Sam Ponder Had A Few Choice Words For Her New Colleagues From Barstool Sports

ESPN and Barstool Sports came to terms on a new partnership earlier this month. Barstool’s popular podcast Pardon My Take, co-hosted by Dan Katz and PFT Commenter, will get a new show on ESPN2 once a week. It’s titled Barstool Van Talk, and will air on Tuesday nights at 1 a.m.

The partnership is somewhat controversial, as Pardon My Take was started as a way to satirize the Worldwide Leader in Sports and its debate-centric programming — its name is a mashup of Pardon the Interruption and First Take. Barstool has also taken plenty of shots at ESPN in a number of different over the years, so to see the two come to an agreement on a new show was a bit surprising.

For one member of the ESPN family, though, it’s a partnership between her employer and an entity that once crossed the line while criticizing her. Sam Ponder posted this tweet back in 2014…

Which led to a post on Barstool titled “Sam Ponder Is In Her Ivory Tower Looking Down At All The Blogs Who Decided To Disagree With Ray Rice KO’ing His Wife.” This was a few years ago, but Ponder did not forget, so she posted a few screenshots of the post on Monday night when she “welcomed” Katz to the network. (A warning that some of the language in the post is NSFW.)

Katz clarified that he did not write the post in question — that was Barstool President Dave Portnoy.

Still, Ponder wasn’t happy that ESPN’s newest television show stems from the site that, among other things, called her a “bible thumping freak.”

There is no word on whether ESPN will respond to Ponder’s tweets.