Viva La Deadspin!

Did I ever mention how much I dislike ESPN? Well at the risk of repeating myself, yes I still HATE ESPN! Tonight is another reminder of why I do, as their annual event/self-fellatio takes place tonight, otherwise known as The ESPY Awards. The event is full of attempts to try and convince people that sports figures are heroes in every sense of the word and deserve our unconditional admiration for simply walking the same earth as the likes of Drew Brees, Landon Donovan and Phil Mickleson do. The ESPY's are an award show, that even for an award show, is so pretentious, self-aggrandizing, and sappy, that "nauseating" isn't nearly a strong enough word to describe it.

As I pondered if there has ever been a time I was remotely interested in watching the ESPY's, a flashback suddenly hit me. The flashback of 1998 hit me like a bucket of water. That years' ESPY awards were hosted by Norm MacDonald, and I remember this because he gave one of the funniest and envelope pushing monologue's I've ever seen anyone pull off. I then randomly clicked over to Deadspin and thankfully they were (once again) way ahead of me and had the monologue readily available.

So click here to view it. As you will no doubt agree, ESPN will NEVER allow for something like this to ever happen again, simply because it was awesome...