Speaker 1: No, it wasn't. Hang on, it wasn't going on. Hang on.
Speaker 1: Oh we're on. I think we're on YouTube. All right,
Speaker 1: let's bring in John, John, we're on. I was trying
Speaker 1: to get it going live on YouTube. I had a
Speaker 1: whole thing here. Let me there, all right, we're live
Speaker 1: on Twitter. Let me play the engine. Well, there we go, John,
Speaker 1: we're here. Sorry, I get on here a stream yard.
Speaker 1: It's been the holidays, they've moved everything around. It wasn't
Speaker 1: going on Twitter. I think we're good now. Welcome everybody.
Speaker 1: Apologize for that. That's why you know it's always hot microphone. John,
Speaker 1: You never wanted to say anything but welcome. We are here.
Speaker 1: We finally have the UFL twenty twenty five schedule January second.
Speaker 1: This was exciting had it you know, they teased it out.
Speaker 1: That was nice. I appreciate at that because you know,
Speaker 1: in the years past, now, John, I did get up
Speaker 1: at five am today Pacific time, just in case because
Speaker 1: we never know right and now, but hey, maybe the
Speaker 1: UFL is learning now we have new media people in charge.
Speaker 1: Maybe they've decided aight am Easter and you know, a
Speaker 1: day after the holiday isn't the best time to do it,
Speaker 1: so here we go. It was like eleven Easter or
Speaker 1: eleven am Pacific. Today we got everything out. We'll go
Speaker 1: through all that today. Welcome everyone, Please like and subscribe.
Speaker 1: Coming off our CFL coverage, this is the Marcust. John
Speaker 1: Lewis has his own YouTube channel. John Lewis Sports a
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Speaker 1: some members. But getting ready for the UFL season. Here
Speaker 1: will go week by week everything through here, give you
Speaker 1: all the facts and figures, all that stuff. John, How
Speaker 1: the heck are you? Last time we talked, we were
Speaker 1: potentially expanding in the UFL, but now we you know,
Speaker 1: I think we already have some hot takes on the schedule,
Speaker 1: so that should be good. But how are you doing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm doing good.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Holidays great and uh yeah it's you can tell us
Speaker 2: like post holidays because my microphone's all buzzy. I thought
Speaker 2: I had a great setup going here. I hope everyone
Speaker 2: can hear me, but uh, you know, it's going great.
Speaker 2: It was exciting, you know, we we kept hearing we
Speaker 2: got all these releases that said the uh, the schedule is.
Speaker 1: In the coming weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the coming weeks, well, the coming weeks, I think
Speaker 2: from October to now. That's been a few weeks. But
Speaker 2: it is exciting to have this now and I thought,
Speaker 2: this what a good time. I was really hoping it
Speaker 2: would happen New Year's Eve kind of since that's when
Speaker 2: I think the UFL, you know, dropped all that that
Speaker 2: we news we already knew but last year. But it's cool.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm looking forward to talking about this schedule. There's
Speaker 2: some there's some quirks in there that we can talk
Speaker 2: about and some surprises.
Speaker 1: I thought, yeah, so leave your gripes in here, because
Speaker 1: this is you know, if you're new to the channel,
Speaker 1: we tend to get a little bit gripier on here.
Speaker 1: I already see Marcus is complaining about Mother's Day kickoff.
Speaker 1: We have a complain about, you know, the battle Hawks
Speaker 1: playing too early. So leave your gripes and comments in here.
Speaker 1: We'll get to all that, some interesting stuff with the
Speaker 1: press release. We'll get through all of that and then yeah,
Speaker 1: any questions comments. I just saw Keem Butler is signing back.
Speaker 1: I just got tagged in that from MLF football on here.
Speaker 1: Can I share that? Am I able to share that
Speaker 1: and said, you know, that's exciting here, so all sorts
Speaker 1: of breaking news. He's re signing with the BattleHawks. We
Speaker 1: have new quarterbacks. So if we want to do in
Speaker 1: the actual football stub, will do it at the end.
Speaker 1: But this will get you ready for the UFL season,
Speaker 1: which is kicking off of March twenty eighth, right, which
Speaker 1: is a Friday, and then is concluding on is included
Speaker 1: on June fourteenth, So that should be excited. Yet March
Speaker 1: twenty eighth Friday, we'll get through all that and then
Speaker 1: going all the way through June fourteenth through twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: I obviously we knew the kickoff date before. We are
Speaker 1: learning more about the home, the network that we'll be
Speaker 1: hosting the championship game, and all of that stuff. So
Speaker 1: let's get into it here, John, earlier than last year, right,
Speaker 1: we got the UFL schedule. I think it was into
Speaker 1: February last year before we how all that? Do you
Speaker 1: feel good here? We've gotten through the holidays. I like
Speaker 1: them giving a couple of day heads up to try
Speaker 1: to kind of do this as opposed to dropping around
Speaker 1: in Pressley's how do you feel just about the roll out?
Speaker 1: Of this and then we'll get into the specifics.
Speaker 2: I would love to give the right person credit because
Speaker 2: I read something earlier and I sold the comment later.
Speaker 2: It's like, I love spring football because spring football as
Speaker 2: always in UFL, and all of them says, we're gonna
Speaker 2: we're announcing that we're gonna have an announcement. But I
Speaker 2: do they built something. They built something to this, and
Speaker 2: you know, we can't complain because how many times have
Speaker 2: we said, like they're not telling us anything or we
Speaker 2: don't know. But they really kind of teas this out.
Speaker 2: It didn't come to fruition like we thought it would.
Speaker 2: You know, Mike Mitchell had said it was. It was
Speaker 2: a fluid situation. It was kind of a fluid plan
Speaker 2: that they would do like one one day in one
Speaker 2: the other. It didn't happen. But I thought this was fine,
Speaker 2: and I thought, you know too, it afternoon Eastern time,
Speaker 2: eleven Pacific. I thought I thought it was fine, and
Speaker 2: I did like there was some hype and and if
Speaker 2: you noticed on a lot of those social media posts,
Speaker 2: I thought it had some good reaction, it got some engagement.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so let's get into it here. One thing to
Speaker 1: keep in mind that we already have a question here.
Speaker 1: Why wait so long to release the schedule? You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of moving pieces here, and we've already
Speaker 1: had questions about schedule availability for the different stadiums. I've
Speaker 1: seen comments about that, you know, the Brahmas playing on
Speaker 1: the road for a while and the six games in
Speaker 1: Saint Louis. So we'll get through all that stuff. But
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes their hands are tied here and we're
Speaker 1: kind of having to roll through. You know, you kind
Speaker 1: of got to take the leftovers that you have right
Speaker 1: Outy Field has availability issues with soccer, and I know
Speaker 1: the ALM Dome hosting at March Madness and all of that.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of stuff to get into. But yeah,
Speaker 1: let's get you set up here. So this came out today.
Speaker 1: New Comms people in place Jeff Altstauder. It was with
Speaker 1: the UFL. He's now with the Arena Football one. Right,
Speaker 1: I'm getting press releases from that. I get him still
Speaker 1: in the space. But like I said, I appreciate this
Speaker 1: press release coming out. I know Mike Mitchell had the
Speaker 1: scoop on this. Miller. They have their article up. I
Speaker 1: have it linked in the comments for you know, the
Speaker 1: whole breakdown of that as well. The anthety Mike did
Speaker 1: over at Sports Illustrated, you know, came out today Complete
Speaker 1: twenty five. Oh. I was gonna say. What I like too,
Speaker 1: is we got the broadcast partnerships.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: I'm sometimes like we've already knew the home and away
Speaker 1: and all that stuff, But I like knowing, Okay, Fox
Speaker 1: or ESPN all that because I was kind of afraid
Speaker 1: that we would just get maybe the dates and times
Speaker 1: and not the network. So we have everything. This is
Speaker 1: your complete broadcast window on here. They're going to complete
Speaker 1: forty you know, all forty three games ESPN, ESPN, two
Speaker 1: F this one, Fox and ABC. They're kicking off March
Speaker 1: twenty eight. Is who said eight pm on Fox. It's
Speaker 1: gonna debut their Fox UFL Friday and Unite dedicated to
Speaker 1: the UFL action that is taking the place of college
Speaker 1: football and also SmackDown that's leaving Fox so looking to
Speaker 1: kind of keep their ratings momentum that that they've built.
Speaker 1: I'll be curious to see and I've even seen questions
Speaker 1: like are they all Friday games? No, but we'll get
Speaker 1: through all that. You know, a Friday game each week
Speaker 1: week and we have comments here from rest Brandon. That's
Speaker 1: all it's excited to see. In addition to games will
Speaker 1: be on ESPN, Deportes the beyond, you know, the Fox
Speaker 1: Sports app, and the ones on ABC and ESPN will
Speaker 1: be on ESPN Plus. During the opening weekend, Fox will
Speaker 1: present a matchup between the Brahmas and the Renegades at
Speaker 1: four pm, so the whole weekends late and all that.
Speaker 1: I hear some breakdowns and then we'll go kind of
Speaker 1: week by week. I was kind of glancing through this earlier.
Speaker 1: Forty three games being on there, twenty two on ESPN.
Speaker 1: Fox will have twenty one. The UFL will feature ten
Speaker 1: weeks for regular season, ten live regular season matchups on Friday,
Speaker 1: eight teams. There'll be five double headers. We had mixed
Speaker 1: feelings about that last year. ABC, ESPN and Fox will
Speaker 1: broadcast those. The top two conferences with the two best records.
Speaker 1: The excuse me with the you know, the top two
Speaker 1: and then the record holders. There was confusion last year
Speaker 1: with the playoffs, and you know, Anthony backed about all
Speaker 1: that stuff. Seventy four of all UFL games air on
Speaker 1: either ABC or Fox, not regularly relegating a lot of
Speaker 1: those to FS one and all of that, and then
Speaker 1: obviously you can get group tickets. We'll do all the
Speaker 1: week by week here, but just the general thoughts on
Speaker 1: the facts and figures here, John, what do you make
Speaker 1: of all that?
Speaker 2: Well, what I really liked was you could see that
Speaker 2: right there on Fox. There's only one game on FS one,
Speaker 2: and I think it might be like a Sunday night.
Speaker 2: I don't We'll look at it and see. I did
Speaker 2: like that, And there's only one game on ESPN two,
Speaker 2: So they're really hitting it hard on you know, the
Speaker 2: main outlets, ABC, Fox and ESPN. I think that is
Speaker 2: a very very good sign. And I love that they're
Speaker 2: making the Fox ufl Friday a thing. I think this
Speaker 2: can be a thing, and it can be kind of
Speaker 2: a you know, we're all living in a niche, but
Speaker 2: I think this is pretty cool that on a Friday night,
Speaker 2: you know, in the spring that this could that this
Speaker 2: really could be a thing, especially if Fox puts a
Speaker 2: lot of promotion behind it.
Speaker 1: Ethan, you want to post that comment, You want to
Speaker 1: post that in the your link in the comment, we
Speaker 1: can pull that up if I can get all that. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's good to have, you know, not have
Speaker 1: them on the you know, the the f S onees,
Speaker 1: f S two's of the world. Remember back with the
Speaker 1: USFL being on the Peacock and all that. The Friday
Speaker 1: thing is interesting. We've talked about that because you know,
Speaker 1: it was really built into a destination for Fox and
Speaker 1: SmackDown and their viewership there for a lot of that
Speaker 1: with the WW and I'll be curious because that's that's
Speaker 1: not something that that's not just a destination time slot,
Speaker 1: you know, just because right that's because WW and Fox
Speaker 1: really built that into a lot of their marketing and
Speaker 1: promotions over there. I think they were on a five
Speaker 1: year deal with them. But that's not like people are
Speaker 1: just going to show up on Fridays. You know, you
Speaker 1: really have to promote that and work that. But if
Speaker 1: they're already trying to brand it as that, I think
Speaker 1: that could be really cool and you know, maybe gets
Speaker 1: you out of some of the other competition windows you
Speaker 1: would normally face otherwise there, And I think you get
Speaker 1: a different demo at home on a Friday versus midday
Speaker 1: on the Saturday or Sunday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point. I mean, your your younger
Speaker 2: demo might not see a lot of those Friday games,
Speaker 2: Sol Eyes, We'll probably see We'll see all those Friday games.
Speaker 2: You're right, but I think it does kind of it
Speaker 2: spreads the wealth a little bit. And you know, but
Speaker 2: you also look at Fox, did you know sink money
Speaker 2: into SmackDown on Friday nights and it was I think
Speaker 2: the ratings were really good on there. I think they
Speaker 2: took the money and went somewhere else. But if they
Speaker 2: put the kind of promotion that they put to me
Speaker 2: that they put for SmackDown into the UFL on a
Speaker 2: Friday night, I think he can be a thing.
Speaker 1: I would love. And obviously this is you know, pipe
Speaker 1: dream down the way, and Fox has so much invested
Speaker 1: in this anyway now to kind of keep this lie.
Speaker 1: But seeing what the WWE is doing with Netflix I
Speaker 1: think is really cool and seeing kind of the promotions
Speaker 1: they have and just the added reach of that ride
Speaker 1: just talking the worldwide audience of like we're instantly available
Speaker 1: to over two hundred and sixty million, I think is
Speaker 1: that you it's a Netflix subscriber account right now right
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty, two hundred and eighty million, whatever,
Speaker 1: Like even just having the possibility of that and they're
Speaker 1: promoting that on the front page when people signed up.
Speaker 1: Is pretty cool that, you know, we saw, I was joking,
Speaker 1: we saw Bankerchif Football kind of leverage that with Twitch
Speaker 1: years ago, like hey, we're going to put this on
Speaker 1: the front page, you know, so a we can count
Speaker 1: our impressions more, but hey, maybe we're getting people on.
