Ditka the Douche

So earlier this month, I wrote about domestic violence awareness month. Violence isn't always physical, it can also be emotional. One reason I bring this up is because of the allegations brought up against Brett Favre by a Jets employee, Jen Steger, that he sent her text messages and photos that were inappropriate. This was two years ago when it happened and she is catching flack from some people for waiting two years to do this. I'm no expert on being harassed but I do know that sometimes people cannot handle it and it takes some time to come to grips with what happened. Now, nothing physical happened between Favre and Ms. Steger, and I don't know the scale of which these messages and photos were. I just know that some people that spoke out against this woman are idiots. One of them is Mike Ditka. He was doing an interview with Dan Lebatard and one of the quotes is the following:

"I'm not going to be as sympathetic to the woman as a lot of people are. It's two years after the fact. Cut it out. If you had a problem, you could have said it back then. You don't have to pull it out when you're going to have a spread in Playboy, or a Monday night game coming up."

So maybe, just maybe, she was holding onto this information and waiting for the 'right moment', but I'm going to say one way or the other. What I am going to say is that whether or not she was holding onto the text messages and photos for publicity, it was still wrong for Favre to do this. This first quote was a bit irritating, but not as irritating as the next one. Lebatard then asked if Ditka felt sympathy for Ms. Steger...

"None. None. Zero. Absolutely zero. You'll get some calls about that, but I could frankly care less."

What a douche. That's all I'm going to say about that. And the bad part? Ditka has not been reprimanded by ESPN, his current employer. So I'll leave you with that and your own thoughts. Personally, I think that Ditka should have been fined by ESPN and suspended for a week or two, but I don't care for him.




Mainly because he coached in Chicago.