Not that it justifies it, but Mariotti didn't say that out of nowhere - he was responding to Ebert's withering article about Mariotti's moral shortcomings that was printed a week or two ago in the Tribune.
Seventeen continues to dominate in the field of made-up Most Embarrassing Stories. I remember reading one where a girl claimed her Crush yanked out her tampon because he saw the string dangling out of her shorts and thought it was a loose thread. So wrong, and no way did it ever actually happen, but can you imagine? I laughed and laughed. The best part of those stories is trying to imagine what happened next. Like, obviously one of them would start laughing and the other one would cry and run into the house and shoot themselves, but which one?
Ebert's also a class act. I spent 15 or so minutes chatting with him before an appearance here in Raleigh back in the 80's. He was funny and humble and I appreciated his willingness to shoot the shit with some stranger he didn't know. Mariotti's simply jealous.
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Okay, maybe Mariotti too.
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And Jay Marriotti would be unpopular in hell.
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Remember this? It cost you $1 million in 1976, and was almost identical to the Nebraska Educational TV logo (which sued you):
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