Speaker 1: I just think that would be cool. Obviously Fox is
Speaker 1: locked into the linear programming right now and that's where
Speaker 1: we're focused on. But I always saw the spring football
Speaker 1: on the streaming platform that really got behind it would
Speaker 1: be really cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know the AAF tried that somewhat, but
Speaker 2: it you know, those deals were different though though that
Speaker 2: was pretty much paid time I think. You know, and
Speaker 2: you try to find the Bleacher Report app and in
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen that wasn't really a thing that was easy
Speaker 2: to find, and it was certainly I think I downloaded
Speaker 2: it somehow on my smart TV to watch some of
Speaker 2: those games. But you know, it's a different world now,
Speaker 2: just you know, six years later. So yeah, I think
Speaker 2: that's spring football can find an audience. I think you
Speaker 2: get the casuals. We talk about that a lot on Network,
Speaker 2: but you know, a lot of US hardcore fans, and
Speaker 2: I think there's there's more now than there might have
Speaker 2: ever been. We can find those streaming apps. I've watched
Speaker 2: a lot through streaming. I mean, I'm old, I watched
Speaker 2: a lot through streaming. I was able to find those
Speaker 2: pretty easily.
Speaker 1: One last thing on this, because the isra all hypothetical,
Speaker 1: is just because Lighting says, you know, locking games into
Speaker 1: streaming is no good the UFL. I agree, right, obviously
Speaker 1: we want to hit that white Just the idea in
Speaker 1: this this is someone that lives with the CFL right
Speaker 1: now in America with no real easy way to stay like, okay,
Speaker 1: some of the games are on the website and some
Speaker 1: of the games are in here, and something is just
Speaker 1: being able to tell, like if you watch a WWE,
Speaker 1: you know, in twenty twenty five, like everything's on Netflix,
Speaker 1: you're on Netflix. I just think that has Obviously UFL
Speaker 1: has a long way to go to get to that
Speaker 1: brand recognition, but I just think that that being able
Speaker 1: to simplify it that way is very you know, is
Speaker 1: very helpful for that. So let's get into here the
Speaker 1: UFL schedule. I know, the teams put out whatever. We'll
Speaker 1: just kind of go through their pressure release here, John
Speaker 1: said he saw some kind of weirdness opening game. This
Speaker 1: is so we already have comments about this right week one,
Speaker 1: Saint Louis going into Houston again. A lot of the
Speaker 1: the matchups for UFL decisions right the venues might not
Speaker 1: always be. But what do you think of opening with
Speaker 1: the BattleHawks at Roughnecks. I mean, if there was anyone
Speaker 1: in the world the at BattleHawks EO Stallion's in there
Speaker 1: or some sort of betther SEXI your master, what do
Speaker 1: you make of that?
Speaker 2: That one was a weird one right off the bat.
Speaker 2: The first the first thing I saw was because I wondered, like,
Speaker 2: I wonder, what, you know what this first Friday night
Speaker 2: game is going to look like? What's it gonna be?
Speaker 2: This is gonna be the launching point for this fox
Speaker 2: UFL Friday or whatever they're calling it. And it was
Speaker 2: Saint Louis at Houston enough it was the other way around.
Speaker 2: I would kind of get that, because you know it
Speaker 2: would I mean, can you imagine what if.
Speaker 1: You can get in You can put anything in Saint
Speaker 1: Louis except the championship game that the Vallahawks.
Speaker 2: Rn N and they'll draw, and you know, and what
Speaker 2: was surprising was I looked, you know, was the dome taken?
Speaker 2: And I started I try. I researched it this afternoon,
Speaker 2: trying to find, you know, why maybe they didn't play
Speaker 2: in Saint Louis. I did not see anything schedule for
Speaker 2: the dome. Now, people out there that in Saint Louis
Speaker 2: and may know, I didn't see anything. I was just
Speaker 2: kind of perplexed on I know the Roughnecks are pretty
Speaker 2: excited to be back, you know, at TDECU Stadium, but
Speaker 2: I mean the general audience on a Friday night, I
Speaker 2: don't know that they care that much. I just hope
Speaker 2: that the turnout is a lot better. I know, you know,
Speaker 2: playing at Rice, Houston fans didn't like that very much.
Speaker 2: But I mean, were they really packing td e c U.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I hope they do Friday.
Speaker 1: Night comment here, I'm not really were at Sincia. Max
Speaker 1: dug In, the former TCU go quarterback coming back to
Speaker 1: Texas against Houston. I can promise you that was not
Speaker 1: and that like that's a wonderful happenstance. I will promise
Speaker 1: you that that is not. They did not flex that
Speaker 1: into Week one because of that I think that that's
Speaker 1: cool and that's a great storyline, and the UFL needs
Speaker 1: more storylines like that and not oh my god, the
Speaker 1: league is going bankrupt or the league is going the way.
Speaker 1: So I think that that's awesome. That's that. That's a
Speaker 1: great poll there. But I guarantee they did not go, oh,
Speaker 1: we got to flex that in here now because of that.
Speaker 2: Right, I mean, how many people showed up in Birmingham, Uh,
Speaker 2: you know when AJ returned. I mean it wasn't that many.
Speaker 2: I mean they had a good crowd, but it was
Speaker 2: not So I get it. You know, you're right. I
Speaker 2: think that might be a that's a good ad and
Speaker 2: it might work. It might work out that way. I
Speaker 2: can tell you this. It would st it's it's if
Speaker 2: they want to promote it. That's one way to promote it.
Speaker 2: I think that is a good idea.
Speaker 1: Just right. Matt comments here. The other comment on here
Speaker 1: Mike has and I think someone else had this. Well,
Speaker 1: but you know, Friday nights having the games on at
Speaker 1: the bar, I think that that's cool. I remember the
Speaker 1: first season when we did the you know, we did
Speaker 1: the whole Sea Dragons kickoff and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: But then I think it was week two. We were
Speaker 1: down to Portland, CE and I think it was a
Speaker 1: wrestling show. We were seeing something Michael and I and yeah,
Speaker 1: having the games on, like at the bar, you know
Speaker 1: that we were out of Prosted venue. Oh what is that?
Speaker 1: What's going on? Or you know if we're watching and
Speaker 1: the way their waitress like, what is that? Like? Football?
Speaker 1: Are like? Oh yeah, you know? Yeah, So I like
Speaker 1: that being on more And obviously a lot of these
Speaker 1: games on you know that's on Fox. Fox has to
Speaker 1: kick off. Are you surprised with anything of that?
Speaker 2: Uh? No, not really. I think it felt like Fox
Speaker 2: is kind of running this thing. To me, that's the
Speaker 2: way I I've failed anyway, So uh that does not
Speaker 2: a surprise. But I like Mike's comment that that's one
Speaker 2: way to get the thirty in undercrowd to watch the
Speaker 2: UFL on a Friday night. I never thought about that.
Speaker 2: I think that could get some interest of anybody who's
Speaker 2: sitting there, and you're right, they look up there, and
Speaker 2: you know, any sports bar, you would think it might
Speaker 2: turn on Fox and say, you know, here's this game.
Speaker 2: So that's that's great.
Speaker 1: The only thing my question is, and I maintain you know,
Speaker 1: we've talked about this before. I don't think you know,
Speaker 1: timeslots matter far more any timeslots and dates matter far
Speaker 1: more than you know the matchups, right, And I think
Speaker 1: this is cool to kind of go through this. And
Speaker 1: I'm just more curious to timing and networks and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. I mean, this one, of course, because you're marketing,
Speaker 1: is the first game. But I don't like the casual
Speaker 1: audience isn't going to care. My question is like, are
Speaker 1: the rough Necks going to be any good to be
Speaker 1: in this game? Like would you want? And not that
Speaker 1: you can guarantee this far out like a better or
Speaker 1: worse team, right, And we see the NFL try that
Speaker 1: all the time. But you're surprised, like the Roughnecks, Yeah,
Speaker 1: have had issues through the rebrand and all that other stuff.
Speaker 2: They've had a lot of issues. You're right read, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that one was just surprising. It's like, we don't know
Speaker 2: what Saint Louis is going to be this year. You
Speaker 2: just mentioned, you know, King Butler re signing that that's
Speaker 2: huge quarterback situation is going to be interesting to watch.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think think for us in this niche,
Speaker 2: it would be interesting if you know aj was the
Speaker 2: was the Houston Roughnecks quarterback. But but yeah, I just
Speaker 2: don't know how competitive this one would be. There were
Speaker 2: just a lot of question marks when I saw that.
Speaker 2: When I saw that that this is going to be
Speaker 2: the Friday night. Hey, here we are, We're on Friday
Speaker 2: night and it's Saint Louis at Houston. That was just
Speaker 2: a little bit perplexing to me. What and we didn't
Speaker 2: get to see you know, the us the USFL Conference
Speaker 2: versus the XFL Conference champions play each other. I thought
Speaker 2: that might have been cool as as maybe a promotional point,
Speaker 2: uh for everyone else. But you know, we'll see what
Speaker 2: it is. I I was just kind of scratched my
Speaker 2: head at this one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, and I mean it's technically USFL here right,
Speaker 1: a conference with the with the Roughnecks. But yeah, we've
Speaker 1: gotten the gutten through all that stuff. Yeah, I agree,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, championship rematch any other stuff. So
Speaker 1: we got to hear Bramas renegades back on Fox Saturday four.
Speaker 1: You know, one o'clock Eastern, that tends to do pretty
Speaker 1: well right that early afternoon, that kind of the prime time.
Speaker 1: If you want to look at it that way and
Speaker 1: then yeah, we go Sunday here. But you know, Bramas
Speaker 1: Renegades as I do anything for you and back of
Speaker 1: Choctaw Fox and everything else.
Speaker 2: I mean that that's fine. Yeah, I mean the Bramas,
Speaker 2: I just feel so bad for them. Was it week five?
Speaker 2: I think we'll look and see. I think that might
Speaker 2: be their first uh yeah, their first home game. Uh yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean that that it could be a good matchup.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, we see what san Antonio is
Speaker 2: going to bring in. Uh, Louis Perez. Is he going
Speaker 2: to be the starting quarterback? Those are some questions I
Speaker 2: think that we that'll get answered. But I mean yeah,
Speaker 2: to me, that's it's an interesting matchup. Could be an
Speaker 2: interesting matchup, you know for the four o'clock Fox audience.
Speaker 1: I will see, yeah, Pat and a couple of people
Speaker 1: have said Pres announced he's returning. Is that I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's a new thing today or I asked
Speaker 1: for a link, but apparently Pres will be back playing,
Speaker 1: you know, playing with the Renegades.
Speaker 2: That's I will when the When the Renegades on Instagram
Speaker 2: posted their schedule, they had Louis Perez that was it
Speaker 2: was the picture so that I cut. So I assume, yeah,
Speaker 2: that was going to be the thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh yeah. The other thing to point out, Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of questions about the Brahmas playing on the
Speaker 1: road here. I believe it's the first four or five weeks. Uh,
Speaker 1: March Madness and everything they're dealing with. You not only
Speaker 1: are we now competing with March Madness in the ratiings,
Speaker 1: but now or commuting with March Madness, you know, in
Speaker 1: the physical locations of the building. I you know, I
Speaker 1: I love the San Antonio market. I love the outmodme,
Speaker 1: but like it's I don't know, I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's And that's been tough and troublesome here to try
Speaker 1: to get that fan base going. And I don't think
Speaker 1: that this is gonna help.
Speaker 2: Right, it's you know, how excited are they gonna be
Speaker 2: after five or six weeks? You know, maybe they will,
Speaker 2: maybe the anticipation is building up. There's gonna be gonna
Speaker 2: be a lot to do in San Antonio, but uh yeah, uh,
Speaker 2: that's just that's just really tough for them, and you know,
Speaker 2: and not even get a full allotment of home games
Speaker 2: that everyone else is get.
Speaker 1: That's that's rough. Well, and like imagine you're one and
Speaker 1: four and you play, then you come home for the
Speaker 1: first time or whether like you know, then you're trying
Speaker 1: to get these stands behind. And I'm spoiler alert we're
Speaker 1: living through this right now with the Washington Commanders, like
Speaker 1: you can you know, nothing puts in Sea. It's like winning, right,
Speaker 1: and there's been all this oh in the name and
Speaker 1: all this kind of stuff like team wins, it's packed, right,
Speaker 1: it's the easiest way. And getting some of these market's going,
Speaker 1: like the memphiss of the World and whatever, like if
Speaker 1: the team stinks, look at the Edmonton Elks, like, it's
Speaker 1: really hard to get fans in there if your team
Speaker 1: is garbage. Speaking of a Memphis hosting Sunday.
Speaker 2: There, I'm assuming you don't mean that that team is garbage.
Speaker 1: Come on, Panthers going in there, ESPN hosting their first
Speaker 1: game and then the double header there leading into the
Speaker 1: Stallions ad defenders. I think that should be a really
Speaker 1: cool week one you kind of and the week on that,
Speaker 1: you know, the Stallion's going in. We'll see Zach Potter
Speaker 1: Wright moving on to Sacramento State doing scouting for them.
Speaker 1: I saw so he blocks me on Twitter. So I
Speaker 1: don't think I've ever interacted with the gentleman in my life,
Speaker 1: but cheers on that. But that's a cool double header
Speaker 1: ESPN Sunday Week one and like I said, a big
Speaker 1: primetime match for their Sunday night. I feel really good
Speaker 1: about that week one Sunday. Do you agree?
Speaker 2: I think that's a great double header to start it,
Speaker 2: no question, I'm really interested to see what Memphis is
Speaker 2: gonna look like. Uh with you know, hopefully the home
Speaker 2: crowd gets there. There's a lot of construction apparently happening.
Speaker 2: I don't know that it's all finished yet, so uh,
Speaker 2: I'm so hopefully that you know, it's gonna look good anyway.
Speaker 2: And you know, with I think you know Memphis in
Speaker 2: this rebuild, uh with wizen Hunt that that's gonna be
Speaker 2: interesting for you know, the people who follow the storylines.
Speaker 2: And then with Birmingham and d C, those two, to me,
Speaker 2: I think those two teams could again be like maybe
Speaker 2: the cream of the crop this year. D C, I know,
Speaker 2: hit a road bump last year and we don't know
Speaker 2: exactly what the personnel is going to look like. But uh,
Speaker 2: I do I think that is a great Sunday doubleheader,
Speaker 2: and there's also something and we can talk about it too.
Speaker 2: It's like there's some weird Sunday game times. Uh it
Speaker 2: was I thought those are that was kind of odd.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a three Eastern. I mean Dan miraclus Is
Speaker 1: said yeah to me, and even with the with the
Speaker 1: falloff last year, d C still carries that, like that
Speaker 1: sexy vibe kind of a team. Does that make sense.
