Ed Snider Enraged: “Screw ESPN!”
Rich Hoffman’s story in the Daily News today about NHL commissioner Gary Bettman’s 15-year anniversary party is a little misleading. Although Bettman is featured in the headline (and in an odd-looking photo), the bulk of the story is a conversation with Flyers/Sixers chairman and warmonger Ed Snider, whose quotes about the NHL’s relationship with another giant sports media conglomerate seem to have been taken after he chugged a blender full of Ripped Fuel:
“You can’t measure our success whether or not we’re on ESPN,” Snider said. “Screw ESPN. Most of our television is local and we do very well in our local markets.
“We could have gone to ESPN. They offered us bupkus. Then they acted like they had us over a barrel, that we had no place else to go. I never liked the way they treated us …”
And then Ed Snider tore off his shirt and began eating Hoffman’s tape recorder.
For the NHL, Bettman has money in the bank [Daily News]
February 1st, 2008 at 10:35 am
“Warmonger.” Nothing but class from Daulerio, as usual.