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ESPN purchases NFL Network: What does this mean for sports media? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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ESPN acquires the rights to the NFL Network.
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Late Tuesday night, a long rumored deal was announced
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between the NFL and ESPN where the Disney owned company will
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acquire the rights to the NFL Media rights, the NFL Network
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and the Red Zone Channel. The NFL receives a 10% equity
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stake in ESPN. In return, this deal is
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subjected to NFL owner approval. The NFL will keep ownership
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rights to NFL Films, NFL.com, NFL Plus and other media
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platforms, but ESPN will take over control of most of
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everything else in their portfolio.
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ESPN will take over the NFL Network studio lease in LA after
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they close their own LA studios recently.
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ESPN will now air a total of 28 NFL games per season, with the
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NFL Network serving as an alternate stream for ESPN games
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along with their usual slate of seven live games for the up
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upcoming season. NFL Draft coverage will now be
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available on Disney Plus and Hulu, as well as the NFL Live
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coverage and College Game Day from regular ESPN programming.
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ESPN is planning a direct to consumer streaming option to
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launch on August 21st, which will now include the NFL content
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as well as recently acquired WWE content including WrestleMania
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and other premium live events. Well, ESP NS making moves,
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ladies and gentlemen, they're making lots and lots of moves.
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And one of the main reasons why I think ESPN is making moves is
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because of the acquisition of Pat McAfee.
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Pat McAfee right now in his show when it comes to football is one
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of the biggest. It's the one of the biggest
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draws. And what Pat McAfee does, nobody
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does when it comes to the NFL. And that's draw fans from other
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sporting companies to come and watch his NFL takes.
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And now that Pat McAfee has been center stage on practically
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every single NFLMLB and basketball awards show, yes,
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ladies and gentlemen, anything ESPN has touched, Pat McAfee has
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been involved with. And now that the NFL is now
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fully covered by ESPN, it only helps the stakes of the money
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they invested into it because of Pat McAfee.
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I know everybody's going to say, well, Pat McAfee, there's just
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one man. But here's the thing.
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The NFL is the biggest watch sport when it comes to the
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United States. It's not European football over
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there in Europe, it's not. But what the NFL brings to the
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table is Fannie's watching it and Fannie's in the seats.
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You're talking about 80,000 people that are go to NFL
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football games and when you don't want to spend the money
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for a ticket or the sausages that Speedy likes to eat, ladies
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and gentlemen, they get a chance to sit in front of the TV and
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all now they have to do is pop on Disney Plus or Hulu to get a
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game. And to me that is what sells to
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fans. So what does that do for Disney
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Plus? Well, they can raise the money.
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They can raise the price of Disney Plus.
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They can raise the price when it comes to Hulu because now they
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have all this NFL coverage and now WWE coverage as sports
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entertainment is growing as it always is year in and year out.
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And now that Triple H is running the organization of the WWE and
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Triple H is trying to spin the wheel, make the deal, something
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Vince McMahon put a hold on over the I would say 10 year span
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that everything was dying out when it came to their coverage.
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Now they're center stage on an ESPN channel.
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I also think if you look at the MMA situation, ESPN had the MMA
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coverage. The coverage now and and ESP NS
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contract with MMA and UFC is over.
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They didn't re sign with the UFC as far as I know.
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And I think the reason why they didn't sign with the UFC is
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because the UFC is not the NFL and the UFC as big as it is, is
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not the WWE. What ESP NS trying to do right
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now is bring more eyes to their product, sell their product to
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not just sports fans, but sports entertainment fans as I've heard
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over the last couple of weeks. Them hire non sports analysts,
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people that have huge followings all over social media.
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Is this good for sports media? Is this good for ESPN in the
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long run? Only time will tell.
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If you ask AI they'll give you reasons why it won't work.
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Now I am not a director, I am not an owner and I am not ACEO
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or CFO of any company. As far as what I'm concerned I'm
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Co founder of Jabba in the mouth.
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But I do know this and I'm not here to burn bridges with ESPN.
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That's not what I'm trying to do here.
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What I do know is when you see something like this and, and a
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company, one company going out there and reaching and buying
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other companies and they're obviously TV deals and, and
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drawing their product to their product.
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It tells me that they want to get bigger.
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They want to boost. And their product, obviously
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over the last couple of years has not been up to par.
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It it, it's a fact. If you look at numbers, it
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hasn't been so ESP NS doing the smart thing.