Speaker 1: We're like, sorry, the showboats don't yet obviously, like you said,
Speaker 1: they're going to go through a rebuild and figure all
Speaker 1: that out. We got Jamanos in there as the GM.
Speaker 1: You know, we'll work through that. But you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: to me, that still speaks prestige right now that you
Speaker 1: can kind of count on that being again, I think
Speaker 1: that's exciting. That Sunday night game signs of dependents? Anything
Speaker 1: else week one here?
Speaker 2: John h No, I mean I again, interesting Friday night matchup,
Speaker 2: you know, Saturday could be good and then yeah Sunday.
Speaker 2: I like how they're wrapping this up, you know, a
Speaker 2: noon and a three easter or I think that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: We'll see. I'm gonna try to time code all these
Speaker 1: we can go week by week. We'll see if that
Speaker 1: works as supposed to putting out eighteen videos doing all
Speaker 1: the week by week. We'll see if we can do that,
Speaker 1: because you could do that, you could crazily like make
Speaker 1: a whole video and then have ones for each week.
Speaker 1: But we'll see if that all the worktime goes. Week
Speaker 1: two here, Friday night going into forward Field, you know,
Speaker 1: back there, I think there was it wasn't there some
Speaker 1: debate like were they still going to be back? I mean,
Speaker 1: we've resolved this all. I think that was one of
Speaker 1: the offseason storylines going with I'm trying to remember this
Speaker 1: like fog dream that is the holiday weeks here right
Speaker 1: now and kind of everything blowing together. Uh, Fox again
Speaker 1: Friday night, you know, five pacific, eight eastern rolling in.
Speaker 1: You know we're doing that with the Fox. I think
Speaker 1: that's pretty set right that eight eastern for that ANBC
Speaker 1: hosting Memphis at d C. So they're getting back to
Speaker 1: back home games Saturday, five eastern and then the doubleheader
Speaker 1: Sunday ESPN and then FS one Roughnecks at Renegades on
Speaker 1: the ESPN. Because boy boy, then you put the Brahmas
Speaker 1: at the BattleHawks there, you certainly maybe like to flip
Speaker 1: those I don't know, maybe just fever dreams of last
Speaker 1: year with the Roughnecks and Renegades on that. But twelve
Speaker 1: at nine am East Pacific there in Arlington, you know,
Speaker 1: for me here watching on ESPN, and then the six
Speaker 1: thirty at Saint Louis they get their first home game,
Speaker 1: because last year, right it was like week three till
Speaker 1: they got to the Ballahawks got their first home game.
Speaker 1: So that's it's certainly encouraging.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's really rolling the dice on your your
Speaker 2: spotlight Fox UFL game. And we know the Michigan Panthers
Speaker 2: attendance has been absolutely brutal. I was surprised, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know all, you know, I don't know all
Speaker 2: the behind the scenes stuff about what happened with for
Speaker 2: Field and why that contract got signed or even re signed.
Speaker 2: But man, if you're gonna be on a Friday, you
Speaker 2: know they're making these it feels like this is this
Speaker 2: These are the Friday night spotlight games are making it
Speaker 2: a thing. And you got the Stallions in there, you know,
Speaker 2: playing the Panthers, and if it's gonna be six thousand people,
Speaker 2: I just think that is going to be a really
Speaker 2: bad look and I'm put obviously, and you know, I
Speaker 2: wore my Michigan Panther shirt because I know everybody who's
Speaker 2: gonna say I was gonna hate on them. We can
Speaker 2: talk about attendance again, but I mean, it's it's just
Speaker 2: the fact it's the optics of it. And we talked
Speaker 2: about optics a lot, no matter if it's a Saturday
Speaker 2: afternoon game or a Sunday afternoon game or whatever it is.
Speaker 2: But when this is the Friday night game on a
Speaker 2: national network, I hope the miss Chigan fans don't find
Speaker 2: more excuses to not come to these games, because you know,
Speaker 2: it's Week two. That was a really good team last year,
Speaker 2: and I just I hope that this one looks good
Speaker 2: for Fox and for the whole national audience.
Speaker 1: In Week two, well, and that's what I was looking at.
Speaker 1: I have a separate one, so I cannot distract the
Speaker 1: audience by scrolling here. But because you know rough next
Speaker 1: hosting Week one, Panthers Week two, that's two questionable fan
Speaker 1: base sizes leading out the gate, and you know I
Speaker 1: track a lot of just tangentially, however, I say that
Speaker 1: word that you know, the WWE versus AW stuff, and
Speaker 1: like the TV ratings and deependance and all that, and
Speaker 1: like AW is still being competitive with WWE in the ratings,
Speaker 1: but then you look at their stands, there's no one there.
Speaker 1: At least with wrestling, you can film the wrestling show,
Speaker 1: so you can kind of minimize or hide a lot
Speaker 1: of that lack of attendance where there's I mean, we've
Speaker 1: learned there's just no way. And Fox has no interest
Speaker 1: in trying to do any sort of shots to minimize
Speaker 1: any of that at all. So you know, it's just, yeah,
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting. You got these two prime time if
Speaker 1: we want to call these the spotlight uh time slots
Speaker 1: here fill in the I mean, you know, and then
Speaker 1: like do they move some of these games later if
Speaker 1: they're not performing? Like, I'm gonna be curious how long
Speaker 1: this this experiment goes on because Fox has put a
Speaker 1: lot of time into building this uh you know rundown
Speaker 1: here on their time slots the last few years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it'll be interesting to see and I
Speaker 2: hope again that there's enough you know, juice with uh
Speaker 2: you know, with Michigan and with this being a Fox game,
Speaker 2: that the fans do turn out. I mean, it's again
Speaker 2: you're really rolling the dice on this to me?
Speaker 1: So the week two Sunday, April sixth, uh, that that
Speaker 1: will be a spotlight right with Batlehawk's first home game
Speaker 1: on there? We have that on FS one, I don't know,
Speaker 1: and obviously ESPN and all that, but like, could we
Speaker 1: have could we have flip flopped those and could we
Speaker 1: have had the first Ballahawks game on the ESPN window?
Speaker 1: That would have been my vote? Any other thoughts on uh?
Speaker 1: This here says twenty five thousand and four a Field
Speaker 1: Friday night. All right, you bookmark this. I'll send you
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars on vemo if there are twenty five
Speaker 1: thousand at ford Field on Friday April for it, So god, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, I'll double it up. I'll double if there's twenty
Speaker 2: five thousand, two hundred coming his way.
Speaker 1: There you go. Anyway, I thought it's anything else from
Speaker 1: the week two slate there, because I would flip that.
Speaker 1: I would try to get the BattleHawks into the into
Speaker 1: the better time slot there at least the network window.
Speaker 2: Oh one hundred percent. And also the same the Battlehawk's
Speaker 2: home opener being on FS one. That's that's the one.
Speaker 2: It's like that's the one f S one game you're
Speaker 2: gonna put on. And I mean, I just I didn't
Speaker 2: understand it.
Speaker 1: And it's and I'll say this again, if we have
Speaker 1: new you know again, please subscribe like and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: and we have new people checking this out. We've done
Speaker 1: more interviews with TV analysts over the last few years
Speaker 1: talking about all this stuff. At the end of the day,
Speaker 1: it's time slot and you know, the time of day
Speaker 1: and the network it's on. I mean, we can picky
Speaker 1: choose all of this and what matchups and venues and
Speaker 1: attendance like, that's what drives the radians. And yeah, being
Speaker 1: on FS one, you're always going to hit a fraction
Speaker 1: of you know, kind of what you're going to get otherwise.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it even you know, you compare the FS
Speaker 2: one game maybe to what there'll be at least one
Speaker 2: regional split. I still think that the regional splits might
Speaker 2: might get a higher rating than an FS one game
Speaker 2: on a Sunday night.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Van, here, did you realize where I guess
Speaker 1: the sins now de Trenton. I didn't. I don't randomly
Speaker 1: track the right the people that I interacted with four
Speaker 1: years ago. Anything else weak to you here here I
Speaker 1: should be you know, I pick and choosy things on here,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. I'll get behind this Friday thing
Speaker 1: if they can get it going. I like having the
Speaker 1: consistency of that that, you know, like, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: what we're doing every Friday. I think that that is
Speaker 1: incredibly important. I like the Monday experiments we tried before.
Speaker 1: I like all that, but it needs to be consistent.
Speaker 1: No one's going to go out of their way to
Speaker 1: find a random Thursday or Monday game. You I mean, obviously,
Speaker 1: even with like Amazon and everything with the NFL, it's
Speaker 1: to try to get people to convert over to that,
Speaker 1: let alone the UFL and Fox agreed.
Speaker 2: I like the it's Friday at eight every week, you know,
Speaker 2: and we'll see, like we've already got, you know, these
Speaker 2: weird Sunday games five o'clock six thirty. The next week
Speaker 2: it's just to me, is weird. But I'm with you
Speaker 2: on that. I'm kind of all in on this Friday
Speaker 2: night football.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Week three here we got so now
Speaker 1: Stallions hosting right first game here Protective Stadium Friday A.
Speaker 1: We have Memphis hosting Saturday to thirty and then the
Speaker 1: double So we like this seemingly kind of double header
Speaker 1: on Sunday at least that's bar Brahmas at Panthers Back
Speaker 1: and Forward Field on ABC and then the battle Hawks
Speaker 1: hosting on ABC after that. I like the Sunday night
Speaker 1: prime of that giving giving kind of a spotlight to
Speaker 1: the battle Hawks here. Presumably that's gonna be one of
Speaker 1: your best attended with that Stallions, right, we get to
Speaker 1: see Protective on a Friday, you know, I mean we
Speaker 1: hear a lot of that kind of stuff and attendance,
Speaker 1: We've gone through all that, but you like to think
Speaker 1: they kind of show up there on a Friday. I
Speaker 1: think that's kind of a cool college atmosphere. Feel there
Speaker 1: thoughts on this, And I'm trying to check his WrestleMania
Speaker 1: weekend is the week of the nineteenth, so that would
Speaker 1: be the next week. We'll talk about that, Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I like you know again, Fox rolls and
Speaker 2: rolls the dice a little bit because you know, Birmingham
Speaker 2: I mean had okay crowds, uh, but not what I
Speaker 2: felt like they should have had for the team that
Speaker 2: they've had. I think I don't know that anyone would
Speaker 2: disagree with that, you know, and be serious about it,
Speaker 2: But I do like that because you're right. I think,
Speaker 2: on a Friday night in April and Birmingham, what a
Speaker 2: perfect time for people to come out, and how good
Speaker 2: that would look at Protective Stadium, which is awesome. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's like to me, the perfect UFL venue.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: I think that that that's uh, that's really cool. And
Speaker 2: then and then yeah, and then you got just the
Speaker 2: single game Saturday and the Sunday doubleheader. I mean, to me,
Speaker 2: this might be one of the best weeks. I know
Speaker 2: it's early on and only three weeks in, but it's
Speaker 2: only ten weeks. But it's still three weeks in. This
Speaker 2: could be like one of the premier weekends to me.
Speaker 1: Something to kind of talk about here. And I'm just
Speaker 1: reading through the comments. I'm starring guys if I see
Speaker 1: and like fill up and Mike left questions, I'll star
Speaker 1: all the questions, make sure we get to them here
Speaker 1: at the end. I just want to make sure we
Speaker 1: kind of keep the week by week things a little
Speaker 1: bit clean, but we'll get we have good questions about
Speaker 1: the pre UFL pre show. We're talking about attendance and
Speaker 1: viewership and all that. If, like if Detroit, right the
Speaker 1: best team in the NFL right now, one of the
Speaker 1: best teams in the NFL goes wins the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: deep run whatever. I just think that's another storyline to track.
Speaker 1: I think the Michigan market was far better suited for
Speaker 1: the UFL a couple of seasons ago before Detroit's kind
Speaker 1: of gone on this meteoric rise. But I don't I
Speaker 1: don't live in Michigan or Detroit or anywhere around there, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't see. I think it's a hard sell to
Speaker 1: go from my jer Goff and this like superstar team
Speaker 1: that they put together to like let's go to you know,
Speaker 1: Ford Field on the on the Sunday. And that's just
Speaker 1: me I kind of thoughts on that because it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's a thing I think we got to look into.
Speaker 2: There is that and and maybe there's a contingent of
Speaker 2: fans who said, well, we can't get Lions tickets, but
Speaker 2: we'd love to go to Ford Fields. So this is
Speaker 2: probably be a little better opportunity or a little a
Speaker 2: better chance for us, I mean taking a trying to
Speaker 2: take a positive out of that, you know that would
Speaker 2: you know, to me, could be something. But but you're right,
Speaker 2: and when you're seeing your team play at such a
Speaker 2: high level, you know, your NFL team, are you going
Speaker 2: to buy in to your your UFL team? You know,
Speaker 2: I'd love to see it, but the numbers have not
Speaker 2: really didn't really bear out in the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: Uh, you turn the negative to do a positive. That's
Speaker 1: a pitbull does.
Speaker 2: Mister Worldwide real? Why?
Speaker 1: But no? And I will say, and that's a great
Speaker 1: point though, like if you are priced out of the Lions,
Speaker 1: if you're priced out, like I know with the Seahawks,
Speaker 1: that was a lot of the questions we you know
Speaker 1: now questions, a lot of conversations we had with former
Speaker 1: you know, Sea Dragons fans or Pagans fans or kind
Speaker 1: of whatever. It was, Man, I can bring my whole
Speaker 1: family here and do all this stuff, you know, and
Speaker 1: it would cost you know, eight times this to be
Speaker 1: going to bring my family and kids and everything to that.
Speaker 1: We went to the Kraken on Monday, and it was
Speaker 1: like a weird game where it was an earlier start
Speaker 1: and everyone's off for the holidays, So there was like
Speaker 1: you could tell so many people that had like never
Speaker 1: been to a hockey game or never gone to a
Speaker 1: cracking game. You're like, Okay, let's get out of the way,
Speaker 1: let's move on, like let's let but it is, you know,
Speaker 1: they have some of those games, and it gives that opportunity.
