Greg Norman and Cameron Smith are two golfers who accepted garbage bags full of money from the Saudis.

How is the statement going? You wouldn't be able to pay me to watch. The LIV Golf traveling circus may have to pay to get people to watch. With no major sports network bidding to air their rancid product, the upstart golf league is closing in on a deal to air their shoddy pop-up tournaments.

The Saudi Golf league is benefiting from having more money than god, as they are being lured to get their product on a channel and that.

It didn't take Maury Povich to determine that Greg Norman was lying when he said he was getting interest from media companies to broadcast his golf tournaments. The deal was foisted on Fox Sports executives by Lachlan Murdoch, the executive chairman and CEO of Fox Corp., his father's media conglomerate.

The Golfweek piece is too funny, so I will line up the best tidbits in an easy to digest fashion.

  • “There were people at Fox who wanted nothing to do with this,” Golfweek’s source said. “They were forced to do it.”
  • Sports Business Journal reported that Jared Kushner, son-in-law and errand boy of Donald Trump, had been phoning broadcasters to drum up interest in a LIV TV deal. The Journal also reported that Kushner repeatedly referred to himself as “The Kush” during meetings and used the word “primo” no less than a dozen times when talking about the roster of talent. (I made up that last sentence, but tell me it’s not 100 percent believable.)
  • Saudi Golf also is responsible for the production side and finding commercial sponsors, both of which are usually handled by the broadcast partner. I can’t wait to be confused by David Feherty while a B-rate announcer who doesn’t care about getting canceled flubs the confusing leaderboard.
  • “Any advertiser who touches this will get blasted,” a sports TV executive told Golfweek. “It’s a weak product, but it’s a tainted product on top of that.”
  • The Saudi shills asked for a rights fee after the first year, as well as assurances for a guaranteed time slot on network television, but both proposals were rejected, according to the article.

We are going to get the LIV league shoved down our throats like a pill, because despite every sane sports network passing on them, despite sponsors treating them like a more toxic version ofBrett Favre, and despite the network their product is airing on providing zero assistance, we're going to get

This is going to be a hit on the Suck Cut. The deal hasn't been finalized yet, and it's probably because Lachlan's goons are having a hard time dragging Fox Sports execs to the bargaining table

Phil Mickelson and his cronies back out of lawsuit against the PGA, still fail to save face

The players asked to no longer be a part of the lawsuit that accuses the PGA of suspending players and using its power to quell upstarts.

It is difficult to argue that your career has been damaged when your bank accounts are empty. The golfers earned pickup beds worth of money from signing fees, and they won't shut up about the future of golf.

Three players and a golf club are still involved in the case. He lived up to his reputation as a stupid beefcake. He probably messaged the LIV Golf players thread irate about the guys jumping ship without warning.

No one will buy the specific line of bullshit that was spouted by the group. The format changes more than a five-year-old playing dress-up, and they probably showed up at a couple of these hastily put together, occasionally attended events.

Hopefully, they know how to play acey deucey, wolf, bingo-bango-bongo, and the rest of the weekend golf games.

LIV GolfFox Sports execsLIVSaudi Golf
Related News
Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City Chiefs prevail against Buffalo Bills, win wild AFC divisional game in overtime
Popular on TVN
Stay In Touch

All Rights Reserved © 2024