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[QUOTE="Stern, post: 1995367, member: 527"]
The day Ken Griffey Jr walked out of the ESPY awards because Norm McDonald said a joke he didn't like and the ESPN executives chased him down the hallway and dragged him back in apologizing is the day they went under. That is the day ESPN died in reality and the start of this downward spiral began. It's the day where ESPN stopped becoming the "CNN of SPORTS" and became the "ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT or ACCESS HOLLYWOOD of SPORTS."

It's at that moment they decided they needed to be "buddy buddy" with the athletes and not be objective covering them. Michael Jordan got pissed off at Sports Illustrated about 20-25 years ago and hasn't spoken with them since. You didn't see SI running out and sending him gifts and apologizing to him and doing what they had to do in order to get in his good graces. They said, tough crap, our job is to cover him not make him look good and be afraid of hurting his feelings.

Since that Ken Griffey Jr moment ESPN changed for the worse and it has never been the same. It took many years to get to this level and it has branched out into many other areas like SportsCenter and such, but it began on that day!
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