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Well here we are back again.
Happy Friday, Mark Cast here, lots

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of stuff to talk about. Didn't
know if we would have anything to talk

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about. John and I have kind
of been going back a fourth all week.

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Here we have John Lewis here,
John Lewis Sports sporty, and I

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guess I'm Mark Cast. Sure the
bought that I wasn't even notified from the

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shop listen, so maybe I've been
selling hundreds of them. I had no

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idea. Very well, could be. We were talking fashion today. I

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figured I got to come fashionable on
this. Yeah, So lots of news

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today, John and I I have
so I'm podcasting under duress. A dental

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surgery earlier this week, gum reconstructive, worse than anything I've kind of gone

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through medical wise, at least in
this I have. Genetics have not been

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kind to me. So we're here, you know, we kind of expected

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Okay, Wednesday, Okay, Thursday. Yeah, we've been doing the media

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days and all that stuff. But
we have uniforms to talk about, we

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have new merchandise to talk about.
We have the broadcasters we can talk a

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little bit about that. Lots of
stuff to talk about. I'll roll through

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some comments here, John, you
were on two weeks ago. We had

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Greg Parks last week. How are
you feeling now? We're three weeks out

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from kickoff? We will be in
Arlington, I will be you can be

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on the show if you want to
be, you know, but we will

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be live here going March March thirtieth, so we're almost there. How are

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you feeling. I'm feeling optimistic.
I'm really looking forward to the kickoff.

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It feels like at least, you
know, kind of in our community here

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that it's that people are are getting
excited. To me, there are a

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few red flags on some of these
rollouts. That's really kind of my only

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thing about this because you mentioned media
days. So far, the Birmingham Stallions

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are the only media that I have
that has contacted me. I'm on the

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UFL mailing list. Now, I
mean, I'm nobody, I get it,

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but it's like they they have contacted
me. They're you know, allow

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me to be part of the news
conferences. They allow me to download the

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news conferences. It's only team that
I have gotten anything from, which is

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kind of disappointing, because you know, we can get we can give the

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UFL. It's what we do.
We're fans, but we also like want

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to tell stories and pass things along
to people who aren't privy to these things.

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So it's just kind of I think
it's a missed opportunity there. And

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I'm sure we'll talk about some of
the other things that we've seen pr wise,

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but the game's the thing, so
I'm gonna stay optimistic here. Yeah.

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Now, I'll give you just a
preface here, and I see,

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Zach, we have a comment here
talking I'll pull that out here talking about

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the format of the show. This
might air a little bit neggati today just

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with everything going on. Is I
always put my hand up and then I

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screw up my hand tracking on my
camera there. This could be a little

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negative today. Now next week,
I've already recorded one interview a training campvenue.

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I tweeted about yesterday's surprise, a
big name. Everyone will be excited

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for that. I know people want
more interviews. Zach has the common area.

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Please bring back the format of the
show. There probably wouldn't have been

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a show the last two months three
months if we weren't be doing the little

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live things and having John and Greg
and Andy and Evan and Pat and everybody

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else. So we're getting some interviews
I cannot control the flow of Okay,

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read we're in training camp. Okay, now we need time. Okay,

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we're working on it. I have
a big name guest I'm working on.

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I guess I already have one recorded
and then a couple other kind of spokes

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in the fire. So I think
Pat's going to join me next week.

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I think we're going to do an
all Markcasts UFL team listenings. Like I

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said, I already have one interview, so I can subscribe, but you

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do not want to miss my big
name interview. So they got back to

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me again this week. We're working
on that so it should be so just

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stay tuned. But if you're a
little like hey, I don't want to

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get to we might get a little
bit nitpicky today with some of the rollout

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stuff this week. Does not mean
I'm not excited. Does not mean so

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I can subscribe if you want to
be part of that, because I promise

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you at least the interview are already
recorded here last night. You will not

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want to miss that. So exciting
stuff. Yeah, you know, we

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got the uniforms and I'll pull up
the press photos here. We finally got

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the release today because I know Mike
Mitchell have reported with Sports Illustrated like it

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was coming. It did not make
sense to me. I guess a couple

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different ways. So doing a uniform
release feels redundant. Redundant if because a

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lot of the uniforms are recycled,
right, like there's no new uniforms.

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But my argument would be we are
still trying to attract new fans here,

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right, So the uniform release and
us doing a video about that is not

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for the people that are watching this
or already subscribed. It's God forbid we

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get anybody else like, oh man, there's new uniforms coming out, Like

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I didn't watch before. These are
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backwards. We did the media day, you know, we we leaked kind

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of leaked everything, and then today
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just feel as backwards in terms of
any way that you would generate any kind

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of excitement about that. I'll pull
up the uniforms, But how did you

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like kind of that? Uh,
you know, we finally come out today

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like oh yeah, by the way, here we have this agreement. Yeah,

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and it came out like this afternoon. It was you know, here

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at least here on the in the
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this was kind of backwards. I
think that there is an opportunity that we

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talk about all the time. You've
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why not make it a thing.
Yeah, some of us will be like,

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oh, these are the same uniforms
that they wore, and these are

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the these are the under armored uniforms
that the XFL wore. Now all they

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did was just kind of move that
template to the USFL uniform, which there

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are some little tweaks, and I
mean very minor, but still you can

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make it a thing. I mean
that in the here and here's another thing.

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I've signed up. I'm on the
UFL mailing list, not not just

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the the PR thing, but also
the fan list where they're supposed to,

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you know, send you emails like, Hey, this is happening, this

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is happening, check out this news. I rarely get anything from there.

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In fact, the way that I
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gear on the website today was I
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if they had shipped my UFL shirt
that I ordered on February sixteenth, and

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then I see, oh, they've
got some new stuff on here. I'd

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never even gotten anything. By the
way, I still don't. They still

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haven't shipped my shirt, but that's
my problem. So again, yeah,

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they're just it. We continue to
say this, there are a lot of

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missed opportunities read because again and I
want to talk through these here from like

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this isn't for us, this isn't
for you know you're trying to do and

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that's again we found the conversations in
Greg Parks last week. Is I don't

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know, and I certainly a to
you know, I appreciate the Rock being

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on Daytona and we're making a lot
of that. I want to get talked

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today as well about kind of like
where does Danny and Dwayne kind of fit

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into this, because I did any
Garcia has seemed to like drop off the

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face of the earth here. I
mean, I know the Rocks feudy with

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Kody Rhodes and like that's been tremendous. He's still taking the time to do

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Daytona, but it seems to me
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I don't know what we're reaching outside
of unless I'm following the XFL on Instagram,

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which these social teams have done a
tremendous job. Anybody involved, and

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I follow all you guys on you
know, personally and Jay and Leah and

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everybody, anybody that's involved in that
tremendous. But but you know, I

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keep hearing this like, Okay,
well we just need to get through this,

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we just need to get through this. And it's been where it's March

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of twenty four now, I've heard
that for the last four years. So

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we got these out. I will
say, I am not a I am

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a professional wedding videographer. I'm not
a professional photographer. These are I would

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have photo shopped these a little bit. I don't want to be too critical

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John and I went back. I
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Uh, these are not social media
leaks. These are the These are the

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press release photos that were sent to
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want to be but you know,
we have markings on some, we have

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the laptop showing on some. But
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have you know, Ballahawks back again, So I know real tweaks for any

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of this stuff. Like I said, we have kind of the UFL logo

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on that if it ain't broke,
don't fix it. I'll pull up the

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Ballahawks social as well because I know
they have someone there. But thoughts on

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this and getting the UFL logo on
there, Yeah, I mean right,

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this it's it's a great picture,
you know, because you can see the

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whole uniform. But you look and
if you go on the UFL website,

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anyone who's out there who hasn't even
seen these are on the uf official UFL

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website, So you see the markings
on the floor. I mean these look

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like red. I said to you, because I'm old, I remember these

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things that looks like back in the
back in the eighties and nineties when they

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actually took pictures on film and they
would shoot them the frame wider so you

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could crop things out and you would
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all that. So I just don't
know why, like you would look at

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that. Why not, I mean, anyone could photo shop that out.

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Just look. It feels bush league. Love the uniforms though, I mean,

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I'm a big I'm glad that they
did. I'm glad they kept the

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Battlehall uniforms because those are some of
my favorites. Well, I'm just I'm

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surprised because like the one thing I
thought was Fox two years ago with the

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initial USFL logos. I thought those
were the best videos we had seen of

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any of them, you know,
and it was like the bright yellow background

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and the red with with the stablets. Let me see if I can pluy

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that. But I just thought that
that was such a tremendous job the XFL

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ones last year. I know,
they were live right on what were they

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live on whatever? They did the
show and then they had the videos without

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all that, but I don't know, just really surprised that this is what

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we got this time. And I
know too that like Scooby Wright was tweeting

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that they were taking photos in the
wrong jersey numbers that he was wearing someone

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else's, so like interesting that way
as well. But I wanted to see

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if I get the USFL on up
here. But yeah, thoughts on the

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actual uniform here, Yeah, I
like it, and it, you know,

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just from as much as we could
take a look at some of these,

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I still haven't seen a lot of
the of the road uniforms, so

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I don't know how much tweaking there's
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like we've seen some of the home
uniforms and I will say I do like

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that again that the battle Hawks.
They they kept that whole theme all blue.

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I wish they'd bring back the blue
helmets. But I was like,

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I was hyped to see like the
behind the scenes media day stuff with their

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shooting. Obviously you could see it's
at ESPN in the back, so those

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are the what they call in A
lot of people won't see interstitials or bumper

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shots that that they'll show during the
game. You crop that correctly there by

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the way. So yeah, and
these things are just these This looks good,

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This looks good, and they were
doing like the bubbles. We had

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a lot of bubble stuff going on, Like I thought, this was all

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great. Yes, was fun,
This was great behind the scenes stuff that's

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gonna look even better when you actually
see like what they're shooting there. But

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yeah, that really shows off the
uniform there and looks you know, pretty

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much the same as last year,
if not exactly the same. But see,

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yeah, here was kind of some
of the press photos back with the

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with the USFL before And I mean
it just to me, uh, you

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know, you're sending these outs and
you're posting and podcasters are using them,

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and the YouTube people and even I'm
talking bigger people than us. I mean,

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there's huge channels that do uniform breakdowns
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rolled through with that. Yeah,
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the roll again, that just feels
like it's another missed opportunity rollout for for

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a lot of things. You're right, I mean these are the promotional Now

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think about this. These are the
promotional photos that a lot of people will

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use because these are press photos.
And can you imagine if they if they

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use this, then there's marketing on
the floor. I mean, it just

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feels like this is you know,
you said it, we're going We're going

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to be nitpicky. But branding is
very important for this league. Not for

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us. It's for the people out
there who want to get involved and are

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casual fans, and when they see
stuff like this, they'll be like what

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is this? Yeah, and I'm
looking on so I like having to get

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home in a way, I'm not
seeing a lot. I'm seeing a lot

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of the home. He's here.
I know a couple of the a couple

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of the teams had So we'll kind
of go through it. But they were

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showing the away jerseys as well,
because it's in the Ballahawks. It's more

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that gray one, right, It's
like a nice gray with the blue.

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That's what they used, yeah,
last year, So I don't, I

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can't. I was looking around to
see if they were going to use it

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again this year. I didn't really
see a lot of these. I'm looking

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at videos like this and trying to
look in the background because you'd see some

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people in the background that had that
had the away uniform, so you could

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kind of tell what was going on
there. Yeah, So I think it's

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similar that way, replacing the XVl
with the UFL obviously with you know,

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the USFL one is getting rebranded here
with the under armor and all of that.

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So, you know, I like
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don't fix. I don't think we
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in terms of like, you know, radical redesigns. But you know,

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I just think again, it's all
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Like The Rock, Like The Rock
right now with Cody Rhuds and all,

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this is like the most basic wrestling
promo thing ever. Right, He's with

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Roman Reins and Okay, you know
he's gonna turn on them at some point,

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like everybody can see it, but
you just sell it, you go

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through it, and this is what
we're doing here, Like it doesn't matter

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if we've seen all these the last
two years, no one's going to care

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about that. Put this out,
put together a press release. You know,

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have the video crew coming, like
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We're awesome back in back in twenty
twenty three. Yeah, I thought,

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you know, and they did it
right there. You know, they did

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it on Sports Center. It was
really cool. You know. Again,

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ESPN is a you know, they're
a partner, so I don't know why

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they just didn't pick it up a
little more, or you know, have

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these ready to be sold? You
know? Of course, you know that's

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another topic. The UFL shop.
We've we've had some problems, but uh,

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you know right now, you as
far as I know, I haven't

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seen any replica jerseys or authentic jerseys
for sale. So you thought that,

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you know, you another missed opportunity
to me. Uh so Zach hates our

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live shows. We just say that
you should be a permanent co host.

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This man is absolutely awesome. So
there come over with content, if not

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with with you know, with the
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these. So then like the San
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my team. Uh again, so
now we're just this is just a crop

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photo for this one. So again, you know, if you're doing and

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we said this be like home and
away, full body, front back,

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that's all we need. This is
great and I love the detailing this.

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of the UFL your logo on there.

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I think that looks crisp right obviously
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side. You can see the San
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you know, the the weave on
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I can't remember when when the XFL
uniforms came out. It was Max

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sent me up with the guy that
like helps design uniforms, and he came

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on and kind of broke down the
whole like complimenting of color like this,

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we're like the casual people here like, oh this is great, but he

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kind of did a whole like color
science and all that stuff. So if

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you search mark Cast XFL uniforms,
that was a pretty good on there.

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But you know, good to see
this come back. I like this the

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off black, kind of dark gray
for the for the promise is a good

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look. You are not gonna like
the video that I'm going to have about

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grading the uniforms. So I'm just
gonna tell you that right now. That's

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a good tease. So what do
you have coming out? Well, I

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am I'm gonna do just kind of
a you know, pass fail, a

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B C d F kind of thing. I mean, it's all personal opinion,

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who cares, but this was the
San Antonio ones were probably my least

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favorite. I do like the yellow
yellow aways though. Yeah. If I

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see again, like I want to
buy this right now, like this,

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this is awesome, Like now,
I would wear that one hundred percent.

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I think that's cool. I think
the prom is is the promise is my

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I like brahmas and roughnecks. We'll
get we'll get to that. But I

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like something a little different. I
like my spring football uniforms to stand out.

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I mean, I'm the one that
has it. I'm going to actually

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go grab some here you talk about
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mean I like that. You know, there's been some thought that went into

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these, obviously with under armour.
They don't just throw stuff out there.

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of my favorite just personal like warm ups

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or whatever are under armour. I
have. I have an under arm or

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shirt that's like a cool cool gear
shirt from twenty or two thousand and nine.

