Football, politics, and baseball’s seventh-inning stretch.

Early this century, Rush Limbaugh was hired by ESPN and Dennis Miller sat beside Al Michaels in the Monday Night Football booth. Limbaugh’s gig — which lasted a month — tasked him with talking about Peyton Manning and Brett Favre, Michael Strahan and Derrick Brooks, on ESPN’s NFL Sunday Countdown show. Whatever your politics — whether you love Limbaugh and Miller, hate them, or have no opinion at all — the fact that a conservative radio titan and a political satirist who leans right could score these elite sports-commentary posts might provoke a moment’s reflection. It did for me, at least, when the memory bubbled up.

Could something like this happen today? Even typing the question makes me think of that... Leer Más