NFL fans were left stunned on Wednesday as RedZone host Scott Hanson announced the iconic show would begin airing commercials.
The famously ad-free whip-around show was acquired by ESPN last month, and that will apparently bring some massive changes.
Hanson appeared on the Pat McAfee Show one day before the start of the NFL season and revealed a modified version of his signature catchphrase.
‘Seven hours of RedZone starts now,’ he said, removing the phrase ‘commercial-free football’ like he used to say.
Hanson, who has hosted the show since it began in 2009, added: ‘The business folks handle the business, and I have no say over different elements that could or could not be in the show.’
Nonetheless, fans were none too pleased with the major change to the show.
The Scott Hanson-hosted NFL Redzone will now have commercials, he revealed
‘The NFL is such a money grab they ruin every good thing,’ one wrote on X.
‘It’s dead. The greatest television offering in the history of sports is dead,’ another said. ‘Corporate greed has ruined RedZone.’
And a third bemoaned that it was: ‘The end of an era. One of the saddest days in human history.
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