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Their own obviously their CEO and CFO and their chairman knows
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what he's doing. He knows what WWE brings to the
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table. He knows what the NFL brings to
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the table and he knows that the NFL Network was dying because of
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their coverage when it came to over the last couple of years
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when it came to their product. Now again, I I am not ACEO or
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CFOI don't know why the NFL agreed to this deal unless they
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were getting something under the table or getting more money
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under the table. Again, I don't know and I'm not
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I'm not going to drop any accusations that I don't know.
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What I do know is ESPN now is one of the biggest organizations
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when it comes to professional TV and sports.
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That's what it is. You don't want to believe it.
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Fans or not, there are a lot of people that I know are not drawn
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to ESPN. They're not big ESPN fans.
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I always was. I loved ESPN.
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I've always loved ESPN. I follow.
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I've been following him since I was a kid.
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Chris Berman was my favorite, Dan Patrick was my other.
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So I've always stuck behind ESPN, but over the years they're
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broadcasting and their coverage of Monday Night Football, let's
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be honest, has not been good. It really hasn't been.
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And now that the NFL has decided to work hand in hand with ESPN,
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does it help their product? Well, you got 2 multi billion
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dollar organizations willing to work with one another and build
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something that obviously has not taken off the way they they
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thought it would over the last couple of years.
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Now, the NFL is still growing. They, they made seven, if I'm
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not mistaken, $17 billion last year with ticket sales and, and
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all the different stuff that they sell during the year.
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When it comes to jersey hats and all the other stuff that they
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sell, they're making tons and tons.
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They're printing money. ESPN wants a piece of that.
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And why? Because ESPN believes that
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putting in at the NFL Network in the WWEWWE center stage on their
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product, it could take their product to levels they have not
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been to. And that to me, is the
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difference here. I think that the NFL understands
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likely that they go to band together and I I think other
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organizations are going to do the same as well.
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You look at DraftKings and FanDuel, they're competing
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against one another. Eventually they're going to want
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to compete against ESPN and they want to want to compete against
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those other organizations. Prime is coming out with their
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own sports organization and, and, and sports, you know,
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sports radio and sports television.
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So Prime is a multi billion dollar organization.
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Jeff Bezos is one of the richest men in the world.
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So Jeff is competing against now the NFL combined with ESPN.
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Is this good for media? I would say yes.
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I think this is great for media. I think it's great for the
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sports coverage. The question is how much is it
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going to cost to obviously get the app?
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What is Disney going to charge to get a chance to watch their
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favorite their their their favorite NFL shows or their
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their favorite games? Because now the consumer is
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Disney Plus and Hulu, that's where the consumer is going to
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go and check out their their games and their being fans of
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their teams where they're not going to be able to find the
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games or they're not going to be able to spend the money for the
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games. They're going to have to go and
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obviously buy the app to watch WrestleMania because I mean, WWE
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had their own app, right? It was the the WWE app.
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Now you're I don't know for sure.
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I don't know the exact you know specs here but is the WWE have
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an app now now that they signed a contract with ESPN?
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I don't know. It's it's also different to like
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there's only going to be some shows that are on ESPN.
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Yeah, but then you have other programs of WWE like Smackdown,
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NXT, all the other stuff that are on different conglomerates,
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right? Like they they're on Peacock and
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everything. So like if you're a wrestling
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fan and all the other stuff, you're going to have like 3
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different just to watch your wrestling.
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And it's money because you got to pay for Peacock, you got to
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pay for Hulu and Disney. And that that to me.
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And there's a lot of families that don't have a lot of money.
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They make ends meet and, and again, that keeps me from going
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to a, a football game or going to a baseball game now or going
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to a wrestling match. Why am I going to go and spend
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double the amount when I could just go and buy the app and, and
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watch the games on the apps? I, I, I don't want to spend
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five, $600.00. I'll spend a little bit more and
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not have to do that. And that's why a lot of fans
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like me, I don't go to games anymore as much as I used to.
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And one of the main reasons why it's too expensive, it's way too
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expensive. If you want to buy a jersey at a
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baseball game, you want to go to Citi Field and buy jersey.
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They're almost 200 dollars, $200.
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They're not even authentic jerseys, the replicas.
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Just think about it, that's the problem.
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Think about this too. They're like that's let's that's
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like getting extra stuff like if you just go to the game,
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tickets, parking, whatever. I mean, that's a $500.00 bill
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and that's that's basic. That's probably an OK seat, not
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like above the dugout or 50 yard line or whatever.
