The deal is done. Even if it still isn’t done.

On Wednesday, the NFL announced that owners have voted to approve the massive media deal with Disney, which will give ESPN control of assets like NFL Network — and which will give the NFL a 10-percent equity stake in ESPN.

The transaction remains subject to governmental review and approval. Or disapproval.

“There’s a number of steps in a transaction like this and a number of those steps we don’t control ,“ NFL executive V.P. of media distribution Hans Schroeder said, via Ben Fischer of Sports Business Journal . ”So we’re going to do all that we can. We’re going to cooperate, we’re going to partner, and in the meantime, we’re going to continue to run our business and work with all our partners as we always would. But certainly when it

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