Michael Irvin settles with Marriott, returns to NFL Network on Sunday
By Mike Florio
Published September 10, 2023 07:31 AM
It’s about damn time.
Hall of Fame receiver Michael Irvin, suspended since a hotel employee made a complaint about him in February, will return to NFL Network on Sunday.
Michael Gehlken of the Dallas Morning News reports that Irvin has settled his $100 million defamation lawsuit against Marriott, and that Irvin will in turn appear on NFL Network’s Game Day studio show this morning.
It’s not a coincidence. The NFL would have found itself neck deep in the litigation, given that Marriott claimed it passed the complaint along to the NFL pursuant to the league’s express instructions. If the Irvin case had proceeded, the league eventually would have been asked to produce documents and potentially to make witnesses available for testimony as to what the league did or didn’t do when investigating the complaint and deciding to suspend Irvin.
This means that Irvin’s protracted suspension likely had less to do with the Personal Conduct Policy than the NFL’s desire to avoid being involved in the case between Irvin and Marriott. Which makes sense. Whatever he allegedly said to the hotel employee amounted to off-duty conduct involving someone who wasn’t a co-worker. It’s simply not the kind of thing for which an employer should discipline an employee.
And it’s the kind of standard the NFL surely didn’t want to set for other non-players, particularly owners.
The settlement will likely remain confidential. If Irvin knew he needed to settle in order to return to NFL Network, he might have taken less than he could have gotten later in the process.
Regardless, Irvin will be back on NFLN, just a couple of weeks after joining Fox and FS1, where he has quickly become a fixture on Undisputed and on the Big Noon Kickoff college football pregame show.
In the end, Irvin swapped his part-time gig with ESPN for a part-time gig with Fox. And perhaps the part-time gig with Fox will keep growing, culminating in Irvin taking one of the seats at the Fox NFL Sunday desk when some of the older members of the show retire.
Thee Phantom Member since Jul 18th 2005 2775 posts
Wed Sep-13-23 10:34 AM
1. "What Happens to the Accuser?" In response to Reply # 0
To a lesser degree, this is similar to the Central Park case where the Caucasoid woman called the cops on a Black birdwatcher who questioned her about her dog. She tried to have him murdered by police and rightfully got publicly dragged and fired from her job.
They are calling this woman, "Jane Doe" and she cost the company possibly tens of millions of dollars by making an accusation that appears to be false.
4. "I'm far from a Football person...but I'm into media (youtube)" In response to Reply # 3
Black Manosphere commentaries, etc.
so.....
....this was a BIG story to the youtube commentary people who focus on how Black men in high profile status get in serious trouble for "iffy" accusations.
6. "Irvin received consequences from his employer. There was an interest..." In response to Reply # 5 Thu Sep-14-23 04:04 AM by c71
...for him to get his job back, not further consequences against Irvin.
If you are aware of Black men, we do like sports to a large degree (or current events around racial situations like this one more so for me) so...I strain to see how that would translate to "losers" being interested in this story.
People listen to and engage in strangers opinions on X (Twitter) so...listening to strangers commentaries on YouTube seems not "loser-ish " Some people are skilled at formulating and presenting their views on YouTube (like some are on X (Twitter).
People just want to hear what others think, whether from Newspapers, X (Twitter), internet comments, Facebook, Threads, OKP, IG, and yes youtube.
7. ""there was no like, ban him campaign" (c) RJCC" In response to Reply # 5 Thu Sep-14-23 11:09 AM by Buddy_Gilapagos
the man was suspended from his job?!?
Everyone might not have been talking about it, but the people who matter the most in this instance, his "real actual world" employers, literally banned from his work. SMH.
You really just be saying anything don't you?!!?
********** "Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson
>For reading by dumb motherfuckers who can't read. > >Who asked his employer to do that? > >Did anyone? > >Because it sounds like we know who the problem is. > >www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at
********** "Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson
**************** TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*
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