Getty Image
Skip Bayless apparently takes his debates very seriously.
During a recent episode of the Stephen A. Smith show, Sharpe spoke about his off-camera relationship with Bayless.
“Skip would get to work, I would get to work,” Sharpe said. “It was really like a heavyweight fight. We barely talked … it was very little communication.”
“I took my cues from him,” Sharpe said. “He was not a guy who was very talkative in the morning.”
Bayless seems to take the whole competition of the show incredibly seriously.
“He’s treating this like an actual game,” Sharpe said “I just learned he doesn’t want to be bothered, and I was OK with that.”
Sharpe went on say he didn’t have much of a relationship with Skip outside of the show.
“In seven years, Skip and I, I think we had brunch once. And that’s OK. I don’t think Skip’s a bad guy.
“I didn’t develop the type of work relationship with him that I did with some of the guys that I played with when I was in Denver or I was in Baltimore … or some of the young ladies in wardrobe or makeup.
“Because I didn’t get the sense that’s what he wanted, so I’m not a guy that’s going to force anything. If you show me you want to have a relationship outside work, I’ll accept that. If you want to have a relationship that’s strictly work and it’s confined to the two and a half hours when we are at work … I’m cool with that too. I’m there to do a job.
H/T Undisputed