Speaker 1: And so that is a great point. I shouldn't poo
Speaker 1: poo that, like if I yeah, if I'm living in
Speaker 1: Detroit and I've got three kids, and like, well, I
Speaker 1: could never bring them to a Lion scams. So that
Speaker 1: is a good point. That is a good point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I have won every once in a while,
Speaker 2: but yeah, I think that's uh yeah, I mean I
Speaker 2: can imagine that Lion's tickets, especially right now, are just
Speaker 2: out of control. I mean, Chris is right. I you know,
Speaker 2: I tried. I was looking at some uh when not
Speaker 2: too long ago, when the Seahawks were at the Bengals,
Speaker 2: you know, which Cincinnati is pretty close here to Louisville,
Speaker 2: and I mean the upper corner of the stadium. Those
Speaker 2: are like one hundred and fifty dollars tickets. It's like,
Speaker 2: I you know, you just hear about the game when
Speaker 2: you're that far up.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: But that's been to me the great thing about UFL tickets,
Speaker 2: even though there's been a bit of a price hike.
Speaker 2: Is you get a lot for your money as far
Speaker 2: as where when you pay a little extra. I mean,
Speaker 2: the the couple of times that I've been to Saint Louis.
Speaker 2: You know, my wife and I we get like tickets
Speaker 2: and you're on the few rows up from the twenty.
Speaker 2: It's I mean, it's a good price point for what
Speaker 2: you get, and.
Speaker 1: If you're lucky, you even get like a Marquette King
Speaker 1: halftime show or post scams. You know you have contents
Speaker 1: of that.
Speaker 2: You've seen it.
Speaker 1: Now, this is a good This is just said, well,
Speaker 1: we'll move on from week three after this, but it
Speaker 1: Mike brings out, this is a good point. You know
Speaker 1: what f Lions fans know Jake Bates and say, hey
Speaker 1: came from the UFL's go check it out. It's a
Speaker 1: great point. I just I I've always this is not
Speaker 1: just a Jake Bates or Brandon Aubrey thing or anything.
Speaker 1: I've never thought the entire you know, which it's clearly
Speaker 1: the league disagrees with, like building our entire identity are
Speaker 1: round these three special teams players or five special teams.
Speaker 1: Like I think that that is one element of that
Speaker 1: and that I think is successful. But like this, I mean,
Speaker 1: God bless the people that run in the Panther social
Speaker 1: media right now, but like it's like the official Jake
Speaker 1: Bates Stan Love account and everything. Okay, I get it.
Speaker 1: It's a little much, but I get it. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm also probably not in the age demo that they're
Speaker 1: trying to kind of hit with that probably aging out
Speaker 1: of that thoughts on that John, I mean, because Jake
Speaker 1: Mats is really doing good this year.
Speaker 2: Oh there's no question. And I think that Mike might
Speaker 2: be onto something too that a lot of people who
Speaker 2: are paying attention to who might be like really hardcore
Speaker 2: NFL fans are starting to see that there are some
Speaker 2: UFL players who might not be the Jake Bates and
Speaker 2: getting that kind of notoriety. But there are guys who
Speaker 2: are in the league right now who came from the UFL. Now,
Speaker 2: they might be linemen that are you know, that aren't
Speaker 2: as popular, but if you're a football fan, you know
Speaker 2: who they are. And so I think there's something to that.
Speaker 2: It's a lot like I don't want and I'm reluctant
Speaker 2: to always reluctant to call the UFL a minor League.
Speaker 2: Some people might want to do that, and that's fine,
Speaker 2: but it's almost to me like going to a minor
Speaker 2: league baseball game. The diehards like to go. A lot
Speaker 2: of them like to go because they want to see
Speaker 2: some guys who they think are going to play up
Speaker 2: a level. And I think there's something to that. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, will it be the majority of fans, Probably not,
Speaker 2: but I think it could be, especially as you know
Speaker 2: pointed out there in Michigan. People know who Jake Bates is,
Speaker 2: so maybe they say, well, let's go check this out.
Speaker 2: I mean, anything to get a few butts in the seats,
Speaker 2: especially in Detroit, there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1: We had six more people in counterass and when no,
Speaker 1: it is. But I will say, though, just and we'll
Speaker 1: move on after this because now we're just rambling. But
Speaker 1: like having kind of this, you know that the football
Speaker 1: world's kind of sectioning now. Obviously it's really cool for
Speaker 1: fans like us right of all these leagues and you know,
Speaker 1: the Spring leagues and CFL and Europe and ELF and Arena.
Speaker 1: But like, it was so cool. We were over at
Speaker 1: my brother in law's on it was either Thanksgiving or
Speaker 1: his his kids birthday. We have them kind of a
Speaker 1: week apart, and we were watching the game and I go, hey,
Speaker 1: you know that kickoff, like I know the guy that
Speaker 1: invented that? Really, I go, oh yeah, Like I just
Speaker 1: you know, I just I didn't throw Sam at text
Speaker 1: where he's like, wow, that's red. So I just said
Speaker 1: that was just kind of cool to be like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know this thing. Everyone's been talking about anything else
Speaker 1: with that, anything else with Threek three.
Speaker 2: No, I like it. I think this could be one
Speaker 2: of the best of the season.
Speaker 1: I agree. Abdul also says, yeah, season tickets have doubled
Speaker 1: in like the last two years for the Lions, So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's success, right, you do all that all right?
Speaker 1: Week four here, so the Friday night again the Panthers.
Speaker 1: We love the Panthers, right, but like because probably for
Speaker 1: Ford Fields probably empty on a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: I mean in theory trying to get these standium of veils.
Speaker 1: We like these early Saturday games at chalk time, no
Speaker 1: out on ABC. That's kind of similar to the kickoffs
Speaker 1: we have before in previous years. Stallions at rough next
Speaker 1: year on Fox Saturday Night and then the San Antonio
Speaker 1: a standalone game Sunday at Ford Field on Fox. One
Speaker 1: other thing to keep in mind is, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: WrestleMania weekend, so that'll be going through Friday Saturday. I mean,
Speaker 1: this could be could be a rough weekend viewership wise
Speaker 1: for that because they'll have the Friday Night SmackDown opposite that,
Speaker 1: and then WrestleMania now goes Saturday and Sunday, so it'll
Speaker 1: be all the way through and then through Monday. But
Speaker 1: it could be interesting that because I think there's a
Speaker 1: very similar cross section even though the Vince and all
Speaker 1: that isn't still involved. I think the demo you're trying
Speaker 1: to get any thoughts on week four here, John.
Speaker 2: This is not my favorite. I don't like that noon
Speaker 2: start and then the other ones at seven o'clock. I mean,
Speaker 2: I just don't think you're gonna get a lot of
Speaker 2: people who are, you know, other than us, you know,
Speaker 2: freaks and people who are diseased that are gonna probably
Speaker 2: watch every game that are gonna watch both of these
Speaker 2: games on Saturday, especially in April, that's when you know,
Speaker 2: the weather starts to get a little nicer in a
Speaker 2: lot of the areas. So yeah, I don't I'm not
Speaker 2: crazy about that one, and again, you know, good for
Speaker 2: the Michigan Panthers number one. That's like three straight home
Speaker 2: games that they get. So there again no excuse for
Speaker 2: the Panthers fans not to show up, but you know,
Speaker 2: God bless Fox for rolling the dice here on another
Speaker 2: one and hoping that you know that it's a good
Speaker 2: turnout on on their what I feel like as their
Speaker 2: spotlight game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have the I'm Panthers on the road week one, yeah,
Speaker 1: and then week two, three, four all at home, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you and we hear this a lot in
Speaker 1: San Antonio as well, with the terrible scheduling and all that.
Speaker 1: It is a lot to ask, you know, to go
Speaker 1: to multiple and we saw this in Birmingham with even
Speaker 1: with the Stallions, with the non US down with the
Speaker 1: other USFL teams a year one, they're like, it's a
Speaker 1: lot to go, like even cracking and playing tonight. They
Speaker 1: played Monday and they're like, hey, do you want to go?
Speaker 1: I'm like, I think I'll just watch it home tonight,
Speaker 1: Like I was just there Monday. Like it's you know,
Speaker 1: and even hockey is more expensive, but you know, like
Speaker 1: even if you're saving cash, you sold you know, it's
Speaker 1: still your evening going down, you know, Defenders here again
Speaker 1: Sunday night there. Getting the Fox window there at five,
Speaker 1: that's seven Eastern always does feel late to me. But
Speaker 1: I mean I'm not a I'm not an East Coast person, right,
Speaker 1: but I've always feels like, uh, I don't know, you're
Speaker 1: starting to get into the later hours there. But I
Speaker 1: guess that's not yea late.
Speaker 2: No, I mean seven o'clock is not bad when these
Speaker 2: games go pretty quickly. I just think that you're you're
Speaker 2: gonna have a split audience today. I mean, you're not
Speaker 2: going to how many people are going to watch the
Speaker 2: noon game and then they're gonna watch the seven o'clock game.
Speaker 2: I just don't outside of the people watching this video
Speaker 2: that's that's made it this far, they probably at forty
Speaker 2: one minutes in, they're probably gonna be the ones, including
Speaker 2: me if my wife will let me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm curious what's going on in between there between
Speaker 1: the noon and seven what's on that? What's well, I
Speaker 1: guess it's the ABC and then the Fox. You wish
Speaker 1: that there was, Yeah, and then you're switching networks, channels
Speaker 1: all that stuff. Yeah, all right, we four are we good.
Speaker 2: With that looks good to me, I mean as good
Speaker 2: as it can look.
Speaker 1: As good as they can look here. All right, So
Speaker 1: back to Birmingham again Friday night, showing out that way,
Speaker 1: we have the Ballahawks on ESPN Saturday at seven, so
Speaker 1: nothing the early Saturday window Sunday noon and then three,
Speaker 1: so you kind of get a little double header that
Speaker 1: way on ESPN. I like that, like when you can
Speaker 1: get these nuggets kind of going, that's great, it's just
Speaker 1: get Could we get that every Sunday? And I understand
Speaker 1: at this point not possible, but I think that would
Speaker 1: be cool because you just roll one to the other
Speaker 1: Almo Dome. Right. So that's the first promise home game
Speaker 1: this week five, so they're finally at home and hopefully
Speaker 1: they're not not in the It was oh and four
Speaker 1: a hole at that point.
Speaker 2: Right now, this one I love the time of all these.
Speaker 2: On week five, you've got your eight o'clock game, it's
Speaker 2: at and it's at Birmingham, so hopefully you know, people
Speaker 2: show out again and then you've got that I like it,
Speaker 2: the seven pm game at Saint Louis. So if you
Speaker 2: only had one game on that Saturday, uh, you know,
Speaker 2: Saint Louis is pretty good for a prime time Saturday
Speaker 2: game and then the noon and the three. Uh to me,
Speaker 2: I mean, if I had my drothers, this would be
Speaker 2: the schedule. This would be the like every week if
Speaker 2: you could do it.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: I know it's again we've talked about it. It's hard
Speaker 2: to do that with when you're talking venues and you're
Speaker 2: talking slots for networks and everything. But I I love
Speaker 2: how this is laid out, and I think these could
Speaker 2: all be really good games. Uh, you know, assuming that
Speaker 2: we that you're right, you know, San Antonio might might
Speaker 2: just be worn out there, you know, playing away from
Speaker 2: the fan base.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and well, I guess I'll have to look at
Speaker 1: the end kind of the mouth because the Saint Louis
Speaker 1: is getting out of there. So did that happen already? Right?
Speaker 1: Where is the other Saint Louis at because they're they're
Speaker 1: doubling that, right, it's like both so the week two
Speaker 1: Bramas game and then there's another game, but like those
Speaker 1: both count as you know, it's a Bramas are home
Speaker 1: even though they're away. Mike here has a great comment.
Speaker 1: Week five is the NFL Draft weekends already game on
Speaker 1: ESPN will follow the end of the NFL draft.
Speaker 2: Car that's good call THATWM there you go, well, I mean,
Speaker 2: how how great? That wouldn't that be nice? I mean,
Speaker 2: wouldn't that be what a great lead in? You got
Speaker 2: people sticking around and then you will say, like, oh
Speaker 2: what is this if they don't know? Uh yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: glad he pointed that out because I think that's uh,
Speaker 2: that'd be That's what a great uh Saturday that could be?
Speaker 2: That So that makes sense why that's the one game
Speaker 2: and it's at seven o'clock at night.
Speaker 1: Yes, And so you're gonna have You're gonna have a
Speaker 1: red hot Michigan Panthers. He just like it's surging. They're
Speaker 1: surging Detroit, Detroit. You know, fandom is just at a
Speaker 1: frenzy where they have the you know, the Lions are
Speaker 1: doing well and maybe maybe the Tigers has started out
Speaker 1: really hot the first week and a half of the
Speaker 1: MBA season. And you're gonna have the red hot Michigan
Speaker 1: Panthers coming in and playing the battle Hawks. But that
Speaker 1: is cool. I like that.
Speaker 2: So thank you.
Speaker 1: If anyone else has anything, I back because I just
Speaker 1: do the deep dive while this. But that's great. I
Speaker 1: think that that's awesome. At the Saturday there seven o'clock
Speaker 1: and again, you know we're getting off of these are
Speaker 1: all ESPN and Fox, ABC, you know, like you pointed
Speaker 1: out before, kind of you know, few fs one whatever,
Speaker 1: but really kind of this is this is the leverage
Speaker 1: that they got from doing this merger. Was we can
Speaker 1: you know, proposition kind of the best time slots we
Speaker 1: have on our various network stand to get this going.
Speaker 1: Anything else out of this one.
Speaker 2: No, But I think you bring up a good point
Speaker 2: when you have uh, you know, Fox and ABC slash
Speaker 2: ESPN together on these and they're not not trying to
Speaker 2: compete against each other, you know, they're they're trying to
Speaker 2: make this league success. And I think that that that
Speaker 2: is nothing but positive for all of this.
Speaker 1: You know how often I'm not anymore, but I used
Speaker 1: to think often like just a different world we would
Speaker 1: have had if they Fox had just waited in the
Speaker 1: USFL with well, you know, if they had just kind
Speaker 1: of all and this is when it should have been,
Speaker 1: and we kind of farted around for a couple of years,
Speaker 1: and I just.