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I still have it because it's so
comfortable, it doesn't shrink. It's

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really good and these are well designed. So yeah, I mean again,

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I'm not a Brahma's uniform fan,
but I love the detail and I do

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like the away yellows. I mean
I did upgrade on that one as far

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as I graded on a curve with
them. Great. Well, I just

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wanted to say here, you know, because I like I'm here. I

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just had any time I can show
off my official Spring League jousers. This

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is official, this is game warn't. Dorothy has one as well. If

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you want to be jealous, you
know you could be hey, if you

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want to be married to the Marc
cast here you have that. But Jared

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has a question here, and this
is a very valid will we ever be

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able to find official away jerseys,
because that's a question or XFL twenty twenty

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went away. We were never able
to do that. We've never been able

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to do that with the USFL,
and to me, I'm not always the

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biggest away jersey guy because most of
the time they're just white. The XFL

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with this yellow Bramas with the you
know, with the gray ballot, there's

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enough spice in those who I would
want to buy one. I had to

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do a Dragon's twenty twenty one through
Dustin with throw retros. That was the

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only way I was able to do
that because he I can't remember what it

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was. He was like, Hey, I'll make you a custom jersey anything

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you want. I was like,
why don't you just do this because it's

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never you know, it's never existed
in a way to buy. So,

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yeah, that would be a good
way to tell. But you know,

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we couldn't even get I mean,
uniforms are rough back in twenty twenty three

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here with the XFL. I thought
my USFL one was the better quality for

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the replica with the stars, which
I do have. Yeah, and I

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did not get any authentic or replica
jerseys, but and I've seen some.

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There's a website and I don't remember
it any Even if I did, I

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wouldn't pass along. But they sell
replica jerseys that are obviously not licensed,

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and you can really tell. I've
seen a few pictures and they look like

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they came straight from the flea market. And so but those are out there

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because there's demand and there are people
that are buying them because I have seen

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them, and it's not even people
that I really know, it's just in

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the you know, some of the
Facebook communities. So yeah, again,

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I just it's just that would be
and that is a that is a very

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valid question. It's like, not
only would you like to buy a home

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jersey, but could you find an
away jersey? I mean the NFL you

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can get you know, the first
second and third, you know, the

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Thursday Night Action jerseys. I own
every Commander's jersey that they own, and

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the team exists for a few years, like so, you know, and

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we have three, you know,
we have a I don't think they've ever

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won in the black one, but
I have I have the Commander's black one.

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That's one of my favorites. But
yeah, I get I love the

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Brahmas on this. I like that
it fits in with the San Antonio theme.

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The yellow, I don't know,
to me, the yellow, it

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might just be the lighting here.
It doesn't necessarily this is a nice banana

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yellow. I really like this color
yellow. Where it's not is you know,

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it's a little mute that like I
don't know why I have this towel

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here, but you know a little
more I don't know. To me,

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it stands out at pops in as
as an away jersey. I think this

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is one of the best ones.
Agree, Uh yeah, Pat says here

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it looks like the Gotham team from
the Dark Knight, right, that's right,

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got them rogues, I will say. And this is no disrespect to

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our USFL brother and some of these
ones, I think. And part of

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this is we're honoring the history of
the USFL, right, this is the

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Panthers. We're honoring the history of
the USFL things. I like some of

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the updated design language with the XFL
when we're marrying them. What do you

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see now having gone from two XFL
once now to this and maybe you're you

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know, you like the history of
all this. Am I is I as

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jarring? Or am I alone or
not? No? No? I agree?

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And also if you notice too,
the XFL jerseys or most of them,

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have they well I think all of
the XFL ones have the city name

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on them this one. I mean
it it doesn't and I assume this is

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oh yeah, because that's Danny Apling. Right. Well, now you run

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into this too, and I can
go back and look, I'm just pulling

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up the Panthers on Twitter. Here
you do get the thing too, where

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not everything is like so here,
where can I get back on this?

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Uh? So the why can't not
all the XFL ones are the same on

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that? So like if you go
back, see this is San Antonio,

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but if you go to the Ballahawks
one, it says say like they're they're

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not all consistent if I remember back
and I need to pull up to who

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the same in that way? But
yeah, it is, Yes, it

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is very different here where you have
the names at least the team or the

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city name on that versus the USFL
one. Yeah. So I just thought,

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I mean, if you're gonna,
I guess that maybe it's a way

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to kind of differentiate the the USFL
from the XFL. But just to me,

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I mean, I like the Panthers
colors, but I just that just

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it seems very plain to me like
there's not even any there's there's no shadow

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around the number, which would be
really tough for television and and it has

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been in the past, but yeah, I don't. I don't not a

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fan. So let's pull up here. We get a little bit more detail

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here. So these are obviously the
home and the way again and this isn't

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consistent, so we've got, you
know, the Saint Louis didn't have.

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But you know, it's always hard
to me. I'm not nostalgic for the

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old USFL stoff. So I get
when you want to carry over the design

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language. I get that, and
we have to honor the past, but

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you know it is I mean,
the the at least going off the end.

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The San Antonio one, not to
me, just speaks of like,

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we, hey, we really took
some extra time here to curate something specialized.

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I like, I do. I
mean to me, I'm not.

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I don't know if I'm the target
audience, but yeah, to me,

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I like that they wanted to to
hold on to some of that nostalgia of

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the USFL because they really had some
great designs. But these are so traditional

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and then you do it and it
doesn't even look like the XFL conference when

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it just that's confusing to me.
I don't, you know, I mean,

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but because you look at it.
Okay, yeah, we want to

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embrace the tradition. But there there's
also a USFL patch, there is a

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under armour patch. There's another under
armour patch on the pants. There's the

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I do like they all have the
logo, the mascot logo on the pants,

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so that it's good. But to
me, why not, you know

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what, why not make them You
don't have to make them all the same,

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but at least put the cities on
there. I just I didn't or

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you know, the team they meant
that would be Michigan, But why not

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do that? What's interesting too is
if you go here, I thought this

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was interesting Matt here with the comment
is it's too difficult to ask you get

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the shade of plumb on the pants
stripe? Correct our colors aren't darkish red,

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so a little bit of issue there
with it not not being the correct

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color. Looks Yeah, it looks
a little more plumbing. And I'm not

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a I'm not a Panther's purist here, but I would understand. Like,

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but hey, we've seen that with
fanatics right now in MLB where the Mariners,

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well, but especially like the Mariners
have very specific color palettes and the

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hat that they have custom for spring
training does not match the jersey at all.

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It's not even the same colors.
And so well here it's you know,

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it's the seafoam green. I get
that people are very conscientious about that,

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and to me that makes a lot
of sense. Yeah, Royal Retro

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has had a great post on that. It was like, you know,

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when someone was comparing, they were
showing it was the mayor logo from I

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guess last year, a year before, and then they showed the new one

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and it did it look like it
had been out in the sun and washed

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out, and Roller Retros was like, yeah, we wouldn't do that.

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Uh, now here's here's that fits
a little bit more, I think in

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terms of the accent on design language, even if it doesn't have the season

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right, here's the malors here.
Uh looks not quite as as purple purple

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the show sorry excuse me, looks
a little bit at least with with the

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with the doubles, the yeah,
the two shade there. I don't know.

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To me, this fits a little
bit more into that we're versus the

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panthers. Agreed. I like these
and I like that on the yolks there

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they have the cutout for the under
armour and for the US the UFL patch.

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I think that is really sharp a
lot. I mean, were the

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Showboats like one of the most polarizing
teams when it came to the logo and

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the colors. There were so many
people when they when they came out,

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it's like, oh, I hate
these, and other people are like,

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oh, I love these. I
love the color scheme is one of my

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favorite color schemes in in the entire
league. But I do like that they

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put a little attention to detail with
the UFL patch and the under armor patch

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having cutouts on the yolks. Yeah, and and it fits there even if

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it looks like, I mean,
this is ocd read but that is not.

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Oh my god, that looks like
they taped it on. But I

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mean that's uh. People, My
wife has said I'm compulsive, But am

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I mistaken? That? Is that
a little No, you were not,

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because it looks crooked and it looks
like it's it's like someone ironed it on

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crooked. It's not even like it
doesn't even look like it's stitched on.

407
00:24:30.039 --> 00:24:32.640
I didn't even notice that. Hey. Now, I will just say though,

408
00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:33.640
and I tend to pick it here, but the fact because I'm trying

409
00:24:33.680 --> 00:24:37.039
to get away whatever on the showboats
page, Uh, they don't have anything

410
00:24:37.079 --> 00:24:41.839
from either they had the two hours
ago. We're talking to International Women's talking

411
00:24:41.839 --> 00:24:45.599
about the best fans, but we
don't have a lot of there's no uniform

412
00:24:45.759 --> 00:24:48.240
things on here. And then we
go back to Mars. So I wish

413
00:24:48.559 --> 00:24:52.079
we we get a little bit of
media day, but I would have liked,

414
00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:55.480
Okay, we're getting a little bit. But that's okay. I guess

415
00:24:55.480 --> 00:24:57.839
that's your best to look at the
away Yeah, yeah, I don't and

416
00:24:57.880 --> 00:25:00.799
I did. I did see some
of these and I think there was another

417
00:25:00.880 --> 00:25:07.160
video it might have been on Instagram
that showed the away jerseys and they Yeah,

418
00:25:07.240 --> 00:25:08.880
I'm not a huge fan of the
all white and in fact, I

419
00:25:08.920 --> 00:25:12.839
point out in the video it looks
like a reverse La Extreme jersey from two

420
00:25:12.839 --> 00:25:17.319
thousand and one. Yeah, I
mean that's obviously the practice jersey. Philip

421
00:25:17.319 --> 00:25:21.000
giving us ninety nine cents, appreciate
that if you you know, Johnson member

422
00:25:21.119 --> 00:25:23.880
joined the club ninety nine centsim on
the marcast, subscribers on podcasts and I

423
00:25:23.920 --> 00:25:27.759
can't fill half my face right now, you know what for show I'll be

424
00:25:27.799 --> 00:25:32.559
paid for that. Help me pay
for that dentseol bill oh boy pocket.

425
00:25:33.720 --> 00:25:36.359
Yeah, So anyway back back to
that, I don't know. To me,

426
00:25:36.480 --> 00:25:38.359
I like the l on this.
This is fine. I don't know

427
00:25:38.400 --> 00:25:42.559
if I love this purple. I
would like a little bit more like like

428
00:25:42.559 --> 00:25:48.079
a show like a Jouser's purple here. But yeah, maybe that's the history.

429
00:25:48.079 --> 00:25:51.960
I think they left that behind with
the Pittsburgh Mallers. Yeah, I

430
00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:53.920
get that, okay, which was
one which was absolutely one of the worst

431
00:25:55.079 --> 00:25:57.799
color schemes. I'm glad they actually
changed it. It was hard and they

432
00:25:57.799 --> 00:26:03.960
were trying to play late steal and
it didn't work obviously. No, okay,

433
00:26:03.119 --> 00:26:07.119
they see now here. If we're
talking design language, so this one

434
00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:10.599
go into what I think is,
this is one of the best jerseys in

435
00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:14.599
all of in all of spring football
here with the Houston Roughnecks on here in

436
00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:18.319
the USFL Conference ACCFL team. I
want to look at it. I want

437
00:26:18.319 --> 00:26:19.319
to get a zoom in on the
patch here. But you get what I'm

438
00:26:19.359 --> 00:26:22.839
saying. At least this speaks a
similar design language. Even though now you

439
00:26:22.920 --> 00:26:26.079
have nice gradients. Some people like
gradients, some people don't. With the

440
00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:30.640
numbering and all of that. But
you know, it at least feels like

441
00:26:30.680 --> 00:26:32.559
this might be in the same family. But what do you like in the

442
00:26:32.599 --> 00:26:34.799
roughnecks? I like it. I
like I said that. I think those

443
00:26:34.839 --> 00:26:38.599
are called yokes. I'm not a
uniform expert, but I like that.

444
00:26:38.720 --> 00:26:44.839
And plus with the white and then
you have the navy and the gradient numbers,

445
00:26:44.839 --> 00:26:48.000
which I do love. With that
helmet, which some people love,

446
00:26:48.119 --> 00:26:51.160
some people hate. I like it
because it looks different. It's like nothing

447
00:26:51.160 --> 00:26:55.359
that's in any other league that I've
seen. Yeah, I'm a big fan.

448
00:26:55.440 --> 00:26:57.799
This is absolutely Houston's one of my
favorite uniforms. And I'm not a

449
00:26:57.799 --> 00:27:02.279
big fan of like the white pants, but I it just works with that

450
00:27:02.359 --> 00:27:07.240
whole color scheme. And I will
say again, just if we're ever having

451
00:27:07.319 --> 00:27:11.079
spring football uniform releases again, just
at any you know, I've talked about

452
00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:12.920
this last time and the time before, having all the helmets with all of

453
00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:15.599
them as well, this is good, right because they know, like this

454
00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:18.400
is a standout. But let's get
a side angle of this, right,

455
00:27:18.440 --> 00:27:22.599
that this is one of the standout
helmets on here, because even on the

456
00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:26.720
side right, it's kind of like
the three quarters or whatever. What do

457
00:27:26.759 --> 00:27:29.599
you, what's your thoughts on the
excuse me, what's your thoughts on the

458
00:27:29.640 --> 00:27:32.880
patch? On here? Get in
the little Does that feel more more on

459
00:27:32.920 --> 00:27:36.240
the air lit? I mean it
still looks like someone just slapped it on

460
00:27:36.319 --> 00:27:37.720
there, like it's got double sided
tape on the back. It doesn't.

461
00:27:37.799 --> 00:27:41.480
Do you think if we pull that
off, is there an XFL logo on

462
00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:42.799
that? Do you? I think
one hundred percent? Because if you look

463
00:27:42.799 --> 00:27:48.000
at look at last year's last year's
jerseys, I guarantee you you just take

464
00:27:48.039 --> 00:27:53.160
that off, there's gonna be an
xflor XFL logo under there. Let me

465
00:27:53.200 --> 00:27:56.039
get this up here, Yeah,
it's gonna be and it's definitely Uh where

466
00:27:56.279 --> 00:28:00.599
do we have a good and I'm
getting the XFL twenty twenty three? Well

467
00:28:00.599 --> 00:28:04.599
here this will at least give us
uh here, this is terrible podcasting.

468
00:28:04.680 --> 00:28:10.359
Now, yeah, there you go, seeing they had the they had the

469
00:28:10.440 --> 00:28:12.519
yolks cut or they had that cut
out there. I mean it's gotta be

470
00:28:12.640 --> 00:28:19.640
right. Yeah, this is I
can't get and and the patch is navy

471
00:28:19.720 --> 00:28:23.400
see because they couldn't. I mean
you could just put that over the logo.

472
00:28:25.039 --> 00:28:30.039
You couldn't just stitch UFL over top
of the x fl Uh here we

473
00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:34.039
go? Uh am, I yeah, here we go. Yeah, it's

474
00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:37.839
yeah, I get what you're saying. Here you can see I think it's

475
00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:41.240
I think it's definitely an iron on
patch. There. I think that this

476
00:28:41.519 --> 00:28:45.160
looks like something came from e Bay. But again, this, hell,

477
00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:48.599
I'll say, like, because we
got our this is how good of we

478
00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:52.680
are. We got a knockoff cracking
We got knockoff Sealla cracking practice jerseys from

479
00:28:52.720 --> 00:28:56.319
China, but they don't come with
the Starbucks logo on it. So then

480
00:28:56.319 --> 00:29:00.640
we bought Starbucks iron on patches.
Who we get iron onto our practicers.

481
00:29:02.359 --> 00:29:04.440
That's commitment. But but anyway,
but again, this, at least to

482
00:29:04.480 --> 00:29:07.240
me, feels I gotta get back, can I? There we go.

