CBS’s Spielman got hammered for talking truth about Robbie

WHAT if media members were forced to clean up their own messes, to publicly admit that what they said in public was dead wrong?

During a 2017 PanthersJets game, one the Jets were losing and eventually lost, Jets wide receiver Robbie Anderson caught a touchdown pass, then approached a CBS camera and microphone on the Jets’ sideline and said, “Hey, will y’all vote for me for the Pro Bowl, man? Please!”

Chris Spielman, CBS analyst, was calmly appalled by Anderson’s timing and self-regard:

“How about we worry about out-scoring somebody in the fourth quarter and you focus on this game instead of campaigning for Pro Bowl votes? Let’s try that first.”

Hard to disagree, given any circumstances — even coach Todd Bowles said the same — yet the next day Spielman was ripped — on radio shows, TV and internet sites — for having the audacity to even suggest that Anderson comport himself as a team-first professional.

The rationalized blowback was that the kid was just having some fun, ya know? We need more of that, ya know? There were even suggestions that Spielman’s take was racist.

It now turns out that Anderson has been a career pain in the rear, his selfishness no longer easy to excuse or rationalize.

At Temple, he twice left the team — once voluntarily, the other on academic suspension. The Jets grew tired of his all-about-me act and Anderson wound up with the Panthers.

Last week, after he was kicked out of the game by his own coach for a sideline tantrum, Anderson was picked up by the receiversdepleted Cardinals.

It seems as if a lot of folks owe Spielman a public apology. Fat chance. ➤ Last Sunday, CBS “60 Minutes” glowing tribute to Deion “Prime Time” Sanders, head coach of predominantly black Jackson State, was missing something significant:

His previous position as the founder of a scam sports warehouse school named “Prime Prep Academy” in his self-assigned honor.

Sanders’ scandalized charter school was the kind “60 Minutes” would investigate rather than ignore. The Texas “school” was shuttered after an eight-month investigation by Texas education authorities who found the school predicated on financial and educational fraud, from the time it opened with falsified documents in 2012 until it closed due to insolvency in 2014.

A myriad, litany, plethora ... checks thesaurus ... deluge, glut, any synonym you can find applies. Good luck finding an end to the dirty laundry list of malfeasance.

Many of Prime Academy’s

“graduates” did not meet minimal NCAA academic standards to win college scholarships — in contravention of the school’s prescribed goal. The school’s buildings were in structural decay — one had more than 100 computers stolen — and administrators suddenly vanished.

With no assets to retrieve, the Prime Prep kids were left suckered and lost.

But as “60 Minutes” correspondent Jon Wertheim gushed, grinned and nodded with every “God sent me here” answer Sanders gave, none of that came up.