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It was not a good week for many folks that worked at ESPN in many instances for many many years. I am not

surprised I told you that this day was coming a little more than a year ago after ESPN gave the absurd contracts to Joe Buck and Troy Aichman.

Joe Buck five years, 75 million, Aikman five years 90 million.

Now that's not the only reason there are contracts that others lost their jobs this past week.

Subscriptions are down, rights fees continue to go up.

They are players in the NFL, the NBA, the NHL,

you know, Major League Baseball, all right that that's part of it as well the cost of doing business but when you have

Idiotic moronic decisions such as giving announcers in the neighborhood of 1 million dollars to announce a football game,

you get what you get.

I called it back then and here we are talking about it in the summer of

2023. And you know what's crazy? How many of you turn on a football game particularly a national game and by

national game I'm talking about you know the lead game on Fox or the lead game on CBS or Monday Night Football or Sunday

Night Football, right?

How many of you turn the game on and watch the game because of the announcers. I don't ever recall

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