Not sure the league is that upset. They’re always trying to gin up stories for the long gap before the SB, and most of the stories are in the “yeah whatever” category some of which are pretty hilarious (Andrew Sharp’s article on Grantland is excellent). Yeah there’s the crowd of people that haven’t gotten over spygate insisting this is massive, but they hated the Pats anyway, and now they’re probably extra motivated to tune in and hope the Seahawks kill them. In the end it seems to be proving that all publicity is good publicity.
Oh yeah, I think they are fine with pretty much any story as long as ‘NFL’ is included somewhere in it. Perhaps in depth stories or media focus on PEDs or brain injury might be exceptions. But maybe not.
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