The Skip Bayless Era is over (Kofie) 

Skip Bayless has been stuck on the same topic for 15 years

Him and stephen a smith represent everything wrong with current sports media

All my homies hate skip bayless

Never forget the mulitple compilations of Skip debating against himself because of his flip flopping.

I never understood the appeal of these shows, it was just people yelling and spouting nonsensical takes. It really made sports discussion with people around me incredibly toxic, and honestly just affected my overall enjoyment of sports for a good period of time.

can't stand Emmanuel Acho either

The best part about the Stephen A and Skip debates is that they both found a way to be wrong

Bros causally dropping at 1 in the morning

Thanks for the re-record Kofie. Didn’t want the comments and algorithms to lambast you for the previous video. Appreciate the commitment to your craft.

Going from not having cable until 8th grade to having 10s of thousands of subs is a crazy glow-up, good on ya kid Growing up with peak SportsCenter and watching it fall off was so painful lol

Like it or not Skip Bayless is the father of hot take journalism. I've never been able to stand the guy and I'm a Dallas cowboys fan so that says something. I saw one really good thing that Skip Bayless did and it was about his family and how he basically had no ties with them at all and he explained some of the reasons why. I had no idea that famous Chicago chef Rick Bayless was Skip's brother. It never occurred to me because the two people couldn't be any more different but both of them did reach the highest level in their field. The only difference is there aren't 50 million people out there who hate Rick Bayless.

Bro is going to have to settle for being homophobic at McDonald's at 7 am like everyone else

Rick Bayless > Skip Bayless

Skip is literally J. Jonah Jameson

I think the best way to talk about skip's era of debate bullshit is to look at the aftermath with a show like first things first on FS1. That show is 3 friends joking, debating and just having fun discussing sports... And it feels like a breath of fresh air because it's fun. (same with nightcap or pat McAfee in some capacity) Sports media is back to being fun again while skip was making it exhausting.

Skip Bayless the OG rage baiter. Been doing it since day one you gotta respect it.

Heard you say that "Dwight Howard looks like Tarzan" comment and was like wow that's a racially charged comment Then realized Tarzan was white and now I don't know what to think

Casually dropping that Skip is 72 years old. What do you mean!? To be fair, he’s the most animated cadaver I’ve ever watched.

Kellerman is the man

His brother is so much cooler Skip is MID

I always appreciated what max kellerman brought to the table, he was someone who knew how to not fall in narratives Stephen a would want to make the discussion about that were unpopular.

Whenever I think of Skip Bayless I think of that 30 Rock fake sports show called "Sports Shouting."😅

What made prime first take captivating for me was how the back and fourths would play out and where they would go to.

Just wanted to chime in that I saw the first vid and you didn't need to re-record because the comments told you to. But I still respect the hustle to no end. I read an article about this news, and it said his departure would be felt across "the take sphere" multiple times. "THE TAKE SPHERE." Please people of Earth, stop watching "the take sphere" so this terrible chapter of media history goes away...

I liked Skip back on Cold Pizza when he had Woody Page on the other side as a goofy foil

Late night Kofie? hell yeaaaa

Skipper is the reason I stopped watching ESPN. If I want to watch people argue I'll go outside.

Thank you for remaking this video with fixed audio brother

You are becoming one of the best RU-vidrs man, can’t wait for your college football series

Good point at the end, first things first has been my favorite sports show for years now

Nah the random Acho stray was a crazy way to end the video

Skip career is a lot like a Dr J: Def a GOAT, and forever changed the game, but played long enough to watch the League grow beyond him.

I see you fixed the sound on the video

fw the vibes. glad i found the channel.

Oh hey, the mic's working now!

Apparently no one fucks with Acho 💀

I really do believe that part of the reason ESPN is doing so poorly as a business now is their choice to embrace entertainment with sports as a pretext rather than entertainment with sports as the focus. There are channels, like HBO before it became Max, that clearly survived the cutting cable movement, and they did so because they made sustainable program choices, programs that people in 5, 10, 15 years will still see as high quality. There's a world where whenever I watch a clip of an old championship game I also want to watch ESPN-produced commentary about that clip from that time. But I don't, and I think many others don't either. ESPN has been making disposable programming for so long that they now are not the place basically any sports fan who isn't ultra casual goes to for sports commentary. If Disney drops them, ESPN is near over on the front of programming that isn't live and re-run games. ESPN the business couldn't see past the near-medium term, and now it's catching up to them.

Kofie the Kendrick Lamar of sports history/break down and sports gaming videos 🐐🐐

Oh shit, now where’s Lil Wayne gonna go pretend he knows about sports?

"Those days are gone." Could we be so lucky?

I can’t watch these daily shows on FS1 or ESPN without thinking of the Sports Shouting gag on 30 Rock: Tracy Jordan just appearing in a split screen, as other people are talking, and just screaming without any words. That’s the noise these shows produce

Correction ,Shannon was pushed out

First Things First to me is the next evolution of this type of show, originally starting off as a First Take Clone and now has the energy and comedy to make it work without ragebait

Thank god for the re-upload no offense but that mic on the first upload was horrid

Skip gonna be like the Joker at Batman's funeral when Lebron retires.

Excellent analysis. As someone who came across your channel for the first time your sports media training is self evident here. Great point about Shannon also falling flat on First Take. He’s definitely thriving on his own youtube channel where he can set the tone and control the pace, but First Take is not a successful follow up to his stint on Undisputed.

People say that they would rather hear former players but then when Gilbert Arenas says ridiculous stuff people complain 🤣😭

Do carnival barkers go quietly into the night?

