pettyofficerj
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glt1980 said:Well pettyofficer j,
We all know the NFL is probably the most image conscience of the leauges and they basically pressured ESPN. When he was comissioner Paul Tagliabue called then CEO of Disney Michael Eisner and voiced his displeasure telling him not to run promos for the show during NFL games on the network. When Tagliabue was interviewed by CNN he was quoted as saying "Playmakers" "a rather gross mischaracterization of our sport."
maybe it was misrepresenting the league a bit..
but the NFL has had it's share of roid issues, gang-banging players (pac-man jones, anyone?), drug-addicts (michael irvin snorting coke rings a bell)
the list goes on and on..
playmakers was just trying to make some money, on the darker side of the league..
the darker side that some people didn't want exposed, for obvious reasons..
if those people had their way, news reports on such aforementioned issues, would cease to exist as well

































