WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.399 --> 00:00:06.440 No, it wasn't. Hang on, it wasn't going on. Hang on. 2 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:12.240 Oh we're on. I think we're on YouTube. All right, 3 00:00:12.279 --> 00:00:14.359 let's bring in John, John, we're on. I was trying 4 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:16.440 to get it going live on YouTube. I had a 5 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:18.800 whole thing here. Let me there, all right, we're live 6 00:00:18.839 --> 00:00:33.799 on Twitter. Let me play the engine. Well, there we go, John, 7 00:00:33.880 --> 00:00:36.520 we're here. Sorry, I get on here a stream yard. 8 00:00:36.679 --> 00:00:40.039 It's been the holidays, they've moved everything around. It wasn't 9 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:43.240 going on Twitter. I think we're good now. Welcome everybody. 10 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:47.280 Apologize for that. That's why you know it's always hot microphone. John, 11 00:00:47.399 --> 00:00:50.399 You never wanted to say anything but welcome. We are here. 12 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:54.520 We finally have the UFL twenty twenty five schedule January second. 13 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:58.479 This was exciting had it you know, they teased it out. 14 00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:01.520 That was nice. I appreciate at that because you know, 15 00:01:01.679 --> 00:01:04.040 in the years past, now, John, I did get up 16 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:07.680 at five am today Pacific time, just in case because 17 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:09.840 we never know right and now, but hey, maybe the 18 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:13.079 UFL is learning now we have new media people in charge. 19 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:15.799 Maybe they've decided aight am Easter and you know, a 20 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:18.519 day after the holiday isn't the best time to do it, 21 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:21.159 so here we go. It was like eleven Easter or 22 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:24.480 eleven am Pacific. Today we got everything out. We'll go 23 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:27.840 through all that today. Welcome everyone, Please like and subscribe. 24 00:01:28.120 --> 00:01:31.599 Coming off our CFL coverage, this is the Marcust. John 25 00:01:31.719 --> 00:01:35.000 Lewis has his own YouTube channel. John Lewis Sports a 26 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:38.280 little bit more bite size things, so like subscribe to 27 00:01:38.359 --> 00:01:41.480 both join the channel membership. I think we've even added 28 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:44.239 some members. But getting ready for the UFL season. Here 29 00:01:44.319 --> 00:01:46.439 will go week by week everything through here, give you 30 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:48.879 all the facts and figures, all that stuff. John, How 31 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:50.680 the heck are you? Last time we talked, we were 32 00:01:50.680 --> 00:01:53.920 potentially expanding in the UFL, but now we you know, 33 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:56.480 I think we already have some hot takes on the schedule, 34 00:01:56.519 --> 00:01:57.799 so that should be good. But how are you doing? 35 00:01:58.079 --> 00:01:58.879 Yeah, I'm doing good. 36 00:01:59.079 --> 00:01:59.280 You know. 37 00:01:59.439 --> 00:02:02.879 Holidays great and uh yeah it's you can tell us 38 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:05.599 like post holidays because my microphone's all buzzy. I thought 39 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:07.599 I had a great setup going here. I hope everyone 40 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:09.840 can hear me, but uh, you know, it's going great. 41 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:12.560 It was exciting, you know, we we kept hearing we 42 00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:16.960 got all these releases that said the uh, the schedule is. 43 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:18.520 In the coming weeks. 44 00:02:18.759 --> 00:02:21.280 Yeah, the coming weeks, well, the coming weeks, I think 45 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:23.280 from October to now. That's been a few weeks. But 46 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:25.680 it is exciting to have this now and I thought, 47 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:27.680 this what a good time. I was really hoping it 48 00:02:27.719 --> 00:02:30.280 would happen New Year's Eve kind of since that's when 49 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:32.759 I think the UFL, you know, dropped all that that 50 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:36.599 we news we already knew but last year. But it's cool. 51 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:39.319 I'm I'm looking forward to talking about this schedule. There's 52 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:41.479 some there's some quirks in there that we can talk 53 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:43.120 about and some surprises. 54 00:02:43.159 --> 00:02:45.919 I thought, yeah, so leave your gripes in here, because 55 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:47.879 this is you know, if you're new to the channel, 56 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:50.000 we tend to get a little bit gripier on here. 57 00:02:50.039 --> 00:02:53.319 I already see Marcus is complaining about Mother's Day kickoff. 58 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:55.400 We have a complain about, you know, the battle Hawks 59 00:02:55.400 --> 00:02:58.240 playing too early. So leave your gripes and comments in here. 60 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:00.960 We'll get to all that, some interesting stuff with the 61 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:03.560 press release. We'll get through all of that and then yeah, 62 00:03:03.560 --> 00:03:07.639 any questions comments. I just saw Keem Butler is signing back. 63 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:11.240 I just got tagged in that from MLF football on here. 64 00:03:11.319 --> 00:03:12.960 Can I share that? Am I able to share that 65 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:15.439 and said, you know, that's exciting here, so all sorts 66 00:03:15.479 --> 00:03:18.120 of breaking news. He's re signing with the BattleHawks. We 67 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:20.280 have new quarterbacks. So if we want to do in 68 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:22.120 the actual football stub, will do it at the end. 69 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:25.240 But this will get you ready for the UFL season, 70 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:28.599 which is kicking off of March twenty eighth, right, which 71 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:33.680 is a Friday, and then is concluding on is included 72 00:03:33.759 --> 00:03:36.520 on June fourteenth, So that should be excited. Yet March 73 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:39.680 twenty eighth Friday, we'll get through all that and then 74 00:03:39.919 --> 00:03:42.479 going all the way through June fourteenth through twenty twenty five. 75 00:03:42.879 --> 00:03:45.800 I obviously we knew the kickoff date before. We are 76 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:49.840 learning more about the home, the network that we'll be 77 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:52.520 hosting the championship game, and all of that stuff. So 78 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:56.439 let's get into it here, John, earlier than last year, right, 79 00:03:56.479 --> 00:03:58.639 we got the UFL schedule. I think it was into 80 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:00.800 February last year before we how all that? Do you 81 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:04.680 feel good here? We've gotten through the holidays. I like 82 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:06.639 them giving a couple of day heads up to try 83 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:08.439 to kind of do this as opposed to dropping around 84 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:11.039 in Pressley's how do you feel just about the roll out? 85 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:12.800 Of this and then we'll get into the specifics. 86 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:15.280 I would love to give the right person credit because 87 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:18.519 I read something earlier and I sold the comment later. 88 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:22.800 It's like, I love spring football because spring football as 89 00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:25.319 always in UFL, and all of them says, we're gonna 90 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:28.000 we're announcing that we're gonna have an announcement. But I 91 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:30.560 do they built something. They built something to this, and 92 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:33.399 you know, we can't complain because how many times have 93 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:35.759 we said, like they're not telling us anything or we 94 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:37.920 don't know. But they really kind of teas this out. 95 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:41.000 It didn't come to fruition like we thought it would. 96 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:43.240 You know, Mike Mitchell had said it was. It was 97 00:04:43.279 --> 00:04:45.600 a fluid situation. It was kind of a fluid plan 98 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:47.600 that they would do like one one day in one 99 00:04:47.639 --> 00:04:50.199 the other. It didn't happen. But I thought this was fine, 100 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:52.560 and I thought, you know too, it afternoon Eastern time, 101 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:56.680 eleven Pacific. I thought I thought it was fine, and 102 00:04:56.920 --> 00:04:59.120 I did like there was some hype and and if 103 00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:01.199 you noticed on a lot of those social media posts, 104 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:03.519 I thought it had some good reaction, it got some engagement. 105 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:04.800 So yeah, it's pretty cool. 106 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:07.920 Yeah, so let's get into it here. One thing to 107 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:09.639 keep in mind that we already have a question here. 108 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:13.199 Why wait so long to release the schedule? You know, 109 00:05:13.279 --> 00:05:15.519 there's a lot of moving pieces here, and we've already 110 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:19.160 had questions about schedule availability for the different stadiums. I've 111 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:21.800 seen comments about that, you know, the Brahmas playing on 112 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:23.800 the road for a while and the six games in 113 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:25.680 Saint Louis. So we'll get through all that stuff. But 114 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:28.160 you know, sometimes their hands are tied here and we're 115 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:32.399 kind of having to roll through. You know, you kind 116 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:34.360 of got to take the leftovers that you have right 117 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:37.720 Outy Field has availability issues with soccer, and I know 118 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:40.120 the ALM Dome hosting at March Madness and all of that. 119 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:41.920 So there's a lot of stuff to get into. But yeah, 120 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:44.000 let's get you set up here. So this came out today. 121 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:48.120 New Comms people in place Jeff Altstauder. It was with 122 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:51.920 the UFL. He's now with the Arena Football one. Right, 123 00:05:51.959 --> 00:05:54.600 I'm getting press releases from that. I get him still 124 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:56.720 in the space. But like I said, I appreciate this 125 00:05:56.959 --> 00:05:58.839 press release coming out. I know Mike Mitchell had the 126 00:05:58.839 --> 00:06:02.040 scoop on this. Miller. They have their article up. I 127 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:04.199 have it linked in the comments for you know, the 128 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:06.360 whole breakdown of that as well. The anthety Mike did 129 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:10.120 over at Sports Illustrated, you know, came out today Complete 130 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:11.959 twenty five. Oh. I was gonna say. What I like too, 131 00:06:12.079 --> 00:06:13.839 is we got the broadcast partnerships. 132 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:14.199 Yes. 133 00:06:14.240 --> 00:06:17.319 I'm sometimes like we've already knew the home and away 134 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:20.079 and all that stuff, But I like knowing, Okay, Fox 135 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:22.000 or ESPN all that because I was kind of afraid 136 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:24.079 that we would just get maybe the dates and times 137 00:06:24.079 --> 00:06:26.040 and not the network. So we have everything. This is 138 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:29.319 your complete broadcast window on here. They're going to complete 139 00:06:29.639 --> 00:06:32.480 forty you know, all forty three games ESPN, ESPN, two 140 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:36.000 F this one, Fox and ABC. They're kicking off March 141 00:06:36.199 --> 00:06:38.959 twenty eight. Is who said eight pm on Fox. It's 142 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:42.680 gonna debut their Fox UFL Friday and Unite dedicated to 143 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:46.120 the UFL action that is taking the place of college 144 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:49.600 football and also SmackDown that's leaving Fox so looking to 145 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:52.639 kind of keep their ratings momentum that that they've built. 146 00:06:52.680 --> 00:06:55.639 I'll be curious to see and I've even seen questions 147 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:58.279 like are they all Friday games? No, but we'll get 148 00:06:58.279 --> 00:07:00.279 through all that. You know, a Friday game each week 149 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:03.040 week and we have comments here from rest Brandon. That's 150 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:06.800 all it's excited to see. In addition to games will 151 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:10.079 be on ESPN, Deportes the beyond, you know, the Fox 152 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:12.560 Sports app, and the ones on ABC and ESPN will 153 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:16.199 be on ESPN Plus. During the opening weekend, Fox will 154 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:19.040 present a matchup between the Brahmas and the Renegades at 155 00:07:19.040 --> 00:07:21.120 four pm, so the whole weekends late and all that. 156 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:23.399 I hear some breakdowns and then we'll go kind of 157 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:25.800 week by week. I was kind of glancing through this earlier. 158 00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:30.160 Forty three games being on there, twenty two on ESPN. 159 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:33.639 Fox will have twenty one. The UFL will feature ten 160 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:37.040 weeks for regular season, ten live regular season matchups on Friday, 161 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:40.759 eight teams. There'll be five double headers. We had mixed 162 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:43.759 feelings about that last year. ABC, ESPN and Fox will 163 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:48.319 broadcast those. The top two conferences with the two best records. 164 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:50.959 The excuse me with the you know, the top two 165 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:54.199 and then the record holders. There was confusion last year 166 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:56.920 with the playoffs, and you know, Anthony backed about all 167 00:07:56.920 --> 00:08:00.560 that stuff. Seventy four of all UFL games air on 168 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:03.879 either ABC or Fox, not regularly relegating a lot of 169 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:06.279 those to FS one and all of that, and then 170 00:08:06.279 --> 00:08:08.360 obviously you can get group tickets. We'll do all the 171 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:10.480 week by week here, but just the general thoughts on 172 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:12.160 the facts and figures here, John, what do you make 173 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:12.639 of all that? 174 00:08:12.879 --> 00:08:15.040 Well, what I really liked was you could see that 175 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:18.120 right there on Fox. There's only one game on FS one, 176 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:20.040 and I think it might be like a Sunday night. 177 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:22.160 I don't We'll look at it and see. I did 178 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:24.360 like that, And there's only one game on ESPN two, 179 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:27.680 So they're really hitting it hard on you know, the 180 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:30.720 main outlets, ABC, Fox and ESPN. I think that is 181 00:08:30.759 --> 00:08:34.039 a very very good sign. And I love that they're 182 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:36.960 making the Fox ufl Friday a thing. I think this 183 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:38.919 can be a thing, and it can be kind of 184 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:41.519 a you know, we're all living in a niche, but 185 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:43.720 I think this is pretty cool that on a Friday night, 186 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:47.080 you know, in the spring that this could that this 187 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:49.320 really could be a thing, especially if Fox puts a 188 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:50.559 lot of promotion behind it. 189 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:54.360 Ethan, you want to post that comment, You want to 190 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:56.279 post that in the your link in the comment, we 191 00:08:56.320 --> 00:08:58.799 can pull that up if I can get all that. Uh. Yeah, 192 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:02.159 I think it's good to have, you know, not have 193 00:09:02.279 --> 00:09:04.480 them on the you know, the the f S onees, 194 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:06.240 f S two's of the world. Remember back with the 195 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:09.039 USFL being on the Peacock and all that. The Friday 196 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:12.720 thing is interesting. We've talked about that because you know, 197 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:16.320 it was really built into a destination for Fox and 198 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:19.120 SmackDown and their viewership there for a lot of that 199 00:09:19.159 --> 00:09:21.720 with the WW and I'll be curious because that's that's 200 00:09:21.759 --> 00:09:26.200 not something that that's not just a destination time slot, 201 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:29.039 you know, just because right that's because WW and Fox 202 00:09:29.080 --> 00:09:31.320 really built that into a lot of their marketing and 203 00:09:31.360 --> 00:09:33.159 promotions over there. I think they were on a five 204 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:35.559 year deal with them. But that's not like people are 205 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:37.480 just going to show up on Fridays. You know, you 206 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:39.639 really have to promote that and work that. But if 207 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:41.639 they're already trying to brand it as that, I think 208 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:45.639 that could be really cool and you know, maybe gets 209 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:47.600 you out of some of the other competition windows you 210 00:09:47.639 --> 00:09:50.840 would normally face otherwise there, And I think you get 211 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:53.480 a different demo at home on a Friday versus midday 212 00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:54.600 on the Saturday or Sunday. 