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Like that's a $500.00 bill. Like just to go to a game like
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that's not getting a jersey souvenir cup.
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That's probably 12 bucks. I mean, that's just tough for
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like, you know, families in in situations where damn, if you
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plan it well enough, that could almost be a vacation, let alone
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just three hours of watching your favorite player or what
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have you. It's just man, it's, it's crazy.
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It's just how much? It's a smart, it's a smart
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business plan for ESPN, right? It's a great business plan for
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ESPN. Knock it out of the park for all
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the ESPN people listening to the show right now.
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Home run, absolute home run. Now you have the NFL coverage
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right into your fingertips and the WWE, who's better than you
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guys? The only problem here is the
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consumer, the person, the people that can't afford it.
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Now, if they're, if they raise the stake of the app and you
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have to go and spend, I don't know, $40 a month to get the
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app, Am I buying the app if I don't have the money?
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Because now I got to pay, I got to pay for Peacock.
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Peacock for a month, I think is $15.
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Now you're paying $40.00 for Disney Plus or Hulu.
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That's $40. And I don't know how they're
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going to work that out. And again, we don't know this is
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this just happened. Are they going to negotiate a
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deal where you're going to have to spend a little bit more on
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the app to get the football coverage?
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You could get the app for 799 or 10, $10.00, but you're not going
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to get the football coverage unless you pay a little bit
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extra. I don't know how the NFL and
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ESPN are going to settle this deal and and it where it makes
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sense, but it's an interesting story.
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It really is when you're trying to find something to talk about,
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ESPN is trying to take their product to the next level.
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I respect the company for what they're doing.
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I'm not going to overload and tell them they're stupid.
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They're a smart organization. They have money behind them.
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They got Disney behind them and they got some of the best
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executives behind them when it comes to making moves like this.
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The only thing that worries me for the consumer is how are they
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going to afford it if they boost up prices or the consumer saying
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to themselves, why? If I'm going to spend money to
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watch, I don't know, something on Peacock, am I really going to
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dig deep into my pockets? When I got I got a kids to, you
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know, kids to buy sneakers for for the school year or books or
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I'm going to private that my kids are going to private
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school. I got to pay for their, their
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their jackets or something of books or something like that.
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Am I going to dig into my pockets to pay for an app that I
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can't afford? Yeah, that's what's difficult I
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think with the NFL too, is because it's 16 games, it's one
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game a week. It's not like you could get a
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team package or like you can get like the local packages with the
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TV networks that we've seen fall apart in baseball and the NBA
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recently. It's one of those things where
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you want to you wait for those kinds of games to come and it's
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right there for you. Unless it was like the NFL
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Network, like late season Thursday or Saturday games where
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you only need an NFL Network in like 2006 or something like
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that. Like that's the kind of thing
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that makes it difficult. And again, these networks should
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not be able to should be able to take that over to an extent
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where you have Fox and CBS that are still very strong with
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football. I wonder if also the perspective
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on ESPN is from the fact that college football has also gained
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a lot of traction on their network.
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Maybe they want to combine that kind of things.
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Pat McAfee, as much as I like to bash him too for some of his
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craziness, I think he actually did very well when he did the
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College Football Playoff coverage and bringing a lot of
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the fire. Pat.
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McAfee is involved with everything.
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I know he's involved with the WWE, he's involved with the NFL,
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he's involved with college football.
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The man's involved with everything and ESPN loves it.
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This deal was really mainly the fact that they made that move to
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bring in Pat McAfee. Now Pat Mcafee's right smack in
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the middle, one of the biggest shows when it comes to football.
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And right now for ESPN, they brought Pat McAfee in because of
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his fans and and the consumer. They wanted to draw more fans to
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their product. And now that you have the NFL
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and the WWE, that has a tremendous amount of fun
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followers that takes their company to the next level.
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I think that's what's selling to the ESPN and the ESPN family on
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why they made this move. The question is going back to
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what everybody has been saying and what I've been reading is
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does this help the consumer? Does this actually put the
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consumer in the driver's seat if they want to buy the product
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now? And I, I'm reading Merck.
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Merck's so saucy right over here on, you know, he's posting up.
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Well, if you, if you got cable or Sling or YouTube TV, you get
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everything for free. I don't know if that's possible
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anymore. Do the NFL now?
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Does ESPN have the rights to the NFL where you can?
