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This month may go down as a landscape-altering month for the National Football League. On Aug. 5, the NFL and Disney announced a major deal, trading the NFL Network, rights to RedZone and other media assets to ESPN in exchange for a 10 percent equity stake in the sports media juggernaut.

A few days later, David Ellison’s Skydance closed its $8 billion deal for Paramount Global, taking control of one of the league’s biggest TV partners … and instantly giving the league an equity stake as well, owing to Skydance Sports joint venture between the league and Skydance.

But arguably the biggest change will come Aug. 21, when ESPN and Fox each launch their new streaming services, and bring their NFL games to streaming outside of the pay-tv bundle for the first time.

It is a shift that is simultaneously subtle (of course they are launching new streaming services) but also earth-shatteringly disruptive.

Could a College Football RedZone be coming to ESPN soon?

The news has flown far and wide that the NFL and ESPN are getting much closer. ESPN is purchasing a swath of NFL Media properties, including NFL Network and the linear distribution rights to NFL RedZone. Included in the transaction was the RedZone branding, which allows ESPN to create new whip-around-style shows in the NFL RedZone tradition.

Key Details: College Football RedZone?: The purchase of the RedZone brand gives ESPN plenty of future options. Linear only: ESPN has the linear distribution rights to NFL RedZone, but not digital distribution. Break it up: ESPN could eventually have a whiparound show for all of its college football partners. Sign Up Now $11.99+ / month espnplus.com

The deal between ESPN and the NFL is a bit complex regarding RedZone. The NFL will keep the digital rights to distribute NFL RedZone, and will continue to produce the seven-hour,...

In exchange for a 10% equity stake in the channel, the NFL will send a wide range of its media holdings to ESPN.

The NFL is deepening its relationship with ESPN. As has been expected for some days, the league and the channel have announced a deal that will see NFL Media properties come under ESPN’s control. In return, the NFL will be given a 10% ownership stake in ESPN, while the new ESPN streaming service gets its hands on a host of new football content.

Key Details: NFL Network on the move: ESPN will take full ownership of NFL Network and will integrate it onto its new streamer. RedZone returning: ESPN will have rights to distribute the NFL RedZone linear channel, but digital rights stay with the NFL. Lucky seven: NFL Network will continue to present seven games per season on the ESPN streamer. Sign Up Now $11.99+ / month espnplus.com...

ESPN will launch its new, previously announced direct-to-consumer streaming service on Thursday, August 21, bringing the full suite of ESPN networks and services – within an enhanced ESPN App with new, personalized features and functionality – directly to fans.

Timed for a marquee stretch of live sports programming across ESPN platforms, the launch of ESPN Dtc coincides with the start of the college football and NFL seasons, US Open tennis, international soccer, women’s college soccer, volleyball, field hockey, and more – with the start of the WNBA playoffs, Pll playoffs, and NBA and NHL seasons, as well as UFC and WWE coming soon.

ESPN Dtc will offer two plans, including an unlimited plan for $29.99/month that gives fans access to all of ESPN’s linear networks – ESPN, ESPN2, Espnu, Secn, Accn, Espnews, ESPN Deportes – in addition to ESPN on ABC, ESPN+, ESPN3, Secn+, and Accnx, covering 47,000 live events each year, on-demand replays, studio shows,...

The National Football League has entered into an agreement to acquire a 10% stake in ESPN in exchange for the NFL Network and other media assets, the companies announced Tuesday, in a deal that more closely binds together one of the largest media companies with the world’s most valuable sports league.

As part of the deal, ESPN will take control of the NFL Network, its linear RedZone Channel and NFL Fantasy. The league will continue to own and operate NFL Films, NFL+, NFL.com, the NFL Podcast Network, the NFL Fast channel and the official sites for the league’s 32 clubs. It will also continue to own, operate, and produce NFL RedZone and retain the rights to distribute NFL RedZone digitally.

The parties are also entering into an agreement for the NFL Network and other assets to license the league’s content and IP, giving ESPN access to a steady flow of games.

In a landscape-altering deal, Disney will acquire assets from NFL Media, including NFL Network, with the league acquiring a 10 percent ownership stake in the sports media giant.

ESPN will fully own NFL Network, with plans to bake it into the upcoming direct-to-consumer streaming service. The RedZone channel, meanwhile, will join Disney’s linear portfolio, with Disney also planning to merge its ESPN fantasy football product with NFL Media’s fantasy product.

Perhaps most importantly, the NFL will also license games, RedZone, NFL Films programming and other content and rights to ESPN, potentially supercharging the streaming service when the deal closes.