483
00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:11.519
At least feels like it's in the
same design language. Here, I was

484
00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:14.799
gonna pull up the rough next page. Here, get a little bit more

485
00:29:14.839 --> 00:29:19.279
detail on that. I think it
looks really nice. The color scheme is

486
00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:25.160
to me perfect for it. And
yeah, and they had some really nice

487
00:29:25.160 --> 00:29:29.279
still photos from their media day on
These are the same ones they had on

488
00:29:29.319 --> 00:29:34.200
Instagram. Okay, man, we're
rivaling our YouTube viewership with Twitter viewership right

489
00:29:34.200 --> 00:29:37.240
now? This is our Twitter page. One hundred and thirty here on YouTube,

490
00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:41.920
like another eighty five over on Twitter. So that's never get that many

491
00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:44.839
on Twitter, so I appreciate that. Anyway, this is this to me

492
00:29:44.960 --> 00:29:47.799
is great. I know Philip doesn't
love all this, he's a rough next

493
00:29:47.839 --> 00:29:52.039
fan, but you can you can't
be too sad about that. Here,

494
00:29:52.559 --> 00:29:56.240
I gotta get over here. This
is another This photo could have used a

495
00:29:56.240 --> 00:29:59.559
little work shopping here. I don't
like seeing the laptop on here and he's

496
00:29:59.640 --> 00:30:03.279
lapto up and the I mean,
what is going on somebody's laptop in the

497
00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:11.480
bottom, the marks on the floor. It just and yeah, it just

498
00:30:11.599 --> 00:30:15.200
it looks amateurish. This is on
the website. Yeah, wisdoms in the

499
00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:19.640
show? Can I do this?
I photo shopped here. I photo shopped

500
00:30:19.640 --> 00:30:23.160
to l J mar Smith and all
that for the for the thumbnail, Like,

501
00:30:23.359 --> 00:30:27.240
yeah, is it? It's like
Adobe doesn't for you now for free,

502
00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:33.039
right, I mean you could at
least just you know, you you

503
00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:37.400
can use the generative AI on Adobe
doesn't remove laptop from bottom of frame,

504
00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:44.799
remove marks from the floor. We
got Patris Stremo here breaking about streaming numbers

505
00:30:44.839 --> 00:30:48.839
per usual. Patrick the streamer man
here that's good. Uh, I don't

506
00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:52.119
know. Defenders me never really fits
in with the rest of the design landscape.

507
00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:53.359
It's a lot of red. But
obviously this is one that you know,

508
00:30:53.720 --> 00:30:56.720
big fan base and carried over and
all that stuff. The thoughts on

509
00:30:56.799 --> 00:31:00.519
this, let me pull up their
social I have a big I love the

510
00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:04.240
Defenders whole the whole thing. It's
it's simple, but it's it's like,

511
00:31:04.640 --> 00:31:08.200
if there's elegance in a uniform,
to me, it's the DC Defenders.

512
00:31:08.799 --> 00:31:14.839
I now I think they wore did
they wear all white away or did they

513
00:31:14.839 --> 00:31:21.160
wear podcast red pants? Okay,
because again this is one we have now

514
00:31:21.240 --> 00:31:25.640
hearing this is from the Defenders.
This is photo photo credit photo credit Jim

515
00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:29.279
Jim. Are we the one?
Are you the one that we need to

516
00:31:29.359 --> 00:31:32.279
yell out about the marks on the
floor in these photos? Like, is

517
00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:36.440
Jim the official ufl or? But
these are actually decent photos and maybe this

518
00:31:36.559 --> 00:31:40.519
isn't Maybe this is this is Jim's
work, And it is interesting that they

519
00:31:40.559 --> 00:31:42.799
have Defenders on there, which I
guess you know, they didn't want to.

520
00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:47.839
It's not consistent. It's not consistent, right, yeah, they I

521
00:31:47.839 --> 00:31:49.920
guess they didn't go with Washington d
C or just d C that look kind

522
00:31:49.920 --> 00:31:53.839
of weird. But yeah it's not, I mean, but still I these

523
00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:59.559
some of my favorite uniforms. Traditional, yes, simple, yeah, but

524
00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:04.680
still they look good. So we
had a comment here stock speed tach glad

525
00:32:04.680 --> 00:32:07.359
they got rid of that urban camera
look last year, right, because didn't

526
00:32:07.400 --> 00:32:10.519
I thought the defenders had a little
bit more patterning in the white. Is

527
00:32:10.519 --> 00:32:14.039
it just because we can't see it
on here? Well, it's really hard

528
00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:16.279
to tell from there now, I
as far as I understand, because I've

529
00:32:16.319 --> 00:32:21.519
not seen a lot of helmet pictures, I think they are in the helmet

530
00:32:21.759 --> 00:32:24.640
okay. And also there was some
there was some talking. I guess we'll

531
00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:30.400
talk about the Birmingham in a minute. But it looked like someone had a

532
00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:32.480
picture of the helmet and it looked
like the helmet had a larger logo on

533
00:32:32.559 --> 00:32:37.599
it. But now I really couldn't
I couldn't tell. I didn't really go

534
00:32:37.640 --> 00:32:39.319
back and look at it. I
didn't break it down and analyze it that

535
00:32:39.440 --> 00:32:44.480
much. Yeah, I'll tell you
guys, God bless you. But like

536
00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:46.519
when even when I think it was
the XL last year, they had like

537
00:32:46.559 --> 00:32:51.720
eight photos per team of like all
really really helpful it really helpful kind of

538
00:32:51.720 --> 00:32:53.720
looking at all this because this is
what like, if you're doing this,

539
00:32:53.880 --> 00:32:58.759
it is for the people to want
to mark out and kind of super analyze

540
00:32:58.759 --> 00:33:01.079
all this stuff. So that would
be it totally is and it's like you

541
00:33:01.079 --> 00:33:05.119
can you know you now, are
people going to say, oh, I'm

542
00:33:05.119 --> 00:33:07.559
going to watch March thirtieth because I
saw this cool picture of a uniform.

543
00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:12.079
No, but it's all about branding
and it's about getting the word out there

544
00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:15.759
and you know, this is what
we are. And when you see that

545
00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:17.480
picture, to me, it's like, if this is what you are,

546
00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:22.599
people are gonna think you're a third
tier football league. I just you know,

547
00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:27.160
again, it's branding. It's just
it's it's the perception that you send

548
00:33:27.160 --> 00:33:30.960
out. And it's too bad because
I think that's a great picture except for

549
00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:34.680
the laptop and the marks on the
floor. Yeah, because I really didn't.

550
00:33:34.680 --> 00:33:37.279
When they came out today, I
downloaded all of them and tweeted real

551
00:33:37.319 --> 00:33:38.039
quick, and I really went back
to look at them and I was like,

552
00:33:38.079 --> 00:33:42.480
wow, this is I just I
didn't even I was like that's interesting

553
00:33:42.759 --> 00:33:45.240
anything. Yeah, So I don't
see a DC say I'm looking through this

554
00:33:45.319 --> 00:33:47.160
in Twitter. I don't see aything
else from that anything else here on Defenders.

555
00:33:47.160 --> 00:33:50.640
We want to move on. No, I think that's you covered it.

556
00:33:50.680 --> 00:33:52.680
I just like I said, it's
just too bad because I love that's

557
00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:55.799
such a great picture and it's just
ruined by all that other stuff in there.

558
00:33:57.079 --> 00:33:59.240
I'll follow the shop, but here
I can probably follow the shop at

559
00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:02.119
live on the podcast. Probably now
here this is where we get into a

560
00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:06.440
little and I know obviously the pants
are different here, but Stallions, you

561
00:34:06.480 --> 00:34:08.360
know a little similar that way with
that, this is a great photo of

562
00:34:08.559 --> 00:34:12.800
jimmar What do you make of you
know now, same thing, but just

563
00:34:12.840 --> 00:34:15.199
with the ufl ago on it.
Well, I would again, I would

564
00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:20.840
love to see them put Birmingham on
there. It just but I guess they

565
00:34:20.840 --> 00:34:22.840
want to go with the traditional if
you look at the you know, the

566
00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:28.280
original Birmingham Stallions. Now they did
change up the logo some not this year,

567
00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:31.840
but from the original obviously Michigan Panthers
really pretty much kept theirs and some

568
00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:37.039
others. But I like the new
streamline logo that that Birmingham came out with

569
00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:42.760
in the new incarnation of the USFL. I like these uniforms, I mean,

570
00:34:42.840 --> 00:34:45.039
you know, Birmingham was kind of
my team. I love the numbers.

571
00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:47.760
Some people don't like those square numbers. I love the numbers, I

572
00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:52.199
think, and that those just look
clean to me. Those are clean uniforms.

573
00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:55.960
I think they agnize to me,
this looks high quality, right obviously

574
00:34:57.000 --> 00:35:00.079
under armour, similar material. All
that was interesting to me is if you

575
00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:05.360
go back here, because they're showing, yeah, these us so we dropped

576
00:35:05.400 --> 00:35:07.880
the USFL. Obviously we're not gonna
have the USFL logo on it, but

577
00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:10.519
dropped the USFL logo on the center. And then you know, what do

578
00:35:10.559 --> 00:35:14.400
you make here of seeing the front? I mean that's kind of the biggest

579
00:35:14.440 --> 00:35:17.159
change of any of these, right
is right? And and not like that

580
00:35:17.199 --> 00:35:22.239
they they kind of kept the color
code with the the UFL their logo,

581
00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:24.920
they made it maroon, they kept
the you know, they've got the kind

582
00:35:24.920 --> 00:35:29.079
of the cutouts there. I think
these are these are really nice looking uniforms,

583
00:35:29.239 --> 00:35:31.480
even without the you know, the
USFL played on the front. I

584
00:35:31.559 --> 00:35:36.519
like that. Yeah, and again
we get kind of a good look of

585
00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:38.159
all that. I don't know if
we got side angles of that. I

586
00:35:38.199 --> 00:35:43.719
don't know if we get because that's
the that's the practice run right. I

587
00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:45.320
mean, I'm just trying to see
if we have any different looks at the

588
00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:49.440
away one. But again it's kind
of hit or miss here, consistent right

589
00:35:49.559 --> 00:35:52.000
on. And they had there was
a great video today of I think it

590
00:35:52.039 --> 00:35:58.320
was on Instagram with uh Matt Corrall
who and they had a really really good

591
00:35:58.880 --> 00:36:01.039
video of him that was officuely shot
for some of the bumper shots that's going

592
00:36:01.079 --> 00:36:04.800
to be on the broadcast. I
thought it was. It looked really it

593
00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:08.159
looked really sharp. H question here, where does the XFL conference come into

594
00:36:08.159 --> 00:36:10.719
the uniforms. I don't think they
have. I mean there's no delineation that

595
00:36:10.760 --> 00:36:14.280
way at all. That's actually a
good thing to point out. They that's

596
00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:16.639
a good one. I think they
could have done something that's actually a great

597
00:36:16.760 --> 00:36:21.280
m rider here. That's a great
uh day. You could have kept it,

598
00:36:21.400 --> 00:36:24.000
kept the XFL in the usfluh and
and and done something that way with

599
00:36:24.079 --> 00:36:28.719
the conferences. But maybe we want
to have a name, but not.

600
00:36:28.920 --> 00:36:30.239
I do think that that would have
been a way to help kind of do

601
00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:36.440
something different this year. I mean, you know, even like NFL uniforms,

602
00:36:36.440 --> 00:36:38.559
so you know sometimes they'll they'll have
those on there or like I still

603
00:36:38.599 --> 00:36:43.159
love the Kansas City Chiefs that have
the old AFL logos still on their uniforms.

604
00:36:43.159 --> 00:36:45.800
But yeah, I mean it seems
like that would and it would keep

605
00:36:45.840 --> 00:36:49.400
the branding going too that you know, you have to keep that. Although

606
00:36:49.400 --> 00:36:52.639
the conferences are called XFL and USFL, it would have been really cool to

607
00:36:52.679 --> 00:36:54.920
have those, although you got to
wonder, would you want to put a

608
00:36:55.000 --> 00:37:00.280
USFL logo on a Houston rough next
Jersey might have been kind of weird.

609
00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:02.039
The whole that whole thing is still
weird. Do you think if they would

610
00:37:02.079 --> 00:37:05.280
have kept the Gamblers do you think
they would have done that? I think

611
00:37:05.280 --> 00:37:08.320
they would. I bet that they
would have. I think absolutely, because

612
00:37:08.320 --> 00:37:13.199
they would have. Then you could
have you would have had a USFL team,

613
00:37:13.239 --> 00:37:15.760
which you still do. They are
the Gamblers, but they're just called

614
00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:19.760
the Roughnecks and they're an XFL team
that's in the USFL conference. Yeah,

615
00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:21.840
I think you're I think you're absolutely
right. I think they would have done

616
00:37:21.880 --> 00:37:23.280
that. Yeah. I think I
say, hey, hey, this is

617
00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:25.480
why you know, Zach hits the
live shows. But this is why I

618
00:37:25.519 --> 00:37:29.199
think sometimes having the live show is
helpful because you can get feedback like that,

619
00:37:30.840 --> 00:37:34.039
you know. But again now we're
going to a totally different design language

620
00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:36.760
again, which I really like.
The running gates one I wish and I've

621
00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:39.639
seen them obviously on the pants.
Here we see the R. I've seen

622
00:37:39.719 --> 00:37:43.199
more use of the cowboy, the
bandit. We're going to get into the

623
00:37:43.239 --> 00:37:45.880
murcher on the site in the second. If you haven't been you know,

624
00:37:45.880 --> 00:37:49.559
excited enough with the uniform breakdowns here, but I like this, you know,

625
00:37:49.679 --> 00:37:52.079
the you got the red inside the
numbers here with the black. To

626
00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:55.920
me, this is an iconic low
jersey just because this is when the Rock

627
00:37:55.960 --> 00:37:59.360
had for the kickoff. I mean
that shot has been used a lot,

628
00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:01.280
and let's get maybe and kind of
all that stuff, but it was ell

629
00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:05.159
fitting and didn't have the you know, did not look good on the Rock.

630
00:38:05.239 --> 00:38:07.719
But to me, this is one
of the standout jerseys for better or

631
00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:12.119
worse from the ex foul. But
it certainly does not fit into the design

632
00:38:12.199 --> 00:38:15.199
language here. For going from the
the Vermonhambover, I mean it looks like

633
00:38:15.199 --> 00:38:19.400
two different leagues, not two different
conferences. I do. I love that,

634
00:38:19.519 --> 00:38:23.719
And it looks like from that patch
it looks like either they've it looks

635
00:38:23.760 --> 00:38:28.880
like they've either matched the color or
they've just made it. Oh, I

636
00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:30.519
think, yeah, that is so
they did. Yeah, it's just like

637
00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:37.480
it is either a blue maybe silverish. Now again I think too that picture

638
00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:40.599
doesn't do that blue justice because it
looks like it's a little bit lighter unless

639
00:38:40.639 --> 00:38:45.079
they change something. But yeah,
I to me, I've always loved this.

640
00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:47.519
This is one of my favorite uniforms
too. That see. To me,

641
00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:52.039
that's the blue that I think when
I think you can really see it

642
00:38:52.079 --> 00:38:54.119
there and the red numbers in the
black outline, I think that's just so

643
00:38:54.280 --> 00:38:58.679
sharp. Yeah, this is probably
just the color thing, but that's a

644
00:38:58.719 --> 00:39:00.360
great thing to point out, because
again this is and I'm not I am

645
00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:05.800
not a product photographer, but this
is something that you do need to keep

646
00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:08.440
into account too, is that different
colors translate differently and kind of maintaining that

647
00:39:08.559 --> 00:39:13.039
across so at least it looks the
way way in the press photos. Yes,

648
00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:15.079
because this is definitely a darker blue. Thank you for pointing that out.