213 00:09:54.879 --> 00:09:57.039 Yeah, that's a good point. I mean, your your younger 214 00:09:57.080 --> 00:09:59.159 demo might not see a lot of those Friday games, 215 00:09:59.679 --> 00:10:03.000 Sol Eyes, We'll probably see We'll see all those Friday games. 216 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:05.080 You're right, but I think it does kind of it 217 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:10.240 spreads the wealth a little bit. And you know, but 218 00:10:10.360 --> 00:10:13.159 you also look at Fox, did you know sink money 219 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:16.960 into SmackDown on Friday nights and it was I think 220 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:20.480 the ratings were really good on there. I think they 221 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:23.919 took the money and went somewhere else. But if they 222 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:26.200 put the kind of promotion that they put to me 223 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:29.240 that they put for SmackDown into the UFL on a 224 00:10:29.240 --> 00:10:30.960 Friday night, I think he can be a thing. 225 00:10:31.759 --> 00:10:34.240 I would love. And obviously this is you know, pipe 226 00:10:34.279 --> 00:10:37.039 dream down the way, and Fox has so much invested 227 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:38.879 in this anyway now to kind of keep this lie. 228 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:41.840 But seeing what the WWE is doing with Netflix I 229 00:10:41.879 --> 00:10:44.399 think is really cool and seeing kind of the promotions 230 00:10:44.440 --> 00:10:47.360 they have and just the added reach of that ride 231 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:50.679 just talking the worldwide audience of like we're instantly available 232 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:52.679 to over two hundred and sixty million, I think is 233 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:55.720 that you it's a Netflix subscriber account right now right 234 00:10:55.759 --> 00:10:57.679 two hundred and sixty, two hundred and eighty million, whatever, 235 00:10:57.759 --> 00:11:00.399 Like even just having the possibility of that and they're 236 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:02.799 promoting that on the front page when people signed up. 237 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:06.919 Is pretty cool that, you know, we saw, I was joking, 238 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:09.480 we saw Bankerchif Football kind of leverage that with Twitch 239 00:11:09.559 --> 00:11:11.200 years ago, like hey, we're going to put this on 240 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:13.799 the front page, you know, so a we can count 241 00:11:13.840 --> 00:11:15.840 our impressions more, but hey, maybe we're getting people on. 242 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:18.159 I just think that would be cool. Obviously Fox is 243 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:20.320 locked into the linear programming right now and that's where 244 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:23.000 we're focused on. But I always saw the spring football 245 00:11:23.039 --> 00:11:26.240 on the streaming platform that really got behind it would 246 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:26.759 be really cool. 247 00:11:27.320 --> 00:11:31.480 Yeah, and you know the AAF tried that somewhat, but 248 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:35.039 it you know, those deals were different though though that 249 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:36.960 was pretty much paid time I think. You know, and 250 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:39.600 you try to find the Bleacher Report app and in 251 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:42.600 twenty nineteen that wasn't really a thing that was easy 252 00:11:42.639 --> 00:11:45.039 to find, and it was certainly I think I downloaded 253 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:47.000 it somehow on my smart TV to watch some of 254 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:49.080 those games. But you know, it's a different world now, 255 00:11:49.279 --> 00:11:51.159 just you know, six years later. So yeah, I think 256 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:57.559 that's spring football can find an audience. I think you 257 00:11:57.600 --> 00:12:00.559 get the casuals. We talk about that a lot on Network, 258 00:12:00.679 --> 00:12:02.240 but you know, a lot of US hardcore fans, and 259 00:12:02.279 --> 00:12:04.320 I think there's there's more now than there might have 260 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:07.440 ever been. We can find those streaming apps. I've watched 261 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:09.480 a lot through streaming. I mean, I'm old, I watched 262 00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:11.159 a lot through streaming. I was able to find those 263 00:12:11.320 --> 00:12:12.000 pretty easily. 264 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:14.759 One last thing on this, because the isra all hypothetical, 265 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:17.120 is just because Lighting says, you know, locking games into 266 00:12:17.159 --> 00:12:20.279 streaming is no good the UFL. I agree, right, obviously 267 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:23.200 we want to hit that white Just the idea in 268 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:25.679 this this is someone that lives with the CFL right 269 00:12:25.720 --> 00:12:29.320 now in America with no real easy way to stay like, okay, 270 00:12:29.399 --> 00:12:30.919 some of the games are on the website and some 271 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:33.039 of the games are in here, and something is just 272 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:35.519 being able to tell, like if you watch a WWE, 273 00:12:35.799 --> 00:12:39.159 you know, in twenty twenty five, like everything's on Netflix, 274 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:43.480 you're on Netflix. I just think that has Obviously UFL 275 00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:44.720 has a long way to go to get to that 276 00:12:44.759 --> 00:12:47.879 brand recognition, but I just think that that being able 277 00:12:47.879 --> 00:12:50.159 to simplify it that way is very you know, is 278 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:52.919 very helpful for that. So let's get into here the 279 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:55.559 UFL schedule. I know, the teams put out whatever. We'll 280 00:12:55.600 --> 00:12:57.639 just kind of go through their pressure release here, John 281 00:12:57.679 --> 00:13:01.879 said he saw some kind of weirdness opening game. This 282 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:04.559 is so we already have comments about this right week one, 283 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:09.960 Saint Louis going into Houston again. A lot of the 284 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:13.080 the matchups for UFL decisions right the venues might not 285 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:16.080 always be. But what do you think of opening with 286 00:13:16.120 --> 00:13:19.559 the BattleHawks at Roughnecks. I mean, if there was anyone 287 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:22.080 in the world the at BattleHawks EO Stallion's in there 288 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:24.480 or some sort of betther SEXI your master, what do 289 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:25.960 you make of that? 290 00:13:25.960 --> 00:13:27.799 That one was a weird one right off the bat. 291 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:30.200 The first the first thing I saw was because I wondered, like, 292 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:32.120 I wonder, what, you know what this first Friday night 293 00:13:32.159 --> 00:13:33.679 game is going to look like? What's it gonna be? 294 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:36.559 This is gonna be the launching point for this fox 295 00:13:36.679 --> 00:13:39.200 UFL Friday or whatever they're calling it. And it was 296 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:42.960 Saint Louis at Houston enough it was the other way around. 297 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:44.879 I would kind of get that, because you know it 298 00:13:44.919 --> 00:13:47.519 would I mean, can you imagine what if. 299 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:49.559 You can get in You can put anything in Saint 300 00:13:49.559 --> 00:13:53.159 Louis except the championship game that the Vallahawks. 301 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:55.919 Rn N and they'll draw, and you know, and what 302 00:13:56.039 --> 00:14:00.559 was surprising was I looked, you know, was the dome taken? 303 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:03.960 And I started I try. I researched it this afternoon, 304 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:06.759 trying to find, you know, why maybe they didn't play 305 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:09.159 in Saint Louis. I did not see anything schedule for 306 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:12.559 the dome. Now, people out there that in Saint Louis 307 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:15.440 and may know, I didn't see anything. I was just 308 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:18.679 kind of perplexed on I know the Roughnecks are pretty 309 00:14:18.679 --> 00:14:21.960 excited to be back, you know, at TDECU Stadium, but 310 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:24.360 I mean the general audience on a Friday night, I 311 00:14:24.360 --> 00:14:26.200 don't know that they care that much. I just hope 312 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:28.320 that the turnout is a lot better. I know, you know, 313 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:31.080 playing at Rice, Houston fans didn't like that very much. 314 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:34.759 But I mean, were they really packing td e c U. 315 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:36.919 I don't know. I hope they do Friday. 316 00:14:36.679 --> 00:14:40.480 Night comment here, I'm not really were at Sincia. Max 317 00:14:40.639 --> 00:14:43.159 dug In, the former TCU go quarterback coming back to 318 00:14:43.200 --> 00:14:47.000 Texas against Houston. I can promise you that was not 319 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:51.200 and that like that's a wonderful happenstance. I will promise 320 00:14:51.240 --> 00:14:53.720 you that that is not. They did not flex that 321 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:55.679 into Week one because of that I think that that's 322 00:14:55.720 --> 00:14:58.879 cool and that's a great storyline, and the UFL needs 323 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:01.279 more storylines like that and not oh my god, the 324 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:03.399 league is going bankrupt or the league is going the way. 325 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:05.279 So I think that that's awesome. That's that. That's a 326 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:07.879 great poll there. But I guarantee they did not go, oh, 327 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:09.919 we got to flex that in here now because of that. 328 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:13.720 Right, I mean, how many people showed up in Birmingham, Uh, 329 00:15:14.279 --> 00:15:17.120 you know when AJ returned. I mean it wasn't that many. 330 00:15:17.159 --> 00:15:18.840 I mean they had a good crowd, but it was 331 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:21.960 not So I get it. You know, you're right. I 332 00:15:21.960 --> 00:15:23.840 think that might be a that's a good ad and 333 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:26.440 it might work. It might work out that way. I 334 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:28.679 can tell you this. It would st it's it's if 335 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:30.639 they want to promote it. That's one way to promote it. 336 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:32.159 I think that is a good idea. 337 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:36.600 Just right. Matt comments here. The other comment on here 338 00:15:36.639 --> 00:15:38.840 Mike has and I think someone else had this. Well, 339 00:15:38.879 --> 00:15:41.080 but you know, Friday nights having the games on at 340 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:44.200 the bar, I think that that's cool. I remember the 341 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:48.159 first season when we did the you know, we did 342 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:50.639 the whole Sea Dragons kickoff and all that kind of stuff. 343 00:15:50.679 --> 00:15:52.279 But then I think it was week two. We were 344 00:15:52.360 --> 00:15:54.360 down to Portland, CE and I think it was a 345 00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:56.879 wrestling show. We were seeing something Michael and I and yeah, 346 00:15:56.960 --> 00:15:59.240 having the games on, like at the bar, you know 347 00:15:59.279 --> 00:16:01.879 that we were out of Prosted venue. Oh what is that? 348 00:16:01.960 --> 00:16:03.960 What's going on? Or you know if we're watching and 349 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:06.639 the way their waitress like, what is that? Like? Football? 350 00:16:06.679 --> 00:16:08.720 Are like? Oh yeah, you know? Yeah, So I like 351 00:16:08.799 --> 00:16:10.679 that being on more And obviously a lot of these 352 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:13.480 games on you know that's on Fox. Fox has to 353 00:16:13.559 --> 00:16:15.320 kick off. Are you surprised with anything of that? 354 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:18.600 Uh? No, not really. I think it felt like Fox 355 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:21.960 is kind of running this thing. To me, that's the 356 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:24.879 way I I've failed anyway, So uh that does not 357 00:16:24.919 --> 00:16:27.159 a surprise. But I like Mike's comment that that's one 358 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:29.480 way to get the thirty in undercrowd to watch the 359 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:31.960 UFL on a Friday night. I never thought about that. 360 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:34.440 I think that could get some interest of anybody who's 361 00:16:34.440 --> 00:16:36.159 sitting there, and you're right, they look up there, and 362 00:16:36.200 --> 00:16:38.600 you know, any sports bar, you would think it might 363 00:16:38.639 --> 00:16:41.320 turn on Fox and say, you know, here's this game. 364 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:42.240 So that's that's great. 365 00:16:43.200 --> 00:16:47.200 The only thing my question is, and I maintain you know, 366 00:16:47.240 --> 00:16:49.320 we've talked about this before. I don't think you know, 367 00:16:49.639 --> 00:16:54.039 timeslots matter far more any timeslots and dates matter far 368 00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:56.000 more than you know the matchups, right, And I think 369 00:16:56.039 --> 00:16:57.720 this is cool to kind of go through this. And 370 00:16:57.759 --> 00:17:00.000 I'm just more curious to timing and networks and all 371 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:03.080 that stuff. I mean, this one, of course, because you're marketing, 372 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:06.440 is the first game. But I don't like the casual 373 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:08.599 audience isn't going to care. My question is like, are 374 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:10.400 the rough Necks going to be any good to be 375 00:17:10.480 --> 00:17:12.759 in this game? Like would you want? And not that 376 00:17:12.839 --> 00:17:15.759 you can guarantee this far out like a better or 377 00:17:15.799 --> 00:17:17.799 worse team, right, And we see the NFL try that 378 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:20.960 all the time. But you're surprised, like the Roughnecks, Yeah, 379 00:17:21.480 --> 00:17:24.000 have had issues through the rebrand and all that other stuff. 380 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:26.319 They've had a lot of issues. You're right read, Yeah, 381 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:28.599 that one was just surprising. It's like, we don't know 382 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:31.240 what Saint Louis is going to be this year. You 383 00:17:31.279 --> 00:17:34.400 just mentioned, you know, King Butler re signing that that's 384 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:38.440 huge quarterback situation is going to be interesting to watch. 385 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:42.160 I mean, I think think for us in this niche, 386 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:45.880 it would be interesting if you know aj was the 387 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:49.240 was the Houston Roughnecks quarterback. But but yeah, I just 388 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:52.759 don't know how competitive this one would be. There were 389 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:54.720 just a lot of question marks when I saw that. 390 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:56.680 When I saw that that this is going to be 391 00:17:56.720 --> 00:17:59.680 the Friday night. Hey, here we are, We're on Friday 392 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:02.119 night and it's Saint Louis at Houston. That was just 393 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:04.799 a little bit perplexing to me. What and we didn't 394 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:07.799 get to see you know, the us the USFL Conference 395 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:10.839 versus the XFL Conference champions play each other. I thought 396 00:18:10.839 --> 00:18:14.079 that might have been cool as as maybe a promotional point, 397 00:18:14.319 --> 00:18:17.079 uh for everyone else. But you know, we'll see what 398 00:18:17.119 --> 00:18:19.480 it is. I I was just kind of scratched my 399 00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:20.200 head at this one. 400 00:18:20.799 --> 00:18:23.920 Yeah, you know, and I mean it's technically USFL here right, 401 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:26.000 a conference with the with the Roughnecks. But yeah, we've 402 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:27.720 gotten the gutten through all that stuff. Yeah, I agree, 403 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:31.559 I think, you know, championship rematch any other stuff. So 404 00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:35.960 we got to hear Bramas renegades back on Fox Saturday four. 405 00:18:36.119 --> 00:18:39.200 You know, one o'clock Eastern, that tends to do pretty 406 00:18:39.200 --> 00:18:42.279 well right that early afternoon, that kind of the prime time. 407 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:44.680 If you want to look at it that way and 408 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:48.640 then yeah, we go Sunday here. But you know, Bramas 409 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:51.319 Renegades as I do anything for you and back of 410 00:18:51.400 --> 00:18:53.039 Choctaw Fox and everything else. 411 00:18:54.359 --> 00:18:56.799 I mean that that's fine. Yeah, I mean the Bramas, 412 00:18:56.839 --> 00:18:59.920 I just feel so bad for them. Was it week five? 413 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:01.440 I think we'll look and see. I think that might 414 00:19:01.480 --> 00:19:04.839 be their first uh yeah, their first home game. Uh yeah, 415 00:19:04.880 --> 00:19:07.079 I mean that that it could be a good matchup. 416 00:19:07.160 --> 00:19:09.720 I mean, you know, we see what san Antonio is 417 00:19:09.720 --> 00:19:12.119 going to bring in. Uh, Louis Perez. Is he going 418 00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:14.400 to be the starting quarterback? Those are some questions I 419 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:18.359 think that we that'll get answered. But I mean yeah, 420 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:20.839 to me, that's it's an interesting matchup. Could be an 421 00:19:20.839 --> 00:19:24.359 interesting matchup, you know for the four o'clock Fox audience. 422 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:28.119 I will see, yeah, Pat and a couple of people 423 00:19:28.119 --> 00:19:31.200 have said Pres announced he's returning. Is that I don't 424 00:19:31.200 --> 00:19:33.240 know if that's a new thing today or I asked 425 00:19:33.279 --> 00:19:36.000 for a link, but apparently Pres will be back playing, 426 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:37.079 you know, playing with the Renegades. 427 00:19:37.079 --> 00:19:39.880 That's I will when the When the Renegades on Instagram 428 00:19:39.960 --> 00:19:42.480 posted their schedule, they had Louis Perez that was it 429 00:19:42.519 --> 00:19:45.119 was the picture so that I cut. So I assume, yeah, 430 00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:46.039 that was going to be the thing. 