NFLPA Says Darren Rovell Has “Track Record of Bad Analysis and Uninformed Opinion”

All, Media Gossip/Musings, NFL Jason Lisk October 4th. 2012, 4:10pm

Darren Rovell contributed to the 30-for-30 documentary “Broke”, and also wrote about the NFLPA Financial Advisory Program. The NFLPA was not happy with some inaccuracies put out by Rovell (some of which have been corrected in the written piece) and published a “letter to the editor” on its own website.

After going through its list of inaccuracies, the NFLPA pointed out that they had worked with ESPN in providing fact checking information on the Financial Advisory Program months earlier. “Despite these efforts, though, we were disappointed to see the flippant, inaccurate comments made by this media personality in the film. When it comes to the NFLPA, Rovell has a track record of bad analysis and uninformed opinion.”

Rovell responded by calculating how much NFLPA spokesman George Atallah earns per minute that it took for the NFLPA to write that piece, and then tweeted it out as a piece of very meaningful information.*

* No he didn’t (Not yet, anyway)

[photo via US Presswire]

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34 Responses to “NFLPA Says Darren Rovell Has “Track Record of Bad Analysis and Uninformed Opinion””

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YYSA Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 4:13 PM
I got through about 45 minutes of Broke. It ain’t great.
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Wide Word of Sport (?) Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 4:15 PM
I got through about 45 minutes too. I might go back and finish, but haven’t felt a compelling need.
Something about Darren Rovell really bothers me. I’ve never followed him on twitter, and never read anything on purpose he’s written. He just seems a little too happy with himself, and just emanates this air of smugness and arrogance.
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johndewar Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 4:19 PM
Broke is not going to tell you anything about how athletes squander money that you don’t already know.
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PL StabbinKabin Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 4:19 PM
Twitter handle on the back of the jersey, huh? What a fucking asshole.
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VladimirCrouton Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 4:20 PM
I got through about 45 minutes of Broke. It ain’t great.
It was pretty meh at best. I just wish LeBron James was gonna go broke. He’s dumb enough. His handlers won’t let it happen though.
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TimmyTheEnchanter Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 4:20 PM
Rovell has all the creepiness and slime of a sports agent, but the charisma of Hideki Irabu.
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MP III Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 4:23 PM
broke sucked, which is a rarity for the 30 for 30 series.
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starkweather Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 4:27 PM
This might be the best thing the NFLPA has ever done. If Rovell met the NFLPA in a club he would point out that he has a track record of having like a million more twitter followers than they do
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squawkbox Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 4:27 PM
Rovell made the comments, but ESPN produced the “documentary”.
Who’s the fact checker here?
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PL StabbinKabin Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 4:27 PM
broke sucked, which is a rarity for the 30 for 30 series.
That’s not what Sam Stifling Eifling said.
/watched it
//thought it was ok
///hand a shit eating grin watching Sean Salisbury elaborate about his money issues
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VladimirCrouton Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 4:27 PM
Pretty sure there is a 30 for 30 coming up on Maurice Clarett. I hope the statue of limitations has run out.
/Duffy goes # 3
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Clayton Cargill Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 4:28 PM
I figured out how to use my twitter mute filter, just for Darren Rovell.
Although I’m considering adding Starkweather to the list.
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ms621 Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 4:29 PM
Pretty sure there is a 30 for 30 coming up on Maurice Clarett. I hope the statue of limitations has run out.
If there is a reenactment of him being pulled over by cops and tazed to no effect because he was wearing a bulletproof vest, then I’m in.
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starkweather Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 4:30 PM
Although I’m considering adding Starkweather to the list.
This angry young dad schtick of yours has just gone too far this time.
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Nada Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 4:37 PM
Something about Darren Rovell really bothers me
Have to admit, I see his name netioned here all the time and have no idea who he is. Some Twitterati type, I gather.
Also, I was surprised when I went back to the byline and it wasn’t JMonk.
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golfercraig Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 4:38 PM
Dirt, not to pile on, but is everything alright at home?
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spencer096 Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 4:38 PM
im not sure clarett still has an axe to grind, unfortunately.
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Milk Steak To Go Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 4:42 PM
im not sure clarett still has an axe to grind, unfortunately.
Got invited back to the 10 year annivesary of the 2002 NC team. I don’t think it’ll feature his mom getting a new double-wide or him getting a trans am.
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Clayton Cargill Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 4:42 PM
Dirt, not to pile on, but is everything alright at home?
I hit rock bottom on Monday, or so I was told. I’m unhinged. I’ve only recently realized how much I’ve changed, and how angry I’ve become.
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Ty_Webb Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 4:47 PM
I hit rock bottom on Monday, or so I was told. I’m unhinged. I’ve only recently realized how much I’ve changed, and how angry I’ve become.
Get a job so we can ask what it is you do….
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GloriousMullet Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 4:47 PM
I figured out how to use my twitter mute filter
How does that work? I just unfollow if I’m sick of something/someone….
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A.P. Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 4:51 PM
How does that work? I just unfollow if I’m sick of something/someone….
the worst is the douchebags who get angry with people and tweet them saying “Unfollow!”. nobody cares.
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starkweather Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 4:52 PM
Dirt, the Orioles season is probably over after tomorrow, so I will go back to being less obviously insufferable after that.
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mmonast Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 4:59 PM
broke sucked, which is a rarity for the 30 for 30 series.
Worst 30 for 30′s? I’ll go
Silly Little Game
4 Days in October
The House of Steinbrenner
Special fuck you category- The Band That Wouldn’t Die
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mmonast Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 4:59 PM
One Night in Vegas wasn’t great either
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St. Bear Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 5:02 PM
Maybe it’s because I’m in the industry, but the “answer” is so profoundly simple. Require to be on the list of recommended advisors, they must be a registered RIA with FINRA. Obviously not going to catch 100%, but it’s about the best anybody can do.
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gfunk supreme Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 5:04 PM
I figured out how to use my twitter mute filter
How does that work? I just unfollow if I’m sick of something/someone….
I’m not really sure how useful it is either. But I muted Comedy Central on my phone app a few weeks ago because they were filling my feed up with shit (I think it was South Park premiere night), but still have them show up in my feed on the PC. I guess they’re not showing up on my phone still, haven’t really noticed.
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Sir Spicious Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 5:04 PM
Silly Little Game
was this the rotisserie baseball one? I watched like 5 minutes
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mmonast Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 5:05 PM
was this the rotisserie baseball one? I watched like 5 minutes
That’s the one
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Wide Word of Sport (?) Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 5:06 PM
Thanks to my terrible typing skills, I just found out that accuweather.com bought the site “wAEther.com” to redirect traffic there… sneaky bastards.
Their app sucks though… nearly impossible to use because it is slow cluttered/slow.
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Mugatu Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 5:16 PM
Dirt, the Orioles season is probably over after tomorrow, so I will go back to being less obviously insufferable after that.
I take your reverse jinx and raise you. Rangers lose eleventy billion to -273 (absolute 0 in Kelvin you see).
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Wide Word of Sport (?) Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 5:18 PM
-273 (absolute 0 in Kelvin you see).
you messed that up…
-273 Centrigrade = absolute zero
0 Kelvin = absolute zero
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Mugatu Says:
October 4th, 2012 at 5:52 PM
Damn….you’re right. I’m tired
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roger from oz Says:
October 5th, 2012 at 5:13 PM
Rovell = Asshole
He’s never been worried about the facts.