trying to understand noun + って in this sentence


> **だいたいスポーツ記者っていったって** 、ここんとこスキャンダルの取材ばっかりだ！！

I came up with something like "even though I say I am generally a sports
writer", which sounds wrong.

what's tripping me up is the use of だいたい and スポーツ記者って.




I figured it out!

it seems [noun + っていったって] is a spoken form of [noun + と言っても], which means
[even though (I) say "noun"].

and だいたい can indicate the origin of a bad outcome in some cases (like "in the
first place")

so the whole sentence would be something like: [Even though I say "sports
writer" to begin with, these days it’s nothing but scandal coverage!]