431 00:19:46.160 --> 00:19:48.480 Yeah, uh yeah. The other thing to point out, Yeah, 432 00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:50.519 a lot of questions about the Brahmas playing on the 433 00:19:50.599 --> 00:19:53.519 road here. I believe it's the first four or five weeks. Uh, 434 00:19:53.640 --> 00:19:56.440 March Madness and everything they're dealing with. You not only 435 00:19:56.440 --> 00:19:59.559 are we now competing with March Madness in the ratiings, 436 00:19:59.599 --> 00:20:01.559 but now or commuting with March Madness, you know, in 437 00:20:01.799 --> 00:20:06.160 the physical locations of the building. I you know, I 438 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:08.440 I love the San Antonio market. I love the outmodme, 439 00:20:08.519 --> 00:20:10.480 but like it's I don't know, I don't know if 440 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:14.359 it's And that's been tough and troublesome here to try 441 00:20:14.400 --> 00:20:16.079 to get that fan base going. And I don't think 442 00:20:16.079 --> 00:20:17.160 that this is gonna help. 443 00:20:18.039 --> 00:20:21.240 Right, it's you know, how excited are they gonna be 444 00:20:21.279 --> 00:20:23.799 after five or six weeks? You know, maybe they will, 445 00:20:23.799 --> 00:20:26.599 maybe the anticipation is building up. There's gonna be gonna 446 00:20:26.599 --> 00:20:30.279 be a lot to do in San Antonio, but uh yeah, uh, 447 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:32.559 that's just that's just really tough for them, and you know, 448 00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:34.839 and not even get a full allotment of home games 449 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:35.839 that everyone else is get. 450 00:20:35.880 --> 00:20:38.680 That's that's rough. Well, and like imagine you're one and 451 00:20:38.839 --> 00:20:40.880 four and you play, then you come home for the 452 00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:43.240 first time or whether like you know, then you're trying 453 00:20:43.240 --> 00:20:46.880 to get these stands behind. And I'm spoiler alert we're 454 00:20:46.880 --> 00:20:49.359 living through this right now with the Washington Commanders, like 455 00:20:49.519 --> 00:20:52.440 you can you know, nothing puts in Sea. It's like winning, right, 456 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:54.359 and there's been all this oh in the name and 457 00:20:54.359 --> 00:20:57.960 all this kind of stuff like team wins, it's packed, right, 458 00:20:58.079 --> 00:21:00.920 it's the easiest way. And getting some of these market's going, 459 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:03.240 like the memphiss of the World and whatever, like if 460 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:06.119 the team stinks, look at the Edmonton Elks, like, it's 461 00:21:06.119 --> 00:21:08.559 really hard to get fans in there if your team 462 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:16.480 is garbage. Speaking of a Memphis hosting Sunday. 463 00:21:14.519 --> 00:21:18.359 There, I'm assuming you don't mean that that team is garbage. 464 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:23.640 Come on, Panthers going in there, ESPN hosting their first 465 00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:26.839 game and then the double header there leading into the 466 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:29.720 Stallions ad defenders. I think that should be a really 467 00:21:29.759 --> 00:21:32.480 cool week one you kind of and the week on that, 468 00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:35.039 you know, the Stallion's going in. We'll see Zach Potter 469 00:21:35.039 --> 00:21:38.519 Wright moving on to Sacramento State doing scouting for them. 470 00:21:38.559 --> 00:21:40.880 I saw so he blocks me on Twitter. So I 471 00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:43.319 don't think I've ever interacted with the gentleman in my life, 472 00:21:43.359 --> 00:21:47.759 but cheers on that. But that's a cool double header 473 00:21:48.079 --> 00:21:50.440 ESPN Sunday Week one and like I said, a big 474 00:21:50.559 --> 00:21:54.319 primetime match for their Sunday night. I feel really good 475 00:21:54.319 --> 00:21:55.880 about that week one Sunday. Do you agree? 476 00:21:56.039 --> 00:21:58.680 I think that's a great double header to start it, 477 00:21:59.160 --> 00:22:02.200 no question, I'm really interested to see what Memphis is 478 00:22:02.200 --> 00:22:05.119 gonna look like. Uh with you know, hopefully the home 479 00:22:05.160 --> 00:22:08.039 crowd gets there. There's a lot of construction apparently happening. 480 00:22:08.079 --> 00:22:11.920 I don't know that it's all finished yet, so uh, 481 00:22:12.559 --> 00:22:16.039 I'm so hopefully that you know, it's gonna look good anyway. 482 00:22:16.200 --> 00:22:19.680 And you know, with I think you know Memphis in 483 00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:22.880 this rebuild, uh with wizen Hunt that that's gonna be 484 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:25.640 interesting for you know, the people who follow the storylines. 485 00:22:25.880 --> 00:22:29.440 And then with Birmingham and d C, those two, to me, 486 00:22:29.559 --> 00:22:31.920 I think those two teams could again be like maybe 487 00:22:31.920 --> 00:22:33.599 the cream of the crop this year. D C, I know, 488 00:22:33.960 --> 00:22:36.160 hit a road bump last year and we don't know 489 00:22:36.799 --> 00:22:39.680 exactly what the personnel is going to look like. But uh, 490 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:43.200 I do I think that is a great Sunday doubleheader, 491 00:22:43.200 --> 00:22:45.039 and there's also something and we can talk about it too. 492 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:49.079 It's like there's some weird Sunday game times. Uh it 493 00:22:49.200 --> 00:22:50.839 was I thought those are that was kind of odd. 494 00:22:51.680 --> 00:22:54.160 Yeah, it's a three Eastern. I mean Dan miraclus Is 495 00:22:54.240 --> 00:22:57.759 said yeah to me, and even with the with the 496 00:22:57.799 --> 00:23:00.880 falloff last year, d C still carries that, like that 497 00:23:01.039 --> 00:23:03.680 sexy vibe kind of a team. Does that make sense. 498 00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:07.119 We're like, sorry, the showboats don't yet obviously, like you said, 499 00:23:07.119 --> 00:23:08.960 they're going to go through a rebuild and figure all 500 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:11.279 that out. We got Jamanos in there as the GM. 501 00:23:11.359 --> 00:23:15.119 You know, we'll work through that. But you know, yeah, 502 00:23:15.160 --> 00:23:17.359 to me, that still speaks prestige right now that you 503 00:23:17.400 --> 00:23:19.400 can kind of count on that being again, I think 504 00:23:19.440 --> 00:23:21.960 that's exciting. That Sunday night game signs of dependents? Anything 505 00:23:21.960 --> 00:23:22.599 else week one here? 506 00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:26.799 John h No, I mean I again, interesting Friday night matchup, 507 00:23:27.480 --> 00:23:31.160 you know, Saturday could be good and then yeah Sunday. 508 00:23:31.319 --> 00:23:32.920 I like how they're wrapping this up, you know, a 509 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:35.359 noon and a three easter or I think that's pretty cool. 510 00:23:36.119 --> 00:23:37.880 We'll see. I'm gonna try to time code all these 511 00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:39.440 we can go week by week. We'll see if that 512 00:23:39.480 --> 00:23:41.839 works as supposed to putting out eighteen videos doing all 513 00:23:41.839 --> 00:23:43.359 the week by week. We'll see if we can do that, 514 00:23:43.359 --> 00:23:46.440 because you could do that, you could crazily like make 515 00:23:46.720 --> 00:23:48.759 a whole video and then have ones for each week. 516 00:23:48.799 --> 00:23:51.200 But we'll see if that all the worktime goes. Week 517 00:23:51.240 --> 00:23:54.680 two here, Friday night going into forward Field, you know, 518 00:23:54.799 --> 00:23:56.880 back there, I think there was it wasn't there some 519 00:23:56.960 --> 00:23:58.759 debate like were they still going to be back? I mean, 520 00:23:59.000 --> 00:24:00.680 we've resolved this all. I think that was one of 521 00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:03.000 the offseason storylines going with I'm trying to remember this 522 00:24:03.119 --> 00:24:05.680 like fog dream that is the holiday weeks here right 523 00:24:05.680 --> 00:24:09.319 now and kind of everything blowing together. Uh, Fox again 524 00:24:09.400 --> 00:24:12.839 Friday night, you know, five pacific, eight eastern rolling in. 525 00:24:13.880 --> 00:24:15.920 You know we're doing that with the Fox. I think 526 00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:18.960 that's pretty set right that eight eastern for that ANBC 527 00:24:19.160 --> 00:24:22.160 hosting Memphis at d C. So they're getting back to 528 00:24:22.200 --> 00:24:26.519 back home games Saturday, five eastern and then the doubleheader 529 00:24:26.599 --> 00:24:30.839 Sunday ESPN and then FS one Roughnecks at Renegades on 530 00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:33.759 the ESPN. Because boy boy, then you put the Brahmas 531 00:24:33.799 --> 00:24:36.559 at the BattleHawks there, you certainly maybe like to flip 532 00:24:36.599 --> 00:24:39.279 those I don't know, maybe just fever dreams of last 533 00:24:39.359 --> 00:24:42.119 year with the Roughnecks and Renegades on that. But twelve 534 00:24:42.160 --> 00:24:45.799 at nine am East Pacific there in Arlington, you know, 535 00:24:45.880 --> 00:24:48.559 for me here watching on ESPN, and then the six 536 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:51.519 thirty at Saint Louis they get their first home game, 537 00:24:51.680 --> 00:24:53.680 because last year, right it was like week three till 538 00:24:53.720 --> 00:24:56.079 they got to the Ballahawks got their first home game. 539 00:24:56.119 --> 00:24:57.680 So that's it's certainly encouraging. 540 00:24:58.519 --> 00:25:01.279 I mean, that's really rolling the dice on your your 541 00:25:01.319 --> 00:25:06.039 spotlight Fox UFL game. And we know the Michigan Panthers 542 00:25:06.440 --> 00:25:12.720 attendance has been absolutely brutal. I was surprised, you know, 543 00:25:12.839 --> 00:25:14.960 I don't know all, you know, I don't know all 544 00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:17.119 the behind the scenes stuff about what happened with for 545 00:25:17.319 --> 00:25:20.519 Field and why that contract got signed or even re signed. 546 00:25:21.000 --> 00:25:23.359 But man, if you're gonna be on a Friday, you 547 00:25:23.400 --> 00:25:25.839 know they're making these it feels like this is this 548 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:28.480 These are the Friday night spotlight games are making it 549 00:25:28.519 --> 00:25:31.759 a thing. And you got the Stallions in there, you know, 550 00:25:31.839 --> 00:25:34.640 playing the Panthers, and if it's gonna be six thousand people, 551 00:25:34.720 --> 00:25:36.359 I just think that is going to be a really 552 00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:39.200 bad look and I'm put obviously, and you know, I 553 00:25:39.240 --> 00:25:41.519 wore my Michigan Panther shirt because I know everybody who's 554 00:25:41.519 --> 00:25:42.839 gonna say I was gonna hate on them. We can 555 00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:45.440 talk about attendance again, but I mean, it's it's just 556 00:25:45.480 --> 00:25:48.000 the fact it's the optics of it. And we talked 557 00:25:48.039 --> 00:25:51.759 about optics a lot, no matter if it's a Saturday 558 00:25:51.799 --> 00:25:54.319 afternoon game or a Sunday afternoon game or whatever it is. 559 00:25:54.599 --> 00:25:57.079 But when this is the Friday night game on a 560 00:25:57.400 --> 00:26:01.240 national network, I hope the miss Chigan fans don't find 561 00:26:01.279 --> 00:26:04.359 more excuses to not come to these games, because you know, 562 00:26:04.400 --> 00:26:07.000 it's Week two. That was a really good team last year, 563 00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:10.359 and I just I hope that this one looks good 564 00:26:10.400 --> 00:26:13.160 for Fox and for the whole national audience. 565 00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:15.640 In Week two, well, and that's what I was looking at. 566 00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:18.000 I have a separate one, so I cannot distract the 567 00:26:18.039 --> 00:26:20.440 audience by scrolling here. But because you know rough next 568 00:26:20.480 --> 00:26:24.559 hosting Week one, Panthers Week two, that's two questionable fan 569 00:26:24.640 --> 00:26:28.279 base sizes leading out the gate, and you know I 570 00:26:28.440 --> 00:26:31.759 track a lot of just tangentially, however, I say that 571 00:26:31.799 --> 00:26:34.559 word that you know, the WWE versus AW stuff, and 572 00:26:34.640 --> 00:26:37.240 like the TV ratings and deependance and all that, and 573 00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:41.759 like AW is still being competitive with WWE in the ratings, 574 00:26:41.799 --> 00:26:43.799 but then you look at their stands, there's no one there. 575 00:26:43.960 --> 00:26:46.559 At least with wrestling, you can film the wrestling show, 576 00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:48.720 so you can kind of minimize or hide a lot 577 00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:51.039 of that lack of attendance where there's I mean, we've 578 00:26:51.119 --> 00:26:53.400 learned there's just no way. And Fox has no interest 579 00:26:53.440 --> 00:26:55.519 in trying to do any sort of shots to minimize 580 00:26:55.559 --> 00:26:58.960 any of that at all. So you know, it's just, yeah, 581 00:26:59.119 --> 00:27:01.880 it'll be interesting. You got these two prime time if 582 00:27:01.920 --> 00:27:04.480 we want to call these the spotlight uh time slots 583 00:27:04.519 --> 00:27:06.839 here fill in the I mean, you know, and then 584 00:27:06.920 --> 00:27:10.079 like do they move some of these games later if 585 00:27:10.079 --> 00:27:12.039 they're not performing? Like, I'm gonna be curious how long 586 00:27:12.119 --> 00:27:14.599 this this experiment goes on because Fox has put a 587 00:27:14.640 --> 00:27:17.680 lot of time into building this uh you know rundown 588 00:27:17.720 --> 00:27:19.680 here on their time slots the last few years. 589 00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:24.519 Yeah, it's it's it'll be interesting to see and I 590 00:27:24.680 --> 00:27:29.039 hope again that there's enough you know, juice with uh 591 00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:32.079 you know, with Michigan and with this being a Fox game, 592 00:27:32.119 --> 00:27:34.319 that the fans do turn out. I mean, it's again 593 00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:36.240 you're really rolling the dice on this to me? 594 00:27:37.319 --> 00:27:40.720 So the week two Sunday, April sixth, uh, that that 595 00:27:40.799 --> 00:27:43.440 will be a spotlight right with Batlehawk's first home game 596 00:27:43.480 --> 00:27:46.599 on there? We have that on FS one, I don't know, 597 00:27:46.640 --> 00:27:48.480 and obviously ESPN and all that, but like, could we 598 00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:50.640 have could we have flip flopped those and could we 599 00:27:50.640 --> 00:27:53.920 have had the first Ballahawks game on the ESPN window? 600 00:27:54.000 --> 00:27:56.839 That would have been my vote? Any other thoughts on uh? 601 00:27:57.400 --> 00:27:59.960 This here says twenty five thousand and four a Field 602 00:28:00.039 --> 00:28:03.079 Friday night. All right, you bookmark this. I'll send you 603 00:28:03.119 --> 00:28:05.480 one hundred dollars on vemo if there are twenty five 604 00:28:05.519 --> 00:28:09.559 thousand at ford Field on Friday April for it, So god, I. 605 00:28:09.480 --> 00:28:11.960 Mean, I'll double it up. I'll double if there's twenty 606 00:28:11.960 --> 00:28:14.240 five thousand, two hundred coming his way. 607 00:28:14.440 --> 00:28:17.440 There you go. Anyway, I thought it's anything else from 608 00:28:17.440 --> 00:28:19.480 the week two slate there, because I would flip that. 609 00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:22.039 I would try to get the BattleHawks into the into 610 00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:25.119 the better time slot there at least the network window. 611 00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:27.759 Oh one hundred percent. And also the same the Battlehawk's 612 00:28:27.839 --> 00:28:30.359 home opener being on FS one. That's that's the one. 613 00:28:30.400 --> 00:28:32.359 It's like that's the one f S one game you're 614 00:28:32.400 --> 00:28:35.200 gonna put on. And I mean, I just I didn't 615 00:28:35.279 --> 00:28:35.839 understand it. 616 00:28:36.599 --> 00:28:39.440 And it's and I'll say this again, if we have 617 00:28:39.519 --> 00:28:41.839 new you know again, please subscribe like and all that stuff, 618 00:28:41.880 --> 00:28:43.880 and we have new people checking this out. We've done 619 00:28:43.920 --> 00:28:46.799 more interviews with TV analysts over the last few years 620 00:28:46.799 --> 00:28:49.039 talking about all this stuff. At the end of the day, 621 00:28:49.079 --> 00:28:51.480 it's time slot and you know, the time of day 622 00:28:51.480 --> 00:28:53.319 and the network it's on. I mean, we can picky 623 00:28:53.440 --> 00:28:55.680 choose all of this and what matchups and venues and 624 00:28:55.720 --> 00:28:58.799 attendance like, that's what drives the radians. And yeah, being 625 00:28:58.839 --> 00:29:01.640 on FS one, you're always going to hit a fraction 626 00:29:01.960 --> 00:29:04.680 of you know, kind of what you're going to get otherwise. 627 00:29:05.799 --> 00:29:08.839 Yeah, and it even you know, you compare the FS 628 00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:11.119 one game maybe to what there'll be at least one 629 00:29:11.160 --> 00:29:14.119 regional split. I still think that the regional splits might 630 00:29:14.440 --> 00:29:16.400 might get a higher rating than an FS one game 631 00:29:16.440 --> 00:29:17.160 on a Sunday night. 632 00:29:17.200 --> 00:29:20.119 Yeah. Yeah, Van, here, did you realize where I guess 633 00:29:20.160 --> 00:29:23.839 the sins now de Trenton. I didn't. I don't randomly 634 00:29:23.880 --> 00:29:27.359 track the right the people that I interacted with four 635 00:29:27.440 --> 00:29:29.759 years ago. Anything else weak to you here here I 636 00:29:29.799 --> 00:29:32.839 should be you know, I pick and choosy things on here, 637 00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:35.440 but I don't know. I'll get behind this Friday thing 638 00:29:35.480 --> 00:29:37.279 if they can get it going. I like having the 639 00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:39.759 consistency of that that, you know, like, Okay, this is 640 00:29:39.799 --> 00:29:41.799 what we're doing every Friday. I think that that is 641 00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:45.160 incredibly important. I like the Monday experiments we tried before. 642 00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:47.519 I like all that, but it needs to be consistent. 643 00:29:47.559 --> 00:29:48.839 No one's going to go out of their way to 644 00:29:48.839 --> 00:29:51.680 find a random Thursday or Monday game. You I mean, obviously, 645 00:29:51.759 --> 00:29:54.359 even with like Amazon and everything with the NFL, it's 646 00:29:54.559 --> 00:29:56.640 to try to get people to convert over to that, 647 00:29:56.920 --> 00:29:59.279 let alone the UFL and Fox agreed. 648 00:29:59.480 --> 00:30:03.359 I like the it's Friday at eight every week, you know, 649 00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:05.240 and we'll see, like we've already got, you know, these 650 00:30:05.279 --> 00:30:08.519 weird Sunday games five o'clock six thirty. The next week 651 00:30:08.519 --> 00:30:12.000 it's just to me, is weird. But I'm with you 652 00:30:12.039 --> 00:30:14.000 on that. I'm kind of all in on this Friday 653 00:30:14.079 --> 00:30:14.640 night football. 654 00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:18.319 Yeah, all right, Week three here we got so now 655 00:30:19.160 --> 00:30:23.440 Stallions hosting right first game here Protective Stadium Friday A. 656 00:30:23.720 --> 00:30:27.480 We have Memphis hosting Saturday to thirty and then the 657 00:30:27.519 --> 00:30:30.039 double So we like this seemingly kind of double header 658 00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:32.920 on Sunday at least that's bar Brahmas at Panthers Back 659 00:30:32.920 --> 00:30:36.720 and Forward Field on ABC and then the battle Hawks 660 00:30:36.759 --> 00:30:39.240 hosting on ABC after that. I like the Sunday night 661 00:30:39.279 --> 00:30:43.440 prime of that giving giving kind of a spotlight to 662 00:30:43.480 --> 00:30:45.519 the battle Hawks here. Presumably that's gonna be one of 663 00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:48.200 your best attended with that Stallions, right, we get to 664 00:30:48.200 --> 00:30:51.440 see Protective on a Friday, you know, I mean we 665 00:30:51.480 --> 00:30:53.799 hear a lot of that kind of stuff and attendance, 666 00:30:53.880 --> 00:30:55.440 We've gone through all that, but you like to think 667 00:30:55.480 --> 00:30:57.440 they kind of show up there on a Friday. I 668 00:30:57.480 --> 00:31:00.720 think that's kind of a cool college atmosphere. Feel there 669 00:31:01.160 --> 00:31:03.920 thoughts on this, And I'm trying to check his WrestleMania 670 00:31:04.079 --> 00:31:08.680 weekend is the week of the nineteenth, so that would 671 00:31:08.720 --> 00:31:10.880 be the next week. We'll talk about that, Okay, go ahead. 