Skip Bayless has expertise in one area: Spewing nasty lies for profit. He did it with Landry's good name and he did it with Aikman's good name.
FRISCO - Miami Hurricanes defensive end Rueben Bain Jr. is suddenly in the news.
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is always in the news.
And if the NFL world needs somebody who is just unethical enough to manufacture a bogus story that connects the two headliners?
We've always got the last-gasp wimperings of Skip Bayless.
The scurrilous cockroach Bayless fell from grace journalistically decades ago, first when he wrote one book questioning the religious faith of coach Tom Landry, and then when he followed it up with another seedy tome built on the suggestion that Troy Aikman is gay.
Indeed, the foundation of Bayless' career is delivered in one ugly sentence on page 2 of that second book. He writes of Aikman as being a "gay, game-tanking racist.''
Really.
More recently, Bayless tumbled precipitously from the public eye when his icky FS1 show was canceled right about the same time a FOX hairdresser sued him with a sexual harassment claim, asserting that he offered her $1.5 million to sleep with him.
So, how does someone so irrelevant attempt to regain career traction?
In Bayless' case, he "reports'' that the "leaks'' regarding the car wreck Bain was involved in back in March 2024 in which a person later died have come from ...
Jerry Jones.
“Dallas picks 12th, and if I know Jerry Jones — I wouldn’t put it past Jerry to leak something like this because he knew the background,” Bayless said.
Bayless has zero evidence upon which to base this nasty claim, suggesting only that the story was "leaked'' intentionally to tank Bain’s draft stock. ... hopefully causing Bain to slip to pick No. 12, where Jones' devious Cowboys would then select him.
"(Jones would) probably love it,'' Bayless said, "if Rueben Bain fell to 12.”
Bayless cannot cite a source. He hasn't been inside the Cowboys locker room in 30 years. And regarding Bain and Dallas and the NFL Draft? Skip barely knows whether a football is blown up or stuffed.
(It is true that NFL teams try to manipulate the draft with information and misinformation. But with all due respect to Oliver Connolly, who wrote this story: Why would Jones tab a relatively unknown Substack author with 11,000 followers when he could simply feed this info to media giants ESPN or NFL Network?)
We're often asked: If all Bayless is seeking is attention, why give it to him? Our answer: One way to get a cockroach out of the kitchen it to shine a light on it.
Happily, in the end, the audience and the advertisers have come to understand that Bayless is a contrarian con artist, willing to do and to say anything for one more payday.
But all of that is faded now. And what's left?
Bayless has expertise in one area: Spewing nasty lies for profit. He did it with Landry's good name and he did it with Aikman's good name and he's done it countless times since. ... with this transparent flailing at relevancy simply serving as another sad example.