Speaker 2: Think about that one.
Speaker 1: You know, if a Fox had just been like we're
Speaker 1: going ahead right now, Like, I mean, we would have
Speaker 1: missed out on the the lawsuits and the USFL and
Speaker 1: the Steve you know, Steve Earhart's of the World and
Speaker 1: kind of all that stuff really would have been different
Speaker 1: moving to week six here, you know, so now still
Speaker 1: Friday night battle Hawks, Now this could be cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: see what the Rene games look like, but battle Hawks
Speaker 1: hosting Fridays, Like, I know it's the availability, but if
Speaker 1: you could do anything to get some of these hot,
Speaker 1: because you know, even wrestling does like that, you know,
Speaker 1: the cold open riderer. I think they do the the
Speaker 1: industry term where they show the crowd like the last
Speaker 1: commercial break right before like if you go to the rescue rides,
Speaker 1: they're like, hey, we're going to be live here in
Speaker 1: thirty seconds, and everyone cheers and then they start, you know,
Speaker 1: and then they start to show and like if you're
Speaker 1: watching whatever it's not before, it's so cool because you're like, God,
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta be a part of this, right
Speaker 1: because look at this hot crowd and what's coming up next.
Speaker 1: You would like them to be able to maybe do
Speaker 1: something like that where you would have a ravenous kind
Speaker 1: of battle Hawks fan base and go, hey man, look,
Speaker 1: we got thirty thousand people standing by for this game,
Speaker 1: like stay tuned next. I think that's hot. I would
Speaker 1: like that, and I wish that you could get some
Speaker 1: more of those on there. Roughnecks hosting that Saturday at
Speaker 1: noon and then the double header at noon and four
Speaker 1: on ESPN two. We have the Panthers on that early
Speaker 1: Sunday that will not be good ratings vies that will
Speaker 1: hurt that, and then the Stallions on Fox Sunday May fourth.
Speaker 2: I like it. You're right about that. You know, if
Speaker 2: the Renegades are good, and let you know, let if
Speaker 2: the King of Spring, Luis Perez is playing at his level,
Speaker 2: Saint Louis is hopefully you know, good at that time.
Speaker 2: And the good thing is, remember that's seven o'clock Central
Speaker 2: time on a Friday night, so you know, and we
Speaker 2: all know call is indeed the laws. So uh that
Speaker 2: that could be like that's the kind of spotlight game
Speaker 2: that we that I think we're looking for, h you
Speaker 2: know from Fox. Uh yet uh the DC Defenders in
Speaker 2: Michigan Panthers on ESPN two. There will only be rumors
Speaker 2: of that game because no one's probably gonna watch that
Speaker 2: outside of the people watching here. And then uh yeah,
Speaker 2: you know the Roughnecks a Saturday noon game you know
Speaker 2: in May there. I hope that that is one of
Speaker 2: those where if the Roughnecks fans are serious about wanting
Speaker 2: to come back, you know, to TDECU Stadium, that that
Speaker 2: would be one of the games that they really show
Speaker 2: out for. And then uh yeah Braminson Stallions at four
Speaker 2: o'clock at Protective Stadium. Hopefully those are you know, they're
Speaker 2: both performing at the level that we think they'll perform at.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean that that this could be a
Speaker 2: really good week.
Speaker 1: Well you're probably gonna get and we need to get
Speaker 1: Brett or someone to give us kind of the weather
Speaker 1: forecast of temperature index for all of these the Birmingham games,
Speaker 1: because we started to get here now where it's like
Speaker 1: the guys, it's a little hot here. It's a little hot.
Speaker 1: But you know, that's a night game. I mean four
Speaker 1: o'clock isn't necessarily a night game, but you know, I
Speaker 1: mean that's that's the latest game in that. But you
Speaker 1: you know, you start looking at that like are we
Speaker 1: do we have noon kick austin Birmingham or whatever. You know,
Speaker 1: you start getting some of these markets now where you
Speaker 1: can't be Yeah, they're the eight o'clock I'm on Friday
Speaker 1: of the week before. Yeah, I'm just trying to kind
Speaker 1: of sco back through here. Yeah. Anyway, you got to
Speaker 1: keep the Birmingham fans cool. I don't want the weather
Speaker 1: to be kind of kind of behold of that.
Speaker 2: I can tell you that first year of the USFL
Speaker 2: where they you know, went everything was in Birmingham. I
Speaker 2: went down there for a Saturday and Sunday and it
Speaker 2: was I want to say, like late May or June,
Speaker 2: and I can tell you that, uh my, my sunburn.
Speaker 2: I'm almost over the sunburn that from three plus years
Speaker 2: ago because there were what it there was no rain,
Speaker 2: it was sunny, and it was about one thousand percent humidity.
Speaker 2: So people still showed up for the Birmingham game. I
Speaker 2: will say that I was one of about fifty for
Speaker 2: the rest of the game.
Speaker 1: It's hard like we you know, when we got we
Speaker 1: got a lot of Mariner games and I very much
Speaker 1: like pick my tickets on where uh you know, like
Speaker 1: where the sun is going to be or where this
Speaker 1: is trying to be like, because I do I'm like
Speaker 1: if it's if it's a Sunday day game. Okay, we
Speaker 1: got to sit on this side of the field because
Speaker 1: and we went to the Coliseum for the last Mariners
Speaker 1: game there we you know, we did the night game
Speaker 1: and they were like, all right, we gotta sit like
Speaker 1: right behind you know, not right behind home play, but
Speaker 1: we're gonna sit right there for the last game. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm this is the worst thing in the world. Like
Speaker 1: this isn't even like you're just dripping, Like this isn't
Speaker 1: even enjoyable, Like I'm just sitting in the bottle of
Speaker 1: funk here. But yeah, I think that's interesting. Ron here,
Speaker 1: Mark Cass and Bleacher Brothers got a beer snake draft
Speaker 1: to fulfill when we do I don't know what that is,
Speaker 1: let me know, I'll do it. I'll do a beer
Speaker 1: I'll do a beer draft. And then we had a question.
Speaker 1: This is when Chris Chris is Time was saying we're
Speaker 1: selling out for a field here. This will be Yeah,
Speaker 1: the red hot Panthers hosting. No one will be watching
Speaker 1: the game because they will all be in attendance. Riggs.
Speaker 2: That's that's why the ratings will be so low. It's
Speaker 2: going to be on ESPN and all the Panthers fans
Speaker 2: who exist will be a four field.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Ron's asking me to get beers. Now, this might
Speaker 1: be an off air conversation.
Speaker 2: Ron.
Speaker 1: Chris and I got two free beer snake tickets for
Speaker 1: you to give away. Can't can't do you ticket giveaways anymore.
Speaker 1: Chris got a Chris can Facilita to take about. I'm
Speaker 1: not even allowed in the beer snake section, so I
Speaker 1: got on. Even if I can give tickets a way
Speaker 1: into the beers next section, I can't even attend the
Speaker 1: beers next section. But yeah, anyway, Chris is got you know,
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Speaker 1: They side note the I popped on this, John, this
Speaker 1: is a real thing. But it came. I got a
Speaker 1: zach Ertz commander's practice jersey right coming from from it.
Speaker 1: I think it was from last year because it's the before.
Speaker 1: I think they kind of rebranded this stuff right with
Speaker 1: the well, no, maybe he's in the NHL. Anyways, zach
Speaker 1: Aritz practice one got a super deal, I mean nothing.
Speaker 1: And then who caught the game when he touched down
Speaker 1: on Sunday when I was wearing a jersey.
Speaker 2: John, listen, you broke a lot of hearts with that win.
Speaker 2: By the way, Hawks kill You killed Atlanta's chances there.
Speaker 2: I mean it was, yeah, that was tough, but good.
Speaker 2: You know what, good for you guys? You need to
Speaker 2: not watch that and wear it every Sunday.
Speaker 1: There you go. I gotta hanging right here anyway. Week six,
Speaker 1: anything else with us down as we've talked through all that.
Speaker 1: All right, Week seven, here we go, we get the albums.
Speaker 1: I'm hosting the Friday night one. Could be interesting here
Speaker 1: the DC Defenders going in Renigates. They love this mid
Speaker 1: afternoon in chalk Taw like they love nothing more than
Speaker 1: noon one. Nothing is going on at chalk Taw. Now
Speaker 1: you start need to you need to start talking to
Speaker 1: the Rangers people about cross promoting that, like, hey, come
Speaker 1: see the neon Arlington or the one o'clock Arlington Retigade's
Speaker 1: game and then go across the street. We're gonna be
Speaker 1: playing baseball at five or whatever. Like to me, that's
Speaker 1: a no brainer. And I don't understand whether there's not
Speaker 1: more synergy there. Stallions hostings. Now this is when we
Speaker 1: get in tricky church Sunday noon hot could be, could
Speaker 1: be whatever on ABC and then the Showboats hosting the
Speaker 1: prime time here three Easter n the ESPN.
Speaker 2: Yeah that and that's eleven o'clock in Birmingham, so yeah,
Speaker 2: that's Sunday school time, the preachers hitting the pulpit at
Speaker 2: that time. But yeah, you know, I think I've used
Speaker 2: the term roll the dice a few times here on
Speaker 2: these Friday games. Yeah yeah, I mean you gotta wonder
Speaker 2: if if san Antonio is, you know, having a tough time,
Speaker 2: that could I don't know about that, but you know,
Speaker 2: it's it's good to see that they finally you don't
Speaker 2: get to play at home on a Friday night. Uh yeah,
Speaker 2: these are these these could be some interesting matchups that
Speaker 2: Hawks show boats game feels like one that I might
Speaker 2: try to actually be there for. I'm trying. I'm wanting
Speaker 2: to go to Memphis this year, so that might be
Speaker 2: the one. Uh yeah, these are some interesting matchups. Uh
Speaker 2: and again those Friday games. I'm I can't wait to
Speaker 2: see what these look like. And I really hope they
Speaker 2: they blow it out like uh, you know the open
Speaker 2: of Last Boy Scout when it was a Friday night's
Speaker 2: a good night for football and it was like explosions
Speaker 2: and helmets blowing up and stuff. I think I hope
Speaker 2: that they do something to that effect.
Speaker 1: John, if you go to Memphis, I want you to
Speaker 1: record the video of you walking in Memphis and playing
Speaker 1: that song that I want if you are going to
Speaker 1: be in Memphis. I went to Nashville and then I
Speaker 1: I was like, I could live in Nashville. I could
Speaker 1: be a Preds fan. I could be a Titans fan
Speaker 1: like I kind of like that, and I could we
Speaker 1: live in Smashville and all that. But you know, yeah
Speaker 1: Memphis and yeah play that song with that one quick thing.
Speaker 1: Chris became a new member I think came back. But
Speaker 1: just remember ninety nine said a month you know, just
Speaker 1: support the channel. It's like it just makes me feel
Speaker 1: good to be like I got a new member here.
Speaker 1: Like anyway, it's little. It's that eight seventy five of
Speaker 1: passive income a month, John, that's really going to sink
Speaker 1: I retire my hits.
Speaker 2: It'll buy something eight seventy five. That's a that's almost
Speaker 2: a beer at a Krakens game. Probably not about half
Speaker 2: of one.
Speaker 1: Maybe yeah we get uh yeah, it's about twenty dollars
Speaker 1: for a triple cheek other Uh. Anyway, this was gonna
Speaker 1: be my this is my bold hot take here. So
Speaker 1: this is Mines August, uh the Brahmas on Friday Night here.
Speaker 1: If the if Fox is to flex the UFL games,
Speaker 1: like we are canceling this, uh, this experiment early this year,
Speaker 1: Like it's either going to be for this game or
Speaker 1: because of this game. That they're like, yeah, so like
Speaker 1: we gotta get because they'll have the battle Hawks a
Speaker 1: week before, right week six, Okay, we got it. We'll
Speaker 1: keep it through that. We got to get through the
Speaker 1: battle Hawks and then but this will either be like
Speaker 1: we gotta flex this or afterward like okay, we can't
Speaker 1: do that again because it we week seven. I guess
Speaker 1: the dolls of the season here. That's my hot take. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's that hot of a take at all.
Speaker 2: I think there's there could be a point where, yeah,
Speaker 2: Fox is like, nobody's gonna show up for this game,
Speaker 2: like what are our better options? And you you know,
Speaker 2: maybe give them some time to Readjust yeah, I know,
Speaker 2: I don't think that's a hot take at all. I
Speaker 2: think that's probably that might be a good idea because
Speaker 2: you know, we always always talk about optics. You want
Speaker 2: good optics for spotlight games could happen.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying right now, I would go to this
Speaker 1: game if anyone wants to go. I was just because
Speaker 1: Chris is talking here trying to figure out you trying
Speaker 1: to figure out logistics for travel, like San Antonio is
Speaker 1: San Antonio, DC are two of the best places to
Speaker 1: see games. Just because of the proximity of the stadium
Speaker 1: to what's going on. Birmingham only has a couple of
Speaker 1: those bars there, right, chalk Tok's really good you have
Speaker 1: Texas live there, but you really kind of got to
Speaker 1: stay out in Arlington to really benefit all that. San
Speaker 1: Antonio is one of the best you can stay on
Speaker 1: the river walk. I have a million suggestions of anything.
Speaker 1: If anyone ever wants to do the San Antonio stuff,
Speaker 1: I would go. This would be fun on the Friday.
Speaker 1: You know, you could fly in even that day and
Speaker 1: then just head to the Alamodome and then fly You know,
Speaker 1: that's a very doable trip for Reid here in early
Speaker 1: May if I don't have a wedding, but I would
Speaker 1: do anything in the world to if I would recommend
Speaker 1: that and the DC for that for a home team
Speaker 1: and hopefully the Brahmas aren't aren't around this year at
Speaker 1: week seven, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's again, that's the gamble you take
Speaker 2: on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, rolling the dice, John, rolling the dice.
Speaker 2: I think it's called rolling the dice.
Speaker 1: Do we have we gone to any of our our
Speaker 1: double headers yet or another double headers? Are I Simon?
Speaker 2: I don't think so I think that I think week eight.
Speaker 2: I think it's week eight.
