Even years after he left ESPN, sports pundit Bill Simmons appears to be bitter — especially after his vertical, Grantland, was shut down.
While answering mailbag questions on his podcast, a fan said they missed Joe House from Grantland. This led Simmons to take a shot at the network for getting rid of his channel. He called ESPN “vindictive a**holes” for erasing years of content from Grantland's YouTube channel.
Bill Simmons EVISCERATES the “vindictive assholes” at ESPN for liquidating the Grantland YouTube channel
“They can go eat a big fat dick” pic.twitter.com/XLWvXMy86Q
— The r/BillSimmons Podcast (@rBillSimmonsPod) October 9, 2026
“You can't see it because a little after I left ESPN, for some reason, because they're vindictive, f***ing s**thead a**holes, they liquidated our Grantland YouTube channel,” he said. “I still can't believe they did it. There's four years of videos that we did; a lot of them were ahead of their time. They were just like, ‘F**k it. We'll just liquidate all of it.' So they can go eat a big fat d**k.”
The Grantland website is still active, though, and articles can still be accessed on the site. That doesn't appear to be enough for Simmons, though.
Bill Simmons' time at ESPN
Simmons joined ESPN as a columnist in 2001 and wrote three guest columns. He then launched Grantland in June 2011. He was the editor-in-chief of the pop culture site.
Article Continues BelowESPN later moved on from Simmons in 2015, opting not to renew its contract with him, and shut down the website. Luckily, the archives can still be viewed on the website.
After his ESPN exit, Simmons founded The Ringer in 2016, and he is the CEO of the company. He hosts his self-titled podcast. His podcast, as well as several other Ringer shows, was acquired by Netflix for video distribution.
It has been over a decade since Simmons' exit from ESPN in 2015. Evidently, some hard feelings still linger, as evidenced by his recent rant about the network over his old Grantland website.