Brian Mitchell Fired for Criticizing Redskins?

PFT, via USA Today, is reporting former Eagles return specialist Brian Mitchell claims he was canned from his D.C. radio gig for inflammatory comments toward the Redskins.

The radio company, Red Zebra Radio (weird name), claims Mitchell’s removal was economic based. What else would they say? He was making $150 K, which ain’t chump change, so maybe it was for budgetary reasons. However, Red Pony Zebra is owned by one Daniel Snyder. Ahem.

What’s the world coming to when you can’t slam your favorite team? Thankfully, the Eagles would never resort… oh, wait… I forgot. There was this little nugget from March about the lowly Birds’ stadium worker who trashed the front office for letting Dawkins leave for greener pastures. He was promptly dismissed.

I have no idea if Mitchell’s accusations are correct. We’ll probably never know the truth, unless Snyder gets drunk one night and starts bragging about how he shut that loudmouth Mitchell up by firing his sorry ass.

The moral here: We’re free to say whatever we want, but it might come at a cost.

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