ESPN May Be Trying To Destroy The Big 12, But Have You Seen Bob Bowlsby’s Childlike Signature?

Here is the cease & desist letter the Big 12 sent to ESPN.

Bob Bowlsby alleges ESPN is actively working with and encouraging other conferences to attempt to poach Big 12 members. pic.twitter.com/fb224elCtd

— Max Olson (@max_olson) July 28, 2021

ESPN’s conspiring behind the scenes to try and get Big 12 teams to join the leagues of conferences they have the TV rights to. Sure. Typical evil Disney crap right there.

Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby tells @SINow that he has documented evidence that ESPN tried to encourage an unnamed conference to add Big 12 members in an effort to destabilize the league so Texas & OU could avoid exit fees.

"It is tortious interference," he says.

— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) July 28, 2021

Blah.

Bowlsby told AP that ESPN is incentivizing other conferences to destabilize the Big 12 so Oklahoma and Texas can get out of paying a buyout to the conference.

Story to come.

— Ralph D. Russo (@ralphDrussoAP) July 28, 2021

Blah.

Big 12: ESPN conspired with American to take “3-5” teams to AAC. Story up soon.

— Dennis Dodd (@dennisdoddcbs) July 28, 2021

Blah.

I think the REALLY big news here is the fact that Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby’s signature looks like he signs it with one of those battery-powered squiggly pens.

Look at this thing.

Look at it.

Main culprit:

Did his daughter sign this for him?

How can we tell this document is official? It appears as though it was signed by Ruttttttttwy.

No wonder Texas and OU left. If every conference memo is signed by someone sitting on a dryer, then I’d grab my things and leave too. How can the remaining conference members (whether it’s the ones flirting with ESPN or not) want to stay now after seeing that signature which more so resembles a kindergartner’s drawing of grass?

Anyway, real talk: this is some nasty stuff ESPN is allegedly involved with. It may not be true, but it sounds like it very well could be. Especially when you consider FOX, ESPN’s direct competitor, is the rights holder for Big 12 football, and ESPN has TV rights for the AAC.

ESPN statement on the Big 12's cease and desist letter: “The claims in the letter have no merit.”

— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) July 28, 2021

Oh wait, nevermind. Guess it’s all made up then. *eyes roll so far back into my head that I can actually see the Longhorn Network* This whole thing is going to be insanely interesting to see played out. Especially if it requires Bob Bowlsby, who’s name already sounds like the name of a conference commissioner in The Busy World of Richard Scarry, to sign more documents.