Several readers have asked us to chime in on the news that ESPN host Dana Jacobson is being disciplined by the network for “inappropriate comments” that she made during a January 11 celebrity roast for Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic.

And several readers are curious about what she said, since the ESPN.com item announcing the move is silent on this fairly important point.

Per our own MDS, who primarily works for a somewhat larger joint known as AOL, Jacobson “earned” a one-week suspension for saying “F–k Notre Dame,” “F–k Touchdown Jesus,” and “F–k Jesus.”

Though MDS is inclined to cut her some slack because the comments occurred at a roast, which is supposed to be a raunchy exercise in one-up-manship, the reality is that her penalty matches the sanction imposed on Sean Salisbury for allegedly taking cell-phone snapshots of his manhood and showing it to colleagues.  So the powers that be must have thought that what she said merited significant punishment.

Maybe it’s the twelve years of Catholic school talking, but what she said is, in my opinion, bad.  Real bad.  The only legitimate excuse for it would be demonic possession.

Her bigger crime might have been allowing alcohol to influence her choices in attempted humor.  If the goal was to crack on Golic about the fact that he played football at Notre Dame, she could have done so much better.

“Hey, Golic — after last season, Touchdown Jesus is now covering his eyes.”

“Hey, Golic — you don’t need NutriSystem to look thinner.  Just go stand next to Charlie Weis.”

“Hey, Golic — did you take steroids when you went to Notre Dame, or did you just eat extra communion?”

Those are kind of lame, too.  But not as lame as what Jacobson said.  We’re not saying that she should be fired, but we can only imagine what the outcry would have been if the target of the statement had been, say, the Rutgers women’s basketball team.