{"id":540386,"date":"2017-08-15T19:26:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T23:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=540386"},"modified":"2026-07-25T19:31:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:31:35","slug":"espn-lands-in-hot-water-for-fantasy-football-skit-auctioning-off-black-nfl-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=540386","title":{"rendered":"ESPN lands in hot water for Fantasy Football skit auctioning off black NFL players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, New York Giants star Odell Beckham didn&#8217;t take kindly to being \u201csold\u201d in an NFL auction for $34. Soooooo ESPN just did an &#8220;auction&#8221; sketch pic.twitter.com\/zvezCItems\u2014 J\u1d00s\u1d0f\u0274 (@rjasonscales) August \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/article167405852.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/article167405852.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nfl\/article167405852.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"ESPN lands in hot water for Fantasy Football skit auctioning off black NFL players\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, New York Giants star Odell Beckham didn&#8217;t take kindly to being \u201csold\u201d in an NFL auction for $34. Soooooo ESPN just did an &#8220;auction&#8221; sketch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-panthers","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-88-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=540386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1904564,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540386\/revisions\/1904564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}