Former Miami Hurricane and current Miami talk show host Dan Sileo is at it again- whether it was a bad joke played through Twitter or not... and for those trying to find his Twitter account, it's right here...
Sileo, currently mid-day host for the NBC Sports Radio affiliate in Miami, posted this last night...
He admitted that he "hated what this kid did," but since DT Timmy Jernigan was a hometown kid who was not looked at by Sileo's school during recruiting, Jernigan played with a bit of a chip on his shoulder last night... as did tailback Devonta Freeman- another south Florida kid ignored by Miami...
Sileo went on to preach about sportsmanship- as he himself admits that he played for one of the most hated teams in college football history (his words)- THE 86 CANES... in all caps...
AP writer Tim Reynolds called Sileo out for his outburst, referring to it as "pathetic and disgusting." Reynolds went on to call Sileo's employers at 640AM who are "...still looking into the situation..."
Reynolds main point was that a "member of the media" (HQ quotes), no less than a week after the NCAA ruling, was calling for a bounty on a college player. 640 came out with a statement saying that "640 Sports is just as shocked and stunned as everyone else by this tweet." Which, probably, led to Sileo doing this...
It has been a constant back and forth with Facebookers and Tweeters with Sileo trying to explain it was a joke, but it doesn't seem to be going over very well... and the "6 weeks" reference has to do with a possible/probable rematch in the ACC Championship Game...
Sileo was a postgame analyst for U-M football at one point, but the comments proved to be too critical against his old school...
The HQ is sensing a whole lot of irony here...
Sileo had made some disparaging comments about Erin Andrews that put him on thin ice at QAM, but not thin enough to get him fired...
Sileo WAS fired from WQAM back in March for an Anti-Semitic remark on his radio show...
And he had been fired from another sports talk station a year before that in Miami...
The only thing missing from Sileo is that beeping noise from trucks when they slam it in reverse...
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