A new leader in breaking NFL news
As many readers know I am an avid reader of the site Pro Football Talk.com. Slowly but surely it has gained respect by readers, and the national media. As of yesterday it has finally passed ESPN in breaking NFL news.
Pro Football Talk.com is one of the best run sites when it comes to NFL news. Not only does each article on the site has news to report and there is an editorial paragraph in each article.
The national media respect has been slow to come by until now. Recently editor Mike Florio has gained national respect. he has gained that with appearances on the NFL Network, and is now mentioned as the source for the Larry Zierlein episode. In the past most national news sources would report news a couple days after Pro Football Talk.com reported it and never mentioned a word.
It looks like Sports Illustrated has realized that Pro Football Talk is a force to be reckoned with. In Peter King’s Monday Morning Quarterback King would go on to mention Pro Football Talk.com several times when talking about the Jake Plummer situation. Now in its Truth and Rumor section they have cited Pro Football Talk as the source of news on the Larry Zierlein episode.
ESPN is a different case. ESPN refuses to recognize Pro Football Talk. The answer here is simple, and that is Mike Florio is a former employee of ESPN.com. What company would recognize someone that left its company to start his own site due to his feelings that ESPN was doing business the wrong way.
The fact is that Pro Football Talk.com is the leader in breaking NFL news. It has broken major news like Chad Johnson’s locker room fight, Duante Culpepper’s trade, and now the mistake email. So, all of you that love ESPN just remember when you are reading something it was reported several days earlier at PFT.