After months of uncertainty, NFL fans in the UK and Ireland can relax. And celebrate.<\/p>\n
Per multiple reports, the NFL and Sky Sports have struck a deal to continue pro football programming on the British\/Irish equivalent of ESPN. That includes PFT Live, since PFT Live includes NFL highlights.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a multi-year deal. Which means it will be multiple years before a string of short-term Band-Aid extensions like those done by the NFL and Sky in the months preceding August.<\/p>\n
The development also means that the flow of emails \u2014 literally in the hundreds \u2014 from PFT Live viewers on Sky regarding the status of the NFL-Sky relationship will cease. After, of course, one last wave from folks who will be letting us know that the deal is done.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve been a staple of Sky Sports programming for more than five years. And we plan to make an offseason trip to the UK and Ireland for a series of meet-and-greets and\/or drinky-and-smoky sessions with our friends from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n
One reason I haven\u2019t visited is simple. I\u2019ve got a feeling that, after spending some time in London and\/or Dublin and\/or Manchester and\/or Hove and\/or Edinburgh and\/or Wolverhampton and\/or Milton Keynes, I won\u2019t want to come home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After months of uncertainty, NFL fans in the UK and Ireland can relax. And celebrate. Per multiple reports,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-44890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}