Bob Costas Plays Dumb, Claims He Didn't Know Bissinger 'Would Come on That Hard'

Published: May 1, 2008, 10:55 am

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Filed under: BlogsFor a guy who has given his share of sanctimonious lectures about the coarsening of our culture, Bob Costas sure did allow a lot of profane screaming on his HBO show on Tuesday night. And that's fine -- Costas wanted to put on an entertaining show, and I was certainly entertained watching Pulitzer Prize winner H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger's meltdown. But please, Bob, quit playing dumb and claiming you didn't know how Bissinger was going to act on your show, as you have in an interview with Richard Sandomir of the New York Times: Costas, a friend of Bissinger's, said he did not know that Bissinger, an author and a former reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Chicago Tribune, "would come on that hard." "I knew more or less where he stood, but we did not speak beforehand," Costas said. Bissinger is famous for his fiery temper and his hatred of blogs. Costas knew that perfectly well when he decided to sit Bissinger next to Deadspin blogger Will Leitch. Costas got

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