672 00:31:11.240 --> 00:31:14.440 Yeah, yeah, I like you know again, Fox rolls and 673 00:31:14.680 --> 00:31:17.119 rolls the dice a little bit because you know, Birmingham 674 00:31:17.319 --> 00:31:20.440 I mean had okay crowds, uh, but not what I 675 00:31:20.519 --> 00:31:22.359 felt like they should have had for the team that 676 00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:25.079 they've had. I think I don't know that anyone would 677 00:31:25.079 --> 00:31:27.400 disagree with that, you know, and be serious about it, 678 00:31:28.200 --> 00:31:30.039 But I do like that because you're right. I think, 679 00:31:30.079 --> 00:31:33.119 on a Friday night in April and Birmingham, what a 680 00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:36.480 perfect time for people to come out, and how good 681 00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:38.880 that would look at Protective Stadium, which is awesome. I mean, 682 00:31:38.920 --> 00:31:41.240 that's like to me, the perfect UFL venue. 683 00:31:41.759 --> 00:31:41.880 Uh. 684 00:31:41.960 --> 00:31:45.240 I think that that that's uh, that's really cool. And 685 00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:48.279 then and then yeah, and then you got just the 686 00:31:48.519 --> 00:31:51.240 single game Saturday and the Sunday doubleheader. I mean, to me, 687 00:31:53.079 --> 00:31:54.640 this might be one of the best weeks. I know 688 00:31:54.680 --> 00:31:57.079 it's early on and only three weeks in, but it's 689 00:31:57.119 --> 00:31:59.880 only ten weeks. But it's still three weeks in. This 690 00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:01.920 could be like one of the premier weekends to me. 691 00:32:03.039 --> 00:32:05.000 Something to kind of talk about here. And I'm just 692 00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:07.440 reading through the comments. I'm starring guys if I see 693 00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:09.640 and like fill up and Mike left questions, I'll star 694 00:32:09.759 --> 00:32:11.279 all the questions, make sure we get to them here 695 00:32:11.319 --> 00:32:12.400 at the end. I just want to make sure we 696 00:32:12.480 --> 00:32:14.279 kind of keep the week by week things a little 697 00:32:14.279 --> 00:32:16.200 bit clean, but we'll get we have good questions about 698 00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:19.039 the pre UFL pre show. We're talking about attendance and 699 00:32:19.119 --> 00:32:24.039 viewership and all that. If, like if Detroit, right the 700 00:32:24.039 --> 00:32:25.599 best team in the NFL right now, one of the 701 00:32:25.599 --> 00:32:28.799 best teams in the NFL goes wins the Super Bowl, 702 00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:32.079 deep run whatever. I just think that's another storyline to track. 703 00:32:32.119 --> 00:32:35.079 I think the Michigan market was far better suited for 704 00:32:35.119 --> 00:32:37.839 the UFL a couple of seasons ago before Detroit's kind 705 00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:41.559 of gone on this meteoric rise. But I don't I 706 00:32:41.599 --> 00:32:44.640 don't live in Michigan or Detroit or anywhere around there, Like, 707 00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:47.640 I don't see. I think it's a hard sell to 708 00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:49.880 go from my jer Goff and this like superstar team 709 00:32:49.880 --> 00:32:52.480 that they put together to like let's go to you know, 710 00:32:53.079 --> 00:32:55.799 Ford Field on the on the Sunday. And that's just 711 00:32:55.960 --> 00:32:58.920 me I kind of thoughts on that because it's you know, 712 00:32:59.720 --> 00:33:01.559 it's a thing I think we got to look into. 713 00:33:02.839 --> 00:33:05.279 There is that and and maybe there's a contingent of 714 00:33:05.319 --> 00:33:08.559 fans who said, well, we can't get Lions tickets, but 715 00:33:08.599 --> 00:33:10.519 we'd love to go to Ford Fields. So this is 716 00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:12.480 probably be a little better opportunity or a little a 717 00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:16.279 better chance for us, I mean taking a trying to 718 00:33:16.279 --> 00:33:18.640 take a positive out of that, you know that would 719 00:33:18.799 --> 00:33:21.759 you know, to me, could be something. But but you're right, 720 00:33:21.880 --> 00:33:24.240 and when you're seeing your team play at such a 721 00:33:24.319 --> 00:33:28.079 high level, you know, your NFL team, are you going 722 00:33:28.119 --> 00:33:32.920 to buy in to your your UFL team? You know, 723 00:33:33.039 --> 00:33:35.240 I'd love to see it, but the numbers have not 724 00:33:35.519 --> 00:33:38.240 really didn't really bear out in the last couple of years. 725 00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:40.599 Uh, you turn the negative to do a positive. That's 726 00:33:40.599 --> 00:33:41.400 a pitbull does. 727 00:33:43.960 --> 00:33:45.640 Mister Worldwide real? Why? 728 00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:49.000 But no? And I will say, and that's a great 729 00:33:49.039 --> 00:33:51.599 point though, like if you are priced out of the Lions, 730 00:33:51.680 --> 00:33:53.880 if you're priced out, like I know with the Seahawks, 731 00:33:53.920 --> 00:33:55.480 that was a lot of the questions we you know 732 00:33:55.759 --> 00:33:58.160 now questions, a lot of conversations we had with former 733 00:33:58.279 --> 00:34:00.880 you know, Sea Dragons fans or Pagans fans or kind 734 00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:03.599 of whatever. It was, Man, I can bring my whole 735 00:34:03.599 --> 00:34:05.119 family here and do all this stuff, you know, and 736 00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:07.680 it would cost you know, eight times this to be 737 00:34:07.680 --> 00:34:09.599 going to bring my family and kids and everything to that. 738 00:34:10.159 --> 00:34:12.639 We went to the Kraken on Monday, and it was 739 00:34:12.719 --> 00:34:15.280 like a weird game where it was an earlier start 740 00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:17.639 and everyone's off for the holidays, So there was like 741 00:34:17.960 --> 00:34:19.920 you could tell so many people that had like never 742 00:34:19.960 --> 00:34:21.559 been to a hockey game or never gone to a 743 00:34:21.599 --> 00:34:24.119 cracking game. You're like, Okay, let's get out of the way, 744 00:34:24.320 --> 00:34:27.400 let's move on, like let's let but it is, you know, 745 00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:29.840 they have some of those games, and it gives that opportunity. 746 00:34:29.880 --> 00:34:31.519 And so that is a great point. I shouldn't poo 747 00:34:31.559 --> 00:34:33.559 poo that, like if I yeah, if I'm living in 748 00:34:33.599 --> 00:34:35.559 Detroit and I've got three kids, and like, well, I 749 00:34:35.599 --> 00:34:37.519 could never bring them to a Lion scams. So that 750 00:34:37.599 --> 00:34:38.880 is a good point. That is a good point. 751 00:34:39.320 --> 00:34:41.639 Yeah, I mean I have won every once in a while, 752 00:34:41.679 --> 00:34:44.280 but yeah, I think that's uh yeah, I mean I 753 00:34:44.280 --> 00:34:47.159 can imagine that Lion's tickets, especially right now, are just 754 00:34:47.199 --> 00:34:49.239 out of control. I mean, Chris is right. I you know, 755 00:34:49.880 --> 00:34:53.239 I tried. I was looking at some uh when not 756 00:34:53.320 --> 00:34:55.519 too long ago, when the Seahawks were at the Bengals, 757 00:34:55.519 --> 00:34:58.400 you know, which Cincinnati is pretty close here to Louisville, 758 00:34:58.800 --> 00:35:02.159 and I mean the upper corner of the stadium. Those 759 00:35:02.199 --> 00:35:04.320 are like one hundred and fifty dollars tickets. It's like, 760 00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:06.400 I you know, you just hear about the game when 761 00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:07.119 you're that far up. 762 00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:07.760 Uh. 763 00:35:08.079 --> 00:35:11.000 But that's been to me the great thing about UFL tickets, 764 00:35:11.000 --> 00:35:13.239 even though there's been a bit of a price hike. 765 00:35:13.760 --> 00:35:16.119 Is you get a lot for your money as far 766 00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:19.039 as where when you pay a little extra. I mean, 767 00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:23.119 the the couple of times that I've been to Saint Louis. 768 00:35:23.559 --> 00:35:25.280 You know, my wife and I we get like tickets 769 00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:27.880 and you're on the few rows up from the twenty. 770 00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:30.159 It's I mean, it's a good price point for what 771 00:35:30.199 --> 00:35:31.320 you get, and. 772 00:35:31.280 --> 00:35:33.039 If you're lucky, you even get like a Marquette King 773 00:35:33.079 --> 00:35:36.719 halftime show or post scams. You know you have contents 774 00:35:36.760 --> 00:35:36.960 of that. 775 00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:37.559 You've seen it. 776 00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:39.800 Now, this is a good This is just said, well, 777 00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:41.800 we'll move on from week three after this, but it 778 00:35:41.880 --> 00:35:43.199 Mike brings out, this is a good point. You know 779 00:35:43.239 --> 00:35:45.639 what f Lions fans know Jake Bates and say, hey 780 00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:47.760 came from the UFL's go check it out. It's a 781 00:35:47.760 --> 00:35:51.440 great point. I just I I've always this is not 782 00:35:51.519 --> 00:35:53.599 just a Jake Bates or Brandon Aubrey thing or anything. 783 00:35:53.679 --> 00:35:57.000 I've never thought the entire you know, which it's clearly 784 00:35:57.039 --> 00:35:59.920 the league disagrees with, like building our entire identity are 785 00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:04.519 round these three special teams players or five special teams. 786 00:36:04.599 --> 00:36:07.199 Like I think that that is one element of that 787 00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:10.599 and that I think is successful. But like this, I mean, 788 00:36:10.639 --> 00:36:14.039 God bless the people that run in the Panther social 789 00:36:14.039 --> 00:36:16.440 media right now, but like it's like the official Jake 790 00:36:16.480 --> 00:36:21.400 Bates Stan Love account and everything. Okay, I get it. 791 00:36:21.400 --> 00:36:24.280 It's a little much, but I get it. I mean, 792 00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:26.480 I'm also probably not in the age demo that they're 793 00:36:26.480 --> 00:36:28.519 trying to kind of hit with that probably aging out 794 00:36:28.519 --> 00:36:30.840 of that thoughts on that John, I mean, because Jake 795 00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:32.239 Mats is really doing good this year. 796 00:36:32.440 --> 00:36:35.440 Oh there's no question. And I think that Mike might 797 00:36:35.480 --> 00:36:37.679 be onto something too that a lot of people who 798 00:36:37.880 --> 00:36:42.559 are paying attention to who might be like really hardcore 799 00:36:43.039 --> 00:36:46.039 NFL fans are starting to see that there are some 800 00:36:46.239 --> 00:36:48.559 UFL players who might not be the Jake Bates and 801 00:36:48.880 --> 00:36:52.639 getting that kind of notoriety. But there are guys who 802 00:36:52.719 --> 00:36:55.400 are in the league right now who came from the UFL. Now, 803 00:36:55.559 --> 00:36:58.880 they might be linemen that are you know, that aren't 804 00:36:58.880 --> 00:37:01.599 as popular, but if you're a football fan, you know 805 00:37:01.599 --> 00:37:05.400 who they are. And so I think there's something to that. 806 00:37:05.880 --> 00:37:09.760 It's a lot like I don't want and I'm reluctant 807 00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:13.000 to always reluctant to call the UFL a minor League. 808 00:37:13.320 --> 00:37:15.039 Some people might want to do that, and that's fine, 809 00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:17.400 but it's almost to me like going to a minor 810 00:37:17.480 --> 00:37:20.159 league baseball game. The diehards like to go. A lot 811 00:37:20.239 --> 00:37:22.519 of them like to go because they want to see 812 00:37:22.760 --> 00:37:24.360 some guys who they think are going to play up 813 00:37:24.360 --> 00:37:28.519 a level. And I think there's something to that. So yeah, 814 00:37:28.599 --> 00:37:32.599 I mean, will it be the majority of fans, Probably not, 815 00:37:32.760 --> 00:37:35.880 but I think it could be, especially as you know 816 00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:39.400 pointed out there in Michigan. People know who Jake Bates is, 817 00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:41.400 so maybe they say, well, let's go check this out. 818 00:37:41.480 --> 00:37:44.239 I mean, anything to get a few butts in the seats, 819 00:37:44.280 --> 00:37:46.159 especially in Detroit, there's nothing wrong with that. 820 00:37:46.679 --> 00:37:49.000 We had six more people in counterass and when no, 821 00:37:49.639 --> 00:37:51.760 it is. But I will say, though, just and we'll 822 00:37:51.760 --> 00:37:54.000 move on after this because now we're just rambling. But 823 00:37:54.079 --> 00:37:59.039 like having kind of this, you know that the football 824 00:37:59.079 --> 00:38:02.719 world's kind of sectioning now. Obviously it's really cool for 825 00:38:02.840 --> 00:38:05.039 fans like us right of all these leagues and you know, 826 00:38:05.079 --> 00:38:08.320 the Spring leagues and CFL and Europe and ELF and Arena. 827 00:38:08.360 --> 00:38:11.039 But like, it was so cool. We were over at 828 00:38:11.079 --> 00:38:13.920 my brother in law's on it was either Thanksgiving or 829 00:38:13.960 --> 00:38:15.719 his his kids birthday. We have them kind of a 830 00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:19.159 week apart, and we were watching the game and I go, hey, 831 00:38:19.599 --> 00:38:21.559 you know that kickoff, like I know the guy that 832 00:38:21.719 --> 00:38:25.079 invented that? Really, I go, oh yeah, Like I just 833 00:38:25.159 --> 00:38:26.679 you know, I just I didn't throw Sam at text 834 00:38:26.719 --> 00:38:28.519 where he's like, wow, that's red. So I just said 835 00:38:28.519 --> 00:38:29.920 that was just kind of cool to be like, hey, 836 00:38:29.920 --> 00:38:32.599 you know this thing. Everyone's been talking about anything else 837 00:38:32.599 --> 00:38:33.840 with that, anything else with Threek three. 838 00:38:34.280 --> 00:38:36.320 No, I like it. I think this could be one 839 00:38:36.360 --> 00:38:37.599 of the best of the season. 840 00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:40.679 I agree. Abdul also says, yeah, season tickets have doubled 841 00:38:40.679 --> 00:38:43.159 in like the last two years for the Lions, So yeah, 842 00:38:43.199 --> 00:38:45.480 I mean that's success, right, you do all that all right? 843 00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:48.360 Week four here, so the Friday night again the Panthers. 844 00:38:48.599 --> 00:38:51.599 We love the Panthers, right, but like because probably for 845 00:38:51.840 --> 00:38:54.079 Ford Fields probably empty on a lot of you know, 846 00:38:54.280 --> 00:38:56.800 I mean in theory trying to get these standium of veils. 847 00:38:57.239 --> 00:38:59.880 We like these early Saturday games at chalk time, no 848 00:39:00.239 --> 00:39:02.960 out on ABC. That's kind of similar to the kickoffs 849 00:39:03.039 --> 00:39:07.119 we have before in previous years. Stallions at rough next 850 00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:10.119 year on Fox Saturday Night and then the San Antonio 851 00:39:10.239 --> 00:39:13.880 a standalone game Sunday at Ford Field on Fox. One 852 00:39:13.920 --> 00:39:15.519 other thing to keep in mind is, yeah, this is 853 00:39:15.559 --> 00:39:20.480 WrestleMania weekend, so that'll be going through Friday Saturday. I mean, 854 00:39:20.920 --> 00:39:23.920 this could be could be a rough weekend viewership wise 855 00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:27.239 for that because they'll have the Friday Night SmackDown opposite that, 856 00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:30.639 and then WrestleMania now goes Saturday and Sunday, so it'll 857 00:39:30.679 --> 00:39:32.440 be all the way through and then through Monday. But 858 00:39:32.840 --> 00:39:34.760 it could be interesting that because I think there's a 859 00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:37.480 very similar cross section even though the Vince and all 860 00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:40.119 that isn't still involved. I think the demo you're trying 861 00:39:40.119 --> 00:39:42.800 to get any thoughts on week four here, John. 862 00:39:43.360 --> 00:39:46.239 This is not my favorite. I don't like that noon 863 00:39:46.320 --> 00:39:49.400 start and then the other ones at seven o'clock. I mean, 864 00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:50.840 I just don't think you're gonna get a lot of 865 00:39:50.840 --> 00:39:54.039 people who are, you know, other than us, you know, 866 00:39:54.159 --> 00:39:56.880 freaks and people who are diseased that are gonna probably 867 00:39:56.920 --> 00:39:59.519 watch every game that are gonna watch both of these 868 00:39:59.519 --> 00:40:02.599 games on Saturday, especially in April, that's when you know, 869 00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:06.280 the weather starts to get a little nicer in a 870 00:40:06.280 --> 00:40:08.639 lot of the areas. So yeah, I don't I'm not 871 00:40:08.760 --> 00:40:11.440 crazy about that one, and again, you know, good for 872 00:40:11.719 --> 00:40:14.480 the Michigan Panthers number one. That's like three straight home 873 00:40:14.480 --> 00:40:18.000 games that they get. So there again no excuse for 874 00:40:18.119 --> 00:40:21.320 the Panthers fans not to show up, but you know, 875 00:40:21.599 --> 00:40:24.719 God bless Fox for rolling the dice here on another 876 00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:26.880 one and hoping that you know that it's a good 877 00:40:26.880 --> 00:40:29.440 turnout on on their what I feel like as their 878 00:40:29.440 --> 00:40:30.159 spotlight game. 879 00:40:31.039 --> 00:40:36.039 Yeah, we have the I'm Panthers on the road week one, yeah, 880 00:40:36.079 --> 00:40:38.280 and then week two, three, four all at home, so yeah, 881 00:40:38.280 --> 00:40:40.639 I mean you and we hear this a lot in 882 00:40:40.679 --> 00:40:43.559 San Antonio as well, with the terrible scheduling and all that. 883 00:40:43.800 --> 00:40:46.280 It is a lot to ask, you know, to go 884 00:40:46.360 --> 00:40:49.599 to multiple and we saw this in Birmingham with even 885 00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:52.039 with the Stallions, with the non US down with the 886 00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:55.679 other USFL teams a year one, they're like, it's a 887 00:40:55.719 --> 00:40:57.960 lot to go, like even cracking and playing tonight. They 888 00:40:57.960 --> 00:40:59.639 played Monday and they're like, hey, do you want to go? 889 00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:01.360 I'm like, I think I'll just watch it home tonight, 890 00:41:01.400 --> 00:41:03.199 Like I was just there Monday. Like it's you know, 891 00:41:03.199 --> 00:41:05.400 and even hockey is more expensive, but you know, like 892 00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:07.400 even if you're saving cash, you sold you know, it's 893 00:41:07.400 --> 00:41:11.159 still your evening going down, you know, Defenders here again 894 00:41:11.599 --> 00:41:14.440 Sunday night there. Getting the Fox window there at five, 895 00:41:14.679 --> 00:41:17.119 that's seven Eastern always does feel late to me. But 896 00:41:17.320 --> 00:41:20.239 I mean I'm not a I'm not an East Coast person, right, 897 00:41:20.280 --> 00:41:23.079 but I've always feels like, uh, I don't know, you're 898 00:41:23.119 --> 00:41:24.840 starting to get into the later hours there. But I 899 00:41:24.880 --> 00:41:25.920 guess that's not yea late. 900 00:41:26.400 --> 00:41:28.239 No, I mean seven o'clock is not bad when these 901 00:41:28.280 --> 00:41:30.800 games go pretty quickly. I just think that you're you're 902 00:41:31.039 --> 00:41:33.320 gonna have a split audience today. I mean, you're not 903 00:41:33.360 --> 00:41:35.159 going to how many people are going to watch the 904 00:41:35.199 --> 00:41:37.320 noon game and then they're gonna watch the seven o'clock game. 905 00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:40.199 I just don't outside of the people watching this video 906 00:41:40.280 --> 00:41:42.639 that's that's made it this far, they probably at forty 907 00:41:42.639 --> 00:41:45.599 one minutes in, they're probably gonna be the ones, including 908 00:41:45.639 --> 00:41:47.360 me if my wife will let me. 909 00:41:48.119 --> 00:41:51.480 Yeah, I'm curious what's going on in between there between 910 00:41:51.519 --> 00:41:53.599 the noon and seven what's on that? What's well, I 911 00:41:53.599 --> 00:41:55.559 guess it's the ABC and then the Fox. You wish 912 00:41:55.599 --> 00:41:58.400 that there was, Yeah, and then you're switching networks, channels 913 00:41:58.400 --> 00:42:00.920 all that stuff. Yeah, all right, we four are we good. 914 00:42:00.760 --> 00:42:04.039 With that looks good to me, I mean as good 915 00:42:04.079 --> 00:42:04.880 as it can look. 916 00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:06.880 As good as they can look here. All right, So 917 00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:10.159 back to Birmingham again Friday night, showing out that way, 918 00:42:10.280 --> 00:42:13.880 we have the Ballahawks on ESPN Saturday at seven, so 919 00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:17.760 nothing the early Saturday window Sunday noon and then three, 920 00:42:17.920 --> 00:42:19.519 so you kind of get a little double header that 921 00:42:19.599 --> 00:42:21.960 way on ESPN. I like that, like when you can 922 00:42:21.960 --> 00:42:24.280 get these nuggets kind of going, that's great, it's just 923 00:42:24.679 --> 00:42:26.679 get Could we get that every Sunday? And I understand 924 00:42:26.760 --> 00:42:29.280 at this point not possible, but I think that would 925 00:42:29.320 --> 00:42:30.960 be cool because you just roll one to the other 926 00:42:31.599 --> 00:42:34.159 Almo Dome. Right. So that's the first promise home game 927 00:42:34.159 --> 00:42:36.599 this week five, so they're finally at home and hopefully 928 00:42:36.639 --> 00:42:38.800 they're not not in the It was oh and four 929 00:42:38.920 --> 00:42:39.760 a hole at that point. 