was going to fix anything. He mentioned that he was saddened about the violence and head trauma in the game and he no longer wanted to be part of the system that applauds the violent hits. I didn't like when he broadcast Husker games, or any game for that matter, because it became a one-note broadcast, but if he didn't like it, he's doing what any respectable man should. He's leaving it, and hundreds of thousands of dollars behind.
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"and because of his workload as a film and television producer. He was a producer for “Undefeated,” a documentary about an urban high school football team, and has a string of projects lined up."
I suspect Ed is working on another documentary telling us how violent the sport is.
I suspect Ed is working on another documentary telling us how violent the sport is.
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