Skip Bayless profile piece in Newsday. 

I read it so you don’t have to.

One thing that really jumped out to me was when the Dallas Cowboy lover was asked if the debates between himself and Shannon Sharpe on FS1 were contrived and/or molded to play well for a TV audience (after the jump):

Bayless insists their positions are pure, never doctored for attention or added sparks, a charge he has heard before.

“I’m not angry with you for asking that, but I get angry at that notion, because it is so false, and anyone who has been even remotely part of our process would laugh at that notion,” he said.

“We never, ever have tricked up a debate. We’ve never contrived a yin-yang debate, because it won’t work. I will not allow anybody, especially Shannon Sharpe, to lie to me on national TV because I can’t take that seriously…I have never, ever, as God is my witness, contrived a single debate in a single show.”

Yeah?

I’m not sure I believe him!