Time for NBC, Sprint to Cut Ties with Mike Florio and His Pro Football Talk Blog

By: dwil

Mike Florio of the now-NBC and Sprint-affiliated Pro Football Talk (PFT) is a real life Sharon Stone. The NFL Internet rumor monger whose PFT blog became all the rage when he fed all manner of White terror fantasies relative to Black men with his lurid descriptions of Michael Vick during the dog fighting investigations of Vick, has finally leaped over the public’s threshold for racially-charged verbiage with his Vick tales.

Florio has a fatal attraction and it is Michael Vick.

Saturday, Florio breathlessly asked - prayed - that Vick had violated his “reinsuspendatement” by having a vodka and pineapple juice drink:

We get a lot of e-mails every day. Often, the message carries a subject line that reflects a gross exaggeration (at best) of the information contained therein.

So when perusing the e-mail box after taking a workout break (and then eating a lunch big enough to more than offset the benefits of the workout), I shrugged when I saw the following message heading: “Mike Vick may have already violated terms of NFL reinstatement.”

Then I opened the message.

It contained a link to an August 16 item in the New York Post. Brian Costello of the Post writes in the first paragraph of the article that, on the evening after Vick’s return to the practice field, he “sat in a corner booth . . . in the Riverbend Bar & Grill, sipping on a Grey Goose and pineapple juice and talking with two friends.”

Grey Goose, for those of you unfamiliar with Maurice Clarett, is vodka.

The problem? Vick’s conditional reinstatement to the NFL contains an express prohibition against the use of drugs and alcohol.

For those of you familiar with Maurice Clarett? Florio’s obsession runs deeper than Vick; it runs to Black football players, at least. The “express prohibition” Florio so hopes equals a lifetime ban and a public stoning of the Philadelphia Eagles backup quarterback actually reads:

“Among the conditions of this reinstatement, you are required to abide by the terms of the supervised release that were imposed on you by the court, which include not committing any further crime, limits on who you may associate with, prohibitions regarding drug and alcohol use…”

“Prohibitions regarding drug and alcohol use” can be translated to, ‘use within legal boundaries.’ One drink does not equal Florio’s much-sought after violation. Just as downing three aspirin does not equal a violation of Vick’s terms of reinstatement.

Florio is beyond Perez Hilton-esque rumor mongering. The racist turned blogger has reached Glenn Beck status.

It is time for NBC and Sprint to cut ties with this person (and I use the term loosely) and banish him back to his corner of the Internet where other White people like him reside; those who wish all Black people in America were handed blankets imbued with smallpox and denied treatment for the virus.

In this volatile racial climate the two corporate giants need to make a statement and publicly denounce Florio denude his blog of advertising; They need to “Beck” him.

Maybe he can get a job next to Jason Whitlock at Fox Sports.com. Better yet, perhaps Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News minions will think enough of Florio to give him a sports show on Murdoch’s, John Birch-KKK sanctioned blight of a television network.

And there Mike Florio can air his special brand of racism —————- as the warmup to Glenn Beck.

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Archived Mike Florio Related Articles

Michael Vick and the Effects of the Game “Those People” Run

White Athletes, White Athletes, White Athletes ——- Yeah!

Why Michael Vick May Never Be Truly Free: Addendum: Vick Reinstaspended - DeMaurice Smith on the Jim Rome Show

Short Note: Evidence of ESPN’s Double Standard (and PFT’s Agenda)

As Richard Collier Lies Dying …

Yeah, I Stopped In… and to Imus, Deadspin, Shaq and the Rest - Fuck ‘Em All

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(Thanks to Miranda for the tip.)