"Partnering with YouTube at this level for the first time allows us to put these ceremonies directly into the environment where so much of today's journalism and storytelling already lives."
ESPN will also broadcast several events from Canton, Ohio throughout the summer, including the NFL Flag Championships from July 19 to July 21 and the Hall of Fame enshrinement on August 3.
"Joining former award winners – not to mention colleagues and friends including John Madden, Al Michaels, Chris Berman, Dick Ebersol, Howard Katz and Andrea Kremer – makes this honor the greatest of my career.”
"Few -- if any -- individuals outside the NFL family had as large an impact on the popularity and public acceptance of pro football then Roone Arledge,'' NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue said.