They should have kept Jenny Taft and Shannon

Skip Bayless getting trolled for his high school basketball stats is still one of my favorite videos

Skip will stand on a point and never get off it...he hated on giannis lebron mahomes from jump and nothing they do will impress him...yes even mahomes

Paul Pierce is funny, though...

Much much better audio this time 😅 Definitely keep the retro look going forward imo, good vibes.

Okay I get taking down the original video but the VHS vibe with the camera mic was a vibe lol. Still a great video. Keep up the good work 😂

Rick Bayless > Skip Bayless Rick has had his own successful Mexican cooking show. No co-hosts needed.

I see First Take and Undisputed clips on Facebook, and that's enough for me. Who is sitting there watching this for a half hour or an hour every day?

damn i didn’t have cable until my senior year i feel ya heavy

the world is healing

Damn, I remember watching Cold Pizza before school with my parents -sometimes we would have cold pizza from the night before: synergy! I am a Skip Bayless hater since elementary school. Like, I have brain space taken up by remembering Skip’s tireless hatred of Terrell Owens that really started rubbing me the wrong way after the first couple days of it, and I do wonder what didn’t stick in my hippocampus for me to remember a guy being obnoxious about a quarterback with a penchant for showboating.

I remember the days of Cold Pizza and how it eventually became 1st Take....to see how sports journalist's went from actual journalism to becoming nothing but "hot takes" has been something to see. Now the current zeitgeist of all sports shows revolve around these talking heads giving these takes, instead of just talking about the sport. Its repulsive to me and has turned me off of espn and all these other sports networks.

Young folks will only hate… but Skip built a large part of the industry… he just became a relic, overstayed his welcome… at least worth his recent tactics… all Lebron, all Dallas.

Love the videos and your breakdowns of what's going on in the sports media world

I’m sure Skip could’ve done a better job at extending his character’s shelf life, but the fact is all bits have an expiration date. Steven A did a better job but I think there’s a reason he says Yes to everything.

Holy shit skip looks pretty good for 72. Being a hater helps you age

When Shannon left it was over. I knew it was only a matter of time

the sp lining up is nice

Good stuff as always Kofie

Paul Pierce is way funnier with KG

5:44 You should be thankful you didn't always have cable. I bet you appreciated having it much more when you did get it.

I wouldn't be surprised if amazon or NBC gets him to go with the new tv deal

Tubby Smith said Kelenna Azubuike looks like Tarzan but plays like Jane back in (i think?) 2003 or 2004. Skip said the same thing about Shelden Williams of Duke about 15 years ago ("as J.J. [Reddick] goes cold but keeps jacking up shots from 30 ft, Shelden Williams looks like Tarzan but plays like Jane"). So I think Skip might have stolen the phrase & used it multiple times cuz he thought it'd be funny.

Even as a cowboys fan I was tired of only talking about the chiefs cowboys and Brady when he was playing.

ESPN is flooded with talking heads nowadays. They needed the McAfee show as a breath of fresh air. Could only go so far with Bayless and SAS being shoved down your throat.

One person that doesn’t get enough credit for making the Stephen A-Skip First Take era so great is Cari Champion. That was the peak of First Take and national sports debate. She had the look, the voice, and played her part well. She didn’t interrupt, and when she did bring her opinions into the conversation, they made sense and complimented the performative nature of SAS and Skip. Those three together were solid gold. I wish they never messed with that.

If you want my opinion on Skip, just play the Don LaGreca rant.

30 years this man can retire

Nah. As long as all of these sports debate shows dominate network programming his era will continue.

I'll get some champagne

I loved sportsnation

I feel like the one lifelong sports fan who has never had the slightest interest in hot topic debate shows or segments. That's why I am checking out a Movie video analyzing them instead!

We just have too many option for good sports talk to be held captive by these charlatans. Also, you avoiding Perkins despite the numerous chances to bring him up is commendable

14:00 agree on the comedy stuff. First Things First does hot takes but they are self aware about it and funny

Idk why i havent watched an episode of any of these shows and srill watched all this lol

I dont know journaling, and dont claim to, but how do you get a degree in that field, a field where the hope and the goal is to make change in the most unbiased way possible, and then decide to take that position of influence and infuse bias into the entire broadcast? Do you not feel any moral corruption there? Im sorry, I did not know about that broadcast until this video

shit where else am i gonna see a man on television talk about something he knows nothing about with such confidence ? oh wait. twitter exists. nvm we gud

There’s a term for what happened to Skip in wrestling, he worked himself into a shoot

The Bayless Era is over? I didn't realize it started...must've skipped it.

IS IT REALLY? It seems to me all the Skip-like takes/hate are more 'online' than on TV

skip will not be missed

hey bro i like the new style to the vid looks cool

aye glad to see you fixed the mic, looks like you had to rerecord the whole vid but im here watching now.

When I say I respect and want to pogo stick Joy Taylor; but Acho makes the program indigestible. Rooks and Taylor during the football season might solidify them as some go-tos’ in the future.

You know skip a bandwagoner with the cowboys spurs red sox vanderbilt oklahoma fandom he has...none of those are the same...how can someone like different cities in every sport like this

I'm not gonna begrudge anyone for being as big of an objective success as he is, but it's so bleak that Skip was once one of the best sportswriters in America, but his enduring legacy is likely to be "that weird guy who could never stop yelling about LeBron."

1am drop crazy

Water pistol Pete, that's enough.

Now how do we get rid of Stephen A Smith?

The end of a hater era.

I think the BEST Skip can do is just stick with the podcast, maybe use it as a way to prop up his life story, give people an inside look into the industry or how he got to where he got, but in more detail. Outside of that, I would just let it ride. Folks will remember the years of entertainment and controversy, not this short time at the end.

I really hope its over