Dana Jacobson Suspended By ESPN For "F*** Notre Dame" Remarks

UPDATE: Icon Sports Media has released images of Dana Jacobson's drunken rant at the Mike and Mike roast. The coveted video is still hidden away, but the pictures below give you an idea of just how messy it must have been:

Dana at the podium swigging vodka

Dana being hauled off the podium by Jeff Ross (note Mike Ditka in the background)

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Add ESPN's Dana Jacobson's name to the list of media members who recently found themselves in trouble because of inappropriate comments or actions.

Sources have confirmed that Jacobson, a co-host of "First Take" on ESPN2, currently is serving a one-week suspension because of her behavior at a Jan. 11 roast for ESPN Radio personalities Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic at Atlantic City, N.J.

While declining to confirm Jacobson had been suspended, ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz said, "Her actions and comments were inappropriate and we've dealt with it."

Read more about Dana's ESPN suspension.

From FanHouse's Michael David Smith

Jacobson reportedly said "F*** Notre Dame," "F*** Touchdown Jesus," and "F*** Jesus" in an attempt to talk trash to Mike and Mike co-host Mike Golic, a former Notre Dame football player.

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An ESPN spokesman e-mailed me the following statements:

From ESPN: "Her actions and comments were inapprorpriate and we have dealt with it."

From Dana: "I am very sorry. My remarks about Notre Dame were foolish and insensitive. I respect all religions and did not mean anything derogatory by my poorly chosen words. I also deeply regret the embarrassment I have caused ESPN and Mike and Mike. My actions at the roast were inappropriate and in no way represent who I really am. I have personally apologized to many of the people involved. I won't make excuses for my behavior but do hope that I can be forgiven for such a poor lack of judgment."

According to the Catholic League, it remains unclear whether Jacobson actually said "F*** Jesus" or if she just said "F*** Notre Dame." In the event that she did say "F*** Jesus," the Catholic League will argue for a harsher penalty than one week's suspension.

Read more about the Catholic League's response here.

For more information on who Dana Jacobson is and a comprehensive bio, see here.

Comments

[KarenZipdrive]

I'm surprised Obama didn't take this personally and send his wife out to stick up for him.

[Mark D]

This is ridiculous.

IT WAS A ROAST!! People are supposed to say stupid and obscene things. THAT'S THE POINT!

ESPN is full of a bunch of reactionary candyasses if they suspended her for a comment made not on the air, but at a private event.

[A Meat Beetle]

Years ago I did a show on a small college radio station in Vermont. It was station policy (and I was told FCC policy) that if you were caught on the air intoxicated you would be pemanently banned from broadcasting on the station. Does ESPN have such a policy?

[DinahMoeHum]

What did you expect from the "Jock-Cock-Cracy" that is ESPN ??
She was trying to be "one of the boys" - and it backfired big time.

[imsosure]

The way she's "sucking" on that bottle and "sucking up" with he bullshit apology I'm sure she'll find her place back under the table at ESPN before too long.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173

[rh654]

What a moron - really - who thought that they could say those things and that there would be no fallout.

Do these people live under rocks and haven't been paying attention?

[HuffingtonGlue]

If you're gonna do a 'roast' then do a 'roast'. Nobody ever got suspended from the Friars Club. Her biggest crime was not being funny, which is reason to haul her off the stage. But... yeah fck Notre Dame. So what? They are one of the ultimate love/hate teams in all of college sports. Even Jesus and Regis agree with me. Ask them!

[truthyguy]

Is that suspension with or without pay?

With Pay - oh, then she got a vacation.

[samuraijack]

Notre Dame accepts the proposition and asks: you're place or mine? Yeah baby, yeah! Do I make you horny?

[kujobu]

It was a roast. Lighten up Francis!
ESPN is more offensive in its salacious coverage of sports everyday.

[pzdoff]

Go girl, fuck the Gipper, and Knute Rockne too.

[ResidentChimp]

She has been spending too much time in the locker room where that kind of language is par for the course.

[Tuffy]

SOMEBODY needed to say it.

[Hirnlego]

Banned From Church

On a quiet Sunday morning in June, as worshippers settled into the pews at Allen Baptist Church in southwestern Michigan, Pastor Jason Burrick grabbed his cellphone and dialed 911. When a dispatcher answered, the preacher said a former congregant was in the sanctuary. "And we need to, um, have her out A.S.A.P."
[Shun]

Half an hour later, 71-year-old Karolyn Caskey, a church member for nearly 50 years who had taught Sunday school and regularly donated 10% of her pension, was led out by a state trooper and a county sheriff's officer. One held her purse and Bible. The other put her in handcuffs.

Her "crime". She questioned the priests authority:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120061470848399079.html?mod=hpp_us_inside_today

[Hirnlego]

Jesus is the LIGHT:
http://peloton69.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/jesus.jpg