re: "ESPN is in the bag for the NFL" Simmons

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but lets completely ignore that Simmons is in the bag for the Pats due to growing up as a Boston sports super fan.

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I'll be the first to admit its grating, and his blind spot for the Pats especially (his continued insistence that Pete Carroll is a bad coach despite dominating at USC and building the most consistently successful NFC team of this decade) was such that I basically rooted against them (and all Boston teams) just so he wouldn't write a dumb gloat column or have a moronic podcast about it-- but, he's open about it. ESPN pretends to be a sports journalism network and not only does things like fire Simmons, they bury negative NFL news, cover for Goodell (the Rice thing was 1000 times worse than Ballghazi but since it didn't involve the Pats, Simmons has moved on from it).

I would point out though that Simmons straight up ignores and/or minimizes the most damning thing to come out about Goodell in the wake of Ballghazi-- that he pursued it as a make-up call after burying evidence that Spygate was far, far worse than initially reported, why its almost like Bill didn't want to dwell on those reports.