Forbes on ESPN carrying water for NFL anti Patriots

Dr Pain · Aug 26, 2015

http://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybr...fortable-unnerving-relationship-with-the-nfl/

"Maybe it’s all just a coincidence. Stranger things have happened. Given enough time and enough events, things just happen to align. After all, Walt Disney DIS +1.47%-owned ESPN is the biggest sports outlet, and the NFL is the most popular sport in America. Given enough news and enough stories, could ESPN simply appear to be favoring the NFL with biased stories, peddling misinformation, and making moves to protect the NFL?"

FreeTedWilliams · Aug 26, 2015

http://deadspin.com/more-than-100-espn-employees-signed-up-for-ashley-madis-1726440929

This report is even better.....

An analysis of data released in last week’s Ashley Madison hack reveals all those bottled-up energies finding, or at least attempting to find, an outlet. We’ve already noted here that we’ve found 39 Ashley Madison accounts that were registered with an ESPN email address, but by searching instead for accounts that were using a known (per publicly-available registries) ESPN IP address at the time of signup we found many, many more.

How many? 101, to be specific—with dozens of them highly influential executives, vice-presidents, and producers. ESPN employees responsible for such popular programming as SportsCenter and Sunday NFL Countdown took time out from work to sign up for the cheating-oriented dating service, as did powerful senior finance directors, marketing higher-ups, and assistants to that same ESPN president who vowed to end the Bristol campus’s culture of extramarital adventuring.

TheFlyingWedge · Aug 26, 2015

Dr Pain said:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybr...fortable-unnerving-relationship-with-the-nfl/

"Maybe it’s all just a coincidence. Stranger things have happened. Given enough time and enough events, things just happen to align. After all, Walt Disney DIS +1.47%-owned ESPN is the biggest sports outlet, and the NFL is the most popular sport in America. Given enough news and enough stories, could ESPN simply appear to be favoring the NFL with biased stories, peddling misinformation, and making moves to protect the NFL?"

Even if the CEO of Disney or ESPN was a rabid hater of the Patriots, its not in their best interest to to alienate a huge fanbase like New England from a financial standpoint, so I don’t see how this could be an agenda. At the end of the day, ESPN is just another company out to make money. Having worked at ESPN 10 years ago, my experience was that their senior marketing executives were all extremely sensitive to how the ESPN brand was perceived in all markets. I have to say, they have been doing a miserable job managing their brand lately, with all their 4-6 months of Patriot trolling and shoddy journalism.

shmessy · Aug 26, 2015

FreeTedWilliams said:
http://deadspin.com/more-than-100-espn-employees-signed-up-for-ashley-madis-1726440929

This report is even better.....

An analysis of data released in last week’s Ashley Madison hack reveals all those bottled-up energies finding, or at least attempting to find, an outlet. We’ve already noted here that we’ve found 39 Ashley Madison accounts that were registered with an ESPN email address, but by searching instead for accounts that were using a known (per publicly-available registries) ESPN IP address at the time of signup we found many, many more.

How many? 101, to be specific—with dozens of them highly influential executives, vice-presidents, and producers. ESPN employees responsible for such popular programming as SportsCenter and Sunday NFL Countdown took time out from work to sign up for the cheating-oriented dating service, as did powerful senior finance directors, marketing higher-ups, and assistants to that same ESPN president who vowed to end the Bristol campus’s culture of extramarital adventuring.

These are the people so worried about the 'integrity of the NFL" vis a vis the slightly under-inflated (by the ideal gas law) footballs.

No Hollywood scriptwriter could ever come up with such a screenplay.

PatriotsReign · Aug 26, 2015

FreeTedWilliams said:
http://deadspin.com/more-than-100-espn-employees-signed-up-for-ashley-madis-1726440929

This report is even better.....

An analysis of data released in last week’s Ashley Madison hack reveals all those bottled-up energies finding, or at least attempting to find, an outlet. We’ve already noted here that we’ve found 39 Ashley Madison accounts that were registered with an ESPN email address, but by searching instead for accounts that were using a known (per publicly-available registries) ESPN IP address at the time of signup we found many, many more.

How many? 101, to be specific—with dozens of them highly influential executives, vice-presidents, and producers. ESPN employees responsible for such popular programming as SportsCenter and Sunday NFL Countdown took time out from work to sign up for the cheating-oriented dating service, as did powerful senior finance directors, marketing higher-ups, and assistants to that same ESPN president who vowed to end the Bristol campus’s culture of extramarital adventuring.

I propose we set up Patsfans.com fund to pay the hackers to release all the names of ESPN employees that signed up for Ashley Madison.....no big deal right ESPN employees!!!

Tony2046 · Aug 26, 2015

PatriotsReign said:
I propose we set up Patsfans.com fund to pay the hackers to release all the names of ESPN employees that signed up for Ashley Madison.....no big deal right ESPN employees!!!

I checked Rogers Email address against the database but apparently although he tried to register he was rejected for conduct detrimental to the human species.

Koma · Aug 26, 2015

PatriotsReign said:
I propose we set up Patsfans.com fund to pay the hackers to release all the names of ESPN employees that signed up for Ashley Madison.....no big deal right ESPN employees!!!

These people should make all their texts and emails available to the public. They have nothing to hide, right?

Anything less indicates guilt.

Wax Frog · Aug 26, 2015

TheFlyingWedge said:
Having worked at ESPN 10 years ago,

XLIX · Aug 26, 2015

Tony2046 said:
I checked Rogers Email address against the database but apparently although he tried to register he was rejected for conduct detrimental to the human species.

