There’s no denying the impact Bill Simmons left on ESPN during his almost 15-year run with the Worldwide Leader.
in 2014 that saw Simmons call NFL commissioner Roger Goodell a liar amid the league’s Ray Rice scandal.
“I had the biggest column they ever had. The biggest book they ever had. The biggest podcast they ever had. And I co-created 30 for 30 and I created Grantland. And I did TV stuff. I did all kinds of things for them and it was all in a 14-year span and I’m really proud of it. I don’t have bad blood for ESPN. I look at that as that place elevated me and I elevated them so if people wanna aggregate that, that’s fine. That’s how I feel.
The words got Simmons, who had already been suspended from using Twitter twice by ESPN, suspended from the company and sped up his eventual exit.
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