re: NFL insider John 'The Professor' Clayton out at ESPN

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Wtf is ESPN doing ? These folks want to crash the network into the ground.

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ESPN is going the way of the original MTV. It's becoming less and less necessary to have ESPN if you just want to watch games. The leagues, via streaming, the internet, et al. will be able to provide the public with games without having to go through ESPN which is basically just a middle-man. Just like MTV realized it could no longer survive (especially in the age of the internet) just by showing music videos, ESPN will only be able to survive if they create original content. Clayton is an old-school reporter who could go on Sportcenter, NFL Countdown, etc and give us the news no one else could get. Now, we don't have to watch NFL Countdown to get the breaking news of the day. It's on the internet a millisecond after it breaks.