the National Football League is denying that
it pressured ESPN to stop working with frontline on a documentary that will
seemingly portray
the NFL as having been negligent in addressing the damage caused by
hey injuries sustained by its players %uh
so this is that this kinda big deal because frontline is a PBS show
and they've been working on this for months and months and months
and they're even quote saying you know %uh that if it was covering this up in
there are way more
a this goes on when we're in is more prevalent than we even realize
and NFL well I would like to shut that down
so now they say of course that's not the case right
all we did pressure them at all in fact though you too says a cause here that I
love and now back when he s been was doing a documentary frontline and they
were psyched about it
even went to the Television Critics Association here in LA about a month ago
or
stand is what they said news been story O'Shea SPS your vice president so we
made a conscious decision we are presented with us up to do
little league in bed with frontline I don't think he's using literally wrong
yeah I've been
I we've had other nonprofits universities are masses to partner with
them
we've never done a partnership and from the problem I same point
i think is only the second time domestically they've got a partnership
with the broadcast partner so we respect frontline greatly they respect us
and the NFL is gonna have to understand that
except for the fact that they did not understand I i
and they had that time to NFL executives get together with the top two years
spanning sync lives in New York
and then magically after the dinner they decided that ESPN
would not be cooperating with frontline and they would be pulling back
now at this couple BSP reporters already on there they're gonna be on there
they were blindsided by it a little bit cetera but I love this Greg
I L O spokesperson for the NFL says at no time did we
formally or informally awsome to divorce themselves for the project
we know the movie was happening and the book was happening
the respond to them as best as we can
we deny that we pressured them do jimmy gets under say something that wasn't
dinner justice AK ideal guy hasn't talked to you in awhile
why it doesn't show you what's it about I go forward
I think the guys in the NFL think that we all have had injuries
if we're going to buy that also I so this this is a big problem guys that the
me to get pressured to to in looking as fit as a billion-dollar contract with
NFL
right they pay the NFL billion dollars but ironically NFL holds the cards
because they're like oh we're going to somebody else on ESPN makes a ton of
money from them
et cetera and I don't know how much the NFL has
hidden these head trauma issues are literally I don't know then I'm looking
forward
to see the documentary in what other information there is out there but it
makes them look guilty
when they go to ESPN and say hey you had a real this thing back n
So You Think I think so but i think is the hottest leon on
in FL because we understand where their conflict lies right if they have been
shady in regards to full disclosure about the nature these injuries how far
can go
we clearly see their incentive to keep it under wraps but this is kinda on ESPN
right kinda like the last hour time by who has the balls
isn't this kinda by ESPN a step up and say you know hey we're gonna put our you
know journalistic principles and funded this new billion-dollar contract and to
me that the one drop in the back on that
yet so thats interesting and obviously troop are but so here's how he s been
executive C
right they see it as Monday Night Football is on ESPN
any is literally the highest-rated show in cable
I you know I don't have a piece paper from it I i written amazing sad about
how
you know it top 15 how to the top 20 ish
cable shows for though for the whole a year
are Monday Night Football on ESPN fifteen other 20 or so
I is that sounds too high to me but thats roughly what i recollect
right so obviously then they get to charge more purses travel on advertising
because they get like four dollars a subscriber anything in that ballpark
if they lose NFL it is a she always seemed
amount of money that they would be losing impress the jet cetera
we took on the project as you thought it was going to help your brand your
credibility
the time with ebony gotta stick with it this is not good for anybody
well anytime anyone uses the word deny
I just automatically guilty leak we deny it
yeah
inherently what the word sounds like it we deny that it happened
they rate you found guilty and I think they're playing a lil semantics you're
right we denied that we pressured we might have been suggestive
in some other way yeah saying by the National Lawyers yeah
i guess i was thinkin SAT I don't think what is your guide he said I don't have
any information about if they covered up and they weren't fully disclosing their
injuries
what's your got bricked reaction to that you think a
we're covering up cuz so so I think it's a it's almost without a doubt
they've been covering this stuff yeah no i i don't think is without a doubt
essentially but so I'm I'm 2003 on things that you said
so for small do they can you at this point no
that this is a massive issue and that yes
all these years people have been getting brain trauma and it's like to their
early demise
if they claim they don't do that at this point near totally for the crap
thats obvious and that's why I say at this point even I love the sport the DUP
I don't think ima let my son play because I'm so worried about the brain
trauma radio and that's what scares the hell outta that up other people decide
to think like that
right so now number two for all the veterans who are now suing or in
litigation with the NFL
guys the NFL you make billions and this is a giant issue for you
just pay up whatever like but they've never recorded so what they want the you
still gonna have
like gold pouring out every family medical headquarters
they've been like this for years and years tank they couldn't they bend
denying that their former players compensation
I'm a price I think I 60 minutes a few years ago about even Conrad Dobler you
member im
his knees are totally shot they will give them any compensation
and they're saying that he could do of it he could do desk work you can walk he
sees me he came walking he could do that's what are they worth
they're not taking care of them and I don't remember that when Mike Ditka came
out a couple other people getting remade statement saying the data fell to take
and they're not they're not give a shit
two men and you to do that isn't there a little bit of an assumption of the risk
when you talk about with a light bulb came
yeah I had to take all the onus of the NFL because I do think there should be
support
in some ways but come on now nobody what's on their feel for five dollars
okay in that case
yeah I know they will easy-bake oven and have a tea party at him right now
I'm split on that too so here's why look is like the Huffington Post like you
wrote for right now people are asking for money for it but wait for you knew
that you are getting any money for
and back then there was a great job they had the organ anywhere near the money
they
these guys are make it now but hey they're like oh my god I get to play
football for a living I love this I remember they talk to a guy who's like
has back issues can barely walk in the sack man I love hidden those guys
yeah now so I'm with you on that but it's upside to that is
yes n/a for you right on that the assumed the risk is cetera but these
guys delivered for you man they don't you
multi-billion-dollar french's its okay do the same thing even if we believe you
don't have to
I got go back and give them a little bit hands and make them whole
is best as you can now jimmy choo you open the question as to whether the NFL
New decades ago
that was this was causing brain trauma that I don't know
oh they have the research papers and then they carried 'em I don't know
I just literally can't say I okay but I will bet that if any research papers did
come out
they suppressed yesterday well its I mean it's a fair assumption given what
every other passive government sports media you name it has done
historically but but we don't know I was so they can go all week there's a report
out there that will
undermine our complete business model let me publicize it