How’s the saying? Can’t you pay me to watch (empty)? Well, it turns out the LIV Golf/Saudi Arabia traveling circus project might just have to pay to get people watching. With no major sports networks bidding to broadcast their rancid product, the upstart golf federation is reportedly inking a deal with Fox Sports to pay them to broadcast pop-up tournaments their poor quality.
Having more money than god is beneficial for many reasons (I don’t know, that’s just a general assumption), and the huge coffers of the Saudi Golf tournament are proving useful once again, when they are lured to get the product on a channel and not on YouTube.
Based on Golfweek, LIV mouthpiece and ’80s movie villain Greg Norman says he’s getting intense interest from media companies eager to broadcast Shock N’ Jock golf tournaments , and Maury Povich didn’t need to determine it was a lie. Not only did Fox Sports executives turn their noses to it like the mouth-watering oysters in the room at a lunch buffet, but the story said the deal was made at the behest of Lachlan Murdoch, the executive chairman and chief executive officer. executive of Fox Corp., son of fox media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and inspiration for HeirKendall Roy.
The Golfweek Piece too funny, so I’ll just be a good aggregator and organize the best tidbits in an easy to understand way:
- A Golfweek source said: “There are people at Fox who don’t want anything to do with this. “They were forced to do it.”
- Sports Business Magazine reported that Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and errand boy, had phoned broadcasters to solicit interest in a LIV TV deal. Magazine also reported that Kushner repeatedly referred to himself as “The Kush” in meetings and used the word “primo” no less than a dozen times when talking about talent lists. (I made up that last sentence, but told me it wasn’t 100 percent believable.)
- Saudi Golf is also responsible for the production side and finding commercial sponsors, both of which are usually handled by the broadcast partner. I can’t wait to be confused by David Feherty while a B-lister who doesn’t care about being canceled flips through the puzzling leaderboard.
- “Any advertiser who touches this will be blown away,” said one sports TV executive Golfweek. “It’s a weak product, but above all it’s a tainted product.”
- The Saudi shills requested a royalty fee after the first year, as well as a guarantee of a guaranteed period of time on network television, but both proposals were rejected, according to the article. .
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So let me get this straight: Despite every sane sports network passing on them, despite sponsors treating them like a more toxic version of Brett Favre, and despite the network their product is airing on providing zero assistance, we’re going to get the LIV league shoved down our throats like a pill-reluctant dog?
Yup, this is going to catch on the Suck Cut or Google+. The deal has yet to be finalized, and judging by everything I’ve read, it’s probably because Lachlan’s goons are having a hard time dragging Fox Sports execs to the bargaining table.
Phil Mickelson and his cronies back out of lawsuit against the PGA, still fail to save face
Phil Mickelson, Taylor Gooch, Ian Poulter, and Hudson Swafford all asked to no longer be plaintiffs in LIV Golf’s federal antitrust lawsuit accusing the PGA of illegally suspending the players and using its power to quell the upstart, per ESPN.
It’s hard to argue that your career has been damaged when their bank accounts, and the players themselves, say they’re better off after defecting. Not only will golfers earn their money’s worth of pickup beds from exorbitant signing fees, but they also won’t stay silent about how LIV is the future of golf.
There are only three players and LIV Golf remains the plaintiff in the case, with Bryson DeChambeau being the biggest name among them. And praise goes to him for living up to his reputation as a clueless beef bun baker. I bet he outraged the LIV Golfers thread about people deciding to jump train – possibly in a separate group text, LIV Golfers minus Bryce – without care.
No one is going to buy a line of crap that Mickelson and Co. spewed out after excluding himself from the dispute. They’ve probably shown up at a few such hastily assembled events, attended infrequently, found the format to be more varied than a five-year-old dressed up, and thought, “I gave myself What am I in?” before calling/rejecting their agent.
Hopefully they’ll update the intricacies of acey deucey, wolf, bingo-bango-bongo, and the rest of the weekend’s golf room games because that’s where this is headed.
