WEBVTT 1 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:38.560 Well, happy Monday here. Welcome to the Mark Cast. Read here. 2 00:00:38.840 --> 00:00:43.759 It's been a while, probably the longest stretch it's been since the show. 3 00:00:43.799 --> 00:00:47.479 I think we did the supplemental Draft here about two weeks ago. Send Andrew 4 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:51.719 Murray the link he's getting on. I was making coffee, getting ready to 5 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:54.280 go here. Wanted to make sure we got out here. James checking out. 6 00:00:54.359 --> 00:00:57.320 Let's go. Marcas appreciate it. Yeah, I guess lots of things 7 00:00:57.359 --> 00:01:00.119 going on. Glad the week he'd be back on here today. The UFL 8 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:04.280 twenty twenty four schedule has been announced, and while we wait for Adrew Murray, 9 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:08.599 I want you please comment, you know, any complaints against the schedule, 10 00:01:08.599 --> 00:01:15.159 any compliments. I've seen the DC Defenders fans complaining there's no Saturday games 11 00:01:15.239 --> 00:01:18.040 right or they want more Sunday games, So let me know what you want. 12 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:21.480 I will just say if there's and I said this before with the supplemental 13 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:25.159 Draft, if anybody in the world is ever listening to this from the UFL, 14 00:01:26.959 --> 00:01:30.719 I understand that the West Coast is probably not your target audience here for 15 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:36.519 the twenty twenty four UFL season. There is no need for an eight am 16 00:01:36.599 --> 00:01:41.040 Eastern press conference when seven of your teams I think are in the Central time 17 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:44.159 zone. Seven am. I'm like, it kills me. We go out 18 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:49.120 Friday to five, we're doing all this to five schedules coming, Sunday schedules 19 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:53.079 coming, you know. I got up at six thirty today thinking like maybe 20 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:55.920 i'd swing and kind of get ready to go here. I think we always 21 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:57.879 kind of plan on going at ninth I wake up, I get poo, 22 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:02.879 poo, it's been gone five am press release. Like moving on. You 23 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:07.039 know, if you want things to matter, make them matter. But it's 24 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:10.319 such a complete fumble of the ball here coming out you know, Friday, 25 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:15.000 into all this stuff and then here we go five am press conference. Here's 26 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:19.800 some Pokemon them, you know whatever animated there, here's some emojis, and 27 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:23.120 then moving on. So that's my two cents. I am excited for this. 28 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:27.039 As I've said, we will be at the kickoff game here on March 29 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:30.280 thirtieth, have all that book to We'll be posting all of our other stuff, 30 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:34.039 you know, guests and all that don't know about the championship game. 31 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:37.360 Booked the wedding here or in the off season for that Saturday, So that 32 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:39.960 might be a quick turn. But we will do that here Denzel checking in? 33 00:02:40.199 --> 00:02:45.360 What up? We got Jenny here checking in from southern California. Really 34 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:47.599 appreciate that. So we'll get the schedule pulled up here. I see Andrews 35 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:50.960 getting ready to go here. I just have my rants, so I think 36 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:55.439 that that's out the way, and you know, feeling refreshed here until all 37 00:02:55.479 --> 00:03:00.479 of this went down, But we are here. Dan Quinn is my coach 38 00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:04.680 now apparently we have close Kingsbury. A lots of things going on in Breid's 39 00:03:04.759 --> 00:03:08.759 life here. Andrew, I know that we had talked and you said I 40 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:14.759 feel refreshed. I am negative refreshed now coming into today. How are you 41 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:17.719 doing just because of everything that happened this morning? You're negative refreshed, Like 42 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:21.520 I was so excited, Like we talked about this last week. We're gonna 43 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:24.120 do this schedule all this. I wake up whatever time Dorothy got up six 44 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:28.639 twenty five. Seth texts me. He's like, hey, did you see 45 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:31.840 this? I'm like, it's done, it's done, It's all done already 46 00:03:31.919 --> 00:03:36.520 here we are here, We got fifty five whatever people watch right now, 47 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:38.400 we'll go through all the numbers everything. What do you make here? How 48 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:43.080 are you feeling today, let me get the schedule pulled up. I mean, 49 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:47.199 it's finally out. I'm glad that there's at least something concrete that people 50 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:52.479 can start planning around and have time to look at for not only their viewing 51 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:54.479 schedules, but also if they want to travel the games. That's finally in 52 00:03:54.599 --> 00:03:59.400 full view about a little less than two months out from here from the start 53 00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:05.159 of the season. I will say the unceremonious release of it is to be 54 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:10.120 expected. I think at this point, considering everything that we've gotten from both 55 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:13.080 of these leagues the last few years, it doesn't seem like there was gonna 56 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:15.959 be a big role out. The five am release time is hilarious for US 57 00:04:15.959 --> 00:04:18.680 West Coasters. As you were going on and on and on about I know, 58 00:04:18.839 --> 00:04:23.680 for now, I'm done. I've set my piece. I'm good. 59 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:26.800 I mean for me, it's it's all information at the end of the day. 60 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:30.800 But I understand. Look, I mean, we'll go into it a 61 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:32.319 little bit later. But obviously, with there being no West Coast teams, 62 00:04:32.319 --> 00:04:36.319 maybe there's no appetite to please the West Coast market. So how about it 63 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:40.079 as you will. But that was a very USFL move. I will say, 64 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:43.839 because that's definitely something they pulled off last couple of years. And I 65 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:48.079 understand that there's no teams that really not many teams that are west of Texas, 66 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:54.800 so I understand there's not really a need to placate to them. But 67 00:04:55.079 --> 00:05:01.120 still I understand your your you're voracious at it about it, but like again, 68 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:03.879 and this is this last time, because okay, reach, I understand, 69 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:08.600 but I think, right except for DC, seven of the teams are 70 00:05:08.600 --> 00:05:11.639 in the central, right, because Memphis is central, Birmingham is central, 71 00:05:11.720 --> 00:05:15.639 right, Saint Louis is central, all the Texas teams and then that's it, 72 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:17.759 right, and then you have d C. So like, I just 73 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:21.639 don't understand this. Like even the USFL in twenty twenty two was that they 74 00:05:21.639 --> 00:05:26.720 did like one one thing per hour, which like by the end of it 75 00:05:26.759 --> 00:05:29.240 you're like, okay, we're done. But I at least that was kind 76 00:05:29.279 --> 00:05:31.680 of a clever way to do it. I just you know, I'm for 77 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:34.879 consultation free of charge here. If anyone wants to do that, I check 78 00:05:34.920 --> 00:05:38.639 it in here. I'm getting everything pulled up on here. But no, 79 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:41.959 we know all that stuff. Let's just check in here. Will get a 80 00:05:41.959 --> 00:05:44.759 couple of comments with out of the way, Christina, I got vacation time 81 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:48.399 ready to go. Val hooks US Rattlehawks versus repnexs CACA. Yeah, Christina 82 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:50.560 is one of our new members. If you want to be a member joined, 83 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:54.319 I think it's a dollar a month, but it gets your things spotlighted 84 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:58.839 on there. Jordan checking in as well, and any other preseason UFL thoughts. 85 00:05:58.839 --> 00:06:00.800 While I get the schedule pulled up, we'll get into it because I 86 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:02.600 want to make sure this is a little time ly. Well, I just 87 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:06.879 wanted to say I'm glad that you had that stream with mister Vogel and we 88 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:13.839 were able to get that information out about all the things about the draft or 89 00:06:13.879 --> 00:06:16.000 the Spersal draft. All the players have been reallocated, so having John on 90 00:06:16.079 --> 00:06:20.839 there was really great. As far as other information, what is going to 91 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:25.959 come to fruition, I mean we really have most of the major information. 92 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:29.480 I think the only thing is obviously training camp. See who shows up, 93 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:32.040 who doesn't, Who is you know, going to be in the throes of 94 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:36.639 being acclimated to the team, who's returning. There's a lot of that still 95 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:41.120 to be discussed the next couple of weeks. But I would say for the 96 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:46.279 most part, I mean most of the major information is there. The allocation 97 00:06:46.399 --> 00:06:49.800 of where all the seats are going to be in terms of each stadium. 98 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:55.000 I'm still curious about as far as where everybody's going to be sitting. We've 99 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:58.839 seen some things, obviously, are your friend, our comrade, I guess 100 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:02.399 Corey putting on information about the Memphis show boats and where the some of the 101 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:08.680 seating charts are same with the Stallions. That's the only thing that I'm still 102 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:13.399 curious about. But most of the information I think now we have set in 103 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:15.759 place. Yeah, it's funny. I've seen some I'm just sug just mcain. 104 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:17.800 I got a new little poster there in the background. You like that, 105 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:20.879 My Winter Classic poster. I've got revamped. I have no beard. 106 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:25.920 I did no comments about the beerless read here, but that's good. Some 107 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:30.160 interesting seating charts I have seen. The Stallions one I thought was interesting, 108 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:32.000 and then the Memphis one. It's like we've learned from the XFL, like 109 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:35.399 we're only going to put people on the one side of everything. I will 110 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:39.680 say in just a comment as well. I got I posted yesterday like hey, 111 00:07:39.720 --> 00:07:42.519 we're going live about all this, like not to throw like Mark under 112 00:07:42.519 --> 00:07:45.160 the bus. But like Mark commented Brennan, a couple other was like, 113 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:50.240 are we done with like the recorded shows? Like at least for this kind 114 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:53.680 of stuff, this is where I want to be. We have comments here 115 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:57.639 coming in exciting for that, but for the sustainability of Read's welfare and the 116 00:07:57.720 --> 00:08:00.360 podcast, I do think we're leaning a little bit more into this, not 117 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:03.959 to say that we won't get but these two and a half hour pre scheduled 118 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:07.360 they whatever, Like that was awesome. I've had a really busy last month, 119 00:08:07.399 --> 00:08:11.279 which is great for like my personal life and just business, but I 120 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:13.959 also don't know what I'm doing for two and a half hours of pre produce 121 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:16.319 interviews in the off season. Like I think Hussey and Evan and I are 122 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:20.120 going to try to get together for like a CFL free agency one. So 123 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:24.079 stuff will be coming. But you know what was I supposed to talk about 124 00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:26.519 the last three weeks? So we're into all that. So we have here 125 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:31.000 the opening weekend. We knew March thirty Saint Louis Battle or so we knew 126 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:35.000 the DC We okay, they I read all this and this off the top, 127 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:39.120 like we have we have the the opening one and then we have the 128 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:43.919 actual okay, March thirtieth, heter Brollingham, Stallions, Orange and Renegades. 129 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:46.559 Who know about that one o'clock Eastern on Fox. Then the other three we're 130 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:50.919 going to have the battle Hawks traveling to Saint Louis are traveling to Michigan. 131 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:54.440 I think that there's issues with the Dome hosting four pm on Fox. And 132 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:58.039 then we have the two ESPA games on Sunday, the DC Defenders at the 133 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:01.120 Brahmas with like see that open at home, and then the Memphis show Bus 134 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:05.120 at the Roughnecks. I want to talk about kind of the network delineation of 135 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:07.200 everything, But what do you make of just that now that we have the 136 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:11.799 opening slated games, for the most part, you're getting a lot of USFL 137 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:15.840 XFL crossover here, which is good. I think you want to showcase that 138 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:18.480 immediately say hey, look, I know you thought these two teams were in 139 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:22.360 different leagues. Guess what, They're all together. So that's good. Obviously 140 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:26.240 most of these stadiums were familiar, with Rice Stadium being the question mark. 141 00:09:26.360 --> 00:09:31.399 We're not sure how that's going to work out and what the setup for that 142 00:09:31.879 --> 00:09:35.360 is going to be for Houston, but everything else is familiar we You and 143 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:39.159 I have both been to the Alamo Dome. I've been the Chalkdust Stadium. 144 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:43.320 You've been the Chalkdust Stadium, so I'm familiar with that setup. Portfield I 145 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:46.919 haven't been to yet, but obviously they hosted games there for the Panthers last 146 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:50.320 year, so a lot of familiarity. I do think it's funny that the 147 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:52.480 BattleHawks for the third straight time, by being put on the road for Week 148 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:56.120 one, everyone makes so much of a big deal about how much won't field 149 00:09:56.120 --> 00:10:01.320 advantage they have. Well, maybe both leagues are any any iteration of anybody 150 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:05.960 who's ever watched the Saint Louis battle Hawks understands that and decides not to get 151 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:09.240 that up for some reason doesn't want to like spoil that out of the gate. 152 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:11.879 It's really funny to me that they just keep putting them on the road 153 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:13.960 in Week one. Now. I know, obviously it must be like whatever 154 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:18.399 the Edward Jones don't must be doing something. There can't be like there's not 155 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:22.120 really enough space for all these teams to be able to play in their home 156 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:26.919 markets the first week. But I do find that really funny for once again 157 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:28.480 they are going to be on the road. Well, it's like, I 158 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:33.200 think that's the the plight of the I think that's the plight of the Saint 159 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:35.720 Louis Ballhawk fan. I'm just commenting, Mark, I see your comment here. 160 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:39.360 I'm just commenting some questions we can get to in a minute. Yeah, 161 00:10:39.399 --> 00:10:41.480 that's the ply that the BattleHawks fan is. You know, we can't 162 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:46.399 we open on the road. We travel. Like I said, a lot 163 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:50.039 of at least a lot of the matchups have to do with you know, 164 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:52.360 stadium availability. Right, It's the same with the CFL when we get that. 165 00:10:52.519 --> 00:10:56.320 But like, why aren't the rgoes at home? Like because they got 166 00:10:56.440 --> 00:10:58.159 to deal with you know, Bibo Field has a lot of different you know, 167 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:03.360 what would you call that inhabitants, a lot of people using all that. 168 00:11:03.080 --> 00:11:07.559 Yeah, we have Andrews Motocross is at the del March thirtieth, so 169 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:11.279 that is for that. Some key breakdowns here. And it was, uh, 170 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:13.320 it was funny, Like Mike tweeted this. I was like, how 171 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:16.279 did he get this moth so quick? And I'm like, oh, it's 172 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:18.360 from the press rest. I was like, wow, Mike Mi like this 173 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:20.799 crunching the numbers, You're really quick. I was really at by six thirty 174 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:22.960 am wake up call. It was really stuff. So, yeah, we 175 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:26.960 know this forty three UFL games, forty regular season, the two Conference one 176 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:33.120 championship game divided into USFL and Excellent Andy. Have we got your thoughts because 177 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:35.840 when we were on here talking about this conference breakdown, like that's not how 178 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:39.240 they're going to do it, and I didn't realize it was so controversial, 179 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:41.799 Like, I think this is the smartest thing to do. I think you're 180 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:43.840 you paid the money for abably these trademarks and everything. We're not going to 181 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:46.919 let go of this IP. We're going to keep the conferences. I think 182 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:50.559 that's hot. Yeah, I think we discussed it a lot. At first. 183 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:54.720 I wasn't so sure about the idea of keeping both of these entities around. 184 00:11:54.799 --> 00:11:58.120 But if they now that they have gone through the entire merging process, 185 00:11:58.360 --> 00:12:03.960 I suppose it makes sense now that you have the IP still in your back 186 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:05.399 pocket, you still have the XPL, and you still have USFL. So 187 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:09.960 how much division that's going to create between fans would still remain to be seen. 188 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:15.279 But I do think that there's a lot of positives in terms of keeping 189 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:18.759 both of the ips and knowing that you still have those copyrights in your back 190 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:24.679 pocket. And again familiarity teams and players and fans that know which league both 191 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:30.840 teams are represented by, and not saying necessarily that they're like going to another 192 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:33.120 division or they're going to get commandeered or bought out by another conference, so 193 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:39.840 that familiarity is there. I am really curious to look at some of the 194 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:43.159 TV scheduling, which I know we have a lot of thoughts on, but 195 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:48.759 it's I will say, from the outset, this is fantastic. How many 196 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:52.559 different big networks that they have this on. There's none of this FX stuff. 197 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:54.919 There's not all these FS one games, there's no Peacock, there's none 198 00:12:54.960 --> 00:13:00.240 of this. It's it's just basically network television for the most part of a 199 00:13:00.279 --> 00:13:03.519 little bit of cable there with ESPN and then ESPN two and one f S 200 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:07.120 one, So you're getting it out there and you're putting it on major networks, 201 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:09.759 which is really good. That's that that's the combined power of having both 202 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:13.200 of these leagues together, and that's both what both were missing the entire time 203 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:18.559 because they split the difference as opposed to when we saw basically an iteration of 204 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:20.440 this in twenty twenty, when the XFL was on all these networks, so 205 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:26.159 we're kind of back to equilibrium here and we're able to have all the resources 206 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:30.639 and all the network contracts formed together again. Yeah, I mean this was 207 00:13:30.759 --> 00:13:33.320 like the Prince, it was promised right that we this is why we're merging. 