649
00:39:15.119 --> 00:39:17.800
And you can see the same the
uf ufl logo on there. Yeah,

650
00:39:17.800 --> 00:39:21.320
you can really see it clearly later. But yeah, that's such a

651
00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:24.079
good color scheme and the and the
helmets. Even though I would have liked

652
00:39:24.079 --> 00:39:28.800
to see maybe some outline on the
r on the helmet. It's very nitpicky,

653
00:39:29.239 --> 00:39:34.000
but the the black in the middle
and then with the way that that

654
00:39:34.199 --> 00:39:37.440
lays out kind of with the jersey, Yeah, those are I just think

655
00:39:37.480 --> 00:39:40.639
those are just sweet. Yeah,
you know, I'm not the biggest helmet

656
00:39:40.760 --> 00:39:44.280
guy. I mean usually when it's
just like I liked it when it was

657
00:39:44.320 --> 00:39:46.199
what was it the seat and the
dragon's back and they had the painted on

658
00:39:46.280 --> 00:39:49.320
part of it, and I think
the panthers had part. You know,

659
00:39:49.320 --> 00:39:52.760
if you're you're doing a little bit
more that way. But sometimes just like

660
00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:55.639
the different stickers on there is always
kind of interesting to me. But yeah,

661
00:39:55.639 --> 00:39:59.400
again, we would like to see
helmets for all these difficult to kind

662
00:39:59.400 --> 00:40:00.599
of look that way at least for
getting a little bit through that. Yeah,

663
00:40:00.639 --> 00:40:04.039
I mean I feel like a forensic
scientist when I was trying to break

664
00:40:04.079 --> 00:40:06.760
down and like zoom in on some
of these helmets to see if there was

665
00:40:06.800 --> 00:40:08.440
some kind of change, it was
just really hard to tell when you did

666
00:40:08.480 --> 00:40:13.079
even see a helmet in some of
these pictures. It was Yeah, and

667
00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:15.000
I wonder, like, okay,
why would they not have the helmets out

668
00:40:15.039 --> 00:40:19.079
whether they did for that one obviously, but like, why wouldn't they show

669
00:40:19.119 --> 00:40:21.960
them off a little bit? Yeah, I don't know why. Let me

670
00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:23.360
just see if I can refrigure.
I don't know why it's asking me to

671
00:40:23.480 --> 00:40:29.000
upload more on there, but yeah, anyway, yeah, they're not would

672
00:40:29.159 --> 00:40:30.800
like to see the helmets on all
of them. But yeah, there are

673
00:40:30.800 --> 00:40:35.440
this anything else that we'll get to
shop here and new things and then we'll

674
00:40:35.440 --> 00:40:38.239
get to broadcasting and all that stuff. Any other thoughts on the Fox and

675
00:40:38.239 --> 00:40:42.840
the uniform, Well, I have
mixed emotions because there was part of me

676
00:40:42.920 --> 00:40:45.639
that was hoping there would be a
uniform release and it would be like,

677
00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:49.000
look at what we did with this
uniform and look what under Armour did with

678
00:40:49.039 --> 00:40:52.599
this. So that was a little
disappointing. But then there's another part of

679
00:40:52.639 --> 00:40:54.320
me that said, well, I'm
glad they didn't radically change and we didn't

680
00:40:54.360 --> 00:40:59.840
end up with Barcelona dragons looking Jersey
so and and because those kinds of things

681
00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:04.079
they just they don't look great and
they try to they try to be two

682
00:41:04.159 --> 00:41:08.159
different So I would say mixed emotions, but I'm overall I'm happy with what

683
00:41:08.519 --> 00:41:13.920
we've gotten there. Yeah, I
just I know there's just not enough time

684
00:41:14.079 --> 00:41:16.599
and somebody, and I know that
we're this is long ranging here and we're

685
00:41:16.599 --> 00:41:20.639
trying to get through the season and
who knows what's gonna happen. But you

686
00:41:20.679 --> 00:41:22.440
know, if you don't do it
now, like I just I don't see

687
00:41:22.440 --> 00:41:25.800
this being their priority moving on kind
of you next year or whatever, like

688
00:41:25.800 --> 00:41:28.840
Okay, well now we're going to
reprount. Like I think if you're gonna

689
00:41:28.880 --> 00:41:30.599
do it, I think you're going
to do it now. Am rather there

690
00:41:30.599 --> 00:41:34.079
just a couple of comments here.
There should be an actually out shield.

691
00:41:34.119 --> 00:41:36.079
I think that would have been cool. I think that would have been really

692
00:41:36.119 --> 00:41:37.719
cool. Obviously you want to have
the underarmoored patch on there, but I

693
00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:42.679
think I don't know, do you
put you put the ufl logo kind of

694
00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:45.199
lower on the hip there where you
kind of have the fanatics or something,

695
00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:47.599
put them on the bumper. I
think that would have been really cool to

696
00:41:47.599 --> 00:41:50.880
put them like on the you know, on the front. You'd have an

697
00:41:50.960 --> 00:41:53.079
xfl up there, usfl up there. I think they it looks like they

698
00:41:53.119 --> 00:41:58.360
put ufl on on on all of
them. Yeah, and then Philip here

699
00:41:58.440 --> 00:42:00.880
says, I like that all the
unis are different, AUDI shudn't be similar

700
00:42:00.920 --> 00:42:01.880
with just different colors. I know. I just like them to be at

701
00:42:01.960 --> 00:42:07.840
least kind of in the same design
spot. Uh R David best Roughnex howmesterpic

702
00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:12.159
they have the best unis ever.
I love those helments, love them,

703
00:42:12.960 --> 00:42:15.400
love the under Armour merch So God, that's better than previous release. I

704
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:17.440
think that. I think that the
quality is great. I just want that

705
00:42:17.480 --> 00:42:22.480
to translate into something I can buy
now because I see, uh, they

706
00:42:22.519 --> 00:42:24.559
look really nice and this is not
it's not what you can buy on that.

707
00:42:25.280 --> 00:42:30.440
So along with that, we have
the announcement today we now officially under

708
00:42:30.519 --> 00:42:34.239
Armour is going to be part of
all of this stuff. They are going

709
00:42:34.280 --> 00:42:38.599
to be you know, multi year, multiyear deal here with the little we'll

710
00:42:38.639 --> 00:42:42.360
see how one that. But anyway, have new released. We have some

711
00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:45.400
merch on here you can pre order. I don't think it's shipping till mid

712
00:42:45.719 --> 00:42:50.039
mid season here at least after the
kickoff. But thoughts on this because I

713
00:42:50.079 --> 00:42:51.960
just have a couple of click that
we know this isn't going to be a

714
00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:53.679
deep dive. I mean, to
me, these look like I love the

715
00:42:53.679 --> 00:42:57.880
Breaking Tea stuff. Don't get me
wrong. I think the Breaking Tea stuff

716
00:42:58.039 --> 00:43:01.400
is solid and I've got and did
order a couple that actually came in.

717
00:43:01.519 --> 00:43:07.519
I really like them. But under
Armour just makes such well fitting, like

718
00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:12.199
really well made shirts that are you
know, the I guess Nike is the

719
00:43:12.280 --> 00:43:15.239
dry tech or whatever. But I've
got a few like we were talking about

720
00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:17.599
at the top of the show.
Here, I've got a lot of under

721
00:43:17.679 --> 00:43:22.719
Armour stuff like pullovers and long sleeve
shirts and the cool gear and the heat

722
00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:24.000
gear and all that. I just
I love the fit of them. I

723
00:43:24.599 --> 00:43:27.519
really like the look of them.
Now. I don't know if that's a

724
00:43:27.519 --> 00:43:30.880
thirty five dollars hat or not,
but if it's got under Armour logo on

725
00:43:30.920 --> 00:43:36.199
it, you're going to pay about
three prices and I get it stock speed

726
00:43:36.280 --> 00:43:37.519
Tech here. You know, NFL, the uniforms are now on the same

727
00:43:37.559 --> 00:43:39.719
across the board. Very different.
I agree with that. We also have,

728
00:43:39.840 --> 00:43:45.719
you know, decades of history and
yeah, the Seahawks is very different

729
00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:47.480
than the Browns name. It's very
different than you know, I mean,

730
00:43:47.519 --> 00:43:50.760
you have a lot of different.
Yes, I agree with that, but

731
00:43:50.840 --> 00:43:53.599
I think at least coming out and
launching, Yeah, I see both,

732
00:43:53.639 --> 00:43:57.400
I see wanting to maintain it.
It's so different where it's five and three

733
00:43:57.440 --> 00:44:00.199
and it's not four and four.
I think if the gamblers have been hear

734
00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:01.559
it over, I think I would
have been a little bit you know,

735
00:44:01.679 --> 00:44:05.400
different about that kind of stuff,
having the four and four with the different

736
00:44:05.440 --> 00:44:07.960
logosh. I will say, yeah, so so some of my I like

737
00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:12.599
how they let me see if I
can get out how they tweet. Oh,

738
00:44:12.639 --> 00:44:15.719
hang on here, I wanted.
I wanted to get this pulled up

739
00:44:15.760 --> 00:44:19.159
the XFL because I thought this was
funny coming out. You know, hey,

740
00:44:19.199 --> 00:44:21.159
we have new merrigs kind of all
this stuff. Yeah, here we

741
00:44:21.239 --> 00:44:23.599
go in here, so let me
see if I can share. I actually

742
00:44:23.679 --> 00:44:29.599
closed out. So I thought this
was funny that you asked we delivered because

743
00:44:29.599 --> 00:44:32.079
they because remember we had the big
tweet the other week about they're not having

744
00:44:32.159 --> 00:44:36.000
enough merchandise. And I like that
they use the salute signal. I like

745
00:44:36.079 --> 00:44:38.760
never getting that mainstream here and so
I I responded somewhere and here I said

746
00:44:38.760 --> 00:44:43.199
that, I said, there you
go. I asked it, I asked,

747
00:44:43.239 --> 00:44:45.880
you delivered. I will say,
so now we have, Yes,

748
00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:50.840
we have hats that you can do. I probably will not my not my

749
00:44:51.239 --> 00:44:52.800
style of hat, but we have
hats on here. I know you're going

750
00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:57.760
to buy a hat read come on, I don't know. It's a really

751
00:44:57.760 --> 00:45:00.239
hard I'm a big fitted guy.
I have lots of these. I mean,

752
00:45:00.760 --> 00:45:04.400
like, you know, I have
like this, this like Harris Tweed

753
00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:12.199
Mariner's hat. Here, this is
a this isn't adorned by anything, but

754
00:45:12.719 --> 00:45:15.280
we have had I like that,
we have shirts that have the actual logos

755
00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:19.159
on them. That was critical about
that before. The only shirt that you

756
00:45:19.199 --> 00:45:22.440
could have had the helmet on there
and not, you know, not the

757
00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:23.880
actual logo. You know, this
is kind of what They had a different

758
00:45:23.960 --> 00:45:28.199
version of that, but you had
just the helmet on there. These are

759
00:45:28.440 --> 00:45:34.800
odd, though. These sweatshirts are
really weird. Yeah, what I can't

760
00:45:34.800 --> 00:45:37.440
even what is the logo? I
like that it's got the big R on

761
00:45:37.480 --> 00:45:39.599
the back. What's the log is
that? The this this is nice?

762
00:45:39.840 --> 00:45:46.719
This is this is uh yes,
I can't even get into it to do

763
00:45:46.880 --> 00:45:54.760
Yeah, here we go. Yeah
that's there. What's very odd. I

764
00:45:54.840 --> 00:45:58.079
there's no way that ships that way, right, it's going to be a

765
00:45:58.079 --> 00:46:00.119
different that's what. That's how they
all are. And people thought that that's

766
00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:04.519
that's you know, that's the men's
We have the women's here. I mean,

767
00:46:04.519 --> 00:46:07.039
this is across the board. Wow, let me get down here.

768
00:46:07.079 --> 00:46:14.239
Do the Stallions have one like that? Yes, there's just a handy yikes,

769
00:46:14.639 --> 00:46:16.440
I do you know. I like
the the long sleeved shirts, but

770
00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:20.719
they have it looks like you got
it in like a marathon or something,

771
00:46:20.760 --> 00:46:22.840
because it's got like it looks like
a bunch of sponsors down to the side.

772
00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:25.840
Oh yeah, and I think it
has a date on it too.

773
00:46:25.960 --> 00:46:29.960
Yeah, that's so. Yeah.
So you have d C, you have

774
00:46:30.039 --> 00:46:34.119
the helmet, the DC helmet,
something twenty four, the UFL logo,

775
00:46:34.199 --> 00:46:36.440
the under Armoor logo, and then
there's something else there. Yeah. I

776
00:46:36.440 --> 00:46:37.519
do agree with that. It's like
I did the fun run, I did

777
00:46:37.519 --> 00:46:43.519
the uflun I just I you know, I would love to like this is

778
00:46:43.559 --> 00:46:47.480
clean, that clean. Yep,
it's just like normal. I just felt

779
00:46:47.559 --> 00:46:51.360
like normal. I would I would
do. I mean in pricing, I

780
00:46:51.360 --> 00:46:52.840
mean, this is fine for you
box t shirts and like I said that,

781
00:46:53.000 --> 00:46:57.119
you don't want to know what that
Harris tweet hat costs. But but

782
00:46:57.239 --> 00:47:00.360
some of these things, like you
know, really really sharp, like the

783
00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:02.199
black color of that I like,
and that's like a youth like I would

784
00:47:02.199 --> 00:47:06.039
fight, I would fight a child
for that. Sure, but I just

785
00:47:06.280 --> 00:47:08.800
to me, you know, I
trust under armour and kind of the creative

786
00:47:08.800 --> 00:47:13.280
process there. But this this feels
better of what it was. But yeah,

787
00:47:13.280 --> 00:47:15.519
still some of these choices like the
yeah were I do like that,

788
00:47:15.599 --> 00:47:19.719
Like I ran the marathon. I
mean, it's just it's cool, I

789
00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:22.920
guess, but it just that's too
much. And I maybe it's just because

790
00:47:22.920 --> 00:47:27.079
I'm cheap. I don't like T
shirts that have the dates on it.

791
00:47:27.400 --> 00:47:30.360
I'm not just I don't know,
I'm not a fan. Well just says

792
00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:32.239
twenty twenty four, which is kind
of odd too, like you know,

793
00:47:32.280 --> 00:47:35.480
if it was the I don't know, I guess if it was the kickoff

794
00:47:35.519 --> 00:47:37.960
date. But you know, they
have the limited they have those limited really

795
00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:42.280
scheduled T shirts as well. So
how'd that go? Well, yeah,

796
00:47:42.599 --> 00:47:45.119
not very well. I think this
is really nice. I mean some of

797
00:47:45.119 --> 00:47:46.960
these use stuff. I like the
new kind of how we're doing these new

798
00:47:47.480 --> 00:47:52.400
like the the hoodie kind of the
neck I like like the modern take of

799
00:47:52.440 --> 00:47:55.000
the The Kraken has a lot of
cool stuff with this as well, where

800
00:47:55.000 --> 00:47:59.199
they have kind of a new modern
take on on the hoodie neckline, which

801
00:47:59.199 --> 00:48:01.559
I think is you know, have
a you have a Seahawks one like that,

802
00:48:01.599 --> 00:48:05.280
and I really it's like it's super
comfortable and I like the look of

803
00:48:05.320 --> 00:48:09.360
it. It's not just like a
hoodie where it's like bunched up behind you.