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Take it off of those. Yeah, To take it off of those
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things. Where you can't watch it on that
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anymore. And there's already been
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problems with UTTV. My brother has it and they can
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says like each the last three years, they've increased the
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prices and a lot of glitches in a lot of the billing systems
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too. So it's going to make it very
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complicated as it is. Not to mention ESPN has an
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expansive bit in their own because like you said, they're
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owned by ABC. There's Disney, there's Hulu,
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ABC, like they're all these companies coming together and
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they're trying to make their content available there, which
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go back to what I was saying about like that they want to
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make it their own type of individual content.
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The that's why I'm saying like the NBA in college, like there's
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all these individual shows within it.
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Obviously the NFL has the Manning cast, but besides that
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they don't have those types of NFL type products.
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They have their NFL shows that air on ESPN.
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That's another thing the ESPN family has the Manning, Manning
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coverage and that's good for the Manning coverage because now
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what are they going to do with the Manning coverage?
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Well, they're going to put them center stage on the app Disney
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app now with the games are going to be featured all on the
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Disney. So, well, you got to remember
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those two, the Mannings too, like they have not only like
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their own production company, but they, they produce like 3 or
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4 shows on ESPN plus for their little segments that they do.
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And it's crazy like, and I have YouTube TV as well.
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One of the reasons I got it originally was because of MLB
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Network. And then MLB Network was like
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doing exactly what is like why people are going to buy MLB
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package? Like let's create the app and do
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that. But Speedy, you brought up
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something I want to ask you guys about like when you were talking
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about, I know the Big 10 does this.
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I don't know other conferences. But you, you brought up
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something that's interesting. Do you think it could ever get
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to a point where, OK, Errol, you're a Jets fan, right?
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Where you can buy a package that is just Jets games because like
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a Big 10, you can pick, you can have the whole Big 10 conference
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or you can just pick Nebraska for what?
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For their sports, like do you think it could ever get to that
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where it's just you pick your team?
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Here, here's the thing. If you live in New York, you're
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going to get The Jets games on CBS.
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They own the rights to the Jet games.
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All the AFC East games are. If you live in Miami, you're
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going to get all the Dolphin games.
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Now I don't know what this contract is and how this
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contract is going to work, but maybe with the way the NFL is
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working it, do they have a contract now that after CBS is
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done with the AFC East, maybe the contract will start to
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entwine into the ESPN app where you can't watch the jet games
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unless you buy the app. I don't know what this contract
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really lies until we read it. All we know right now is that
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ESPN and the NFL Network are working together and so is the
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WWE. Now, the specs of the contract
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obviously will come out probably in more depth as the season
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progressively moves forward. I just what bothers me here, and
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I understand what you're saying, Jabba.
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Maybe it does. Maybe there is a way where you
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get all The Jets coverage on the app and you can find The Jets
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coverage on the app that way. Or the Giants coverage or the
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Miami Dolphins coverage or the Arizona Cardinals coverage if
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you're an Arizona Cardinals fan. So I, I, I, I'm sure there'll be
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something on that app there. They're going to definitively
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put together where it helps the fan out, where they can find
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their teams and what they're they're talking when it comes to
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the coverage of their teams. What bothers me here, and I will
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say this, and I know Fish is going to come in and he's going
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to have his own thoughts to this.
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What bothers me here is the the to me, I'm a consumer.
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I'm a guy that buys different stuff for the NFLI.
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I'm a radio show host, so I have to watch my NFL games.
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So do I dig deep into my pockets And if if these prices go up on
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Disney Plus and know that all I got to do now, and here's a
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here's another thing I never even thought of talk about these
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bars, these sports bars, they spend so much money.
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They pay now you're paying for each television now.
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How does that work? Do you have to buy the app for
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each television and if you if so, how is that going to be
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affordable? How does that work in the
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business? Technically in some states it's
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illegal to stream. Like you have to have cable.
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Like they're getting away from it now.
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And obviously being in the business for as long as I have,
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it was literally like that's a huge fine if you were streaming,
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but now there's so many things that stream that as a sports bar
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and and now it's like if you want to get it, it's like, OK,
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now they're now they're some of them are some of them aren't
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having like the commercial side of it, right, and the
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residential side. But I mean, there's still people
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that are, I mean, for lack of a better term, this is this goes
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back old school. When you you know, you're
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stealing music, you were pirating it.
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Like there's some people that still use their sign in from
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home Napster, but you only get you only get Napster for sure.
