{"id":215867,"date":"2025-07-18T03:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T03:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/215867\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T03:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T03:46:13","slug":"nfl-likely-blessed-barstool-fox-deal-per-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/215867\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL ‘likely blessed’ Barstool-Fox deal, per report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over its two decades as a sports media outlet, Barstool Sports has ruffled a few feathers.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s likely to continue now that Dave Portnoy\u2019s company will be featured front-and-center on Fox Sports programming<\/a>, including a daily Barstool-run show on FS1 and Portnoy himself appearing as a weekly panelist on\u00a0the Big Noon Kickoff college football pregame show. Feather ruffling is part of the brand, and Portnoy likely did just that to several people in Central Ohio during his announcement of the news on Thursday.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s one thing to get under the skin of Ohio State fans. It\u2019s one thing to antagonize NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell \u2014 something that has been a calling card for Portnoy for years \u2014 than to get in bed with one of the league\u2019s primary broadcast partners. However, that\u2019s what happened, and it appears the NFL approved it.<\/p>\n

According to a report by Michael McCarthy in Front Office Sports<\/a>, \u201cthe NFL likely blessed Fox\u2019s deal with Barstool.\u201d It\u2019d make sense that Fox would want to run this partnership with the NFL, as the league supplies the network\u2019s most important programming and has frequently been in Portnoy\u2019s crosshairs. Fox wouldn\u2019t want to enter this deal if it thought there was a risk of upsetting the NFL.<\/p>\n

The NFL was not mentioned in Fox\u2019s press release<\/a> announcing the deal. Instead, the network looked to highlight Barstool\u2019s fit with its college football and college basketball properties. However, given that Barstool will be airing a daily show on FS1 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. ET, it\u2019s all but certain the NFL will be a big topic of discussion.<\/p>\n

If the Barstool-Fox deal is anything like the Pat McAfee-ESPN deal, don\u2019t expect the Barstool founder to filter his NFL opinions just because he\u2019s on Fox\u2019s airwaves. This is likely more a sign of where legacy media is these days, and the NFL is aware of it. Dave Portnoy is going to say whatever he wants about the NFL anyway, where he says it isn\u2019t so important.<\/p>\n

McAfee has spent his fair share of afternoons ripping ESPN on its own airwaves, and the network believes he\u2019s been an enormous success. Fox would like to replicate that, and even the NFL can acknowledge it\u2019s all just noise at the end of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over its two decades as a sports media outlet, Barstool Sports has ruffled a few feathers. That\u2019s likely…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[657,17776,7,6,16026,1902],"class_list":{"0":"post-215867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-barstool-sports","9":"tag-dave-portnoy","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-nfl-on-fox","13":"tag-roger-goodell"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114872188178196704","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}