Back to the Rumors Humor Newsfeed

And So What’s The Fate Of Deadspin Now That Gawker Has Filed For Bankruptcy?

Tweet

I’ve always said that “You’re With Me, Leather” would go out with Chris Berman … like Mark Twain and Halley’s Comet.

“Leather” was one of the first posts I wrote in the early days of Deadspin — it told the story of ESPN’s Chris Berman, who allegedly (according to an eyewitness account) entered a Scottsdale bar one spring evening and poached a potential hookup from another male patron. Berman is reported to have said to the woman “You’re with me, leather,” at which the woman, clad in leather pants, followed him out the door.