Speaker 1: All right, so here let's get to week eight here partly, yeah,
Speaker 1: here we go. I just always, yeah, I see that
Speaker 1: we have the askers. I was like, it's hard sometimes
Speaker 1: trying to process all this. So we got uh, but
Speaker 1: we have Brahmas hosting again back to back. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is definitely gonna be this now because spoiler alert, I
Speaker 1: hadn't really looked at it. I like doing my I
Speaker 1: like being fresh on here. I like John and I
Speaker 1: like kind of coming in with a little whatever. But
Speaker 1: this is absolutely my hot take going back at week
Speaker 1: seven and week eight or both home and now they're
Speaker 1: gonna be like, we we saw what this looks like
Speaker 1: a week seven, Like we can't go back and do
Speaker 1: this again, like we've already seen that. And then the
Speaker 1: simulcast on Fox, so that will be region locked. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't put the battle Hawks in the region locked game,
Speaker 1: but there you go.
Speaker 2: Especially against Birmingham. That's why that one that would surprise me.
Speaker 2: I will say I might take it back because my
Speaker 2: Saturday May seventeenth is uh, my anniversary, and my wife
Speaker 2: said we can go to the BattleHawks game. But I
Speaker 2: better get a good dinner that night. And I was like, well,
Speaker 2: we can make that happen, so it might be going
Speaker 2: to that one. But yeah, I agree to me, and
Speaker 2: good the BrahMos, who I think get this finish the
Speaker 2: season with four straight home games or something like that,
Speaker 2: and one of being Friday night. Maybe I was surprised
Speaker 2: to see this or being a regional split with the
Speaker 2: Birmingham Stallions being in a regional split with Saint Louis.
Speaker 2: I didn't, you know. And then you've got Panthers and
Speaker 2: Roughnecks with that. That's fine, but to me, that should
Speaker 2: have been like maybe the Sunday noon game would have
Speaker 2: been Saint Louis or the Friday night game that week.
Speaker 1: Sorry my cameras, I'll out of control. I keep talking
Speaker 1: with my hands and then things that I want to like,
Speaker 1: have it track me. See that was like, I gotta
Speaker 1: turn that off, let me get back over here, and
Speaker 1: then I'll re sell it DC again with another Sunday
Speaker 1: night game. I mean, this is a lot. This is
Speaker 1: the thing. Sunday's light. It's not Sunday night but noon,
Speaker 1: but like the Sundays at Aldi. But I like that,
Speaker 1: and obviously that's probably working through their their soccer schedule
Speaker 1: and all of that. You know, however, all of that
Speaker 1: goes but Back says a funny comment here we'll get
Speaker 1: to you, but Sundays at Aldi is awesome, Like I
Speaker 1: just think that that is having done the twenty twenty kickoff,
Speaker 1: we did the Sea Dragon's playoff game there against the Defenders,
Speaker 1: Like it's just a really cool atmosphere for that. So
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan. Max says a. Fox likes the
Speaker 1: regional splits so they don't have to give away as
Speaker 1: many spots you see, like you're protecting to go because
Speaker 1: and I will say, and I said, but this is
Speaker 1: I honestly a good point. I got to turn off
Speaker 1: this track in there we go. Maybe that won't follow me.
Speaker 1: Now when they break about how many games are on Fox,
Speaker 1: four of the games really are two, so it is
Speaker 1: it does that's true numbers where they go, oh we
Speaker 1: have you know, we have whatever it was I read
Speaker 1: in the faction figures like, oh we have eighteen games
Speaker 1: on Fox, Like well it's it's really you know, sixteen
Speaker 1: games and they're they're counting too. Is you know that
Speaker 1: you wouldn't normally get But I don't know I don't
Speaker 1: love the simulcast thing. I get why they do it
Speaker 1: because of Max pointing that what do you what do
Speaker 1: you make of that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Max is a phrase it's gonna be too many
Speaker 2: PSAs and these because they can't sell the spots. I don't. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I again, you know I They're doing it one week
Speaker 2: and I'm sure there's probably a reason for that. I
Speaker 2: don't know what it is, but I the Birmingham Stallions
Speaker 2: in Saint Louis BattleHawks being one of the regional games.
Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't get that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't like that. It was funny. We were
Speaker 1: talking Chris is talking about the Rock and the comments
Speaker 1: like it was an article. Rock came out with something
Speaker 1: like for New Year's where it's you know, don't do
Speaker 1: you don't have to do anything, you get to do it.
Speaker 1: So I go into, you know, approach the New Year
Speaker 1: like I get to do. I go, do you think
Speaker 1: he has to talk about the UFL? And do you
Speaker 1: think he gets to talk about the UFL at this point? Well,
Speaker 1: do you think the Rocks welfare check is season three? Here?
Speaker 1: Of the XFL and his involvement, I don't know, you know,
Speaker 1: he read.
Speaker 2: One he's got that going on.
Speaker 1: Hey, if anyone hasn't seen Red One, have a couple
Speaker 1: of beers, have a Jay whatever. It's a really, it's
Speaker 1: totally fine. I watched that and I watched that carry
Speaker 1: On movie.
Speaker 2: With Jason Datem watched that one the other night. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was It's.
Speaker 1: They're like, these movies are getting such great reviews. Like
Speaker 1: it's like, it's just a knockoff Diehard. It's just interesting
Speaker 1: to see Jason Bateman. It's like a bad guy. That's really.
Speaker 2: That was the hook on that movie.
Speaker 1: There's no question that Eric Egertanner whatever has no charisma.
Speaker 1: I never underst he's in these movies. I don't under
Speaker 1: he was good and Rocketman, but yeah, oh that was him,
Speaker 1: Yeah he was. He was all his acting in that.
Speaker 1: And then he said Norman's checking in here. Norman is
Speaker 1: so excited. I haven't seen Norman comment like and subscribe,
Speaker 1: become a member, and then sends them up They like
Speaker 1: and subscribe us up to four thousand subscribers. He's open
Speaker 1: for an Ohio team in the expansion.
Speaker 2: Expansion, let's go.
Speaker 1: Anyway, anything else with this week A We've talked to
Speaker 1: region lock and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: Looks good to me.
Speaker 1: Week nine, Oh my gosh, so we're back. We're we're
Speaker 1: hosting again on Friday. Oh my god.
Speaker 2: I knew they had those home games, but I did
Speaker 2: I realized they were Friday.
Speaker 1: No, I didn't really say, yeah, this is this is
Speaker 1: gonna kill the Thank god Jay Well, I wish day
Speaker 1: was still with the Brahma of social media, but this
Speaker 1: would kill the Bramas, might single handedly kill the Friday
Speaker 1: night on Fox experiment here with. I cannot believe that
Speaker 1: this is why I like going through this real time,
Speaker 1: because otherwise I would have been yelling about that at
Speaker 1: the beginning.
Speaker 2: Well, I you know, I looked and I had, like,
Speaker 2: you know, one of my notes was like, you know,
Speaker 2: the Bramas kind of you know, got hosed this year,
Speaker 2: but at least they finish like with four straight home games.
Speaker 2: But I didn't realize. Also, now I'm just now saying
Speaker 2: that these are Friday night games. There's got to be
Speaker 2: a flex option, don't you think.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know if you can because it
Speaker 1: will a so you already have that issue with the
Speaker 1: NFL right where we can you can swap within day,
Speaker 1: right or you can't or it's got to be so
Speaker 1: far in advance because people are buying tickets. I mean,
Speaker 1: it is true. A number one, obviously the players have
Speaker 1: to be safe in the amount of time between games.
Speaker 1: But like, yeah, if I'm a fan and I'm flying
Speaker 1: into Santa or not, it's in the NFL, I'm fine,
Speaker 1: fine to Detroit to go watch the game, and then
Speaker 1: you flex it to Monday night football or you flex
Speaker 1: it to You're like, well, now I pissed because I
Speaker 1: paid so I I don't know what that And then
Speaker 1: with the team logistics would travel. I mean it's just
Speaker 1: a you know, you got all these dual planes, and
Speaker 1: you know, you got AJ mccarren yelling and like.
Speaker 2: Got a ride with A. I got it.
Speaker 1: They're on the same play with what is this going
Speaker 1: on with this? But yeah, that is that is brutal
Speaker 1: with it. I don't know what they do and that
Speaker 1: that would be a question. I would put a poll
Speaker 1: out after this, like do they flex the Bramas out
Speaker 1: of it? Is there any way we can play? That's
Speaker 1: insane to me.
Speaker 2: You put this Wait a second though, this says at
Speaker 2: the Dome at America Center.
Speaker 1: Oh so it's this is the reverse one this is
Speaker 1: the reverse.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, so maybe so yeah, because I just saw
Speaker 2: I saw versus San Antonio, but then I just saw this.
Speaker 2: It said don't so maybe they don't finish with four
Speaker 2: straight home games.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so this is a home game, and thank god,
Speaker 1: thank god John FARREDI no one in the comments corrected
Speaker 1: me at all with any of this, like this is
Speaker 1: the home game in Saint Louis, which.
Speaker 2: Why, I mean why, Like this is this is a
Speaker 2: Houston Roughnecks, Houston Gamblers kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Like, well, but you got it. Obviously the album are Yeah,
Speaker 1: obviously the album that was busy, so they had to
Speaker 1: do it this way, and they yeah, you can't have
Speaker 1: the promise not play the same number of home games.
Speaker 2: I mean, I get it, but like it's still not
Speaker 2: a home game, Like are the San Antonio fans gonna
Speaker 2: fly in there? But I do? Okay, So again, this
Speaker 2: could be a good Friday night spotlight game because it
Speaker 2: is going to be at the Dome on a Friday
Speaker 2: night seven seven pm Central. Uh, you know, well lubricated fans.
Speaker 2: If the BattleHawks are still going strong, that's another question
Speaker 2: that we've never seen. What the fan base is going
Speaker 2: to be like if the BattleHawks were mediocre or bad,
Speaker 2: because they've always been you know, in contention, they've been good.
Speaker 2: They've been fun to watch. I'm not wishing that on
Speaker 2: anybody because that when the BattleHawks to me are kind
Speaker 2: of like the New York Yankees to Major League Baseball. Yeah,
Speaker 2: when they're good, the league is good and everyone benefits
Speaker 2: from it. So but yeah, this is like, this is good,
Speaker 2: this is at Saint Louis on that front end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, No, as as a BattleHawks go, so does
Speaker 1: the UFL. Thanks yes, And I'm so glad we pointed
Speaker 1: this out because I was about to have a connection
Speaker 1: with that. But it is. But it is an interesting
Speaker 1: point because you talk about, you know, the fervent fan
Speaker 1: base there and the work that they've done, and they've
Speaker 1: always been like good, too great, right, They've always been
Speaker 1: on the upper echelon. It still kills me. And we
Speaker 1: talked with Dave Naylor about it, who's a big CFL
Speaker 1: reporter for people if you have, you know, following we're
Speaker 1: doing our Great Cup show, and he is just adamant
Speaker 1: that the CFL could put a team in Saint Louis
Speaker 1: and they would just adopt them like they have the
Speaker 1: Ballahawks like they've been working to build Saint Louis since
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen now, like through Vince All like it. To me,
Speaker 1: that is a hearty laugh that you think that you
Speaker 1: could just like supplant another team in there and have
Speaker 1: them support that. But you know, maybe I'm wrong, but
Speaker 1: I think that. Yeah, Saint Louis is very happy. Uh
Speaker 1: and when they're healthy, so we'll see what they look
Speaker 1: like here hosting the problems again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know about about a CFL team trying
Speaker 2: to now if if you know, the battle Hawks moved
Speaker 2: to l A in the middle of the night, which
Speaker 2: that really can't happen. I would think with the UFL
Speaker 2: they would relocate. They wouldn't do that to to Saint Louis.
Speaker 2: I mean maybe, but no, I can't see that this
Speaker 2: This is an interesting interesting week though, with the Brahmas
Speaker 2: home game in Saint Louis and then what could be
Speaker 2: a good one, you know that Saturday with the Panthers
Speaker 2: and Stallions if they're both playing up to par.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's on ABC, A couple of ABC doublehead
Speaker 1: there the noon three, the Memphis and noon game, and then.
Speaker 2: At d C.
Speaker 1: Still they d C like is always that Sunday team.
Speaker 1: It seems like that they're already they have a lot
Speaker 1: of their right Week eight Sunday. I mean, now I
Speaker 1: go back through their Week six Sunday, I mean they're
Speaker 1: you know, and that affects things too when you're traveling
Speaker 1: up their Week five Sunday. I mean, DC is is
Speaker 1: a Sunday favorite team there, and that is odd because
Speaker 1: obviously that's not depending on AUDI at that point. But
Speaker 1: with the rough next there, I'll just speak curious because,
Speaker 1: like you said, there was so much with Rice Stadium
Speaker 1: and everything and the Roughnecks and we don't want to
Speaker 1: support this in the name brand like you're two now,
Speaker 1: but if the team still garbage, like I don't know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Chris says, they only played Sunday last year, so obviously
Speaker 1: that part of that is the AUDI field thing.
Speaker 2: That makes sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I don't know what the Rough Necks are
Speaker 1: going to be this year, so it's hard for me
Speaker 1: to kind of prognosticate what those games are going to
Speaker 1: look like. But they need to get some fan base
Speaker 1: up in there because people hollered for them to get
Speaker 1: back to the other stadium.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've got to be a better team. I was
Speaker 2: surprised they didn't make some wholesale changes in Houston this year.
Speaker 2: I read I remember you and I talking before the
Speaker 2: season on here before last season, We're like which coaches
Speaker 2: are going to stay in, which which ones are going
Speaker 2: to go? And like Houston to me was a no brainer.
