Posted on 05/08/2019 2:28:03 PM PDT by Red Badger
The NFL Network is being forced to cut $20 million out of its projected budget and, in the process, already has eliminated at least five shows, including one that featured Deion Sanders, The Post has learned.
The less-than-hoped-for budget has made negotiations with on-air personnel tense, and there is a feeling some will either not be retained or be forced to take pay cuts, according to sources.
The moves have been made as part of the NFL’s overall budget, which includes what is expected to be an amped-up celebration of the NFL’s 100th season this year. NFL Network has apparently absorbed part of the project into its budget.
NFL Network is definitively cutting five programs. Sanders’ “21 & Prime,” “Power Rankings,” “Pick ‘em,” “Playbook” and “Mic’d Up” are off the air. The future of the weekend edition of “Good Morning Football” is in question.
In response, the NFL Network said it was actually upping its investment, but it was shifting where the spending is taking place with the NFL 100 celebration.
“As part of an increased investment in programming and content for 2019, NFL Network will unveil several shows geared towards a celebration of the NFL’s 100th season,” an NFL network spokesman, Alex Riethmiller, said in a statement to The Post. “These shows will replace a handful of existing shows from our 2018 schedule.”
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NFL = National Football LeagueNFL = National Felon League
NFL = Not Fun League
NFL = Not For Long
NFL = No Fans Left
“Even before Klapperdick, we had Bob Costas lecturing us on gun control and the outdated 2nd Amendment.
That’s when I left.”
It would be dishonest for me to say I ever cared about watching criminals hit each other, but yep Costas switched me from not caring to actively hating them.
To be replaced by "Snowflake Draft Pick", "Pittsburgh Kneelers", "Ban that Racist Mascot", and "Everybody's a Whiner".
NFL is dead to me, too.
I’m proud to say I don’t know any names of players that weren’t around 5 years ago and I can only name 2 Quarterbacks with their teams: Phillip Rivers, LA Chargers and Tom Brady, NE Patriots.
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(Of course, people who eat too many collard greens are sometimes referred to as collard people.)
I didn’t see that they had cut the budget for “The Kneelers”
The NFL can grovel on their knees ….. right into the UE office.
Great pic, says all you need to know about the cancer that is the NFL.
Start bleaching those rosters and the fans will return. I’m not going to mince words — black football players are overhyped and treated like royalty instead of the thugs and barbarians they really are.
Back in my youth, we had black players like Paul Warfield who were gentleman and left their politics — if any — off the field.
Discrimination against qualified white players has been going on since at least the 1980s.
2019 isn’t looking so great but at least Christian McCaffrey is our Great White Hope at running back. Now if the Panthers could bench Scam Newton, they might have a shot.
Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant. Bravo!
Yep. Piss off your customers and they go away.
Damn, they are so smart.
Collard people??!?
Figgers.
Drew Brees N.O. Saints
I am just assuming that Drew Brees of the N.O. Saints is still there. 8>)
1. If you say you hate football...
2. ... but you go on a football thread anyway ...
3. ... and berate the people who like football ...
4. ... you are virtue signalling.
5. But of course, you wouldn’t do that.
And you certainly wouldn’t refer to
fellow FReepers as sub-human filth.
How did you get so full of hatred?
Just because some jackasses wants to kneel and disrespect flag and police
oh stop the world I wanna get off.....how can we possibly even live without these shows, none that I knew existed.....
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