I bet his wife is on it, though.

PatriotsReign · Aug 26, 2015

Tony2046 said:
I checked Rogers Email address against the database but apparently although he tried to register he was rejected for conduct detrimental to the human species.

I just spoke with the hacker.....he's a Patriots fan and said he'll do it for nothing....TODAY!

Dr Pain · Aug 26, 2015

PatriotsReign said:
I just spoke with the hacker.....he's a Patriots fan and said he'll do it for nothing....TODAY!

Seriously, a list of NFL.com and ESPN.com accounts? Will they be on pastebin? http://pastebin.com/

NYCPatsFan · Aug 26, 2015

That is a stunning piece I never imagined reading on a reputed and well read site like Forbes.

Thanks for providing the link.

Request to those commenting here joking about Ashley leak - maybe create a new thread and post your enjoyable quips in that?

Fencer · Aug 26, 2015

NYCPatsFan said:
That is a stunning piece I never imagined reading on a reputed and well read site like Forbes.

You only sort of did.

Forbes long ago put up its reputation to be rented or borrowed, letting all sorts of people -- including corporate spokespeople -- look like they're writing for "Forbes".

The extreme case (which this is not at all) is actually a pet peeve of mine -- SAP (to pick an example I noticed) pays to put an article on Forbes, then tweets out links "See what Forbes wrote about us!"

SalemPats · Aug 26, 2015

ESPN has lost their credibility by being TMZ

Canuck · Aug 26, 2015

Fencer said:
You only sort of did.

Forbes long ago put up its reputation to be rented or borrowed, letting all sorts of people -- including corporate spokespeople -- look like they're writing for "Forbes".

The extreme case (which this is not at all) is actually a pet peeve of mine -- SAP (to pick an example I noticed) pays to put an article on Forbes, then tweets out links "See what Forbes wrote about us!"

As a side note to SAP, we used their software in our company and I was called the SAP Administrator. Our nickname within the company was the Sapsuckers. We were one of the first to install their product in Canada and most of the on-line help was still in German. Our training on the product was in the Boston area and was able to attend many sporting events in the down time including my first live Patriots games.
I loved Boston but driving in the city was a nightmare and your taxi drivers are certified insane.

Fencer · Aug 26, 2015

Canuck said:
As a side note to SAP, we used their software in our company and I was called the SAP Administrator. Our nickname within the company was the Sapsuckers. We were one of the first to install their product in Canada and most of the on-line help was still in German. Our training on the product was in the Boston area and was able to attend many sporting events in the down time including my first live Patriots games.
I loved Boston but driving in the city was a nightmare and your taxi drivers are certified insane.

When was this?

Canuck · Aug 26, 2015

Fencer said:
When was this?

That was a long time ago. Think it was mid to late 90's. I was always a huge Gretzky fan and at that time he was playing for the Rangers and while we were on course in the Boston area they were playing the Bruins at the Garden. My female co-worker was a huge Bruins fan so we got tickets to go see the game. It was a $50 taxi ride and my co-worker was terrified and in tears by the time we got to the stadium. Coming back we rented a limo and used a limo service for all subsequent trips.

Fencer · Aug 26, 2015

Canuck said:
That was a long time ago. Think it was mid to late 90's. I was always a huge Gretzky fan and at that time he was playing for the Rangers and while we were on course in the Boston area they were playing the Bruins at the Garden. My female co-worker was a huge Bruins fan so we got tickets to go see the game. It was a $50 taxi ride and my co-worker was terrified and in tears by the time we got to the stadium. Coming back we rented a limo and used a limo service for all subsequent trips.

Wow. I thought SAP would have cleaned up its support act by then.

In the 1980s they had a very limited presence in the US, due to some weird tax consideration or whatever, and supposedly gave great support to the few customers they had, mainly chemicals or pharma. But they were quite a big presence by the late 90s.

PatriotsReign · Aug 26, 2015

Canuck said:
That was a long time ago. Think it was mid to late 90's. I was always a huge Gretzky fan and at that time he was playing for the Rangers and while we were on course in the Boston area they were playing the Bruins at the Garden. My female co-worker was a huge Bruins fan so we got tickets to go see the game. It was a $50 taxi ride and my co-worker was terrified and in tears by the time we got to the stadium. Coming back we rented a limo and used a limo service for all subsequent trips.

That's a riot! Having lived in this area all my life, I'm used to our drivers. But I also know we drive like all the lunatics were sent here! I live 50 miles south of Boston, but if I head into that city, I grab the wheel with both hands and keep my head on a swivel!

Canuck · Aug 26, 2015

Fencer said:
Wow. I thought SAP would have cleaned up its support act by then.

In the 1980s they had a very limited presence in the US, due to some weird tax consideration or whatever, and supposedly gave great support to the few customers they had, mainly chemicals or pharma. But they were quite a big presence by the late 90s.

I worked for an electrical utility and we switched from mainframe to using client-server software and SAP offered a huge discount to use theirs. I remember on that trip to Boston, it was to train on using the SAP PCA (Profit Center Accounting) module that we were going to install. Funny part the consultants that were going to install the module were taking the same course we were. In the end we fired the consultants and me and my female co-worker installed the module ourselves. One of my favorite times on that trip besides the hockey game was visiting Quincy Market. What a gem of a place! Loved it

I would have loved it more if I didn't have to sit in one store while my female co-worker tried on every pair of jeans in the place.

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