It has been over a decade since Bill Simmons left ESPN, but some of the scars still cut very, very deep.<\/p>\n
It was back in 2015<\/a> when Simmons departed the Worldwide Leader after a series of creative differences and public disagreements<\/a>. The Sports Guy had done it all at ESPN and became a household name nationwide. He helped launch 30 for 30 and Grantland, and he even served briefly as an NBA studio analyst. On top of that, The BS Report helped make\u00a0podcasts the next big media medium.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t long after Bill Simmons left ESPN that the network shut down publication of his vertical,\u00a0Grantland. Despite an attempt to move forward with Chris Connelly at the helm, it lasted only a few months before shutting down entirely<\/a>. Many of the writers\u00a0Simmons hired for the outlet went with him to start\u00a0The Ringer, which remains his\u00a0home to this day.<\/p>\n Over the last decade, Simmons has sometimes shown a soft spot<\/a> for his former employer. But this was not one of those occasions.<\/p>\n On the most recent episode of\u00a0The Bill Simmons Podcast, the host was taking mailbag questions when asked about a show from his buddy House at Grantland. That led him to go off the network. And thankfully we have the Bill Simmons Reddit Podcast X page to chronicle<\/a> it all.<\/p>\n Bill Simmons EVISCERATES the \u201cvindictive assholes\u201d at ESPN for liquidating the Grantland YouTube channel<\/p>\n \u201cThey can go eat a big fat dick\u201d https:\/\/t.co\/XLWvXMy86Q<\/p>\n \u2014 The r\/BillSimmons Podcast (@rBillSimmonsPod) October 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cYou can\u2019t see it because a little after I left ESPN, for some reason, because they\u2019re vindictive f*cking sh*thead assholes, they liquidated our Grantland YouTube channel. I still can\u2019t believe they did it. There\u2019s four years of videos that we did, a lot of them were ahead of their time. They were just like \u2018f*ck it, we\u2019ll just liquidate all of it.\u2019 So they can go eat a big fat d*ck,\u201d Simmons said.<\/p>\n Alrighty then!<\/p>\n For what it\u2019s worth, the Grantland homepage<\/a> and archives still do exist! But anything with a YouTube embed is unavailable<\/a>. So if you want to relive Grantland\u2019s glory days and watch decade-old videos from Joe House, unfortunately you are out of luck.<\/p>\n