Bill Simmons explains why his HBO show failed

The generally accepted reason for the Bill Simmons, ESPN break-up is that Simmons clashed with the management over a number of things there.

Most notably, there were disagreements which culminated in him being suspended after his comments over Roger Goodell and he bashed him again the day before their partnership was over.

We're sure there was a bunch of other things because professional break-ups that are that messy never really come down to a single moment. Here's one theory that Simmons threw out in an interview with Recode this week:

That was the thing about the ESPN thing. I think that if they had figured out the podcast correctly, I think I would still be there. As crazy as that sounds. Or at least, a 50 percent chance. Because we should have been making so much more money from the podcast side - that was why I did that interview with you in [at SXSW in 2015]. I was frustrated. I just couldn't believe that they were throwing away that much money.

He also explained why his short-lived show on HBO didn't make it:

Yeah. It just didn't work. It was a gamble to some degree, because I'm not a performer. And I was hoping that an interview show would work. And I took a big swing, and it just didn't work. And you just move on to the next one.

Head over to Recode to read the whole interview.