Dick Vitale Talks Tebow

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How powerful is the Tebow brand? We see ESPN exploit his brand constantly in an effort to suck in viewers. The Daily News put Tebow on the backpage to sell papers. Even Dickie V has sunk to the level of using Tebow’s name to capture viewers on his Periscope feed.

At about 1:50 p.m. on Monday, I stumbled onto this in the Periscope menu:

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I caved and took the bait. Once inside his live feed, I saw that over a hundred others had been sucked into Vitale’s chat, too. Vitale wasn’t even on-screen. The Periscope view was just a shot of his pool.

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That 118 number represents that amount of current viewers. Vitale was busy spouting off about Big Ten hoops and then the MLB American League Wildcat race. Maybe I missed the Tebow talk. I felt like I get Rick-Rolled.