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WFAN Daily

Mike Francesa with Scott Wapner

WFAN Daily

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Sports

3.8795 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2017

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Mike talks with Scott Wapner of CNBC to talk about the NFL owners.

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0:00.0

All right, we're back. Now, there's some NFL reporting going on. Scott Wapner, who does the

0:06.1

halftime report on CNBC, one of my favorite shows, just broke a report now in their business

0:12.7

dealings, dealing with the world of finance and dealing with everybody in the world of Wall Street.

0:18.2

They deal with a lot of owners. So he has a report now. You know,

0:21.6

the Sunday shows went very strong through their reporters. Now, one of the things that those guys

0:28.6

do, who you see give reports on any of the networks during the pregame shows, they all have

0:35.6

owners as contacts. That's part of the thing. It was started

0:39.0

by Will McDonner and the Greek. They were the first ones to do that. They set up those kind of

0:44.2

things. I mean, Will was the guy who no one could do what Will did. Will had every owner. Will,

0:48.5

will was as powerful as anybody who ever was around the NFL, more powerful than any media

0:53.4

person by a mile as far as the NFL was concerned.

0:55.9

But he had pipeline to everybody.

0:58.0

Greek had a pipeline to a lot, especially certain owners led of course by Al Davis,

1:03.4

who gave him a good amount of his information.

1:06.6

But owners give out a lot of information.

1:09.5

They want to control information.

1:10.5

On Sunday, they sent the message, clearly sent the message out that Jerry Jones had been headed off at the past, that he had been completely slapped down.

1:21.1

That's the message they wanted sent out.

1:23.9

And so that's the report.

1:26.4

I want to get to the report now with Scott because I didn't hear it

1:28.3

because I was watching the show but I left the room for a second to talk to someone and I saw Scott

1:32.8

and let me welcome Scott Wapner from the halftime report on CNBC to the show welcome Scott how

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