Gregg Easterbrook Quotations

It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.

I think that might have been an element in it, and people have asked me that very thing. Remember, Disney is the majority shareholder, but it is not an operating division of Disney.

Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces.

I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it.

And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.

I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.

But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.

I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.

It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.

Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so.