208 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:39.919 It's because the XFL, you know, better business model. The XFL 209 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:43.799 was able to engage fans. It seemed at a higher rate being in the 210 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:46.519 markets. The USFL you know, their hub model. You know, obviously 211 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:50.000 it's the slow growth as well, but we're kind of combining those now we 212 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:54.039 have the power of everybody. We don't need to compete because yeah, I 213 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:56.799 mean you go back and even the XFL to I think this and just from 214 00:13:56.840 --> 00:13:58.960 the from the pure numbers, and we'll get into the week by week here, 215 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:01.480 but this to me, even on paper, is a far better schedule 216 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:05.039 than even the XFL when you look at the breakdown here, ten ABC games, 217 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:09.240 twenty one Fox games, that's expected, right, Fox carrying a lot 218 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:13.240 of this stuff, ESPN ten and then only two games, an ESPN two 219 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:16.480 game and then an FS one game. That to me, like you said, 220 00:14:18.440 --> 00:14:22.080 this is something you can tout and say, this is uh, if 221 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:26.039 your network executives, if you're Fox or if you're you know UFL people, 222 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:30.080 And I always keep oneing to say xfl us. But if you're UFL people 223 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:33.799 here, like you can tout we are you know, we are putting this 224 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:37.080 in the best position. This is why we are merging like and you can 225 00:14:37.159 --> 00:14:39.320 say that earnestly, right, I mean this by all counts and we'll get 226 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:43.519 to there's some you know, overlapping games and we can look at time zones, 227 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:46.559 but all right, you know times that the games are. But uh, 228 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:48.440 on paper, this looks good and you can earnestly say like, we 229 00:14:48.519 --> 00:14:52.919 are making an effort here to make this work. Yeah, no, absolutely, 230 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:56.120 that you finally have numbers that you can show a lot of network numbers 231 00:14:56.320 --> 00:15:01.159 and look, here's the reality of the viewership. And we've talked about this 232 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:03.519 a lot. Is what kind of market share are you're going to get of 233 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:07.279 all these football fans. You know. The thing that I really jumped out 234 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:11.360 to me about a month ago or a month and a half ago now, 235 00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:15.879 was when Sporticode came out with an article talking about the TV ratings from last 236 00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:22.200 year of all network televised entities in the US. Last year the top one 237 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:26.080 hundred programs, ninety six of them were football games. Is either college football 238 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:30.120 or is professional football? Like? That's the live audience has been completely captivated 239 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:33.279 by live football. It's just it's absolutely obliterated the market. It's taken out 240 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:37.080 everything that's non sports related, and even sports related. It's completely dominated. 241 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:41.000 So if you are somebody who's working in this league, you're looking at that 242 00:15:41.159 --> 00:15:43.480 number and you're just saying, I want a piece of that? Now? 243 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:48.519 How do you get a piece of that? We'll get into But there's that's 244 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:52.799 a whole nother part of the puzzle. But the point is the live television 245 00:15:52.879 --> 00:15:56.919 audience is looking at live sports, and specifically football crazed people like us are 246 00:15:56.960 --> 00:16:02.039 looking at something like this and trying to get people involved as much as possible 247 00:16:02.039 --> 00:16:03.519 and putting it in front as many eyeballs as possible as part of it. 248 00:16:04.240 --> 00:16:08.200 Marketing is the other part. But this is a huge first step. I 249 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:11.200 will yeah, I will say we've I'm sure I said this many teams on 250 00:16:11.320 --> 00:16:18.480 here. Just having more football isn't enough. I think the marketing, the 251 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:21.919 messaging needs to be worked on. We've mentioned that. The other thing that 252 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:25.159 will be interesting to track I don't know if you have been in depth with 253 00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:27.799 this. I've been talking a lot with going back and forth with Paul Paul 254 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:30.600 up formally and the Marcas and all this here over the last couple of weeks. 255 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:34.480 But uh, there's a there's a drama now surrounding our friend Dwayne the 256 00:16:34.519 --> 00:16:41.720 Rock Johnson, one of the main marketers of the XNL The I can't still 257 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:45.519 like I'll call it the x NFL till that. Uh, basically like he's 258 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:48.600 headlining the WrestleMania this year presumably, and he's taking the spot of Cody Rhodes, 259 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:52.000 and it's this whole drama where like, uh, people got hurt and 260 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:56.240 brock Lesner kind of got canceled with the whole vistick Man thing. But now 261 00:16:56.720 --> 00:16:59.879 they're bringing in the Rock against Roman Reigns, which probably should have been last 262 00:16:59.919 --> 00:17:03.879 ye, but they're bringing him in thinking like we're going to save WrestleMania with 263 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:07.559 the Rock first Roman, and the fan outlash has been very, very negative, 264 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:10.920 like, hey, we've been on Cody roads, this thing, this 265 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:12.920 is the Rock big footing, this is just like hul Kogan used to do, 266 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:17.799 and all this very negative around the Rock because A I was gonna be 267 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:21.119 curious, like, how do we do this build up? Does this help 268 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:23.519 or hurt the UFL with the Rock on TV right because he had come out 269 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:26.200 a couple of weeks ago and like, hey, I'm going to be a 270 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:30.079 part of all this. But now where he's and like they're you know, 271 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:33.039 they're monitoring and everything. I don't know if they're going to make changes, 272 00:17:33.119 --> 00:17:36.400 but like I saw a lot of tweets like, you know, the Rock 273 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:40.799 Black Adam failed, the XFL failed, they had to merge, and now 274 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:44.559 like he's coming back and he did like and a lot of it. It's 275 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:45.880 just interesting. So I'll be curious, like and any of that. The 276 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:48.720 Rock is not a very popular person right now, at least in terms of 277 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:52.400 people that you know, not the casual fan and a lot of the people 278 00:17:52.440 --> 00:17:56.319 that you're trying to attract to the XFL USFL thing here, I'll be curious 279 00:17:56.359 --> 00:18:02.039 to see, all due respect to the sleep world, that is a niche 280 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:04.759 aspect of this, and I don't know if that's necessarily what they're aiming to 281 00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:08.240 get involved here. I understand now if it was Vince McMahon involved, I'm 282 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:12.559 sure that would be a different story. But you know, I mean that's 283 00:18:12.599 --> 00:18:18.519 another parallel universe I think about a lot. But I still think that The 284 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:22.720 Rock is still going to bring notoriety to the casual fan. Again, I 285 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:25.559 can't tell you the number of times I've told people in the last two years 286 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:27.200 and saying, hey, the Rock has a football league. People's years parked 287 00:18:27.240 --> 00:18:30.039 up. They're like, the Rock con is a football league? Okay, 288 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:32.799 is the USFL. I'm like, no, it's not that one. And 289 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:36.799 then it's a whole thing about miscommunication as to which league it is, and 290 00:18:36.960 --> 00:18:41.079 then it's always something along that nature. But look, he's going to appeal 291 00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:42.400 to a casual audience. Now, is he going through a bit of a 292 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:48.799 rough patch. Yes, But to our knowledge, there's nothing really that controversial 293 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:52.920 that he's done that maybe other celebrities or other big name personalities you know, 294 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:56.240 in the last ten or twenty years, haven't done that's really absolutely destroyed their 295 00:18:56.319 --> 00:19:00.400 reputation and made it problematic for them to be a TV or in front of 296 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:03.240 us. So if he doesn't have that on a slate, then he's really 297 00:19:03.400 --> 00:19:06.640 not going to lose that many people. He's gonna lose niche fan bases, 298 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:08.720 I argue, But I don't know if he's going to necessarily lose the casual, 299 00:19:10.039 --> 00:19:12.039 casual audience. So I think for them, it's a long game play 300 00:19:12.039 --> 00:19:15.359 and they're going to continue to put him in front of TV as long as 301 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:18.960 casual fans continue to be involved in them and that he has name brand recognition. 302 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:23.240 So I appreciate that concern from Russell Mania fans, from super hero fans 303 00:19:23.279 --> 00:19:26.599 and all of them. I get it, that's part of the piece. 304 00:19:26.839 --> 00:19:30.519 I think they're more concerned about the casual audience piece. That's like human minded. 305 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:32.799 Mean, Roget's like one point eight million viewers every week, so I 306 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:38.440 mean, I think UFL would kill for for a anything else on the breakdown 307 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:41.279 here are to I mean obviously Fox twenty one Games, that's you know, 308 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:45.720 they're a heavy investor in Matt right FS one. Max was texting me like 309 00:19:47.839 --> 00:19:51.240 surprising that FS one that we were trying to build kind of into the sports 310 00:19:51.319 --> 00:19:53.240 network really only has the one game and we can look at where that's being 311 00:19:53.279 --> 00:19:56.680 place here, but a lot of the emphasis on the main ESPN, but 312 00:19:56.759 --> 00:20:02.240 those secondary channels really not getting a lot where even with the FX right with 313 00:20:02.359 --> 00:20:06.519 the xbl lashtrack, we're really trying to make this be a thing and really 314 00:20:06.599 --> 00:20:10.680 never clicked. No, I mean I think I recalled there was a game. 315 00:20:10.839 --> 00:20:14.359 It was actually the Seattle Game is where the Roughnecks went to Seattle. 316 00:20:14.920 --> 00:20:19.400 And I want to say it was a Thursday night on FX during March Madness, 317 00:20:19.440 --> 00:20:22.079 and I mean like the opening night of March Madness. And that was 318 00:20:22.200 --> 00:20:29.119 not the play forgetting exposure. That that to me was a really big mishap. 319 00:20:29.240 --> 00:20:32.319 That kind of skewed the ratings. Obviously, the ratings were all over 320 00:20:32.359 --> 00:20:34.599 the place last year. We looked at it from both leagues. Every time 321 00:20:34.680 --> 00:20:38.640 there was anything where it was FS one versus Fox, where it was FX 322 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:42.480 versus ESPN versus ABC, the numbers were skewed. And that that showed, 323 00:20:42.640 --> 00:20:47.559 like team people just don't have those cable channels anymore. People cut cord cutting. 324 00:20:47.559 --> 00:20:51.119 They don't really care for that. They care more for streaming. Which 325 00:20:51.599 --> 00:20:55.680 it's funny to see the Peacock thing come to fruition. Now that's another conversation 326 00:20:56.200 --> 00:21:00.240 we can have, which is obviously the USFL tried to get ahead of the 327 00:21:00.359 --> 00:21:03.400 Hey we're putting in on an exclusive streaming game. Only people need to come 328 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:07.759 find Peacock. Well, when you have a league, that's just still starting 329 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:10.920 up. I don't know if that's going to work, but when the NFL 330 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:11.839 does it all of a sudden, you know, then you get twenty three 331 00:21:11.880 --> 00:21:15.640 million people watching it. Of Course, people still complained, a lot of 332 00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:18.240 people said, are you kidding me? This is not just free? Are 333 00:21:18.279 --> 00:21:19.960 you out of your mind? People still watched it, but that's because they 334 00:21:21.039 --> 00:21:22.880 had the brand and the recognition, and there was going to people people who 335 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:27.160 were desperate enough to watch it. So it's interesting to see that sort of 336 00:21:27.240 --> 00:21:30.880 beta tested almost with the USFL, and then it actually happening with a bigger 337 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:34.440 entity. And obviously wrestling has a lot of programming on Peacock as well, 338 00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:41.920 So I think it's interesting to see obviously not maybe those numbers not being as 339 00:21:41.920 --> 00:21:44.400 skewed as they were. Of course, I think ESPN is probably going to 340 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:47.319 still be a little bit less than ABC or Fox, like that's just the 341 00:21:47.359 --> 00:21:49.640 reality, but it's not going to be such a desparate difference like it was 342 00:21:49.960 --> 00:21:53.920 with FX and FS one. The interesting thing to yeah, they and I 343 00:21:55.039 --> 00:21:57.160 remember I want to read out this treasure. It's just laughing and reading this. 344 00:21:57.319 --> 00:22:02.880 But you know, like wwe just to go back to that has been 345 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:07.319 used as a property in the past, like we're you know, like Netflix 346 00:22:07.400 --> 00:22:10.839 now right is acquiring the WWE ron Like, Okay, we're gonna use that 347 00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:14.319 to draw people to Netflix. Right, We're gonna pay a lot of money 348 00:22:14.359 --> 00:22:18.200 to get that. Uh. We as you said, learned last year, 349 00:22:18.519 --> 00:22:22.279 Uh, this is not a property yet that we'll do that, as we 350 00:22:22.359 --> 00:22:26.079 saw with the FX, as we saw with the Peacock. Ben Fisher when 351 00:22:26.119 --> 00:22:29.440 I had an interview with him last year with a sports business journal and he 352 00:22:29.559 --> 00:22:33.440 said, as much like this, all the ratings does is show like whatever 353 00:22:33.519 --> 00:22:37.160 the bigger network is, you know, that's what's that's what you know doesn't 354 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:40.240 matter the matchup, but does it in the time matters? But you know, 355 00:22:40.240 --> 00:22:42.119 it doesn't matter if it's two undefeated teams or if it's a two and 356 00:22:42.200 --> 00:22:45.599 eight team versus a five hundred team, like if it's on the biggest network 357 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:48.319 window. And I think we're seeing that here. I think they've learned, 358 00:22:48.400 --> 00:22:52.720 like we just need to get this in front of as many people in the 359 00:22:52.759 --> 00:22:56.240 world as we possibly can and and and then hope for the best. Right 360 00:22:56.279 --> 00:23:00.519 and we'll see because if it doesn't generate off of this slate, and we'll 361 00:23:00.519 --> 00:23:02.400 go through you know, the week by week here we'll get I don't want 362 00:23:02.400 --> 00:23:04.680 to delay too long here, you know this will not do it. I 363 00:23:04.799 --> 00:23:08.079 was just laughing here where it's like all all UFL games will be broadcast on 364 00:23:08.200 --> 00:23:12.599 ABC, Fox, ESPN, F S one, ESPN two. Games on 365 00:23:12.839 --> 00:23:17.799 ESPN and ABC will be streamed on ESPN Plus and Fox Games, Fox Sports 366 00:23:17.839 --> 00:23:22.680 App. All games will be streamed via TV everywhere. What what does that 367 00:23:23.039 --> 00:23:30.119 mean? All games will be streamed via TV everywhere? Shouldn't they say mobile 368 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:33.640 device? I think that's a little strange. Is that what that means? 369 00:23:33.920 --> 00:23:38.279 I think I think I think it means just accessible through different TV outlets. 370 00:23:38.359 --> 00:23:44.039 I'm not sure what that exactly means because you don't stream. It's a very 371 00:23:44.160 --> 00:23:48.839 like that's a very like boomer line, almost boomer generation line, like, 372 00:23:48.920 --> 00:23:52.599 yes, we're gonna stream through the TV. That's not exactly how it works. 373 00:23:52.359 --> 00:23:56.559 That's a bit about it. I gotta go on the YouTube here, 374 00:23:56.640 --> 00:24:02.680 Yeah, exactly, it's it's very much on the YouTube. Yeah, that's 375 00:24:02.680 --> 00:24:06.240 a very odd phrasing there. I also, why did they capitalize everywhere? 376 00:24:06.400 --> 00:24:11.079 This press release has a couple of everything everywhere? Andy, we're streaming everywhere 377 00:24:12.039 --> 00:24:15.279 as long as we're having five in the morning, we're gonna stream everywhere. 378 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:18.559 I did not of the proper now, but okay, are we go? 379 00:24:18.599 --> 00:24:21.839 All right? So we know all this? We know and because I think 380 00:24:21.880 --> 00:24:23.839 the interesting thing was there was there's a couple of regional games. I think 381 00:24:23.880 --> 00:24:27.279 I saw Mike posting the chat or something, so it's not actually streamed everywhere. 382 00:24:27.319 --> 00:24:30.359 If there's going to be regionally locked out games, we know that. 383 00:24:30.680 --> 00:24:34.160 We know the stadium's right. We did it the Rice thing that got announced 384 00:24:34.240 --> 00:24:37.480 last week, and I think that was the hold up of you know, 385 00:24:37.559 --> 00:24:41.720 why we didn't get the schedule. And then there's always this word that's the 386 00:24:41.960 --> 00:24:44.799 MLS, and I don't know if that has anything to do with it if 387 00:24:44.839 --> 00:24:47.640 I think that we need to get the stadium lockdown. It's the same thing 388 00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:51.160 with Cashman. You know, we got rest brand in here, the combined 389 00:24:51.240 --> 00:24:53.200 reach, we have, the you know, exceptional platforms, the experience. 390 00:24:53.240 --> 00:24:57.880 We're equally excited. Bill Wagner here, we can't wait to kick off. 391 00:24:59.000 --> 00:25:03.200 We're excited nothing with that ESPNS, Tim Reid and all that stuff. Season 392 00:25:03.279 --> 00:25:07.759 tickets available. Single game tickets will be available for pre sale starting February twenty 393 00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:11.880 and on sale February twenty second, so you can get all of that stuff 394 00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:14.880 there. So that is very exciting. Do we want to get into the 395 00:25:14.920 --> 00:25:17.279 week by week? Do you have anything else you want to get to before 396 00:25:17.400 --> 00:25:22.640 that? Well, we'll talk more about the stadium matchups later, but yes, 397 00:25:22.920 --> 00:25:26.079 I am very excited about the week the week of course. Yeah. 398 00:25:26.119 --> 00:25:30.400 Andy has his list power rankings of home field advantage for the UFL, so 399 00:25:30.480 --> 00:25:32.559 we'll get to that at the end and you can leave your comments on that. 400 00:25:32.720 --> 00:25:36.359 So again, like all times Eastern, seven of your teams are in 401 00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:41.000 the Central time zone anyway, So we've talked about this the Fox. You 402 00:25:41.039 --> 00:25:44.440 know this is tremendous, right, battle Hawks, Renegades, tremendous. I 403 00:25:44.519 --> 00:25:48.119 think this is as good as you can do for a kickoff game a championship 404 00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:51.000 all that we've already done the other ones off of that, you we're showing 405 00:25:51.039 --> 00:25:55.680 Michigan. I think the Brahmas will show out here starting off at this four 406 00:25:55.759 --> 00:26:00.359 pm on Fox DC Defenders and the Memphis showboats here. Like you said about 407 00:26:00.359 --> 00:26:03.559 the Rise, we talked anything else on week one here. I yeah, 408 00:26:03.599 --> 00:26:07.960 again, I really love that you get the champions matched up immediately. That's 409 00:26:07.079 --> 00:26:11.599 that's in the best interest of both leagues. You get the showcase the best 410 00:26:11.640 --> 00:26:15.319 of the best. Presumably, Obviously both rosters have gone undergone a lot of 411 00:26:17.240 --> 00:26:18.279 overhaul, all of them will, but I think there's still a lot of 412 00:26:18.319 --> 00:26:22.480 returning players, there's a lot of returning coaching staffs. I think that's an 413 00:26:22.519 --> 00:26:26.160 important element here, and so there will be familiarity. I do think it's 414 00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:32.000 interesting that it's being played in Arlington. Obviously we've been in Choctaw Stadium now 415 00:26:32.200 --> 00:26:34.680 was opening last year as well, the opener that you went to, So 416 00:26:34.880 --> 00:26:38.079 they seem to be getting a lot of favoritism in that way. Arlington's opened 417 00:26:38.359 --> 00:26:44.920 all three week ones every time that they've had a league, XFL in twenty 418 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:48.160 twenty, XFL in twenty twenty three, and now the UFL for Michigan. 419 00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:52.400 That's exciting. I'm really curious to see what the appetite of Michigan fans is 420 00:26:52.519 --> 00:27:00.200 after obviously an uproarious run by the Lions that just completely revolutionizing interest in Michigan 421 00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:04.000 football. Obviously you had the Wolverines winning the National Championships, So like a 422 00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:08.440 lot of great times for Michigan football fans, does that enthusiasm carry over into 423 00:27:08.480 --> 00:27:11.839 Week one. Again you get the host of Beatlehawks congratulations and not going to 424 00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:15.759 the Dome week one, so you better take advantage of that. That's that's 425 00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:21.319 fantastic as well. Both games being on Fox is interesting. Again, It's 426 00:27:21.359 --> 00:27:23.279 gonna be so my mind's gonna have to like get used to the idea of 427 00:27:23.440 --> 00:27:26.799 like again just seeing both of these teams on one one channel too, like 428 00:27:26.920 --> 00:27:30.799 one ABC and one Fox. But then again, it was like this the 429 00:27:30.920 --> 00:27:33.079 xtfelt twenty twenty, so if you remember that, it's not that different. 430 00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:38.680 But seeing the Panthers and the Stallions specifically facing SFL teams again, that's great 431 00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:42.839 to see that crossover. Ty Herr. Excuse me. Detroit is in the 432 00:27:42.880 --> 00:27:45.680 Eastern time zone, so sixty eight six eight six of eight or in the 433 00:27:47.079 --> 00:27:48.960 division, so sorry about that. Yeah, shark here, Yes the home 434 00:27:49.039 --> 00:27:55.720 team, yes it should say Stallions at Renegade. Yes, Saint Louis at 435 00:27:55.799 --> 00:27:57.599 Michigan. Yes, the home team is on the right. We know that 436 00:27:57.799 --> 00:28:03.200 just because at Renegae Arlington's hosted. I will say the I wish, you 437 00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:07.839 know, and maybe I can book around here. I booked we will be 438 00:28:07.039 --> 00:28:11.200 in Arlington for that kickoff game. Would have loved to go to San Antonio 439 00:28:11.359 --> 00:28:15.359 here for the Sunday game and do a little riverwalk tour because I could have 440 00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:17.960 done that. Well, I guess I would have had to ping down and 441 00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:21.079 go back up, But you know, anyway, that will be exciting. 