930 00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:44.519 Right now, this one I love the time of all these. 931 00:42:45.400 --> 00:42:48.239 On week five, you've got your eight o'clock game, it's 932 00:42:48.239 --> 00:42:50.760 at and it's at Birmingham, so hopefully you know, people 933 00:42:50.800 --> 00:42:54.360 show out again and then you've got that I like it, 934 00:42:54.440 --> 00:42:57.239 the seven pm game at Saint Louis. So if you 935 00:42:57.360 --> 00:43:01.280 only had one game on that Saturday, uh, you know, 936 00:43:01.760 --> 00:43:04.079 Saint Louis is pretty good for a prime time Saturday 937 00:43:04.119 --> 00:43:06.760 game and then the noon and the three. Uh to me, 938 00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:09.559 I mean, if I had my drothers, this would be 939 00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:11.880 the schedule. This would be the like every week if 940 00:43:11.880 --> 00:43:12.400 you could do it. 941 00:43:12.400 --> 00:43:12.519 Now. 942 00:43:12.559 --> 00:43:15.360 I know it's again we've talked about it. It's hard 943 00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:18.840 to do that with when you're talking venues and you're 944 00:43:18.880 --> 00:43:23.000 talking slots for networks and everything. But I I love 945 00:43:23.079 --> 00:43:25.199 how this is laid out, and I think these could 946 00:43:25.239 --> 00:43:28.079 all be really good games. Uh, you know, assuming that 947 00:43:28.119 --> 00:43:30.760 we that you're right, you know, San Antonio might might 948 00:43:30.800 --> 00:43:33.719 just be worn out there, you know, playing away from 949 00:43:33.719 --> 00:43:34.360 the fan base. 950 00:43:35.480 --> 00:43:38.039 Yeah, and well, I guess I'll have to look at 951 00:43:38.039 --> 00:43:39.639 the end kind of the mouth because the Saint Louis 952 00:43:39.639 --> 00:43:42.000 is getting out of there. So did that happen already? Right? 953 00:43:42.039 --> 00:43:46.320 Where is the other Saint Louis at because they're they're 954 00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:49.280 doubling that, right, it's like both so the week two 955 00:43:49.360 --> 00:43:51.840 Bramas game and then there's another game, but like those 956 00:43:51.880 --> 00:43:54.480 both count as you know, it's a Bramas are home 957 00:43:54.559 --> 00:43:57.440 even though they're away. Mike here has a great comment. 958 00:43:57.880 --> 00:44:00.559 Week five is the NFL Draft weekends already game on 959 00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:02.920 ESPN will follow the end of the NFL draft. 960 00:44:02.920 --> 00:44:08.880 Car that's good call THATWM there you go, well, I mean, 961 00:44:09.239 --> 00:44:11.800 how how great? That wouldn't that be nice? I mean, 962 00:44:11.840 --> 00:44:14.320 wouldn't that be what a great lead in? You got 963 00:44:14.320 --> 00:44:16.679 people sticking around and then you will say, like, oh 964 00:44:17.119 --> 00:44:20.159 what is this if they don't know? Uh yeah, I'm 965 00:44:20.159 --> 00:44:22.239 glad he pointed that out because I think that's uh, 966 00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:25.519 that'd be That's what a great uh Saturday that could be? 967 00:44:25.559 --> 00:44:27.280 That So that makes sense why that's the one game 968 00:44:27.320 --> 00:44:28.840 and it's at seven o'clock at night. 969 00:44:29.360 --> 00:44:31.440 Yes, And so you're gonna have You're gonna have a 970 00:44:31.599 --> 00:44:35.239 red hot Michigan Panthers. He just like it's surging. They're 971 00:44:35.280 --> 00:44:39.320 surging Detroit, Detroit. You know, fandom is just at a 972 00:44:39.360 --> 00:44:42.440 frenzy where they have the you know, the Lions are 973 00:44:42.440 --> 00:44:45.480 doing well and maybe maybe the Tigers has started out 974 00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:47.400 really hot the first week and a half of the 975 00:44:47.559 --> 00:44:49.519 MBA season. And you're gonna have the red hot Michigan 976 00:44:49.519 --> 00:44:51.679 Panthers coming in and playing the battle Hawks. But that 977 00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:52.559 is cool. I like that. 978 00:44:52.639 --> 00:44:53.000 So thank you. 979 00:44:53.280 --> 00:44:55.079 If anyone else has anything, I back because I just 980 00:44:55.079 --> 00:44:58.000 do the deep dive while this. But that's great. I 981 00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:00.679 think that that's awesome. At the Saturday there seven o'clock 982 00:45:01.079 --> 00:45:02.880 and again, you know we're getting off of these are 983 00:45:02.880 --> 00:45:06.039 all ESPN and Fox, ABC, you know, like you pointed 984 00:45:06.079 --> 00:45:08.840 out before, kind of you know, few fs one whatever, 985 00:45:08.920 --> 00:45:11.719 but really kind of this is this is the leverage 986 00:45:11.760 --> 00:45:14.119 that they got from doing this merger. Was we can 987 00:45:14.440 --> 00:45:16.760 you know, proposition kind of the best time slots we 988 00:45:16.840 --> 00:45:19.280 have on our various network stand to get this going. 989 00:45:20.400 --> 00:45:21.679 Anything else out of this one. 990 00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:23.559 No, But I think you bring up a good point 991 00:45:23.559 --> 00:45:26.760 when you have uh, you know, Fox and ABC slash 992 00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:31.280 ESPN together on these and they're not not trying to 993 00:45:31.320 --> 00:45:34.440 compete against each other, you know, they're they're trying to 994 00:45:34.480 --> 00:45:37.119 make this league success. And I think that that that 995 00:45:37.239 --> 00:45:38.920 is nothing but positive for all of this. 996 00:45:39.519 --> 00:45:41.719 You know how often I'm not anymore, but I used 997 00:45:41.760 --> 00:45:44.039 to think often like just a different world we would 998 00:45:44.039 --> 00:45:46.800 have had if they Fox had just waited in the 999 00:45:46.920 --> 00:45:48.960 USFL with well, you know, if they had just kind 1000 00:45:49.000 --> 00:45:51.480 of all and this is when it should have been, 1001 00:45:51.519 --> 00:45:53.719 and we kind of farted around for a couple of years, 1002 00:45:53.760 --> 00:45:54.159 and I just. 1003 00:45:54.079 --> 00:45:54.920 Think about that one. 1004 00:45:54.960 --> 00:45:56.840 You know, if a Fox had just been like we're 1005 00:45:56.840 --> 00:45:59.360 going ahead right now, Like, I mean, we would have 1006 00:45:59.360 --> 00:46:02.119 missed out on the the lawsuits and the USFL and 1007 00:46:02.159 --> 00:46:04.199 the Steve you know, Steve Earhart's of the World and 1008 00:46:04.280 --> 00:46:05.880 kind of all that stuff really would have been different 1009 00:46:06.400 --> 00:46:09.480 moving to week six here, you know, so now still 1010 00:46:09.559 --> 00:46:12.320 Friday night battle Hawks, Now this could be cool. Yeah, 1011 00:46:12.519 --> 00:46:14.800 see what the Rene games look like, but battle Hawks 1012 00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:17.840 hosting Fridays, Like, I know it's the availability, but if 1013 00:46:17.880 --> 00:46:19.920 you could do anything to get some of these hot, 1014 00:46:20.239 --> 00:46:23.119 because you know, even wrestling does like that, you know, 1015 00:46:23.159 --> 00:46:26.079 the cold open riderer. I think they do the the 1016 00:46:26.119 --> 00:46:29.239 industry term where they show the crowd like the last 1017 00:46:29.239 --> 00:46:31.960 commercial break right before like if you go to the rescue rides, 1018 00:46:31.960 --> 00:46:33.800 they're like, hey, we're going to be live here in 1019 00:46:33.840 --> 00:46:36.039 thirty seconds, and everyone cheers and then they start, you know, 1020 00:46:36.079 --> 00:46:38.039 and then they start to show and like if you're 1021 00:46:38.079 --> 00:46:40.800 watching whatever it's not before, it's so cool because you're like, God, 1022 00:46:40.800 --> 00:46:42.440 I gotta I gotta be a part of this, right 1023 00:46:42.480 --> 00:46:44.800 because look at this hot crowd and what's coming up next. 1024 00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:47.079 You would like them to be able to maybe do 1025 00:46:47.159 --> 00:46:49.400 something like that where you would have a ravenous kind 1026 00:46:49.440 --> 00:46:51.440 of battle Hawks fan base and go, hey man, look, 1027 00:46:51.440 --> 00:46:53.719 we got thirty thousand people standing by for this game, 1028 00:46:53.840 --> 00:46:56.760 like stay tuned next. I think that's hot. I would 1029 00:46:56.800 --> 00:46:58.480 like that, and I wish that you could get some 1030 00:46:58.519 --> 00:47:02.039 more of those on there. Roughnecks hosting that Saturday at 1031 00:47:02.039 --> 00:47:04.639 noon and then the double header at noon and four 1032 00:47:04.880 --> 00:47:07.920 on ESPN two. We have the Panthers on that early 1033 00:47:08.079 --> 00:47:11.880 Sunday that will not be good ratings vies that will 1034 00:47:11.920 --> 00:47:15.960 hurt that, and then the Stallions on Fox Sunday May fourth. 1035 00:47:17.079 --> 00:47:19.119 I like it. You're right about that. You know, if 1036 00:47:19.480 --> 00:47:21.800 the Renegades are good, and let you know, let if 1037 00:47:21.800 --> 00:47:24.400 the King of Spring, Luis Perez is playing at his level, 1038 00:47:24.480 --> 00:47:27.039 Saint Louis is hopefully you know, good at that time. 1039 00:47:27.920 --> 00:47:31.840 And the good thing is, remember that's seven o'clock Central 1040 00:47:31.840 --> 00:47:34.599 time on a Friday night, so you know, and we 1041 00:47:34.639 --> 00:47:37.519 all know call is indeed the laws. So uh that 1042 00:47:37.519 --> 00:47:40.079 that could be like that's the kind of spotlight game 1043 00:47:40.119 --> 00:47:43.119 that we that I think we're looking for, h you 1044 00:47:43.159 --> 00:47:47.199 know from Fox. Uh yet uh the DC Defenders in 1045 00:47:47.280 --> 00:47:50.039 Michigan Panthers on ESPN two. There will only be rumors 1046 00:47:50.039 --> 00:47:52.280 of that game because no one's probably gonna watch that 1047 00:47:52.360 --> 00:47:55.320 outside of the people watching here. And then uh yeah, 1048 00:47:55.400 --> 00:47:59.400 you know the Roughnecks a Saturday noon game you know 1049 00:47:59.480 --> 00:48:02.239 in May there. I hope that that is one of 1050 00:48:02.280 --> 00:48:05.199 those where if the Roughnecks fans are serious about wanting 1051 00:48:05.239 --> 00:48:08.239 to come back, you know, to TDECU Stadium, that that 1052 00:48:08.280 --> 00:48:10.000 would be one of the games that they really show 1053 00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:13.400 out for. And then uh yeah Braminson Stallions at four 1054 00:48:13.400 --> 00:48:16.440 o'clock at Protective Stadium. Hopefully those are you know, they're 1055 00:48:16.440 --> 00:48:19.000 both performing at the level that we think they'll perform at. 1056 00:48:19.079 --> 00:48:20.920 So yeah, I mean that that this could be a 1057 00:48:20.960 --> 00:48:21.599 really good week. 1058 00:48:22.320 --> 00:48:24.440 Well you're probably gonna get and we need to get 1059 00:48:24.519 --> 00:48:26.400 Brett or someone to give us kind of the weather 1060 00:48:26.480 --> 00:48:30.199 forecast of temperature index for all of these the Birmingham games, 1061 00:48:30.199 --> 00:48:32.280 because we started to get here now where it's like 1062 00:48:32.880 --> 00:48:35.360 the guys, it's a little hot here. It's a little hot. 1063 00:48:35.480 --> 00:48:37.159 But you know, that's a night game. I mean four 1064 00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:39.400 o'clock isn't necessarily a night game, but you know, I 1065 00:48:39.400 --> 00:48:42.119 mean that's that's the latest game in that. But you 1066 00:48:42.119 --> 00:48:44.440 you know, you start looking at that like are we 1067 00:48:44.840 --> 00:48:47.639 do we have noon kick austin Birmingham or whatever. You know, 1068 00:48:47.679 --> 00:48:49.400 you start getting some of these markets now where you 1069 00:48:49.440 --> 00:48:53.239 can't be Yeah, they're the eight o'clock I'm on Friday 1070 00:48:53.280 --> 00:48:55.239 of the week before. Yeah, I'm just trying to kind 1071 00:48:55.239 --> 00:48:58.000 of sco back through here. Yeah. Anyway, you got to 1072 00:48:58.039 --> 00:48:59.920 keep the Birmingham fans cool. I don't want the weather 1073 00:49:00.079 --> 00:49:01.599 to be kind of kind of behold of that. 1074 00:49:02.079 --> 00:49:04.320 I can tell you that first year of the USFL 1075 00:49:04.440 --> 00:49:06.679 where they you know, went everything was in Birmingham. I 1076 00:49:06.679 --> 00:49:10.159 went down there for a Saturday and Sunday and it 1077 00:49:10.239 --> 00:49:12.960 was I want to say, like late May or June, 1078 00:49:13.519 --> 00:49:17.719 and I can tell you that, uh my, my sunburn. 1079 00:49:17.760 --> 00:49:20.960 I'm almost over the sunburn that from three plus years 1080 00:49:20.960 --> 00:49:24.280 ago because there were what it there was no rain, 1081 00:49:24.480 --> 00:49:27.159 it was sunny, and it was about one thousand percent humidity. 1082 00:49:27.280 --> 00:49:29.800 So people still showed up for the Birmingham game. I 1083 00:49:29.840 --> 00:49:31.559 will say that I was one of about fifty for 1084 00:49:31.599 --> 00:49:32.280 the rest of the game. 1085 00:49:33.320 --> 00:49:36.199 It's hard like we you know, when we got we 1086 00:49:36.280 --> 00:49:38.440 got a lot of Mariner games and I very much 1087 00:49:38.519 --> 00:49:41.559 like pick my tickets on where uh you know, like 1088 00:49:41.599 --> 00:49:43.199 where the sun is going to be or where this 1089 00:49:43.559 --> 00:49:45.239 is trying to be like, because I do I'm like 1090 00:49:45.280 --> 00:49:47.159 if it's if it's a Sunday day game. Okay, we 1091 00:49:47.159 --> 00:49:48.679 got to sit on this side of the field because 1092 00:49:48.880 --> 00:49:51.360 and we went to the Coliseum for the last Mariners 1093 00:49:51.400 --> 00:49:53.519 game there we you know, we did the night game 1094 00:49:53.599 --> 00:49:54.880 and they were like, all right, we gotta sit like 1095 00:49:54.960 --> 00:49:57.159 right behind you know, not right behind home play, but 1096 00:49:57.159 --> 00:49:59.639 we're gonna sit right there for the last game. Oh, 1097 00:49:59.679 --> 00:50:01.239 I'm this is the worst thing in the world. Like 1098 00:50:01.800 --> 00:50:04.800 this isn't even like you're just dripping, Like this isn't 1099 00:50:04.840 --> 00:50:07.039 even enjoyable, Like I'm just sitting in the bottle of 1100 00:50:07.079 --> 00:50:11.639 funk here. But yeah, I think that's interesting. Ron here, 1101 00:50:11.719 --> 00:50:14.760 Mark Cass and Bleacher Brothers got a beer snake draft 1102 00:50:14.760 --> 00:50:16.719 to fulfill when we do I don't know what that is, 1103 00:50:16.800 --> 00:50:18.480 let me know, I'll do it. I'll do a beer 1104 00:50:18.519 --> 00:50:21.960 I'll do a beer draft. And then we had a question. 1105 00:50:22.199 --> 00:50:25.519 This is when Chris Chris is Time was saying we're 1106 00:50:25.559 --> 00:50:29.079 selling out for a field here. This will be Yeah, 1107 00:50:29.159 --> 00:50:32.079 the red hot Panthers hosting. No one will be watching 1108 00:50:32.079 --> 00:50:35.480 the game because they will all be in attendance. Riggs. 1109 00:50:35.960 --> 00:50:38.159 That's that's why the ratings will be so low. It's 1110 00:50:38.159 --> 00:50:41.199 going to be on ESPN and all the Panthers fans 1111 00:50:41.199 --> 00:50:43.159 who exist will be a four field. 1112 00:50:43.440 --> 00:50:45.719 Yeah, Ron's asking me to get beers. Now, this might 1113 00:50:45.760 --> 00:50:47.039 be an off air conversation. 1114 00:50:47.239 --> 00:50:47.440 Ron. 1115 00:50:48.960 --> 00:50:51.280 Chris and I got two free beer snake tickets for 1116 00:50:51.320 --> 00:50:54.679 you to give away. Can't can't do you ticket giveaways anymore. 1117 00:50:54.840 --> 00:50:56.920 Chris got a Chris can Facilita to take about. I'm 1118 00:50:56.920 --> 00:50:59.480 not even allowed in the beer snake section, so I 1119 00:50:59.599 --> 00:51:01.320 got on. Even if I can give tickets a way 1120 00:51:01.320 --> 00:51:03.440 into the beers next section, I can't even attend the 1121 00:51:03.440 --> 00:51:06.679 beers next section. But yeah, anyway, Chris is got you know, 1122 00:51:06.719 --> 00:51:09.719 we'll start pumping up. Remember like a subscribe. 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I mean it, it 1132 00:51:34.679 --> 00:51:37.199 is incredible I mean, and it's not just like, oh 1133 00:51:37.239 --> 00:51:39.599 it's you know twenty twenty XFL, which they did just 1134 00:51:39.599 --> 00:51:42.320 put a bunch of new stuff on there, but I 1135 00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:44.960 mean it goes back. They've got I mean, they literally 1136 00:51:44.960 --> 00:51:47.360 have teams that don't that never existed, and they have 1137 00:51:47.519 --> 00:51:50.360 jerseys and many helmets for them. So it's pretty cool. 1138 00:51:50.800 --> 00:51:54.119 They side note the I popped on this, John, this 1139 00:51:54.159 --> 00:51:56.440 is a real thing. But it came. I got a 1140 00:51:56.639 --> 00:52:01.719 zach Ertz commander's practice jersey right coming from from it. 1141 00:52:01.760 --> 00:52:04.239 I think it was from last year because it's the before. 1142 00:52:04.280 --> 00:52:06.239 I think they kind of rebranded this stuff right with 1143 00:52:06.360 --> 00:52:09.079 the well, no, maybe he's in the NHL. Anyways, zach 1144 00:52:09.159 --> 00:52:11.599 Aritz practice one got a super deal, I mean nothing. 1145 00:52:11.920 --> 00:52:14.159 And then who caught the game when he touched down 1146 00:52:14.199 --> 00:52:16.039 on Sunday when I was wearing a jersey. 1147 00:52:16.159 --> 00:52:20.000 John, listen, you broke a lot of hearts with that win. 1148 00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:26.559 By the way, Hawks kill You killed Atlanta's chances there. 1149 00:52:26.679 --> 00:52:30.199 I mean it was, yeah, that was tough, but good. 1150 00:52:30.239 --> 00:52:32.960 You know what, good for you guys? You need to 1151 00:52:33.000 --> 00:52:34.920 not watch that and wear it every Sunday. 1152 00:52:35.119 --> 00:52:37.800 There you go. I gotta hanging right here anyway. Week six, 1153 00:52:37.920 --> 00:52:39.880 anything else with us down as we've talked through all that. 1154 00:52:39.920 --> 00:52:43.480 All right, Week seven, here we go, we get the albums. 1155 00:52:43.800 --> 00:52:46.960 I'm hosting the Friday night one. Could be interesting here 1156 00:52:47.039 --> 00:52:51.159 the DC Defenders going in Renigates. They love this mid 1157 00:52:51.239 --> 00:52:55.239 afternoon in chalk Taw like they love nothing more than 1158 00:52:55.440 --> 00:52:59.239 noon one. Nothing is going on at chalk Taw. Now 1159 00:52:59.280 --> 00:53:01.119 you start need to you need to start talking to 1160 00:53:01.159 --> 00:53:03.880 the Rangers people about cross promoting that, like, hey, come 1161 00:53:03.960 --> 00:53:07.280 see the neon Arlington or the one o'clock Arlington Retigade's 1162 00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:08.920 game and then go across the street. We're gonna be 1163 00:53:08.960 --> 00:53:11.599 playing baseball at five or whatever. Like to me, that's 1164 00:53:11.639 --> 00:53:13.559 a no brainer. And I don't understand whether there's not 1165 00:53:13.639 --> 00:53:17.000 more synergy there. Stallions hostings. Now this is when we 1166 00:53:17.079 --> 00:53:22.960 get in tricky church Sunday noon hot could be, could 1167 00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:26.000 be whatever on ABC and then the Showboats hosting the 1168 00:53:26.079 --> 00:53:29.079 prime time here three Easter n the ESPN. 1169 00:53:29.639 --> 00:53:32.199 Yeah that and that's eleven o'clock in Birmingham, so yeah, 1170 00:53:32.320 --> 00:53:35.199 that's Sunday school time, the preachers hitting the pulpit at 1171 00:53:35.199 --> 00:53:38.679 that time. But yeah, you know, I think I've used 1172 00:53:38.719 --> 00:53:40.639 the term roll the dice a few times here on 1173 00:53:40.679 --> 00:53:44.159 these Friday games. Yeah yeah, I mean you gotta wonder 1174 00:53:44.199 --> 00:53:46.960 if if san Antonio is, you know, having a tough time, 1175 00:53:47.039 --> 00:53:50.559 that could I don't know about that, but you know, 1176 00:53:50.639 --> 00:53:52.480 it's it's good to see that they finally you don't 1177 00:53:52.519 --> 00:53:55.599 get to play at home on a Friday night. Uh yeah, 1178 00:53:55.639 --> 00:53:59.599 these are these these could be some interesting matchups that 1179 00:54:00.119 --> 00:54:03.079 Hawks show boats game feels like one that I might 1180 00:54:03.079 --> 00:54:05.639 try to actually be there for. I'm trying. I'm wanting 1181 00:54:05.679 --> 00:54:07.440 to go to Memphis this year, so that might be 1182 00:54:07.480 --> 00:54:11.559 the one. Uh yeah, these are some interesting matchups. Uh 1183 00:54:11.880 --> 00:54:14.760 and again those Friday games. I'm I can't wait to 1184 00:54:14.800 --> 00:54:16.840 see what these look like. And I really hope they 1185 00:54:17.199 --> 00:54:20.840 they blow it out like uh, you know the open 1186 00:54:20.840 --> 00:54:23.199 of Last Boy Scout when it was a Friday night's 1187 00:54:23.199 --> 00:54:25.800 a good night for football and it was like explosions 1188 00:54:25.800 --> 00:54:27.960 and helmets blowing up and stuff. I think I hope 1189 00:54:28.000 --> 00:54:29.440 that they do something to that effect. 1190 00:54:30.960 --> 00:54:33.519 John, if you go to Memphis, I want you to 1191 00:54:33.639 --> 00:54:36.760 record the video of you walking in Memphis and playing 1192 00:54:36.800 --> 00:54:39.519 that song that I want if you are going to 1193 00:54:39.559 --> 00:54:42.599 be in Memphis. I went to Nashville and then I 1194 00:54:43.159 --> 00:54:45.920 I was like, I could live in Nashville. I could 1195 00:54:45.920 --> 00:54:47.960 be a Preds fan. I could be a Titans fan 1196 00:54:48.199 --> 00:54:50.199 like I kind of like that, and I could we 1197 00:54:50.239 --> 00:54:53.159 live in Smashville and all that. But you know, yeah 1198 00:54:53.199 --> 00:54:56.360 Memphis and yeah play that song with that one quick thing. 