Fox Sports personality Skip Bayless has built a career as a talking head on the basis of two things: his irrational LeBron James hatred and unabashed love for the Dallas Cowboys.
Just as Stephen A. Smith stages weekly meltdowns about the Knicks, Bayless needs to visibly show his disappointment whenever the Cowboys let him down. It’s all theatrics. But Ezekiel Elliott’s mother, Dawn Elliott, is calling Skip’s bluff.
Shortly after the Cowboys lost Sunday’s home game against the Vikings, Bayless posted a video of himself taking an Elliott No. 21 jersey and tossing it into a trashcan before walking into another room.
Of course, this entire reaction was staged. Bayless went through the effort to preemptively set up a camera in order to show himself “throwing away” the Elliott jersey. In all likelihood, Bayless took the jersey out of the trash once the video ended. Elliott had just 47 yards on 20 carries in the loss.
Once that video hit Twitter, Dawn had her own response to Bayless. She doesn’t want to see him wearing that No. 21 jersey again.
Thank you, Dawn. Someone had to say it.
It was so plainly obvious that Bayless was trying to make a disingenuous statement about Elliott’s off night. The next time the Cowboys running back has a big game, you can bet that Bayless will pretend his jersey toss never happened.
At least now the Elliott family will be watching for it.