442 00:28:21.160 --> 00:28:23.240 This will be the true retestament here in this because I've I've gone all in 443 00:28:23.319 --> 00:28:26.880 on the Bramas and I've had a lot of DC Defenders fans say like, 444 00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:30.240 well, you're a Commander's fan, why aren't you going to be a Defenders 445 00:28:30.279 --> 00:28:32.480 fan? Like, you know, I got Wade Phillips, I got a 446 00:28:32.559 --> 00:28:34.960 J. Smith and all that Bramas and we have our history there and everything 447 00:28:36.240 --> 00:28:38.720 with San Antonio that is kind of my favorite city of Texas. But this 448 00:28:38.799 --> 00:28:41.559 will be if the Defenders come in and pants the Bramas, I will be 449 00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:47.240 a little embarrassed there for that. But the twelve game there the Sunday that's 450 00:28:47.319 --> 00:28:51.480 also Easter Sunday, right, and it's like MLB kickoff or the kickoff m 451 00:28:51.480 --> 00:28:53.880 will be what do they call that opening day, MLB pitch off, all 452 00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:57.880 that stuff that whole weekend, So you know, a crowded sports here, 453 00:28:57.920 --> 00:29:00.680 right, and it's like we're going on on the Elite eight of March Madness. 454 00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:06.599 But and then three pm here, good, good, good times and 455 00:29:06.680 --> 00:29:10.240 everything for that, So I think that that sounds good so far. Week 456 00:29:10.279 --> 00:29:12.160 two here Memphis is going to be opening up. We got so this is 457 00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:17.400 just the first so ESPN Sunday night, so the ESPN Sunday game, so 458 00:29:17.440 --> 00:29:23.079 we're getting those going. Week two here we're opening Memphis twelve o'clock Renegades at 459 00:29:23.119 --> 00:29:26.640 the battle Hawks. So at least they we'll be able to open. That 460 00:29:26.759 --> 00:29:30.519 will be you know, eight pm kind of prime time there on ABC for 461 00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:36.359 the battle Hawks, Panthers hosting again the Stallions on ESPN, and then the 462 00:29:36.400 --> 00:29:40.160 Houston Revnecks going to d C. So we get we don't have to wait 463 00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:41.240 as long. We don't have to wait till week three or four for the 464 00:29:41.279 --> 00:29:45.720 battle Hawks and the Defenders as well. Poor Renegades, I mean, this 465 00:29:45.799 --> 00:29:48.519 is the second year in a row that they've been sent as the first visitor 466 00:29:48.599 --> 00:29:52.559 to Saint Louis. I mean last year it felt like they were getting sacrificed 467 00:29:52.599 --> 00:29:57.400 on a pike. At least this year maybe there won't be as much misalignment. 468 00:29:57.440 --> 00:30:00.920 I mean, their offense was obviously in town last time. They went 469 00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:03.240 to Saint Louis, So this time around, maybe with at least press around 470 00:30:03.240 --> 00:30:07.759 presumably and they have a better offensive setup, maybe it won't be as as 471 00:30:07.880 --> 00:30:11.279 much of a of a kill shot for them. But still, I mean, 472 00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:14.000 I feel bad for them going to Saint Louis again. And this is 473 00:30:14.079 --> 00:30:18.279 a Saturday night primetime matchup too, which is really cool because I think Saint 474 00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:21.799 Louis for the most part, has only been playing in the daytimes for all 475 00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:23.880 of their games, so for them to get like a primetime matchup here on 476 00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:29.200 ABC is fantastic. That's awesome. I love that. That's that's maybe one 477 00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:33.160 of my favorite time slots in the entire schedule after looking at it. Yeah, 478 00:30:33.119 --> 00:30:37.440 they say here a Renegades will be during Final four, so let me 479 00:30:37.440 --> 00:30:41.720 be interesting to see how many viewers there will be. Yes, I think 480 00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:45.759 the attendance will be phenomenal. Yes, I agree, And it's you know, 481 00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:49.960 it's a tough I don't. I don't know if you just wait until 482 00:30:51.079 --> 00:30:52.960 the you know what would it be two weeks later and go and they're you 483 00:30:53.039 --> 00:30:56.519 too laid into the NFL, Like I think they're really in the rock at 484 00:30:56.559 --> 00:30:59.240 a hard spot here, you know, I think ideally they would have started 485 00:30:59.279 --> 00:31:00.480 to get into February, but I just don't think there was enough time with 486 00:31:00.559 --> 00:31:03.960 all this merger talk, and that's why we're doing the March thirty. I 487 00:31:04.039 --> 00:31:08.000 think there's a couple of things I thought about sort of relooking at the schedule. 488 00:31:08.079 --> 00:31:11.680 One, look, you're going to cross over to March Madness, might 489 00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:12.960 as well avoid as much of it as possible. Like I said, that 490 00:31:14.119 --> 00:31:18.680 opening slate, as I mentioned last year. Last year that happened with Houston, 491 00:31:18.839 --> 00:31:22.799 Seattle and all the other teams. It was so tough because you're that 492 00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:26.440 whole opening slate of March Madness game is such a rush. There's all these 493 00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:27.799 teams, there's all these games going on. It's just so hard to compete 494 00:31:27.839 --> 00:31:33.880 against that. Whereas this one, you're starting on the weekend of the Sweet 495 00:31:33.880 --> 00:31:36.480 sixteen, the Elite eight, and really you're only dealing with the Elite eight 496 00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:41.119 because of the Saturday and Sunday. So that's fine. You can sacrifice to 497 00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:44.359 that and then the Final Four and then the games will be over soon. 498 00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:48.000 So I think that's fine. The second part of it is this season ends 499 00:31:48.079 --> 00:31:52.839 on June sixteenth, that's right around when schools are finished and kids are getting 500 00:31:52.839 --> 00:31:56.200 out of school, and then all the people are going on vacation, they're 501 00:31:56.240 --> 00:31:57.960 leaving town, so like you're kind of still able to get all those those 502 00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:04.559 audiences, the family audiences before one scatters h for summer holidays. So that's 503 00:32:04.640 --> 00:32:07.799 I think that's another part of it as well. And again I think I 504 00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:09.400 still have to look at the weather element of it. Obviously, the later 505 00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:13.000 you start, the hotter it is, and some of these territories are not 506 00:32:13.119 --> 00:32:17.640 conducive to really colder weather because a lot of it's really it's deep South, 507 00:32:17.720 --> 00:32:22.200 it's you know, it's Alabama, it's Memphis. It's really hot in some 508 00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:25.720 of these areas Texas obviously, so you have to at least keep it in 509 00:32:25.799 --> 00:32:32.920 a reasonable time slot or schedule for everybody in terms of not potentially getting overheated 510 00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:37.039 during the playtime. So I think it's fine in that regard to it's I 511 00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:43.000 think the schedule is about about where you're gonna have it. Ideally, we 512 00:32:43.119 --> 00:32:45.359 have I do a couple of comments. I do A games started Saturday, 513 00:32:45.400 --> 00:32:49.920 eight six and eight thirty seven, eight two and five during the UFL opening 514 00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:52.759 weekend. So we're trying to are we trying to kind of program around that 515 00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:54.920 a little bit. Uh, well, you got the one the one o'clock 516 00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:58.240 game. No, it says, yes. You see, they're starting later 517 00:32:58.319 --> 00:33:01.359 in the day Saturday, So the football I'll be wrapped U Shark and asking 518 00:33:01.400 --> 00:33:05.240 if a lot of football fans watch basketball. But the ideas we're trying to 519 00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:08.720 get like any casual like do you lack anything involved in the ball, like 520 00:33:09.039 --> 00:33:13.599 at least come watch us, Like yes, I understand that, like we 521 00:33:13.720 --> 00:33:15.240 have. You know, we have different audiences here, but I will say 522 00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:19.799 I don't give a rip about college and basketball. I should. I went 523 00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:22.640 to Gonzaga. We do quite well. But you know, like my my 524 00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:27.799 XFL friends who we've got reversed for our season tickets here for the Sea Dragons, 525 00:33:27.880 --> 00:33:30.000 like, uh, they would be watching March Madness. They will not 526 00:33:30.079 --> 00:33:34.319 be watching the XFL that weekend, if they are to intersect. Well, 527 00:33:34.359 --> 00:33:37.039 the answer, at least personally for the answer to that question, I watch 528 00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:40.799 basketball after football season's over. Well, you know, football season now is 529 00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:45.920 all year, baby, It's it really doesn't matter at this point. But 530 00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:50.839 you know, for for most people, obviously, once the Super Bowl is 531 00:33:50.880 --> 00:33:52.799 done, then people start to turn their attention away and say, Okay, 532 00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:54.680 what can I bet on? What can I watch? What can I do 533 00:33:54.759 --> 00:33:59.960 to kill my time? And that's when basketball comes back into the fold. 534 00:34:00.119 --> 00:34:02.400 So that's usually when people start to care about basketball. I could not give 535 00:34:02.440 --> 00:34:06.839 a rip about the NBA. If I had a team, like I said, 536 00:34:06.839 --> 00:34:07.960 I had an NBA team, I think it'd be different. But I 537 00:34:08.039 --> 00:34:12.760 don't. So for me, it doesn't really matter that much until we get 538 00:34:12.840 --> 00:34:15.360 later into the season. Same with college basketball. I mean, once you're 539 00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:21.000 getting into conference tournaments in March, then then you start to actually care and 540 00:34:21.039 --> 00:34:24.400 then you have March Madness. But before that, regular season play not very 541 00:34:24.519 --> 00:34:29.719 consequential. So again this is delving into a little bit. This is where 542 00:34:29.719 --> 00:34:31.480 you're gonna start to test. Those markets are gonna test the NBA markets, 543 00:34:31.480 --> 00:34:35.719 are gonna test March Madness. You're gonna test the baseball markets. We talked 544 00:34:35.719 --> 00:34:38.280 about the regional markets, but again baseball, I think is different because it's 545 00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:42.519 regionally based. It's I care about my team, like you care about the 546 00:34:42.559 --> 00:34:45.159 Marriagers. Do you care about anyone else? No? No, I care 547 00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:47.599 about the Padres. Do I care about anybody else? I mean some of 548 00:34:47.639 --> 00:34:51.119 my divisional rivals maybe, But I don't want to go on my way to 549 00:34:51.199 --> 00:34:53.599 watch them, so like that's that's different, right, So I think for 550 00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:58.639 them, like you said, can you appeal to the casual audience. That's 551 00:34:58.719 --> 00:35:01.559 really what we're trying to get here, Phillips. Here has the Easter Sunday 552 00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:06.480 games the UFL tradition. I certainly don't like it. I mean, Easter 553 00:35:06.719 --> 00:35:09.119 is incredibly early this year. Someone whose wife teaches, and you know spring 554 00:35:09.199 --> 00:35:14.480 break is kind of based around that. It is incredibly early this year with 555 00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:17.519 that March thirtieth, don't I didn't like that when Andy and I went to 556 00:35:17.559 --> 00:35:22.280 Birmingham and that was Easter. I mean, thankfully that isn't like the mom 557 00:35:22.360 --> 00:35:24.519 I'm missing Easter and like I'm just owned from the family kind of thing, 558 00:35:24.559 --> 00:35:28.159 where like, hey, I'm Christmas. I'm going to be gone for Christmas. 559 00:35:28.239 --> 00:35:30.480 I gotta go to the UFL game. But I think we're going to 560 00:35:30.559 --> 00:35:35.880 do that. We'll talk more about the championship game. I know that mister 561 00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:37.719 R. J. Young is reporting that it's going to be in Saint Louis. 562 00:35:37.760 --> 00:35:40.519 I imagine that's what it is going to be. I just don't think 563 00:35:40.519 --> 00:35:44.519 it's official yet, right. I think that's one of those like maybe that 564 00:35:44.639 --> 00:35:46.719 got published a little too early. I don't know if I will be at 565 00:35:46.760 --> 00:35:51.320 that game. We'll see, I said, I booked a wonderful couple at 566 00:35:51.400 --> 00:35:53.960 this beautiful hotel downtown here on the fifteenth, so that would be a quick 567 00:35:54.039 --> 00:35:58.159 turn. Are you giving up my Calgary a BC game? That damn looking 568 00:35:58.199 --> 00:36:01.440 here at what's happening to the schedule. But the other thing I was gonna 569 00:36:01.519 --> 00:36:05.639 say, oh, we had a comment, but we'll oh this Dale, 570 00:36:05.639 --> 00:36:08.360 I'm talking about it. He thinks the Ballahawks Defenders rivalry is going to be 571 00:36:08.360 --> 00:36:12.440 pretty noticeable this year. I do think. I do think that that will 572 00:36:12.480 --> 00:36:15.559 be in terms of social media. I was a little impressed with some unimpressed 573 00:36:15.559 --> 00:36:19.320 with others of kind of the stuff we did today with the schedule releases. 574 00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:22.880 But I do think at least in terms of that whoever is running those accounts 575 00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:24.320 Leah and I don't know who the Defenders have now, but I think they're 576 00:36:24.360 --> 00:36:30.679 doing good. Anything else Week two here we can move on. No, 577 00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:32.719 I well, we'll get into if we're gonna keep going to the schedule, 578 00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:37.239 I'll go ahead and get into what I feel about the DC Defenders and the 579 00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:39.320 Seleus Ballahawks later on. But I'm glad they mentioned that because that's something I'm 580 00:36:39.320 --> 00:36:44.880 going to bring up later. Okay, so Week three here Defenders at Arlington 581 00:36:45.079 --> 00:36:47.800 one o'clock on ESPN on Saturday. I guess the other thing, just to 582 00:36:47.880 --> 00:36:52.239 point out, I think all weekend games, we don't have any of these 583 00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:58.280 weird Seattle you know, ten o'clock Eastern Thurtisday night game. And I don't 584 00:36:58.280 --> 00:37:00.800 even care, like for my own because I'll go. You know, I 585 00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:02.679 live ten minutes from the stadium. I'm happy to go hang out anytime at 586 00:37:02.760 --> 00:37:06.360 Lumen or T Mobile or any of that stuff our fields. But like, 587 00:37:06.719 --> 00:37:09.280 Sale fans got such a raw deal with all of this and just the way 588 00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:13.880 everything was scheduled and the weekday games and the late Sunday game and then obviously 589 00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:15.800 losing the team. But if I was a Seattle fan, that would be 590 00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:20.519 pretty disappointed with an of that stuff. But yeah, DC Defendi shot Aures 591 00:37:20.559 --> 00:37:23.880 at one o'clock Showboats taking on the Stallions. We seeing them now. We're 592 00:37:24.079 --> 00:37:29.639 kind of getting into these xfl USFL in Conference seven o'clock on Fox. Again. 593 00:37:29.679 --> 00:37:32.079 These are good. I don't know how Sexy have a lineup this will 594 00:37:32.079 --> 00:37:36.440 be showboats at stallions. But that's good time zones, right, So Sunday 595 00:37:36.559 --> 00:37:40.840 noon on ABC and then at three o'clock on the AABC Like this looks like 596 00:37:42.360 --> 00:37:45.679 when these are both on ABC, but looks like Fox kind of programming schedule. 597 00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:47.000 At least with the USFL in twenty twenty two, we got kind of 598 00:37:47.039 --> 00:37:51.400 these two not too early, not too late games, you know, nine 599 00:37:51.440 --> 00:37:53.480 am, West Coast, if you you know, if we're allowed to watch 600 00:37:53.639 --> 00:37:58.280 games, I might be able to check out the game at nine o'clock here 601 00:37:58.320 --> 00:38:00.559 on On the other I think that's I love morning football. It's one of 602 00:38:00.599 --> 00:38:05.119 my favorite things about living on the West Coast. I know for East Coast 603 00:38:05.480 --> 00:38:07.920 fans obviously that's a that's a foreign concept, but there's nothing better than like 604 00:38:08.079 --> 00:38:13.559 nine am to ten am football. I love that slate. Again, I 605 00:38:13.679 --> 00:38:15.360 think it's cool that you have some of these matchups. The biggest thing that 606 00:38:15.480 --> 00:38:20.719 kind of stand out to me is these rivalries that you really have kind of 607 00:38:20.760 --> 00:38:23.440 more built into the x FEL than the USFL. Just from my standpoint for 608 00:38:23.519 --> 00:38:27.239 the Stellians, I think it's a shame that they don't have, for example, 609 00:38:27.320 --> 00:38:30.239 like the New Orleans Breakers to play yeah, I thought there was something 610 00:38:30.280 --> 00:38:34.199 that was starting to form there and now they're not around. But DC against 611 00:38:34.280 --> 00:38:37.760 Arlington, obviously, that's a championship game rematch. DC is probably pissed about 612 00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:42.360 what happened in the Aloadome. Obviously, we had a lot of voracious DC 613 00:38:42.480 --> 00:38:45.360 fans that were there and left very disappointed. I think that's a fantastic rematch, 614 00:38:45.639 --> 00:38:49.880 and that's in Week three. That's awesome. I also feel that way 615 00:38:49.880 --> 00:38:52.400 a little bit the Ballhawks at the San Antonio Brahmas. That was the first 616 00:38:52.440 --> 00:38:59.159 game of the XFL season in San Antonio and for Saint Louis that and they 617 00:38:59.679 --> 00:39:02.119 had that game where agent mcchaerren came back in the last two minutes. They 618 00:39:02.159 --> 00:39:07.639 showcased the three point play, and they showcased the on side kick roll or 619 00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:13.760 the on side play. It was like a real just kind of a great 620 00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:15.719 display of the rules that were in the XPL at that moment. So I 621 00:39:15.760 --> 00:39:21.199 think that's cool that you have that rematch there. Obviously I don't I don't 622 00:39:21.199 --> 00:39:23.440 think Agrian McCahon's gonna be part of that this time, but it's still kind 623 00:39:23.480 --> 00:39:28.639 of cool to get that little rematch as well. Again, Stallions and Panthers. 624 00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:32.599 I hope Panthers can continue that momentum and keep that enthusiasm from Michigan Football 625 00:39:32.639 --> 00:39:37.960 and Birmingham Saturday primetime. So they had a couple of those last year. 626 00:39:38.559 --> 00:39:44.280 I'm again, I'm curious to see if the Birmingham fans can start to really 627 00:39:44.320 --> 00:39:50.079 showcase why they they're Birmingham fans or why they have so much enthusiasm because there's 628 00:39:50.079 --> 00:39:52.280 a lot of Birmingham fans I think I have interacted with and you have interacted 629 00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:55.559 with online, but sometimes I don't see that so much in the stadium. 630 00:39:55.920 --> 00:40:00.000 But no doubt they win when they play at home. They so I think 631 00:40:00.119 --> 00:40:04.199 that the fans should hopefully get more into that and get to the idea of 632 00:40:04.280 --> 00:40:08.639 playing these different teams and obviously not having the Hub and not having so many 633 00:40:08.679 --> 00:40:13.800 games I think will help at least people kind of diversify their schedule a little 634 00:40:13.800 --> 00:40:17.000 bit. So we'll see about Birmingham. The challenging thing here and we almost 635 00:40:17.039 --> 00:40:20.519 have one hundred people watching the stream right now. Thank you, you know, 636 00:40:20.639 --> 00:40:22.880 just giving a thumbs up. Subscribe if you're not, please appreciate that. 637 00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:25.559 Like I said, you become a channel member as well and help support 638 00:40:25.599 --> 00:40:29.559 I think it's ninety nine cents a month, but it helps. It looks 639 00:40:29.679 --> 00:40:32.679 good on my analytics when I look at my YouTube channel, the thing, 640 00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:37.360 and it's it's challenging when we talk about some of these markets and we talked 641 00:40:37.360 --> 00:40:39.880 about this weird merging the things and okay, you know what markets are we 642 00:40:39.960 --> 00:40:44.559 losing and what's the USFL bringing in, like just sharing of it, Like 643 00:40:44.719 --> 00:40:49.159 Birmingham is not the largest market in the world. And when you're trying to 644 00:40:49.199 --> 00:40:52.400 attract fans like you know San Antonio, you know, bigger Houston. You 645 00:40:53.039 --> 00:40:57.840 have these bigger cities, you know, Memphis, like some of these ones 646 00:40:57.880 --> 00:41:00.679 in the USL are bringing in. Like like you said, I don't know. 647 00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:05.679 You see a lot of the USFL online, right and like I see 648 00:41:05.719 --> 00:41:08.039 a ton of like even on our channel, like a ton of Stallions fans 649 00:41:08.079 --> 00:41:10.719 and Gregory and all of them, and they're always you know, Buckham or 650 00:41:10.760 --> 00:41:16.760 whatever the thing like. But then it doesn't necessarily translate in where I don't 651 00:41:17.039 --> 00:41:20.280 I don't know if I just don't live in a lot of like I'm in 652 00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:22.000 the Brahmas Twitter space now a little bit, I just don't know if I, 653 00:41:22.320 --> 00:41:24.199 you know, live see it as much. I don't know to me, 654 00:41:24.480 --> 00:41:28.159 but we get more of the fans in there, right, Like I 655 00:41:28.199 --> 00:41:31.000 think San Antonio, for what it was, I think they mobilized really hard 656 00:41:31.079 --> 00:41:35.199 locally. Like it just seems like I'll be, like you said, I'll 657 00:41:35.199 --> 00:41:37.760 be curious to see kind of what this looks like this year. I do 658 00:41:37.880 --> 00:41:42.719 think it's interesting. Like with Birmingham and Memphis, we are reconfiguring the ceding 659 00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:45.800 chart at least I know Birmingham is. I don't know if Memphis allowed the 660 00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:49.559 full stadium seeding before. But like Birmingham is, you are sitting in these 661 00:41:49.599 --> 00:41:52.599 sections. We are moving stuff to the side we wanted to look good. 662 00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:54.440 Maybe they'll open that, you know, if Corey works his butt off and 663 00:41:54.480 --> 00:41:59.199 gets that. But I'm surprised that they're kind of adapting with that of like, 664 00:41:59.239 --> 00:42:02.719 hey, maybe maybe we can kind of learn here as we go along. 665 00:42:02.760 --> 00:42:07.119 I think that's interesting. Yeah, I'm not. I still have mixed 666 00:42:07.119 --> 00:42:10.440 feelings about the one side stadium thing. I felt that way about Orlando, 667 00:42:10.760 --> 00:42:15.760 I felt that way about Memphis did do it last year, and you know, 668 00:42:15.079 --> 00:42:17.880 I mean, it's fine if you're trying to get optics on television, 669 00:42:17.920 --> 00:42:21.239 but it's just so weird as a fan experience to look across and be like, 670 00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:23.159 there's nobody over there, and if you happen to show one to TV 671 00:42:23.239 --> 00:42:28.000 angle, there's nobody there, you know, by accident. It just it's 672 00:42:28.039 --> 00:42:30.760 weird for the visiting team. I mean, that's the thing, Like having 673 00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:32.760 a visiting team and getting heckled is part of the experience, right, Like 674 00:42:32.840 --> 00:42:36.840 you're going to another stadium where like there's these people behind me that just won't 675 00:42:36.880 --> 00:42:38.679 shut up, and that's like part of that's part of the experience. And 676 00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:42.280 for them to not have that as a shame because again, I think that 677 00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:45.920 gives distinct advantage to some of these other teams that clearly are going to have 678 00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:50.000 people on both sides of the aisle, and that I think will show in 679 00:42:50.360 --> 00:42:52.639 how the other team responds and how they play in the stadium. So that's 680 00:42:52.679 --> 00:42:57.119 something I'll get into more with the home field advantage marks. But yeah, 681 00:42:57.400 --> 00:43:00.679 look for I commend Corey. He put us in so much work. He 682 00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:02.000 works as bought off. I'm glad that he has another job in this league 683 00:43:02.519 --> 00:43:07.079 to be able to put this together and sell tickets. But hopefully, hopefully 684 00:43:07.480 --> 00:43:09.559 there'll be enough demand that people will be able to sit on both sides and 685 00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:14.360 they'll be able to really have a nice filled out maybe lower bowl area that 686 00:43:14.360 --> 00:43:17.960 would be really ideal unless you, yeah, you talk about the hometown or 687 00:43:19.000 --> 00:43:22.360 the away Ravali when I go to the outy field and I can't even see 688 00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:25.239 them. The supporter section from my own safety read you got to get out 689 00:43:25.280 --> 00:43:30.559 of here, Patrick, Pat for v check it in here that Hawks are 690 00:43:30.559 --> 00:43:34.119 owing three against the defenders, not really the rivalry we think. And Pat's 691 00:43:34.119 --> 00:43:36.760 the Saint Louis homer here, so that's a you know, that says something. 