804
00:48:09.360 --> 00:48:14.840
You have Seahawks merch. I do. In fact, there's two Seahawks

805
00:48:14.840 --> 00:48:17.159
cups down there. Why do you
have Seahawks merch? Because I've been a

806
00:48:17.159 --> 00:48:22.760
Seahawks fan since the Steve Larger days. Probably discussion probably not. That's funny

807
00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:25.400
though, this is nice, like
this one. All right, So you

808
00:48:25.400 --> 00:48:30.480
have the Michigan Panthers. But then
so then do they have do they have

809
00:48:30.519 --> 00:48:34.840
the little m one as well?
They must? Yeah? See then they

810
00:48:34.840 --> 00:48:38.719
have the lead, but that's the
women's I don't see. I don't see

811
00:48:38.760 --> 00:48:45.039
a I see a Panthers football.
I see that. I don't see the

812
00:48:45.079 --> 00:48:49.280
little M. I will say,
then that's the only switch that they have

813
00:48:49.360 --> 00:48:51.039
for the man, Like, why
do they get that one? Yeah,

814
00:48:51.079 --> 00:48:55.280
that's odd and it's and that's not
a youth. Yeah, that's like the

815
00:48:55.519 --> 00:48:59.519
that looks like an adult. I
will say that. The blue T shirt

816
00:48:59.519 --> 00:49:04.559
though, that's that's sharp. Yeah. See like Brahmas, I like this

817
00:49:04.639 --> 00:49:08.719
shirt. The alemacy here you got
the white with tiny Bee and then you

818
00:49:08.760 --> 00:49:12.639
have the women's at so just the
Michigan one. If you're Michigan, you

819
00:49:12.679 --> 00:49:15.800
get that big Brahmise has that.
But that's the difference. That's the youth.

820
00:49:17.039 --> 00:49:21.119
See I go through here. I
love the Ballahawks, this alt logo

821
00:49:21.239 --> 00:49:23.920
the Ballahawks. I do like that. And I'm very sad that that the

822
00:49:23.960 --> 00:49:27.599
long sleeved T shirt is white because
I can't have white T shirt. I

823
00:49:27.639 --> 00:49:30.960
can't have a because it would end
up with I'm too much of a sloppy

824
00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:32.960
eater. Yeah, it just wouldn't. It doesn't work out. I'm pretty

825
00:49:32.960 --> 00:49:37.159
sad. Yeah, all right,
anything else about the the merchant here,

826
00:49:37.199 --> 00:49:40.440
we'll get into broadcasters that, at
least the ESPN side of it. Yeah,

827
00:49:40.559 --> 00:49:44.199
No, I think you know,
the under I think the under Armor

828
00:49:44.320 --> 00:49:45.559
is a huge boost to that shop. I mean, I think that's the

829
00:49:45.559 --> 00:49:50.039
bottom line that there was. There's
some stuff and it's funny. There's stuff

830
00:49:50.039 --> 00:49:53.079
that's on the breaking Te's website that
is not you probably hear my cat now

831
00:49:53.119 --> 00:49:58.199
and she's had enough of this of
us talking about T shirts and football.

832
00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:02.519
It is a huge boost. And
it's interesting that there are UFL shirts that

833
00:50:02.599 --> 00:50:07.199
are on the breaking t site that
are still not on the UFL shop.

834
00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:09.719
I just thought that was that was
kind of odd. Yeah, you kind

835
00:50:09.719 --> 00:50:13.159
of get that moving back and forth
on here. I don't know, it's

836
00:50:13.159 --> 00:50:16.239
always kind of it's never really consistent
that way. I do think it's again,

837
00:50:16.280 --> 00:50:19.519
I don't I don't know if that's
an under armour thing or if that's

838
00:50:19.519 --> 00:50:22.000
the UFL thing. I mean,
sometimes you're dealing with that with suppliers,

839
00:50:22.039 --> 00:50:23.000
but you would think that, like
we have this, you know, the

840
00:50:23.039 --> 00:50:29.079
same eight skews or whatever across all
eight teas right right in terms of I

841
00:50:29.119 --> 00:50:31.079
have the Sports Illustrated article here.
I don't know they sent out the nice

842
00:50:31.119 --> 00:50:36.280
graphic and all of that. But
I again, so Mike Mitchell had reported

843
00:50:36.320 --> 00:50:37.800
here this week and they were going
to unvel the broadcasters, you know,

844
00:50:37.920 --> 00:50:40.840
doing the analysts and the color commentators
and all of that. So we got

845
00:50:40.840 --> 00:50:45.519
the ESPN, ABC side still waiting
on the Fox side, which you can

846
00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:49.760
presume some of those names, the
ones that were involved in the in the

847
00:50:49.800 --> 00:50:52.440
you know, the USFL ride.
I would imagine the Kevin Coolers of the

848
00:50:52.440 --> 00:50:54.199
world and Joe Klatz and Kurent Menafees
and all that stuff. But we got

849
00:50:54.199 --> 00:50:58.800
the ESPN side weird with the United
Football League that all of this would not

850
00:50:58.840 --> 00:51:02.639
come out together. It is I
do want Did I not see something recently

851
00:51:02.679 --> 00:51:07.480
that it was good that at least
Fox had talked about the A team was

852
00:51:07.519 --> 00:51:09.800
still gonna be. It was gonna
be Kurt Menafee and Joel Klatt. It

853
00:51:09.880 --> 00:51:13.559
seems like I it seems like I
saw that, but not the rest of

854
00:51:13.559 --> 00:51:15.320
the broadcasters for five Yeah, I
imagine that. And like I said,

855
00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:19.039
Kevin's always a part of that stuff
and he's been great and he'll come on

856
00:51:19.079 --> 00:51:21.840
the show and he's been part of
this since the spring league days and talking

857
00:51:21.840 --> 00:51:25.320
for all that stuff. So I
is one of my absolute favorite plays.

858
00:51:25.719 --> 00:51:29.320
It's so funny, and because he
ends up calling a lot of like Seahawk

859
00:51:29.360 --> 00:51:31.599
games a lot of the times.
I love like seeing then like texting him

860
00:51:31.599 --> 00:51:35.079
and being like fly safe home and
he's like, oh, don't work.

861
00:51:35.320 --> 00:51:37.320
I mean, I just love having
like just that and like he's so cool

862
00:51:37.400 --> 00:51:40.039
that way, just that little two
seconds of interaction and like, hey man,

863
00:51:40.119 --> 00:51:43.000
I hope you have a fun time
and seat like, oh yeah,

864
00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:45.960
it was great, Like you know, yeah he was. He would respond

865
00:51:45.039 --> 00:51:47.800
on Twitter he was like he was
great. And I have Sunday ticket and

866
00:51:47.840 --> 00:51:51.519
I watched Seahawks games and I was
like, oh, good, Coogler's doing

867
00:51:51.519 --> 00:51:53.679
the game. It's cool. Uh
So here at some of the some of

868
00:51:53.719 --> 00:51:55.679
the ones here, and you know
they're getting some new in here. We

869
00:51:55.760 --> 00:51:59.559
got the sam Achos he was on
here before. Excited to see Tom Lougan,

870
00:51:59.559 --> 00:52:04.000
Bill come, Eric McLain, h
Cole, Kublak, Stormy kind of

871
00:52:04.039 --> 00:52:07.639
all friends of the show at that. I like, at least where it

872
00:52:07.719 --> 00:52:14.320
was before, it's easier getting ESPN
people onto the you know, for the

873
00:52:14.719 --> 00:52:19.519
Zachs of the world that like the
pre recorded interviews, it's easier to get

874
00:52:19.880 --> 00:52:24.039
ESPN people on. Yes, Fox
people like Kevin used to be able to

875
00:52:24.079 --> 00:52:28.440
do whatever he wanted to do and
then like when he when it was the

876
00:52:28.519 --> 00:52:30.559
last USFL season, he's like,
you gotta go through Fox. Colms like

877
00:52:30.679 --> 00:52:35.639
sorry, like you know, I'll
do whatever. ESPN people like I could

878
00:52:35.679 --> 00:52:37.880
just send Stormy message and she's like, oh, I can come on whatever

879
00:52:37.920 --> 00:52:40.960
in that time. So I do
like that at least from a read and

880
00:52:40.960 --> 00:52:44.880
obviously these are all talented people,
right and like that. I think ESPN

881
00:52:44.920 --> 00:52:47.039
does a good job of having like
kind of male female, diverse voices and

882
00:52:47.079 --> 00:52:50.599
different kind of all that kind of
stuff. But I like it, at

883
00:52:50.639 --> 00:52:52.519
least from that from an access point
of view, because I like having people

884
00:52:52.599 --> 00:52:55.639
mid season like Okay, you're doing
the coaching calls and not that, like

885
00:52:57.480 --> 00:53:00.719
you do get the point. Sometimes
I think Pat or like Andy or Avan

886
00:53:00.760 --> 00:53:04.599
could probably speak as you know good. I mean, it gives you that

887
00:53:04.719 --> 00:53:07.599
bump to have an ESPN person kind
of on there. Any thoughts on kind

888
00:53:07.639 --> 00:53:09.880
of the broadcasters, you know,
kind of familiar faces. Yeah, I

889
00:53:10.000 --> 00:53:15.960
was. I was disappointed that Tom
Hart wasn't part of the play by play

890
00:53:15.440 --> 00:53:21.360
crew because he got it. I
mean, I just remember when they were

891
00:53:21.800 --> 00:53:25.519
the whole Lemons thing started to happen
in DC, and he was talking about

892
00:53:25.559 --> 00:53:29.599
the beer snake and he was laughing
at the whole thing. But he was

893
00:53:29.719 --> 00:53:32.079
laughing as a fan. He wasn't
laughing at look at these idiots doing this.

894
00:53:32.519 --> 00:53:35.880
It was like and I think he
even said in one of the broadcasts,

895
00:53:35.960 --> 00:53:38.079
let him have the beer snake,
come on, And he just got

896
00:53:38.119 --> 00:53:40.199
it. He's such a good play
by play guy. I'm a big college

897
00:53:40.199 --> 00:53:44.400
basketball fan and watch a lot of
college basketball, and he does a lot

898
00:53:44.440 --> 00:53:47.119
of SEC games, So it's really
I was sad to see that, and

899
00:53:47.320 --> 00:53:52.679
just you know, personally, selfishly, I was sad to see that Katie

900
00:53:52.719 --> 00:53:55.320
George was not going to be part
of the ESPN broadcast because Katie and I

901
00:53:55.440 --> 00:53:59.400
used to co anchor sports together here
in Louisville, And in fact, I

902
00:53:59.440 --> 00:54:05.280
was just talking to her recently about
you know, when this came out and

903
00:54:05.280 --> 00:54:07.199
I saw it and I had talked
to her, and I was like,

904
00:54:07.199 --> 00:54:08.159
oh, man, I'm sad to
see you. You know, you're not

905
00:54:08.239 --> 00:54:10.800
part of it. But she has
so much on her plate now. She

906
00:54:10.840 --> 00:54:15.679
does NBA game, she's on the
a crew of the College of College Football,

907
00:54:15.760 --> 00:54:19.199
so up for ESPN. So yeah, it was just I think there

908
00:54:19.239 --> 00:54:22.039
was just so much going on that
takes nothing away from what we've got here.

909
00:54:22.079 --> 00:54:25.559
I was very happy to see Stormy
back and Cole and a lot of

910
00:54:25.599 --> 00:54:30.599
those guys. Now, I think
Drew Carter is part of this. I

911
00:54:30.679 --> 00:54:32.679
think I have socks that are older
than Drew Carter. I take nothing away

912
00:54:32.679 --> 00:54:37.639
from him, because good for him. This guy has like rocketed from Birmingham,

913
00:54:37.760 --> 00:54:40.079
Alabama into being a play by play
guy, So I think that's really

914
00:54:40.079 --> 00:54:43.360
cool. But You're right, there
are a lot of good voices, a

915
00:54:43.400 --> 00:54:46.760
lot of diverse voices. I think
it's an ESPN To me, it felt

916
00:54:46.800 --> 00:54:52.079
like that they did in twenty twenty, I thought they didn't do I thought

917
00:54:52.079 --> 00:54:55.159
that they did a good job with
the XFL, but it felt like Fox

918
00:54:55.199 --> 00:54:59.360
did the much better job as far
as the broadcast win. It's like really

919
00:54:59.360 --> 00:55:02.880
putting like it opens together. ESPN
would just sometimes kind of like, hey,

920
00:55:04.039 --> 00:55:06.960
you know, welcome to Houston.
Here we go kick off, and

921
00:55:07.119 --> 00:55:09.320
but Fox had a lot of extra
things. I think ESPN to me,

922
00:55:09.519 --> 00:55:14.039
and Fox did a lot more that
with the XFL and USFL last year.

923
00:55:14.119 --> 00:55:16.480
So I think this is really cool. I have like no complaints. I

924
00:55:16.519 --> 00:55:20.360
just I hate the Tom Hart and
Katie George Hart part of the crew.

925
00:55:20.960 --> 00:55:25.039
Well, and this just reminds me
was also Vicente is it's not vis Vincente

926
00:55:25.079 --> 00:55:29.599
here. Greg mclroy, I wasn't
always the biggest stand of him, but

927
00:55:29.639 --> 00:55:31.599
also pointing out I know Matt matt
Berry, a friend of the show.

928
00:55:31.639 --> 00:55:36.400
Matt Berry was I was disappointed.
Now I'm just realizing this because I'm kind

929
00:55:36.440 --> 00:55:38.199
of doing the math, and obviously
it's this I've been dealing with my you

930
00:55:38.280 --> 00:55:42.199
know my Denzil stuff all week.
But yeah, no, Matt Berry.

931
00:55:42.239 --> 00:55:45.199
I liked Matt because I thought,
and this goes back to my point,

932
00:55:45.199 --> 00:55:50.000
but I liked Matt because Matt really
got all of this stuff. And I

933
00:55:50.039 --> 00:55:52.480
will say, and just to shout
out, my wife here watching, I

934
00:55:52.480 --> 00:55:55.039
think from school. Here Dorothy giving
us a dollar ninety nine. Here,

935
00:55:55.079 --> 00:55:58.719
nice giving us a super chat so
you can do that, you know,

936
00:55:58.920 --> 00:56:01.400
not even married to me. I
will say this. The people that,

937
00:56:01.639 --> 00:56:06.440
at least from my experience, the
people that ESPN you know, this side

938
00:56:06.639 --> 00:56:09.079
has doing it, they buy in, Like I think that, at least

939
00:56:09.119 --> 00:56:14.039
to me, there's kind of a
thing of like, hey, we want

940
00:56:14.079 --> 00:56:15.760
you to be involved in this,
and you need to buy in to do

941
00:56:15.800 --> 00:56:19.760
this right everything first. And I
talked to you from Stormy and Eric and

942
00:56:19.800 --> 00:56:22.000
Cole like they all got got the
process, wanted to be involved in it.