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Every every virus that you could get was on your parents computer
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for sure. But then they're using their
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home one. But then you can only get it on
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three or four screens, maybe 5 at the most, right.
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So it's still happening. But that's a great point.
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Like what do we do as business owners where it's like, OK, make
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a call and be like, Hey, we have to get this to cover the games,
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to bring people to put butts in seats.
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Because when we get cable or like when you get a pay-per-view
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fight, some states are per TV, some states are capacity.
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It's just everything is kind of different.
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So now you're kind of up shit's Creek with no paddle because you
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don't know which way to go. I think that's and it just, it
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stinks. That's definitely Jabba.
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Let me ask you answer your question about the the
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conference. The Jets thing too, like you
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said before college football, I think it's a little different.
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You were talking about the Big 10.
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Like I think the conference has a lot of power into that.
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You talk about how big the SEC Network has grown, how big, like
24:49
you said, the Big 10 now with their recent deal last year grew
24:52
with CBS and also still being partnered with Fox too.
24:54
Like I think I don't know if you have that kind of thing in the
24:57
NFL the same way like each division doesn't have their own
24:59
network. Like it just based on local TV
25:01
things like we get Jets and Giants coverage here.
25:04
Like CBS 2 has their own Jets content on CBS on that kind of
25:08
thing. The Giants have that kind of
25:09
thing on MSGI. Think there's still a little bit
25:11
of a factor that where I don't know if you have as much of A
25:13
market to do that kind of thing as much the same way you would
25:16
in college football with all the conferences.
25:18
Yeah, and that's true because Texas stayed in the Big 12
25:21
because they had the Longhorn Network, and that's why
25:23
everybody left, because they didn't want to compete.
25:24
Correct. And the Big 12 is hurt by that
25:26
too, because I was talking, mentioning to Jake in the in the
25:29
private chat realignment, they've lost a lot of teams
25:31
between the 2012 realignment, losing A&M in Missouri and then
25:35
the recent one too, losing Oklahoma and Texas and then
25:37
gaining some other teams. They just don't have enough
25:39
consistency of who's in the conference to really do that
25:41
kind of thing. Yeah, that all that stuff's
25:44
going to be over. Like to me it's a very simple
25:48
thing. What's better technology, wired
25:51
headphones or wireless headphones?
25:55
Wireless. Let me ask you another question.
25:58
Would you rather have cable that you have to install and put into
26:02
the earth and have all this difficult procedure the next
26:05
time you have to update the cable wires?
26:07
Or would you just do it digitally and streaming because
26:10
it's so much easier and and tech not the better technology
26:13
throughout the history of mankind always wins out.
26:16
Whether we're talking about the whoever won the war had the
26:18
better technology. We're talking about whoever had
26:21
the best analytics or whatever is going to be at the top or
26:24
close to the top every time. You need to understand that it's
26:28
going to be streaming no matter what.
26:30
Streaming is going to win. If they haven't already put a
26:34
stranglehold on cable, it's all but over.
26:36
Just look at James Dolan. James Dolan is attacking Adam
26:39
Silver because James Dolan knows Adam Silver is coming for his
26:43
MSG money because not MSG the place, MSG the network because
26:47
just like the Longhorn Network you guys are talking about, it's
26:50
a the big cash cow in the tri-state area.
26:53
And MSG also has affiliates up in in Buffalo and they and like
26:56
their games are on MSG up there too.
26:59
And they're huge business. It's going to be gone because of
27:03
streaming. And those guys that own those
27:06
networks are fighting back. They used to be the big fish on
27:09
campus, and now they're being dwarfed by all these other guys
27:13
who are like, oh, yeah, we couldn't stand the MSG Network.
27:15
We couldn't do what they did. Let's join up with US, ESPN.
27:19
And you're seeing all these places merged together and
27:21
you're seeing the streamings merged together from the with
27:24
the former WWE Network to Peacock, now to Netflix and over
27:29
now to this new ESPN app. It's just going to be bundles of
27:34
things and you can pick what you want and what you don't want to
27:37
pay for. The problem becomes, is it going
27:41
to just be another version of cable?
27:42
It probably will be, but you're going to have to decide.
27:46
Cable or streaming, and a lot of people don't like to do that
27:50
yet. So we're still kind of at that
27:51
crossroads. Also also, the older people,
27:54
they don't know how to use computers, They don't know how
27:57
to use their phones. I how many people that I've
28:00
spoken about our show, How do I find you guys?