692 00:43:37.199 --> 00:43:38.719 He's right, though, I mean, that's the thing. Saint Louis 693 00:43:38.800 --> 00:43:40.960 is on and two on the road, and they lost in the ball Dome 694 00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:45.639 in a critical game last year that basically decided they weren't going to the playoffs 695 00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:49.880 last year. So no, he's right. They as much, you know, 696 00:43:50.039 --> 00:43:53.039 as much tooting and as much tooting of their own horns, and as 697 00:43:53.119 --> 00:43:58.280 much as they want to be so so involved in their own community and say 698 00:43:58.360 --> 00:44:01.599 how great they are. Ballhawks fans haven't really had anything that really celebrates over 699 00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:07.880 and especially over DC. DC has just completely dismantled them every time they played 700 00:44:07.880 --> 00:44:14.119 them. In twenty twenty and in twenty twenty three. So I think that 701 00:44:14.320 --> 00:44:17.119 for BattleHawks fans would be Catharsis for them to go up and beat DC and 702 00:44:17.199 --> 00:44:22.599 sweep them this year. But I mean the Defenders are I mean, you 703 00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:24.599 guy to call them a marquee franchise, they really are. They've they've been 704 00:44:24.639 --> 00:44:29.840 to a championship game, They've been over five hundred. Also, DC has 705 00:44:29.960 --> 00:44:32.320 never lost at home. We keep that in mind. They've never lost a 706 00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:37.440 home game in both years, so that that streak is continuing. That that's 707 00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:39.480 people don't talk about that enough. I think we always talk about the beer 708 00:44:39.519 --> 00:44:43.719 snake and we focus on their successful overall. But they've never lost at home. 709 00:44:43.840 --> 00:44:49.039 So Audifield has a ton of pride. I will never forget Paul and 710 00:44:49.079 --> 00:44:52.119 I going out XFL twenty twenty. We went because the game was like at 711 00:44:52.199 --> 00:44:55.480 noon, so we had to go to brunch like so early and getting bottomless 712 00:44:55.519 --> 00:45:02.239 mimosas for two hours and then going to Audifield and literally weaving THEXFL kickoffs happening. 713 00:45:02.760 --> 00:45:08.880 Uh, really fun, really fun, really fun that experience. There. 714 00:45:09.320 --> 00:45:14.400 We have Evan Williams aka Evan Willismore checking in here. What really matters, 715 00:45:14.480 --> 00:45:15.679 just finding a date for our riverwalk Albo trip. I know. I 716 00:45:16.119 --> 00:45:21.199 again, I booked my flight back from because I was doing miles from a 717 00:45:21.360 --> 00:45:23.559 Dallas for that. But you know what, we'll have to figure that out. 718 00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:28.039 I will just say, because I'm reading through some of just want this 719 00:45:28.239 --> 00:45:31.679 is on the thing. I'm reading through some of these Twitter comments because everyone's 720 00:45:31.719 --> 00:45:35.760 like tweeting out like I'm watching the UFL, I'm watching the USFL. We 721 00:45:36.079 --> 00:45:45.239 need to remedy this this UFL like like WTF right, Like, I don't 722 00:45:45.280 --> 00:45:50.880 know, I understand it. Probably a certain things are are taken at this 723 00:45:51.039 --> 00:45:54.880 point. I don't know if it could. It's at X three we have 724 00:45:54.960 --> 00:45:59.440 the UFL logo, but there's UFL, Like is that so that Twitter is 725 00:45:59.480 --> 00:46:01.000 like, well, you can't change or you can only change the name. 726 00:46:01.039 --> 00:46:05.079 Maybe they're maybe they're transitioning right because Twitter has all of that now, or 727 00:46:05.199 --> 00:46:07.679 if you change your name you get suspended for a day or whatever. But 728 00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:14.039 like UFL parentheses XFL like shouldn't I if anything, it should be like the 729 00:46:14.239 --> 00:46:17.320 XFL division of the UFL, or like I just don't even understand. I 730 00:46:17.320 --> 00:46:21.000 don't know. Very weird. It feel feels very weird, especially because I 731 00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:22.280 think the USFL wan's still the same. Do you have any thoughts on that. 732 00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:25.480 It kills me that we're like a month from kickoff. Now we're still 733 00:46:25.639 --> 00:46:29.000 a month and a half, we're still figuring this out. Yeah, that 734 00:46:29.119 --> 00:46:31.559 part is the Prince's part is weird because again it's a combined league. But 735 00:46:31.639 --> 00:46:36.639 it's almost as if it almost gives off the pressure to the casual viewer. 736 00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:40.039 Does the XFL own this? Did they just create another identity as the USFL 737 00:46:40.119 --> 00:46:44.559 even involved. Are is still around and I mean they are obviously they have 738 00:46:44.679 --> 00:46:49.599 their their teams involved, but it seems, yeah, it's like the again, 739 00:46:49.679 --> 00:46:52.800 you have to be careful about brand identification, and here it's still sort 740 00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:57.119 of this nebulous like I'm not sure who really owns what or who has what. 741 00:46:57.320 --> 00:47:00.239 We obviously know we have the details, but for again, for somebody 742 00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:01.960 who's on the outside looking in, it's a little bit it's a little bit 743 00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:07.280 of fuddling. I still want to go with the idea of having these these 744 00:47:07.320 --> 00:47:10.679 accounts, like, for example, maybe the network accounts saying like oh UFL 745 00:47:12.239 --> 00:47:15.760 on Fox? Yes, Well on the end, why don't they have that, 746 00:47:15.960 --> 00:47:19.480 like just have the separate Twitter identifications of like, hey, this is 747 00:47:19.519 --> 00:47:22.639 our game coming up, or you should watch this check this out. That's 748 00:47:22.719 --> 00:47:24.719 fine. You don't have to have the parentheses of like if it's the USFL 749 00:47:24.760 --> 00:47:28.039 or XFL you really don't want to focus on that, that's fine. And 750 00:47:28.159 --> 00:47:30.480 you have the divisions, that's fine. But this part is still a little 751 00:47:30.519 --> 00:47:34.400 bit confusing because you're looking up there and you're saying, well, wait that 752 00:47:35.039 --> 00:47:37.960 that looks like Fox is locally up on the UFL. But then it's like, 753 00:47:38.400 --> 00:47:43.280 but the XFL's next to it. It's XFL twenty twenty three, which 754 00:47:43.360 --> 00:47:46.760 was last year. That's there's three parts that contradict each other. So I 755 00:47:46.840 --> 00:47:52.360 think you have to have like more diversify and try to put your and allocate 756 00:47:52.760 --> 00:47:59.480 all of your resources into like different accounts, but also just having like less 757 00:47:59.480 --> 00:48:04.199 confusion about what's what and who's who. That's I think what maybe confuses a 758 00:48:04.239 --> 00:48:06.840 lot of people. And I understand again, I had a lot of people 759 00:48:06.880 --> 00:48:09.000 the last two years being like just had no idea which lead was from what 760 00:48:09.199 --> 00:48:13.440 and what separated both of them? Yeah, because I mean, and I 761 00:48:13.639 --> 00:48:16.199 understand it was like this Fox or the XDO one you like three hundred and 762 00:48:16.239 --> 00:48:21.440 eighty thousand whatever. I mean, the USFL one is the gold like I 763 00:48:21.599 --> 00:48:22.960 understand it is a third of the followers at this point, but like, 764 00:48:23.800 --> 00:48:28.360 can you not like that's a pay, Like that's a you have got the 765 00:48:28.400 --> 00:48:30.800 gold check? Can you not call up? Like I think that gives you. 766 00:48:30.920 --> 00:48:32.000 I think when you get the gold check, you get like a direct 767 00:48:32.119 --> 00:48:36.440 line to Elon's office, like, hey, we need support with this, 768 00:48:36.639 --> 00:48:38.159 Like can you get one of the four people to work on Twitter to kind 769 00:48:38.159 --> 00:48:40.639 of help with this stuff? Like anyway? Weird to me, but I 770 00:48:40.679 --> 00:48:44.519 don't want to get to two derailed here. But I was just a little 771 00:48:44.599 --> 00:48:47.159 like, Okay, what is happening here? All right? Week four battle 772 00:48:47.199 --> 00:48:52.400 Hawks hosting again twelve thirty ABC. I think these like mid Saturday games do 773 00:48:52.559 --> 00:48:54.360 really well as well. I know the first and they when they filled the 774 00:48:54.400 --> 00:48:58.920 dome the first time, it was kind of that mid mid afternoon a good 775 00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:01.880 time zone here, uh d C. I think this will be hot DC 776 00:49:02.079 --> 00:49:06.800 traveling to the Stallion's fox. So now this is this has an asterisk? 777 00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:09.719 Do we do we know what the asterisk is? Oh? I know I 778 00:49:09.840 --> 00:49:13.920 know what that is. Yeah, that's the reason that's the regional time time 779 00:49:15.400 --> 00:49:19.079 broadcast because there's games that are on at the same time, and they're talking 780 00:49:19.119 --> 00:49:23.440 about regional broadcasting. Okay, are we are week for Oh and someone commented 781 00:49:23.559 --> 00:49:29.159 in the thing that TV Everywhere is an app so I guess when I was 782 00:49:29.280 --> 00:49:37.800 laughing about it via TV Everywhere? Okay, news to me? So anyway, 783 00:49:37.079 --> 00:49:39.559 defending, So what does that mean here? Where it's Fox? So 784 00:49:39.679 --> 00:49:45.079 I might not like if I'm if I'm in like again, if I'm allowed 785 00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:47.440 to watch the games? Do I is that on in Seattle? Or is 786 00:49:47.480 --> 00:49:51.960 that only like Fox on the East? Like, I don't understand how that? 787 00:49:52.320 --> 00:49:54.119 Do we know? Yet? It seems to me like it's a regional 788 00:49:54.199 --> 00:49:58.599 pick, as in maybe even if for now as a West Coast avient audience 789 00:49:58.639 --> 00:50:02.840 obviously doesn't really matter because there's not really teams that are allocated to the West 790 00:50:02.880 --> 00:50:07.639 Coast. But in terms of this, uh, it clearly is saying that 791 00:50:07.760 --> 00:50:09.960 there's going to be regional markets that are watching different games like they do in 792 00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:14.280 the NFL. Obviously, kids, they're overlapping, right, I get right, 793 00:50:14.280 --> 00:50:16.480 they're overlapping of the stallions. Well, this isn't terrible. This is 794 00:50:16.639 --> 00:50:21.559 which begs the question why, because now you have games going on at the 795 00:50:21.599 --> 00:50:24.239 same time. And also, isn't the whole point of your league to expose 796 00:50:24.280 --> 00:50:28.400 as many games as possible to as many people as possible. Why are we 797 00:50:28.440 --> 00:50:30.599 splitting the difference here? Why are there two games on at the same time 798 00:50:30.679 --> 00:50:34.599 in the same time slot. Why are you, like, are you assuming 799 00:50:34.679 --> 00:50:37.559 that there's regional biases and baked in news flash? There isn't. I mean, 800 00:50:37.599 --> 00:50:40.519 there's people in your own region that don't even know that these teams exist. 801 00:50:40.599 --> 00:50:45.960 I don't think this is a model personally that makes a lot of sense. 802 00:50:45.119 --> 00:50:49.199 Because also, if you're if you're going to do this to us, 803 00:50:49.320 --> 00:50:51.519 if you're going to do this to the West Coast audience, why does it 804 00:50:51.639 --> 00:50:53.679 matter? Why do I care? Why? Inherently? Why would I care? 805 00:50:53.679 --> 00:50:59.039 If I'm whether I'm watching the Stallions, the Defenders or the Brahmas Panthers. 806 00:50:59.079 --> 00:51:00.400 Now, on paper, I'm sure the Defenders game. I'd much rather 807 00:51:00.599 --> 00:51:04.360 watch at the Stallions. What if I get the Brahmas game and said, 808 00:51:04.360 --> 00:51:06.760 and I don't want to watch them? What you know? Why are we 809 00:51:06.880 --> 00:51:09.559 making those kinds of conscious choices? And also, are you going to offer 810 00:51:09.679 --> 00:51:14.360 up a way to be able to watch these games if you don't want to 811 00:51:14.440 --> 00:51:17.360 watch them on TV of what you're getting on broadcast, can you are that 812 00:51:17.480 --> 00:51:21.559 could be the big selling point for you? Maybe that's everywhere? Okay, 813 00:51:21.639 --> 00:51:24.000 so maybe then it's an app, which again I don't know if you can 814 00:51:24.079 --> 00:51:27.960 sell that right now because you're still trying to get your league out there. 815 00:51:28.039 --> 00:51:32.079 That seems that level of exclusivity is something that really really bothers me in today's 816 00:51:32.079 --> 00:51:36.320 media. I'm not talking about just like the UFL. I'm talking about in 817 00:51:36.400 --> 00:51:37.719 general, people saying like, oh, it's really exclusive. It's like, 818 00:51:37.800 --> 00:51:40.639 why should I care about your product yet you haven't sold me on it yet? 819 00:51:40.719 --> 00:51:45.920 I don't I don't understand why there's this exclusivity that's already baked in here. 820 00:51:45.079 --> 00:51:49.079 Again, the NFL can do that because guess what, it's the NFL. 821 00:51:49.159 --> 00:51:51.760 They have all these people they have. They'll be like, hey, 822 00:51:51.760 --> 00:51:53.480 look, Taylor Swift and the Chiefs are going to be playing the Dolphins on 823 00:51:53.519 --> 00:51:58.599 Peacock. You like you really want, you really want to be involved in 824 00:51:58.639 --> 00:52:01.039 this media storm. You by this subscription, that's fine, and like, 825 00:52:01.199 --> 00:52:04.880 okay, you can piss you off, But like they can do it because 826 00:52:04.880 --> 00:52:06.960 they know and they can get away with it. I don't think they know 827 00:52:07.159 --> 00:52:08.760 how much they can get away with here, and that's why it still bothers 828 00:52:08.840 --> 00:52:13.079 me. I don't This part was the part of the schedule I looked at 829 00:52:13.159 --> 00:52:15.760 and almost double take that, like, why no one's done this? Spring 830 00:52:15.800 --> 00:52:19.800 football does not do this? Well, this is what happens. And I 831 00:52:19.880 --> 00:52:22.199 have a question for you here. We got the Sophie's choice here, But 832 00:52:22.480 --> 00:52:24.880 this is what this is. If you haven't been a part of spring football, 833 00:52:25.239 --> 00:52:30.280 this is exactly. This is the mid season of the spring football. 834 00:52:30.719 --> 00:52:36.159 Start that week one like USFL, like simulcast Fox, Fox, and NBC 835 00:52:36.400 --> 00:52:38.840 in prime time, and we're doing all these like everything, and then this 836 00:52:39.159 --> 00:52:44.639 is the week five, you know, seven o'clock at Easter or it would 837 00:52:44.639 --> 00:52:46.440 be ten o'clock Eastern like the FX game. Right. This is once you 838 00:52:46.480 --> 00:52:49.880 get to the middle of the season, like, okay, now we kind 839 00:52:49.920 --> 00:52:52.199 of start like we only have so many good chips, right, so okay, 840 00:52:52.239 --> 00:52:55.480 let's give these we gotta we gotta, we gotta front load the season 841 00:52:55.960 --> 00:52:59.679 and then we'll kind of backload towards the playoffs. This is kind of the 842 00:52:59.719 --> 00:53:02.559 middle and like the NFL does really, I mean, I obviously every season 843 00:53:02.599 --> 00:53:06.079 of everything kind of has that mid season drop. But this is kind of 844 00:53:06.119 --> 00:53:08.119 where we're involved in that. Here's my question. Would you rather have two 845 00:53:08.239 --> 00:53:14.000 simulcane simultaneous Fox games or one on Fox and one on f S one, 846 00:53:14.199 --> 00:53:17.119 or one on Fox and one on the ESPN two an hour or two different 847 00:53:17.280 --> 00:53:21.679 like at least here they're both on Fox. Just depends which game you get. 848 00:53:22.840 --> 00:53:25.039 I get, well, okay, and then I again, I have 849 00:53:25.159 --> 00:53:28.639 to ask what the ratings are going to be in those regional markets. So 850 00:53:28.800 --> 00:53:30.280 maybe it's a test. Maybe it's a test to see, Okay, how 851 00:53:30.360 --> 00:53:35.440 much does that region really care about this league in this market. Maybe that's 852 00:53:35.480 --> 00:53:37.679 the way of them testing it. But I would rather they just split the 853 00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:40.199 difference, or they just have it in different networks and they put it on 854 00:53:40.440 --> 00:53:44.639 ESPN or FS one like a slightly different time slot, maybe like an hour 855 00:53:44.760 --> 00:53:46.559 later. That's fine. I can deal with that. I can channel flip. 856 00:53:46.679 --> 00:53:52.960 But this this doesn't really make a lot of sense if you're trying to 857 00:53:52.039 --> 00:53:54.639 bring in ratings and you're trying to bring in as many people as possible, 858 00:53:55.519 --> 00:53:59.639 unless you're just trying to do it as an experiment or I don't know the 859 00:53:59.719 --> 00:54:01.320 stuff to change. I mean, obviously they don't set the time. I'm 860 00:54:01.360 --> 00:54:04.880 gonna assume no, because if you want people to buy tickets, you don't 861 00:54:04.920 --> 00:54:08.559 want them to suddenly buy the tickets and then shift the schedule and move it 862 00:54:08.599 --> 00:54:12.639 all around, Like you're not going to flex games like you do in the 863 00:54:12.800 --> 00:54:17.679 NFL. So I don't really care too much for this idea of this model. 864 00:54:19.199 --> 00:54:22.360 This okay, Jenny here, gosh, I can't watch all the games. 865 00:54:22.800 --> 00:54:27.320 Uh, this doesn't bother me as much because I still think half a 866 00:54:27.440 --> 00:54:30.159 Fox audience or a regionalized Fox audience is going to be better than where you're 867 00:54:30.199 --> 00:54:34.400 going to get on one of these lesser channels. Like that's just you know 868 00:54:34.679 --> 00:54:37.559 when you watch these like when they show the coverage of okay, you know 869 00:54:37.199 --> 00:54:40.199 who's getting the game of the week for the NFL, and it's like half 870 00:54:40.320 --> 00:54:44.480 is getting Kansas and half's getting the Chargers or whatever. You know, however 871 00:54:44.519 --> 00:54:46.880 they delineate that. But like, it doesn't bother me as much. I 872 00:54:46.960 --> 00:54:51.159 think that's going to be okay here, this one is so this week, 873 00:54:51.480 --> 00:54:55.639 like week four, this is when you get the articles of like ratings declined 874 00:54:55.679 --> 00:55:00.280 across the UFL because we got these the simulcast games on Fox and then this 875 00:55:00.440 --> 00:55:04.960 is your solo two pm FS one game the Renegades at the at the Roughnecks, 876 00:55:05.000 --> 00:55:07.079 and that this will be the decline. The Mike Florio's of the world 877 00:55:07.119 --> 00:55:10.119 will be tweeting like this is the downfall of the UFL. Right, But 878 00:55:10.159 --> 00:55:14.159 I mean, this is the first big challenge here, right, because everything's 879 00:55:14.199 --> 00:55:17.119 been pretty peachy here here Abc and Fox and ESPN. Week four is when 880 00:55:17.119 --> 00:55:22.960 you're going to be hitting a roadblock here. Yeah. And also you have 881 00:55:22.079 --> 00:55:24.559 three games on Saturday. Keep that in mind as well. You have three 882 00:55:24.639 --> 00:55:29.639 games on Saturday, just the one on Sunday, so you know people are 883 00:55:29.679 --> 00:55:32.760 going to be kind of rolling on into Sunday and seeing that there's not a 884 00:55:32.840 --> 00:55:36.800 game on Fox or ABC and then have to go having to go to f 885 00:55:36.920 --> 00:55:40.760 S one to go find it. So and also, just from my standpoint, 886 00:55:42.440 --> 00:55:45.719 this really depends on how the Houston market looks on TV. We haven't 887 00:55:45.719 --> 00:55:49.000 gotten into that, but this is I'm very curious to see how Rice Stadium 888 00:55:49.039 --> 00:55:52.519 looks. And this is the standalone game. Is this going to have as 889 00:55:52.599 --> 00:55:55.559 much importance? Obviously it's a Texas matchup, so the Texas Showdown is really 890 00:55:55.599 --> 00:55:59.920 important, but how do we brand this, do we brand this the Battle 891 00:56:00.119 --> 00:56:04.280 Texas the Texas. I still like the Texas thrownown. I wish they rebranded 892 00:56:04.320 --> 00:56:06.599 because I like that a lot. In twenty twenty, that was to me 893 00:56:06.760 --> 00:56:09.320 one of the best parts of the league. And I mean, I know 894 00:56:09.400 --> 00:56:14.519 there's another team, but like, these are the two original teams that you 895 00:56:14.679 --> 00:56:17.239 had in Texas, and I think that that rival that's again, that's a 896 00:56:17.320 --> 00:56:22.639 rivalry that it really exists. And I do believe that there's still a little 897 00:56:22.679 --> 00:56:25.280 bit of battle, but a little bit of heat between those two two entities. 898 00:56:27.360 --> 00:56:31.480 I will just say the the other thing with oh, the FS one, 899 00:56:31.639 --> 00:56:36.480 Like again, this was supposed to be kind of the big drawing card 900 00:56:36.519 --> 00:56:37.519 of a lot of this. We were going to kind of build up some 901 00:56:37.639 --> 00:56:40.960 of these games. I don't know, I mean, the FS one market, 902 00:56:42.199 --> 00:56:45.000 I don't know how well that did. And we'll be curious to see, 903 00:56:45.079 --> 00:56:46.880 like the calling Cowards of the world, like how how much do they 904 00:56:47.039 --> 00:56:51.480 lean into this and skip and everything kind of promoting this now because you know, 905 00:56:52.079 --> 00:56:53.719 obviously it's Fox, but you know, like, I don't know, 906 00:56:53.840 --> 00:56:57.679 I'll just be curious to kind of what the marketing is coming out of the 907 00:56:57.719 --> 00:57:00.400 Fox side. I will say I've gotten into like I've been DVR and con 908 00:57:00.480 --> 00:57:04.440 coward every day and I don't I don't watch the full two hours or however 909 00:57:04.519 --> 00:57:06.960 long, but I do watch the first ten minutes. I usually find myself 910 00:57:07.039 --> 00:57:13.400 nodding along like it make us some good points here, especially all right, 911 00:57:13.800 --> 00:57:20.639 week five here Bramas at Renegades, Fox again back Prime Time seven o'clock stallions, 912 00:57:20.960 --> 00:57:24.119 Sizzi, this is another one of these overlapping games. And they said, 913 00:57:24.159 --> 00:57:29.639 this doesn't have the asterisk with it, this isn't the like and maybe 914 00:57:29.679 --> 00:57:32.400 they just forgot the asterisk there. And then Sunday ESPN at noon and then 915 00:57:32.480 --> 00:57:37.079 Fox at three, I get another one of these overlapping games. So oh, 916 00:57:37.159 --> 00:57:39.360 here's a question. Sorry, real quick. When they count, someone 917 00:57:39.440 --> 00:57:43.000 tell me, because I don't like I started to do about there when they're 918 00:57:43.119 --> 00:57:45.800 counting these games are like, does this each count as a Fox game? 919 00:57:45.920 --> 00:57:49.320 Right? When they're doing when they're taluting the numbers, right, we have 920 00:57:49.440 --> 00:57:52.840 twenty Fox games. What's like, it's two? I mean it's two? 921 00:57:52.000 --> 00:57:54.679 Is you know you're getting that, but you're really it's like half the baby 922 00:57:54.719 --> 00:58:00.280 here. It looks to me like Fox has a bigger market share. All 923 00:58:00.280 --> 00:58:01.760 at least in terms of if they're gonna get ratings. They think you have 924 00:58:01.840 --> 00:58:06.559 the bigger network, you have more network games on Fox, so obviously that 925 00:58:07.280 --> 00:58:09.880 I guess that would go notched on their belts. And then see when they're 926 00:58:10.000 --> 00:58:15.039 taling this seventy two percent of games twenty one on Fox, but we've already 927 00:58:15.039 --> 00:58:17.880 seen four of those games of simultaneous so it's really like it's only seventeen games, 928 00:58:19.760 --> 00:58:24.159 well, seventy two percent of on Fox or ABC. So but this 929 00:58:24.360 --> 00:58:29.599 year when they're talking twenty one games on Fox, but we've looked at four 930 00:58:29.679 --> 00:58:34.079 of those games have overlapped so far, so that's really only two games. 