{"id":1794802,"date":"2023-01-04T10:34:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T15:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1794802"},"modified":"2023-01-04T10:34:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T15:34:16","slug":"f-you-sportscenter-former-nfl-quarterback-rips-espns-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/f-you-sportscenter-former-nfl-quarterback-rips-espns-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018F*** You, SportsCenter\u2019: Former NFL Quarterback Rips ESPN\u2019s Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ff-you-sportscenter-former-nfl-quarterback-rips-espns-social-media%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1794802&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Former NFL quarterback Chris Simms, fed up with ESPN\u2019s SportsCenter after their Instagram page mocked him, exploded with anger, snapping, \u201cF*** you, SportsCenter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The brouhaha erupted after Simms <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebiglead.com\/posts\/chris-simms-sportscenter-instagram-account-f-you-media-beef-01gnvv34tk3s\">compared<\/a> Jalen Hurts, injured Philadelphia Eagles quarterback, to other star quarterbacks \u201cThere\u2019s just no way he\u2019s more valuable to his team than Mahomes, Burrow, or Allen. Those teams are not the same teams if they don\u2019t have them at quarterback. If you put Gardner Minshew (in for) the Eagles, they\u2019d still be really damn good.\u201d That prompted the Sportscenter Instagram page to apparently mock Simms\u2019 take after the Eagles subsequently stumbled with Minchew at quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJalen Hurts makes them better \u2014 I know that!\u201d Simms snapped. \u201cAnd like f***k you, SportsCenter Instagram for like putting it out there again for like the third time in like three weeks. Like f*** off. Like, really, f*** off, ESPN Sportscenter. Like seriously, they didn\u2019t put my quote from after the Cowboys game, but they\u2019re gonna wait till the game yesterday. That\u2019s why I hate social media, and f*** you ESPN \u2018SportsCenter\u2019 one more time on the way out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou wait till it\u2019s relevant, you can slam someone \u2014\u201d Simms\u2019 co-host interpolated.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cDo they not make content there anymore? I mean, stop jocking me, ESPN. Holy s***,\u201d Simms continued.<\/p>\n<p>He challenged him. \u201cGive me a piece of your check.\u00a0Invite me on SportsCenter. Let\u2019s have a f***ing conversation if you want to really get into this, SportsCenter. Invite me on, ESPN, you scared little babies. They\u2019re scared. They don\u2019t want any piece of me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The SportsCenter IG account reshared Chris Simms\u2019 take from a few weeks ago that Jalen Hurts isn\u2019t that valuable to the Eagles after this week\u2019s loss and Simms lost it \ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5xQnpeYTOU\">pic.twitter.com\/5xQnpeYTOU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SPORTSRADIO 94WIP (@SportsRadioWIP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsRadioWIP\/status\/1610089535097937927?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Omar Raja, the House of Highlights Instagram founder, was hired to improve ESPN&#8217;s social media accounts, The New York Post reported <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/01\/03\/chris-simms-goes-off-on-sportscenter-instagram-account-in-expletive-filled-tirade\/\">noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn his first year since joining ESPN in January 2020, the\u00a0\u2018SportsCenter\u2019\u00a0Instagram account attracted record-high engagement with over 20 million followers (up +25% year-over-year), 1.76 billion total actions (+115%), and 373,000 actions per post (up +75%),\u201d Raja\u2019s ESPN bio <a href=\"https:\/\/espnpressroom.com\/us\/bios\/omar-raja\/\">states<\/a>. \u201cThe account also serves fans at the intersection of sports and culture, attracting the attention and praise from some of the biggest athletes and celebrities in sports and entertainment. Raja also plays a key role in ESPN\u2019s TikTok content strategy, which has grown to over 14 million followers in just two years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hurts\u2019 shoulder was injured in the Dec. 18 game the Eagles played in Chicago against the Chicago Bears. The Eagles were the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/eagles\/eagles-giants-injuries-jalen-hurts-josh-sweat-nick-sirianni-20230103.html\">first team<\/a>\u00a0in the NFL to clinch a playoff spot, but in order for them to clinch the NFC\u2019s No. They must beat the New York Giants in Sunday&#8217;s regular-season finale to be a 1 seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NFL quarterback Chris Simms, fed up with ESPN\u2019s SportsCenter after their Instagram page mocked him, exploded with anger, snapping, \u201cF*** you, SportsCenter.\u201d The brouhaha erupted after Simms compared injured Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts to other star quarterbacks, saying, \u201cThere\u2019s just no way he\u2019s more valuable to his team than Mahomes, Burrow, or Allen. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1794805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6202,7610,11923,4188,7215,12699,4015,5127,13211,6195,6540],"class_list":["post-1794802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-daily","tag-espns","tag-f","tag-media","tag-nfl","tag-quarterback","tag-rips","tag-social","tag-sportscenter","tag-wire","tag-you"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1794805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}