100 Things Scarier Than No Football: #39-30

#38: Reports By Chris Mortensen

One of the things that frightens me the most about the possibility of a season of no football is that ESPN’s Chris Mortensen could get even more desperate than usual to deliver scoops. Mort has delivered so many incorrect reports that he is up there with Harold Camping for the “most blown predictions ever.” Actually, Camping was trying to predict the end of the world. More was actually trying to deliver news. Not sure which is worse.

Here is a quick list of things M0rt, ESPN’s “Insider” has gotten wrong:

-Mort predicted Mike Shanahan was going to be the next head coach in Kansas City. Oops.

-Mort reported that Mike Vick was unlikely to get indicted. Doh!

-Mort said there was no way Brett Favre was coming back in 2008. Um..

-In 2007, Mort reported that Eli Manning would miss a  MONTH of the season with an injury. Mannning, in turn played in every game that season…including the Super Bowl…which he won. Way to go Mort.

The longer there is no football, the worse Mort’s reporting might get. I am already pretty sure he just throws darts at a board with different unsubstantiated rumors on it. To be fair, he has been wrong a lot less since ESPN plucked Adam Schefter away from NFL Network. The two now work as a team, which I find kind of hilarious considering Schefter embarrassed the crap out of Mort during the whole Shannahan to KC business.

Mort reports are scary indeed.