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Dale Hansen reportedly quit his job at ESPN Radio's Dallas affiliate after he was told during his show to ix-nay on the Oethlisberger-ray discussions.

As the Big Lead points out, it's possible that Hansen's decision was influenced in part by the fact that he had been working without a contract for six months. Still, Hansen is (to our knowledge) the only person to vote with his feet as a result of the mother ship's inexplicable decision not to mention the Roethlisberger case.

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Seems Hansen - who told me last month he wasn't happy at ESPN - quit amidst the worldwide leader's self-imposed muzzling of the Ben Roethlisberger story. Last Wednesday Hansen somehow didn't receive the directive from Bristol, Conn. and spent 20 minutes on his "Hour of Hansen" 6-7 p.m. show dissecting the ramifications before producers read him the office memo during a commercial break.

In other words, his departure was ultimately a combination of ESPN corporate censoring its reporting and ESPN local not relaying that censorship.

"The directive was the fuse, but the fact nobody told me was the match that lit it," Hansen tells me. "I don't want to be identified with being one of ESPN's puppets. I refuse to be anybody's puppet. Well, Channel 8 might get to pull my strings but ESPN can't do that for $2,000 a month."

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$2,000 a month.

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