And ESPN will get the rights to the “RedZone” brand, potentially opening the door to expanding the brand to other sports and platforms.

“Today’s announcement paves the way for the world’s leading sports media brand and America’s most popular sport to deliver an even more compelling experience for NFL fans,...

Saquon Barkley was one of the athletes named to Donald Trump‘s “President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition,” which included 30 names of athletes from different sports.

The 28-year-old Philadelphia Eagles running back was previously photographed spending time with the Potus, so many assumed he might have been a Trump supporter.

While his inclusion in the council was not necessarily a surprise on first glance, Saquon then revealed that he actually turned down his position in the council.

He said (via ESPN), “A couple months ago, it was brought to my team about the council. So I’m not really too familiar with it. I felt like I am going to be super busy, so me and my family thought it would probably be of best interest to not accept that. I was definitely a little shocked when my name was mentioned. I’m assuming it’s something great,...

On July 29, Mayor Eric Adams (D-New York) announced that a gunman who fatally shot four people at a Manhattan office building this week had intended to target the National Football League’s headquarters.

On Monday, Shane Tamura shot several people in the building’s lobby but then mistakenly entered the wrong set of elevator banks and found himself on the 33rd floor, where the offices for real estate company Rudin Management are located. The skyscraper he entered is home to both the NFL headquarters and Blackstone, one of the world’s largest investment firms, in addition to many other tenants, including Rudin Management.

Security footage shows Tamura exiting a double-parked BMW with an M4 rifle in hand, a little before 6:30 p.m. Once inside the lobby, Tamura began to open fire. He struck a police officer working a corporate security detail, a woman who tried to take cover, a...

In a Manhattan skyscraper on Monday, four people were fatally shot and one was wounded, at the hands of suspect Shane Tamura, who intended to target the NFL headquarters but mistakenly took the wrong elevator.

After arriving at the wrong floor, following three fatal shots in the lobby, Tamura shot another person and proceeded to turn the gun on himself. A suicide note on his body revealed he believed the NFL was to blame for his Cte (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) and asked for his brain to be studied. While Tamura played high school football two decades before, police have not found any evidence of him suffering from Cte or a traumatic brain injury.

Of the four people who died, identities of two are presently known:

In a TV interview on Tuesday, Mayor Eric Adams (D-New York) said that one of the victims was NYPD officer Didarul Islam, 36. Adams said, “Our officer,...

The gunman who killed four people and wounded a fifth during a mass shooting at a midtown Manhattan office building on Monday left a note that claimed he was suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (Cte), possibly related to his time playing high school football, a law enforcement source confirms to Rolling Stone.

The man, identified as Shane Tamura, died by suicide following the shooting, which took place in the Park Avenue tower that houses the headquarters of the National Football League. The suspect had no known connection to the NFL.

An NFL employee was “seriously injured” in the deadly shooting at the league’s New York City offices on Monday, commissioner Roger Goodell said in a staff memo.

The staffer is in the hospital and in stable condition, Goodell added, saying that the league is supporting his family.

Otherwise, Goodell said, in the note sent Monday night, that the NFL’s employees are “otherwise safe and accounted for, and the building has nearly been cleared.”

Four people, including an off-duty New York City police officer, were killed in the shooting at the league’s Midtown Manhattan offices at 345 Park Avenue, and the gunman killed himself.

On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the gunman targeted the NFL’s headquarters but took the wrong elevator. He shot several people in the building’s lobby before taking the elevator to the 33rd floor offices of the company that owns the building,...

An NFL employee was seriously injured in a shooting at a Midtown Manhattan office tower Monday where a gunman killed at least four people before turning his weapon on himself.

The League has its headquarters in the 44-story building at 52nd and Park Avenue.

“A gunman committed an unspeakable act of violence in our building at 345 Park Avenue. One of our employees was seriously injured in this attack. He is currently in the hospital and in stable condition. NFL staff are at the hospital and we are supporting his family,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement.

All other employees are safe and accounted for, Goodell said. New York employees were to work remotely Tuesday. There will be an increased security presence at the building in the days and weeks to come, he said in the message.

The NYPD said the shooter, identified as Shane Tamura, 27, a Las Vegas resident,...

The FCC has cleared the way for Paramount and Skydance to merge. What will it mean for viewers?

It looks as if the Paramount Global and Skydance Media merger is finally going to come to fruition. The deal received approval from the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday, which was by far the biggest outstanding obstacle to the merger’s closing. But once all of the I’s are dotted and the Ts are crossed, what kind of changes will customers notice from Paramount? While there is still a lot left to be determined, the companies’ executives have given some clues, so we will try to interpret them for you here.

