Perhaps in some slow-moving companies, those hardened-silo outlooks persist, but in top-performing businesses across the world, all C-level execs are balancing their domain expertise with intense focus on customer behavior and other external factors.
This is where the NFL, the NFLPA and the NCAA must work congruently to form a united resolve by taking both internal and external actions to vigilantly eradicate this unseemly behavior.
That is extraordinary behavior for a global company worth a quarter-trillion dollars whose traditional value lies in linking users to external sites -- in other words, getting you out of the domain ASAP.