Dan Dakich Details How 'Little Mouse' Jimmy Pitaro Is Responsible For ESPN Not Playing National Anthem

OutKick published a column earlier this week after speaking to several sources inside ESPN about the widely panned decision to censor the showing of the national anthem and moment of silence ahead of last week's Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, a day after a deadly terror attack in the host city.

Overwhelmingly, our sources detailed how the blame falls on the shoulders of ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro, whose toxic culture led to the same network that highlighted the NBA protesting the anthem in the name of BLM in 2020.

In short, Pitaro originally installed a "no politics culture" within ESPN. His vision was successful. Race and politics were mostly excluded from the conversation. Under Pitrao, ESPN was simply a sports network, a sports network for all sports fans. 

Then, 2020 happened. More specifically, George Floyd happened.

OutKick commentator Dan Dakich further elaborated on this topic Thursday on "Don't At Me."

"As a white dude, Jimmy Pitaro is scared to death. After George Floyd's death, Pitaro went from being a leader to a little mouse. 

"In fact, I've emailed Pitaro saying, 'What are you doing?' Like have you ever looked at your company? That was after Dan Orlovsky had to take down a tweet saying, "Protect our daughters" because it went against the ‘core values’ of ESPN. Think about that for a second.

"This article, Bobby Burack wrote it, it's so damn good.  I don't even know how to tell you how good it is. Like, if somebody said to me, ‘Tell me how good this article is,’ I would I don't even know what to tell you. It's that good. He reported on how Pitaro enabled this culture, which led to not showing the national anthem last week.

"This is another example, under Pitaro, of ESPN either being really dumb,