It’s never been any secret that Skip Bayless is one of the most delusional people within the world of sports commentary. In the words of slightly less delusional sports commentator Blain Crain, “I’d rather trust a Taco Bell fart after midnight than trust Skip Bayless to be right about anything.” When Skip does something unusual, it’s not a good take though, it’s just a take that’s so bad that all of humanity collectively agrees he’s lost his marbles.
There’s no shortage of moments when Skip was completely off his rocker, so I’ll save you some time. Here are the top five most clinically insane Skip Bayless tweets.
5. Johnny Manziel
This tweet may have been the peak of the era where Skip thought that he was a sports prophet. He constantly thought he knew how unproven players would do based off of little more than hype. In all reality, if Skip thought you were good, it was the kiss of death for your career. Remember, this is a man who routinely denies LeBron’s talent at basketball.
Then, what do you know? In just a few short years Manziel had all but been forgotten, fizzled out like little more than an Alka Seltzer tablet in the rain while LeBron was grabbing rings.
4. Tim Tebow and Aaron Rodgers
The most hilarious part of this take’s stupidity is that it was tweeted only after Tebow’s first season and a half in the league, when Tebow had led the Broncos to marginal improvements in an extremely weak AFC West.
At the same time in 2011, Rodgers had led the Packers to an 11-0 start on the season following their Super Bowl run from the previous year. If quarterback had the right to say they were dominating in that moment in time, it was Aaron Rodgers. Oh, and that 2010 team that won the Super Bowl never lost a game by more than four points and never trailed by more than seven.
Choosing 2011 Tebow over 2011 Rodgers is like arming yourself with a super soaker when you had a tomahawk missile as an option.
3. Haliburton Injury
When Skip dropped this head scratcher of a tweet it was immediately followed by comments suggesting that it was the worst take since his Damar Hamlin take for a reason. There’s no way that Skip is actually stupid enough to believe that the Pacers would rather have a conspiracy to make an excuse for a loss than actually try to win, right?
Well, he hasn’t deleted the tweet, so just like everything else that man types, he stands by it, no matter how stupid it is, apparently. The whole world saw Haliburton’s achilles tendon rupture on the broadcast. We know what that calf ripple means. ESPN only showed it 167,000 times on the broadcast. Leave it to Skip to whip up injury conspiracy theories in the finals.
2. Dak Prescott’s Depression
This one wasn’t just an ordinarily dumb Skip Bayless tweet. Skip left everything out there for the world to see on this particular tweet, where he shared a clip from Undisputed that had him and Shannon Sharpe discussing Dak Prescott’s state of mind after Prescott lost his Jace to suicide.
“I’m going to ask our audience to feel free to go ahead and condemn me, if you choose, as cold-blooded and insensitive on this issue. I have deep compassion for clinical depression. But when it comes to the quarterback of an NFL team — you know this better than I do — it’s the ultimate leadership position in sports, am I right about that? You are commanding an entire franchise. What’s the roster now, 53, still? But you’re commanding a lot of young me and some older men.
And they’re all looking to you to be their CEO, to be in charge of their football team. Because of all that, I don’t have sympathy for him going public with, ‘I got depressed. I suffered depression early in COVID to the point where I couldn’t even go work out.’ Look, he’s the quarterback of ‘America’s Team.'”
You know a tweet is bad when Skip, of all people, deletes it, and he almost always even stands by the absolute worst of the worst of his steaming hot garbage takes. The fact that he had enough presence of mind to delete this one is the only reason it isn’t number one. It was probably Fox that made him delete it though.
He wasn’t even careful enough with this hot take to go back and even have the ability to claim that he was hacked, like some people say when they do dumb things on the internet. If the tweet had been text only, then the lie card would still have been in his hand. But he tweeted a video. The whole world saw Skip say this one.
1. Damar Hamlin
I’d love to know who the 40K people who liked this tweet were, honestly. Now, to date, this tweet has 171.1 million views, so the amount of people who liked it make up roughly 0.02% of all viewers of this tweet. So as of two years ago, the rest of America does have some sanity where Skip lacks it.
He also got absolutely smoked by ratios on this tweet too, so for a man whose life is spent more on social media than it is in the real world, that’s the equivalent of a broken leg, or something.
Of all the tweets to ever be put out by anybody, this would make a top five list of worst tweets in general. The fact that he said he stood by it on Undisputed the next day made it all the more insane. Even without the others, this tweet alone should have put Skip in an institution, and between this one and the Dak remarks, it almost seems like Skip might just be a little bit of a sociopath.
