They all need two sports media, but not everyone should.
Mike Florio, “Pro Football Talk,” Aggregator/Insider/Gadfly Extraordinaire, is on NBC’s best-selling pregame show, NBC’s “Football Night in America,” every Sunday night, but he doesn’t care one bit about the league’s police and the media. Some of the things it does can be pretty good.
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Others, not so much.
This week, in the podcast “IF Media with Jimmy Traza”, Florio congratulated NBC on its rival network, Fox, with respect to Tom Brady, television games analyst of $ 375 million that has a 10% participation in Raiders of Las Vegas.
“I’ve been with NBC for 15 years now,” Florio said. “There is no way in hell NBC would give Tom Brady a microphone when he owns a piece of a team. They would never do it.”
Well, when Earnhardt Jr. had cars in the NBC XFinity series. The Earnhardt called the races in the league, but not theirs. This has been Fox’s disposition with Brady so far.
On top of this, NBC just acquired the rights to the NBA and has had talks with Dwyane Wade, a minority owner of the Utah Jazz, and Grant Hill, who currently is a TNT analyst and has an ownership stake in the Atlanta Hawks.
“They would never do it,” said Florio through. “They said: ‘Tom, you have a path. ‘”
Asked if that’s correct, an NBC Sports spokesperson said, “We’re not going to comment on the hypotheses. “
Florio created professional football talk nearly a quarter of a century ago, and it’s a great story of the way he’s reshaped a lawyer with an establishment that competes with the best football venues and does so in the middle of a first studio show. But when you’ve established a partnership with NBC, no matter how long you go, and you’re becoming more than many other people, you’ve gotten into the business with the network and your relationships.
With this, Mike Tirico’s Pro Football Talk complaint on ESPN has disappeared since Tirico has become NBC’s franchise. .
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“There is a fundamental difference between being a good teammate to a co-worker and owning a percentage of and having a significant voice in the direction of a team that competes in a league that you are covering,” Florio told The Athletic on the comparisons between him and Brady.
All this means that Floorio’s general point on the clash of interest that is inherent in Brady’s participation in the Raiders and calling Fox has no merit. In an ideal world, it is one or the other.
In the world of Florio, Fox has given Brady an ultimatum in his $ 375 million contract to transmit games or make assailants. Even if you agree with Florio, Fox may not have the right to withdraw from a contract.
Florio has built a lucrative business, rewriting, opining and reporting NFL news. He goes all-in a lot of times. In this case, he shouldn’t have. You know glass houses, rocks and all.
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