Speaker 2: So but but I mean, I hope it works out,
Speaker 2: and I hope that they are improved because uh that
Speaker 2: just that really really makes me think that that they
Speaker 2: feel like they have something there that they can build on,
Speaker 2: although I don't know that a lot of us could
Speaker 2: see it from last year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, and you always wonder for them to
Speaker 1: show in a couple of comments like just you know,
Speaker 1: like there might just not be better options for a
Speaker 1: lot of these teams. And we talked on the expansion
Speaker 1: episode about you Okay. Now they're they're wanting cities to
Speaker 1: like court the UFL for okay, well please come here,
Speaker 1: and we want all that. Like I think if you
Speaker 1: could be anywhere then Houston, you'd be there already, or
Speaker 1: if you could be anywhere from some of these you'd
Speaker 1: be there already. So to me, I don't know, like
Speaker 1: it's like dating somewhere one and you're like, well, like
Speaker 1: this best, Like like I don't know if I'm going
Speaker 1: to be able to do any other here or whatever.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like, but I think some of these
Speaker 1: you know, and we've talked in Greg Parks and I
Speaker 1: LENGTHD with ufl board and everything else about, like you
Speaker 1: would never put any of these teams in these markets,
Speaker 1: like you know, if you went back and rebuilt this
Speaker 1: map from the beginning. But obviously this is where we're
Speaker 1: at now.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I think that's a good point. If you started,
Speaker 2: if you started from zero again, is this what it
Speaker 2: would look like? I don't think it would.
Speaker 1: No, No, I hope not.
Speaker 2: I hope not.
Speaker 1: Week ten here rounded it out. I see now Chris
Speaker 1: is already saying d C Friday night, that's gonna be
Speaker 1: popping here at Ballahawks going in. You know, if those
Speaker 1: teams are really in contention, that could be really atmosphere
Speaker 1: of the season. It seems wait until week ten for that,
Speaker 1: and then Panthers hosting against Saturday and then the doubleheader
Speaker 1: Sunday noon three, so there's only the one simulcast game,
Speaker 1: So that's good. Fox on Friday, ESPN Saturday and then
Speaker 1: the ABC Fox is split on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is yeah, I think Friday is obviously kind
Speaker 2: of the spot that that's going to be the one,
Speaker 2: as you said, if they're both in contention and what
Speaker 2: we think they might be this year. I mean, and
Speaker 2: you know that could that could be with something on
Speaker 2: the line. Uh, so that that would that could be
Speaker 2: an interesting game and the resk you got to think
Speaker 2: like will Memphis be playing for you know, will there
Speaker 2: be something there for them to play for? And then
Speaker 2: they're playing to Birmingham Stallions. Uh, you know saying Renegades
Speaker 2: and Bramas you know, who knows. There are a lot
Speaker 2: of question marks here. So you wonder how you know
Speaker 2: in this week ten what's going to be on the line? Uh?
Speaker 2: And to me just you know, trying to prognosticate here
Speaker 2: in January on what's gonna happen May thirtieth, it feels
Speaker 2: like that BattleHawks defenders you know very well could be
Speaker 2: like something on the line.
Speaker 1: So you mean, because we need to have our Poot
Speaker 1: Bowl this year? So what is what is the Poot
Speaker 1: Bowl game of where they play for where they play
Speaker 1: for the what is it? You know, where they play
Speaker 1: for the number one pick or whatever.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I don't know if it's in week ten
Speaker 2: unless the Renegades are just you know, and I know
Speaker 2: they struggled last year, but the Bramas were good. But
Speaker 2: we don't know what you know, they're not. We don't
Speaker 2: know what they're going to look like this year, hope. Well,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't think it would be the rough necks in
Speaker 2: Panthers because of what we saw last year out of
Speaker 2: the Panthers. Uh, that's that's a good question. Well, what
Speaker 2: maybe that's gonna happen in week nine?
Speaker 1: Let me interesting, So I'll be curious to check that out.
Speaker 1: But Chris here saying to come out, I'll get you
Speaker 1: give us tickets there. Week ten, we tend out of
Speaker 1: the I don't even know. Is that amoralthy weekend? That
Speaker 1: might be a tough kind of flex anyway. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it could be its Memorial Day. I got a wedding
Speaker 1: show that Sunday. That's a tough that's a tough ass
Speaker 1: for but anyway, and then ending in Memphis, I don't know,
Speaker 1: that could be I mean the Stallions. Yes, you're hoping
Speaker 1: that Memphis has something to play for at that point,
Speaker 1: but that that is you know, the week ten kind
Speaker 1: of rides like this in the wave sorry ending and
Speaker 1: if that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Right, No, no, it does that that could be that
Speaker 2: might be the one that might be the Friday night game.
Speaker 2: Too bad it's week ten.
Speaker 1: But yeah, uh so then let's go here just a
Speaker 1: couple of playstar of things and if anyone has any
Speaker 1: comments here, we can get to all that stuff. So
Speaker 1: we know, you know, we know the player dates a
Speaker 1: double header on Sunday, June eighth, three pm and then
Speaker 1: six pm, So that would be cool. One on ABC,
Speaker 1: one on Fox and then ABC holding the championship game
Speaker 1: on Saturday, June fourteenth at eight pm on ABC. Fox
Speaker 1: hosted last year, right, they bounced back and forth in
Speaker 1: the kickoff is on ABC. Right, so we'll flip out
Speaker 1: of round. Do you like the the Sunday conference championships
Speaker 1: and then leading into the Saturday playoff game or excuse me,
Speaker 1: championship game. Would you prefer a Sunday championship game? Would
Speaker 1: you prefer any difference if we had any options of
Speaker 1: changing any of this.
Speaker 2: If you're going to play at eight o'clock, I think
Speaker 2: it's better to do that on a Saturday night rather
Speaker 2: than a Sunday the championship game. No, I'm fine with
Speaker 2: these and I like that. You know, you get you get,
Speaker 2: you get a double you get a double header of
Speaker 2: Although it might be good to start a little earlier,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to nitpick this. I mean three and
Speaker 2: six Eastern to me is fine. Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 2: like this postseason and set up very much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and there you go, Saturday, June fourteenth. I got
Speaker 1: that marked down. We'll see how it goes. I know
Speaker 1: I have a wedding on June seventh, I believe, so
Speaker 1: I can't do it that day. You know, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: travel for the conference games most likely, but a good
Speaker 1: chance there on the fourteenth, and we'll see where that's
Speaker 1: going to be. We haven't announced, you know, right, they
Speaker 1: don't have an official right we're are we assuming Saint Louis.
Speaker 1: I've heard protective in there, but they haven't officially announced
Speaker 1: anything from where it's going to be, right because they
Speaker 1: likely be neutral to site.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, there were there was some talk that
Speaker 2: it something one of the what was was it Audi
Speaker 2: that was out? Something? Something was I want to know
Speaker 2: this out?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, I mean could be Saint Louis could be,
Speaker 2: but I'd also heard too. I mean, these are all rumors,
Speaker 2: like Birmingham might be in the mix for it be interesting.
Speaker 1: It'd be you know. I I like that Birmingham setup
Speaker 1: with those bars in the hotel there. It's just hard
Speaker 1: like it's it's an expensive weekend. Like I paid a
Speaker 1: lot to stay there because we were doing the show
Speaker 1: and we used all that. But like I was going
Speaker 1: as a fan, I would never pay the stay, right,
Speaker 1: it's just too you know, it's too expensive for kind
Speaker 1: of what it is. But it could be cool. I
Speaker 1: mean they could, they could pack it. It was packed
Speaker 1: that kickoff game. I mean it hasn't hasn't reached those
Speaker 1: heights again, but I think with enough marketing behind it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Mike says Audi was the rumor. But FIFA World has
Speaker 1: a game that weekend that was at Okay, so we're
Speaker 1: all with that stuff. So let's let's do some questions here.
Speaker 1: I have some star we'll probably you get for fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes and we'll get out of here at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the hour. I got some star questions here. Does
Speaker 1: that work for you John?
Speaker 2: That works for me?
Speaker 1: All right? So, and if you guys have any questions
Speaker 1: about the games, any questions about you know, anything, UFL
Speaker 1: will get to all that on here. Abdul says. Over
Speaker 1: under one point five expansion teams announced for the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six season during the twenty twenty five championship.
Speaker 2: That's a lot. I think that's probably too much to
Speaker 2: ask for, because the expansion process has just really been
Speaker 2: announced and I don't know how much it's really started,
Speaker 2: and I think there's going to be so many moving pieces.
Speaker 2: But if they do announce it, I mean there's going
Speaker 2: to be so much work going on behind the scenes
Speaker 2: while the season is going on for that to happen
Speaker 2: in the next you know, in June. So but I
Speaker 2: think when the expansion is announced, I think it will
Speaker 2: be two teams.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, so it has to be two teams.
Speaker 1: I'll be really curious how this, how this looks or goes,
Speaker 1: because you know, the UFL and they were the people
Speaker 1: that put this out right, and we kind of talk that, Okay,
Speaker 1: we want to do this to kind of get some
Speaker 1: free promotion here we're getting ready to build all this.
Speaker 1: But it's kind of like and obviously I'm happily Mary,
Speaker 1: but it's kind of like being like, hey, I'm open
Speaker 1: to Dayton Sidney Sweeney, like I'm open, like I'm here,
Speaker 1: you know, like where it's you know, you could say
Speaker 1: we're we're ready to do anything and we're looking. But
Speaker 1: you know, if they don't get any reciprocation there, does
Speaker 1: that is an egg on their face? If they announced
Speaker 1: this and no one comes forward, do we try to
Speaker 1: fit something work because we've put this out do we
Speaker 1: just kind of ignore it if we don't get in
Speaker 1: that bit? Like I'm just curious how this goes, because
Speaker 1: now you've actually put this out in the ether at
Speaker 1: something that you know, people can like Google and the
Speaker 1: UFL expansion. This like it puts it in the ether
Speaker 1: more than just us talking about it for you know,
Speaker 1: forever online.
Speaker 2: And and I'll say that, you know, there was some
Speaker 2: talk this might be breaking news here on your on
Speaker 2: your show read so maybe I might need to get
Speaker 2: the uh should I like go with the red lights back?
Speaker 2: But there was some talk about Louisville being in the
Speaker 2: mix here. I talked to the Louisville Sports Commission. This
Speaker 2: was back in mid December, when you know, a little
Speaker 2: bit after all this had been announced. They say that
Speaker 2: they've not had any talks with the UFL. Uh And
Speaker 2: then a couple of weeks later, I talked to the
Speaker 2: executive director of the Mayor's Cabinet for Economic Development here
Speaker 2: in Louisville. He says they've not been contacted by the
Speaker 2: uf for a possible expansion team, but they're going to
Speaker 2: continue to work with Louisville Sports Commission. So, and I'd
Speaker 2: asked the Louislle Sports Commission, did you guys like give
Speaker 2: an RFP to maybe try to get this team. They
Speaker 2: have not done that. So, I mean, I'm not losing
Speaker 2: hope here on a in my adopted hometown that will
Speaker 2: get a UFL team. But uh so if the expansions are,
Speaker 2: if they're moving, they're moving elsewhere other than Louisville.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, I mean we talked about this before. I
Speaker 1: think it's a hard sell. I think it's hard to
Speaker 1: get the city's involved and Okay, what is the cost
Speaker 1: of benefit? And you know, like if you're looking in
Speaker 1: San Antonio now and you're like, okay, we're doing and
Speaker 1: God bless all these people, and you know, got the
Speaker 1: horns for a podcast like all these you know, like
Speaker 1: San Antonio has a good like hardcore, damn base right
Speaker 1: that that shows up online and and god bless that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you got four home games. You know they
Speaker 1: don't come to halfway through the season. One of your
Speaker 1: home games is not even in in San Antonio. So
Speaker 1: like if I you know, like if I'm a San
Speaker 1: Antonio sick of like rep, how do you even sell that?
Speaker 1: Like here, get involved in the four games and then
Speaker 1: we can give you an option if you want to
Speaker 1: go to Saint Louis. Like to me, it's just it's
Speaker 1: it's really hard to sell any of these teams as
Speaker 1: five standalone home games anyway that you want these people
Speaker 1: to get invested at, like oh yeah, then they'll be back,
Speaker 1: you know, ten months from now, like you can you know,
Speaker 1: come and come back and see him again later, like
Speaker 1: no off season push really hard to track anything and
Speaker 1: the out Like I just it's really hard. I don't
Speaker 1: envy the people and I see them post all the time,
Speaker 1: these people trying to sell tickets. I don't envy that
Speaker 1: at all because I just think any of it to
Speaker 1: get people in, you get the cities involved. I think
Speaker 1: it's really hard. It's very it's easy to throw out
Speaker 1: any of these random cities, but to actually get them involved,
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty hard.
Speaker 2: Right and you know you've said this before, uh read
Speaker 2: that you're selling a product and it's like so but
Speaker 2: you know this is and this kind of spoke to
Speaker 2: like the whole franchising thing, like if you really wanted
Speaker 2: to franchise this, what what would people? What are people
Speaker 2: buying right now? And I think that the UFL has
Speaker 2: an opportunity to put that on the stage for franchising
Speaker 2: this year. But as far as like for cities, like
Speaker 2: what do the cities think that you know, what are
Speaker 2: they going to buy? Like what what what are they
Speaker 2: going to? Where are they in for? How is this
Speaker 2: gonna help improve their community? How is this going to
Speaker 2: help put them on a on a bigger stage.
Speaker 1: Like and we don't do a lot of like advertising
Speaker 1: their sponsorships on here this because this isn't like in
Speaker 1: any way my you know, primary anything. But like, uh,
Speaker 1: at a time when Paul and I were involved, and
Speaker 1: we were very okay, like how did we like reach
Speaker 1: out to people like what do we do? And you know,
Speaker 1: we kind of put together a little deck, right like Okay,
Speaker 1: this is kind of you know, this is kind of
Speaker 1: our demo and how many people and where they live
Speaker 1: and we get all this, you know, and I have
Speaker 1: to do that anyway when I like apply to you
Speaker 1: the CFL for credentials and like, okay, this is our platforms,
Speaker 1: I don't know, like what is this? Like what is
Speaker 1: the deck of a UFL team When they're like here Louisville,
Speaker 1: Like you know, I just I know we've talked about
Speaker 1: this before kind of like regards to like I just
Speaker 1: don't know what that sell is. I don't know what
Speaker 1: you bring and what you print out and bring to
Speaker 1: that median of like here come invest in the UFL team.
Speaker 1: Like we just watched that uh and that Step Brothers
Speaker 1: where they're showing you know where were doing the boats
Speaker 1: and hosts and they just showed the boat and they're
Speaker 1: like but Dad, like are you going to invest in?
