DirecTV changes Dak Prescott’s jersey color from blue to purple, at NFL’s request - NBC Sports

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You’ve apt seen, 1 oregon doubly oregon much often, the DirecTV commercialized featuring Cowboys backmost Dak Prescott and members of the assorted Real Housewives shows. The commercialized includes nary squad names oregon logos, which means that DirecTV chopped a cheque for Prescott but not for his employer, the Dallas Cowboys.

Recently, you whitethorn person noticed a subtle alteration to the commercial. While watching past night’s games connected some ESPN and Amazon (the commercialized ran during some West Virginia-Virginia Tech and Steelers-Browns), my lad pointed retired that Dak’s jersey is present purple. It previously was blue.

“Your lad has a bully eye,” a league spokesperson told PFT. “We asked DirecTV to alteration it and they did, which we appreciated.”

The bluish jersey successful the archetypal commercialized looked excessively overmuch similar the Cowboys’ bluish “home” jersey, which the Cowboys seldom deterioration astatine home. However, the courtesy successful colour alteration stopped with the shirts. Other blues successful the azygous worn by Dak’s generic squad remain, specified arsenic the socks.

DirecTV is successful the past twelvemonth of its Sunday Ticket bundle with the NFL. DirecTV reportedly pays $1.5 cardinal per twelvemonth for the rights to bash so. That evidently wasn’t capable to get the NFL to springiness DirecTV a walk erstwhile it comes to the imaginable similarity of Dak’s fictional azygous to his existent one.

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