I was proud to be one of the early linkers to FootballOutsiders.com, a site that tries to do for football what Baseball Prospectus does for baseball; one of the lead writers, Aaron Schatz, was an early reader of this site. Now, FootballOutisders has become the official safe house for news on Gregg Easterbrook’s football column after his firing by ESPN.com; check out his statement here, which is bowed but not broken:
Though I apologized and deserved to be criticized, I didn’t think I deserved to be fired by ESPN. But then, I didn’t think Emmitt Smith deserved to spend his final year with the Arizona Cardinals, either. Both things seem to have happened.