Speaker 1: Like I feel like that's that's kind of like like
Speaker 1: what does that meeting look like when like rusting them
Speaker 1: go in like here right here is our presentation like
Speaker 1: corporate synergy. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I think I think it might be more
Speaker 2: appealing to cities like Louisville who want a little bit
Speaker 2: of a bigger name. But if the UFL. You know,
Speaker 2: and I think there's room here. I mean I've said
Speaker 2: it before. I and I even made a video like
Speaker 2: this is why I think. You know, here are five
Speaker 2: reasons I think you the UFL should come to Louisville.
Speaker 2: But you know, I think it's a harder sell for uh,
Speaker 2: you know, some some larger cities, especially when they're we've
Speaker 2: you know, heard that they could be cities that you
Speaker 2: know already have an NFL presence and and the UFL
Speaker 2: has that already. Uh So you're right, you know, we
Speaker 2: like the UFL. We enjoy it, but when you start
Speaker 2: looking at it from a level of I'm a city official,
Speaker 2: I'm a mayor, I'm a governor. What am I? How
Speaker 2: is this going to help my state? How's this going
Speaker 2: to help my community? Yeah? I don't know. I hope
Speaker 2: they've got I hope that there's an opportunity here.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: I think there is an opportunity for expansion. But you're right,
Speaker 2: like I would love to know what the seal is
Speaker 2: for this. You know, we enjoyed its entertainment, but how
Speaker 2: does this really improve communities?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's when they when they originally announced the USFL,
Speaker 1: like Hub and all of that, And I think it
Speaker 1: was roy S. Johnson with the al dot Com but
Speaker 1: like really detailed like kind of the year long process
Speaker 1: of getting that, and it was right with Eric Shanks
Speaker 1: and I think they were in a truck for a
Speaker 1: different doing some other sports thing and then they're like,
Speaker 1: well what about like we put them all and what
Speaker 1: about Birmingham Like they kind of you know, and they
Speaker 1: were working with the b JCC like their convention whatever
Speaker 1: there they're complex there in the community. Like, but it
Speaker 1: was like months and then like, okay, we got to
Speaker 1: sell them on this, so we're gonna have all the teams.
Speaker 1: Like to me, it's almost easier to sell that of hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have eight teams play forty games here, like
Speaker 1: like to me, the USFL year one was an easier
Speaker 1: sell than like, well here and now you're gonna do
Speaker 1: all the same work for us to be in your
Speaker 1: city and it's five home games or four and like
Speaker 1: now we got to do all this stuff with the stadiums,
Speaker 1: like we have a question to hear about just marketing
Speaker 1: before we get out. But I just think it's a
Speaker 1: name of the harder sell now of like when now
Speaker 1: you're like you're trying to sell a fraction. The CFL
Speaker 1: gets this a lot where they all the games used
Speaker 1: to be on ESPN and now they have half the
Speaker 1: games locked up with CBS Sports Networks, and then they
Speaker 1: just stream the rest of them for free because there's
Speaker 1: no market for that other half of the games, Like
Speaker 1: CBS Sports pays for what they want, and then all
Speaker 1: the other ones are like, we don't care, like just
Speaker 1: stream them. Like I think it was almost an easier
Speaker 1: sell to sell all the teams and you know, dates
Speaker 1: and everything versus like, well here, here's just a handful.
Speaker 1: Can you can You got to be a part of
Speaker 1: this web.
Speaker 2: And I think that was probably I think at the
Speaker 2: USFL was thinking that and Fox was thinking, this is
Speaker 2: a proof of concept. Now let's now the next step
Speaker 2: is to franchise these teams out and to actually play
Speaker 2: in the cities that they're named after. But but I think,
Speaker 2: you know, this year, as we said, I mean, I
Speaker 2: think there's an opportunity for the UFL to show what
Speaker 2: it's about and maybe make that sell where they look,
Speaker 2: they're watching TV and they see these big crowds on
Speaker 2: a Friday night. Hopefully we'll see that. So you know,
Speaker 2: it's something for the community to do, but it could
Speaker 2: be a harder sell for some larger cities, and maybe
Speaker 2: a little easier sell in places like Louisville, which is,
Speaker 2: you know, a top fifty market, but does it you know,
Speaker 2: doesn't have a pro football team.
Speaker 1: The other thing here, I had one, Oh, Mike, let's
Speaker 1: see here, just I just had a couple more. I
Speaker 1: wanted to see, Oh, Darren, are they doing boosts like Houston, Detroit, DC,
Speaker 1: any on the ground promotions. I know they're hiring for
Speaker 1: you know, they were always hiring for this, and I
Speaker 1: even saw that they were looking for like a new
Speaker 1: comms person to help kind of facilitate that. I just
Speaker 1: it's such a hard it's a hard sell for any
Speaker 1: of this. Like it's okay, I'm going to be a
Speaker 1: seasonal employee, like I'm going to come work. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: need to have you need to have two three people
Speaker 1: on full staff and all these you know we were
Speaker 1: talking Ryan Gusts in earlier. Seattle is a great example
Speaker 1: of that and really being and doing community events and
Speaker 1: giveaways and being prevalent like I don't I haven't seen
Speaker 1: a lot of that. I know they're trying to hire
Speaker 1: that and it's when you lay off everyone you gotta hire,
Speaker 1: it's hard to get people to come back on. Do
Speaker 1: you have any thoughts on that?
Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, I mean, as you said, how many people
Speaker 2: want to be seasonal employees. Uh, you know, if you're
Speaker 2: looking for a full time job, or you have the
Speaker 2: opportunity or you're going to be a seasonal employee for
Speaker 2: you know you have, you're gonna have to obviously be
Speaker 2: in the Arlington area. I just think that the talent
Speaker 2: pool for what they're looking for or what they're maybe
Speaker 2: hoping for that job, talent pool might not be what
Speaker 2: they It won't it won't be available or at the
Speaker 2: scale that it should be. To me, if that makes sense,
Speaker 2: I just think you're right. You need people year round
Speaker 2: who are out in the community, who are like you know,
Speaker 2: like Darren saying here, you know, do booths be a
Speaker 2: public presence, get your name out. We were seeing that
Speaker 2: wasn't even happening in Birmingham, and you know, Birmingham is
Speaker 2: the heart of spring football, so you need that year
Speaker 2: round and to be a brand.
Speaker 1: Anything else here. I know. I have one more thing.
Speaker 1: Oh Mike was talking, he had this question about them
Speaker 1: doing the pregame shows, doing that trying to roll in
Speaker 1: on Fridays. I assume that's going to be more of
Speaker 1: an internet thing, right the UFL, can you. I don't
Speaker 1: think Fox has the programming space to give it away
Speaker 1: ahead of that, but I do know that Mike had
Speaker 1: some talks about that. I think it was online stuff.
Speaker 2: You know, if they are you know, they did show
Speaker 2: on the schedule. I'll say this, like the Friday night
Speaker 2: games on Fox are at eight o'clock. But I do
Speaker 2: wonder usually, you know, seven thirty Eastern time is going
Speaker 2: to be you know, that's gonna be local time. That's
Speaker 2: gonna be your local programming stuff, that's your you know,
Speaker 2: family feuds and Judge Dudy's and things like that where
Speaker 2: the local stations make the money. So if they do
Speaker 2: have a pregame show, I can't imagine, you know, if
Speaker 2: it's a Fox pregame show, I can't imagine it would
Speaker 2: be more than maybe fifteen minutes and the kickoff would
Speaker 2: actually be eight to fifteen, which you know, we see
Speaker 2: this a lot. If anytime you notice a time, like
Speaker 2: for instance, you know it's gonna be Friday at eight o'clock. Well,
Speaker 2: the kickoff might.
Speaker 1: Actually be younger than that for a ten. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: could do.
Speaker 2: That, and sometimes even later with like college football, then
Speaker 2: you know something, Oh it kicks off is at eight. Well,
Speaker 2: we've got a twenty seven minute pregame show, so maybe
Speaker 2: there's something like that I would like to see. Rather
Speaker 2: than just go cold into the game, let's you know,
Speaker 2: have a little bit of a pregame.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It's like when we go to the crack and
Speaker 1: if it's a local game, they usually puck drop. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if it's at seven, they might puck drop at seven
Speaker 1: of five, But if it's on the t N TN
Speaker 1: T or ESPN broadcast, it's always like seven to twenty
Speaker 1: five eight, And then we never know. And then you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not looking at what channel the game's are. In
Speaker 1: the game, I'm going to right, You're like, oh, shoot,
Speaker 1: this game is the whatever. Well, there we go. I
Speaker 1: think we did good. You know, we'll come back in.
Speaker 1: I know, as Zach was asking more regular programming, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a holidays, there's not a lot to talk about.
Speaker 1: Obviously we touched on the Zach News here, leaving the
Speaker 1: Stallions and the Key Butler and all that, but like
Speaker 1: I think we do our best right now. I think
Speaker 1: we pop on when it is and you know, we've
Speaker 1: been waiting for this. We have all the broadcast windows.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I really thought we were going to
Speaker 1: get just the schedule, so we have. This is kind
Speaker 1: of the full drop of this now through and they're
Speaker 1: kind of hope that this I guess carries some interest
Speaker 1: going in here. But they got a lot of to me,
Speaker 1: they got a lot of work between now and in
Speaker 1: March twenty eighth to kind of get this interest peaked.
Speaker 2: And let's think about it. It's not that far away.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's really not. And yeah, let's go XFL project.
Speaker 2: You're right, I'm with you. I can't wait for the season.
Speaker 2: People think we get on here and we're too negative,
Speaker 2: and we say it all the time. It's like, well,
Speaker 2: we want to succeed and we're excited about it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I it that. That's a good point. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of promotion opportunity out there and it's you get you.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing. You have to have people in
Speaker 2: on the ground right there to do all the things
Speaker 2: in these markets to say oh, yeah, by the way,
Speaker 2: you know we're gonna we're starting up here, and the
Speaker 2: good thing is that the super Bowl is on Fox,
Speaker 2: So I think that there's a really good opportunity for
Speaker 2: a lot of promotion right there.
Speaker 1: One quick thing, I I hate these ufl commercials right now,
Speaker 1: these ones right I'm like the wild Roughneck runs through
Speaker 1: that thing. I don't I yeah, I don't like it.
Speaker 1: I I thought the ones they did last year, and
Speaker 1: I would have preferred. I preferred the Hollywood football or
Speaker 1: whatever that they called. You know, real folk like I
Speaker 1: prefer that over this because to me, it's like it
Speaker 1: almost takes too long to figure out what's going on,
Speaker 1: and then it's like spring football returns. You have like
Speaker 1: tiny little UFL ago you like these, am I in
Speaker 1: the minority. The everyone of those life is It's.
Speaker 2: Okay to be wrong. Read there's nothing wrong with it. No,
Speaker 2: I really like, I thought they were creative and and
Speaker 2: their eye catching. I mean it's not you know, it's
Speaker 2: not fireworks and you know, car explosions or anything. But
Speaker 2: I thought they were creative and it got my attention.
Speaker 2: I mean I was you know a lot of times
Speaker 2: you're watching a game and you know, su as the
Speaker 2: commercial comes on, you know, there's about three or four
Speaker 2: other things you're gonna do during that commercial and it's
Speaker 2: like but then I see it, Like the first time
Speaker 2: I saw one, I'm like, what is this? Like, Oh,
Speaker 2: it's a spring football commercial?
Speaker 1: Well they had yeah this one. Yeah, so Mike and
Speaker 1: and Abdullah bro the Jake Bates one was fine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: where it is I'm talking to the wild wild Stallion
Speaker 1: runs it sounds like David Attenborough and like and like
Speaker 1: one of them is it turnover and then the other.
Speaker 1: I don't like that. I don't like seeing the turnover
Speaker 1: and because like he knocks it out of the fumble or something.
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm the same thing when I'm watching football.
Speaker 1: I'm on my phone, you know, I'm on a million
Speaker 1: different things, but I don't. I don't. Yeah, I just
Speaker 1: think they're really weird.
Speaker 2: Read noted ufl hater got it.
Speaker 1: Well, I have a Phillips asking me how he how
Speaker 1: he can join guys? Yeah, click join, right, isn't that
Speaker 1: what it says there? John? Click joins and subscribe to
Speaker 1: the you know, don't subscribe, click join the channel join
Speaker 1: and then the last thing here? Oh Chris Chris said, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I couldn't get through one episode of having a complaint.
Speaker 1: So there you go, I have to complain about them whatever.
Speaker 1: So anything else, I think we're.
Speaker 2: Good, John, I'm sorry, sorry read Yeah, I think it's exciting.
Speaker 2: As someone said, happy schedule release day, I mean it
Speaker 2: got here. I think the UFL did it right. They
Speaker 2: built a little anticipation and then they released the schedule.
Speaker 2: I think the destroying appearance might have gotten canceled today
Speaker 2: because you know, all the Sugar Bowl stuff that was
Speaker 2: going on. But but I but I do like that.
Speaker 2: I like where it's going. I like I'm optimistic even
Speaker 2: more this year than I was this time last year
Speaker 2: because we we didn't know what was gonna happen. We've
Speaker 2: got a second season of the UFL, We've got what
Speaker 2: a fourth or fifth straight season now of spring football.
Speaker 2: I mean these are good times right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And like I said, we'll do our bet. This
Speaker 1: is kind of the investment that I'm into this, Like
Speaker 1: I'll pop in, we'll do I appreciate. But like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we're I think we're doing good. I appreciate.
Speaker 1: I said, like subscribe, Phillip, click you know, click join.
Speaker 1: It's it's ninety nine cents a month. You wouldn't even
Speaker 1: think of it coming out, and thanks everyone for dealing
Speaker 1: with that weird like start where it didn't it didn't like,
Speaker 1: it didn't trigger on Twitter, and so like, I don't
Speaker 1: think I'm live. I'm like, oh, I am live.
Speaker 2: I just I saw the stream live up. I'm like,
Speaker 2: what is that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So uh here Phillips, Phillips really working through that. Well,
Speaker 1: I can't, I can't. I was gonna screen share Philip. Well, well,
Speaker 1: I'll hit you up in the DMS. We'll see everyone
Speaker 1: next time. Thanks everyone, and then we'll check you out
Speaker 1: at NAS