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Yesterday I noted in the obligatory Brett Favre post that espnews’ two doofus’ on Wednesday night were acting like the word “schism” was something so exotic that people would not know what it was. Going so far as to put up the Webster’s definition on the screen.

This morning, Eric Kasilias (an attorney for fuckssake) and Mike Golic (Notre Dame graduate) were both yukking it up over that word, claiming that each did not know what it meant, and that there was no way that any football player in any NFL clubhouse would use it.

I refuse to believe that the word “schism” is that unusual. I refuse to believe that Eric Kasilias did not know what it meant and had never heard it. As much as the Golic-is-stupid thing is played as part of his persona, he’s not, and I refuse to believe he doesn’t know what the word means. I am starting to wonder if there is some orchestration at ESPN to downplay the less happy parts of Brett Favre’s pussified comeback.

Again, as I asked yesterday, is it really that hard to believe that there might be some Vikings who are less than thrilled with Brett Favre wussing out of the summer program and training camp only to swoop in for the hoped for good times on Sundays in the fall? So whoever that was used the word “schism”, why is that word choice such a big fucking deal? That certain ESPN folk are choosing to hone in on that word and giggle like tools over “smart words” seems like a weird tact to take, a denial mechanism with regard to the potential unhappiness. And Kasilias and Golic, at the least, ought to be better than that. Their audience (on Mike & Mike) isn’t full of illiterates. Stop acting like it is.

As for the Vikings, some of them are taking the same approach to the report, professing ignorance as what “schism” means. At least in their case, I get it. It’s a way of defusing the media questions over it while they try and assimilate the pussy onto their team. Favre (Southern Miss) with this:

“I’ve got no reaction,” Favre said when asked about an ESPN report Wednesday that cited anonymous sources as saying some Vikings supported Tarvaris Jackson and others felt Sage Rosenfels should start. “I’m just doing what I can do, hopefully help this team win, and just trying to fit in. I’m not worried about that. That’s for you guys to have some fun with. Once again, I have no idea what that means. I’m assuming it’s controversial.”

Told the word schism refers to a division — one definition is “a separation or division into factions” — Favre shot back, “Well, good.” He wasn’t smiling.

Jared Allen (Idaho State) took it a step further, claiming he thought “schism” was an STD.

Sigh.

I will assume the professed ignorance in those cases was the aforementioned deflection of the issue.

As for Kasilias and Golic’s yukking it up over a pretty fuckin’ common word, they have no excuse.