Former ESPN football expert/Dallas radio mouthpiece Sean Salisbury is on the COMEBACK TRAIL, promoting a new internet radio program, “Salibury Unfiltered”, and coming clean to the LA Times’ T.J. Simers about an accusation that’s long overshadowed his analytical prowess (cough) ; to wit, the claim of a female colleague at Bristol U. that Salisbury had sent her an unsolicited phone camera pic of his baloney pony.
For the longest time he denied the incident took place. He blamed deadspin.com for reporting it, went into e-mail rage, filed a lawsuit against the Internet site, but then dropped it.
Now he says he’s “100% responsible for doing such a stupid frat thing,” but short sentences are not his forte.
He can’t talk about what happened without letting everyone know he didn’t squeal on the people who were with him, did nothing so bad like others who have gone to jail, and protests over and over again, “I don’t think the punishment fits the crime.”
He became a punch line, he says, the barbs stinging so much he wouldn’t come out of his home for six months beyond taking his kids to school. He says he lost self-respect and couldn’t get a job.
“I went from being on TV every day to falling off the map. I didn’t harass anybody or beat anybody up and yet I’ve been the butt of jokes for four years.”
He blames others for not getting past what happened, as if there is a long line of those who really care.
He wants to dispute the accuracy of deadspin.com’s reporting, and yet doesn’t dispute the fact he took a picture of his privates and showed it. What more needs to be known?
He says things like, “I’m the poster child for stupidity,” then quickly adds, “but people have done worse.”
He refers folks to his Twitter feed, but when it’s mentioned someone on the comeback trail, given his previous sophomoric behavior, shouldn’t be posting comments about Kim Kardashian’s (backside), he flips out.
“Because I like [backside], is that wrong?” he snaps. “Come on, it is Sean unfiltered. That’s one thing that is never going to change.”
But he DID harass someone, since the pictures were unsolicited. Apparently Sean is too stupid to understand this.
even more incredible is that he considers himself the victim. Salisbury also neglects to mention he did receive a 2nd chance — how many other persons could commit this sort of infraction in the workplace and find a new radio gig?
the grudge against Deadspin is pretty funny considering they didn’t even break the original story. Deadspin did, however, have the temerity to go public with various threats issued by Salisbury. Who’d have thought his planned takeover of the site would never come to fruition?
A strong late contender for headline of the year!