Key Details: Tech and media together: David Ellison has pledged to make the new Paramount more tech-forward. NFL changes?: The NFL’s contract with CBS allows it to change its deal with the channel if ownership changes. Going south:...

A window could open for the NFL to get a raise for its broadcast rights before the 2029 opt-out date in its contracts.

The NFL doesn’t play second fiddle to anyone. Thanks to its overwhelming popularity and dominance in the broadcast market, the league has long held unprecedented power when it comes to maximizing its revenue, and it may have a golden opportunity to do just that in the years to come. According to John Ourand of Puck, the NFL might approach its broadcast partners looking to renegotiate, even sooner than had previously been expected.

Key Details: Opening the door?: A contractual clause that will be triggered by the Paramount and Skydance merger could cause the NFL to ask broadcasters to renegotiate. Under the wire: If the NFL renegotiates before 2028, it will beat the MLB and NHL to market. Bye-bye, opt-out clause: Renegotiated agreements could negate the opt-out clause currently existing in NFL contracts.

There may be only one company that could get LeBron James, Tom Brady, Kevin Costner, Spike Lee, Jay-Z, Travis Scott, NBA star Victor Wembanyama, YouTuber Kai Cenat and dozens of other high-wattage names from the worlds of sports and entertainment under one roof: Fanatics, the sports merchandise, collectible and entertainment firm founded by Michael Rubin.

And they want fans to come along too.

Fanatics is bringing back its flagship live event, Fanatics Fest, to New York City on June 20-22, and in addition to a metric ton of sports stars, the company is doubling down on artists and entertainers (hence the likes of Costner and Lee).

“It’s a heck of a challenge, I wouldn’t say it’s fun. Most of what we do is fun, I don’t consider this to be fun,” quips Rubin in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, when asked about booking the stars...

The NFL’s chief media officer Brian Rolapp is exiting his role after serving at the league for 22 seasons, an individual familiar with the matter tells TheWrap. He is expected to take over as CEO of PGA Tour Enterprises, according to media reports.

Rolapp first joined the NFL in 2003 as director of finance and strategy and has served as chief media and business officer since 2017. During his tenure, he was responsible for negotiating key media partnerships, overseeing NFL Media, NFL Films, 32 Equity and the league’s sponsorship and consumer products business, and leading major initiatives to expand the NFL’s global footprint and digital presence.

“We have spent some time planning for this change and are confident we will successfully manage the responsibilities while we align our structure to meet our long-term strategic goals,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a memo obtained by TheWrap. “We will share more details soon.

Brian Rolapp, one of the most powerful executives in the media industry, is leaving a pivotal role at the National Football League, where he has helped navigate rights deals and a major expansion into streaming, to head up the PGA Tour as its first CEO, according to a person familiar with the matter.

PGA Tour, which began a search for its new top executive in December, declined to comment. The NFL declined to make executives available for comment.

Rolapp, the NFL’s chief media and business officer, has exerted a great deal of influence over where the NFL’s games are seen, experimenting with new venues like Netflix and YouTube even while maintaining traditional ties to CBS, Fox, NBC and Disney’s ESPN. Under his aegis, the football league set up an opt-out clause for its current long-term deals with the big traditional media companies and Amazon that allows for...

Ted Sarandos, Alexis Ohanian and Eli Manning are joining the board of trustees at the Paley Center for Media.

The Netflix co-ceo, Reddit co-founder and two-time Super Bowl champion are also joined by Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of VaynerMedia, and David W. Checketts, managing partner of Checketts Partners Investment Management.

Jim Burtson, president of CAA, and Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, Meta will join the Paley Los Angeles Board of Governors.

“We are proud to welcome these exceptional and distinguished leaders to the Paley Center’s Board of Trustees and Los Angeles Board of Governors,” said Maureen J. Reidy, president and CEO, The Paley Center for Media. “Their visionary leadership across media, sports, technology, business, and entertainment embodies the highest standards of excellence, and their collective expertise will be instrumental in advancing our mission and reinforcing Paley’s role as the leading nonprofit in the media industry.”

The Paley Center’s...

In the glory days of the TV upfronts, the broadcast networks would build up to a big reveal: The schedule release.

The fall schedule would be revealed, and media buyers could get a glimpse of what show would get that prized Friends or CSI lead-in.

In 2025, the upfronts still build up to a schedule release, but it isn’t a fall lineup: It’s an NFL game.

The only connective tissue between this year’s upfronts, from NBCUniversal and Fox to Disney, YouTube and Netflix was sports, and the NFL in particular, with every company using their presentation to reveal an upcoming matchup that advertisers will want to buy into. Netflix and YouTube each had NFL commissioner Roger Goodell make the reveals himself (though only Netflix made him wear a Santa Claus-esque coat).

