MIKE FAILED TO LEARN FROM JR'S MISTAKE

Hockey analyst Mike Milbury follows in the footsteps of Jeremy Roenick in getting fired by NBC for making a crack about women

by Howie Katz

During Thursday night’s Capitals-Islanders game on the NBC Sports Network, hockey analyst Mike Milbury talked about the Stanley Cup playoffs being held without any spectators and said:

“Not even any woman here to disrupt your concentration.”

That created a social media shitstorm that got Mike fired by NBC.

Hockey analyst Jeremy 'JR' Roenick got suspended by NBC last December and fired in February for joking about his desire to have a threesome with his wife and NBC coworker, Kathryn Tappen, while on Barstools' "Spittin Chiclets" podcast.

Obviously, Mike failed to learn from JR's mistake.

Neither of them considered the fact that when they made the remarks that led to their firing, they were not in the hockey team's player room.

In my opinion, neither crack warranted the firing.  But this is the era of sensitivity in which you don't dare to say anything that might possibly be seen as demeaning women.