Skip Bayless’ remarks in the immediate wake of Damar Hamlin’s potentially fatal injury have angered many people besides just fans and current athletes.
On Sunday, when discussing the response to Hamlin’s collapse on “Monday Night Football,” Giants legend and Hall of Famer Michael Strahan, an NFL analyst for Fox, whose network airs Bayless’ television program “Undisputed” on Fox Sports 1, appeared to call out Bayless without specifically mentioning him.
On Sunday morning’s Fox pregame show, Strahan remarked, “You spoke about humanity, but there were things done here, by someone here at this network, that were inhumane.” “I apologize for going down this path, but I just thought reasonable people and reasonable humans have a heart. They are aware of the influence your actions and words have on the family of that young man.
“Therefore, the focus should be solely on this young man’s recuperation. To suggest that it didn’t affect anyone at this network or that no one cared is a lie, according to reasonable people like us here, said Strahan. Evidently didn’t speak to us. Because this young man’s life was more important than any football game, it matters to us and to any reasonable human being.
When discussing Damar Hamlin on FOX, Michael Strahan made sure to emphasize this: “There were things done here, by someone at this network, that were horrible. People with common sense have hearts. pic.twitter.com/H2oiE7SMKv
— Ari Meirov on January 8, 2023 (@MySportsUpdate)
On Fox NFL Sunday, Michael Strahan subtly criticized Skip Bayless, a fellow network personality, for Bayless’ Damar Hamlin tweet.
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Even Shannon Sharpe, the co-host of “Undisputed,” has criticized Skip Bayless for how he handled Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest.
After Hamlin’s cardiac arrest forced the suspension of the Bills-Bengals game on Monday night, Bayless found himself in hot water with a tweet.
“The NFL is undoubtedly thinking about postponing the remaining portions of this game, but how?” While Hamlin was receiving medical attention on the Cincinnati field, Bayless tweeted about it. “A game of this importance is vital to the fate of the regular season at this point in the season, which suddenly seems so irrelevant.”
Later, when co-host Shannon Sharpe expressed his disagreement with the tweet, Bayless and Sharpe got into an argument on his Wednesday morning show.
Bayless responded, “I was under the notion you weren’t going to bring this up because no one had a problem with that tweet.