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If anyone has any doubts if SAS is a biscuit boy, this confirms it
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I don’t know if posted but Jim Rome called this from 30
meth is a white dude married to a black woman. I been tried to tell y’all that.Always cringey when Meth broke out his finest kente cloth & tried to use that quote knowing he got white supremacists on his squad. S/o to his draft pick jrose
You think Stephen A gets his giant contract without the ESPN NFL deal?
George Bodenheimer had only been on the job as ESPN’s acting chairman for a couple of weeks when he got word that Fox and the NFL would partner on the NFL draft, jointly producing a show that would directly compete against ESPN.
ESPN’s relationship with the country’s most powerful sports league never has been totally in sync. Bodenheimer, after all, was ESPN’s president in 2004 when his network produced the “Playmakers” series that infuriated the league. ESPN wound up canceling the series after just one season because of pressure from NFL executives.
ESPN is dealing with a declining subscriber base and paying higher rights fees. A host of digital competitors are waiting in the wings to get some of its rights. It’s launching a direct-to-consumer service later this spring.
During Super Bowl week in Minneapolis, NFL executives privately described the relationship as the worst they’ve ever seen. In particular, they pointed to stories on ESPN.com and “Outside the Lines” that they felt went out of their way to portray the NFL in a bad light.
Their complaints ranged from the number of times ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” covered the concussion issue to the number of stories from feature writers Don Van Natta and Seth Wickersham about Commissioner Roger Goodell’s salary, the league’s handling of the player protests, palace intrigue at the Patriots and the ongoing dispute between Goodell and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.
Plus, there were all the negative headlines surrounding the NFL this season that made their way onto “SportsCenter” or the home page of ESPN.com.
The NFL always has had a hard time differentiating between ESPN the promotion arm and ESPN the media outlet. It’s not a new development. In 2013, Goodell and then NFL executive Steve Bornstein met with former ESPN President John Skipper at a Manhattan restaurant to pressure him to back out of its affiliation with PBS’s “Frontline,” which was producing a documentary on concussions. ESPN wound up pulling out of the partnership.
ESPN executives felt handcuffed because its deals with cable and satellite providers carried a provision that its rate would be cut if ESPN ever lost the NFL.
Over a five-year period ending around 2015, ESPN methodically stripped that clause out of its affiliate deals, meaning that the rates cable and satellite distributors pay are not tied to ESPN having the NFL. That benefited ESPN’s long-term business. It also helped its executives get some swagger back, as insiders say it emboldened them to push back more at the NFL when they feel aggrieved.
This is the environment that Pitaro inherits. Pitaro is known as a smooth relationship builder and excellent negotiator. He will put both of those skills to the test as he looks to fix one of ESPN’s most important partnerships.
why is that butter biscuit A smith rant being posted like 50 times? What’s happening?
When you have to resort to free posting
why is that butter biscuit A smith rant being posted like 50 times? What’s happening?
All news that fits whatever your narrative
If you wanna play, you gonna be a part of some bullllll****. Understand that and play or understand that and be at peace with severing ties with this trash *** league
To those curious about the ESPN NFL relationship, and why some people think that ESPN has become almost an extension of the league.
ESPN’s tricky NFL problem
On new President Jimmy Pitaro’s to-do list: Repair relationship.www.sportsbusinessdaily.com
Oh I knew. They brought up every issue troubled players have in one season. NFL said they don’t like it and ESPN pulled the plug. Damn shame cuz it was a good show.Playmakers ending after one season was a dead giveaway. Didn't know better then