931 00:58:34.480 --> 00:58:37.559 Like if you're give what I'm saying, because you're competing against yourself there, 932 00:58:37.199 --> 00:58:42.039 yeah, then that's that's like notching a Pugic down, So that's not really 933 00:58:43.679 --> 00:58:45.519 that's that's yeah, that's that's a weird accuracy issue. I don't know what 934 00:58:45.679 --> 00:58:49.519 that means. Again, because we don't have the standalone game, like you 935 00:58:49.559 --> 00:58:52.559 said, I don't know how they're really going to configure this. Also, 936 00:58:52.079 --> 00:58:58.400 going back to the regional market share aspect of this, you're playing in Arlington 937 00:58:58.480 --> 00:59:01.519 and Houston at the same time, so are we dividing parts of Texas now 938 00:59:01.679 --> 00:59:05.800 for watching this game? Is that how it works? Or you just like, 939 00:59:06.119 --> 00:59:07.280 like you said, is it going to be America's like the you know, 940 00:59:07.400 --> 00:59:09.920 America's Game of the Week thing like Fox usually does, where they pick 941 00:59:10.000 --> 00:59:14.760 one team or one one matchup. They can do the same thing here because 942 00:59:14.760 --> 00:59:17.559 they're both in the same state. So you can't just I assume you can't 943 00:59:17.679 --> 00:59:22.400 just cut cut one side and say Okay, well we're Arlington, you go 944 00:59:22.480 --> 00:59:23.360 watch your games in Houston, you go watch your games. That would be 945 00:59:23.360 --> 00:59:28.000 really weird to be splitting up Texas. So I wonder if that's another part 946 00:59:28.039 --> 00:59:30.000 of it, if or if they're just going to have one game that they 947 00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:32.159 do doesn't even say no, this is the more important matchup. The other 948 00:59:32.199 --> 00:59:37.440 one gets relegated to some streaming app like you said, TV Everywhere or whatever 949 00:59:37.440 --> 00:59:40.679 it's called. Well, no, I mean, because that's I don't know, 950 00:59:40.760 --> 00:59:45.119 I look at that. I because again I'm trying to adjust my camera. 951 00:59:45.239 --> 00:59:47.280 I you know, I complimented them in the beginning and I said, 952 00:59:47.320 --> 00:59:51.320 look like this is really you're really making an effort here. But if you're 953 00:59:51.400 --> 00:59:53.159 if you're if to at least so far in the time zones, and I'm 954 00:59:53.159 --> 00:59:55.639 going through all this live. I like going through all this live as we 955 00:59:55.760 --> 00:59:58.880 kind of, you know, react to this. I can't do a bunch 956 00:59:58.920 --> 01:00:01.559 of that step ahead of time. Two of the games so far across call, 957 01:00:02.239 --> 01:00:06.119 you know, cross whatever against each other. I just think that's interesting. 958 01:00:07.119 --> 01:00:09.199 And then we're getting he was talking about ESPN twelve o'clock and then Michigan 959 01:00:09.239 --> 01:00:14.360 Panthers going on at Fox anything else. Week five we got David says preach 960 01:00:14.440 --> 01:00:19.519 professor. Well. Week five, obviously you have Saint Louis at DC. 961 01:00:19.679 --> 01:00:23.719 That's one of your first big, big matchups here, and this is Saint 962 01:00:23.760 --> 01:00:28.679 Louis's opportunity to get revenge the owing three against DC all time. This is 963 01:00:28.719 --> 01:00:30.760 their chance to get revenge. This is going to be an Audi field, 964 01:00:30.800 --> 01:00:35.239 which again we'll see how the Defenders do this year, but so far they're 965 01:00:35.280 --> 01:00:37.840 undefeated. They've never lost in that stadium. Let's see if they can continue 966 01:00:37.880 --> 01:00:42.679 doing that here. It's an early morning matchup on Sunday. I like this. 967 01:00:43.480 --> 01:00:46.679 I just love this matchup overall. I know Anthony Becks and crew just 968 01:00:46.840 --> 01:00:51.639 would love nothing more than just finally finally drive the stake into the hearts of 969 01:00:52.000 --> 01:00:55.440 the DC fans. But that to me is like one of the premier matchups 970 01:00:55.480 --> 01:01:00.119 of the entire season right there. I have to have the opportunity. Well, 971 01:01:00.159 --> 01:01:04.360 I guess I talked with Beck at preseason. I guess we talked with 972 01:01:04.480 --> 01:01:07.920 coach Beck at the I think he was at the Arizona showcase. Yeah he 973 01:01:07.119 --> 01:01:10.880 was, But I had to talk with him after the season. They're pre 974 01:01:12.119 --> 01:01:14.800 we had kind of scheduled stuff, and then obviously all this merger stuff went 975 01:01:14.840 --> 01:01:17.719 down. But I will say, if I ever had the opportunity to interview 976 01:01:17.760 --> 01:01:21.480 coach back to or speak with them, I will call him a cry baby 977 01:01:21.599 --> 01:01:25.519 for his the way he handled losing to the Sea Dragons and then missing the 978 01:01:25.559 --> 01:01:29.440 playoffs and all that. Yeah, like you said, they can kind of 979 01:01:29.480 --> 01:01:31.039 redeem all this now, but he was a cry baby. Win the game, 980 01:01:31.119 --> 01:01:34.519 win the game. You're in the playoffs. Now, we're changing the 981 01:01:34.639 --> 01:01:37.079 standings and we're changing the playoff seedings so that the BattleHawks can be like, 982 01:01:37.719 --> 01:01:40.719 win the game, win the game, go play, don't win the game, 983 01:01:40.840 --> 01:01:45.039 go home like I Like, you're an athlete, you know how this 984 01:01:45.199 --> 01:01:49.800 works. Well, what happens if they end up finishing second of the division 985 01:01:49.800 --> 01:01:52.800 and then the reverse happens to them, whether it's a team from another division 986 01:01:52.840 --> 01:01:55.599 that gets a better record than what happens. So that's why you don't complain. 987 01:01:55.679 --> 01:01:59.320 You win the game. Hey, how did the how did the overtime 988 01:02:00.199 --> 01:02:05.119 overtime playoff woever work out? You know, we changed the rules for Buffalo 989 01:02:05.280 --> 01:02:07.840 and then they still lost. Well, I mean they never got into the 990 01:02:07.079 --> 01:02:10.559 playoffs into the overtime, so we never got to see that come to fruition. 991 01:02:10.679 --> 01:02:14.920 What was more interesting is that the Chiefs argued for that rule. There 992 01:02:15.000 --> 01:02:17.320 was an article that came out when they argued for that rule to start when 993 01:02:19.320 --> 01:02:23.039 they played the Patriots in the twenty eighteen championship game, because the pastick the 994 01:02:23.079 --> 01:02:27.199 ball and just went down the field and square and one. Chiefs did the 995 01:02:27.239 --> 01:02:32.119 same thing in twenty twenty two, and all of a sudden, now Buffalo 996 01:02:32.239 --> 01:02:35.800 argues for it and they get that rule change. So it's kind of funny 997 01:02:35.840 --> 01:02:38.480 that almost happened in another universe. That almost happened to the Chiefs, but 998 01:02:38.559 --> 01:02:45.000 they just didn't make biggest stink about it. Football question here every game was 999 01:02:45.039 --> 01:02:46.920 on ESPN plus last year, but pretty unlikely the Fox said yes, the 1000 01:02:47.239 --> 01:02:52.039 ESPN ABC games will be on ESPN plus the Fox games will be on Fox 1001 01:02:52.039 --> 01:02:57.960 Sports, which I think is fine, right, I mean we're ideally, 1002 01:02:58.079 --> 01:03:00.039 yes, ideally there's one app to rule them a whatever. But I think 1003 01:03:00.119 --> 01:03:04.599 that yes, King Mars is question and we we can go back because we 1004 01:03:04.760 --> 01:03:09.320 have the press release. Uh, games will broadcasts all ESPN, ABC games 1005 01:03:09.320 --> 01:03:12.760 will be streamed on Fox. Fox names will stream on Fox Sports. And 1006 01:03:12.800 --> 01:03:15.000 then obviously say, yeah, so TV Everywhere is an app, so I 1007 01:03:15.039 --> 01:03:17.679 guess, uh, if you want, I don't, I'm gonna look that 1008 01:03:17.800 --> 01:03:21.519 up. What is when is the TV everywhere up? Because that might be 1009 01:03:21.679 --> 01:03:27.920 the that might be the watch TV Everywhere. TV Everywhere is a type like 1010 01:03:28.039 --> 01:03:31.440 I'm not getting. I guess it's this share this tab welcome to watch TV 1011 01:03:31.599 --> 01:03:36.400 Everywhere. Well, so now you still have to log in. You still 1012 01:03:36.440 --> 01:03:38.559 have to log in with like a cable provider. Yeah, I'm getting I'm 1013 01:03:38.599 --> 01:03:43.480 getting the Spectrum TV app on mine when I type it into Google Play. 1014 01:03:43.639 --> 01:03:46.880 So that's again, I don't know what that means in terms of being able 1015 01:03:46.920 --> 01:03:51.079 to stream it from another market, like can I or is it gonna be 1016 01:03:51.119 --> 01:03:54.480 region walked? Yeah? No, I think your best bet get on honestly, 1017 01:03:54.599 --> 01:04:00.760 guys, like with with with all this ESPN Plus is so worth it 1018 01:04:00.960 --> 01:04:02.920 if you can get it bundled. I have it right now with the Disney 1019 01:04:03.000 --> 01:04:06.079 Hulu bundle, but you can get on its own, you can get all. 1020 01:04:08.079 --> 01:04:09.960 Well, I guess I was gonna say, now you can't get the 1021 01:04:10.039 --> 01:04:13.400 CFL games. I was gonna make the further pitch to get the CFL games, 1022 01:04:13.440 --> 01:04:16.119 but at least getting the XFL games totally worthwhile. And then the Fox 1023 01:04:16.159 --> 01:04:18.840 Sports I think you have to you can pay or log in with your table. 1024 01:04:18.880 --> 01:04:23.480 I don't know how the Fox Sports that works. I've never used it 1025 01:04:23.559 --> 01:04:26.679 personally, but I mean if you have. If you haven't, then you 1026 01:04:26.719 --> 01:04:30.079 can use it for your cable provider. But I have for me, I 1027 01:04:30.199 --> 01:04:34.119 have YouTube TV, So that's that's why it's a little bit different. Yeah, 1028 01:04:34.199 --> 01:04:38.039 Fubo is a good one too. Fubo gets into all that stuff. 1029 01:04:38.280 --> 01:04:41.199 You can pull it up on your phone and you get and you can even 1030 01:04:41.280 --> 01:04:44.679 like when we're talking about, well, it depends how they do these simulcast 1031 01:04:44.760 --> 01:04:47.119 games, but like, I don't know, maybe you COULDVPM through and get 1032 01:04:47.159 --> 01:04:50.320 one if you really were kind of curious that way. So anyway, yeah, 1033 01:04:50.440 --> 01:04:56.320 Week six stagings at Showboats, another early ABC game. They really liked 1034 01:04:56.360 --> 01:04:59.519 these new and I think that's a good Like what else you're putting on Saturday 1035 01:04:59.559 --> 01:05:03.519 and on ABC? Yeah? Right, next at Ballahawks at Fox. So 1036 01:05:03.679 --> 01:05:09.039 early games that day Sunday one o'clock and four I Brahma is going to Defenders. 1037 01:05:09.079 --> 01:05:11.760 We see now we're kind of back to normal. One ABC game and 1038 01:05:11.840 --> 01:05:14.360 three Fox and these are all standalone games, so that would be good. 1039 01:05:14.760 --> 01:05:17.239 Yeah. So it seems like week four, Week five our experimentation for the 1040 01:05:17.320 --> 01:05:20.280 region markets. We'll see, Like you said, all the ratings articles will 1041 01:05:20.280 --> 01:05:25.480 come out after all those games. Just be ready because people poo poo on 1042 01:05:25.599 --> 01:05:28.840 us and we talking like, oh you hate the USFL. You're talking like 1043 01:05:28.880 --> 01:05:31.000 the numbers, those are the people to yell at, like those are the 1044 01:05:31.039 --> 01:05:33.760 people they check in once and then tune in. Week five, Oh my 1045 01:05:33.840 --> 01:05:36.199 god, why did the ratings fall eighty percent? It's like, well, 1046 01:05:36.199 --> 01:05:42.440 because there was two games on the one, Like yes, yeah, so 1047 01:05:42.599 --> 01:05:45.239 we'll see, we'll see how that all all pans out. But again, 1048 01:05:45.639 --> 01:05:48.679 used to going to Saint Louis. I mean that's a huge matchup already, 1049 01:05:48.760 --> 01:05:54.119 you got that's that's uh again, it's I know it's called the Battle though 1050 01:05:54.159 --> 01:05:58.760 I like to keep calling the Thunderdome. But I think that's gonna be a 1051 01:05:59.039 --> 01:06:01.440 big matchup again for for Houston and for Saint Louis. But every game in 1052 01:06:01.480 --> 01:06:04.480 Saint Louis is gonna feel like it's the end of the world for any team 1053 01:06:04.519 --> 01:06:09.239 that walks in there. I think and accursion too. You were talking about 1054 01:06:09.559 --> 01:06:12.599 the Rice Stadium of it. I share they asked you this question back when 1055 01:06:12.599 --> 01:06:15.800 we were talking about the Houston home games. But how Rice Stadium will look 1056 01:06:15.880 --> 01:06:19.559 Is that because it's a new stadium, or because the league stole the Houston 1057 01:06:20.039 --> 01:06:24.880 Markets team, rebranded the team and they gave them a team that wasn't and 1058 01:06:25.000 --> 01:06:30.239 now they're the Roughnecks. Why the hesitation? I think the thing about it 1059 01:06:30.360 --> 01:06:33.159 again is that. Okay, so first of all, it's not your team 1060 01:06:33.199 --> 01:06:35.719 that you had last year. The staff is different, the players are different. 1061 01:06:35.880 --> 01:06:40.400 It's the as we like to joke, that's the Gamble Necks, you 1062 01:06:40.480 --> 01:06:45.320 know, it's the it's the Gamblers actually being on the Houston Roughnecks team and 1063 01:06:45.440 --> 01:06:48.559 roster. So that's a little bizarre. But second of all, you're moving 1064 01:06:48.639 --> 01:06:51.719 venues now, so you were, you were pretty situated at the University of 1065 01:06:51.800 --> 01:06:56.280 Houston, and now you're moving over to Rice. So you know, does 1066 01:06:56.320 --> 01:06:58.480 your audience understand that, are they going to look for that? Are they 1067 01:06:58.480 --> 01:07:00.159 gonna be able to go to Rice instead? I know Houston is a very 1068 01:07:00.280 --> 01:07:04.760 sprawling area. I've actually been on the Rice campus, so I mean there's 1069 01:07:04.760 --> 01:07:08.960 plenty of people around. But again, you're talking about your core audience that 1070 01:07:09.000 --> 01:07:12.039 they're going to be able to follow you along. So there's that aspect of 1071 01:07:12.119 --> 01:07:15.679 as well, and also just the general confusion as to like who's actually on 1072 01:07:15.760 --> 01:07:17.199 the team and who's not, who's coaching, So it's not going to feel 1073 01:07:17.199 --> 01:07:20.199 the same. So I just wonder what the response is going to be or 1074 01:07:20.199 --> 01:07:24.199 if people look maybe people don't care. I don't know. But again, 1075 01:07:24.480 --> 01:07:28.599 there's not really a familiarity with the Gamblers brand or any of those players or 1076 01:07:28.599 --> 01:07:31.280 any of those coaches, but they're being transferred into the Roughnecks, and the 1077 01:07:31.400 --> 01:07:35.880 Roughnex brand is still around. I just wonder about the people's general reaction about 1078 01:07:35.920 --> 01:07:40.280 like, Okay, where are they playing and who's this person? Where did 1079 01:07:40.280 --> 01:07:42.719 they come from? Wait? Why is my coaching staff over in San Antonio? 1080 01:07:42.760 --> 01:07:45.519 Like people are gonna have to start piecing that together and we'll see how 1081 01:07:45.639 --> 01:07:50.519 Rice Stadium looks. I am curious, but the numbers there are something that 1082 01:07:50.800 --> 01:07:55.480 I just wonder if Houston's really going to have much of an advantage overall with 1083 01:07:55.679 --> 01:07:58.480 that setup. I think it's a mistake. I might have said this. 1084 01:07:58.519 --> 01:08:01.360 I think it's a mistake too. I if that was my team, I 1085 01:08:01.360 --> 01:08:06.679 would have difficulty cheering for a brand that's existed for three years. You know 1086 01:08:06.760 --> 01:08:12.559 that played was it ten you know, ten to eleven, played sixteen games, 1087 01:08:12.639 --> 01:08:14.400 like I don't know. I would have trouble with that. I would 1088 01:08:14.800 --> 01:08:16.239 I would keep I would keep the players, you know, and all of 1089 01:08:16.279 --> 01:08:19.159 that stuff. Darren, Have they found about giving Rise students this kind of 1090 01:08:19.199 --> 01:08:23.520 tickets to fill the stadium? That is an excellent idea, Darren. We 1091 01:08:23.640 --> 01:08:28.399 should, you should we should email you know, email Jeff here, you 1092 01:08:28.479 --> 01:08:30.840 got the email. If you go to the UFL dot com, you got 1093 01:08:30.880 --> 01:08:33.920 the email on there. I think that's a good idea. Sorry, any 1094 01:08:34.600 --> 01:08:39.000 I absolutely agree, honestly, would do what Darren saying. I wish that 1095 01:08:39.239 --> 01:08:42.039 a lot of these teams did that, and any any local university that they 1096 01:08:42.039 --> 01:08:44.560 were able to get promotions and saying hey, you should come on nine and 1097 01:08:44.720 --> 01:08:46.880 like bring all of the you know, bring the student energy in. Like 1098 01:08:47.000 --> 01:08:50.279 that's if you want to bring in if you want to make this league different. 1099 01:08:50.359 --> 01:08:54.560 I think it's not only just appealing to people who followed professional football, 1100 01:08:54.600 --> 01:08:57.399 but what about people who follow like, for example, college football, and 1101 01:08:57.520 --> 01:09:00.439 say like, hey, there's all these semi professional athletes, Like you're pretty 1102 01:09:00.520 --> 01:09:03.439 used to watching college football, which is in a sense it's the own level 1103 01:09:03.479 --> 01:09:08.399 of amateurism. I think you absolutely should appeal to those markets. That's something 1104 01:09:08.439 --> 01:09:11.359 that I really wish these teams did more of, and I think that'd be 1105 01:09:11.479 --> 01:09:14.359 awesome if you could do that. Look at Birmingham, you know, like 1106 01:09:14.439 --> 01:09:17.159 the Birmingham Stallions. I would say they should go down the UAB University of 1107 01:09:17.199 --> 01:09:20.159 Alabama, Birmingham and say like, hey, look, I know this is 1108 01:09:20.239 --> 01:09:23.560 your stadium and the college football is not going on, but like, hey, 1109 01:09:23.600 --> 01:09:26.479 we still got football going on. We'll give you some great student discounts 1110 01:09:26.640 --> 01:09:29.039 and you should come on in and watch some more football if you're really into 1111 01:09:29.079 --> 01:09:32.920 that. And this is another great atmosphere to be part of it. There's 1112 01:09:32.960 --> 01:09:36.399 something I wish that again, the promotion of all these leagues is what we 1113 01:09:36.479 --> 01:09:39.920 talk about so much, and that's just another aspect of it that I think 1114 01:09:40.039 --> 01:09:44.439 is really untapped and is really would help the numbers overall and just bring in 1115 01:09:44.479 --> 01:09:50.880 the energy enthusiasm that you're searching for into these leagues, not just solidarity and 1116 01:09:51.239 --> 01:09:54.600 one market of like, oh, this is a professional football. We'll just 1117 01:09:54.640 --> 01:09:58.159 carry this to the people who can afford these tickets. Like that's to me. 1118 01:09:58.279 --> 01:10:01.079 I think that is a bit of a miss. Philip here says, 1119 01:10:01.079 --> 01:10:05.760 it's a Roughnecks. That's my team. Philip. If I if I passed 1120 01:10:05.920 --> 01:10:10.439 tomorrow from this world and Andy took over the mark cast, but still in 1121 01:10:10.520 --> 01:10:12.560 the Mark Cast, or would be you know, I mean, I just 1122 01:10:13.079 --> 01:10:16.079 I wish there was a little loyalty here, Philip. I just you know, 1123 01:10:16.199 --> 01:10:20.279 I just appreciate that. The other thing Darien's asking one little rosters. 1124 01:10:20.359 --> 01:10:24.800 We finalized, we did the supplemental draft. That stream was like what two 1125 01:10:24.800 --> 01:10:28.800 weeks was it Monday? Right? Two Mondays ago? And then people reporting 1126 01:10:28.800 --> 01:10:31.319 the training camp February twenty four. So then they'll do that and then they'll 1127 01:10:31.359 --> 01:10:36.279 do cutdowns before the season. Am I missing anything there? Yeah, there's 1128 01:10:36.279 --> 01:10:39.960 a cutdown in March. I can't remember the exact dates, but there is. 1129 01:10:40.159 --> 01:10:44.079 But obviously that'll be a week or so before the season actually starts, 1130 01:10:44.119 --> 01:10:47.439 so I mean the numbers will start to come in in two weeks, but 1131 01:10:47.640 --> 01:10:54.399 the final cutdown on the rosters won't happen until going into March, so obviously 1132 01:10:54.520 --> 01:11:00.000 they have about I want to say, six weeks into until they actually start 1133 01:11:00.199 --> 01:11:01.920 the season, so there'll be time to allocate and go through all that. 1134 01:11:02.399 --> 01:11:05.760 I wonder maybe if it's the same as like the NFL schedule, where it's 1135 01:11:05.760 --> 01:11:09.439 like training camp, you have that month and a half and then the back 1136 01:11:09.520 --> 01:11:11.680 end, the last three weeks is when you start to do all the cutdown 1137 01:11:11.680 --> 01:11:15.880 on the roster rings, so that I would imagine that's part of a similar 1138 01:11:15.920 --> 01:11:17.920 setup. I have to double check those numbers. One more comment, we'll 1139 01:11:17.920 --> 01:11:20.239 get the next and you'll have to hop off here for a second. You 1140 01:11:20.319 --> 01:11:23.600 got people coming to the house, and we'll work through this. We'll get 1141 01:11:23.600 --> 01:11:27.039 out of here at timely matter, all right, So I do asking how 1142 01:11:27.079 --> 01:11:30.640 the USL teams will deal with row the atmosphere. I do like that running 1143 01:11:30.720 --> 01:11:33.920 narrative as a joke of like all the XFL teams have an advantage because they'll 1144 01:11:33.960 --> 01:11:38.399 have fans in the stands in the USFL teams and going like, what is 1145 01:11:38.520 --> 01:11:42.960 this? I just think that that's funny. But I mean it's well, 1146 01:11:43.039 --> 01:11:45.520 it's it's two specific teams that I could think of, but that But I'm 1147 01:11:45.920 --> 01:11:49.319 again, Orlando had the same thing. The Orlando Guardians had the same disadvantage 1148 01:11:49.319 --> 01:11:53.960 where it was like one side of the stadium there's all these fans, but 1149 01:11:54.039 --> 01:11:58.039 there's nobody on the other side. Vegas. I mean, Vegas was just 1150 01:11:58.119 --> 01:12:00.039 a quagmire for anybody. So it really didn't matter who played. I think 1151 01:12:00.079 --> 01:12:03.720 it was just not fun for either team. I think it was a it 1152 01:12:03.800 --> 01:12:08.520 was a home field disadvantage for a lot of people. Seattle. I mean, 1153 01:12:08.560 --> 01:12:11.520 I know, you guys there was maybe less numbers overall, but I 1154 01:12:11.560 --> 01:12:15.560 mean I think the Seattle fans were very enthusiastic, so you know, you 1155 01:12:15.720 --> 01:12:19.000 lose that market. But again, here's my other thing, and I really 1156 01:12:19.079 --> 01:12:23.119 want this. I want I want this league to be transparent about this. 1157 01:12:23.560 --> 01:12:26.920 Please, with the love of God, please give us the attendance numbers, 1158 01:12:27.239 --> 01:12:30.640 especially from these USFL teams. Don't treat them like the nuclear codes. I 1159 01:12:30.760 --> 01:12:33.399 do not want this. I don't want this unfamil. I do not want 1160 01:12:33.479 --> 01:12:39.960 this second guessing. Trying to battle with people about what numbers were actually there 1161 01:12:40.399 --> 01:12:44.760 is insane. I don't want this anymore because people can eyeball anything and say 1162 01:12:44.840 --> 01:12:45.600 like, well I think it's this, or I think it's that. It's 1163 01:12:46.439 --> 01:12:50.640 asinine. Just please report the attendance numbers, because then you have a better 1164 01:12:50.720 --> 01:12:54.319 idea of who's there and who's not. Okay, the XPEL did it, 1165 01:12:54.840 --> 01:12:59.239 the SPEL did not. I don't want people to giving giving some presumption of 1166 01:12:59.279 --> 01:13:03.439 how many people were actually in the stands. I want solid numbers. A 1167 01:13:03.520 --> 01:13:06.159 couple of comments here, questions, then we'll get back to this. Shar 1168 01:13:06.239 --> 01:13:09.560 Do you know if the UFSFL team is still own the rights to the College 1169 01:13:09.640 --> 01:13:13.119 USL draftees, I would imagine so, I mean it's again, it's like, 1170 01:13:14.199 --> 01:13:15.600 you know, they would have to be interest. It's like the negotiations 1171 01:13:15.640 --> 01:13:18.359 listing candidate, right, like if you come to play in the CFL, 1172 01:13:18.520 --> 01:13:21.600 like you know, we have kind of first DIBs on you. I imagine 1173 01:13:21.640 --> 01:13:26.439 that's the same with the people the XFL took in there. What was that 1174 01:13:26.520 --> 01:13:29.279 the rookie draft that they did, because they each did one last year the 1175 01:13:29.439 --> 01:13:32.000 USFL did won in February, the the XFL did one. The other question 1176 01:13:32.520 --> 01:13:36.520 here, this is a new commenter. I haven't seen Jack and Jamie. 