NBCUniversal used its event to tout the return of the NBA on NBC, bringing out John Tesh...

At YouTube Brandcast on Wednesday night, the finale of a three-day blitz of upfront presentations in New York, Lady Gaga achieved the rarest of things: a standing ovation and screams of enthusiasm from a crowd of advertisers.

The pop star’s scorching 20-minute set closed things on a high note and received the opposite of the usually jaded reactions, but the event had already been a substantive one before she stepped onstage. The 20th anniversary of YouTube earlier this year served as the framework for the presentation, with appearances and remarks reflecting the milestone.

“In just two decades, YouTube has reshaped how we watch entertainment,” CEO Neil Mohan said. Live events, from concerts to sports to many other kinds, have come to be one of YouTube’s foundational elements as technology improvements have enabled more seamless livestreams. “We want to bring more of these moments to fans everywhere,” Mohan said.

Updated with matchup details. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said that the Kansas City Chiefs will face the L.A. Chargers in an early-September game streaming globally on YouTube.

The commissioner made the announcement Wednesday night at YouTube’s Brandcast event for advertisers. The Chargers being in on the precedent-setting streaming event from Brazil had been disclosed Wednesday by YouTube. “I can trust you, right?” Goodell said to the audience, given that the event was a few minutes before the league’s full schedule reveal was planned.

Previous: In a first, YouTube will stream a full NFL game in September, exclusively carrying the league’s newly established annual game in Brazil.

The NFL had previously announced a sequel to last fall’s successful debut edition in São Paulo, which streamed on Peacock, but no rights partner had been announced. YouTube will include a splashy segment on the game at its Brandcast event for advertisers on Wednesday.

Netflix returned to the upfronts on Wednesday afternoon with a presentation that, at first, looked like it might be a production of Waiting for Gadot.

Initially looking awfully serious, Jude Law and Jason Bateman stood in respective spotlights on an otherwise empty stage at downtown’s Perelman Performing Arts Center in Manhattan. But the facade soon cracked. The dependably sardonic Bateman set up a trailer for their new series, Black Rabbit, as Law played his part and pushed one of the streamer’s chosen slogans of the day: “Welcome to the center of attention.”

The messaging has not changed since the last dog and pony show for media buyers: Netflix has achieved cultural ubiquity in a manner that no other streamer has come close. Naturally, it is the best place for advertising. Right? Right? Amy Reinhard, Netflix’s president of advertising, kicked off a one-ish hour spiel by reiterating that...

YouTube is an anomaly in the TV upfronts: Unlike other networks and streamers, it doesn’t present a big slate of new programming to whet Madison Avenue’s appetite for buying ads.

Instead, YouTube touts scale others can’t match. And to underscore the claim that the platform drives culture, it invited a bunch of personalities to this year’s YouTube Brandcast upfront presentation to wow the crowd — including Lady Gaga, who brought down the house with a rollicking five-song performance; MrBeast (aka Jimmy Donaldson), YouTube’s most-followed creator; vlogger and podcaster Brittany Broski; Sean Evans, host of “Hot Ones”; and gaming streamer IShowSpeed. Also on hand: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, who talked up the league’s deal for YouTube’s first free livestreamed NFL game next season.

As far as monetizing the zeitgeist, YouTube’s biggest news Wednesday was the announcement of a new sponsorship package for advertisers to...

Netflix returned to the upfronts in fine fashion.

Netflix’s upfront event took place at the Perelman Performing Arts Center in Manhattan. The biggest name in streaming kept things intimate, with a scant 500 or so people in attendance. Compared to Disney, which filled a convention hall at the Javits Center, and NBCUniversal, which took over Radio City Music Hall, Netflix’s presentation felt downright cozy.

Jude Law and Jason Bateman opened the show with some discussion of Netflix’s reach and programming before some playful banter and hyping up their new drama series “Black Rabbit.”

Amy Reinhard, Netflix’s president of advertising, took the stage next, telling advertisers in attendance that Netflix shows are not just put on in the background and ignored. “When you compare us to our competitors, attention starts higher and ends much higher,” Reinhard said. “And even more impressive, members pay as much attention to mid-roll...

We now know exactly what matchups to expect on Netflix this Christmas Day. The streamer will be home to the Dallas Cowboys vs. Washington Commanders game as well as the Detroit Lions vs. Minnesota Vikings game. The news was announced on Wednesday as part of Netflix’s advertiser upfronts presentation.

