Sports Illustrated‘s Richard Deitsch has an item about Jeff Pearlman’s forthcoming Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty in his always great Media Power Rankings column for SI.com. The book “chronicles the drug, ego, and sex-fueled Cowboys dynasty of the 1990s. The writer interviewed 146 players for the book, unearthing details such as Charles Haley’s fondness for exposing his genitals to teammates. It’s a delicious read.” But what really grabbed Deitsch’s attention, and mine, is this:
“Skip Bayless could have been one of the really great columnists,” former Dallas Morning News sports editor Dave Smith told Pearlman. “But as a columnist, if you are going to beat up on someone, it better be from your heart. You better feel that way. Skip attacked people for the sake of doing it. His gay take on Aikman was the most unfair thing in my 44 years as a journalist.”
That, my friends, is a burn.