1199 00:54:56.440 --> 00:54:59.440 Chris became a new member I think came back. But 1200 00:54:59.559 --> 00:55:02.000 just remember ninety nine said a month you know, just 1201 00:55:02.039 --> 00:55:05.679 support the channel. It's like it just makes me feel 1202 00:55:05.679 --> 00:55:07.480 good to be like I got a new member here. 1203 00:55:07.519 --> 00:55:10.000 Like anyway, it's little. It's that eight seventy five of 1204 00:55:10.119 --> 00:55:12.079 passive income a month, John, that's really going to sink 1205 00:55:12.800 --> 00:55:13.800 I retire my hits. 1206 00:55:14.199 --> 00:55:17.239 It'll buy something eight seventy five. That's a that's almost 1207 00:55:17.280 --> 00:55:19.760 a beer at a Krakens game. Probably not about half 1208 00:55:19.760 --> 00:55:20.039 of one. 1209 00:55:20.119 --> 00:55:23.960 Maybe yeah we get uh yeah, it's about twenty dollars 1210 00:55:23.960 --> 00:55:28.519 for a triple cheek other Uh. Anyway, this was gonna 1211 00:55:28.519 --> 00:55:30.880 be my this is my bold hot take here. So 1212 00:55:30.960 --> 00:55:36.000 this is Mines August, uh the Brahmas on Friday Night here. 1213 00:55:36.480 --> 00:55:40.079 If the if Fox is to flex the UFL games, 1214 00:55:40.320 --> 00:55:43.800 like we are canceling this, uh, this experiment early this year, 1215 00:55:43.880 --> 00:55:47.639 Like it's either going to be for this game or 1216 00:55:47.679 --> 00:55:49.719 because of this game. That they're like, yeah, so like 1217 00:55:49.760 --> 00:55:51.679 we gotta get because they'll have the battle Hawks a 1218 00:55:51.719 --> 00:55:53.960 week before, right week six, Okay, we got it. We'll 1219 00:55:54.079 --> 00:55:55.719 keep it through that. We got to get through the 1220 00:55:55.719 --> 00:55:58.119 battle Hawks and then but this will either be like 1221 00:55:58.679 --> 00:56:01.599 we gotta flex this or afterward like okay, we can't 1222 00:56:01.599 --> 00:56:03.480 do that again because it we week seven. I guess 1223 00:56:03.480 --> 00:56:07.760 the dolls of the season here. That's my hot take. No, 1224 00:56:07.840 --> 00:56:09.880 I don't think that's that hot of a take at all. 1225 00:56:09.960 --> 00:56:11.960 I think there's there could be a point where, yeah, 1226 00:56:12.159 --> 00:56:15.239 Fox is like, nobody's gonna show up for this game, 1227 00:56:15.440 --> 00:56:17.880 like what are our better options? And you you know, 1228 00:56:17.920 --> 00:56:23.400 maybe give them some time to Readjust yeah, I know, 1229 00:56:23.480 --> 00:56:24.840 I don't think that's a hot take at all. I 1230 00:56:24.880 --> 00:56:27.000 think that's probably that might be a good idea because 1231 00:56:27.079 --> 00:56:30.119 you know, we always always talk about optics. You want 1232 00:56:30.199 --> 00:56:33.239 good optics for spotlight games could happen. 1233 00:56:33.880 --> 00:56:35.800 I'm just saying right now, I would go to this 1234 00:56:35.920 --> 00:56:38.079 game if anyone wants to go. I was just because 1235 00:56:38.159 --> 00:56:40.440 Chris is talking here trying to figure out you trying 1236 00:56:40.440 --> 00:56:44.000 to figure out logistics for travel, like San Antonio is 1237 00:56:44.159 --> 00:56:47.239 San Antonio, DC are two of the best places to 1238 00:56:47.320 --> 00:56:50.559 see games. Just because of the proximity of the stadium 1239 00:56:50.599 --> 00:56:53.079 to what's going on. Birmingham only has a couple of 1240 00:56:53.079 --> 00:56:55.760 those bars there, right, chalk Tok's really good you have 1241 00:56:56.079 --> 00:56:58.280 Texas live there, but you really kind of got to 1242 00:56:58.320 --> 00:57:01.679 stay out in Arlington to really benefit all that. San 1243 00:57:01.719 --> 00:57:03.679 Antonio is one of the best you can stay on 1244 00:57:03.719 --> 00:57:06.280 the river walk. I have a million suggestions of anything. 1245 00:57:06.280 --> 00:57:08.519 If anyone ever wants to do the San Antonio stuff, 1246 00:57:08.559 --> 00:57:10.559 I would go. This would be fun on the Friday. 1247 00:57:11.320 --> 00:57:13.039 You know, you could fly in even that day and 1248 00:57:13.079 --> 00:57:15.519 then just head to the Alamodome and then fly You know, 1249 00:57:16.280 --> 00:57:18.559 that's a very doable trip for Reid here in early 1250 00:57:18.599 --> 00:57:20.400 May if I don't have a wedding, but I would 1251 00:57:20.480 --> 00:57:23.079 do anything in the world to if I would recommend 1252 00:57:23.119 --> 00:57:25.480 that and the DC for that for a home team 1253 00:57:25.480 --> 00:57:28.079 and hopefully the Brahmas aren't aren't around this year at 1254 00:57:28.079 --> 00:57:29.280 week seven, right. 1255 00:57:29.400 --> 00:57:32.360 Yeah, I mean that's again, that's the gamble you take 1256 00:57:32.400 --> 00:57:32.639 on that. 1257 00:57:33.159 --> 00:57:34.960 Yeah, rolling the dice, John, rolling the dice. 1258 00:57:35.199 --> 00:57:38.079 I think it's called rolling the dice. 1259 00:57:38.519 --> 00:57:40.480 Do we have we gone to any of our our 1260 00:57:40.519 --> 00:57:43.199 double headers yet or another double headers? Are I Simon? 1261 00:57:44.000 --> 00:57:46.480 I don't think so I think that I think week eight. 1262 00:57:46.559 --> 00:57:47.320 I think it's week eight. 1263 00:57:47.400 --> 00:57:50.719 All right, so here let's get to week eight here partly, yeah, 1264 00:57:50.719 --> 00:57:52.079 here we go. I just always, yeah, I see that 1265 00:57:52.119 --> 00:57:54.719 we have the askers. I was like, it's hard sometimes 1266 00:57:54.719 --> 00:57:57.239 trying to process all this. So we got uh, but 1267 00:57:57.440 --> 00:58:00.760 we have Brahmas hosting again back to back. Yeah, this 1268 00:58:00.840 --> 00:58:04.360 is definitely gonna be this now because spoiler alert, I 1269 00:58:04.400 --> 00:58:06.280 hadn't really looked at it. I like doing my I 1270 00:58:06.440 --> 00:58:08.920 like being fresh on here. I like John and I 1271 00:58:09.000 --> 00:58:11.199 like kind of coming in with a little whatever. But 1272 00:58:11.320 --> 00:58:14.719 this is absolutely my hot take going back at week 1273 00:58:14.840 --> 00:58:17.599 seven and week eight or both home and now they're 1274 00:58:17.599 --> 00:58:19.880 gonna be like, we we saw what this looks like 1275 00:58:19.920 --> 00:58:21.800 a week seven, Like we can't go back and do 1276 00:58:21.880 --> 00:58:24.559 this again, like we've already seen that. And then the 1277 00:58:24.760 --> 00:58:29.079 simulcast on Fox, so that will be region locked. I 1278 00:58:29.079 --> 00:58:31.440 wouldn't put the battle Hawks in the region locked game, 1279 00:58:31.519 --> 00:58:32.599 but there you go. 1280 00:58:32.760 --> 00:58:36.480 Especially against Birmingham. That's why that one that would surprise me. 1281 00:58:38.320 --> 00:58:43.320 I will say I might take it back because my 1282 00:58:43.639 --> 00:58:48.519 Saturday May seventeenth is uh, my anniversary, and my wife 1283 00:58:48.559 --> 00:58:51.440 said we can go to the BattleHawks game. But I 1284 00:58:51.480 --> 00:58:54.000 better get a good dinner that night. And I was like, well, 1285 00:58:54.360 --> 00:58:55.960 we can make that happen, so it might be going 1286 00:58:56.000 --> 00:58:59.360 to that one. But yeah, I agree to me, and 1287 00:58:59.679 --> 00:59:01.840 good the BrahMos, who I think get this finish the 1288 00:59:01.920 --> 00:59:04.679 season with four straight home games or something like that, 1289 00:59:05.800 --> 00:59:09.880 and one of being Friday night. Maybe I was surprised 1290 00:59:09.880 --> 00:59:12.199 to see this or being a regional split with the 1291 00:59:12.239 --> 00:59:18.079 Birmingham Stallions being in a regional split with Saint Louis. 1292 00:59:18.199 --> 00:59:20.000 I didn't, you know. And then you've got Panthers and 1293 00:59:20.079 --> 00:59:23.320 Roughnecks with that. That's fine, but to me, that should 1294 00:59:23.320 --> 00:59:26.519 have been like maybe the Sunday noon game would have 1295 00:59:26.559 --> 00:59:29.039 been Saint Louis or the Friday night game that week. 1296 00:59:29.639 --> 00:59:31.639 Sorry my cameras, I'll out of control. I keep talking 1297 00:59:31.639 --> 00:59:33.320 with my hands and then things that I want to like, 1298 00:59:33.360 --> 00:59:35.719 have it track me. See that was like, I gotta 1299 00:59:35.760 --> 00:59:38.880 turn that off, let me get back over here, and 1300 00:59:38.880 --> 00:59:43.679 then I'll re sell it DC again with another Sunday 1301 00:59:43.719 --> 00:59:45.360 night game. I mean, this is a lot. This is 1302 00:59:45.360 --> 00:59:47.400 the thing. Sunday's light. It's not Sunday night but noon, 1303 00:59:47.480 --> 00:59:49.760 but like the Sundays at Aldi. But I like that, 1304 00:59:49.800 --> 00:59:52.760 and obviously that's probably working through their their soccer schedule 1305 00:59:52.760 --> 00:59:54.440 and all of that. You know, however, all of that 1306 00:59:54.480 --> 00:59:57.920 goes but Back says a funny comment here we'll get 1307 00:59:57.920 --> 01:00:00.679 to you, but Sundays at Aldi is awesome, Like I 1308 01:00:00.719 --> 01:00:04.559 just think that that is having done the twenty twenty kickoff, 1309 01:00:04.760 --> 01:00:07.800 we did the Sea Dragon's playoff game there against the Defenders, 1310 01:00:07.800 --> 01:00:10.320 Like it's just a really cool atmosphere for that. So 1311 01:00:10.360 --> 01:00:13.920 I'm a big fan. Max says a. Fox likes the 1312 01:00:14.000 --> 01:00:15.639 regional splits so they don't have to give away as 1313 01:00:15.679 --> 01:00:18.280 many spots you see, like you're protecting to go because 1314 01:00:18.599 --> 01:00:20.280 and I will say, and I said, but this is 1315 01:00:20.400 --> 01:00:22.320 I honestly a good point. I got to turn off 1316 01:00:22.360 --> 01:00:24.119 this track in there we go. Maybe that won't follow me. 1317 01:00:24.159 --> 01:00:28.000 Now when they break about how many games are on Fox, 1318 01:00:28.480 --> 01:00:31.000 four of the games really are two, so it is 1319 01:00:31.159 --> 01:00:33.760 it does that's true numbers where they go, oh we 1320 01:00:33.800 --> 01:00:35.360 have you know, we have whatever it was I read 1321 01:00:35.440 --> 01:00:37.239 in the faction figures like, oh we have eighteen games 1322 01:00:37.239 --> 01:00:40.119 on Fox, Like well it's it's really you know, sixteen 1323 01:00:40.159 --> 01:00:42.000 games and they're they're counting too. Is you know that 1324 01:00:42.039 --> 01:00:44.599 you wouldn't normally get But I don't know I don't 1325 01:00:44.599 --> 01:00:46.719 love the simulcast thing. I get why they do it 1326 01:00:46.800 --> 01:00:48.599 because of Max pointing that what do you what do 1327 01:00:48.639 --> 01:00:49.039 you make of that? 1328 01:00:49.400 --> 01:00:51.119 Yeah? Max is a phrase it's gonna be too many 1329 01:00:51.159 --> 01:00:55.800 PSAs and these because they can't sell the spots. I don't. Yeah, 1330 01:00:55.880 --> 01:00:59.519 I again, you know I They're doing it one week 1331 01:00:59.639 --> 01:01:02.239 and I'm sure there's probably a reason for that. I 1332 01:01:02.280 --> 01:01:06.360 don't know what it is, but I the Birmingham Stallions 1333 01:01:06.360 --> 01:01:08.880 in Saint Louis BattleHawks being one of the regional games. 1334 01:01:09.039 --> 01:01:10.400 I didn't. I didn't get that one. 1335 01:01:10.639 --> 01:01:13.320 Yeah, I didn't like that. It was funny. We were 1336 01:01:13.320 --> 01:01:16.079 talking Chris is talking about the Rock and the comments 1337 01:01:16.119 --> 01:01:18.880 like it was an article. Rock came out with something 1338 01:01:18.920 --> 01:01:21.599 like for New Year's where it's you know, don't do 1339 01:01:22.000 --> 01:01:24.280 you don't have to do anything, you get to do it. 1340 01:01:24.320 --> 01:01:26.079 So I go into, you know, approach the New Year 1341 01:01:26.199 --> 01:01:27.719 like I get to do. I go, do you think 1342 01:01:27.760 --> 01:01:30.280 he has to talk about the UFL? And do you 1343 01:01:30.320 --> 01:01:32.760 think he gets to talk about the UFL at this point? Well, 1344 01:01:32.760 --> 01:01:36.280 do you think the Rocks welfare check is season three? Here? 1345 01:01:36.320 --> 01:01:40.119 Of the XFL and his involvement, I don't know, you know, 1346 01:01:40.159 --> 01:01:41.239 he read. 1347 01:01:41.000 --> 01:01:42.599 One he's got that going on. 1348 01:01:44.039 --> 01:01:47.639 Hey, if anyone hasn't seen Red One, have a couple 1349 01:01:47.679 --> 01:01:53.920 of beers, have a Jay whatever. It's a really, it's 1350 01:01:54.079 --> 01:01:57.239 totally fine. I watched that and I watched that carry 1351 01:01:57.280 --> 01:01:58.039 On movie. 1352 01:01:57.800 --> 01:02:00.320 With Jason Datem watched that one the other night. Yeah, 1353 01:02:00.400 --> 01:02:02.159 that was It's. 1354 01:02:02.079 --> 01:02:04.559 They're like, these movies are getting such great reviews. Like 1355 01:02:04.760 --> 01:02:08.079 it's like, it's just a knockoff Diehard. It's just interesting 1356 01:02:08.119 --> 01:02:10.559 to see Jason Bateman. It's like a bad guy. That's really. 1357 01:02:11.199 --> 01:02:12.440 That was the hook on that movie. 1358 01:02:12.440 --> 01:02:16.760 There's no question that Eric Egertanner whatever has no charisma. 1359 01:02:16.800 --> 01:02:19.079 I never underst he's in these movies. I don't under 1360 01:02:19.159 --> 01:02:21.960 he was good and Rocketman, but yeah, oh that was him, 1361 01:02:22.000 --> 01:02:24.360 Yeah he was. He was all his acting in that. 1362 01:02:24.519 --> 01:02:29.960 And then he said Norman's checking in here. Norman is 1363 01:02:30.000 --> 01:02:32.599 so excited. I haven't seen Norman comment like and subscribe, 1364 01:02:32.639 --> 01:02:34.800 become a member, and then sends them up They like 1365 01:02:34.840 --> 01:02:37.440 and subscribe us up to four thousand subscribers. He's open 1366 01:02:37.920 --> 01:02:39.800 for an Ohio team in the expansion. 1367 01:02:40.719 --> 01:02:41.679 Expansion, let's go. 1368 01:02:43.280 --> 01:02:46.199 Anyway, anything else with this week A We've talked to 1369 01:02:46.280 --> 01:02:47.599 region lock and all that stuff. 1370 01:02:48.639 --> 01:02:49.280 Looks good to me. 1371 01:02:49.880 --> 01:02:55.239 Week nine, Oh my gosh, so we're back. We're we're 1372 01:02:55.280 --> 01:02:57.599 hosting again on Friday. Oh my god. 1373 01:02:57.760 --> 01:02:59.920 I knew they had those home games, but I did 1374 01:03:00.039 --> 01:03:01.599 I realized they were Friday. 1375 01:03:01.960 --> 01:03:04.880 No, I didn't really say, yeah, this is this is 1376 01:03:04.920 --> 01:03:09.119 gonna kill the Thank god Jay Well, I wish day 1377 01:03:09.159 --> 01:03:12.000 was still with the Brahma of social media, but this 1378 01:03:12.039 --> 01:03:15.119 would kill the Bramas, might single handedly kill the Friday 1379 01:03:15.199 --> 01:03:18.320 night on Fox experiment here with. I cannot believe that 1380 01:03:19.119 --> 01:03:20.599 this is why I like going through this real time, 1381 01:03:20.599 --> 01:03:22.440 because otherwise I would have been yelling about that at 1382 01:03:22.480 --> 01:03:22.880 the beginning. 1383 01:03:23.000 --> 01:03:25.480 Well, I you know, I looked and I had, like, 1384 01:03:25.840 --> 01:03:27.480 you know, one of my notes was like, you know, 1385 01:03:27.639 --> 01:03:29.920 the Bramas kind of you know, got hosed this year, 1386 01:03:29.960 --> 01:03:32.960 but at least they finish like with four straight home games. 1387 01:03:32.960 --> 01:03:35.760 But I didn't realize. Also, now I'm just now saying 1388 01:03:35.760 --> 01:03:38.840 that these are Friday night games. There's got to be 1389 01:03:38.840 --> 01:03:40.639 a flex option, don't you think. 1390 01:03:41.519 --> 01:03:44.079 I don't. I don't know if you can because it 1391 01:03:44.199 --> 01:03:46.360 will a so you already have that issue with the 1392 01:03:46.480 --> 01:03:49.119 NFL right where we can you can swap within day, 1393 01:03:49.400 --> 01:03:51.480 right or you can't or it's got to be so 1394 01:03:51.559 --> 01:03:54.199 far in advance because people are buying tickets. I mean, 1395 01:03:54.239 --> 01:03:57.480 it is true. A number one, obviously the players have 1396 01:03:57.519 --> 01:03:59.280 to be safe in the amount of time between games. 1397 01:03:59.280 --> 01:04:01.239 But like, yeah, if I'm a fan and I'm flying 1398 01:04:01.280 --> 01:04:04.519 into Santa or not, it's in the NFL, I'm fine, 1399 01:04:04.559 --> 01:04:06.360 fine to Detroit to go watch the game, and then 1400 01:04:06.360 --> 01:04:08.360 you flex it to Monday night football or you flex 1401 01:04:08.400 --> 01:04:11.079 it to You're like, well, now I pissed because I 1402 01:04:11.119 --> 01:04:13.039 paid so I I don't know what that And then 1403 01:04:13.079 --> 01:04:15.239 with the team logistics would travel. I mean it's just 1404 01:04:15.280 --> 01:04:18.280 a you know, you got all these dual planes, and 1405 01:04:18.320 --> 01:04:21.480 you know, you got AJ mccarren yelling and like. 1406 01:04:21.519 --> 01:04:23.239 Got a ride with A. I got it. 1407 01:04:23.239 --> 01:04:25.360 They're on the same play with what is this going 1408 01:04:25.400 --> 01:04:27.519 on with this? But yeah, that is that is brutal 1409 01:04:27.559 --> 01:04:28.880 with it. I don't know what they do and that 1410 01:04:28.880 --> 01:04:30.400 that would be a question. I would put a poll 1411 01:04:30.440 --> 01:04:32.559 out after this, like do they flex the Bramas out 1412 01:04:32.599 --> 01:04:34.320 of it? Is there any way we can play? That's 1413 01:04:34.360 --> 01:04:34.920 insane to me. 1414 01:04:34.960 --> 01:04:38.760 You put this Wait a second though, this says at 1415 01:04:38.920 --> 01:04:40.280 the Dome at America Center. 1416 01:04:40.480 --> 01:04:43.239 Oh so it's this is the reverse one this is 1417 01:04:43.280 --> 01:04:43.840 the reverse. 1418 01:04:43.960 --> 01:04:47.519 Okay, Okay, so maybe so yeah, because I just saw 1419 01:04:48.199 --> 01:04:50.559 I saw versus San Antonio, but then I just saw this. 1420 01:04:50.639 --> 01:04:53.199 It said don't so maybe they don't finish with four 1421 01:04:53.239 --> 01:04:54.000 straight home games. 1422 01:04:54.000 --> 01:04:56.559 So yeah, so this is a home game, and thank god, 1423 01:04:56.800 --> 01:04:59.920 thank god John FARREDI no one in the comments corrected 1424 01:05:00.119 --> 01:05:03.079 me at all with any of this, like this is 1425 01:05:03.159 --> 01:05:06.239 the home game in Saint Louis, which. 1426 01:05:06.079 --> 01:05:09.280 Why, I mean why, Like this is this is a 1427 01:05:09.480 --> 01:05:12.960 Houston Roughnecks, Houston Gamblers kind of thing. 1428 01:05:12.840 --> 01:05:15.360 Like, well, but you got it. Obviously the album are Yeah, 1429 01:05:15.400 --> 01:05:17.360 obviously the album that was busy, so they had to 1430 01:05:17.400 --> 01:05:19.199 do it this way, and they yeah, you can't have 1431 01:05:19.239 --> 01:05:21.119 the promise not play the same number of home games. 1432 01:05:21.280 --> 01:05:23.360 I mean, I get it, but like it's still not 1433 01:05:23.400 --> 01:05:25.960 a home game, Like are the San Antonio fans gonna 1434 01:05:26.280 --> 01:05:30.400 fly in there? But I do? Okay, So again, this 1435 01:05:30.440 --> 01:05:33.079 could be a good Friday night spotlight game because it 1436 01:05:33.159 --> 01:05:34.760 is going to be at the Dome on a Friday 1437 01:05:34.840 --> 01:05:39.760 night seven seven pm Central. Uh, you know, well lubricated fans. 1438 01:05:39.800 --> 01:05:43.360 If the BattleHawks are still going strong, that's another question 1439 01:05:43.400 --> 01:05:47.039 that we've never seen. What the fan base is going 1440 01:05:47.119 --> 01:05:49.519 to be like if the BattleHawks were mediocre or bad, 1441 01:05:49.920 --> 01:05:52.960 because they've always been you know, in contention, they've been good. 1442 01:05:52.960 --> 01:05:55.559 They've been fun to watch. I'm not wishing that on 1443 01:05:55.639 --> 01:06:00.280 anybody because that when the BattleHawks to me are kind 1444 01:06:00.280 --> 01:06:03.559 of like the New York Yankees to Major League Baseball. Yeah, 1445 01:06:03.599 --> 01:06:06.559 when they're good, the league is good and everyone benefits 1446 01:06:06.559 --> 01:06:10.000 from it. So but yeah, this is like, this is good, 1447 01:06:10.159 --> 01:06:12.320 this is at Saint Louis on that front end. 1448 01:06:12.440 --> 01:06:15.239 Yeah, yeah, No, as as a BattleHawks go, so does 1449 01:06:15.280 --> 01:06:18.079 the UFL. Thanks yes, And I'm so glad we pointed 1450 01:06:18.079 --> 01:06:19.519 this out because I was about to have a connection 1451 01:06:19.559 --> 01:06:22.880 with that. But it is. But it is an interesting 1452 01:06:22.920 --> 01:06:26.079 point because you talk about, you know, the fervent fan 1453 01:06:26.119 --> 01:06:27.840 base there and the work that they've done, and they've 1454 01:06:27.840 --> 01:06:30.880 always been like good, too great, right, They've always been 1455 01:06:30.880 --> 01:06:33.199 on the upper echelon. It still kills me. And we 1456 01:06:33.280 --> 01:06:35.599 talked with Dave Naylor about it, who's a big CFL 1457 01:06:35.679 --> 01:06:38.000 reporter for people if you have, you know, following we're 1458 01:06:38.000 --> 01:06:40.679 doing our Great Cup show, and he is just adamant 1459 01:06:40.679 --> 01:06:42.559 that the CFL could put a team in Saint Louis 1460 01:06:42.599 --> 01:06:44.320 and they would just adopt them like they have the 1461 01:06:44.320 --> 01:06:47.880 Ballahawks like they've been working to build Saint Louis since 1462 01:06:47.920 --> 01:06:52.480 twenty eighteen now, like through Vince All like it. To me, 1463 01:06:52.639 --> 01:06:55.320 that is a hearty laugh that you think that you 1464 01:06:55.360 --> 01:06:57.400 could just like supplant another team in there and have 1465 01:06:57.480 --> 01:06:59.639 them support that. But you know, maybe I'm wrong, but 1466 01:06:59.760 --> 01:07:02.480 I think that. Yeah, Saint Louis is very happy. Uh 1467 01:07:02.559 --> 01:07:05.119 and when they're healthy, so we'll see what they look 1468 01:07:05.199 --> 01:07:06.880 like here hosting the problems again. 1469 01:07:07.719 --> 01:07:10.840 Yeah, I don't know about about a CFL team trying 1470 01:07:10.840 --> 01:07:13.679 to now if if you know, the battle Hawks moved 1471 01:07:13.719 --> 01:07:15.360 to l A in the middle of the night, which 1472 01:07:15.639 --> 01:07:17.639 that really can't happen. I would think with the UFL 1473 01:07:18.000 --> 01:07:21.199 they would relocate. They wouldn't do that to to Saint Louis. 