What might be the far bigger story of the pair, in reality, of the two I speak about in my relaunch article is that, a month or two ago, the NFL announced a partnership with ESPN that finally consummates what started with the NFL's cancellation of ESPN's Playmakers drama that came a little bit too close to home.
The NFL now owns ESPN in truth and actuality.
Or at least 10% of it.
In exchange for a whale of an amount of money, ESPN is now 10% owned by the NFL -- a fact which really should surprise nobody.
In fact, one of a number of launch promotions of the new partnership will allow, the NFL will allow their Redzone channel, the NFL Network, and ESPN to team up for forty dollars a month.
(Yay. More Pay-TV. Probably would pirate the shit if I didn't find out my main pirate source's main administrator wasn't a flaming Trumpie.)
(Probably lots to talk about about THAT too...)
But this partnership also means that the NFL and college football can work even closer together than they do now.
And that indicates even more skullduggery ahead. Especially in a season after the NFL was uncategorically caught in it's skullduggery.
(One of the reasons I cannot take outside of face value a recent major NFL reporter on ESPN actually calling Ravens vs. Lions as the Super Bowl pick...)
(More on that... Next post...)
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