ESPN is Full of Hate

Rumor is Kiper is going to stab McShay at the first mention of Tebow

When you watch ESPN these days, you have to wonder whether the folks that work together all the time actually enjoy each other’s company or if they are just good at acting like it.  Does Mike Greenberg have a voodoo doll of Mike Golic?  Does Steve Young have a dart board with Stu Scott’s face on it?  Does Chris Berman have a list of people he’s going to strangle in his office?  I don’t know, but I’d assume that at least two of those are accurate.  What I do know is that the perceived rivalry between NFL analysts Todd McShay and Mel Kiper is an actual rivalry. 

Kiper has been the NFL draft guru since he was too young to buy his own hair gel, but recently ESPN decided they wanted to bring in someone else to give a dissenting opinion.  Enter the youthful Todd McShay.  Now the pair each give insight into the NFL draft and only show up between January and April each year.  Also, they are occasionally matched-up in ESPN’s new favorite time waster, the analyst debate, where things tend to turn nasty. 

These two need to both be sitting on ESPN’s set during the NFL draft for the same reason that Charles Barkley always needs to cover the NBA draft.  Arguments make for great TV.  Sir Charles will disagree with anyone so a pure rival isn’t needed.  I heard he once punched his own mother when she packed celery in his lunch.  Kiper and McShay barking at each other about whether the Rams just made the right pick will be classic. 

Let’s face it, the NFL draft is long and tedious.  All analysts do between picks is guess which college star is going next.  Then they still have to fill another 10 minutes.  At least with these two hating each other, we can silently hope for an actual fight to break out, or at least the signs of a skirmish when they return from commercial. 

“Oh look, one of Mel’s hairs is slightly out of place, McShay must have hit him with a chair.”

Tags: Charles Barkley, Chris Berman, ESPN, Mel Kiper, Mike Golic, Mike Greenberg, NFL, NFL Draft, Steve Young, Stuart Scott, Todd McShay

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