No surprise. Ex football players get top employment priority in many fields, at least where I come from. No matter if they are as dumb as a box of hammers.
No surprise there. I used to work at a public TV network for a number of years. There was the “elite” people who worked all the high paying ball games and events and you had to be invited into that circle. It didn’t matter what you knew or didn’t know, just a popularity contest.
A few of the elites in charge inflicted ETV sports on the rest of us. Their buddies from outside would get hired to do the directing and whatnot for good money. The rest of us worked for whatever we made and how long it went. Even the ones who did well at it never were invited in to the circle.
I did everything I could not to get in it. I had a master schedule account and could see when they were coming. I would schedule vacations doctor appointments and anything else I could.
I heard it finally died after I left. It cost a fortune and achieved nothing.