Roger Goodell has to do nothing more than have lunch with ESPN's John Skipper and the network pulls out of their 15-month partnership with PBS' Frontline reporting on and analyzing the statistics on concussions in the league and attempts to make football safer.
See the images above for a quick game of "Find the Difference." Today the ESPN logo no longer appears on the website and will not be mentioned in promotion for the episode of Frontline called, ironically enough, League of Denial. Gee, wonder why the NFL has a problem with THAT?
Here's the trailer for it:
I would bet he threatened to pull the Monday Night game from ESPN's schedule. That's a lot of rating points for Disney/ABC. Also that game is perfect counterprogramming to Dancing With the Stars on ABC. I mean, it's soooo perfect.