28:02
What channel are you guys on? I'm like, we're not on a.
28:04
Channel, it's, you know how it is in this business, though.
28:07
In 10 years they're going to be in the demographic that nobody
28:09
cares about. We're dead.
28:13
Let's just. Face well, everything is run
28:14
through streaming anyways when you're in a car now if if you
28:17
have a Tesla or whatever you have now it, you don't even use
28:20
the radio. And I think FM dials are going
28:23
to, I mean AM dials eventually are going to be obsolete.
28:26
It's just going to be FM. And FM is so expensive.
28:29
Go ask ESPN. They couldn't stay on the FM
28:31
dial. They had to move back to AM.
28:33
So it's not cheap. And again, with streaming and
28:37
what you can do with streaming and and broadcasting as we are
28:40
right now, you can listen to us anywhere in the world.
28:43
You could be in the London, England, or you could be in New
28:47
Zealand right now. It's 1:00 AM in the morning and
28:50
you're going to sit here if you want to hear Jabba the Mouth,
28:52
you can hear us live by streaming us.
28:55
So there are other ways now where it's beneficial for these
28:59
organizations to band together, but is it beneficial for the
29:03
consumer? That is the problem.
29:06
That's where I'm looking at it and I'm not taking shots at
29:08
ESPN. Again, if we have ESPN people
29:11
listening to us, and I'm sure we do, I'm not taking shots at what
29:15
ESPN is doing. I think it's a great move for
29:17
them. It's a it's a power move for
29:19
ESPN. The only problem here is, are
29:23
they looking out for the money that's going into their pockets?
29:27
Are they looking out for the consumer?
29:29
That is where my argument and I'm a consumer.
29:33
So I'm out there and I'm going to go spend the money as I do
29:36
all the time. I just bought $1000 mic for our
29:39
show, which will be in for next week.
29:41
I'm always looking to upgrade everything.
29:44
That's what a buyer is going to do.
29:48
You want to upgrade? I'm a DJI, wanted to upgrade my
29:51
speakers. So I went from a beautiful EV10,
29:55
you know, 12 inch speaker to a 15 inch Mackie brand new
29:59
speaker. Why did I do that?
30:01
Sound preference B, you know, pop everything.
30:05
There's, there's always something that sticks out from
30:09
the the other thing that you can buy into.
30:11
So to me, I, I'm, I'm going back to this and I and I want to make
30:16
it clear here, I'm not taking shots at any organization trying
30:20
to make their product better. What I'm doing now is looking
30:25
out for my consumer friends that are out there that are sports
30:29
fans trying to, you know, watch their football games, watch
30:34
their basketball games, watch their baseball games and they
30:37
can't because they can't afford it.
30:39
That is the problem here. And I hope, I hope ESPN and, and
30:44
the NFL understands what I'm trying to say here.
30:46
If you're, if you're going to put this and you're going to put
30:48
this in your, you know, in your dial or on your dial for dial it
30:53
up. If you want to dial it up, well,
30:56
ladies and gentlemen, here's what you dial.
30:58
Make sure that when you decide how this is going to work, make
31:02
sure you're doing it to help your product grow and make sure
31:06
that the consumer can buy it. If the consumer can buy it, it's
31:09
only going to make you more richer and it's going to drive
31:12
people to want to buy your app. That's what I'm going to say
31:16
about that. That's where I'm throwing off
31:18
with it. You know, with obviously we all
31:20
know I was at a summit recently, about a year and a half ago, and
31:23
the one thing I learned in the summit is guess what?
31:26
Corporation after corporation are dying.
31:29
Why are they dying? Because they can't afford to
31:31
keep, you know, keep defending or competing against a bigger
31:37
corporation. So what are they doing?
31:39
They're banding together. So what ESPN is doing right now
31:42
is they're banding with a media conglomerate, a big media
31:45
conglomerate like the NFL, and they want to be a powerhouse
31:49
with the WWEI think it's a smart move.
31:51
But here's the thing I don't understand.
31:54
Isn't the the MMAUFC and the WWE owned by the same organization?
32:02
Isn't that true? Say it one more time, WWEUF.
32:06
C The UFC and the WWE are owned by the same organization.
32:11
Right. TKO So here's my question if if
32:15
ESPN bought into WWE, why don't they buy back into the UFC?
32:20
That's my question because, well, that's how it is now.
