Dan Le Batard rips Michael Strahan over Chris Johnson ALS interview

Dan Le Batard called out Michael Strahan for not asking any football-centric questions during his interview with ex-NFL star Chris Johnson, who revealed during “Good Morning America” on Monday that he’s been diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).“Michael Strahan has a responsibility in that instance to ask some sort of football-related question, and he did not do it, and he came under no criticism from anybody except (journalist) Jeff Pearlman because we don’t actually want to know” Le Batard said on his self-named show Tuesday.“We don’t.It’s just too uncomfortable.

You just can’t enjoy that thing the way you do … you don’t actually want to know what it is when these guys are limping through their retirement homes to an early death.”“Good Morning America” published Monday a nearly seven-minute interview with Johnson, the former Titans star who rushed for 2,006 — seventh-most in NFL history — in 2009.Some of the questions Strahan asked Johnson included: “What would you like people to know?”; “Why do you want to share this now?”; and “When did you notice something was off?”The segment also included a discussion with a doctor.It’s certainly possible that Strahan asked questions about football that landed on the cutting room floor, although there’s a moment when Johnson’s, wife, Brittany said of her first noticing something amiss last year: “I thought because football and his career it had to be something with that.”Le Batard introduced his opinion by referencing Perlman, a veteran sports reporter, previously citing a study stating NFL players are four times more likely to be diagnosed with ALS than those who do not and the longer one plays the more likely they are to be stricken with the disease.Pearlman said Strahan should have asked Johnson if he regretted playing football and if he could it all over, would he still play after being diagnosed with the ALS.Le Batard called that “reasonable critici...