1474 01:07:21.400 --> 01:07:24.440 I mean maybe, but no, I can't see that this 1475 01:07:24.440 --> 01:07:28.760 This is an interesting interesting week though, with the Brahmas 1476 01:07:28.800 --> 01:07:31.599 home game in Saint Louis and then what could be 1477 01:07:31.639 --> 01:07:34.320 a good one, you know that Saturday with the Panthers 1478 01:07:34.360 --> 01:07:36.199 and Stallions if they're both playing up to par. 1479 01:07:36.920 --> 01:07:39.920 Yeah, so that's on ABC, A couple of ABC doublehead 1480 01:07:40.000 --> 01:07:43.840 there the noon three, the Memphis and noon game, and then. 1481 01:07:43.719 --> 01:07:44.239 At d C. 1482 01:07:44.920 --> 01:07:48.280 Still they d C like is always that Sunday team. 1483 01:07:48.320 --> 01:07:50.119 It seems like that they're already they have a lot 1484 01:07:50.159 --> 01:07:53.519 of their right Week eight Sunday. I mean, now I 1485 01:07:53.559 --> 01:07:55.920 go back through their Week six Sunday, I mean they're 1486 01:07:56.639 --> 01:07:58.960 you know, and that affects things too when you're traveling 1487 01:07:59.039 --> 01:08:01.679 up their Week five Sunday. I mean, DC is is 1488 01:08:01.719 --> 01:08:04.599 a Sunday favorite team there, and that is odd because 1489 01:08:04.599 --> 01:08:07.079 obviously that's not depending on AUDI at that point. But 1490 01:08:07.719 --> 01:08:10.079 with the rough next there, I'll just speak curious because, 1491 01:08:10.119 --> 01:08:12.119 like you said, there was so much with Rice Stadium 1492 01:08:12.159 --> 01:08:13.880 and everything and the Roughnecks and we don't want to 1493 01:08:13.880 --> 01:08:16.399 support this in the name brand like you're two now, 1494 01:08:16.439 --> 01:08:19.800 but if the team still garbage, like I don't know, Yeah, 1495 01:08:19.880 --> 01:08:22.199 Chris says, they only played Sunday last year, so obviously 1496 01:08:22.359 --> 01:08:24.279 that part of that is the AUDI field thing. 1497 01:08:24.560 --> 01:08:25.159 That makes sense. 1498 01:08:25.279 --> 01:08:26.920 Yeah, And I don't know what the Rough Necks are 1499 01:08:26.920 --> 01:08:28.199 going to be this year, so it's hard for me 1500 01:08:28.279 --> 01:08:30.960 to kind of prognosticate what those games are going to 1501 01:08:31.000 --> 01:08:33.159 look like. But they need to get some fan base 1502 01:08:33.239 --> 01:08:35.199 up in there because people hollered for them to get 1503 01:08:35.199 --> 01:08:36.239 back to the other stadium. 1504 01:08:36.319 --> 01:08:38.520 Yeah, they've got to be a better team. I was 1505 01:08:38.520 --> 01:08:41.520 surprised they didn't make some wholesale changes in Houston this year. 1506 01:08:42.920 --> 01:08:45.000 I read I remember you and I talking before the 1507 01:08:45.039 --> 01:08:48.640 season on here before last season, We're like which coaches 1508 01:08:48.640 --> 01:08:50.319 are going to stay in, which which ones are going 1509 01:08:50.359 --> 01:08:53.039 to go? And like Houston to me was a no brainer. 1510 01:08:53.119 --> 01:08:57.520 So but but I mean, I hope it works out, 1511 01:08:57.600 --> 01:09:00.720 and I hope that they are improved because uh that 1512 01:09:00.880 --> 01:09:04.720 just that really really makes me think that that they 1513 01:09:04.720 --> 01:09:06.800 feel like they have something there that they can build on, 1514 01:09:06.960 --> 01:09:08.760 although I don't know that a lot of us could 1515 01:09:08.800 --> 01:09:09.760 see it from last year. 1516 01:09:10.359 --> 01:09:12.279 Yeah, you know, and you always wonder for them to 1517 01:09:12.279 --> 01:09:15.199 show in a couple of comments like just you know, 1518 01:09:16.000 --> 01:09:18.720 like there might just not be better options for a 1519 01:09:18.760 --> 01:09:20.760 lot of these teams. And we talked on the expansion 1520 01:09:20.760 --> 01:09:23.720 episode about you Okay. Now they're they're wanting cities to 1521 01:09:23.840 --> 01:09:26.800 like court the UFL for okay, well please come here, 1522 01:09:26.840 --> 01:09:29.079 and we want all that. Like I think if you 1523 01:09:29.119 --> 01:09:31.920 could be anywhere then Houston, you'd be there already, or 1524 01:09:31.920 --> 01:09:33.760 if you could be anywhere from some of these you'd 1525 01:09:33.760 --> 01:09:36.840 be there already. So to me, I don't know, like 1526 01:09:37.119 --> 01:09:39.840 it's like dating somewhere one and you're like, well, like 1527 01:09:40.640 --> 01:09:42.199 this best, Like like I don't know if I'm going 1528 01:09:42.279 --> 01:09:43.720 to be able to do any other here or whatever. 1529 01:09:43.840 --> 01:09:46.079 I don't know, Like, but I think some of these 1530 01:09:46.159 --> 01:09:48.600 you know, and we've talked in Greg Parks and I 1531 01:09:49.079 --> 01:09:51.800 LENGTHD with ufl board and everything else about, like you 1532 01:09:52.079 --> 01:09:54.319 would never put any of these teams in these markets, 1533 01:09:54.359 --> 01:09:56.720 like you know, if you went back and rebuilt this 1534 01:09:56.800 --> 01:09:58.840 map from the beginning. But obviously this is where we're 1535 01:09:58.880 --> 01:09:59.199 at now. 1536 01:09:59.279 --> 01:10:01.399 Yeah. No, I think that's a good point. If you started, 1537 01:10:01.439 --> 01:10:04.760 if you started from zero again, is this what it 1538 01:10:04.800 --> 01:10:06.560 would look like? I don't think it would. 1539 01:10:06.800 --> 01:10:08.359 No, No, I hope not. 1540 01:10:08.520 --> 01:10:09.039 I hope not. 1541 01:10:09.680 --> 01:10:13.720 Week ten here rounded it out. I see now Chris 1542 01:10:13.760 --> 01:10:16.680 is already saying d C Friday night, that's gonna be 1543 01:10:16.720 --> 01:10:19.640 popping here at Ballahawks going in. You know, if those 1544 01:10:19.680 --> 01:10:23.199 teams are really in contention, that could be really atmosphere 1545 01:10:23.199 --> 01:10:25.560 of the season. It seems wait until week ten for that, 1546 01:10:26.159 --> 01:10:29.720 and then Panthers hosting against Saturday and then the doubleheader 1547 01:10:29.760 --> 01:10:32.680 Sunday noon three, so there's only the one simulcast game, 1548 01:10:33.239 --> 01:10:37.279 So that's good. Fox on Friday, ESPN Saturday and then 1549 01:10:37.319 --> 01:10:39.600 the ABC Fox is split on Sunday. 1550 01:10:40.399 --> 01:10:45.600 Yeah, this is yeah, I think Friday is obviously kind 1551 01:10:45.600 --> 01:10:47.279 of the spot that that's going to be the one, 1552 01:10:48.079 --> 01:10:50.520 as you said, if they're both in contention and what 1553 01:10:50.560 --> 01:10:54.000 we think they might be this year. I mean, and 1554 01:10:54.119 --> 01:10:56.119 you know that could that could be with something on 1555 01:10:56.159 --> 01:10:58.880 the line. Uh, so that that would that could be 1556 01:10:58.920 --> 01:11:01.199 an interesting game and the resk you got to think 1557 01:11:01.239 --> 01:11:06.079 like will Memphis be playing for you know, will there 1558 01:11:06.159 --> 01:11:08.079 be something there for them to play for? And then 1559 01:11:08.079 --> 01:11:11.560 they're playing to Birmingham Stallions. Uh, you know saying Renegades 1560 01:11:11.560 --> 01:11:13.159 and Bramas you know, who knows. There are a lot 1561 01:11:13.239 --> 01:11:16.039 of question marks here. So you wonder how you know 1562 01:11:16.159 --> 01:11:19.399 in this week ten what's going to be on the line? Uh? 1563 01:11:19.680 --> 01:11:23.000 And to me just you know, trying to prognosticate here 1564 01:11:23.000 --> 01:11:26.359 in January on what's gonna happen May thirtieth, it feels 1565 01:11:26.399 --> 01:11:29.800 like that BattleHawks defenders you know very well could be 1566 01:11:30.159 --> 01:11:31.319 like something on the line. 1567 01:11:32.039 --> 01:11:34.359 So you mean, because we need to have our Poot 1568 01:11:34.399 --> 01:11:36.800 Bowl this year? So what is what is the Poot 1569 01:11:36.800 --> 01:11:39.399 Bowl game of where they play for where they play 1570 01:11:39.479 --> 01:11:42.920 for the what is it? You know, where they play 1571 01:11:43.000 --> 01:11:44.600 for the number one pick or whatever. 1572 01:11:44.960 --> 01:11:49.279 Oh yeah, I don't know if it's in week ten 1573 01:11:49.399 --> 01:11:52.079 unless the Renegades are just you know, and I know 1574 01:11:52.119 --> 01:11:55.560 they struggled last year, but the Bramas were good. But 1575 01:11:55.600 --> 01:11:58.079 we don't know what you know, they're not. We don't 1576 01:11:58.079 --> 01:12:00.199 know what they're going to look like this year, hope. Well, 1577 01:12:01.760 --> 01:12:03.520 I wouldn't think it would be the rough necks in 1578 01:12:03.560 --> 01:12:05.640 Panthers because of what we saw last year out of 1579 01:12:05.680 --> 01:12:09.840 the Panthers. Uh, that's that's a good question. Well, what 1580 01:12:09.880 --> 01:12:11.359 maybe that's gonna happen in week nine? 1581 01:12:12.000 --> 01:12:14.039 Let me interesting, So I'll be curious to check that out. 1582 01:12:14.079 --> 01:12:16.640 But Chris here saying to come out, I'll get you 1583 01:12:16.640 --> 01:12:18.880 give us tickets there. Week ten, we tend out of 1584 01:12:18.880 --> 01:12:20.800 the I don't even know. Is that amoralthy weekend? That 1585 01:12:20.880 --> 01:12:22.720 might be a tough kind of flex anyway. Oh yeah, 1586 01:12:22.720 --> 01:12:26.600 it could be its Memorial Day. I got a wedding 1587 01:12:26.680 --> 01:12:28.880 show that Sunday. That's a tough that's a tough ass 1588 01:12:28.880 --> 01:12:32.039 for but anyway, and then ending in Memphis, I don't know, 1589 01:12:32.199 --> 01:12:34.600 that could be I mean the Stallions. Yes, you're hoping 1590 01:12:34.640 --> 01:12:36.520 that Memphis has something to play for at that point, 1591 01:12:36.520 --> 01:12:40.239 but that that is you know, the week ten kind 1592 01:12:40.239 --> 01:12:43.199 of rides like this in the wave sorry ending and 1593 01:12:43.800 --> 01:12:44.720 if that makes sense. 1594 01:12:44.800 --> 01:12:47.800 Right, No, no, it does that that could be that 1595 01:12:47.920 --> 01:12:49.920 might be the one that might be the Friday night game. 1596 01:12:50.199 --> 01:12:51.439 Too bad it's week ten. 1597 01:12:51.560 --> 01:12:54.319 But yeah, uh so then let's go here just a 1598 01:12:54.319 --> 01:12:56.520 couple of playstar of things and if anyone has any 1599 01:12:56.520 --> 01:12:58.760 comments here, we can get to all that stuff. So 1600 01:12:58.840 --> 01:13:00.680 we know, you know, we know the player dates a 1601 01:13:00.800 --> 01:13:05.000 double header on Sunday, June eighth, three pm and then 1602 01:13:05.039 --> 01:13:07.399 six pm, So that would be cool. One on ABC, 1603 01:13:07.600 --> 01:13:11.239 one on Fox and then ABC holding the championship game 1604 01:13:11.439 --> 01:13:16.800 on Saturday, June fourteenth at eight pm on ABC. Fox 1605 01:13:16.800 --> 01:13:19.199 hosted last year, right, they bounced back and forth in 1606 01:13:19.760 --> 01:13:22.640 the kickoff is on ABC. Right, so we'll flip out 1607 01:13:22.680 --> 01:13:27.319 of round. Do you like the the Sunday conference championships 1608 01:13:27.359 --> 01:13:30.479 and then leading into the Saturday playoff game or excuse me, 1609 01:13:30.560 --> 01:13:33.119 championship game. Would you prefer a Sunday championship game? Would 1610 01:13:33.159 --> 01:13:35.439 you prefer any difference if we had any options of 1611 01:13:35.520 --> 01:13:36.279 changing any of this. 1612 01:13:37.079 --> 01:13:38.760 If you're going to play at eight o'clock, I think 1613 01:13:38.760 --> 01:13:40.680 it's better to do that on a Saturday night rather 1614 01:13:40.720 --> 01:13:43.960 than a Sunday the championship game. No, I'm fine with 1615 01:13:44.000 --> 01:13:46.479 these and I like that. You know, you get you get, 1616 01:13:46.800 --> 01:13:49.439 you get a double you get a double header of 1617 01:13:50.800 --> 01:13:52.880 Although it might be good to start a little earlier, 1618 01:13:52.920 --> 01:13:54.800 I'm not going to nitpick this. I mean three and 1619 01:13:54.880 --> 01:13:59.159 six Eastern to me is fine. Yeah, I mean I 1620 01:13:59.279 --> 01:14:01.000 like this postseason and set up very much. 1621 01:14:02.319 --> 01:14:04.800 Yeah, and there you go, Saturday, June fourteenth. I got 1622 01:14:04.840 --> 01:14:07.279 that marked down. We'll see how it goes. I know 1623 01:14:07.359 --> 01:14:11.760 I have a wedding on June seventh, I believe, so 1624 01:14:11.800 --> 01:14:13.760 I can't do it that day. You know, I wouldn't 1625 01:14:13.800 --> 01:14:17.239 travel for the conference games most likely, but a good 1626 01:14:17.319 --> 01:14:19.359 chance there on the fourteenth, and we'll see where that's 1627 01:14:19.359 --> 01:14:21.880 going to be. We haven't announced, you know, right, they 1628 01:14:21.880 --> 01:14:25.920 don't have an official right we're are we assuming Saint Louis. 1629 01:14:25.960 --> 01:14:28.239 I've heard protective in there, but they haven't officially announced 1630 01:14:28.239 --> 01:14:29.840 anything from where it's going to be, right because they 1631 01:14:29.960 --> 01:14:31.039 likely be neutral to site. 1632 01:14:31.319 --> 01:14:33.000 Yeah, you know, there were there was some talk that 1633 01:14:33.079 --> 01:14:36.560 it something one of the what was was it Audi 1634 01:14:36.640 --> 01:14:39.239 that was out? Something? Something was I want to know 1635 01:14:39.399 --> 01:14:39.800 this out? 1636 01:14:39.880 --> 01:14:40.039 Yeah? 1637 01:14:40.079 --> 01:14:42.720 Yeah, so yeah, I mean could be Saint Louis could be, 1638 01:14:42.920 --> 01:14:45.560 but I'd also heard too. I mean, these are all rumors, 1639 01:14:45.960 --> 01:14:49.359 like Birmingham might be in the mix for it be interesting. 1640 01:14:49.760 --> 01:14:52.840 It'd be you know. I I like that Birmingham setup 1641 01:14:52.880 --> 01:14:55.600 with those bars in the hotel there. It's just hard 1642 01:14:55.920 --> 01:14:58.399 like it's it's an expensive weekend. Like I paid a 1643 01:14:58.439 --> 01:15:00.000 lot to stay there because we were doing the show 1644 01:15:00.039 --> 01:15:02.239 and we used all that. But like I was going 1645 01:15:02.319 --> 01:15:04.560 as a fan, I would never pay the stay, right, 1646 01:15:04.720 --> 01:15:06.800 it's just too you know, it's too expensive for kind 1647 01:15:06.840 --> 01:15:08.600 of what it is. But it could be cool. I 1648 01:15:08.600 --> 01:15:10.520 mean they could, they could pack it. It was packed 1649 01:15:10.520 --> 01:15:13.119 that kickoff game. I mean it hasn't hasn't reached those 1650 01:15:13.119 --> 01:15:16.600 heights again, but I think with enough marketing behind it. Yeah, 1651 01:15:16.840 --> 01:15:19.119 Mike says Audi was the rumor. But FIFA World has 1652 01:15:19.159 --> 01:15:22.359 a game that weekend that was at Okay, so we're 1653 01:15:22.399 --> 01:15:26.840 all with that stuff. So let's let's do some questions here. 1654 01:15:27.039 --> 01:15:29.560 I have some star we'll probably you get for fifteen 1655 01:15:29.600 --> 01:15:31.039 minutes and we'll get out of here at the bottom 1656 01:15:31.039 --> 01:15:32.880 of the hour. I got some star questions here. Does 1657 01:15:32.920 --> 01:15:33.640 that work for you John? 1658 01:15:33.920 --> 01:15:34.560 That works for me? 1659 01:15:35.039 --> 01:15:37.399 All right? So, and if you guys have any questions 1660 01:15:37.399 --> 01:15:40.039 about the games, any questions about you know, anything, UFL 1661 01:15:40.039 --> 01:15:43.720 will get to all that on here. Abdul says. Over 1662 01:15:43.880 --> 01:15:46.840 under one point five expansion teams announced for the twenty 1663 01:15:46.880 --> 01:15:49.800 twenty six season during the twenty twenty five championship. 1664 01:15:51.000 --> 01:15:53.600 That's a lot. I think that's probably too much to 1665 01:15:53.680 --> 01:15:59.000 ask for, because the expansion process has just really been 1666 01:15:59.039 --> 01:16:01.840 announced and I don't know how much it's really started, 1667 01:16:02.399 --> 01:16:04.760 and I think there's going to be so many moving pieces. 1668 01:16:06.239 --> 01:16:09.800 But if they do announce it, I mean there's going 1669 01:16:09.880 --> 01:16:11.840 to be so much work going on behind the scenes 1670 01:16:11.920 --> 01:16:14.960 while the season is going on for that to happen 1671 01:16:15.399 --> 01:16:18.760 in the next you know, in June. So but I 1672 01:16:18.760 --> 01:16:21.119 think when the expansion is announced, I think it will 1673 01:16:21.159 --> 01:16:22.720 be two teams. 1674 01:16:23.680 --> 01:16:25.199 I think, yeah, so it has to be two teams. 1675 01:16:25.239 --> 01:16:28.640 I'll be really curious how this, how this looks or goes, 1676 01:16:28.840 --> 01:16:31.199 because you know, the UFL and they were the people 1677 01:16:31.239 --> 01:16:34.039 that put this out right, and we kind of talk that, Okay, 1678 01:16:34.039 --> 01:16:35.319 we want to do this to kind of get some 1679 01:16:35.439 --> 01:16:37.760 free promotion here we're getting ready to build all this. 1680 01:16:37.880 --> 01:16:40.720 But it's kind of like and obviously I'm happily Mary, 1681 01:16:40.760 --> 01:16:42.319 but it's kind of like being like, hey, I'm open 1682 01:16:42.359 --> 01:16:45.600 to Dayton Sidney Sweeney, like I'm open, like I'm here, 1683 01:16:45.680 --> 01:16:48.239 you know, like where it's you know, you could say 1684 01:16:48.520 --> 01:16:50.439 we're we're ready to do anything and we're looking. But 1685 01:16:50.600 --> 01:16:54.720 you know, if they don't get any reciprocation there, does 1686 01:16:54.800 --> 01:16:57.000 that is an egg on their face? If they announced 1687 01:16:57.039 --> 01:16:58.960 this and no one comes forward, do we try to 1688 01:16:58.960 --> 01:17:01.920 fit something work because we've put this out do we 1689 01:17:02.039 --> 01:17:03.720 just kind of ignore it if we don't get in 1690 01:17:03.760 --> 01:17:05.600 that bit? Like I'm just curious how this goes, because 1691 01:17:05.600 --> 01:17:07.560 now you've actually put this out in the ether at 1692 01:17:07.600 --> 01:17:10.239 something that you know, people can like Google and the 1693 01:17:10.319 --> 01:17:14.159 UFL expansion. This like it puts it in the ether 1694 01:17:14.279 --> 01:17:16.560 more than just us talking about it for you know, 1695 01:17:16.600 --> 01:17:18.079 forever online. 1696 01:17:17.760 --> 01:17:21.159 And and I'll say that, you know, there was some 1697 01:17:21.239 --> 01:17:24.239 talk this might be breaking news here on your on 1698 01:17:24.279 --> 01:17:29.600 your show read so maybe I might need to get 1699 01:17:29.600 --> 01:17:32.119 the uh should I like go with the red lights back? 1700 01:17:34.560 --> 01:17:38.720 But there was some talk about Louisville being in the 1701 01:17:38.720 --> 01:17:41.760 mix here. I talked to the Louisville Sports Commission. This 1702 01:17:41.880 --> 01:17:43.880 was back in mid December, when you know, a little 1703 01:17:43.880 --> 01:17:46.880 bit after all this had been announced. They say that 1704 01:17:46.920 --> 01:17:49.720 they've not had any talks with the UFL. Uh And 1705 01:17:49.760 --> 01:17:52.159 then a couple of weeks later, I talked to the 1706 01:17:52.199 --> 01:17:56.079 executive director of the Mayor's Cabinet for Economic Development here 1707 01:17:56.079 --> 01:17:59.560 in Louisville. He says they've not been contacted by the 1708 01:17:59.640 --> 01:18:02.439 uf for a possible expansion team, but they're going to 1709 01:18:02.479 --> 01:18:04.800 continue to work with Louisville Sports Commission. So, and I'd 1710 01:18:04.800 --> 01:18:08.319 asked the Louislle Sports Commission, did you guys like give 1711 01:18:08.359 --> 01:18:11.439 an RFP to maybe try to get this team. They 1712 01:18:11.439 --> 01:18:14.960 have not done that. So, I mean, I'm not losing 1713 01:18:15.039 --> 01:18:17.920 hope here on a in my adopted hometown that will 1714 01:18:17.920 --> 01:18:21.279 get a UFL team. But uh so if the expansions are, 1715 01:18:21.920 --> 01:18:24.399 if they're moving, they're moving elsewhere other than Louisville. 1716 01:18:25.520 --> 01:18:28.039 It's yeah, I mean we talked about this before. I 1717 01:18:28.079 --> 01:18:31.000 think it's a hard sell. I think it's hard to 1718 01:18:31.039 --> 01:18:34.039 get the city's involved and Okay, what is the cost 1719 01:18:34.079 --> 01:18:36.720 of benefit? And you know, like if you're looking in 1720 01:18:37.119 --> 01:18:39.760 San Antonio now and you're like, okay, we're doing and 1721 01:18:39.800 --> 01:18:42.039 God bless all these people, and you know, got the 1722 01:18:42.079 --> 01:18:44.279 horns for a podcast like all these you know, like 1723 01:18:44.439 --> 01:18:47.920 San Antonio has a good like hardcore, damn base right 1724 01:18:48.000 --> 01:18:50.399 that that shows up online and and god bless that. 1725 01:18:50.520 --> 01:18:53.640 But yeah, you got four home games. You know they 1726 01:18:53.640 --> 01:18:55.880 don't come to halfway through the season. One of your 1727 01:18:55.880 --> 01:18:58.880 home games is not even in in San Antonio. So 1728 01:18:58.960 --> 01:19:02.520 like if I you know, like if I'm a San 1729 01:19:02.520 --> 01:19:05.600 Antonio sick of like rep, how do you even sell that? 1730 01:19:05.760 --> 01:19:07.880 Like here, get involved in the four games and then 1731 01:19:07.960 --> 01:19:09.680 we can give you an option if you want to 1732 01:19:09.680 --> 01:19:12.000 go to Saint Louis. Like to me, it's just it's 1733 01:19:11.840 --> 01:19:14.520 it's really hard to sell any of these teams as 1734 01:19:15.000 --> 01:19:17.760 five standalone home games anyway that you want these people 1735 01:19:17.760 --> 01:19:20.039 to get invested at, like oh yeah, then they'll be back, 1736 01:19:20.439 --> 01:19:22.760 you know, ten months from now, like you can you know, 1737 01:19:22.840 --> 01:19:24.479 come and come back and see him again later, like 1738 01:19:25.039 --> 01:19:27.479 no off season push really hard to track anything and 1739 01:19:27.520 --> 01:19:29.520 the out Like I just it's really hard. I don't 1740 01:19:29.600 --> 01:19:31.199 envy the people and I see them post all the time, 1741 01:19:31.239 --> 01:19:33.159 these people trying to sell tickets. I don't envy that 1742 01:19:33.239 --> 01:19:34.840 at all because I just think any of it to 1743 01:19:34.960 --> 01:19:36.800 get people in, you get the cities involved. I think 1744 01:19:36.800 --> 01:19:39.760 it's really hard. It's very it's easy to throw out 1745 01:19:39.840 --> 01:19:42.119 any of these random cities, but to actually get them involved, 1746 01:19:42.239 --> 01:19:43.359 I think it's pretty hard. 1747 01:19:43.680 --> 01:19:47.119 Right and you know you've said this before, uh read 1748 01:19:47.159 --> 01:19:50.399 that you're selling a product and it's like so but 1749 01:19:50.760 --> 01:19:52.760 you know this is and this kind of spoke to 1750 01:19:52.800 --> 01:19:55.680 like the whole franchising thing, like if you really wanted 1751 01:19:55.720 --> 01:19:58.159 to franchise this, what what would people? What are people 1752 01:19:58.199 --> 01:20:01.920 buying right now? And I think that the UFL has 1753 01:20:01.920 --> 01:20:05.279 an opportunity to put that on the stage for franchising 1754 01:20:05.319 --> 01:20:07.840 this year. But as far as like for cities, like 1755 01:20:07.920 --> 01:20:10.880 what do the cities think that you know, what are 1756 01:20:10.880 --> 01:20:12.920 they going to buy? Like what what what are they 1757 01:20:12.960 --> 01:20:14.720 going to? Where are they in for? How is this 1758 01:20:14.800 --> 01:20:17.800 gonna help improve their community? How is this going to 1759 01:20:17.840 --> 01:20:19.960 help put them on a on a bigger stage. 