Premier Lacrosse League
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Oct 30, 2026
PFT CommenterHOST
That's pretty nuts.
PFT CommenterHOST
And the Philadelphia Water Dogs became the first multi-PLL championship winners.
Dan KatzHOST
I don't know if that's true either, but it sounds true.
Dan KatzHOST
It sounds good.
Nick FergusonHOST
No, I grew up in Miami in the hood, right? The only sticks we were using was to sweep and mop the floor.
Nick FergusonHOST
But to see these guys use the sticks that they use, and I'm going from the high school level, the college level, and then the PLL, Listen, man, they got something spectacular.
Nick FergusonHOST
And sometimes people are really biased, like they're biased in life about everything.
Nick FergusonHOST
I'm only doing this.
Dan KatzHOST
spotlight.
Dan KatzHOST
I've had that exact discussion with the PLL.
Dan KatzHOST
They do a good job and they're growing the league.
Dan KatzHOST
I they're like semifinals and finals is like on week one and week two of NFL Sunday I'm like I don't you're just no one is going to you have to change your schedule around go Friday night yeah or just anything literally you just have to move around the NFL you cannot go up against the NFL or really college football for that matter
Jake ElliottHOST
Remember when people were talking when he retired from the
Jake HenhawkHOST
PLL? That was it.
Jake HenhawkHOST
I think the Atlas Cup was really good for him and his confidence going into the box season this winter.
Jake HenhawkHOST
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Eddie ComeauGUEST
I mean, it's great.
Eddie ComeauGUEST
I mean, he's one of those kids who he wants to play.
Eddie ComeauGUEST
If he could play 12 months a year, he'd play 12 months a year and had a little sniff in the PLL, and we had him out to a sixes camp too.
Eddie ComeauGUEST
Yeah, you just always get a little bit worried that when you see guys playing in leagues like that, that someone's going to take a run at someone.
Chris FentonHOST
So there were a lot of professional in lacrosse.
Chris FentonHOST
They have the National Lacrosse League and the PLL, which is the professional lacrosse league.
Chris FentonHOST
And there's kids that are playing professional.
Chris FentonHOST
professionally getting paid and they're also in graduate school still playing in college so don't ask me why that makes sense it's sort of crazy but we'll move on from that topic so the second thing um i wanted to bring up and i'm not going to get too deep in it because we haven't announced it yet but today was one of those days where i'm like really excited about the fact that I'm in the movie business, which if anybody pays attention to any news, we are in massive downsizing.
Mike Golic Jr.HOST
We're presented by Progressive Insurance, Mike Golic Jr. and Mike Golic Sr. Paul Rabil going to join us today.
Mike Golic Jr.HOST
Lacrosse legend, PLL co-founder.
Mike Golic Jr.HOST
New series coming out.
Mike Golic Jr.HOST
Talking about the growth of that.
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Mike Golic Jr.HOST
It is the Gullocks, Mike Gullock Jr. and Mike Gullock Sr. Paul Rabil, PLL co-founder of Professional Lacrosse.
Mike Golic Jr.HOST
There we go.
Evan CohenHOST
We are on Sportsmanlike here on ESPN Radio, ESPNU.
Evan CohenHOST
We are presented by Progressive Insurance, along with Michelle Smallmon, Chris Canty, Evan Cohen with you, and joining us now in studio, Paul Rabil, PLL president, co-founder.
Evan CohenHOST
of the league a new espn original series goes inside the high stakes fight to make professional lacrosse a major american sport and paul has been doing this his entire life and it's going to take every ounce of me to not ask him a million questions about belichick i will try not to because that is a guy right am i right paul you have a very close relationship with coach belichick correct
Paul RabilGUEST
Yes, yes.
Paul RabilGUEST
I'm an offensive guy.
Paul RabilGUEST
You know what I mean? And so that was the impasse.
Evan CohenHOST
We're talking with Paul Rabil, co-founder, president, PLL.
Evan CohenHOST
All right, let's talk about the series that is the ESPN original, the big leagues.
Deirdre LesterHOST
I'm your host, Deirdre, and today's guest is Paul Rabil.
Deirdre LesterHOST
Paul is the co-founder, president, and chief creative officer of the Premier Lacrosse League, which he launched with his brother Mike Rabel in 2019.
Deirdre LesterHOST
He's grown that into a professional sports league, but also a sports and media company.
Deirdre LesterHOST
There are eight PLL teams and also recently launched the Women's Lacrosse League.
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Paul RabilGUEST
And that's where we were.
Paul RabilGUEST
So we then built a parallel track, which is starting a competitor.
Paul RabilGUEST
And that was called the Premier Lacrosse League.
Paul RabilGUEST
And the Achilles heel at the time, going back to the narrative, the front office of MLL, which was like, times aren't great here.
Jeremy WolfHOST
This is what every athlete has the opportunity to do.
Jeremy WolfHOST
Paul Rabel, it might be the greatest lacrosse player of all time, Instead of waiting for a league to pay him what he was worth, he co-founded one, the Premier Lacrosse League.
Jeremy WolfHOST
This week, he sat down with John Wall Street and basically read out the builder's playbook.
Jeremy WolfHOST
Per the John Wall Street At The Table episode with Paul Rabel, PLL's first media deal was a three-year agreement with NBC in 2019, structured so the league kept rich first-party data on its own fans through NBC Sports Gold.
Jeremy WolfHOST
Wow, what a Thursday.
Jeremy WolfHOST
The contrast of this is perfect.
Jeremy WolfHOST
Paul Rabel's Premier Lacrosse League is staying with ESPN.
Jeremy WolfHOST
The National Lacrosse League, the indoor game, just left ESPN and signed an exclusive multi-year streaming deal with Flow Sports, who I had never heard of, with some games staying free.
Deirdre LesterHOST
I'm your host, Deirdre, and today's guest is Paul Rabil.
Deirdre LesterHOST
Paul is the co-founder, president, and chief creative officer of the Premier Lacrosse League, which he launched with his brother Mike Rabel in 2019.
Deirdre LesterHOST
He's grown that into a professional sports league, but also a sports and media company.
Deirdre LesterHOST
There are eight PLL teams and also recently launched the Women's Lacrosse League.
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Paul RabilGUEST
And that's where we were.
Paul RabilGUEST
So we then built a parallel track, which is starting a competitor.
Paul RabilGUEST
And that was called the Premier Lacrosse League.
Paul RabilGUEST
And the Achilles heel at the time, going back to the narrative of the front office of MLL, which was like,
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