Hall of Fame receiver Michael Irvin’s TV limbo has apparently ended.

According to John Ourand of Sports Business Journal, Irvin agreed to a deal on Monday to affix the rotating forged of FS1’s Undisputed.

The transfer comes greater than six months after Irvin was faraway from NFL Network’s Super Bowl-week protection over allegations made by an worker on the resort the place he was staying in Arizona. Prior to at present, Irvin’s standing with the league-owned broadcast community had remained apparently unresolved.

An NFL Network spokesperson didn’t reply to an e mail despatched this morning inquiring about Irvin’s standing.

One attainable assumption could be that Irvin is exiting NFL Network. However, he wouldn’t be the primary particular person to work concurrently for Fox and NFLN.

From time to time, a report had emerged that he was nonetheless suspended by the league. As I mentioned Friday on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas, sooner or later the process had to end.

The league wanted to place him on the air, or hearth him. Either Irvin did one thing that justified termination of employment, or he didn’t. A suspension lasting greater than half of a yr made no sense.

It nonetheless stays to be seen whether or not his time at NFL Network has concluded, and whether or not it was voluntary or involuntary.

Irvin has denied all allegations, and he has aggressively pursued authorized rights in opposition to the resort that sparked the occasions culminating in his suspension. Irvin has not initiated public proceedings concerning his standing with NFL Network.

He absolutely has (or had) a contract at NFL Network, and that contract presumably accommodates language that will apply to the scenario.

Setting apart whether or not Irvin did or didn’t say something inappropriate to the resort worker who complained, there’s a good query of whether or not the NFL had any jurisdiction over off-duty habits that resulted in no civil or prison fees, and no allegation of any sort of offensive bodily contact. If, at worst, Irvin mentioned one thing he shouldn’t have mentioned throughout one dialog in a public place with somebody who wasn’t a co-worker, how would that justify the league doing something?

That doesn’t make it proper, if he mentioned one thing flawed. But how can the league take such aggressive motion in opposition to an worker of its media operation for merely saying one thing he shouldn’t have mentioned, particularly when the league has seemed the opposite method on alleged or precise off-field misconduct of a number of house owners?

This will not be a protection of no matter Irvin mentioned, if he mentioned one thing he shouldn’t have mentioned. It’s a common sense analysis of his employment standing. If the league thought what he supposedly did was dangerous sufficient to allow firing him, then the league ought to have completed it. If the league didn’t assume he ought to have been fired, then the league ought to have put him again to work.

For now, it’s nonetheless not clear whether or not the guide has closed on his time with NFL Network. What is obvious is that, per Ourand, Irvin shall be beginning a brand new chapter at FS1.