What if to watch the Super Bowl, you had to pay for it? It’s an idea that’ll upset most NFL fans but former ESPN executive John Skipper sees the potential for the big game to make big money.
Skipper, who served as ESPN’s President from 2012 to 2017, joined The Big Suey Podcast on Dan Le Batard’s podcast platform to argue why viewers should have to pay extra to watch the Super Bowl. Here’s what he said as transcribed by Awful Announcing’s Sean Keeley.
“If half the country is watching your game and they’re watching it for free, how many of those people would pay a big sum of money to watch the game?