Welcome to the Sports Media Podcast.

I'm your host, Richard Dyche.

My producer is Patrick Antonetti.

One guest this week, but if you are into the fusion of sports, power, and money when it comes to the NFL,

there's no better guest than Ken Belson who writes about those

topics and other leagues from the New York Times. But he is here today because he is the author

of a new book, Every Day of Sunday, how Jerry Jones, Robert Kraft, and Roger Goodell turn the

NFL into a cultural and economic juggernaut.

That book has been out since October 14.

So wherever you get your books, whether that's in a brick and mortar store or online,

you will be able to find it.

It's highlighted very much when it comes to sports sections as well as like business and power so again every day a sunday how jerry jones robert craft and roger godell turn the nflb into a cultural and economic

juggernaut and with that i bring in ken belson ken welcome thanks rich all right so i want to start here

it's kind of like a fascinating, very broad reporting question.

How does one go about reporting on NFL ownership?

Primarily, in fact, today is one of those days.

It's one of their quarterly meetings.

When I started covering the league full time in 2013, I looked at the owners.

How do you get to know the owners?

Jerry Jones is one of the very few who's sort of out front and willing to talk regularly.

But most of the owners are pretty conservative when it comes to the media. And some of them

don't want to be in the media at all. And so the way you kind of get into their circles as such as it is, is to start going to those quarterly meetings. Today, there's a second

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