One Year Anniversary of Buzz Bissinger's Meltdown

Considering this is a sports blog, I can’t say I have the greatest respect for author Buzz Bissinger following his blowup on Costas Now one year ago. He seems to be behind the times, an angry old man pissed off about someone else doing what he does. Bob Costas is forced to say “Let him respond” every time Bissinger tries to interrupt Deadspin founder Will Leitch, who does a good job defending blogs.

For the most part, Bissinger spends the entire segment making generalizations about blogs (”glib, profane, quick”) and referring to rude comments made in response to articles posted to Deadspin. This logic is flawed because articles on newspaper websites are likely to be commented on in a similar manner. 

Sportswriters like Bissinger are not doing themselves any favors by railing against blogs, which are clearly a major part of sports media’s future. His quote: “The future in the hands of guys like you is really, really going to dumb us down to a degree we cannot recover from.”

One of the funnier parts of this whole thing may be the fact that Braylon Edwards is the other member of the roundtable considering the news he’s made in recent days (he sought modeling and acting advice from safety Will Demos during a game last season). Sadly he struggles to get a word in edgewise with Bissinger bickering with Leitch throughout the segment.

The full video is on Deadpsin.