ESPN blocked Kelce from participating in the game<\/a>.<\/p>\nJason\u2019s brother, Travis, plays for the Chiefs (if you haven\u2019t heard). They share a wildly popular podcast, New Heights (if you haven\u2019t heard). It had massive YouTube numbers during a recent episode featuring Travis\u2019s future wife, Taylor Swift (if you haven\u2019t heard). And Jason has served as a spokesperson for YouTube\u2019s Sunday Ticket (if you haven\u2019t seen).<\/p>\n
But ESPN, like other broadcasters, are now very stingy when it comes to sharing talent with other networks. It has complicated the efforts of YouTube and Netflix to staff their \u201cone-off\u201d NFL telecasts.<\/p>\n
Of course, Jason Kelce could have added a term in his contract allowing such moonlighting \u2014 if he\u2019d known ESPN would be adopting a policy of preventing on-air employees from taking on other assignments. Given that ESPN pays Jason $8 million per year, there\u2019s a good chance ESPN would have agreed to it at the time they were recruiting him.<\/p>\n
Then there\u2019s the fact that the NFL will, pending regulatory approval, own 10 percent of ESPN. On one hand, the NFL has an interest in enhancing the YouTube presentation. On the other hand, the NFL has an interest in protecting ESPN\u2019s interests.<\/p>\n
It would be interesting to know what the outcome of the YouTube Kelce request would have been if the ESPN-NFL deal had already been finalized. Which means it will be interesting to see how such issues will be handled after the deal is finalized \u2014 and the NFL has a more effective way to call ESPN with a two-word message, \u201cRelax, guy!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Friday night\u2019s inaugural YouTube NFL stream from Brazil featuring the Chiefs and Chargers, Jason Kelce was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-122144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}