RadioOnFire.com - It didn't take long for commissioner Roger Goodell's office to introduce a replacement after word got around that Papa John's relationship with the National Football League was coming to an end. As of Wednesday morning, February 28, Pizza Hut had been named 'the official pizza of the NFL,' thus marking the turning of a new leaf less than 14 hours after John Schnatter's disgraced company formally ended its sponsorship with the league.
Through innumerable television commercials, stadium banners, and other forms of promotion, fans have known Papa John's to represent American football's marquee institution since 2010. But 2018 wound up being a rough year for the pizza chain, with slanderous remarks that Schnatter made against Goodell's handling of the players' National Anthem protest causing a backlash from common citizens and celebrities alike. Not only would his chastisement of the protest movement wind up hurting sales and ultimately lead to Schnatter removing himself from the board at Papa John's; it further isolated him from a league office that was already feuding with Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who is one of the company's biggest partners.
Jones will continue to keep Papa John's as a local sponsor, as will 22 other teams around the league. But with Wednesday's news, Pizza Hut becomes the sole sponsor of the NFL as an umbrella entity. The deal to crown them as such will reportedly run through the 2021 season, and will formally kick in as soon as April, when the NFL hosts its draft at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Source: espn.com
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