32:23
Like you have the parents company, other companies, the
32:26
same company. It's not, it is and it isn't
32:28
right. Like they're bought.
32:30
These parent companies own the you know, these are this is the
32:33
swamp you hear about all the time, these people that are from
32:36
behind the scenes and these companies that are these
32:38
alphabet soup names that you've never heard of that actually own
32:41
all the places you've you listen to like they're all owned by
32:45
things like Disney's owned by somebody, you know, like all
32:47
these places are in these huge groups of these powerful multi
32:52
multi billionaire type people. And to me, like it's they're not
32:57
going to look out for the. Consumer, but it doesn't make
32:58
any sense. They're not.
33:00
It doesn't make any sense. Because it's about making money.
33:02
It's just about making money. And they see that this is the
33:05
way to monetize the new technology and they're just
33:08
trying to get a jump on it. WWE has always pioneered new
33:11
technology. And I've with with the app, they
33:13
were the first people with like a streaming app like that with
33:17
their catalog on it. They did that in like 2018-2019.
33:20
They abandoned it and went to Peacock because it was just the
33:22
smarter move to do, because that's the way.
33:24
They couldn't afford it. They couldn't afford it.
33:26
Well, it's not even that. It's just, it's just live apps.
33:28
Apps are very expensive to keep up with well.
33:31
But seven years ago, nobody had done it before and they did it
33:34
and then they moved to Peacock and that was a big deal when
33:36
they did it. And now they're doing, they did
33:38
next. Netflix.
33:39
That was a big deal. Live TV on Netflix.
33:41
It's one of their top, it's Netflix's top show every week it
33:45
is. And guess what?
33:47
Now they're doing the same thing with ESPN.
33:49
ESPN is not stupid. WWE is really smart.
33:52
They're run by smart people. I don't think this is a mistake.
33:55
If it was just as advantageous to buy UFC, they would have done
33:58
it. Well, it didn't.
33:59
Work, I think they think. So it didn't work I.
34:01
Don't think they think so the. UFC, The UFC on ESPN did not
34:05
work. It did not work.
34:07
Saturday night fights, what they were trying to promote did not
34:10
work. And they tried to put big fights
34:13
on for free on Saturday nights. It just didn't work.
34:16
It didn't draw. So now they're going to the WWE.
34:19
And I understand sports entertainment is very, very big.
34:22
And at what Triple H is really provided to the fan and the
34:25
consumer is he wants to story. He wants the storytelling to be
34:29
a little bit different and more interesting for the fan to to
34:32
drive to. That's fine.
34:33
That's great. And I, I respect Triple H for
34:35
what he's doing. But here's the problem when you
34:38
when you look at these media conglomerates, like obviously
34:42
guys like Jake, Jake Paul and and the Paul family, look what
34:47
the Paul family has done over the last couple of years that
34:50
have made them almost billions of dollars.
34:53
And they used their product. They used it by streaming on
34:58
YouTube, dominating on YouTube to take their product product
35:02
and turn it into a boxing sensation for pay-per-view
35:06
fights and marketing and becoming promoters, which then
35:09
translated into ways where they can promote through soft drinks
35:13
and all the different advertisements or companies that
35:17
they own to turn it into millions and millions of
35:20
dollars. They're they're meeting.
35:22
This is what marketing is now. This is the way marketing has
35:26
transition. I think ESPN is doing that with
35:28
NF at the NFL and and that why they decided to bring the WWE
35:32
in. But is it going to work?
35:34
It didn't work with the UFC. Is this going to work?
35:37
They're bigger companies. They are ESPN is big with the
35:42
NFL connected to them and now the WWE.
35:46
But is it going to work when you have fans like this kid over
35:49
here or fans like you that are WWE fans that are going to have
35:52
to now buy, buy certain things to get their regular, you know,
35:57
the regular fights or, or go up. You have to buy Peacock to get
36:01
Smackdown or Netflix to get Raw, whatever the hell it is.
36:05
You're going to have to spend money in all different
36:07
directions where you just want to spend money in one like
36:11
cable, which has been really dominant over the last, I don't
36:14
know, 100 years. So it's, it's an interesting
36:17
story. It's definitely something that
36:20
I'm interested to see how it's going to work when the NFL
36:23
season starts. And if you're an NFL buyer, when
36:27
it comes to going out there and wanting to see all the games
36:30
every single week, you're, are you good?
36:33
Is it going to work for you? 2 TV.
