Everyone desires to report on sports media, but possibly not everyone should do it.
Mike Florio, “Pro Football Talk” aggregator/Insider/Gadfly of the additional class, could be seen every Sunday evening on probably the most watched Pregame show, NBC's “Football Night in America”, but he puts himself a bit of within the league police And the media. Some of what he does could be pretty good.
Others not a lot.
This week Florio praised the podcast “Si Media with Jimmy Traina” NBC in comparison with his competitive broadcaster Fox in relation to Tom Brady, the $ 375 million TV game analysts, which has a ten percent share within the Las Vegas Raiders.
“I've been with NBC for 15 years now,” said Florio. “Under no circumstances would NBC Tom Brady give a microphone if a part of a team belongs. You would never do it. “
Well, except as Dale Earnhardt Jr. Cars in the XFinity series on NBC. Earnhardt won races in the league, just not his own. So far that was the agreement between Fox and Brady.
In addition, NBC has just acquired the rights to the NBA and conducted talks with Dwyane Wade, a minority owner of Utah Jazz, and Grant Hill, who is currently working as a TNT analyst and holds participation in the Atlanta Hawks.
“You would never do it,” said Florio to Traina. “You said: 'Tom, you’ve gotten to decide on a trace.'”
When asked whether this was true, a spokesman for NBC Sports said: “We is not going to comment on hypotheses.”
Florio launched Pro Football Talk almost a quarter of a century ago and is a rather incredible story about how he developed from a lawyer with a hobby to an institution that competes with the top football pages and focuses on a first-class studio show . But when he entered into a partnership with NBC, he started doing business with the broadcaster and his relationships, regardless of how close he was on the side – and he continues than many others.
This has gone the earlier criticism of Pro Football Talk to Mike Trico at Espn since Trico Nbc's franchise player. Florio, the uncompromising all -rounder, failed to have ever posted something about the apology of his team -mate “Football Night in America” Tony Dungy in 2023 after having spoken to the myth that garbage cans would be set up at school for children that identify as cats. There was no cat-first grader post on PFT.
“There is a fundamental difference between a great teammate for a colleague and the possession of a share and a major voice within the leadership of a team that takes place in a league that is roofed,” said Florio about the comparisons between him and Brady.
All of this does not mean that Florios is a general point of view as an inherent conflict of interest with Brady's participation in the Raiders and the accusation against FOX is unfounded. In an ideal world it is one or the other.
In Florios Welt, Fox Brady should have made an ultimatum regarding his $ 375 million contracts to broadcast games or take over the Raiders. Even if you agree to Florio, FOX may not have the right to simply withdraw from the contract.
Florio has built up a lucrative business by rewriting, commenting and reporting NFL messages. He often goes all-in. In this case he shouldn't have done it. You know glass houses, stones and so on.
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