The Cowboys vs. Commanders game will air at 1 p.m. Et from Northwest Stadium in Landover, Maryland. It will then be following at 4:30 p.m. Et by the Lions vs. Vikings game, which will take place at the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota. CBS Sports will produce the games with NFL Media producing the pre, post and studio halftime programming. As for talent, that will be announced at a later date.

“Last year, viewers in 218 countries watched our first-ever worldwide distribution of an NFL game — two games on Christmas Day — on this great service,” Roger Goodell, commissioner of the NFL,...

After weeks of speculation, YouTube has officially locked up the exclusive broadcast rights to an NFL game. The home of NFL Sunday Ticket will offer a free broadcast for the September 5 matchup between the Los Angeles Charges and the Kansas City Chiefs — a game that will take place at the Arena Corinthians in São Paulo, Brazil.

The broadcast deal is a major coup for a platform that has dramatically upped its gridiron presence since it became the official distributor of the Sunday Ticket package ahead of the 2023 NFL season. YouTube is primed to compete with the likes of Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, and Peacock (all of which have scored their own exclusive NFL broadcasts), but we still have some questions about the Xs and Os of this particular strategy. Here are some of the queries that have crossed our minds:

Will this be the first of many free NFL broadcasts?...

Liberation Day has come for Hollywood. If you thought the movie industry had dodged a bullet after President Trump reversed course the last time, think again.

That’s the feeling around town after Trump’s Sunday surprise announcement that he would be instituting a “100 percent tariff on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands. We Want Movies Made In America, Again!” (emphasis and Trumpian capitalization all his).

He also said the movie industry is “Dying a very fast death,” and that the incentives other countries are offering amounts to a “National Security threat.”

We’ve noted before that Trump, is in some ways, right about at least one part of this. FilmLA just released numbers saying on-location shoot days in Los Angeles were down 22.4 percent the first quarter of this year compared to 2024, and the impact to the local job market has been...

As teams select their next generation of stars at the 2025 NFL Draft, listen to the live announcements of every pick from every round on SiriusXM NFL Radio.

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Image Source: Amazon With the 2025 NFL Draft only A few weeks away and the pre-draft hype machine operating at maximum capacity, perhaps that’s why the 2014 film Draft Day has suddenly become one of the top-streaming movies on Netflix. Kevin Costner starred as the general manager of the NFL’s Cleveland Browns franchise who was struggling with internal and external pressure as he tried to determine the team’s draft picks. The film was made with the league’s full cooperation, including a role for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, playing himself, so the film conveys a behind-the-scenes authenticity that fans have grown to appreciate. As for Costner, who’d already made several baseball-themed movies, including Bull Durham and Field of Dreams, starring in a football-oriented film felt completely natural, since he’s always been a big fan of the game. (Click on the media bar below to hear Kevin Costner.

Building on a successful 2024, the NFL is adding yet another game to its Christmas Day slate in 2025.

The NFL is leaving nothing but coal in the NBA’s stocking this Christmas. For decades, the NBA has ruled Christmas Day with marquee matchups between marquee franchises and title contenders, but for the second year in a row, the Association will have to make room for football. On Monday, the NFL announced that it will play three games on Christmas Day 2025, all of which will be available on streaming services.

Key Details: Two NFL games will air on Netflix this Christmas, with one headed to Prime Video. The NFL first began broadcasting on Christmas in 2024, with successful results. The league could be courting Netflix to bid on a larger package of games next time its rights become available. 30-Day Free Trial $8.99+ / month amazon.com

As per the deal Netflix signed with the NFL...

NFL Game Pass is the only way for international fans to watch every NFL game including the Super Bowl.

The NFL is big business, especially when it comes to media rights. The lure of the league’s massive fanbase and advertising draw even has the world’s largest streamer Netflix considering pursuing a major package of Sunday games. However, the NFL is not just a major draw in the United States. On Wednesday, sports streamer Dazn announced that in the second season of its 10-year deal to bring NFL Game Pass to international audiences saw major viewership increases on both the paid and free versions of the package.

Key Details Dazn saw a 23% increase in paid NFL Game Pass subscribers in 2024. The service’s weekly free game saw a 47% viewership jump. For this past season, Dazn launched the Ultimate Tier, bringing even more features to international football fans. Sign Up $24.99+ / month dazn.

The lawsuit accusing Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs of repeatedly raping a minor in 2000 after the MTV VMAs was dismissed on Valentine’s Day, but the bitter relationship between the Jay-Z and attorney Tony Buzbee rages on.

