At least Barstool founder Dave Portnoy realized ahead of time the NFL was never going to allow him to catch an edition of "Monday Night Football" with league commissioner Roger Goodell.
After Portnoy submitted a winning auction bid of $250,000 to watch a game with Goodell in the commish's basement, he told WFAN's "Boomer & Gio" he doubted Goodell would honor the agreement.
He was right.
On Friday, Ben Fischer of Sports Business Journal reported the NFL will not allow Portnoy to watch "MNF" with Goodell because the Barstool boss flunked a league background check. Instead, the $250,000 from Portnoy's bid will be spread across multiple charities, and "a deserving front line worker" batting the coronavirus pandemic head-on will be selected as the auction's winner.
As Fischer noted, Portnoy was one of several Barstool figures arrested in 2015 for trespassing at the NFL's Manhattan office while protesting the Deflategate-related suspension of then-New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.
Portnoy was famously bounced from the Super Bowl LIII media day and the actual game:
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