There’s something that the majority have intuited about Shannon Sharpe however haven’t but stated aloud. The reality is painfully apparent; but it stays unstated as a result of it’s a few well-known Black man that all of us need to see succeed. Nonetheless, there isn’t a different conclusion. It’s staring us within the face, so we’d as properly come to phrases with actuality: Shannon Sharpe isn’t very sensible. Like, he’s the alternative of sensible.
He has devoted over 30 years of his life to soccer, so there isn’t a query he has insightful issues to say about what occurs on the gridiron. He has an amazing display screen presence. So, when he was on “Undisputed” with Skip Bayless, he leapt off the tv and caught the eye of Black Twitter. There was hardly a day in the course of the pandemic when somebody didn’t use his face in a meme. He was social media gold. So, when his time at Fox got here to an finish, it made sense that Stephen A. Smith recruited him to affix ESPN’s “First Take.”
He brilliantly embodies rural Black masculinity on each platform he’s on, so although some discovered him coon adjoining (There’s a image of him in a Durag smoking a cigar holding brown liquor…”coon-adjacent” is the nicest factor we may name him), we tolerated him as a result of he was an amazing watch. Then his YouTube present “Membership Shay Shay” turned a sensation in 2024 when Kat Williams joined him on the sofa.
Sharpe was on high of the world. He was poised to signal a 100-million-dollar contract with ESPN, however his stupidity caught up with him.
Now, an older man courting a youthful lady is a story previous as time. Sean “Diddy” Combs began courting Cassie when she was 19 and he was 36. Eddie Murphy, the daddy of 11 youngsters, has a spouse 19 years his junior. Relationship a youthful lady isn’t the problem. The issue with Sharpe’s alternative in a sexual accomplice is that she was 19 when he was 54. Even Leonardo DiCaprio would disapprove of a 35-year age distinction. That’s simply not sensible.
What’s extra, he received caught on tape saying he would choke his sexual accomplice. I’ve questions on whether or not she set him as much as say that on tape, however the truth that he fell for it betrays a scarcity of situational consciousness. Then, to high all of it off, he made a intercourse tape and doesn’t have management over who has it. Has he by no means heard of an NDA? After the Instagram incident that occurred in September of final yr, how has he not gotten his affairs so as on that entrance?
We must always not kink-shame Sharpe. He can file what he needs, however to not have one thing in place that protects him is…properly…unintelligent.
I believe theHall Of Famer’s profession with ESPN (Disney) is over. The Mouse doesn’t tolerate these sorts of shenanigans. Older Black of us have a saying within the South: you may’t outrun silly.
I believe Shannon Sharpe’s simply caught up with him.