943
00:56:22.039 --> 00:56:27.119
We're excited about that from my experience, at least listening to the games,

944
00:56:27.159 --> 00:56:30.320
because again Fox wasn't as hey,
come interview all these people like I'm

945
00:56:30.360 --> 00:56:32.880
trying to kind of work around to
get the Kevin's of the world. Like

946
00:56:34.360 --> 00:56:37.639
it felt to me a little bit
more like you have to do this like

947
00:56:37.719 --> 00:56:40.079
this is a part of your contract
or like, hey, why don't you

948
00:56:40.199 --> 00:56:44.800
go practice on these games like the
Michael Robinson's of the world and kind of

949
00:56:44.840 --> 00:56:46.800
doing that and then we'll figure out
what else you can do afterward. Where

950
00:56:46.800 --> 00:56:51.519
it felt like there was more buy
in And maybe that's just me, and

951
00:56:51.559 --> 00:56:53.440
obviously brock Huwor is a standout from
that. And I do not think that

952
00:56:53.480 --> 00:56:57.800
Brock will be a part of this. But Brock, uh, you know,

953
00:56:58.559 --> 00:57:00.559
I don't think so because he was
only partially involved in the one last

954
00:57:00.599 --> 00:57:02.280
year. We'll see. I mean
I could, I could send him a

955
00:57:02.280 --> 00:57:06.280
message and see what's going on.
I he that's another one I sees me

956
00:57:06.280 --> 00:57:08.320
I knocked my desk, Like I
can text Brock and be like, I'm

957
00:57:08.360 --> 00:57:12.639
really upset about the mirrorders today and
He'll be like, I understand, brother,

958
00:57:12.800 --> 00:57:15.079
Like yes, you know, I
just my little I just like you

959
00:57:15.079 --> 00:57:17.039
know, I don't get a lot
of big connections. But I like that.

960
00:57:17.119 --> 00:57:21.199
But I don't see Brock being involved. But he got it. But

961
00:57:21.280 --> 00:57:22.320
to me, am I wrong in
that? It felt like goes a little

962
00:57:22.320 --> 00:57:27.559
bit more like this is part of
your contractual obligations? Yes, agreed,

963
00:57:27.719 --> 00:57:30.480
I mean, you know they continue
to make Kurt Menafee the number one play

964
00:57:30.519 --> 00:57:34.559
by play guy, and I just, you know, it just feels like

965
00:57:34.599 --> 00:57:38.000
sometimes he's not super prepared, and
but he's the number one guy because he's

966
00:57:38.000 --> 00:57:45.480
been at Fox forever and there are
super cuts of him blowing calls in the

967
00:57:45.599 --> 00:57:47.599
XFL. I mean, it's in
the in the USFL. And so I

968
00:57:47.599 --> 00:57:50.800
mean nothing, I mean, I
get it, but you know, that's

969
00:57:50.800 --> 00:57:53.320
just it sometimes for these broadcasters You've
talked to a few, I've talked to

970
00:57:53.360 --> 00:57:57.400
a few. It's just something else
that's on their plate, like you said,

971
00:57:58.239 --> 00:58:00.880
But there are other guys like Matt
and like you said, like with

972
00:58:00.000 --> 00:58:02.840
Brock, Yeah, they I felt
like they really got it. Kevin Coogler

973
00:58:02.880 --> 00:58:07.920
one hundred percent gets it, and
and Brock is really good. Uh.

974
00:58:07.239 --> 00:58:10.639
He did say he was doing Seahawks
preseason games too as well, and I

975
00:58:12.079 --> 00:58:15.559
so I really enjoyed, like you
know, listening to him on all these

976
00:58:15.599 --> 00:58:16.960
things. Uh. But yeah,
you're right, it feels like some of

977
00:58:16.960 --> 00:58:21.760
the ESPN people and you know,
and I mean I'm not talking out of

978
00:58:21.760 --> 00:58:24.159
school here, because I talked to
Katie George you know, on you know,

979
00:58:24.239 --> 00:58:28.199
on my channel, but also like
you know, talking back and forth

980
00:58:28.239 --> 00:58:30.559
and she really enjoyed it. And
there was never a push, I don't

981
00:58:30.559 --> 00:58:34.239
think to her to say like you
have to do this. This was like

982
00:58:34.280 --> 00:58:36.480
we want to put you on this
and have you do it, and she

983
00:58:36.480 --> 00:58:37.880
said it was a great time.
It's just it's a lot of work.

984
00:58:37.920 --> 00:58:42.239
I mean this. You know,
when if you if you've not worked in

985
00:58:42.239 --> 00:58:44.400
television, you know both of us
have worked in television, you know,

986
00:58:44.480 --> 00:58:46.320
it's not all glamorous all the time. It's a lot of work. And

987
00:58:46.320 --> 00:58:49.760
then when you have things that are
piled on top of you on that,

988
00:58:50.119 --> 00:58:52.880
then you know you have to understand
that. It's like you can embrace it

989
00:58:52.920 --> 00:58:55.719
and have fun, but it's also
a lot of work. Well, and

990
00:58:55.760 --> 00:59:00.199
there's two I remind me of my
comment on and Cougler being prepared, but

991
00:59:00.280 --> 00:59:05.719
yes, I will agree the other. You know, even if you try

992
00:59:05.719 --> 00:59:07.760
to do a good job, you
might be someone like Matt Barry that's anchored,

993
00:59:07.880 --> 00:59:10.760
you know, hour of TV every
day and doing this and doing these

994
00:59:10.760 --> 00:59:14.480
games. And then yeah, you
know, as much as you want to

995
00:59:14.519 --> 00:59:16.960
be prepared, uh, you have
a you know an exit or a USFL

996
00:59:17.000 --> 00:59:21.719
fan or this would have been an
EXELL fan that like I know every second

997
00:59:21.760 --> 00:59:23.840
of everything, and you say something
wrong and you're like and like they don't

998
00:59:23.920 --> 00:59:29.119
understand, Like yes, But to
the other point, like Kevin Kruger Cougler

999
00:59:29.119 --> 00:59:30.199
would say, back when he was
on the Spring League stuff, you know,

1000
00:59:30.800 --> 00:59:34.719
I mean, you know, you're
calling Patrick Mahomes and the Super Bowl,

1001
00:59:34.719 --> 00:59:37.480
like everybody knows the storylines with that. Whereas if you're calling the Spring

1002
00:59:37.559 --> 00:59:40.840
League and you're calling you know,
AJ mccherron or someone like, you gotta

1003
00:59:42.119 --> 00:59:45.559
you know even if people know,
hey and are reminding people or hey,

1004
00:59:45.599 --> 00:59:47.519
this was this unsigned guy from the
school and it's coming in and he was

1005
00:59:47.920 --> 00:59:52.840
you know, left out of this
and played overseas and was en Now like

1006
00:59:52.840 --> 00:59:54.400
you got to kind of know all
that background, and it is a lot.

1007
00:59:54.480 --> 00:59:58.679
It's a tremendous more work than just
the exes and those of kind of

1008
00:59:58.679 --> 01:00:00.639
knowing the player stories of all this, sure, And I think that's what

1009
01:00:00.679 --> 01:00:05.800
a lot of the of a lot
of the good play by play guys and

1010
01:00:05.840 --> 01:00:08.599
gals do. They tell the story. And you know, these spring leagues

1011
01:00:08.639 --> 01:00:13.000
are full of stories. And that's
honestly why I kind of got involved with,

1012
01:00:13.280 --> 01:00:15.679
you know, doing YouTube and doing
some of these things, because the

1013
01:00:15.760 --> 01:00:17.599
stories are so good. I mean, you're gonna get good stories on every

1014
01:00:17.639 --> 01:00:21.239
level. But you know, some
of these guys who are you know,

1015
01:00:21.280 --> 01:00:23.239
trying to make their path up,
or other guys who have come down trying

1016
01:00:23.239 --> 01:00:27.199
to make their path back back up, or just you know, some playing

1017
01:00:27.239 --> 01:00:29.159
for the love of the game.
It's just there are a lot of cool

1018
01:00:29.159 --> 01:00:31.559
stories, and I like there are
good broadcasts that tell those stories. It's

1019
01:00:31.599 --> 01:00:35.800
not all about x's and o's.
Yeah, I'm not gonna say Jimmy's and

1020
01:00:35.840 --> 01:00:40.440
Joe's because everybody says that. Basically
say we'll curious with the Fox and they're

1021
01:00:40.440 --> 01:00:44.639
staying here. Kevin burke Cart,
Greg Olsen back called for the UFL.

1022
01:00:45.000 --> 01:00:46.719
Is that what you want or is
that what's gonna happen? I guess I

1023
01:00:46.719 --> 01:00:51.880
can't imagine Kevin Burkhart and then Greg
Olsen. I mean that was the eight

1024
01:00:52.000 --> 01:00:55.039
crew on Fox. Now, is
that going to happen? Probably not Greg

1025
01:00:55.039 --> 01:00:58.400
Olsen. I don't know what he's
gonna do. I mean that that which

1026
01:00:58.480 --> 01:01:00.400
was you know, that's a whole
thing to it, that's a whole podcast.

1027
01:01:01.239 --> 01:01:05.599
I can't imagine that that's going to
be the case, especially if Kurt

1028
01:01:05.599 --> 01:01:08.159
Menafie has already been announced as a
guy. Well, I don't know.

1029
01:01:08.199 --> 01:01:12.039
I mean I love Tom Brady and
all that, but like, like whatever

1030
01:01:12.119 --> 01:01:15.719
four million Greg Olson's getting paid the
years it worth thirty to get Tom Brady?

1031
01:01:15.760 --> 01:01:20.800
Like, are you increasing viewership by
you know? I mean they're obviously

1032
01:01:20.840 --> 01:01:22.960
they're smart people doing the math,
but right, and I'd like to see

1033
01:01:22.960 --> 01:01:30.239
the I want to see the streaming
numbers on Apple on this dynasty uh documentary

1034
01:01:30.280 --> 01:01:34.559
series on the Patriots, which is
incredible because it's based on an incredible book.

1035
01:01:34.800 --> 01:01:37.199
It's like, but it's got a
lot of time Brady in it.

1036
01:01:37.239 --> 01:01:38.679
Is that what's drawing people? Or
is it the story? So yeah,

1037
01:01:38.719 --> 01:01:43.719
I don't but thirty million dollars or
whatever it is with Fox, as we've

1038
01:01:43.719 --> 01:01:46.920
said before, like sixty million dollar
loss for the XFL and Redbird Capital,

1039
01:01:47.000 --> 01:01:50.760
that's a big deal. A sixty
million dollar loss for Fox is a rounding

1040
01:01:50.840 --> 01:01:54.639
error. So it didn't make that
much difference. Are you surprised? And

1041
01:01:54.760 --> 01:01:59.679
just kind of piggyback on all this. Mike was on Mark's channel last night

1042
01:01:59.760 --> 01:02:01.559
kind of coming back and just a
couple other talking points here before we get

1043
01:02:01.559 --> 01:02:05.320
out. I think we've kind of
potentially is everything I wanted to If you

1044
01:02:05.360 --> 01:02:08.760
have any other comments, I know
you know, no United My Football this

1045
01:02:08.880 --> 01:02:13.400
time, no Player fifty four,
know anything outside of last time we had

1046
01:02:13.440 --> 01:02:16.920
the ESPN kind of the what was
it? It was the online streaming,

1047
01:02:17.000 --> 01:02:22.360
pregame and all that stuff, Like
nothing really outside of obviously better broadcast windows

1048
01:02:22.360 --> 01:02:24.760
and we've done the whole schedule breakdown
and all of that. Other people are

1049
01:02:24.760 --> 01:02:28.920
interested in that, but I'm curious
that that there's no with all of this

1050
01:02:29.119 --> 01:02:32.199
broadcasting power than nothing outside the norm. That that was really shocking. And

1051
01:02:32.280 --> 01:02:36.199
I think when I was on with
you and Max talked about like I really

1052
01:02:36.199 --> 01:02:39.480
missed United by Football. Those those
were so good. And then the Player

1053
01:02:39.519 --> 01:02:44.079
fifty four, which really got into
a lot of the player stories, that

1054
01:02:44.239 --> 01:02:49.960
was based more around like for those
who haven't seen it, United My Football

1055
01:02:50.039 --> 01:02:53.320
was more of a real almost like
a reality show that was entertaining, and

1056
01:02:53.960 --> 01:02:58.800
I don't like reality shows, but
Player fifty four was kind of that way,

1057
01:02:58.840 --> 01:03:00.480
but it was more based like it
was a you know, in training

1058
01:03:00.519 --> 01:03:05.760
camp, and I thought that was
just uh again we talk about missed opportunities,

1059
01:03:05.760 --> 01:03:07.920
but man, those stories connect with
so many people and it was a

1060
01:03:07.960 --> 01:03:13.360
great pregame lead in for the USFL
and I think some they played it.

1061
01:03:13.360 --> 01:03:15.400
It was on uh, I know
it was on ESPN. Plus you could

1062
01:03:15.519 --> 01:03:21.119
watch the player fifty four stuff.
Yeah, you've got Fox and ESPN behind

1063
01:03:21.159 --> 01:03:23.480
this. Why would you not do
some kind of and maybe they're gonna announce

1064
01:03:23.480 --> 01:03:25.840
it later. I don't know.
It just seems like that'd be a really

1065
01:03:25.880 --> 01:03:29.840
cool thing to do leading up to
some of these games, even if it's

1066
01:03:29.880 --> 01:03:32.679
just a pregame, and and even
if it you know what was because the

1067
01:03:32.719 --> 01:03:37.119
one was just online, right,
it was like on the ESPN YouTube channel

1068
01:03:37.199 --> 01:03:39.519
with Scooby Scooby mcgiza and kind of
all that, because Scooby was on the

1069
01:03:39.519 --> 01:03:42.639
show as well. I mean those
guys got it as well. I think

1070
01:03:42.639 --> 01:03:45.000
anyone. Oh yeah, I did
not. And I had a lot of

1071
01:03:45.039 --> 01:03:47.920
the ESPN people on, just going
back to the broadcasting thing, I didn't

1072
01:03:47.960 --> 01:03:52.280
have anyone on where I felt like
I wasn't fully invested in all this stuff,

1073
01:03:52.320 --> 01:03:54.079
even people as busy as you like. I mean, I think that's

1074
01:03:54.119 --> 01:03:58.239
cool because I'm like, I always
feel like I'm the nerve, like could

1075
01:03:58.239 --> 01:04:00.880
you come on and talk about whatever? And then like when they get it,

1076
01:04:00.880 --> 01:04:03.000
you feel like, Okay, I'm
not that, and you can tell

1077
01:04:03.000 --> 01:04:05.280
I'm sorry, Red. You can
tell that when they're on your show,

1078
01:04:05.280 --> 01:04:10.039
when you're talking to them, it's
like they're enjoying talking about, you know,

1079
01:04:10.400 --> 01:04:12.920
the league and talking about the stories
and those things. It's not just

1080
01:04:12.960 --> 01:04:15.320
like, oh yeah, you know, thanks for having me and whatever.

1081
01:04:15.400 --> 01:04:18.840
It's like there they are having a
good time with it. It was like

1082
01:04:18.880 --> 01:04:21.679
I had on and they dropped off
and some guy was doing it. I

1083
01:04:21.679 --> 01:04:25.800
think it was like an XFL Seattle
podcast or whatever, and he was coming

1084
01:04:25.840 --> 01:04:29.000
on like all he wanted to do
was talk about like Johnny Manziel and I'm

1085
01:04:29.039 --> 01:04:30.599
like, okay, you're not like
and this was like last year, right,

1086
01:04:30.679 --> 01:04:33.719
I'm like, you're not getting kind
of where this is going. Speaking

1087
01:04:33.760 --> 01:04:35.719
of the player of for before and
then we touched on this at the top.