Filed four days before the Buzbee-represented Jane Doe “voluntarily dismissed with prejudice” her claims, Jay-Z (aka Shawn Carter) made a declaration in the docket of Los Angeles Superior Court ripping the Texas-based attorney. Rejecting Buzbee’s attempt to have the Roc Nation boss’ defamation and extortion suit essentially gutted, Jay-Z’s February 10 filing says the “career-ending” accusations of assaulting a 13-year-old girl unsurprisingly damaged his business and his family — the former to the tune of $20 million a year.

While not mentioning the NFL, with which Roc Nation has a recently renewed Super Bowl Halftime Show deal, Jay-Z’s declaration makes clear that even if the Roger Goodell-run league was standing by him,...

Following Kendrick Lamar’s recent Super Bowl Lix halftime show, many fans believe singer Carrie Underwood should headline the next show.

Lamar performed at halftime of the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles championship game, with mixed reactions from viewers.

He featured various songs from his catalog during his set, emphasizing his Drake diss record, Not Like Us, and multiple tracks from his 2024 studio album, Gnx.

In addition to Lamar, Sza joined him on stage for several songs, including their duet Luther and All the Stars.

Several of this year’s halftime show moments went viral, including Serena Williams performing a crip walk dance on stage.

Now that the show is over, Underwood’s fans believe she’d be perfect as headliner for the 2026 Super Bowl due to her association with the NBC network.

Fans suggest Underwood as the next Super Bowl headline act

Soon after Fox’s Super Bowl coverage concluded,...

Donald Trump steps out on the field ahead of the 2025 Super Bowl at Caesars Superdome on Sunday (Febarury 9) in New Orleans, La.

The 78-year-old makes history at being the first ever sitting President of the United States to attend the Super Bowl, which is between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles.

On the field, Trump posed for photos with emergency responders and families of victims of the January 1st attack on Bourbon Street earlier this year.

Trump was also seen up in a suite talking to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, as well as New Orleans Saints owner Gayle Benson. His daughter Ivanka Trump was seen in attendance as well.

Last week, Chiefs player Travis Kelce was asked about Trump attending the Super Bowl this year. See what he said!

If you recall, Trump has had some not so nice things to say about Travis‘ girlfriend Taylor Swift in the past.

Dozens of Hollywood notables and celebrities were in New Orleans on Sunday to witness the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Philadelphia Eagles during football’s biggest night, which ultimately saw the Eagles take home the trophy.

Taylor Swift, Jay-Z, Adam Sandler, Paul Rudd and Bradley Cooper were among players, coaches and thousands of fans inside the Caesars Superdome to watch Super Bowl Lix.

The pop star, who is dating Chief’s superstar Travis Kelce, was spotted wearing an all-white look in her skybox. The Grammy-winning rapper was also spotted on the sidelines with his daughters Blue Ivy and Rumi ahead of the big game. Sandler ran into Jason Kelce (former Eagles player and Travis’ brother) and was seen giving him a big hug. As for Cooper, who is a massive Eagles fan, he was seen arriving to the game with his daughter Irina by his side, in addition to Chiefs superfan Rudd.

The National Football League will use its biggest platform of the year to serve as a high-profile push for girls flag football, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

During each year’s Super Bowl, the league reserves a couple of minutes of TV time for its own brand campaign, celebrating the players and causes most important to the league. NFL CMO Tim Ellis tells THR in an interview that the league uses the spot to “transcend the game” and “create a big, bold, inspiring piece of creative that serves as a force for good from the NFL.”

For Super Bowl Lix this year, the league’s star-packed two-minute commercial uses a comedic tone to spotlight on girls flag football, as part of the NFL’s effort to grow the sport around the world. The spot is a riff on classic high school comedies, with NFL veteran and ESPN host Pat McAfee...

There is always, locals say, something going on in New Orleans. This weekend, it’s the Super Bowl. For the 11th time, the Big Easy will play host to the Big Game, adding another chapter in a long legacy of on-field drama and off-field debauchery.

New Orleans hosted its first Super Bowl on Jan. 11, 1970: Super Bowl IV, featuring the Kansas City Chiefs and the Minnesota Vikings. The Super Bowl was a new invention at the time, a true crossover event between the dueling American Football League and National Football Leagues.

Donald Trump will be swooping into Super Bowl Lix on Sunday as the first sitting president to ever attend the NFL’s big game in person and he predicts a good time will be had by all.

“Two great Quarterbacks in this game,” the former owner of the Usfl’s New Jersey Generals said online Friday morning of Patrick Mahomes of two-time returning champs the Kansas City Chiefs and the 2018 winners the Philadelphia Eagles’ Jalen Hurts before their face-off in New Orleans on February 9. “Also, an unbelievable running back, and the absolute best tight end in football (Ever!). Incredible coaching.”

