Football commentators fired for unkind skit

Audio of the skit is here.  Player with Lou Gehrig's disease portrayed as speaking badly.  Certainly poor taste but rough humor is common among sportsmen.  Should someone lose their job over it? America is becoming a namby pamby nation

The now-former hosts of Mayhem in the A.M. probably suspected that, at some point, the name of their show would have literal meaning.

790 The Zone in Atlanta has announced that the “three individuals” involved in a bizarre and unfunny bit involving former Saints defensive back Steve Gleason have been fired.

The station has announced the move without naming the (former) hosts of the show:  Stephen “Steak” Shapiro, Nick Cellino, and Chris Dimino.

The audio of the gag, which featured a caller with a computerized voice pretending to be Gleason, has surfaced.  It’s not humorous, under any reasonably stretch of the subjective concept of what is and isn’t funny.

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Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).