1088
01:04:35.760 --> 01:04:40.320
I wanted to make sure we're circled
back Rock on Dayton that. But

1089
01:04:40.440 --> 01:04:44.480
like Danny Garcia seems gone from this
world. Yeah, I don't know what

1090
01:04:44.519 --> 01:04:47.199
was going on because she was the
face there for quite a while along with

1091
01:04:47.920 --> 01:04:53.320
the Rock and now it seems like
I don't I've seen her like post some

1092
01:04:53.360 --> 01:04:57.639
other things about different businesses and but
it's never been there's been a little bit

1093
01:04:57.679 --> 01:05:00.599
of the of the UFL stuff.
But you know what's fun you talk about

1094
01:05:00.639 --> 01:05:04.360
Daytona. Uh after that appearance,
I don't know how many people like texted

1095
01:05:04.440 --> 01:05:08.599
me like, oh, they were
talking about the UFL on they watching,

1096
01:05:08.679 --> 01:05:12.239
you know, the Daytona five hundred
pregame. So you know that connects with

1097
01:05:12.280 --> 01:05:15.039
people who don't even like what's the
UFL, Like is that happening this year?

1098
01:05:15.679 --> 01:05:18.400
But yeah, I was kind of
surprised with Danny Garcia just kind of

1099
01:05:18.719 --> 01:05:21.239
haven't seen a whole lot of her, and you know, maybe it's just

1100
01:05:21.320 --> 01:05:26.360
it's been all Rock And I do
like that Darryl Johnson, you see him

1101
01:05:26.400 --> 01:05:30.639
at all these you know, at
all the the socials they call whatever,

1102
01:05:30.639 --> 01:05:34.199
those you know, the little community
get togethers. But I think that's cool.

1103
01:05:34.199 --> 01:05:36.559
But yet it seems like the rock
has been like this is the A

1104
01:05:36.719 --> 01:05:40.840
tier. I'm gonna be on the
broadcast, Darryl Johnson is going to be

1105
01:05:40.920 --> 01:05:44.400
kind of the grassroots local And then
I don't know a good question what happened

1106
01:05:44.400 --> 01:05:46.880
with Danny. Just let's here on
the YouTube channel. We have one hundred

1107
01:05:46.920 --> 01:05:49.440
and sixty people right now. We
are one away from a thirty three hundred

1108
01:05:49.440 --> 01:05:53.360
subscribers, So if you wanted to, if you're not subscribed on the channel,

1109
01:05:53.400 --> 01:05:55.239
if you wanted to be a part
of that, you know, maybe

1110
01:05:55.239 --> 01:05:58.559
we could. Ok, I got
stuff I could send out, but maybe

1111
01:05:58.599 --> 01:06:00.519
we could do that and you can
say, hey, send me hey,

1112
01:06:00.599 --> 01:06:01.960
Red, that was your thirty three
hundred subscriber. But that would be cool.

1113
01:06:01.960 --> 01:06:03.760
It'd be cool to hit that.
By the end, I appreciate that

1114
01:06:03.960 --> 01:06:06.480
if we ever get to thirty five
hundred, I will give away tickets to

1115
01:06:06.519 --> 01:06:09.880
something. So we were going to
do that, and then, uh,

1116
01:06:10.440 --> 01:06:13.719
you know the I would say the
UFL US I would say, neither the

1117
01:06:13.760 --> 01:06:18.039
XVl nor the USFL season last year
hit the mainstream audiences, I think clearly

1118
01:06:18.039 --> 01:06:20.639
from the merging of everything now.
So we never really hit that, but

1119
01:06:20.920 --> 01:06:23.920
we'd love to hit that. You
know, get thirty three hundred here,

1120
01:06:23.960 --> 01:06:26.480
but yeah, let's get to thirty
five do a ticket give away all that

1121
01:06:26.519 --> 01:06:30.880
stuff. Yeah to me. You
know, Danny and the Rock have Max

1122
01:06:30.920 --> 01:06:33.000
has a comic here. We'll get
to Dany in the Rock. It seems

1123
01:06:33.000 --> 01:06:38.519
like they transitioned their names to like
founders. We taught you Danny's not on

1124
01:06:38.599 --> 01:06:41.199
the football anymore, Like I don't
know. To me, it just feels

1125
01:06:41.239 --> 01:06:43.760
like we're getting rid of that.
The player VI before really felt like it

1126
01:06:43.840 --> 01:06:46.840
was in marketing, like this is
a biopic about you know, Danny RC

1127
01:06:46.960 --> 01:06:49.280
and the Rock buying the Football League
versus I mean, it was a good

1128
01:06:49.280 --> 01:06:51.960
show. I watched, like the
Rock going back to Hawaii and like crying

1129
01:06:53.000 --> 01:06:55.599
in front of his apartment. That
was That was really good. That was

1130
01:06:55.639 --> 01:06:57.920
good. It was great. But
that wasn't about the XFL. That was

1131
01:06:57.920 --> 01:07:01.079
about the Rock. Yeah, and
he's the one of the biggest stars in

1132
01:07:01.119 --> 01:07:03.280
the world, so why not cash
in on it. I would love to

1133
01:07:03.280 --> 01:07:09.119
see I'd like to see them do
do something something that is in addition to

1134
01:07:09.920 --> 01:07:12.800
you know now. They did have
as you mentioned on ESPN, there was

1135
01:07:12.880 --> 01:07:15.079
I think it was streaming. They
had the XFL pre game and I watched

1136
01:07:15.079 --> 01:07:17.400
some of it and I thought it
was good. I was obviously not the

1137
01:07:17.440 --> 01:07:19.400
target audience. They did a lot
of stuff, and I was just like,

1138
01:07:20.039 --> 01:07:24.360
I don't know about that. But
hopefully there will be a lot more

1139
01:07:24.360 --> 01:07:26.639
of this and it won't just be
like, oh, top of the hour,

1140
01:07:26.679 --> 01:07:30.119
here's kickoff, you know, on
on any of the channels. Well,

1141
01:07:30.119 --> 01:07:32.559
here we go. I can proudly
say anyone decides to go way,

1142
01:07:32.599 --> 01:07:36.920
we have cross. Yes, there
you go. Whoever I was part of

1143
01:07:38.039 --> 01:07:41.679
history, I feel honored. John
was part of our first ten dollars super

1144
01:07:41.760 --> 01:07:45.280
chat. You're a part of the
cross subscribers, John's been a part of

1145
01:07:45.360 --> 01:07:46.679
a lot of stuff there, so
I appreciate that. But yeah, say

1146
01:07:46.679 --> 01:07:49.599
subscribing. Here are lots of work. Love more UFL stuff coming out.

1147
01:07:49.800 --> 01:07:53.719
Obviously, I got teased at the
top of the show. Uh. Big

1148
01:07:53.760 --> 01:07:57.639
interviews next week already have one fan
favorite played in the XFL, played in

1149
01:07:57.679 --> 01:08:00.559
the USFL and now is back to
see if you can get to that is

1150
01:08:01.480 --> 01:08:04.239
sweetheart of a gentleman. And then
a couple of big name, really big

1151
01:08:04.320 --> 01:08:08.480
name interviews, one returning big name
I'm working on, and then it would

1152
01:08:08.480 --> 01:08:11.000
be a new a person as well, So big time on there. But

1153
01:08:11.039 --> 01:08:14.320
that would be exciting. So I
appreciate that. Max has a comment here

1154
01:08:14.400 --> 01:08:17.000
speaking of the rock no project Rock
merch for sale justs bye players wearing the

1155
01:08:17.039 --> 01:08:24.000
merch puck in the weight room.
Yeah you know you see. Even the

1156
01:08:24.039 --> 01:08:26.880
interview I did yesterday, this gentleman
had a really nice sweatshirt on, like

1157
01:08:26.880 --> 01:08:29.319
I would love to see that go
for sale here, like you know,

1158
01:08:29.319 --> 01:08:33.760
they're obviously manufacturing that. But I
also heard like rumblings from yeah, let's

1159
01:08:33.760 --> 01:08:38.039
say XFL last year from some of
the team people, like sometimes it was

1160
01:08:38.079 --> 01:08:40.800
a little bit of like, oh
I need I'm taking that merch or I'm

1161
01:08:40.800 --> 01:08:44.239
taking like sometimes there wasn't necessarily enough
merch to go around, if that makes

1162
01:08:44.239 --> 01:08:45.479
sense, like, hey, I
need to collect enough things so I have

1163
01:08:45.600 --> 01:08:49.319
enough like under armour things to wear. I don't know if it's his abundance

1164
01:08:49.359 --> 01:08:53.560
people think from looking at the social
thoughts on any of that interesting, Yeah,

1165
01:08:53.640 --> 01:08:58.439
well, I mean it's again you
talk about it. Seems like merchandising

1166
01:08:58.479 --> 01:09:03.359
could be huge for this for this
league, especially from you know, idiots

1167
01:09:03.399 --> 01:09:06.399
like us who buy who will buy
almost anything. But if you have some

1168
01:09:06.479 --> 01:09:10.039
cool under armour stuff, which I
think is gonna that could be good for

1169
01:09:10.119 --> 01:09:13.119
the other fans. They'll see that's
a really cool sweatshirt, that's a cool

1170
01:09:13.159 --> 01:09:17.239
logo. I think. Yeah,
it's just it's too bad because the UFL

1171
01:09:17.319 --> 01:09:21.640
shop, I'll say it myself,
the rollout was very poor. And I

1172
01:09:21.680 --> 01:09:25.600
don't think that's a secret to a
lot of people who tried to spend money

1173
01:09:25.600 --> 01:09:28.520
on there. It's been almost a
month since I ordered a shirt from there.

1174
01:09:28.800 --> 01:09:30.960
I went on there and it said
order unfulfilled. And as I told

1175
01:09:31.000 --> 01:09:34.359
you, I am also unfulfilled because
I like to have my UFL shirt.

1176
01:09:35.119 --> 01:09:41.600
It just there's I would almost rather
that they had And we talked about it

1177
01:09:41.600 --> 01:09:44.720
before when we'll go keep killing them
on the shop thing, But I almost

1178
01:09:44.760 --> 01:09:47.000
wish they had already had full stock
before they opened the shop back up.

1179
01:09:48.520 --> 01:09:50.920
Yes, I agree that it is. You know, it's also like it's

1180
01:09:50.960 --> 01:09:54.199
three like we got to put this
online. I mean, we can't.

1181
01:09:54.239 --> 01:09:57.239
You got to have the shop open. But I remember the sadness of last

1182
01:09:57.239 --> 01:10:00.039
time. I think it was the
USFL started it, the XML continue of

1183
01:10:00.079 --> 01:10:03.720
not having the jerseys ready by by
opening day. That was. That was.

1184
01:10:04.079 --> 01:10:09.199
And I remember this is what like
I was in because I wasn't doing

1185
01:10:09.239 --> 01:10:11.720
the podcast for the XFL twenty twenty. I was a fan and I was

1186
01:10:11.760 --> 01:10:16.199
in Vegas working, and I was
filming this event at the Ferris Wheel and

1187
01:10:16.239 --> 01:10:20.520
I was literally in the Ferris Wheel
refreshing the page because they were announcing all

1188
01:10:20.520 --> 01:10:24.840
the jerseys that night. And I
remember I remember getting to the airport the

1189
01:10:24.880 --> 01:10:27.960
next day and walking back and forth
and listen to Mark Perry do a breakdown.

1190
01:10:28.000 --> 01:10:30.680
I think it was what was his
name, Connor Folk, I think

1191
01:10:30.760 --> 01:10:32.159
was on there too, but doing
they had done the live But like,

1192
01:10:32.239 --> 01:10:34.920
that's how invested I was in all
this and to make sure I could order

1193
01:10:34.960 --> 01:10:36.920
it, and I was on trying
to make sure I could order it,

1194
01:10:38.000 --> 01:10:40.239
order it, order it, and
then get it ready to go. And

1195
01:10:40.279 --> 01:10:43.960
it came like Christmas eve Day or
something before the kickoff. But it was

1196
01:10:44.000 --> 01:10:45.239
such a part that being a fan
of this, and I just think,

1197
01:10:45.479 --> 01:10:49.520
like they don't. They just view
that as one more thing. But there's

1198
01:10:49.560 --> 01:10:54.720
so many of these things that are
like a paramountal part of building these fan

1199
01:10:54.760 --> 01:10:58.199
bases and getting people involved in Like
then, because then what am I gonna

1200
01:10:58.199 --> 01:11:00.640
do. I'm gonna order something from
China. I'm going to make my own.

1201
01:11:00.680 --> 01:11:02.880
And we did the kickoff last year
for the Renegades, there was tons

1202
01:11:03.000 --> 01:11:05.840
of you know, DIY kind of
stuff and at that point, like,

1203
01:11:05.880 --> 01:11:09.399
I'm not going to go back and
invest one hundred and sixty dollars in New

1204
01:11:09.479 --> 01:11:12.359
Jersey halfway through the season. That's
not even gonna ship till the end of

1205
01:11:12.359 --> 01:11:15.279
the season. Well and that's the
thing. We're gonna kick off as we

1206
01:11:15.359 --> 01:11:17.399
tape this in what twenty two days? Is that? Right? Am I

1207
01:11:17.399 --> 01:11:20.680
doing the math? Right? So
it's like, are you going to you

1208
01:11:20.680 --> 01:11:24.079
know, I've been waiting almost a
month for a shirt. So if I'm

1209
01:11:24.119 --> 01:11:27.119
gonna go to you know, one
of the games on you know that weekend,

1210
01:11:27.359 --> 01:11:29.600
am I gonna have my gear or
not? So I you know,

1211
01:11:29.800 --> 01:11:32.039
I just and I know they're trying
to They're gonna sell some stuff locally,

1212
01:11:32.079 --> 01:11:34.520
so if you're in those markets,
I guess you'll see those on the shelves

1213
01:11:34.560 --> 01:11:39.279
somewhere. But yeah, I just
it's the rollout was pretty weak, I

1214
01:11:39.319 --> 01:11:43.479
will say, because my wife was
like, we're gonna go to a BattleHawks

1215
01:11:43.560 --> 01:11:45.079
game here in April, and she
was like, well, I hope that

1216
01:11:45.119 --> 01:11:48.520
they'll eventually put some women stuff on
so she can buy a shirt to go.

1217
01:11:48.760 --> 01:11:50.640
They finally have it up there.
I guess. I don't know if

1218
01:11:50.680 --> 01:11:54.960
they win. It came on,
but that is online now as we just

1219
01:11:55.000 --> 01:11:58.000
saw. Yeah, lots of women
said, I just you know, this

1220
01:11:58.079 --> 01:12:00.239
is different, going through the different
you know, when Paul and I had

1221
01:12:00.239 --> 01:12:01.960
our drop shift account, but I
remember like, uh, you know,

1222
01:12:02.079 --> 01:12:05.159
you could just go on, and
I remember asking Dorothy like, hey,

1223
01:12:05.159 --> 01:12:08.359
Paul's going to make a tank top, like what kind of She's like,

1224
01:12:08.399 --> 01:12:10.520
I want to race your back top, and I'm like, I don't even

1225
01:12:10.520 --> 01:12:12.600
know if that is. I'm like, okay, like we can go make

1226
01:12:12.600 --> 01:12:15.399
that and put a logo on and
kind of all that stuff. One hundred

1227
01:12:15.399 --> 01:12:17.479
and seventy five people on here right
now plus whatever on Twitter. Appreciate everyone

1228
01:12:17.560 --> 01:12:20.159
checking that out. John, anything
else you want to make sure we touch

1229
01:12:20.199 --> 01:12:23.520
on here. I'm going to post
the episode when we get off. Obviously

1230
01:12:23.600 --> 01:12:26.399
they'll be back on the Sports Illustrated
the website. Appreciate that, and I

1231
01:12:26.399 --> 01:12:29.479
think that that's helping to scan some
of these subscribe as well. But yeah,

1232
01:12:29.640 --> 01:12:31.680
having passed the thirty three hundred today, which is exciting, that's very

1233
01:12:31.720 --> 01:12:34.279
cool. No, I think we
covered it all always. You know,

1234
01:12:34.640 --> 01:12:36.680
I could go another hour with you, as we know. We can,

1235
01:12:36.800 --> 01:12:41.000
you know, go back and forth
talking about the UFL and there. I

1236
01:12:41.079 --> 01:12:43.359
know there are people that say,
yeah, you guys are really nitpicky,

1237
01:12:43.399 --> 01:12:45.600
and we were, but we do
it again, as I said to you

1238
01:12:45.680 --> 01:12:49.039
before, we do it because we
care and we want this to succeed.