“Anyway, It Will Be A Great Game!!!” Trump went on to say before taking his daily swipe at his predecessor Joe Biden. “I’ll be doing the interview, before the game, at 3:00 P.M. There hasn’t been one in four years.”

With Fox broadcasting the Super Bowl this year,...

Donald Trump will become the first sitting president to attend the Super Bowl on Sunday, and he’s spent the run-up to the big game talking out of his ass about the game that famously spurned him when he tried to buy a team in the 1980s.

Trump threw a nod to Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) on Wednesday while signing an executive order intended to ban trans women from competing in women’s sports, claiming that when Tuberville was a college football coach, “his quarterback was Mahomes” and that Tuberville...

Jimmy Fallon has the inside scoop on how the Philadelphia Eagles could beat the Kansas City Chiefs at this weekend’s Super Bowl. The NBC host shared his definitely real big game scoop with his studio audience on Wednesday night.

“The Eagles have spent two weeks making a plan to stop Patrick Mahomes. So far, their best idea is having a guy with bird flu lick his mouth guard,” Fallon said.

This upcoming Sunday marks the Chiefs’ third appearance in a row at the Super Bowl. Previously, the team won the NFL championship in the 2022 and 2023 seasons. If they win on Sunday, they’ll become the first team in league history to win the Super Bowl three times in a row, a feat Fallon said was more rare “than seeing an empty vegetable platter at a Super Bowl party.”

The late night host also used his opening monologue to address a football-related conspiracy.

The NFL is heading down under and has designated the Los Angeles Rams as the host team for its first-ever regular season game in Australia.

Melbourne Cricket Ground will be where the Rams face off against their opponent in 2026, with the exact date and time set to be announced later.

“Expanding to Melbourne, Australia, a beautiful city with a rich sports history, underlines our ambitions to become a global sport and accelerate international growth,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement. “Together with the Victorian State Government, Visit Victoria and the Melbourne Cricket Ground, and with the Los Angeles Rams in 2026, we look forward to making history in what is an important market for the NFL and a significant next step in expanding our international footprint.”

Australia is said to have a growing NFL fan base of 6.6 million. The Rams and the Philadelphia Eagles hold marketing rights in Australia to help build awareness.

For the first time since February 2021, the “End Racism” message stencil will not appear across the end zone of the Super Bowl.

Instead, “Choose Love” will be featured along one of the end zones at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans for Super Bowl Lix on Sunday. The other end zone will display “It Takes All of Us,” as it has since the NFL began incorporating field stencils for the league’s Inspire Change initiative in 2020.

“The Super Bowl is often a snapshot in time and the NFL is in a...

The NFL has dropped a bunch of creator news this week. The league has long been cozy with YouTube, but now it’s tapped the platform as the official sponsor for its annual Super Bowl Tailgate Concert–and, on top of that, it’s working with YouTube to launch Access Pass for Legends, which will give NFL players and content creators permission to use high-quality NFL footage in their videos without fear of being demonetized.

So, what now?

Well, it’s tagged in two of the world’s biggest creators–Kai Cenat and IShowSpeed–to go head-to-head in an official NFL flag football match that’ll stream on the NFL’s YouTube channel the day before Super Bowl Lix.

In an announcement video, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell rings up IShowSpeed.

Team Speed Vs. Team Kai

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The Super Bowl Lix Flag Football Game

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YouTube is getting even cozier with the NFL. The platform and league have a longstanding relationship that’s accelerated in recent years, with YouTube snapping up a decade’s worth of rights to NFL Sunday Ticket–and, just this week, announcing the launch of Access Pass for Legends, which aims to put former NFL players on the fast-track to becoming “media moguls” on YouTube.

Now, YouTube is taking over from TikTok as the official sponsor for the NFL’s pre-Super Bowl event, the Tailgate Concert.

It’ll produce the two-and-a-half-hour pregame “just steps away” from the Caesars Superdome, where the Kansas City Chiefs are set to take on the Philadelphia Eagles–and the whole thing will be broadcast live from the NFL’s YouTube channel.

The Tailgate Concert began as an annual tradition back in 2021, when the NFL–like pretty much everyone else–was looking for a long-distance way to keep fans connected.

The NFL’s “Tailgate Concert,” an annual Super Bowl Sunday event first held in 2021, is shifting from TikTok to YouTube for this year’s edition.

YouTube and the NFL announced Post Malone as the headliner of this year’s livestream. The pop star is expected to take the stage a bit less than three hours before kickoff of the February 9 contest at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.

