{"id":117262,"date":"2025-09-04T03:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T03:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/117262\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T03:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T03:26:07","slug":"did-mr-beast-buy-nfl-youtube-video-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/117262\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Mr. Beast Buy NFL?\u00a0YouTube Video Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Will Taylor Swift Perform at Super Bowl Halftime Show? NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell Says&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1411674\/mrbeast-engaged-to-influencer-thea-booysen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Mr. Beast<\/a> didn&#8217;t actually take his sports purchase to the endzone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/youtube\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">YouTuber<\/a>\u2014real name Jimmy Donaldson\u2014raised eyebrows when he uploaded a video titled &#8220;I bought the NFL,&#8221; in which he and the organization&#8217;s commissioner Roger Goodell spoke at a press conference announcing the news.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today marks an historic first,&#8221; Goodell said in the clip shared to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dx8IgpwFnLQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">YouTube Sept. 3<\/a>. &#8220;The NFL is now under the ownership of one individual, Jimmy Donaldson, Mr. Beast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And Mr. Beast reiterated the update when he took the podium shortly after, saying, &#8220;That is right, I officially own the NFL.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s time for some changes,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;So, for my very first change, we are going to be changing the roster from 53 players to 54, and giving that new roster spot to a YouTuber.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The video then cut to several YouTubers such as Haley Baylee, iShowSpeed, Dude Perfect and Brooke Monk being drafted to various NFL teams and attending the squads&#8217; training camps.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Taylor Swift Perform at Super Bowl Halftime Show? NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell Says&#8230; It looks like Mr.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-117262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}