36:34
Do they have an exclusive contract with the NFL where you
36:38
can actually still buy it on Sling or YouTube TV or get it
36:41
for free? I don't know.
36:43
So that that is something that we're going to have to see on
36:47
how this is going to work now that these contracts are pretty
36:50
much signed and deliver, I guess almost it's not yet, but it it's
36:53
going to hopefully be agreed. Well, not hopefully, but
36:56
whatever. Hope you know, in in some some
36:59
way being agreed in the next couple of weeks.
37:01
So it's interesting. We're waiting to see if the NFL
37:05
owners approve to this. I'm sure they will if they're
37:07
going to make a ton of money on top of it.
37:09
It's all about money to these owners as well as the players.
37:12
And does this help the players with their new, new contracts?
37:16
So that's something that I'd like to see too.
37:18
How it how does it work for the players union and how much money
37:21
do they make extra? And maybe the cap goes up for
37:24
these teams in the future being that ESPN and the NFL are now
37:28
working together. So interesting, interesting
37:30
story. And now, ladies and gentlemen,
37:33
my deuce of the day. The deuce of the day you log.
37:37
Not a log. I don't have a log but.
37:47
All right, my deuce of the day goes to no other than the one
37:51
and only Dallas Cowboys. Jerry Jones didn't respond to
37:56
Micah Parsons trade request, but guess who did?
37:59
Dak Prescott did as the Cowboy quarterback to the Cowboy
38:05
leading rusher. When Micah Parsons announced his
38:09
request for the Dallas Cowboys to trade him, he didn't hear
38:12
from the team owner or general manager Jerry Jones.
38:15
But Parsons did hear from his quarterback on Friday.
38:19
Dak Prescott message was F man, he knows what this that means,
38:26
Prescott told Yahoo Sports on Tuesday.
38:29
It wasn't F you Micah or F them. It's more of F this frustrating.
38:37
This is frustrating for everybody involved.
38:40
I wanted to say the F word, but I'm not.
38:42
Prescott and Parsons exchanged messages about the reality of
38:47
the edge rushers contract negotiations and the
38:49
quarterbacks support for Parson as both person and player.
38:56
Prescott twice went through lengthy contract negotiations
39:00
with Jones and the Cowboys. Not many people, especially
39:03
here, have been in this position.
39:06
Prescott figures. So I know what this means.
39:10
Just support the player. So Jack Prescott coming out and
39:14
sticking up for his player expects Michael Parsons to get
39:18
as much as he possibly can. As every player I know if if
39:22
Jabba was playing in the NFL right now or he was still in the
39:25
MLB and there was a player on his team expecting big bucks and
39:29
is not playing until he gets it, I think Jabba would support him.
39:33
So my juice of the day goes to obviously Dak Prescott sticking
39:36
up for his player. Everybody saying that Dak
39:39
Prescott's not a team leader. He's not a good player.
39:41
He doesn't stand for anything. Well, ladies and gentlemen, he
39:44
doesn't stand for the toilet bowl or the dump that you crap
39:47
into it. He stands for the the star in
39:50
the emblem of the Dallas Cowboys.
39:52
So that says to me that he is not only just a team player, he
39:57
is a team owner of what this team is going to be when it
40:01
comes to money and the players that should be getting it.
40:04
So he owns up to what he did, what he went through with the
40:08
Dallas Cowboys and Jerry Jones over the last couple of years
40:11
and in the contract disputes. And by the way, Dak Prescott is.
40:15
The what? Second or third highest paid
40:17
quarterback right now in the NFL and one of the main reasons why
40:20
he earned the right to get it, just like any quarterback when
40:23
the contracts are off. So my juice of the day goes to
40:26
Dak Prescott speaking for Michael Parsons as Michael
40:29
Parsons requested a trade to Jerry, Jerry Jones and the
40:33
Dallas Cowboys. So that's my deuce of the day.
40:36
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Thank you to everybody. Speedy, do we have anything
41:19
lined up for next? Week not from my end.
41:22
I'm not sure if Nathan. I am a legend.
41:23
At the moment, but. Nothing busy all day today.
41:25
He's busy all day today as he's at Trenton, and Nathan's
41:29
probably in the backroom thinking of Lisa Ann.
41:32
Or maybe. I need Brittany.
41:34
Or Archie Brittany's wife, or maybe somebody else's wife,
41:38
because Nathan is a little perfect anyways, you.
41:45
Got to make that, don't worry. Tommy.
41:49
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