1177 01:13:36.520 --> 01:13:41.119 I'm news from football. Did they have training camp live coverage with the XFL 1178 01:13:41.199 --> 01:13:45.359 stuff this? Well, we both now with the UFL, everything will be 1179 01:13:45.439 --> 01:13:47.199 in Arlington, right, So it's not like a traditional where you would have 1180 01:13:47.239 --> 01:13:51.560 all eight teams doing training camp in their home markets. We do a pretty 1181 01:13:51.600 --> 01:13:55.960 good job of getting XFL people on. I know we had like Johan Heinbach 1182 01:13:56.039 --> 01:13:59.560 and some of the coaches on last year kind of from Arlington talking all that. 1183 01:14:00.079 --> 01:14:03.079 I know Anthony Miller, who it writes for this where it's illustrated now 1184 01:14:03.119 --> 01:14:06.560 with Mike Mitchell, he lives in the area. I imagine Anthony's going to 1185 01:14:06.600 --> 01:14:12.159 get some some access that way just because he's in the market, and he'll 1186 01:14:12.159 --> 01:14:14.920 will certainly come on and talk and we can talk with other We'll get player 1187 01:14:15.000 --> 01:14:16.920 interviews and all that stuff. So it's not in their traditional sense, but 1188 01:14:16.960 --> 01:14:20.159 we kind of when we get back to our regular Friday episodes that we'll get 1189 01:14:20.199 --> 01:14:25.800 some pre recorded interviews that way. I think you're going to have pre recorded 1190 01:14:25.880 --> 01:14:28.800 material. I don't know about live coverage, like somebody going to be on 1191 01:14:28.920 --> 01:14:31.720 the sideline with the camera. The league might put somebody out there with a 1192 01:14:31.800 --> 01:14:35.000 camera and just interview, Oh, here's Danny and here's the Rock and here's 1193 01:14:35.039 --> 01:14:39.359 Daryl Johnson and just talk to the execs and not actually cover any of the 1194 01:14:39.359 --> 01:14:42.159 football that's going on in the background. So I don't if that's what you're 1195 01:14:42.199 --> 01:14:45.960 talking about. I think it's going to be more that that's really what it's 1196 01:14:45.000 --> 01:14:48.000 going to happen. Maybe it'll be like a YouTube live stream, but as 1197 01:14:48.079 --> 01:14:53.000 far as actual coverage of what's going on behind you go to your beat reporters, 1198 01:14:53.039 --> 01:14:54.600 I mean that's going to be really where you get in and like you 1199 01:14:54.640 --> 01:14:58.680 said, Anthony Miller will be doing there on site and getting access to that, 1200 01:14:58.760 --> 01:15:01.760 So that's more that's where you're more going to get it than anything else. 1201 01:15:02.640 --> 01:15:05.600 And speaking of Anthony and Mike Miller here or I excuse me, speaking 1202 01:15:05.640 --> 01:15:09.800 of Anthony and Mike Mitchell and their endeavors. It could have a big announcement 1203 01:15:09.840 --> 01:15:13.479 here coming up, but maybe even today on Twitter involving the kind of the 1204 01:15:13.520 --> 01:15:15.479 future of the Marcus as well, So that could be excited. Let's go 1205 01:15:15.640 --> 01:15:20.199 back in Week seven one o'clock ESPN. We're going back to this are at 1206 01:15:20.319 --> 01:15:27.159 Renegade's hosting again four o'clock on Fox and then the ESPN games on Sunday twelve 1207 01:15:27.199 --> 01:15:30.000 and three. So again kind of the middle of the road here, Bromise 1208 01:15:30.039 --> 01:15:33.640 traveling to Houston, Philip, I'll start your question. We'll get to in 1209 01:15:33.720 --> 01:15:38.159 a minute. This will be a good one. I think BattleHawks at Stallions 1210 01:15:38.199 --> 01:15:41.119 hosting. Hopefully the Stallions fans show up for that kind of any takeaway, 1211 01:15:41.159 --> 01:15:44.680 sir, that's fun. That's a matchup that a lot of people wanted to 1212 01:15:44.760 --> 01:15:47.079 see. I think for the most part, you'd really love to see the 1213 01:15:47.119 --> 01:15:51.439 Stallions go to the battle Hawks arena. But having the BattleHawks travel a burning 1214 01:15:51.520 --> 01:15:54.840 him was a really fun idea. That's one of the first matchups you think 1215 01:15:54.880 --> 01:16:00.239 of when you when you aren't conceptualizing the idea of these leagues combining. Again, 1216 01:16:00.680 --> 01:16:03.960 show Boats. Every time I see the show Boats in the schedule, 1217 01:16:04.000 --> 01:16:06.039 I just look at them and go, I don't know how good you're gonna 1218 01:16:06.079 --> 01:16:10.760 be. I'm just not sure. I hope, I hope they're at least 1219 01:16:10.800 --> 01:16:14.399 decent. But that's a it's an okay matchup. As a pallet starter on 1220 01:16:14.439 --> 01:16:18.960 Saturday. But that that Saturday one pm Stallions Batlllehawks game, that's that's a 1221 01:16:19.039 --> 01:16:23.760 marquee matchup. You get the Defenders on Sunday once again, it's a morning 1222 01:16:23.840 --> 01:16:28.720 time slot for West Coast Central Time, Mountain time people. Brahms at Roughnecks 1223 01:16:30.319 --> 01:16:33.079 another Texas matchup. So you know, there's some decent matchups here. I 1224 01:16:33.119 --> 01:16:38.039 mean, again, the biggest thing is the importance of all these matchups will 1225 01:16:38.039 --> 01:16:40.800 shift as we go along once we finally get to know players and the and 1226 01:16:40.880 --> 01:16:43.119 all that. But as far as just looking at in terms of who has 1227 01:16:43.199 --> 01:16:48.880 advantages where, that's really the biggest thing. Like, I'm really really excited 1228 01:16:49.000 --> 01:16:55.560 for some of these former USFL teams to go to places like Saint Louis and 1229 01:16:55.680 --> 01:17:00.520 DC and run into things like the Beer Snake and sort of come part of 1230 01:17:00.600 --> 01:17:03.399 these traditions that were here before. That's that to me is the most fun 1231 01:17:03.439 --> 01:17:06.439 part of this and seeing how they react and how fans react to this, 1232 01:17:06.960 --> 01:17:12.920 because obviously that level of camaraderie was not around in the US of L very 1233 01:17:13.000 --> 01:17:15.439 much, so I like the idea of that. But now there's some decent 1234 01:17:15.479 --> 01:17:19.800 matchups here in Week seven as well, Whether they say here Abdullah, Professor 1235 01:17:19.880 --> 01:17:26.319 Dowdy, and Chef cookis Wow, Chef Cook is, Look, they got 1236 01:17:26.439 --> 01:17:29.279 to fix their offensive line. I have had a lot of problems with their 1237 01:17:29.319 --> 01:17:31.439 offensive line. The Stars offensive line has been awful for two straight years and 1238 01:17:31.439 --> 01:17:34.760 it's gotten a lot of their quarterbacks killed. That happened the Brian Scott, 1239 01:17:34.840 --> 01:17:38.640 that happened the Case cookis. That's happened to a lot of guys who have 1240 01:17:38.680 --> 01:17:42.640 been behind center for them. I want, I want Case Cookies to play 1241 01:17:42.680 --> 01:17:45.640 well, but I need to see that he has actual protection because he needs 1242 01:17:45.680 --> 01:17:48.960 it. When he has time to throw, he makes some damn good throws. 1243 01:17:49.600 --> 01:17:54.680 I just need to see consistency up front and the offensive line. But 1244 01:17:54.840 --> 01:17:58.600 like you know, I want Case to play well. He just when he 1245 01:17:58.720 --> 01:18:02.439 was behind that Stars offense line, it just wasn't fun. We have fun 1246 01:18:02.600 --> 01:18:08.600 chats going here in the comments in the chat. Week eight here Showboats going 1247 01:18:08.800 --> 01:18:14.119 again, Michigan hosting later o'clock, four o'clock Fox. This is it, 1248 01:18:14.279 --> 01:18:17.079 So now we have another one. So this is the sole ESPN two game, 1249 01:18:17.239 --> 01:18:21.399 eight o'clock Houston Revnecks at Stallions. You know again, I look at 1250 01:18:21.399 --> 01:18:26.680 the Stallions a little though that to me, says kind of more of a 1251 01:18:26.760 --> 01:18:30.000 sexy matchup, right, Just I know it's the pedigree of the Stallions versus 1252 01:18:30.079 --> 01:18:32.000 if I'm like, if I'm looking at the Showboats, it's not really necessarily 1253 01:18:32.119 --> 01:18:39.319 as as interested that way. And DC defenders here going to Saint Louis. 1254 01:18:39.399 --> 01:18:43.119 That would be a good one Sunday noon, and then Arlington Renegades going to 1255 01:18:43.199 --> 01:18:48.800 the Promise at Fox on one o'clock. Once again you were deciding divisional hatred. 1256 01:18:48.960 --> 01:18:53.199 And also in terms of playoff matchups, here DC going to Saint Louis. 1257 01:18:53.279 --> 01:18:56.039 Look, this is your second crack out at Saint Louis. If you 1258 01:18:56.119 --> 01:18:58.640 really are serious about taking down the DC, you do it this time. 1259 01:18:59.079 --> 01:19:03.680 This is a really this might be the biggest matchup of the entire season when 1260 01:19:03.720 --> 01:19:09.079 it all is all said and done, because DC has improving themselves and I 1261 01:19:09.199 --> 01:19:13.000 ran over Saint Louis last time. Abram Smith was a wild man running down 1262 01:19:13.039 --> 01:19:17.000 the field against Saint Louis. The BattleHawks. We'll see if they can have 1263 01:19:17.119 --> 01:19:20.439 their home field advantage here. I mean that that fan base is going to 1264 01:19:20.479 --> 01:19:26.720 be so ready to jump on DC. But this is probably the biggest matchup 1265 01:19:26.760 --> 01:19:30.560 of the entire season. I really am excited for this this night Sunday morning 1266 01:19:30.760 --> 01:19:32.039 matchup. Kind of wish it was a little bit later in the day, 1267 01:19:32.359 --> 01:19:36.279 but I mean as far as being a standalone game, this is fantastic. 1268 01:19:36.680 --> 01:19:42.359 Arlington going down to San Antonio again. I hope San Antonio is able to 1269 01:19:42.359 --> 01:19:45.239 support their team like I like the almodome A lot. I'm glad we had 1270 01:19:45.279 --> 01:19:46.680 that experience there. I hope the fans are able to get behind it and 1271 01:19:46.800 --> 01:19:54.479 really support that, maybe again getting this Texas audience more involved. I'm glad 1272 01:19:54.560 --> 01:19:59.920 it's not like a late Sunday night. I mean it's six pm their time, 1273 01:20:00.239 --> 01:20:01.239 No, sorry, three pm, excuse me, three pm their time, 1274 01:20:01.359 --> 01:20:05.039 So it's not like some of the matchups we had, And the problem 1275 01:20:05.039 --> 01:20:08.920 with the XL sometimes last year was we have these late Sunday night games that 1276 01:20:09.039 --> 01:20:12.359 really just crushed people and trying to get them to come to the stadium. 1277 01:20:12.399 --> 01:20:15.199 So having them closer the midday matchup is good, I think, and not 1278 01:20:15.359 --> 01:20:19.000 having it be like, hey, it's seven pm Sunday night, you guys 1279 01:20:19.000 --> 01:20:20.760 should come out to the game, and it's like, ah, I got 1280 01:20:20.800 --> 01:20:25.760 work tomorrow. That was a big complaint the promise. I do remember that 1281 01:20:25.800 --> 01:20:28.680 because they were really trying to do like the family focus thing too, right. 1282 01:20:28.760 --> 01:20:30.880 I think they had like family tickets as well, And yeah, I 1283 01:20:30.960 --> 01:20:33.119 do remember that being a common like, yeah, we can't I can't go 1284 01:20:33.199 --> 01:20:38.880 to the game here, especially like the Alamo Dome wall convenient for tourists staying 1285 01:20:39.079 --> 01:20:41.239 in the river walk or doing the things that we were going to do. 1286 01:20:41.399 --> 01:20:44.600 Like you know, I do think it's maybe challenging for families to get in 1287 01:20:44.680 --> 01:20:46.159 there as well. Yeah, absolutely, I think that's I think this is 1288 01:20:46.399 --> 01:20:50.199 overall better allocated. You can do it Saturday night, that's fine, But 1289 01:20:50.279 --> 01:20:56.159 Sunday night, No, that's that's really gonna hurt people mission downtown. Will 1290 01:20:56.199 --> 01:20:59.279 DC fans travel and bring the beer snake to Saint Louis? Is it at 1291 01:20:59.279 --> 01:21:02.479 the Alamodome? They wouldn't allow it, right, Yeah, they wouldn't allow 1292 01:21:02.479 --> 01:21:05.279 it. I don't think Say Louis is going to allow them either. Yeah, 1293 01:21:05.319 --> 01:21:09.439 it's one of those things like Aldi Field. I think being in the 1294 01:21:09.520 --> 01:21:12.760 soccer stadium and outdoors. I don't know if that has anything to do with 1295 01:21:12.840 --> 01:21:15.960 the different policies and just kind of the backlash they had with kind of the 1296 01:21:15.039 --> 01:21:18.359 throwing lemons and all of that. Stuff, But yeah, it could be 1297 01:21:18.399 --> 01:21:23.279 another fun news story that way. Oh, Lemon Gate was fantastic, but 1298 01:21:23.319 --> 01:21:25.760 I don't think you're gonna have that again. I mean, that was such 1299 01:21:25.800 --> 01:21:28.800 a disconnect, you know, like that that was the whole thing about the 1300 01:21:28.920 --> 01:21:31.000 league. Didn't the new iteration of the league, didn't understand the traditions that 1301 01:21:31.079 --> 01:21:34.960 were baked into the the DC franchise. And then yeah, they're like, 1302 01:21:35.039 --> 01:21:40.159 what beer snake? It's like, that's all anybody ever talked about this entire 1303 01:21:40.239 --> 01:21:42.680 time? What do you mean? What's a beer snake? And the fans 1304 01:21:42.760 --> 01:21:45.640 let it be known real quick. I just so vividly in my head remembered 1305 01:21:45.760 --> 01:21:50.399 fans chanting the words beer snake, beer snake in like the second or third 1306 01:21:50.479 --> 01:21:56.760 quarter because they weren't able to like construct it like that's how That's how adamant 1307 01:21:56.840 --> 01:22:00.600 they were about getting their way. That was. That was bizarre. I 1308 01:22:00.680 --> 01:22:03.560 want to make sure we touch on this, mister Downtown. What's up with 1309 01:22:03.600 --> 01:22:06.880 the inconsistencies of start times? Why couldn't we have one PM across the board 1310 01:22:06.880 --> 01:22:11.800 at MPM totally agree at least for this step. We just need to be 1311 01:22:11.840 --> 01:22:14.239 happy they're on the networks, they're on right, I mean, that's that's 1312 01:22:14.319 --> 01:22:16.600 gonna come. And you know, when you're the NFL or I mean even 1313 01:22:16.680 --> 01:22:19.520 hockey deals with like having to kind of work around and basketball, Like, 1314 01:22:19.560 --> 01:22:21.760 when you're the NFL, you could, OK, at these are the slots, 1315 01:22:21.840 --> 01:22:25.439 this is what we're doing. We just need to be happy that they're 1316 01:22:25.520 --> 01:22:28.439 on the channels they're on. I agree with that, but at least they 1317 01:22:28.479 --> 01:22:31.720 are on. You know, if I am someone that's not in tuned with 1318 01:22:31.880 --> 01:22:35.199 getting on ESPN Plus or whatever, like I can go to my channels and 1319 01:22:35.239 --> 01:22:39.399 go to ABC or Fox and find this game if it's on it either or 1320 01:22:39.439 --> 01:22:43.279 one or whatever. I think that's that's a great idea. But again, 1321 01:22:43.680 --> 01:22:45.760 they don't have priority yet. They haven't proven themselves yet. Once they do, 1322 01:22:46.000 --> 01:22:48.199 then they can start to argue for those timeslots, to say, hey, 1323 01:22:48.279 --> 01:22:51.039 these are the ratings we bring to the table, here's why we should 1324 01:22:51.119 --> 01:22:54.520 deserve this time slot. You know, then you can start to argue for 1325 01:22:54.600 --> 01:22:58.039 that. But for now they don't have that prioritization. But again, you're 1326 01:22:58.079 --> 01:23:00.920 on Saturday and Sunday. You're not really gated the Thursday or Friday or Monday, 1327 01:23:01.039 --> 01:23:04.960 like you have consistent days that you're on I think that's the first big 1328 01:23:05.039 --> 01:23:10.079 step. Max Year had a comment, I think the reason for the regional 1329 01:23:10.119 --> 01:23:12.840 games is definitely to test how much of a boost they can get on the 1330 01:23:12.920 --> 01:23:15.960 rating slot by having four fan bases watching it once. So again, like 1331 01:23:15.239 --> 01:23:18.119 we're testing some things, like you said, kind of working around some of 1332 01:23:18.159 --> 01:23:20.840 the time slots and then working around you know, some of the networks. 1333 01:23:20.880 --> 01:23:24.239 But that could be another way too. Let's see how that works. But 1334 01:23:24.279 --> 01:23:27.720 I do think that that's disingenuous to talk about some of the Fox game numbers 1335 01:23:27.800 --> 01:23:32.159 and having them b cyblecast. Yeah, and that's the thing, like what 1336 01:23:32.279 --> 01:23:35.720 are the numbers going to be in the regional based broadcast? So uh, 1337 01:23:36.319 --> 01:23:41.000 that is that is a bit misleading. But it was the same thing they 1338 01:23:41.039 --> 01:23:43.800 kind of had with the what was it that graphic last year they had about 1339 01:23:43.800 --> 01:23:46.439 the four percent increase of opening week games, uh, and over end or 1340 01:23:46.479 --> 01:23:50.119 something like that. There was some weird graphic that it was the numbers it 1341 01:23:50.239 --> 01:23:55.199 was it was it was really backwards. I didn't like how they skewed that 1342 01:23:55.279 --> 01:23:58.800 last year. That kind of Look, I know there's a lot of readings 1343 01:23:58.880 --> 01:24:00.199 gymnastics, and I know people talk about it and you want to boost it 1344 01:24:00.239 --> 01:24:03.319 as much as you can. I get that because they're going to be the 1345 01:24:03.359 --> 01:24:08.159 negative articles. You know that there's going to be negative backlash when there are 1346 01:24:08.239 --> 01:24:12.680 inevitably dips and ratings. But that that to me was kind of a bit 1347 01:24:12.800 --> 01:24:17.399 disingenuous. Well, what they did was they they took the they took the 1348 01:24:17.520 --> 01:24:21.960 year, the entire year of the USFL Radians and averaged it against the week 1349 01:24:23.039 --> 01:24:26.079 one of the SFL season two, and they said that there was an increase 1350 01:24:26.119 --> 01:24:30.560 on that No one week one week. Here's a good question, Adul, 1351 01:24:30.600 --> 01:24:32.840 could we see Friday night games next year Fox because they want to have smackdowns. 1352 01:24:33.800 --> 01:24:39.119 I don't mind MACS. Foxes built that into a good time slot, 1353 01:24:39.159 --> 01:24:41.960 but that is also very wrestling dependent on that. I don't know if I 1354 01:24:42.000 --> 01:24:45.520 would stick with the Saturday Sunday games at least right now. I think that's 1355 01:24:45.880 --> 01:24:47.520 that's the thing. I think it's a wrestling idea, right. Look, 1356 01:24:47.720 --> 01:24:51.199 the CFL, for example, knows that they have games on Thursday and Friday, 1357 01:24:51.359 --> 01:24:57.760 right like they are like Friday nights not Friday Night. Yeah, Like 1358 01:24:57.880 --> 01:25:00.960 the they that's their thing. They love that, they love the Thursday night 1359 01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:03.760 matchup. It's like Okay, fine, like that's the that's their their way 1360 01:25:03.800 --> 01:25:08.720 of dealing with the market. But the UFL does not have that yet, 1361 01:25:08.840 --> 01:25:12.000 they do not have that idea. I think it's a cool concept, but 1362 01:25:12.479 --> 01:25:15.000 again, I don't think you have people that are going to go out of 1363 01:25:15.000 --> 01:25:16.840 their way to watch on Thursday and Friday night. I just don't Saturday and 1364 01:25:16.920 --> 01:25:21.760 Sunday. I always thought that Saturday and Sunday was always seen as like alternative 1365 01:25:21.800 --> 01:25:27.520 programming anyways for people who didn't want to watch college football or NFL. So 1366 01:25:27.600 --> 01:25:31.199 I think that that's again why Saturday and Sunday makes more sense. Yeah, 1367 01:25:31.279 --> 01:25:35.720 I think at least right now, we're really they like they know, if 1368 01:25:35.760 --> 01:25:39.359 you're on this stream right now, you're gonna find the game. But they're 1369 01:25:39.399 --> 01:25:43.720 trying to get to the people that are more casual that way. Week nine 1370 01:25:43.800 --> 01:25:47.560 here Battle Hawks, going to the Renegades, twelve o'clock, ABC stallions at 1371 01:25:47.600 --> 01:25:50.880 Brahmas, a couple of ABC games here at twelve and three, and then 1372 01:25:51.159 --> 01:25:54.560 again, like, to me, at least these are nice and clean. 1373 01:25:54.640 --> 01:25:59.279 There's no like just we had some of the weirdest time slots and then we 1374 01:25:59.399 --> 01:26:02.359 now we have it boyd as as I say, that another simulcast here at 1375 01:26:02.359 --> 01:26:08.000 the Fox. So we have three simulcasted games here, DC Defenders at Showbos 1376 01:26:08.079 --> 01:26:11.720 and then the Panthers at the Roughnecks. So that's another one of these delineations. 1377 01:26:12.800 --> 01:26:15.600 Yeah, you're starting to get a lot of Texas based matchups here, 1378 01:26:15.680 --> 01:26:19.119 right or excuse me, Yeah, it's it's starting to get a lot into 1379 01:26:19.199 --> 01:26:23.920 the deeper parts of the year. Now you're starting to get into Texas and 1380 01:26:24.039 --> 01:26:28.119 late May it's gonna start being a little bit hotter. Notably, there are 1381 01:26:28.239 --> 01:26:30.840 three domed teams in this league, so you can be able to control temperature 1382 01:26:30.880 --> 01:26:34.800 settings there, which is good. Obviously, you can't do that in Arlington, 1383 01:26:34.840 --> 01:26:36.479 you can't do that in Houston, but you can do that in San 1384 01:26:36.520 --> 01:26:41.239 Antonio. So and you're gonna be in Memphis, so you're gonna be in 1385 01:26:41.279 --> 01:26:45.600 the Deep South here and it's gonna be probably a bit toasty, but again 1386 01:26:45.680 --> 01:26:51.159 not as maybe not as bad as if you were playing deep into June or 1387 01:26:51.319 --> 01:26:57.439 you know that beginning of that July fourth matchup in Ohio obviously, So that's 1388 01:26:57.560 --> 01:27:00.199 just something to keep an eye on because the XPEL does not have that. 1389 01:27:00.359 --> 01:27:03.920 Yeah, they've had mostly temperate conditions to deal with. But yeah, really 1390 01:27:03.960 --> 01:27:09.720 focusing on the on this Texas market here again, really just consolidating everything and 1391 01:27:09.800 --> 01:27:14.199 being able to have all these fans be around for the Texas matchups. I 1392 01:27:14.359 --> 01:27:17.439 may I may get the funny thing here. There's been a gentleman I assume 1393 01:27:17.560 --> 01:27:21.560 Joe, Bill Alexander here in the chat. That's been a really like we're 1394 01:27:21.720 --> 01:27:26.000 terrible and we don't know anything, and you're wrong and people are you other? 1395 01:27:26.079 --> 01:27:30.119 But Bill commented here, these dudes don't even know how loaded the boats 1396 01:27:30.119 --> 01:27:33.800 are. Bill, this is you right now. This is you at the 1397 01:27:33.920 --> 01:27:39.159 party by yourself in the corner. We're having fun, so appreciate it. 1398 01:27:39.279 --> 01:27:42.279 We got one hundred people watch around that. We really appreciate everyone like to 1399 01:27:42.319 --> 01:27:45.840 subscribe it. Bill, welcome you be a part of it. Happy to 1400 01:27:45.920 --> 01:27:49.079 have you on the stream. But you know, we're having fun here of 1401 01:27:49.199 --> 01:27:51.439 you. If you're going to be pissy pants, that you can do that. 1402 01:27:51.600 --> 01:27:55.159 But I just finally, it's been it's been going on for about twenty 1403 01:27:55.159 --> 01:27:59.720 minutes. I want to dissuade you and your your education at the professor. 1404 01:28:00.279 --> 01:28:05.199 That's fine, we'll see when the games are played. Anyway, So back 1405 01:28:05.359 --> 01:28:09.800 to the schedule here. Yeah, so we'll see. But another one of 1406 01:28:09.840 --> 01:28:12.640 these simulcasts. So what is that week four, five, and nine, 1407 01:28:12.760 --> 01:28:15.359 I think at this point, So we'll see. I'll be curious to see. 1408 01:28:15.439 --> 01:28:18.760 This is a good this is a good test I think moving forward, 1409 01:28:19.720 --> 01:28:25.359 I think so too. And that's a really important aspect here. So we'll 1410 01:28:25.399 --> 01:28:28.920 see, we'll see proof of concept how this works. All right, Andy, 1411 01:28:29.000 --> 01:28:30.079 go take care of your plumber. Hop back on here. I'll do 1412 01:28:30.159 --> 01:28:32.479 some questions here. Andy'll be back in the second. Then we'll get to 1413 01:28:32.560 --> 01:28:38.079 week ten here. If you guys have any other questions about the schedule, 1414 01:28:38.079 --> 01:28:40.800 we'll get to all of that. Yeah, people enjoying the egg tree and 1415 01:28:42.239 --> 01:28:44.880 all of that stuff. So that's good. Andy's got a plumber, he's 1416 01:28:44.880 --> 01:28:45.520 got to let in here, and then we'll get to week ten. But 1417 01:28:45.560 --> 01:28:48.560 if anyone else has any questions here. In the meantime, we had a 1418 01:28:48.640 --> 01:28:54.960 question talking and Andy here. Rather find that would work maybe with an expansion. 1419 01:28:55.199 --> 01:28:57.680 I'm not opposed to it. Again, I think right now we just 1420 01:28:57.840 --> 01:29:01.760 need to get to Saturday Sunday, whether it's noon or one or two, 1421 01:29:01.920 --> 01:29:05.520 kind of get all that going. I think we need to just any casual 1422 01:29:05.560 --> 01:29:10.840 fancy we can get to on this, I think is the goal here if 1423 01:29:10.840 --> 01:29:15.159 they keep a late March start leads itsself to expand it. You know, 1424 01:29:15.079 --> 01:29:17.840 I know that that's the buzzword. I know that that's how we get a 1425 01:29:17.880 --> 01:29:21.520 lot of YouTube stuff. Right now, I gotta clicks on that. You 1426 01:29:21.600 --> 01:29:25.960 know, we got we gotta get one season with a million plus under the 1427 01:29:26.000 --> 01:29:29.680 belt here, and we'll go forward with that. Shark's talking about which team 1428 01:29:29.720 --> 01:29:31.720 has the hardest schedule, We'll get to that. We'll get to that here 1429 01:29:32.399 --> 01:29:36.159 at the end when we kind of get through the late games. Yeahn talking 1430 01:29:36.319 --> 01:29:42.199 love the Saturday Sunday games only I would agree with that. I think again 1431 01:29:42.319 --> 01:29:45.800 normalizing here the Thursday games were really tough going through all of that stuff back 1432 01:29:45.920 --> 01:29:49.960 last year, Mister Downtown, when we come to the Bullpen in Santa I 1433 01:29:50.119 --> 01:29:53.600 need to get down there again. I wish I had gotten kind of the 1434 01:29:53.640 --> 01:29:58.000 full schedule before working through the kickoff. We will, you know, going 1435 01:29:58.119 --> 01:30:00.640 down Saturday and we'll do our live show everything we did that back at Chalk 1436 01:30:00.720 --> 01:30:03.880 Top back last year. Should have lots of fun guests. I'm sure great 1437 01:30:03.920 --> 01:30:06.800 Parks of the World and Pad and Andy and kind of everybody will be on 1438 01:30:06.920 --> 01:30:11.000 that so it should be a fun time. But yeah, we'd love to 1439 01:30:11.079 --> 01:30:13.760 do that Sunday game in San Antonio, but that might be a little too 1440 01:30:13.840 --> 01:30:18.720 much to just swing here. Going back through going through the comments here people 1441 01:30:18.920 --> 01:30:24.479 enjoying my if people enjoy my meme, that was funny, like that question 1442 01:30:24.680 --> 01:30:27.960 here, doesn't Fox have ownership in the UFL? I guess our biggest competition 1443 01:30:28.000 --> 01:30:30.960 we be Baseball for the afternoon the NASCAR. Fox has the right so that 1444 01:30:30.039 --> 01:30:34.199 yes, So there again there's always kind of scheduling gymnastics that way, and 1445 01:30:36.039 --> 01:30:40.279 again kind of the whole reason Fox got into this back with the success the 1446 01:30:40.399 --> 01:30:44.039 XFL had in twenty twenty was, you know, having the programming that they 1447 01:30:44.159 --> 01:30:47.800 own that they kind of kind of air mid week or midday on Saturday Sunday. 