Rick Maese on Adam Schefter

EDIT: I see Recovering came back to this. Just skipped right over it.

My first non-deleted wipeout post! I feel like shotglass!

 

I'm wondering why Schefter and La Canfora both left high-paying positions as NFL Network's scoops guys in a span of about three years.

 

Schefter got a huge raise to do so. He also had a non-compete so he had to sit on the sidelines for six months. Not sure if LaCanfora had to do the same.

Rappoport is NFLN's scoop guy these days and does an incredible job.

 

I could LOL at this Broussard clip all day, every day:

 

When Fart was a kid it was Fred Edelstein at ESPN. That guy fell off the map.

 

Going to prison for fraud can have that effect on a person.

 

Edelstein was just as big a fraud as a reporter. When I first started covering the league, I inherited a subscription to his newsletter from my predecessor. It was horrendous -- maybe a third of his "news" reports turned out to be accurate. When the subscription ran out, one of his people called me to try to get me to renew and I told her he's going to have to bat better than .333 for me to pay for that dreck.

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/sports/job-feds-fred-edelstein-cashed-nfl-scams-article-1.919166

 

Deadspin just linked us and it wasn't because someone had a dong shot or a DUI! A good day.

 

http://deadspin.com/adam-schefter-was-once-pranked-into-reporting-john-el-1631171533

 

That's awesome.