{"id":33108,"date":"2018-12-20T19:14:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T00:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=33108"},"modified":"2018-12-20T19:14:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T00:14:28","slug":"the-elite-all-get-name-dropped-on-nfl-network-segment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/12\/20\/the-elite-all-get-name-dropped-on-nfl-network-segment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elite All Get Name Dropped on NFL Network Segment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While many claim that the members of <strong>The Elite<\/strong> (Kenny Omega, The Young Bucks, Cody Rhodes, Hangman Page and Marty Scurll) aren&#8217;t mainstream stars enough to carry a major promotion in North America, they may have taken one step further into the zeitgeist of America when they were cleverly name-dropped on the <strong>NFL Network<\/strong> during a segment on fantasy football in a piece on <strong>San Francisco 49ers<\/strong> tight end <strong>George Kittle<\/strong> (who is a huge wrestling fan). You can hear the piece here:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gkittle46?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@gkittle46<\/a> let me know when you hear it. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/theELITE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#theELITE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XUr53Xx2zv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/XUr53Xx2zv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Rank (@adamrank) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adamrank\/status\/1075895275238162432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Through the breakdown of Kittle, <strong>Adam Rank<\/strong> stated that &#8220;obviously this Young Buck has done a pretty good job of joining The Elite of the fantasy community&#8221;. He went on to show a bit of hesitation in starting him though as &#8220;he&#8217;s got the Bears this week, which is a kind of an American Nightmare for fantasy enthusiasts&#8221;. But while &#8220;he might be a Villain&#8221; going up against Rank&#8217;s Bears, but at the end, he&#8217;s confident that he can &#8220;Hang, man&#8221;. Rank goes on to state that so far this year, Kittle has been &#8220;The Cleaner at the tight end position in the NFL&#8221; this year, and when it comes to starting him, &#8220;with George Kittle, I&#8217;m All In.&#8221; They may not be household names to average America, but it was a fun nod to one of pro wrestling&#8217;s most influential factions.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/theAdamPage\/status\/1075899019803676672<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So. Well. Executed.<\/p>\n<p>Love it! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n57mUJMpON\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/n57mUJMpON<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cody Rhodes (@CodyRhodes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CodyRhodes\/status\/1075898221535350784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattJackson13\/status\/1075898373348020224<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many claim that the members of The Elite (Kenny Omega, The Young Bucks, Cody Rhodes, Hangman Page and Marty Scurll) aren&#8217;t mainstream stars enough to carry a major promotion in North America, they may have taken one step further into the zeitgeist of America when they were cleverly name-dropped on the NFL Network during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":33112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[98,4042,1493,386,327,4041,423,99],"class_list":["post-33108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-cody-rhodes","tag-george-kittle","tag-hangman-page","tag-kenny-omega","tag-marty-scurll","tag-nfl-network","tag-the-elite","tag-young-bucks"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}