1448 01:30:47.880 --> 01:30:51.720 That's easier than like I don't know, the airing old movie recaps or 1449 01:30:51.760 --> 01:30:56.520 anything like that repeat. So we'll see. I mean, they can schedule 1450 01:30:56.520 --> 01:30:58.279 around, but ultimately, I mean, I think, you know, the 1451 01:30:58.600 --> 01:31:01.640 NASCAR rights they go with that, and obviously Baseball, even if viewership is 1452 01:31:01.720 --> 01:31:05.359 regionally based, I think you're going to get them prioritizing a lot of that 1453 01:31:05.520 --> 01:31:12.920 stuff. Matthew BattleHawks are gonna whoop the Panthers. Catca excited to see. 1454 01:31:12.960 --> 01:31:17.159 I think the BattleHawks. You know, I don't always love the the causelaw 1455 01:31:17.159 --> 01:31:19.760 and all that. I get a little tired of the Saint Louis the podcast, 1456 01:31:19.840 --> 01:31:23.000 and I love Jason and all of them with the X Fans Show, 1457 01:31:23.079 --> 01:31:26.560 but a lot of you know, a lot of shilling for that. But 1458 01:31:26.920 --> 01:31:30.720 it's exciting there. And then I will get Andy back on here. Sam. 1459 01:31:30.840 --> 01:31:32.439 All five rend Against home games are Saturday. Yeah, I did see 1460 01:31:32.520 --> 01:31:38.279 DC complaining that they complains about that. Sorry Sunday. Kind of the games 1461 01:31:38.279 --> 01:31:41.680 that we're going on with that Andy is back, the Plumber has been let 1462 01:31:41.720 --> 01:31:45.199 in. We've gone through comments. We need to talk and this is kind 1463 01:31:45.239 --> 01:31:47.119 of hard right now because we don't know rosters. We're talking like difficulty, 1464 01:31:47.199 --> 01:31:49.960 strength of schedule. I don't know if we're out of point right now where 1465 01:31:50.000 --> 01:31:54.159 we can talk about that. But let's get here. The week ten, 1466 01:31:54.560 --> 01:32:00.479 rounding out the season, Panthers at Stallions on ESPN, Noon Fox is Antonio 1467 01:32:00.520 --> 01:32:04.039 Brahm and Saint Louis Ballahawks Renegades on ABC, and then we're closing out with 1468 01:32:04.079 --> 01:32:10.199 a seven pm Fox Roughnecks at the Showboats. Yeah, again you get the 1469 01:32:10.239 --> 01:32:15.199 close out here with DC. That's fantastic that that second the last game on 1470 01:32:15.279 --> 01:32:17.520 Sunday, so home field advantage for them. Maybe they'll be able to use 1471 01:32:17.560 --> 01:32:23.680 that and allocate that into possibly having a home playoff game. The Showboats again 1472 01:32:23.800 --> 01:32:28.239 hosting the Roughnecks, Ballhawks, and Stallions. I mean, some really strong 1473 01:32:28.319 --> 01:32:31.239 home markets here the last week. This is really a great last showcase for 1474 01:32:31.359 --> 01:32:34.640 some of the strongest markets in the league. And you'll be able to have 1475 01:32:34.800 --> 01:32:40.680 that with especially the Ballahawks and the Dependers and the Stallions. So again, 1476 01:32:40.760 --> 01:32:43.560 we'll see with the Showboats. I think they had a good turnout last year. 1477 01:32:43.600 --> 01:32:45.840 We'll see if they're going to be able to get more people involved in 1478 01:32:45.880 --> 01:32:48.439 the market and again maybe be able to surround the stadium a little bit more 1479 01:32:48.520 --> 01:32:53.279 so if you're talking about some of the potentially strongest markets in the league. 1480 01:32:53.359 --> 01:32:55.560 This is a nice way to round it out here. At the end of 1481 01:32:55.600 --> 01:32:59.640 the season, I will say I thought the Showboats did a good job in 1482 01:32:59.720 --> 01:33:01.720 build in that new market, and I'm glad that they survived into this. 1483 01:33:02.000 --> 01:33:05.319 I think that there was a lot of work put in and I know people 1484 01:33:05.439 --> 01:33:09.920 in like you know, weird and criticizing and the hubs and the home markets 1485 01:33:09.960 --> 01:33:13.239 and kind of all that stuff. I think the Showboats showed that if you 1486 01:33:13.399 --> 01:33:15.800 got into something like that and put in the time, that you could make 1487 01:33:15.880 --> 01:33:18.319 that work. And so I'm glad that they did that. You know, 1488 01:33:18.399 --> 01:33:23.520 we're now in some more established markets already with the XFL here, you know, 1489 01:33:23.760 --> 01:33:27.199 kind of bringing those into the fold. But I'm glad the Showboats survived 1490 01:33:27.239 --> 01:33:29.319 and that you know, they all have the new coach and kind of all 1491 01:33:29.399 --> 01:33:31.199 that stuff working there. But that should be a good situation, I think 1492 01:33:31.239 --> 01:33:34.800 from Memphis, even if we want, even with Bill's comments inside, I 1493 01:33:34.840 --> 01:33:38.840 do think Showboats, you know, I think that would be interesting to watch. 1494 01:33:40.279 --> 01:33:42.359 Like I said, you know, we'd play the games, and once 1495 01:33:42.439 --> 01:33:45.640 they play, and if they show the case themselves to be a proficient team 1496 01:33:45.640 --> 01:33:47.000 in this league, I'll give them all the credit that they need. That's 1497 01:33:47.079 --> 01:33:50.199 that's all I'm gonna say. But yeah, they had a solid I agree 1498 01:33:50.199 --> 01:33:54.199 with Abdul, they did have a solid attendance. But again, I want 1499 01:33:54.239 --> 01:33:57.600 the numbers. I like to see it on TV. I want the numbers, 1500 01:33:57.680 --> 01:34:01.079 that's all I'm asking. So then obviously we're gonna have the So this 1501 01:34:01.199 --> 01:34:05.239 will be weird. The conference championship games that ABC and Fox tvd on all 1502 01:34:05.319 --> 01:34:10.960 that. My question is, so they are the conference championships and we had 1503 01:34:12.239 --> 01:34:15.600 I guess it was Beck that was on coach back talking that it's going to 1504 01:34:15.640 --> 01:34:19.039 be the number one seed that both conference and then the winning right, the 1505 01:34:19.119 --> 01:34:21.520 most winning. But we're still going to be conference based with all that? 1506 01:34:21.600 --> 01:34:25.880 Am I understanding that correctly? Well, I mean, I don't know if 1507 01:34:25.920 --> 01:34:28.800 you can be conference based because there's going to be crossover, right If there's 1508 01:34:28.800 --> 01:34:30.520 gonna be a team that comes over from one of the other conferences that has 1509 01:34:30.560 --> 01:34:33.359 a higher winning percentage, then they would cross over to the other to the 1510 01:34:33.399 --> 01:34:36.640 other league. Like if you have two if you have three USFL teams and 1511 01:34:36.680 --> 01:34:42.760 one XFL team that has the only one that has the winning division, that 1512 01:34:42.800 --> 01:34:45.960 has won the division, and then you have two USFL wild card teams, 1513 01:34:45.960 --> 01:34:48.239 I guess you would call them and I presumed one of them would then crossover 1514 01:34:48.319 --> 01:34:51.920 to the other league. So I guess it's still be a conference championship. 1515 01:34:51.920 --> 01:34:56.800 I guess it'd be weird because then you potentially could end up with like say, 1516 01:34:56.920 --> 01:34:59.880 like two USFL teams or two XPL teams in the championship games. So 1517 01:35:00.000 --> 01:35:02.720 so I'm not sure how that works. Really, it's it's it's a bit 1518 01:35:03.079 --> 01:35:06.079 weird, but I mean, if that's how it is, I mean theoretically 1519 01:35:06.239 --> 01:35:10.279 that could also happen, and like for example, in the Great Cup, 1520 01:35:10.439 --> 01:35:13.399 like you could have a team crossover. I know it's not really ever happened 1521 01:35:13.720 --> 01:35:15.520 very much, but like you could have that theoretically happen, right, and 1522 01:35:15.560 --> 01:35:18.279 they're not going to be like, oh, we have Western Conference and the 1523 01:35:18.279 --> 01:35:21.079 Industry Conference champion. It's kind of I mean you could, but then it 1524 01:35:21.159 --> 01:35:27.000 becomes weird because another team takes over. So that's really the only the best 1525 01:35:27.039 --> 01:35:30.000 way to look at it is just like just win your division, just win 1526 01:35:30.239 --> 01:35:32.000 the division. But no, but did this I think cause again, coach 1527 01:35:32.039 --> 01:35:34.520 Backton, I don't know if that was formally put out. We're still waiting 1528 01:35:34.520 --> 01:35:38.079 on like the World Bucks and all that stuff, but I think it's we're 1529 01:35:38.119 --> 01:35:41.520 condemn the conference championship. But I think you could have if you know, 1530 01:35:41.720 --> 01:35:45.840 if the if the Defenders won the division and then the Renegades were the second 1531 01:35:45.880 --> 01:35:49.000 best team and two of the teams in the USFL Conference. You know, 1532 01:35:49.079 --> 01:35:53.239 if the if the Stallions won, but then the other two teams, like 1533 01:35:53.359 --> 01:35:57.560 if they had the better record, I think the Renegades would go because how 1534 01:35:57.600 --> 01:36:00.239 would you, I mean, how would you not be in the playoffs if 1535 01:36:00.279 --> 01:36:02.840 you had the second best record in your division already? Like I don't know. 1536 01:36:03.279 --> 01:36:09.119 To me, that's confusing, But we're calling it the conference championship. 1537 01:36:09.119 --> 01:36:12.600 I would just like a little bit more clarification on that. I mean, 1538 01:36:12.720 --> 01:36:15.439 it's it's two things. One it's a wild card, and two it's a 1539 01:36:15.479 --> 01:36:18.560 crossover. That's basically what it is. And there's no because there's no like 1540 01:36:18.760 --> 01:36:23.199 the divisions aren't big enough to be able to allocate that, Like you don't 1541 01:36:23.199 --> 01:36:25.960 have enough teams to be able to move those kinds of things around in a 1542 01:36:26.039 --> 01:36:29.640 normal wild card set up. And two it's gonna be crossing over because you 1543 01:36:29.680 --> 01:36:32.000 want teams with the best records to be in. So say each team will 1544 01:36:32.039 --> 01:36:35.079 play the conference championship, will pay the top two teams for the best records, 1545 01:36:35.119 --> 01:36:39.119 and there are conferences against each other. So what is Beck talking about 1546 01:36:39.119 --> 01:36:45.479 when it's like the best But we've gotten different reporting in different like match like 1547 01:36:45.640 --> 01:36:49.039 different. I feel like we've had other information that said that that wouldn't be 1548 01:36:49.079 --> 01:36:51.319 the case. It was going to be someone with the best record that would 1549 01:36:51.319 --> 01:36:55.760 be crossing over. I don't know this is from I mean I would trust 1550 01:36:55.840 --> 01:36:58.479 this and the conference championship will pay. The top two teams are the best 1551 01:36:58.560 --> 01:37:00.720 records and their respective conferencesgainst each other, which would obviously put you in the 1552 01:37:00.800 --> 01:37:04.359 second place in that division. Right, Well, then somebody's gonna lose out 1553 01:37:04.359 --> 01:37:06.520 and there's gonna be a really pissed off third team if they have a better 1554 01:37:06.560 --> 01:37:10.640 record. We're gonna be in the same boat we were last year. Yeah, 1555 01:37:10.720 --> 01:37:12.760 Shark serious says maybe they changed it back. I mean, this is 1556 01:37:12.840 --> 01:37:15.199 the press release today, so whenever Beck third, And that's why I did 1557 01:37:15.319 --> 01:37:20.560 not Like there's sometimes like I might like talk about something on a show if 1558 01:37:20.600 --> 01:37:24.560 I've heard something, but I'm not necessarily like putting that out in the ether 1559 01:37:24.760 --> 01:37:27.119 like on Twitter, right, and there's like I saw the back to the 1560 01:37:27.159 --> 01:37:30.279 interview and I saw that, but I wasn't retweeting that, like well because 1561 01:37:30.319 --> 01:37:32.800 this is from that, so that will be the top two and ease that 1562 01:37:32.840 --> 01:37:39.279 way you guarantee yourself an X develo versus usfl Yes, yeah, okay, 1563 01:37:39.439 --> 01:37:42.399 Well, like I said, we might be back to the same controversial point, 1564 01:37:42.439 --> 01:37:45.960 which means, to Beck in his battle Hawks, they better win the 1565 01:37:45.000 --> 01:37:49.399 division or get the top two and not have the same problem happen again. 1566 01:37:49.720 --> 01:37:53.359 You know, if you finish seven if too, you know, if two 1567 01:37:53.399 --> 01:37:57.199 teams finish seven to three as wild card teams behind, you know, the 1568 01:37:57.239 --> 01:38:00.479 Defenders or something like that again, and you're the last of the seven three 1569 01:38:00.560 --> 01:38:03.680 teams, then you know, tough luck you got. You got to make 1570 01:38:03.720 --> 01:38:05.960 sure you beat the teams that you beat. And that's the thing. Like 1571 01:38:06.159 --> 01:38:09.520 I would have said that to the BattleHawks fans last years, like, sorry, 1572 01:38:09.600 --> 01:38:12.760 you lost the wrong games. You lost the wrong game to the to 1573 01:38:12.920 --> 01:38:15.920 the Sea Dragons, you lost the wrong games to the DC Defenders. Sorry, 1574 01:38:15.279 --> 01:38:18.800 like that sucks. But you go one and three against the biggest teams 1575 01:38:18.800 --> 01:38:24.239 in your division and you're in your setup, Like that's just that sucks, 1576 01:38:24.439 --> 01:38:28.039 but like you lost the wrong games. Yeah, so we'll get let's talk 1577 01:38:28.079 --> 01:38:30.279 here, championship, we'll get some comments and we'll get out of here. 1578 01:38:30.279 --> 01:38:31.720 I think I want to keep this under two and then Andy's got to get 1579 01:38:31.760 --> 01:38:36.560 to work and stuff like that. Obviously, tvd UFL Championship. R J. 1580 01:38:36.720 --> 01:38:40.960 Young putting out in his article on Fox, and we've seen that before. 1581 01:38:41.079 --> 01:38:45.399 Remember they have the incorrect Fox numbers for the Michigan Panthers game and then 1582 01:38:45.439 --> 01:38:47.560 they changed that. But at least I checked and I have the screenshot that 1583 01:38:47.680 --> 01:38:51.800 they they He is saying the game is going to be in Saint Louis. 1584 01:38:53.199 --> 01:38:56.119 Let me see if I can pull that up on Can I drag that into 1585 01:38:56.119 --> 01:38:59.279 white browser? Here we go, look at that, Look at this technology. 1586 01:39:00.239 --> 01:39:02.560 The championship game will be in Saint Louis. UFL recognizes how strong streaming 1587 01:39:02.560 --> 01:39:05.279 football has been in Saint Louis, the Battle Hawks and dry whatever, and 1588 01:39:05.319 --> 01:39:08.920 they will be playing there. They were talking about the last two. I 1589 01:39:09.039 --> 01:39:14.000 know Mike reached out to XHL brass. They have not officially announced that yet. 1590 01:39:14.520 --> 01:39:15.520 I don't know if they're happy with RJ. Young or not. At 1591 01:39:15.600 --> 01:39:18.760 least I'm not blocked on Twitter anymore by him. But thoughts on that because 1592 01:39:18.760 --> 01:39:21.119 it makes sense. I know Pat's kind of down on it because he thinks, 1593 01:39:21.159 --> 01:39:27.680 like safety concerns around the dome, but like it makes sense if it 1594 01:39:27.840 --> 01:39:30.720 ends up transpiring that way. Sure, I mean, that's great, awesome 1595 01:39:30.760 --> 01:39:34.319 for them. I hope that the same information is being fed to Arjie, 1596 01:39:34.359 --> 01:39:38.239 that's being fed to the XFL. I don't want to have miscommunication here, 1597 01:39:38.359 --> 01:39:41.560 but that's something that's important to keep in mind here who's being in the loop. 1598 01:39:41.760 --> 01:39:44.920 But if it is indeed in Saint Louis, yes, that's great. 1599 01:39:45.039 --> 01:39:48.720 That's a fantastic place to play a championship game, and we've seen the potential 1600 01:39:48.840 --> 01:39:53.800 for how how fporacious the crowd can be. Obviously, if you're the league, 1601 01:39:53.840 --> 01:39:56.520 you would really love for Saint Louis to be in that game because then, 1602 01:39:56.720 --> 01:40:00.079 oh my god, that is an insane home field advantage. But if 1603 01:40:00.079 --> 01:40:02.399 they're not, then I think you'll still draw decent numbers. You know, 1604 01:40:02.520 --> 01:40:06.039 the Alomodum I think did a decent job of hosting last year the xporld Championship 1605 01:40:06.079 --> 01:40:11.000 game. I had decent numbers. I think Saint Louis could do the same, 1606 01:40:11.079 --> 01:40:15.359 if not better. So I appreciate that that's an idea. It's not 1607 01:40:15.439 --> 01:40:17.640 official yet, But if that's the case, great, And if you're Saint 1608 01:40:17.720 --> 01:40:21.159 Louis fan and that's the case, fantastic. Now you have a real goal 1609 01:40:21.239 --> 01:40:26.840 to reach for and really hope to achieve. A couple of questions here, 1610 01:40:26.960 --> 01:40:30.479 which network while the championship game that's on Fox. We just showed that on 1611 01:40:30.119 --> 01:40:36.920 there, and we'll go back to this I to do in Philip had a 1612 01:40:38.000 --> 01:40:42.479 question why I have a conference championship just take the top four teams because you 1613 01:40:42.640 --> 01:40:45.800 want to have Accio val versus USL in the championship game. Fill up, 1614 01:40:45.920 --> 01:40:48.640 like, keep up, keep up. This is why we're doing this. 1615 01:40:48.800 --> 01:40:51.239 This is what we want because we want to have it in the opening game 1616 01:40:51.279 --> 01:40:56.279 and then we want to crown because then, and I'm sure nobody on any 1617 01:40:56.399 --> 01:41:00.439 Twitter spears will freak out when it's either the exit ho or the USVILL champion. 1618 01:41:00.640 --> 01:41:02.199 I don't care. I think the Stallions are a great team. I 1619 01:41:02.319 --> 01:41:05.760 have my USFBLL twenty twenty two championship t shirt. But that is why we 1620 01:41:05.840 --> 01:41:12.439 are doing that. So that is hope that makes sense. Sure, you 1621 01:41:12.520 --> 01:41:16.079 know, like I said, I hope whoever ends up winning or losing in 1622 01:41:16.119 --> 01:41:19.199 the situation, somebody's going to complain about something like somebody's gonna be on the 1623 01:41:19.239 --> 01:41:23.439 outside looking in. That's just the fact of the matter. It's just there's 1624 01:41:23.479 --> 01:41:28.279 not enough teams involved here that you're gonna be able to diverse find get everyone 1625 01:41:28.319 --> 01:41:30.720 into the dance that you think should be in the dance. But I think 1626 01:41:30.760 --> 01:41:33.000 this is what's going to happen. No, so we again, so we 1627 01:41:33.640 --> 01:41:39.199 we have Andy here and we have Spring Football News, both talking. No, 1628 01:41:39.520 --> 01:41:44.560 this is this is why when coaches go on and do interviews and then 1629 01:41:44.640 --> 01:41:48.399 people take this as this is from their press release. The conference championship will 1630 01:41:48.399 --> 01:41:51.840 put the top two teams or the best records in their conference against each other. 1631 01:41:53.439 --> 01:41:57.039 Andy, it is not the conference top team plus three Walker, this 1632 01:41:57.239 --> 01:42:01.960 is the press release anything you have heard before today. This is from the 1633 01:42:02.119 --> 01:42:05.720 UFL. It is the top two teams in each conference. It's the same 1634 01:42:05.840 --> 01:42:10.560 issue we had before where you could be the best the second best team in 1635 01:42:10.640 --> 01:42:14.720 the division and then you still don't make the playoffs because there's a whatever team 1636 01:42:14.800 --> 01:42:17.520 and the other like this is this is how whatever it's going. I was 1637 01:42:17.640 --> 01:42:21.279 just talking about the Saint Louis home. Yeah, that that illustrious Saint Louis 1638 01:42:21.319 --> 01:42:26.079 hometown, our home field advantage where the Sea Dragons went in and won, 1639 01:42:26.199 --> 01:42:29.800 and then that's why that's why the battle Hawks weren't in the playoffs. So 1640 01:42:29.920 --> 01:42:35.119 yes, that's crazy home field advantage. I again, this is why I 1641 01:42:35.279 --> 01:42:39.960 get a little bit irked at the fact that there's all this kind of like 1642 01:42:41.079 --> 01:42:45.239 lack of being on the same page with both if anybody, all these players, 1643 01:42:45.239 --> 01:42:46.319 all these coaches, and they're just saying, well, this is how 1644 01:42:46.359 --> 01:42:47.960 it is, this is what I heard. It's like, yeah, you 1645 01:42:48.039 --> 01:42:53.640 might have heard that. Now that's probably going to change, and you can 1646 01:42:53.720 --> 01:42:56.880 say it is gospel, but it may not necessarily be the same thing, 1647 01:42:57.600 --> 01:43:00.640 Like it's going to change as we go along and as a transpires, because 1648 01:43:00.640 --> 01:43:03.960 guess what, the executives they make their decisions, the owners, they make 1649 01:43:04.000 --> 01:43:08.640 their decisions. They have all the power here. They could snap their fingers 1650 01:43:08.680 --> 01:43:10.560 and be like, no, actually it's not like that anymore. We're doing 1651 01:43:10.640 --> 01:43:14.720 this because they have all the power. So I appreciate the idea of getting 1652 01:43:14.800 --> 01:43:18.319 some of this information out from people who are at least related to the league, 1653 01:43:18.399 --> 01:43:21.399 but they don't always seem to know what's going on. I mean that 1654 01:43:21.479 --> 01:43:28.680 goes for both sides. I don't think there's always a same page methodology here 1655 01:43:28.760 --> 01:43:31.079 where everybody has the same message or is able to give the same information, 1656 01:43:31.279 --> 01:43:34.479 Like one person says one thing and everybody goes with it like it's gospel. 1657 01:43:34.520 --> 01:43:39.520 And that's clearly not the case. I mean, that's it's just it's the 1658 01:43:39.600 --> 01:43:43.600 fact of the matter because there's all these different varying reports and there's all these 1659 01:43:43.640 --> 01:43:45.520 different ideas. Like you know, June Jones gets on a radio two years 1660 01:43:45.520 --> 01:43:48.279 ago and he's just like, Oh, here's where the league's gonna go is 1661 01:43:48.319 --> 01:43:50.880 what's gonna happen. It's like, June, you're not even like coaching right 1662 01:43:50.880 --> 01:43:54.079 now? What's going on? Like why are you saying this? You know, 1663 01:43:54.239 --> 01:43:56.920 but everyone says, oh, this is June Jones said it. It's 1664 01:43:56.960 --> 01:43:59.920 like, well, yes, but that's not he's not in the league. 1665 01:44:00.199 --> 01:44:02.960 Like as if you're not like one of the top top top percentage of people 1666 01:44:03.039 --> 01:44:08.319 who's actually running the league, all bets are off. I'm just gonna say 1667 01:44:08.359 --> 01:44:11.199 that right now. Like there's there's people we that Mike talks to, there's 1668 01:44:11.199 --> 01:44:14.640 people that you talk to. There's people that like seem to know what's going 1669 01:44:14.680 --> 01:44:16.960 on, but there's not. Again, it's not gospel and information changes. 1670 01:44:17.159 --> 01:44:19.880 That's why you have to be careful about putting it out well. And this 1671 01:44:20.119 --> 01:44:26.600 is why like I you know, like I love branding, but this is 1672 01:44:26.680 --> 01:44:30.239 like why like I don't go crazy like posting videos like the second like someone 1673 01:44:30.359 --> 01:44:33.439 says something in an interview like I have respect and he works really hard and 1674 01:44:33.600 --> 01:44:38.079 like it's it's great and Brandon and I are friends, but like you can't 1675 01:44:38.199 --> 01:44:42.359 like this. Again, this is from the press release today from the league. 1676 01:44:42.560 --> 01:44:45.920 This is what it is now. They can come out later and say, 1677 01:44:45.960 --> 01:44:48.479 well, okay, we're making an update and tiebreaker whatever, like this 1678 01:44:48.680 --> 01:44:53.119 is what we know now. So this is why, uh andy, you're 1679 01:44:53.159 --> 01:44:55.479 still on this. I've shown you the text, like I don't. I 1680 01:44:55.560 --> 01:44:57.920 don't know what else you want me to show you that Like, I don't, 1681 01:44:58.439 --> 01:45:00.720 I'm done talking about this in this because it's getting to be redundant. 1682 01:45:00.760 --> 01:45:03.760 But this is why I operate on this. And this is why when we 1683 01:45:03.920 --> 01:45:08.199 have even all that it's going to be these teams and it's going to be 1684 01:45:08.319 --> 01:45:12.000 the roughnecks in the era they're gamblers. Well what it's the gamblers, but 1685 01:45:12.079 --> 01:45:15.720 it was therect Like this is why we kind of wait until all this stuff 1686 01:45:15.760 --> 01:45:18.760 comes out sometimes to do this. And like first market isn't always necessarily correct 1687 01:45:19.800 --> 01:45:26.479 exactly, and that's why that information is sown. It's it's fluid, it's 1688 01:45:26.520 --> 01:45:30.600 not really set in stone all the time. Again, this is a press 1689 01:45:30.720 --> 01:45:33.840 release that just came out today. There wasn't really a solidified indication that this 1690 01:45:34.039 --> 01:45:38.479 was going to be the playoff forma going forward because of what we had heard 1691 01:45:39.000 --> 01:45:44.399 from other people, but it wasn't sett in stone clearly. So I don't 1692 01:45:44.439 --> 01:45:48.000 know. Like, I know, you want to take things as gospel again. 1693 01:45:48.039 --> 01:45:51.399 You want to be able to just go with what somebody's saying and be 1694 01:45:51.520 --> 01:45:55.399 like, Okay, this is how it's going to be. But in this 1695 01:45:55.479 --> 01:45:58.279 space, that clearly is not the case. Like there's very few people who 1696 01:45:58.359 --> 01:46:00.279 actually have information or inside sources on this, and this is why we wait. 1697 01:46:00.600 --> 01:46:02.640 You know, this is the same thing like for me, I know 1698 01:46:02.760 --> 01:46:05.079 we haven't gotten to this level yet, but this is why in the NFL, 1699 01:46:05.720 --> 01:46:09.640 I wait for information to come out. People can say rumors or this 1700 01:46:09.920 --> 01:46:15.920 or this or this until I see schefter, rapaport, pla sorrow. When 1701 01:46:15.960 --> 01:46:17.159 they start all tweeting at the same time the same thing, then I'm like, 1702 01:46:17.279 --> 01:46:20.640 Okay, that's now we're in motion, like this is really gonna happen. 1703 01:46:21.079 --> 01:46:24.680 Before that, I take everything with a grain of salt, and that's 1704 01:46:24.680 --> 01:46:27.640 how I have to take things here. Sometimes yeah, I get there. 1705 01:46:27.720 --> 01:46:30.239 If you have any other questions, pop them in here. I have a 1706 01:46:30.319 --> 01:46:31.680 couple and then we'll get out of here because Andy's got work and other things 1707 01:46:31.760 --> 01:46:36.560 going on. I did like this comment. I hear it's a rock still 1708 01:46:36.600 --> 01:46:41.439 any ending to open and day heard these two busies dealing Cody Road China wrestlerman 1709 01:46:41.600 --> 01:46:44.840 have for you, So I do I do like that. But you know, 1710 01:46:45.279 --> 01:46:46.399 in an ideal world, like I said, you have the Rock on 1711 01:46:46.479 --> 01:46:50.319 wrestling on I guess he'd be on SmackDown every week on Fox promoting and the 1712 01:46:50.359 --> 01:46:54.800 Fox and the synergy in the US felt like that's a good situation. He 1713 01:46:55.000 --> 01:46:59.239 just it's a really bad Andy. It's really people are really bad like for 1714 01:46:59.359 --> 01:47:02.079 this. I know you don't care, like people are a big, big, 1715 01:47:02.239 --> 01:47:05.039 big mad about this. No, I'm not saying people don't care. 1716 01:47:05.159 --> 01:47:09.960 I do think people care. I just wonder if that's the audience they're going 1717 01:47:10.000 --> 01:47:13.920 for, if if they're trying to appease to the wrestlers and look yeah again. 