The NFL and YouTube have been increasingly connected in recent years. In 2022, the Google-owned video giant signed a multi-billion-dollar deal to carry the league’s Sunday Ticket package. Roger Goodell, the league’s commissioner, appeared at the company’s Brandcast event for advertisers in 2023 to tout the partnership.

TikTok, meanwhile, remains hugely popular but has hit something of a limbo state after Congress passed a law banning the Chinese app, with Apple and Android keeping it out of their stores. The...

Exclusive: Football royalty including Bill Belichick, Tony Dungy, Mike Tomlin, Urban Meyer, Roger Goodell, Sean McVay, and Tony Romo are among talking heads in new gridiron documentary The Object Of The Game.

Recently wrapped, the film is inspired by the book of the same name written by legendary high school football coach Chuck “Chico” Kyle (pictured below) in which he imparts wisdom about why the game is played. You can see a first teaser above.

The doc sees Shakespeare and Chaucer teacher Kyle wrapping up his 50th and final year at inner city Cleveland, Ohio’s Saint Ignatius High School. A humble teacher first, Kyle would sooner regale you with Macbeth and Othello quotes from memory than mention he engineered the greatest high school football dynasty the country has ever seen—winning an impressive 11 big school state championships and four national titles over a dominant 20 year span—and in the process,...

Beyoncé’s Christmas halftime show was the gift that lit up the NFL’s first-ever Netflix Christmas Gameday, sparkly, dramatic, and packed with Beychella-level energy. On December 25, 2024, at Nrg Stadium in her hometown of Houston, Queen Bey delivered a 13-minute performance that left fans reeling and critics talking. Dressed in an all-white, cowboy-inspired outfit by Roberto Cavalli, complete with a hat that screamed “Yeehaw, but make it fashion,” she made her grand entrance on a white horse, setting the tone for an unforgettable show.

Beyonce (Credits- @beyonce/Instagram)

But while the performance, now streaming as Beyoncé Bowl on Netflix, won hearts, it stirred its fair share of controversy. While some questioned whether Beyoncé leaned too far into spectacle and not enough into the holiday spirit, others felt Netflix’s collaboration with the NFL was a little extra. Plus, let’s not forget the inevitable debates over the setlist, her Houston nods,...

Although Beyoncé has rarely been known to give her haters the time of day, her mom has her back.

Following the 32x Grammy winner’s A Cowboy Carter Christmas halftime show at the Houston Texans-Baltimore Ravens game, Tina Knowles shared a fan’s post that stated “people will always, Always, always have some negative ish to say” about her daughter.

“Repost: My sentiments exactly!” she captioned the Instagram post. “It is mind-boggling to me that you would take your precious Christmas day and watch a performance of someone you hate and you don’t think has talent so that you can go talk ish about it later. Obviously you are so obsessed with them, addicted to them, and secretly admire them, wish you could be them, that you cannot help but to watch and critique and comment and say dumb ridiculous stuff that makes you look like a joke!

It was a white Christmas on Wednesday as Beyoncé made a Houston homecoming in classic Texas style.

Clad in all white, the 32-time Grammy winner rode into Nrg Stadium on a white horse, performing “16 Carriages” and her cover of the Beatles’ “Blackbiird” to kick off her A Cowboy Carter Christmas NFL halftime show at the Houston Texans-Baltimore Ravens game.

Taking the field with a group of white-clad dancers and marching band, Bey continued with her songs “Ya Ya” and “Riverdance” before she was joined by Shaboozey. She continued with “Sweet Honey Buckin'” and “Levii’s Jeans,” for which she was joined by Post Malone.

Beyoncé then sang her version of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” while sitting atop the back seat of a moving convertible, before taking the stage and singing her debut country album’s lead single. “Texas Hold ‘Em.”

“I’m so honored to be in Texas right now,...

Jay-Z could be the latest to lose millions based on the most recent lawsuit linked to Diddy, including a lucrative partnership with the NFL. What do we know about the latest potential financial casualty amid the most recent controversy?

Diddy Case Affecting More Than Just Diddy Himself

Almost daily, new allegations, accusations, and new information in general seem to come to light surrounding the ongoing case against Sean “Diddy” Combs. Combs is currently in a Brooklyn detention center awaiting trial in 2025.

Even while behind bars, Diddy has been accused of using the phone time of other prisoners to contact people on his “do not call” list. It has even been alleged that Diddy has been engaging in things like witness intimidation and more to shape the outcome of his trial.

However, as we are seeing, this case against Diddy has a far-reaching effect that is affecting other famous celebs in his circle.