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Dave Portnoy makes surprising admission after Sam Ponder’s ESPN firing
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1:36Now PlayingIf you expected Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy to be popping a bottle of champagne over the news that Sam Ponder was fired from ESPN, guess again.
The sports media personality took to social media to react to the news that Ponder and former NFL quarterback Robert Griffin III were let go by the Worldwide Leader, but surprised many by not basking in the decision by ESPN.
Portnoy, 47, has made a show of opening a bottle of champagne when a person he feels has slighted him gets let go by their job but did not do so this time, despite the previous bad blood between Portnoy and Ponder.
The Barstool Sports founder previously partially blamed Ponder for ESPN’s “Barstool Van Talk” being canceled after just one episode.
“Everyone’s like, ‘Prez, where’s the Sam Ponder bottle?’” Portnoy said in the roughly 1:35 long video posted on X from his Montauk home. “No Sam Ponder bottle, can you believe that? Listen, I took the first shot at Sam Ponder. Was it joking? Yeah. Do I think she and ESPN overreacted? I know so. But I’m fair. And I’ve said this about Ponder, buried the axe, buried the hatchet. I have no champagne bottle for her.”
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