The Barstool Sports founder was making his own return to the Super Bowl after a longstanding war between the sports media company boss and the NFL, which stemmed from a protest that Portnoy and several other Barstool employees held at the league’s offices in New York in 2015 over “Deflate-gate.” The war between Portnoy and the NFL reached a fever pitch in 2019 when Portnoy was kicked out of the Super Bowl between the Rams and Patriots in Atlanta that led to the sports media personality being dragged out of his seat. “I promise you this — if they try to drag me out of the Super Bowl, I have perfected the dead fish and it will be quite a viral moment because I will never walk willingly out of a Super Bowl when I am a paid customer,” Portnoy said.
Author: Christian Arnold
Published at: 2026-02-08 22:56:30
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