Tag: NFL

With simply the sheer amount of dollars put into sports television rights, you can't concede any day. You can't just allow your competition to have a win.

"This is the most the NFL has ever profited in its entire life. This is a time, I think, where you can invest in some things and bring them back to a standard I think the NFL would want and the Pro Bowl is certainly one of them.”

"All of this crap is confusing, but this is particularly confusing. Does that mean that you have to have YouTube TV and sign up for their subscription before you can sign up for Sunday Ticket?"

"YouTube has long been a home for football fans, whether they're streaming live games, keeping up with their home team, or watching the best plays in highlights."

"The league could get bonus payments from Google based on new subscriptions to YouTubeTV."

“Did you ever think we’d be talking about Apple, Amazon and Google jumping into sports with the networks?”

"Apple went chasing waterfalls when it should have stuck to the rivers and the lakes that it's used to."

Fans want to be told the truth, or what they view as the truth. They want to be told something without it being softened or sugarcoated. Opinions don't need to be palatable, they need to be truthful.

Many pointed out the conundrum that Watson couldn't show "signs of progress" if he hadn't done anything wrong, which he has maintained throughout the entire ordeal.

"You -- neither Deshaun, his lawyers, or anybody involved in this -- get to dictate what those reporters get to say, ask, or think."