1239
01:12:49.199 --> 01:12:54.239
And I'm just you know, we're
I'm cautiously optimistic as we were about three

1240
01:12:54.239 --> 01:12:57.279
weeks away from kickoff, so it's
always fun to talk about, you know,

1241
01:12:57.319 --> 01:13:00.960
the UFL and and kind of pick
on things that we wish we're a

1242
01:13:00.000 --> 01:13:04.079
little better or a lot better.
Well, and you know, I get

1243
01:13:04.079 --> 01:13:08.720
that, right, So I get
one hundred percent that, but I also

1244
01:13:08.880 --> 01:13:13.199
don't think that there is any gain
of being another bashed cheerleader for anything right,

1245
01:13:13.439 --> 01:13:15.840
right, and and you know,
and I've we've had long conversations this

1246
01:13:15.880 --> 01:13:17.920
week with a lot of you know, with the Mike Mitchell's of the world

1247
01:13:18.000 --> 01:13:21.880
and Pad and Evans kind of everyone
else, because I I do air on

1248
01:13:24.119 --> 01:13:27.880
more of the uh negatory side of
things, right, like even talking and

1249
01:13:27.960 --> 01:13:30.439
I have my cracking right, haven't
had the best season and we're trying to

1250
01:13:30.439 --> 01:13:34.279
make a push and even like my
season ticket holder friends or like really like

1251
01:13:34.560 --> 01:13:36.840
we need you know, you got
to be optimistic here about and I'm like,

1252
01:13:36.880 --> 01:13:40.760
I try. Just things that have
been through my life and not that

1253
01:13:40.800 --> 01:13:43.159
I've had the most challenging life,
but there's been things that have kind of

1254
01:13:43.199 --> 01:13:46.399
caused me to be I'm a little
bit more of like the realist, pessimistic

1255
01:13:46.399 --> 01:13:49.640
sort of things. But the reason
I do it is because I do want

1256
01:13:49.640 --> 01:13:53.439
things to be successful. And so
it is hard when I get like YouTube

1257
01:13:53.479 --> 01:13:56.640
comments of like like you know,
like why do you even care, Like

1258
01:13:56.760 --> 01:13:59.720
just it's like, no, we
do this because I do care, because

1259
01:14:00.119 --> 01:14:03.079
us not carying is just packing up
the shop and not doing it anymore,

1260
01:14:03.119 --> 01:14:05.680
right that is, you know,
turning off and not doing the podcast.

1261
01:14:05.720 --> 01:14:10.079
And it's the same with doing these
live shows and stuff right now. It's

1262
01:14:10.079 --> 01:14:13.319
it's a way to kind of continue
doing this by keeping myself saying because I

1263
01:14:13.319 --> 01:14:15.279
don't think that you had a two
and a half hour pre recorded, even

1264
01:14:15.319 --> 01:14:17.760
though I do think we'll have a
good episode next week. But yeah,

1265
01:14:17.760 --> 01:14:20.600
that that's why I do that.
So it's hard when I and I understand

1266
01:14:20.640 --> 01:14:24.800
people feeling that way, but like, this is why I'm doing it,

1267
01:14:24.880 --> 01:14:27.760
is because we want this to succeed. Because I've lived through and you've lived

1268
01:14:27.760 --> 01:14:30.039
through, like you and Mike and
all, like we've lived through all of

1269
01:14:30.039 --> 01:14:32.880
these different things, and it is
because we've seen so much of it that

1270
01:14:32.960 --> 01:14:38.039
we want this to work with I
mean, it's not been that long ago

1271
01:14:38.119 --> 01:14:42.239
where there was the big news conference
with Charlie Eversol and the whole thing with

1272
01:14:41.960 --> 01:14:44.840
the with the Alliance of American Football, and I'm sitting there watching it.

1273
01:14:44.960 --> 01:14:47.399
I was so excited. I mean, I'm watching the unveiling of this and

1274
01:14:47.439 --> 01:14:50.079
the you know, announcement of this, and I'm like, man, we're

1275
01:14:50.119 --> 01:14:54.039
finally going to get a spring football
that's gonna you know, they've got it

1276
01:14:54.079 --> 01:14:59.039
all together, and then you're disappointed
again again and again. So we just

1277
01:14:59.039 --> 01:15:00.439
don't want to be disappointed. Like
you know, you said you could just

1278
01:15:00.479 --> 01:15:04.279
pack it up, because the opposite
of love is not hate, it's apathy.

1279
01:15:04.439 --> 01:15:06.920
And if you're just apathetic about it, you're like, you don't care.

1280
01:15:08.840 --> 01:15:11.600
We care, That's what. We
just want things to be good because

1281
01:15:11.640 --> 01:15:15.119
we care about the product. And
and just my last thing on this because

1282
01:15:15.159 --> 01:15:17.399
I you know, and we're still
peaking viewership heirs. I appreciate that because

1283
01:15:17.399 --> 01:15:19.600
I don't want anyone to be like
this idiot needs to stop talking. But

1284
01:15:20.560 --> 01:15:25.119
we just saw this week that like
fangtro Football, they're bringing back there,

1285
01:15:25.439 --> 01:15:28.319
like I think they're trying to launch
again, but they're bringing back there weekly

1286
01:15:28.399 --> 01:15:30.680
they do like a weekly YouTube show, and they were gonna have some big

1287
01:15:30.680 --> 01:15:33.199
announcements and I'm like, I remember
when the season one of that came out

1288
01:15:33.279 --> 01:15:36.479
and Paul and I sat here and
said like this is wrong and this is

1289
01:15:36.520 --> 01:15:40.239
wrong and this is wrong and and
they got mad at us, right,

1290
01:15:40.279 --> 01:15:42.439
and we would they would like they'd
come on the show and like, well

1291
01:15:42.439 --> 01:15:45.399
you guys, I'm like, you're
just you're just hating, Like you're just

1292
01:15:45.479 --> 01:15:48.840
hate. It's like no, like
I'm watching eight hours of your twitch streams

1293
01:15:48.880 --> 01:15:53.760
every Saturday, Like I'm not hating
it. I'm watching this. Like you

1294
01:15:53.800 --> 01:15:56.680
know, the people that say,
like, you know, spring football is

1295
01:15:56.720 --> 01:16:00.279
stupid because these players suck are the
same people like the CFL, Like that's

1296
01:16:00.319 --> 01:16:02.359
not real athletes, Like those are
the people you need to get mad at,

1297
01:16:02.439 --> 01:16:05.680
not the people. I mean,
Pat and I our recapped every single

1298
01:16:05.760 --> 01:16:11.359
UFL you know game the entire season. Like I said, Paul and I

1299
01:16:11.359 --> 01:16:14.800
I watched all those stupid fans show
football, Like I am not the enemy

1300
01:16:14.840 --> 01:16:17.199
here, the person that's watching and
giving you constructive criticism of things that they're

1301
01:16:17.199 --> 01:16:21.600
easy to change, and then seeing
your and then's like seeing your league go

1302
01:16:21.720 --> 01:16:25.800
away because you didn't do that,
like you know, basically being like this

1303
01:16:25.880 --> 01:16:28.279
is why this is gonna work,
and then it didn't work, and like

1304
01:16:28.319 --> 01:16:31.640
then them trying to do NFTs and
being like that's that's never gonna work,

1305
01:16:31.760 --> 01:16:34.399
and then it didn't work again and
it went away, Like but yeah,

1306
01:16:34.439 --> 01:16:36.960
but I'm like I'm the idiot,
Like, oh, you're the smarter,

1307
01:16:38.159 --> 01:16:41.520
Like their CEO would be like yelling
at me on Twitter like you're just an

1308
01:16:41.560 --> 01:16:45.760
idiot. I'm like, okay,
like i I'm here, Yeah, you're

1309
01:16:45.760 --> 01:16:47.520
not. I mean, and I
think I don't want anyone to fail anything.

1310
01:16:47.920 --> 01:16:53.800
You you hit, you hit right. It's constructive criticism because you are

1311
01:16:53.840 --> 01:16:56.760
the target audience. You're you're this
is what you want to see, and

1312
01:16:56.800 --> 01:16:59.920
you think that this would be good
and it's not out of the you know,

1313
01:17:00.199 --> 01:17:01.600
realm of you know, oh I
want to see you know, Patrick

1314
01:17:01.600 --> 01:17:04.279
Mahome's playing in Fan Control football.
No, that's not what you're saying,

1315
01:17:04.439 --> 01:17:08.239
just like you'd want to try to
get this off the ground because you care.

1316
01:17:08.560 --> 01:17:12.880
People who call other people haters.
It's like that is like the laziest

1317
01:17:12.960 --> 01:17:16.399
thing, because if it really is
constructive criticism of something that you hope to

1318
01:17:16.439 --> 01:17:20.560
succeed, it's not hating. It's
like I'm trying to just say, like

1319
01:17:20.640 --> 01:17:25.640
it's like watching someone that you you
know, that a friend or something that's

1320
01:17:25.680 --> 01:17:28.439
being self destructive. It's like,
you've got to stop this, and here's

1321
01:17:28.479 --> 01:17:30.800
why you have to stop this.
I can see it well and I will

1322
01:17:30.880 --> 01:17:34.000
just say that when and then when
I you know, when I get feedback

1323
01:17:34.079 --> 01:17:40.000
on my feedback, at least it
feels like my feedback is heard, right,

1324
01:17:40.119 --> 01:17:42.239
Like, I mean, I have
heard from you know, the league

1325
01:17:42.239 --> 01:17:45.760
about things, and like that at
least speaks that they value my opinion in

1326
01:17:45.760 --> 01:17:48.079
that way, right, And they
don't view me so I don't care if

1327
01:17:48.079 --> 01:17:50.520
anybody, I mean, at least
they don't view hopefully view me as some

1328
01:17:50.560 --> 01:17:55.199
big negative nancy like at least because
that is my goal. I have been

1329
01:17:55.239 --> 01:17:59.279
through a lot of so anyway we
all have and that you're right. I

1330
01:17:59.279 --> 01:18:01.239
mean, we could get on here
and be fanboys, but like who want

1331
01:18:01.319 --> 01:18:03.520
I mean, they might like to
hear that. I don't think the people

1332
01:18:03.520 --> 01:18:06.479
that are watching right now want to
hear you raw ra or hear either of

1333
01:18:06.600 --> 01:18:11.359
us. Just raw raw And everything's
great, but damn way to recap.

1334
01:18:11.760 --> 01:18:15.680
I am excited big time next week
so everything else, but I do I

1335
01:18:15.920 --> 01:18:17.359
gotta go. I mean, I
think this is the last go around we

1336
01:18:17.399 --> 01:18:23.079
have, so I mean we're I'm
full speed ahead, gonna be retweeting everything,

1337
01:18:23.279 --> 01:18:26.760
being to be sharing everything, all
the stuff everything. There's a lot

1338
01:18:26.760 --> 01:18:29.079
of good being done right now.
There's things that could be done, but

1339
01:18:29.159 --> 01:18:30.760
it is fun to go on to
kind of nipick this stuff. But lots

1340
01:18:30.800 --> 01:18:34.199
of player interview us the next week. Appreciate that. Lots of training camp

1341
01:18:34.239 --> 01:18:39.760
coverage and then we'll be live March
thirtieth here and hopefully John and I think

1342
01:18:39.800 --> 01:18:43.359
Greg Parks and anyone else and Andy's
talking about trying to go. I have

1343
01:18:43.399 --> 01:18:45.119
a great spot set up. We'll
have a cool background and everything, so

1344
01:18:45.159 --> 01:18:49.199
anyone that's in town at least talent
wise, can come hang out and then

1345
01:18:49.199 --> 01:18:53.279
we'll be at the game and then
obviously anyone that wants to call in John

1346
01:18:53.359 --> 01:18:56.439
plug your channel. You said you
have uniform rankings coming out, which will

1347
01:18:56.479 --> 01:18:59.760
be exciting then because John does like
the good bite size, because I like

1348
01:18:59.800 --> 01:19:01.760
you, I'm on here. We
just ramble for an hour and a half,

1349
01:19:01.760 --> 01:19:04.760
but then you do like this is
my targeted seven minute thing, which

1350
01:19:04.800 --> 01:19:08.840
is good. That Yeah, it's
John Lewis Sports. That's all you have

1351
01:19:08.880 --> 01:19:12.039
to look up on YouTube, and
I appreciate you letting me get the plug

1352
01:19:12.039 --> 01:19:14.640
in. I just do, and
it is I'm going to have some uniform

1353
01:19:14.760 --> 01:19:18.479
rankings. I'm gonna tell the whole
and this is a story for another day,

1354
01:19:18.520 --> 01:19:21.239
but I do I do have want
to kind of get into the background

1355
01:19:21.239 --> 01:19:25.720
of Matt Carrall because I think he's
a really good story for the Birmingham Stallions.

1356
01:19:25.920 --> 01:19:28.800
So hopefully we'll have a video on
out on that out soon. And

1357
01:19:28.840 --> 01:19:31.640
I'm sorry about the grade that I'm
going to give your San Antonio Obamas uniforms,

1358
01:19:31.640 --> 01:19:34.159
but that is ah, that's the
point that should come out this weekend.

1359
01:19:34.680 --> 01:19:39.640
John Leu Experience and John Rarity dropped
down from three or three hundred subscribers,

1360
01:19:39.640 --> 01:19:42.600
so our rant, our rand got
this the way we lost it.

1361
01:19:42.640 --> 01:19:46.039
So that's folklus. We had hit. We had hit thirty subscribers. We

1362
01:19:46.119 --> 01:19:49.560
made someone mad. If you want
to support the show, like and subscribe

1363
01:19:49.600 --> 01:19:54.159
one hundred and ninety five people watching
us here at three twenty on a specific

1364
01:19:54.199 --> 01:19:57.600
here, I'm going to go rest
my gums, crack and play tonight.

1365
01:19:58.000 --> 01:20:00.960
Let's hope for that and that John
appreciate your time and that everyone's watching and

1366
01:20:01.159 --> 01:20:04.159
hanging out. So it's been fun. It has been fun anytime, man.

1367
01:20:04.319 --> 01:20:08.199
Thank you for having me on.
Yeah, we tried Wednesday, we

1368
01:20:08.239 --> 01:20:10.720
tried Thursday, and then finally here
end of the week. So we get

1369
01:20:11.640 --> 01:20:14.119
we got it, We got it
all right. We'll see you guys next time.