Fox was extra upset with Shannon Sharpe for skipping Undisputed than they have been with the tweet that led to the absence.
The relationship between the now-former FS1 hosts reached a boiling level after Bayless had an premature tweet as Damar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest throughout a Monday Night Football sport greater than three years in the past. As Hamlin was carted off the sector, Bayless was tormented on social media for questioning how the NFL might logistically postpone the sport, which contained playoff implications.
The following day, Bayless was left to host Undisputed on his personal, with Sharpe skipping the show in protest of the controversial tweet. And in response to Bayless, Fox had a much bigger difficulty with Sharpe’s unexcused absence than they did the tweet about Hamlin.
“I have no idea what he was thinking,” Bayless mentioned of Sharpe throughout a current interview on VladTv. “I simply know he didn’t come to work the subsequent day in protest. And the higher-ups at Fox have been very sad with him…after which the subsequent day he got here again, and I was advised he would let it go and discuss an harm his brother Sterling had suffered that ended his profession.
“We came on live, and Shannon went after me about the tweet. And I told him, nobody upstairs had any problem…nobody at Fox had any problem. If you can find somebody who had a problem with it at Fox, you’re way ahead of me. But I certainly didn’t know of anybody, and I certainly wasn’t scolded or suspended or penalized in any way, shape, or form for that tweet.”
Sharpe left Fox a number of months after the blow-up, with Bayless sticking round to construct a brand new present that lasted till his contract expired one yr later. As for whether or not the dispute over his Hamlin tweet is what led Sharpe to depart, Bayless isn’t certain. But Bayless did say Sharpe requested him if there was any approach they may make issues work to proceed Undisputed collectively simply two days earlier than he left Fox.
“I tried to go upstairs and fight his battle for him,” Bayless claimed. “And I was just told that bridge is burned. I don’t know what happened. I don’t know the gory details of what happened behind the scenes, but that working relationship with Fox ended.”
According to Bayless, he would have most well-liked to proceed working with Sharpe reasonably than having to construct a completely new present within the last yr of his contract. But it was Fox who declined to make that occur, finally resulting in each of their unceremonious departures from the community.
