NPDS - Private Equity has come for the NFL! NFL says no to first down technology... why don't the use the UFL as a minor league? (Episode 1114)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘private equity’ as in our favorite business topic as in sports as in the NFL as in college sports as in big big big money! The NFL is going to allow private equity in now. Why does private equity want in? (17:20) The NFL voted down using Hawk-Eye technology for first downs this year. Not happening. Isn’t working how they want it to. (28:18) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about the Washington Commanders new stadium rights deal. They wanted to know if it’s better for national brands or regional brands to make national rights deals. (36:45) Review: Fly Me to the Moon. (39:25) Amazon could be pulling its funding from Diamond Sports Group. Uh oh. (44:55) NPPOD - Yankees, Orioles, and the race for the AL Central Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go.
0:03.0	go.
0:04.0	go. Private Equity. That's the nothing personal word of the day. Good morning. It is
0:20.0	Wednesday, August 28th, 2024, and we're starting the show with something that will make your
0:27.1	eyes burn.
0:29.0	You'll roll them to the back of your head and say, I'm not in school anymore.
0:32.1	I don't want to hear about private equity.
0:34.0	What does it even mean? I want to explain it.
0:38.0	We talk about it on sporting class actually.
0:40.9	We recorded that yesterday. that's coming out tomorrow on
0:43.4	Pavletori finds out. John Skipper, myself, and Pavlet Tori.
0:47.6	Talks about the NFL and how leading off the news, the owners got together and made this big decision and they voted 31 to 1.
0:59.3	Wow that's overwhelming and the vote was let's let rich people and poor people and any
1:09.0	people any people who put their money into a fund, let's let those funds invest in our teams.
1:20.0	Who's up for it?
1:22.0	Hey Cincinnati, why aren't you up for it?
1:24.0	Why'd you vote no?
1:25.0	What's the downside of private equity involvement in an ownership group?
1:31.0	I spent last night racking my brains trying to figure out why the
1:38.8	bangles would vote no on something that makes so much sense and dollars.
1:47.0	The mechanics are very simple.
1:49.3	When you own a team, there is the person you know, the person with the microphone, the person who is the
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