Simmons was with ESPN from 2001 to 2015.
Bill Simmons had a rollercoaster 14 years at ESPN, but it's been nearly a decade since leaving the network and he appears to look back fondly at his time there.on Oct. 19 where he was asked about his time at ESPN, and The Ringer founder said he was"super proud" of his time there.
"I was there for 14 years, and I feel like I elevated that place in just a slew of ways. I don't think that's bragging. I look back at the ESPN experience and I'm like, 'I f****** killed it for those guys. There's no question and that's it," Simmons said. "I don't have bad blood at ESPN. I look at that as: that place elevated me, and I elevated them," Simmons said.Simmons, who is also the head of global sports content for Spotify, mentioned how he created several things for the network including the network's famous"30 for 30" documentary series and the now-defunct sports and culture website"Grantland."including being suspended by the company twice from Twitter .
"The way it got aggregated was instruction to me. But I still feel like I was right," Simmons said."I really genuinely cared about elevating and if you look at the stuff especially from '09 to 2015 that I did, I was trying to make that place great."Simmons also received a three-week suspension in 2014 for calling NFL commissioner Roger Goodell a"liar" on ESPN airwaves.
"I don't regret what I said about Goodell," Simmons said."We could have made like two small edits that would have made it just as impactful and not turn it into a me vs. ESPN story because I thought what I was saying about Goodell was really important. I also had all these Grantland people that I really cared about. And I think that was the piece that, from the minute it started going, that was what bothered me ...
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