1718 01:47:14.119 --> 01:47:17.319 Ox had a couple of duds, some movies, some of his some 1719 01:47:17.479 --> 01:47:23.439 of his alternative ventures in recent years having gone the same way, but still 1720 01:47:23.439 --> 01:47:26.199 a brand, still an identity, still has a lot of cachet, so 1721 01:47:26.479 --> 01:47:30.119 I don't know if it's necessarily going to be severely affected to the way that 1722 01:47:30.199 --> 01:47:34.000 people think it is. But I mean, I'm sure some people would disagree 1723 01:47:34.039 --> 01:47:36.319 with me and say they're being up in arms and be like, yeah, 1724 01:47:36.399 --> 01:47:41.199 no, he's losing he's losing his cachet, and it's like, okay, 1725 01:47:41.439 --> 01:47:45.199 fine, But I just don't think from a casual standpoint, it really makes 1726 01:47:45.279 --> 01:47:46.920 that much of an impact. Yeah, Jared here says, I think it's 1727 01:47:46.960 --> 01:47:50.119 a solid schedule Saturday sending only decent start times, getting out it works. 1728 01:47:50.159 --> 01:47:54.560 Now, I just need the champion games. We called the United Ball bring 1729 01:47:54.720 --> 01:47:59.000 back the Mega Bull that was my favorite. Shark Here said, do you 1730 01:47:59.039 --> 01:48:02.760 think this is fring football last? Oh? Yes, we needed it, 1731 01:48:02.840 --> 01:48:04.920 yes, yes, yes, yes, yes we needed a home right. 1732 01:48:05.000 --> 01:48:08.800 Yes, sorry and thank you? And you need to fall his last nance 1733 01:48:08.840 --> 01:48:12.640 workcase. This is final opportunity. Yes, this is for at least the 1734 01:48:12.720 --> 01:48:15.039 time being. This is the last chance for all of this. Any thoughts 1735 01:48:15.079 --> 01:48:18.279 on that end, You know, I thought about this question actually about a 1736 01:48:18.359 --> 01:48:23.279 week or two ago, and to be honest, from the standpoint of it 1737 01:48:23.439 --> 01:48:29.800 being a entertainment and profitable venture, yes, now for now, I don't 1738 01:48:29.840 --> 01:48:32.960 say last chance. Ever, and here's why. Again, there's so much 1739 01:48:32.960 --> 01:48:36.159 football that's played in this country, and there's so much potential to bring in 1740 01:48:36.239 --> 01:48:40.319 these market numbers. I mean, the numbers just keep continuing to go up 1741 01:48:40.359 --> 01:48:43.560 and up and up and up and up. I mean you just set conference 1742 01:48:44.079 --> 01:48:48.760 a conference championship game record and the divisional playoff rating record in the NFL. 1743 01:48:49.359 --> 01:48:51.039 Now. I know a lot of that has to do with Taylor Swift, 1744 01:48:51.119 --> 01:48:57.920 but like it shows you that market growth is potential, it's there. I 1745 01:48:58.000 --> 01:49:00.920 think people are still going to look at these numbers and be mesmerized by them 1746 01:49:00.960 --> 01:49:03.000 and say, hey, I have a way to get it that nobody else 1747 01:49:03.119 --> 01:49:08.119 understands, and I'll do it differently than all those other leagues do. Everyone's 1748 01:49:08.159 --> 01:49:11.079 gonna go through that same mistake. I think what will happen is if this 1749 01:49:11.239 --> 01:49:14.920 doesn't work, you're still gonna have people who are going to start leaks. 1750 01:49:15.119 --> 01:49:16.720 That's never gonna stop. People are still gonna start leagues and say, hey, 1751 01:49:16.760 --> 01:49:18.800 I want to have a developmental league. I want to be able to 1752 01:49:19.000 --> 01:49:21.760 give these players a chance. I think we should put something on TV. 1753 01:49:23.279 --> 01:49:26.840 I think what would happen ultimately is I think you would see something more like 1754 01:49:26.880 --> 01:49:30.399 the Spring League. I think the Fox Channel or somebody would just say, 1755 01:49:30.439 --> 01:49:31.520 hey, you know what, We're gonna have a developmental league and just run 1756 01:49:31.600 --> 01:49:35.920 it for really cheap and just have players get taped, not really pay anybody, 1757 01:49:36.359 --> 01:49:40.880 and that'll be the end of the day. And I think that's ultimately 1758 01:49:41.000 --> 01:49:44.520 what could happen if this doesn't work out. Now. Again, I don't 1759 01:49:44.520 --> 01:49:46.399 know if that's gonna stop anybody from wanting to go big or go home, 1760 01:49:46.840 --> 01:49:49.960 like we've seen with some of these leagues. But again, they're trying to 1761 01:49:50.000 --> 01:49:53.640 thread the needle right now. I don't know if that's gonna work, but 1762 01:49:54.039 --> 01:49:58.640 I think that somebody somewhere is still going to get the bright idea that they 1763 01:49:58.680 --> 01:50:00.760 can start a league everyone wants because they all see that market share. When 1764 01:50:00.760 --> 01:50:03.319 there's that big of a piece of the pie, everybody thinks that they can 1765 01:50:03.359 --> 01:50:05.920 get in on the game. And I don't think it's ever going to stop 1766 01:50:06.319 --> 01:50:11.960 where somebody is going to completely eradicate the idea of spring football. It's going 1767 01:50:12.039 --> 01:50:14.840 to continue because it's the biggest four in this country and it's a lot of 1768 01:50:14.880 --> 01:50:18.479 people who are involved in it that's huge. That's unless the market starts to 1769 01:50:18.520 --> 01:50:21.079 decline, you're still going to get people who are going to try it. 1770 01:50:21.199 --> 01:50:25.359 I don't know if they're going to try it on this scale again for quite 1771 01:50:25.399 --> 01:50:29.720 some time unless someone has a new revolutionary idea of how to present it and 1772 01:50:30.039 --> 01:50:32.880 immediately get people hooked in. But I do think something more akin to like 1773 01:50:32.960 --> 01:50:36.439 I said, the Spring League would be around. I think that would still 1774 01:50:36.479 --> 01:50:41.159 be a concept, a proof of concept that would still be around in some 1775 01:50:41.359 --> 01:50:44.600 format. So no, I don't think spring football is going to die, 1776 01:50:45.159 --> 01:50:48.239 but I do think the idea of presenting a full fledged league as an entertainment 1777 01:50:48.279 --> 01:50:54.399 product probably would take a back seat for a while. If this doesn't work 1778 01:50:54.439 --> 01:50:57.880 out. Again to blast you some comments and then I want to do Andy's 1779 01:50:58.000 --> 01:51:00.720 home rank home field rankings before we get out. David, this is our 1780 01:51:00.800 --> 01:51:04.960 last best hope. Fill up here. This league will work, Gary, 1781 01:51:05.119 --> 01:51:08.199 our big friend. This is it for me a time miss and on my 1782 01:51:08.279 --> 01:51:12.279 side, Kerry, don't say that, David. Until Brian Woods draws his 1783 01:51:12.439 --> 01:51:15.079 last breath, the will always be the full starts. But this is the 1784 01:51:15.159 --> 01:51:17.840 last fance of all that. If this fails, it will never be on 1785 01:51:17.920 --> 01:51:24.439 networks again ever like that, and then whereas it oh, David's asking the 1786 01:51:24.520 --> 01:51:27.079 rule buck where we were supposed to get rules, So maybe we'll get them 1787 01:51:27.159 --> 01:51:30.000 later this week. We'll figure that out. I thought I had one more 1788 01:51:30.119 --> 01:51:33.039 funny comment, but I do want to d championship game at cashmin Field, 1789 01:51:33.119 --> 01:51:39.399 so that would have been all XFL for one hundred years. All right, 1790 01:51:39.479 --> 01:51:42.279 Andy, let's get to any other comments you have. Leave, but I 1791 01:51:42.319 --> 01:51:45.359 want to get to Andy's this is funny. The Professor's home field, the 1792 01:51:45.439 --> 01:51:48.439 damage power rankings. Now that we have the eight teams here, Andy, 1793 01:51:48.479 --> 01:51:51.840 I'll give you the floor. Okay. So I thought about this going into 1794 01:51:51.920 --> 01:51:57.000 the scheduling matchup, and I know I'm probably gonna get a lot of feedback 1795 01:51:57.079 --> 01:52:00.399 and criticism on this, but this is how I feel about our home field 1796 01:52:00.399 --> 01:52:03.880 advantage rankings right now. So one, Saint Louis Baalahawks obviously biggest numbers, 1797 01:52:04.199 --> 01:52:11.479 latist arena, craziest fans in some capacity. They have the clear number one 1798 01:52:11.560 --> 01:52:14.479 spot, and they are going to be able to continue to build on those 1799 01:52:14.560 --> 01:52:16.439 numbers. I wonder if the four hundred level, if they're going to span 1800 01:52:16.520 --> 01:52:18.840 out and start to put more sections in there, if they're gonna let even 1801 01:52:18.880 --> 01:52:21.920 more people into the battle Dome. I mean the biggest number we've seen so 1802 01:52:23.000 --> 01:52:25.600 far is about thirty eight thousand. Are they you'll be able to expand that 1803 01:52:25.680 --> 01:52:29.039 even further remains to be seen, but that would be fantastic if they were 1804 01:52:29.039 --> 01:52:31.479 able to do that. So yes, that is the clear number one marker 1805 01:52:31.560 --> 01:52:35.960 on this DC defenders number two. Look, we know about the beer snake, 1806 01:52:36.000 --> 01:52:39.680 we know about the lemon tossing. Those people are crazy. They've never 1807 01:52:39.840 --> 01:52:44.159 lost at home. Ever, that homefield advantage is real because they truly have 1808 01:52:44.279 --> 01:52:47.039 shown that they can hold It. Doesn't matter if it's the twenty twenty version 1809 01:52:47.079 --> 01:52:51.239 of the twenty twenty three version. They just are able to dismantle teams when 1810 01:52:51.239 --> 01:52:56.560 they come into DC and Audifield's great, fantastic atmosphere, great fan experience. 1811 01:52:56.600 --> 01:52:59.840 I've talked to DC fans. They love it. And I think now that 1812 01:53:00.039 --> 01:53:02.079 they were playing more in the spring season and won't have to be worried about 1813 01:53:02.119 --> 01:53:05.920 inclement weather as much. So I think that's fantastic for them. Really great 1814 01:53:06.000 --> 01:53:11.880 thing here for DC Birmingham. So again, I want to see this market 1815 01:53:12.000 --> 01:53:15.359 really start to push push forward and really put more fans into the into the 1816 01:53:15.439 --> 01:53:19.479 stands. They've won a Ton at home. Obviously, they not really lost 1817 01:53:19.600 --> 01:53:23.880 much. I believe maybe one or two games at the double check, but 1818 01:53:23.960 --> 01:53:27.239 they haven't really lost much at home in their two years there. Obviously, 1819 01:53:27.279 --> 01:53:30.840 they have to championships in the USFL, so they've shown to be pretty proficient 1820 01:53:30.880 --> 01:53:34.479 at home. And I just want to see more of the fans show up 1821 01:53:34.520 --> 01:53:36.920 and really show that support, because again I see the online support. I 1822 01:53:38.039 --> 01:53:42.119 just want to see more people in the stands and really give it that flavor. 1823 01:53:42.199 --> 01:53:45.600 But Birmingham has been, you know, pretty good for their iteration their 1824 01:53:45.640 --> 01:53:50.640 two year stint. The Bramas. I put them here because I still believe 1825 01:53:50.680 --> 01:53:54.439 in the San Antonio market. We saw it with the Commanders back in the 1826 01:53:54.520 --> 01:53:57.479 AF. I mean they were able to really put in some serious numbers there 1827 01:53:57.760 --> 01:54:00.640 the Bramas fans. Hopefully the schedule work out a little better for them, 1828 01:54:00.680 --> 01:54:03.560 maybe they get the San Antonio market involved. I really like the idea of 1829 01:54:03.760 --> 01:54:08.199 San Antonio. Maybe they can have a chance to jump with Stallions if they're 1830 01:54:08.239 --> 01:54:12.199 able to put more support behind them. But I like San Antonio is in 1831 01:54:12.279 --> 01:54:15.439 market. I like the Alamodome. I think you can create a distinct advantage 1832 01:54:15.479 --> 01:54:20.239 there. The Panthers again Let's see where that enthusiasm goes for Michigan football. 1833 01:54:20.319 --> 01:54:24.560 Let's see if you can really carry over all the Detroit fans, all the 1834 01:54:24.640 --> 01:54:27.479 Lions fans. Can you put some more of those people in the stadium and 1835 01:54:27.600 --> 01:54:30.079 really start to reinvigorate that market. If you're able to do that, great, 1836 01:54:30.159 --> 01:54:33.840 then you can utilize port fields. Fordfield is so loud during the playoffs. 1837 01:54:33.920 --> 01:54:36.760 That was such a great atmosphere. I hope they're able to get more 1838 01:54:36.800 --> 01:54:41.279 people involved and be able to kind of revitalize it and bring it back into 1839 01:54:41.680 --> 01:54:44.880 fruition. So the Panthers again, like the Brahmas, I think I have 1840 01:54:44.960 --> 01:54:48.039 a chance to really jump up here in the rankings. Memphis again, I 1841 01:54:48.239 --> 01:54:50.479 like the Memphis market. I think they did a good job in their first 1842 01:54:50.560 --> 01:54:54.239 year. I don't want to see them just sitting on one side of the 1843 01:54:54.279 --> 01:54:56.840 stadium. I would like to see, you know, start spread out a 1844 01:54:56.840 --> 01:55:00.199 little bit. But I think Memphis and Tennessee in general having a team I 1845 01:55:00.239 --> 01:55:04.239 think is good. It's really close between them, the Panthers, and maybe 1846 01:55:04.239 --> 01:55:08.000 even the Brahmas. I think there's some leeway for them all to kind of 1847 01:55:08.000 --> 01:55:12.920 work on themselves. The renegades, we've been to that stadium. It's a 1848 01:55:12.960 --> 01:55:15.119 baseball stadium and it's kind of retrofitted. I'm not crazy about the setup. 1849 01:55:15.279 --> 01:55:18.840 I think it's still funny that you can still see the Texas Rangers logos on 1850 01:55:18.920 --> 01:55:24.199 the trash cans when you walk through the lower area. It's kind of funny. 1851 01:55:24.479 --> 01:55:27.600 But like as a stadium for football, I don't know if it's really 1852 01:55:27.680 --> 01:55:30.279 my favorite, and I don't really feel like they have an advantage. Arlington's 1853 01:55:30.319 --> 01:55:33.479 kind of whichever team plays in there. It feels a little bit neutral, 1854 01:55:33.520 --> 01:55:35.520 so I'm not huge on that. I mean, yes, I get they're 1855 01:55:35.520 --> 01:55:41.560 defending champions, but Arlington itself is fine as a venue, but I kind 1856 01:55:41.560 --> 01:55:44.079 of want I want to be more done with it. I kind of wish 1857 01:55:44.079 --> 01:55:45.960 they played a different area in a different stadium, to be honest. And 1858 01:55:46.000 --> 01:55:48.960 then finally, the Roughnecks, and the reason I have them here is because 1859 01:55:49.000 --> 01:55:53.840 they're moving to a different stadium that seems different. The coaches are different, 1860 01:55:53.880 --> 01:55:57.880 the players are different. Is that crowd that was at Houston in the University 1861 01:55:57.920 --> 01:56:00.800 of Houston? Are they going to be able to transfer over to Rice Stadium? 1862 01:56:00.000 --> 01:56:04.600 This is the biggest question mark. Hopefully it's better than we expect, 1863 01:56:04.680 --> 01:56:08.680 but I just don't know what to expect right now because we haven't seen the 1864 01:56:08.720 --> 01:56:11.760 proof of concept. So that's why I put them right there at eight. 1865 01:56:11.840 --> 01:56:15.159 But they have a chance to jump the Renegades, of course, and this 1866 01:56:15.279 --> 01:56:18.479 is kind of where I'm at right now. But I think overall the reason 1867 01:56:18.560 --> 01:56:23.760 I make these rankings is because I think this is still showing that there are 1868 01:56:23.840 --> 01:56:27.199 still good markets here, and I think these are really good proofs of concept 1869 01:56:27.399 --> 01:56:30.760 as to some of the strongest markets that you had from the XPL and some 1870 01:56:30.880 --> 01:56:32.720 of the strongest that you had from USFL. Obviously, the team's actually played 1871 01:56:32.920 --> 01:56:36.640 in their home markets, so for me, it's still good. Overall, 1872 01:56:36.680 --> 01:56:41.319 it's a strong list. I just I hope that the work is being done 1873 01:56:41.399 --> 01:56:45.159 to really make some of these teams stand out more than they have in the 1874 01:56:45.239 --> 01:56:47.439 past, and even the teams that are at the top, like the Defenders 1875 01:56:47.479 --> 01:56:49.880 in the Milehawks, I still think you can even do it more to really 1876 01:56:49.920 --> 01:56:55.840 get people involved. So that's where I stand with my power rankings. You 1877 01:56:55.920 --> 01:56:59.960 know, I was looking at this, I got the markets. I don't 1878 01:57:00.039 --> 01:57:02.399 don't disagree with this list. I was looking at this. I think battle 1879 01:57:02.439 --> 01:57:08.439 high again, but this this this elusive home field advantage and then losing, 1880 01:57:08.760 --> 01:57:11.199 losing to them, I keep put my hands up and then my camera wants 1881 01:57:11.239 --> 01:57:15.520 to like track my hands. Defenders there. I might put defenders above because 1882 01:57:15.520 --> 01:57:18.039 I would sell. Let me disagree with that. Defenders. Like you said, 1883 01:57:18.119 --> 01:57:23.079 undefeated Batlllehawks lost the pivotal like win and get into the playoffs game with 1884 01:57:23.399 --> 01:57:25.479 the Big. Now. I know they have the show, but I would 1885 01:57:25.520 --> 01:57:29.800 put that. I would put Defenders over Ballahawks and then the BattleHawks Stallions. 1886 01:57:29.800 --> 01:57:31.680 I think you have to put you can't have a top three without the USFL 1887 01:57:31.760 --> 01:57:36.079 team in there. Panthers were kind of mixed smash. I would put them 1888 01:57:36.119 --> 01:57:39.680 below the Brahmas, and then you have the Huge. The Roughnecks are kind 1889 01:57:39.720 --> 01:57:42.960 of a question mark at this point. Renegades. I think their fan base 1890 01:57:43.039 --> 01:57:45.560 is really good, and when we were at the kickoff game, you have 1891 01:57:45.720 --> 01:57:48.039 a lot of them. But like you said, yeah, it's still in 1892 01:57:48.159 --> 01:57:51.520 the stadium. It's kind of the leftover remnants of you know, the Rangers 1893 01:57:51.560 --> 01:57:55.720 game. It's field is next door now, and it's a weird. It 1894 01:57:55.880 --> 01:58:00.600 works, it's funky, but it doesn't it's not perfect. Yeah, it's 1895 01:58:00.760 --> 01:58:02.479 it's a bit of a weird setup. And again, I would rather they 1896 01:58:02.520 --> 01:58:05.439 play in an MLS stadium. I think that's what everybody wants, but that 1897 01:58:05.680 --> 01:58:10.079 seems to be a pipe dream. I think everybody's concept of wanting to play 1898 01:58:10.119 --> 01:58:14.399 in an MLS stadium isn't necessarily there, so it's not really going to happen 1899 01:58:14.479 --> 01:58:19.119 for the foreseeable future. And look again, the Panthers. The thing that 1900 01:58:19.239 --> 01:58:21.119 I just like I said, I want to know. I want to know 1901 01:58:21.159 --> 01:58:25.319 the numbers. I want to know the attendance numbers for the for the Panthers 1902 01:58:25.399 --> 01:58:30.119 and for the show boats and for the stallions. But we've seen we've seen 1903 01:58:30.880 --> 01:58:33.560 what three of these in person, No, you've seen four of them in 1904 01:58:33.600 --> 01:58:35.479 person. Sorry, you've been the out of fields, so you know what 1905 01:58:35.560 --> 01:58:41.199 that's like. So it's we have a good concept of what these stadiums are 1906 01:58:41.319 --> 01:58:43.920 like. Hopefully I get out to more of them and I get to really 1907 01:58:43.960 --> 01:58:47.119 see them. But again there's I think the margin is the difference between a 1908 01:58:47.159 --> 01:58:50.479 lot of these is actually pretty thin. That's what I'm saying. The Defenders 1909 01:58:50.520 --> 01:58:55.199 one, like, yeah, I would put them number one. It's just 1910 01:58:55.399 --> 01:58:58.159 it's the sheer numbers. It's like the pure numbers of the Ballahawks. But 1911 01:58:58.199 --> 01:59:01.520 you're right. The defenders have defended their terror. They literally showcased home field 1912 01:59:01.520 --> 01:59:06.960 advantage and have It's never been proven wrong, So I understand why you put 1913 01:59:08.000 --> 01:59:11.880 them at number one football fan here. I love Irelandon. Hopefully they don't 1914 01:59:11.920 --> 01:59:15.039 section off those front seats like they did. I think they have to for 1915 01:59:15.159 --> 01:59:16.800 the site lines. I think because it's baseball, but they need to put 1916 01:59:16.840 --> 01:59:20.399 a tarp there. We need to get We need to call up the USFL 1917 01:59:20.479 --> 01:59:24.920 tarpie manufacturer and say, hey, can we get some of these for the 1918 01:59:24.960 --> 01:59:28.199 Renegades becausey yeah, it's a bad look because it just looks like no one's 1919 01:59:28.199 --> 01:59:30.000 sitting there where you had tarps going there. You're like, oh, okay, 1920 01:59:30.079 --> 01:59:32.439 well then it was like when they did COVID. It was like during 1921 01:59:32.520 --> 01:59:38.520 COVID and they would have they would have like you wouldn't have people that close 1922 01:59:38.520 --> 01:59:41.039 to the field and you would have they had some tarps in some of those 1923 01:59:41.079 --> 01:59:44.840 places. So I think they should do that, right, I'm just looking 1924 01:59:44.880 --> 01:59:47.239 here, anyone else have anything? Rice Stadium is a rundown down. People 1925 01:59:47.239 --> 01:59:49.960 will not want to go to games there isn't that where the Spring League Wasn't 1926 01:59:49.960 --> 01:59:55.560 that their spring league right where all that was. Grayy. San Antonio is 1927 01:59:55.600 --> 02:00:00.159 a wonderful place for football. Abdul Memphis is renovating their STADIU. I think 1928 02:00:00.199 --> 02:00:01.560 the one title would be like that for the next year and maybe the year 1929 02:00:01.600 --> 02:00:06.000 after that. Anything else, andy, we're at two hours. Anything else, 1930 02:00:06.039 --> 02:00:10.439 we'll get out of here. Like I said, I'm I'm just glad 1931 02:00:10.439 --> 02:00:15.199 the scheduled out finally, so we'll see where this goes. But just a 1932 02:00:15.439 --> 02:00:18.359 note for everybody, be careful about where this information comes from and who's putting 1933 02:00:18.359 --> 02:00:23.760 it out there, because it's it's nice that we have people like coaches talking 1934 02:00:23.840 --> 02:00:26.199 the space, players talking in the space, but you know, it's not 1935 02:00:26.319 --> 02:00:30.279 always it's not always what's actually happening in the space. Just keep that in 1936 02:00:30.359 --> 02:00:32.680 mind going forward. A lot of things are going to continue changing over the 1937 02:00:32.720 --> 02:00:35.279 next two months. You know, same thing with players, player performances, 1938 02:00:35.680 --> 02:00:39.239 players that are in training camp, players that are actually on the rosters. 1939 02:00:39.680 --> 02:00:42.479 That's all fluid and it's all going to change. So just keep that in 1940 02:00:42.520 --> 02:00:45.159 mind going forward. But I'm really excited about, you know, us getting 1941 02:00:45.159 --> 02:00:48.319 the training camp and finally starting to kind of ramp up. I think everybody 1942 02:00:48.399 --> 02:00:50.880 will really start to get into it once the super Bowl's over and once that 1943 02:00:50.920 --> 02:00:56.359 whole thing is finally transpired this Sunday, then we'll really be able to get 1944 02:00:56.399 --> 02:01:00.520 in and focus on this. Yeah, I appreciate everyone. Like I said, 1945 02:01:00.920 --> 02:01:01.800 David says, thank you for the great SHI appreciate that. You know, 1946 02:01:01.880 --> 02:01:05.840 again, like my frustrating and we're too late now in the show. 1947 02:01:06.439 --> 02:01:10.840 Maybe I made my frustrations at the top, but like it just kills me 1948 02:01:11.039 --> 02:01:15.560 where like I want this to succeed and I want them to. I want 1949 02:01:15.720 --> 02:01:17.239 this to do as well as it can and we can all do well in 1950 02:01:17.359 --> 02:01:20.479 the space if the league does well, and the more people and sports illustrated 1951 02:01:20.520 --> 02:01:25.000 it's and all the people like covering this. But like when Andy and I 1952 02:01:25.119 --> 02:01:27.279 were talking yesterday and we were trying to figure out, like hey, like 1953 02:01:27.479 --> 02:01:30.960 what time are we going live? And I'm like whatever, it like makes 1954 02:01:30.000 --> 02:01:33.199 the least amount of sense for them to kind of put all this information out 1955 02:01:33.399 --> 02:01:36.600 is probably what they're gonna do. And that's what it was, and we 1956 02:01:36.720 --> 02:01:40.199 made the best of it. We still have almost one hundred people watching here 1957 02:01:40.279 --> 02:01:43.279 two hours in, so I appreciate that. I assume everyone here is subscribe. 1958 02:01:43.720 --> 02:01:45.960 If you're not. Like I said, think about being a channel member 1959 02:01:45.079 --> 02:01:47.680 buck a month. It looks good in the analytics. I get the track 1960 02:01:47.800 --> 02:01:51.640 like who's a new member here, and you get like fancy things when we 1961 02:01:51.720 --> 02:01:56.000 put your comments and stuff up. Super appreciate. Andy is always taken a 1962 02:01:56.039 --> 02:01:59.399 lot of time today for all of this. If we get rules this week, 1963 02:01:59.720 --> 02:02:01.039 maybe we'll do something. But again, I think we're still kind of 1964 02:02:01.079 --> 02:02:03.600 out of the pre record and all of that stuff. I know, like 1965 02:02:03.680 --> 02:02:06.760 I said, Hussy and Evan and I will do a sea about free agency 1966 02:02:06.840 --> 02:02:10.920 show I think next week after the super Bowl, but there's going to be 1967 02:02:10.960 --> 02:02:13.159 a lot of super Bowl noise here leading up, so I don't know if 1968 02:02:13.199 --> 02:02:15.279 we get anything else this week, and anything else from you not for me 1969 02:02:15.319 --> 02:02:18.000 to read. Thank you has always always loved to be on here, A 1970 02:02:18.079 --> 02:02:21.399 lot of fun. We didn't realize it's really been around since New Years, 1971 02:02:21.399 --> 02:02:25.720 since last time we did a stream, so I kind of forget how how 1972 02:02:25.800 --> 02:02:29.439 much time passes. But thank you again for having me on. And we'll 1973 02:02:29.439 --> 02:02:31.279 see what happens. Yeah, I know people hate the live shows, but 1974 02:02:31.399 --> 02:02:33.800 this is a lot more fun, get a lot more interaction that way, 1975 02:02:33.880 --> 02:02:38.640 so we'll see. But you know, if you it's either like live show 1976 02:02:38.920 --> 02:02:42.439 or nothing. Sometimes I would do the live show, so I we'll see 1977 02:02:42.479 --> 02:02:45.880 you guys next time. I take care and don't get into any arguments on 1978 02:02:45.960 --> 02:02:48.199 Twitter about all this stuff. Just remember both of these leagues view you as 1979 02:02:48.399 --> 02:03:02.520 just an audience member and it's not worth getting in fights about. Thanks guys, thirty Times