1760 01:20:21.000 --> 01:20:24.319 Like and we don't do a lot of like advertising 1761 01:20:24.359 --> 01:20:26.600 their sponsorships on here this because this isn't like in 1762 01:20:26.640 --> 01:20:30.319 any way my you know, primary anything. But like, uh, 1763 01:20:30.600 --> 01:20:32.640 at a time when Paul and I were involved, and 1764 01:20:32.680 --> 01:20:34.439 we were very okay, like how did we like reach 1765 01:20:34.479 --> 01:20:36.680 out to people like what do we do? And you know, 1766 01:20:36.720 --> 01:20:39.359 we kind of put together a little deck, right like Okay, 1767 01:20:39.359 --> 01:20:41.119 this is kind of you know, this is kind of 1768 01:20:41.119 --> 01:20:43.159 our demo and how many people and where they live 1769 01:20:43.199 --> 01:20:44.479 and we get all this, you know, and I have 1770 01:20:44.520 --> 01:20:46.399 to do that anyway when I like apply to you 1771 01:20:46.560 --> 01:20:49.960 the CFL for credentials and like, okay, this is our platforms, 1772 01:20:50.159 --> 01:20:52.359 I don't know, like what is this? Like what is 1773 01:20:52.399 --> 01:20:55.279 the deck of a UFL team When they're like here Louisville, 1774 01:20:55.319 --> 01:20:58.119 Like you know, I just I know we've talked about 1775 01:20:58.119 --> 01:21:00.000 this before kind of like regards to like I just 1776 01:21:00.039 --> 01:21:01.479 don't know what that sell is. I don't know what 1777 01:21:01.520 --> 01:21:03.079 you bring and what you print out and bring to 1778 01:21:03.119 --> 01:21:05.640 that median of like here come invest in the UFL team. 1779 01:21:05.760 --> 01:21:09.239 Like we just watched that uh and that Step Brothers 1780 01:21:09.239 --> 01:21:12.359 where they're showing you know where were doing the boats 1781 01:21:12.359 --> 01:21:14.079 and hosts and they just showed the boat and they're 1782 01:21:14.119 --> 01:21:16.159 like but Dad, like are you going to invest in? 1783 01:21:16.439 --> 01:21:18.800 Like I feel like that's that's kind of like like 1784 01:21:18.880 --> 01:21:21.560 what does that meeting look like when like rusting them 1785 01:21:21.600 --> 01:21:23.880 go in like here right here is our presentation like 1786 01:21:23.960 --> 01:21:25.439 corporate synergy. I don't know. 1787 01:21:26.279 --> 01:21:29.720 Uh yeah, I think I think it might be more 1788 01:21:29.760 --> 01:21:33.079 appealing to cities like Louisville who want a little bit 1789 01:21:33.119 --> 01:21:36.119 of a bigger name. But if the UFL. You know, 1790 01:21:36.159 --> 01:21:37.640 and I think there's room here. I mean I've said 1791 01:21:37.680 --> 01:21:39.560 it before. I and I even made a video like 1792 01:21:39.640 --> 01:21:41.199 this is why I think. You know, here are five 1793 01:21:41.279 --> 01:21:44.560 reasons I think you the UFL should come to Louisville. 1794 01:21:45.600 --> 01:21:49.680 But you know, I think it's a harder sell for uh, 1795 01:21:49.800 --> 01:21:52.720 you know, some some larger cities, especially when they're we've 1796 01:21:52.960 --> 01:21:55.800 you know, heard that they could be cities that you 1797 01:21:55.840 --> 01:21:58.479 know already have an NFL presence and and the UFL 1798 01:21:58.520 --> 01:22:03.079 has that already. Uh So you're right, you know, we 1799 01:22:03.279 --> 01:22:06.159 like the UFL. We enjoy it, but when you start 1800 01:22:06.159 --> 01:22:09.479 looking at it from a level of I'm a city official, 1801 01:22:09.520 --> 01:22:13.359 I'm a mayor, I'm a governor. What am I? How 1802 01:22:13.479 --> 01:22:15.159 is this going to help my state? How's this going 1803 01:22:15.239 --> 01:22:18.000 to help my community? Yeah? I don't know. I hope 1804 01:22:18.039 --> 01:22:20.800 they've got I hope that there's an opportunity here. 1805 01:22:21.239 --> 01:22:21.319 Uh. 1806 01:22:21.560 --> 01:22:23.760 I think there is an opportunity for expansion. But you're right, 1807 01:22:23.920 --> 01:22:26.079 like I would love to know what the seal is 1808 01:22:26.159 --> 01:22:29.920 for this. You know, we enjoyed its entertainment, but how 1809 01:22:29.920 --> 01:22:31.520 does this really improve communities? 1810 01:22:32.279 --> 01:22:37.279 Yeah, it's when they when they originally announced the USFL, 1811 01:22:37.399 --> 01:22:39.199 like Hub and all of that, And I think it 1812 01:22:39.239 --> 01:22:42.079 was roy S. Johnson with the al dot Com but 1813 01:22:42.239 --> 01:22:46.039 like really detailed like kind of the year long process 1814 01:22:46.079 --> 01:22:48.479 of getting that, and it was right with Eric Shanks 1815 01:22:48.479 --> 01:22:50.960 and I think they were in a truck for a 1816 01:22:51.039 --> 01:22:54.439 different doing some other sports thing and then they're like, 1817 01:22:54.479 --> 01:22:56.800 well what about like we put them all and what 1818 01:22:56.840 --> 01:22:59.119 about Birmingham Like they kind of you know, and they 1819 01:22:59.119 --> 01:23:02.199 were working with the b JCC like their convention whatever 1820 01:23:02.239 --> 01:23:04.680 there they're complex there in the community. Like, but it 1821 01:23:04.800 --> 01:23:06.560 was like months and then like, okay, we got to 1822 01:23:06.600 --> 01:23:08.439 sell them on this, so we're gonna have all the teams. 1823 01:23:08.479 --> 01:23:12.239 Like to me, it's almost easier to sell that of hey, 1824 01:23:12.279 --> 01:23:15.119 we're gonna have eight teams play forty games here, like 1825 01:23:15.119 --> 01:23:18.600 like to me, the USFL year one was an easier 1826 01:23:18.680 --> 01:23:20.640 sell than like, well here and now you're gonna do 1827 01:23:20.680 --> 01:23:22.159 all the same work for us to be in your 1828 01:23:22.159 --> 01:23:24.680 city and it's five home games or four and like 1829 01:23:24.840 --> 01:23:26.720 now we got to do all this stuff with the stadiums, 1830 01:23:26.760 --> 01:23:28.960 like we have a question to hear about just marketing 1831 01:23:29.000 --> 01:23:30.359 before we get out. But I just think it's a 1832 01:23:30.439 --> 01:23:32.279 name of the harder sell now of like when now 1833 01:23:32.359 --> 01:23:35.640 you're like you're trying to sell a fraction. The CFL 1834 01:23:35.720 --> 01:23:37.520 gets this a lot where they all the games used 1835 01:23:37.520 --> 01:23:39.800 to be on ESPN and now they have half the 1836 01:23:39.840 --> 01:23:42.560 games locked up with CBS Sports Networks, and then they 1837 01:23:42.600 --> 01:23:44.800 just stream the rest of them for free because there's 1838 01:23:44.840 --> 01:23:47.039 no market for that other half of the games, Like 1839 01:23:47.119 --> 01:23:50.039 CBS Sports pays for what they want, and then all 1840 01:23:50.039 --> 01:23:51.880 the other ones are like, we don't care, like just 1841 01:23:52.039 --> 01:23:54.239 stream them. Like I think it was almost an easier 1842 01:23:54.239 --> 01:23:56.720 sell to sell all the teams and you know, dates 1843 01:23:56.720 --> 01:23:59.000 and everything versus like, well here, here's just a handful. 1844 01:23:59.479 --> 01:24:00.720 Can you can You got to be a part of 1845 01:24:00.720 --> 01:24:01.159 this web. 1846 01:24:01.600 --> 01:24:03.760 And I think that was probably I think at the 1847 01:24:03.880 --> 01:24:06.199 USFL was thinking that and Fox was thinking, this is 1848 01:24:06.239 --> 01:24:09.119 a proof of concept. Now let's now the next step 1849 01:24:09.159 --> 01:24:11.720 is to franchise these teams out and to actually play 1850 01:24:11.720 --> 01:24:15.000 in the cities that they're named after. But but I think, 1851 01:24:15.119 --> 01:24:17.920 you know, this year, as we said, I mean, I 1852 01:24:17.960 --> 01:24:20.720 think there's an opportunity for the UFL to show what 1853 01:24:20.760 --> 01:24:24.239 it's about and maybe make that sell where they look, 1854 01:24:24.319 --> 01:24:27.159 they're watching TV and they see these big crowds on 1855 01:24:27.199 --> 01:24:30.000 a Friday night. Hopefully we'll see that. So you know, 1856 01:24:30.359 --> 01:24:32.279 it's something for the community to do, but it could 1857 01:24:32.279 --> 01:24:35.479 be a harder sell for some larger cities, and maybe 1858 01:24:35.520 --> 01:24:39.000 a little easier sell in places like Louisville, which is, 1859 01:24:39.039 --> 01:24:41.600 you know, a top fifty market, but does it you know, 1860 01:24:41.720 --> 01:24:43.840 doesn't have a pro football team. 1861 01:24:44.640 --> 01:24:48.800 The other thing here, I had one, Oh, Mike, let's 1862 01:24:48.800 --> 01:24:50.880 see here, just I just had a couple more. I 1863 01:24:50.880 --> 01:24:54.399 wanted to see, Oh, Darren, are they doing boosts like Houston, Detroit, DC, 1864 01:24:54.560 --> 01:24:57.000 any on the ground promotions. I know they're hiring for 1865 01:24:57.279 --> 01:24:59.159 you know, they were always hiring for this, and I 1866 01:24:59.159 --> 01:25:00.840 even saw that they were looking for like a new 1867 01:25:01.199 --> 01:25:04.399 comms person to help kind of facilitate that. I just 1868 01:25:04.880 --> 01:25:07.039 it's such a hard it's a hard sell for any 1869 01:25:07.079 --> 01:25:08.520 of this. Like it's okay, I'm going to be a 1870 01:25:08.520 --> 01:25:11.279 seasonal employee, like I'm going to come work. Yeah, they 1871 01:25:11.319 --> 01:25:13.279 need to have you need to have two three people 1872 01:25:13.319 --> 01:25:15.039 on full staff and all these you know we were 1873 01:25:15.039 --> 01:25:18.279 talking Ryan Gusts in earlier. Seattle is a great example 1874 01:25:18.319 --> 01:25:20.800 of that and really being and doing community events and 1875 01:25:20.800 --> 01:25:24.319 giveaways and being prevalent like I don't I haven't seen 1876 01:25:24.399 --> 01:25:26.159 a lot of that. I know they're trying to hire 1877 01:25:26.239 --> 01:25:28.800 that and it's when you lay off everyone you gotta hire, 1878 01:25:28.840 --> 01:25:30.319 it's hard to get people to come back on. Do 1879 01:25:30.319 --> 01:25:31.159 you have any thoughts on that? 1880 01:25:31.640 --> 01:25:34.319 Uh? Yeah, I mean, as you said, how many people 1881 01:25:34.399 --> 01:25:37.680 want to be seasonal employees. Uh, you know, if you're 1882 01:25:38.560 --> 01:25:41.640 looking for a full time job, or you have the 1883 01:25:41.640 --> 01:25:43.760 opportunity or you're going to be a seasonal employee for 1884 01:25:44.119 --> 01:25:45.960 you know you have, you're gonna have to obviously be 1885 01:25:46.039 --> 01:25:48.800 in the Arlington area. I just think that the talent 1886 01:25:48.840 --> 01:25:51.800 pool for what they're looking for or what they're maybe 1887 01:25:51.840 --> 01:25:55.359 hoping for that job, talent pool might not be what 1888 01:25:55.479 --> 01:25:59.079 they It won't it won't be available or at the 1889 01:25:59.119 --> 01:26:01.319 scale that it should be. To me, if that makes sense, 1890 01:26:01.359 --> 01:26:03.800 I just think you're right. You need people year round 1891 01:26:03.960 --> 01:26:06.920 who are out in the community, who are like you know, 1892 01:26:07.039 --> 01:26:11.199 like Darren saying here, you know, do booths be a 1893 01:26:11.239 --> 01:26:14.159 public presence, get your name out. We were seeing that 1894 01:26:14.439 --> 01:26:17.520 wasn't even happening in Birmingham, and you know, Birmingham is 1895 01:26:18.319 --> 01:26:20.920 the heart of spring football, so you need that year 1896 01:26:21.000 --> 01:26:22.560 round and to be a brand. 1897 01:26:23.840 --> 01:26:27.520 Anything else here. I know. I have one more thing. 1898 01:26:29.279 --> 01:26:31.439 Oh Mike was talking, he had this question about them 1899 01:26:31.479 --> 01:26:34.960 doing the pregame shows, doing that trying to roll in 1900 01:26:35.000 --> 01:26:36.760 on Fridays. I assume that's going to be more of 1901 01:26:36.760 --> 01:26:40.439 an internet thing, right the UFL, can you. I don't 1902 01:26:40.439 --> 01:26:43.039 think Fox has the programming space to give it away 1903 01:26:43.079 --> 01:26:45.079 ahead of that, but I do know that Mike had 1904 01:26:45.119 --> 01:26:47.000 some talks about that. I think it was online stuff. 1905 01:26:48.439 --> 01:26:50.920 You know, if they are you know, they did show 1906 01:26:50.960 --> 01:26:53.199 on the schedule. I'll say this, like the Friday night 1907 01:26:53.239 --> 01:26:55.920 games on Fox are at eight o'clock. But I do 1908 01:26:56.000 --> 01:26:59.399 wonder usually, you know, seven thirty Eastern time is going 1909 01:26:59.479 --> 01:27:02.119 to be you know, that's gonna be local time. That's 1910 01:27:02.159 --> 01:27:05.279 gonna be your local programming stuff, that's your you know, 1911 01:27:05.560 --> 01:27:08.159 family feuds and Judge Dudy's and things like that where 1912 01:27:08.159 --> 01:27:10.920 the local stations make the money. So if they do 1913 01:27:11.000 --> 01:27:14.279 have a pregame show, I can't imagine, you know, if 1914 01:27:14.319 --> 01:27:16.359 it's a Fox pregame show, I can't imagine it would 1915 01:27:16.399 --> 01:27:19.159 be more than maybe fifteen minutes and the kickoff would 1916 01:27:19.159 --> 01:27:21.439 actually be eight to fifteen, which you know, we see 1917 01:27:21.439 --> 01:27:25.439 this a lot. If anytime you notice a time, like 1918 01:27:25.560 --> 01:27:28.199 for instance, you know it's gonna be Friday at eight o'clock. Well, 1919 01:27:28.239 --> 01:27:29.159 the kickoff might. 1920 01:27:29.039 --> 01:27:32.000 Actually be younger than that for a ten. Yeah, you 1921 01:27:32.039 --> 01:27:32.439 could do. 1922 01:27:32.439 --> 01:27:35.359 That, and sometimes even later with like college football, then 1923 01:27:35.520 --> 01:27:37.760 you know something, Oh it kicks off is at eight. Well, 1924 01:27:37.760 --> 01:27:40.359 we've got a twenty seven minute pregame show, so maybe 1925 01:27:40.359 --> 01:27:42.279 there's something like that I would like to see. Rather 1926 01:27:42.319 --> 01:27:44.960 than just go cold into the game, let's you know, 1927 01:27:45.039 --> 01:27:46.359 have a little bit of a pregame. 1928 01:27:46.800 --> 01:27:48.239 Yeah. It's like when we go to the crack and 1929 01:27:48.399 --> 01:27:51.520 if it's a local game, they usually puck drop. Yeah, 1930 01:27:51.560 --> 01:27:53.439 if it's at seven, they might puck drop at seven 1931 01:27:53.439 --> 01:27:55.359 of five, But if it's on the t N TN 1932 01:27:55.359 --> 01:27:58.479 T or ESPN broadcast, it's always like seven to twenty 1933 01:27:58.479 --> 01:28:00.319 five eight, And then we never know. And then you know, 1934 01:28:00.640 --> 01:28:03.119 I'm not looking at what channel the game's are. In 1935 01:28:03.239 --> 01:28:05.199 the game, I'm going to right, You're like, oh, shoot, 1936 01:28:05.239 --> 01:28:08.079 this game is the whatever. Well, there we go. I 1937 01:28:08.119 --> 01:28:11.319 think we did good. You know, we'll come back in. 1938 01:28:11.399 --> 01:28:14.319 I know, as Zach was asking more regular programming, I mean, 1939 01:28:14.359 --> 01:28:16.479 it's a holidays, there's not a lot to talk about. 1940 01:28:17.000 --> 01:28:19.960 Obviously we touched on the Zach News here, leaving the 1941 01:28:20.000 --> 01:28:22.199 Stallions and the Key Butler and all that, but like 1942 01:28:22.640 --> 01:28:24.000 I think we do our best right now. I think 1943 01:28:24.000 --> 01:28:26.239 we pop on when it is and you know, we've 1944 01:28:26.239 --> 01:28:28.640 been waiting for this. We have all the broadcast windows. 1945 01:28:28.640 --> 01:28:30.119 Like I said, I really thought we were going to 1946 01:28:30.159 --> 01:28:32.760 get just the schedule, so we have. This is kind 1947 01:28:32.760 --> 01:28:35.199 of the full drop of this now through and they're 1948 01:28:35.239 --> 01:28:38.399 kind of hope that this I guess carries some interest 1949 01:28:38.439 --> 01:28:40.439 going in here. But they got a lot of to me, 1950 01:28:40.479 --> 01:28:43.319 they got a lot of work between now and in 1951 01:28:43.399 --> 01:28:46.279 March twenty eighth to kind of get this interest peaked. 1952 01:28:47.119 --> 01:28:49.720 And let's think about it. It's not that far away. 1953 01:28:49.920 --> 01:28:53.680 I mean, it's really not. And yeah, let's go XFL project. 1954 01:28:53.680 --> 01:28:55.960 You're right, I'm with you. I can't wait for the season. 1955 01:28:56.159 --> 01:28:58.239 People think we get on here and we're too negative, 1956 01:28:58.239 --> 01:28:59.640 and we say it all the time. It's like, well, 1957 01:28:59.680 --> 01:29:03.600 we want to succeed and we're excited about it. Yeah. 1958 01:29:03.640 --> 01:29:07.319 I it that. That's a good point. There's a lot 1959 01:29:07.319 --> 01:29:11.680 of promotion opportunity out there and it's you get you. 1960 01:29:11.720 --> 01:29:14.600 But here's the thing. You have to have people in 1961 01:29:14.760 --> 01:29:17.880 on the ground right there to do all the things 1962 01:29:17.920 --> 01:29:20.119 in these markets to say oh, yeah, by the way, 1963 01:29:20.399 --> 01:29:22.640 you know we're gonna we're starting up here, and the 1964 01:29:22.680 --> 01:29:25.279 good thing is that the super Bowl is on Fox, 1965 01:29:25.600 --> 01:29:27.640 So I think that there's a really good opportunity for 1966 01:29:27.640 --> 01:29:28.920 a lot of promotion right there. 1967 01:29:29.880 --> 01:29:33.760 One quick thing, I I hate these ufl commercials right now, 1968 01:29:34.199 --> 01:29:37.840 these ones right I'm like the wild Roughneck runs through 1969 01:29:37.880 --> 01:29:41.680 that thing. I don't I yeah, I don't like it. 1970 01:29:41.760 --> 01:29:43.800 I I thought the ones they did last year, and 1971 01:29:43.840 --> 01:29:46.399 I would have preferred. I preferred the Hollywood football or 1972 01:29:46.439 --> 01:29:48.800 whatever that they called. You know, real folk like I 1973 01:29:48.920 --> 01:29:51.840 prefer that over this because to me, it's like it 1974 01:29:51.880 --> 01:29:54.199 almost takes too long to figure out what's going on, 1975 01:29:54.640 --> 01:29:57.079 and then it's like spring football returns. You have like 1976 01:29:57.119 --> 01:29:59.239 tiny little UFL ago you like these, am I in 1977 01:29:59.239 --> 01:30:01.680 the minority. The everyone of those life is It's. 1978 01:30:01.479 --> 01:30:04.560 Okay to be wrong. Read there's nothing wrong with it. No, 1979 01:30:04.720 --> 01:30:07.600 I really like, I thought they were creative and and 1980 01:30:07.640 --> 01:30:10.119 their eye catching. I mean it's not you know, it's 1981 01:30:10.159 --> 01:30:13.439 not fireworks and you know, car explosions or anything. But 1982 01:30:13.520 --> 01:30:16.319 I thought they were creative and it got my attention. 1983 01:30:16.439 --> 01:30:18.039 I mean I was you know a lot of times 1984 01:30:18.079 --> 01:30:19.640 you're watching a game and you know, su as the 1985 01:30:19.640 --> 01:30:22.520 commercial comes on, you know, there's about three or four 1986 01:30:22.560 --> 01:30:24.880 other things you're gonna do during that commercial and it's 1987 01:30:24.960 --> 01:30:26.640 like but then I see it, Like the first time 1988 01:30:26.680 --> 01:30:28.840 I saw one, I'm like, what is this? Like, Oh, 1989 01:30:28.840 --> 01:30:30.199 it's a spring football commercial? 1990 01:30:30.560 --> 01:30:33.279 Well they had yeah this one. Yeah, so Mike and 1991 01:30:33.279 --> 01:30:36.039 and Abdullah bro the Jake Bates one was fine. Yeah, 1992 01:30:36.279 --> 01:30:41.079 where it is I'm talking to the wild wild Stallion 1993 01:30:41.239 --> 01:30:44.760 runs it sounds like David Attenborough and like and like 1994 01:30:44.880 --> 01:30:47.199 one of them is it turnover and then the other. 1995 01:30:47.560 --> 01:30:50.000 I don't like that. I don't like seeing the turnover 1996 01:30:50.399 --> 01:30:52.840 and because like he knocks it out of the fumble or something. 1997 01:30:52.880 --> 01:30:55.479 I don't. I'm the same thing when I'm watching football. 1998 01:30:55.520 --> 01:30:57.560 I'm on my phone, you know, I'm on a million 1999 01:30:57.600 --> 01:31:01.960 different things, but I don't. I don't. Yeah, I just 2000 01:31:01.960 --> 01:31:02.840 think they're really weird. 2001 01:31:03.680 --> 01:31:05.800 Read noted ufl hater got it. 2002 01:31:06.079 --> 01:31:08.159 Well, I have a Phillips asking me how he how 2003 01:31:08.159 --> 01:31:11.199 he can join guys? Yeah, click join, right, isn't that 2004 01:31:11.199 --> 01:31:13.439 what it says there? John? Click joins and subscribe to 2005 01:31:13.439 --> 01:31:15.920 the you know, don't subscribe, click join the channel join 2006 01:31:17.680 --> 01:31:22.680 and then the last thing here? Oh Chris Chris said, Yeah, 2007 01:31:22.680 --> 01:31:24.640 I couldn't get through one episode of having a complaint. 2008 01:31:24.680 --> 01:31:27.359 So there you go, I have to complain about them whatever. 2009 01:31:27.479 --> 01:31:30.359 So anything else, I think we're. 2010 01:31:30.199 --> 01:31:34.800 Good, John, I'm sorry, sorry read Yeah, I think it's exciting. 2011 01:31:34.840 --> 01:31:37.840 As someone said, happy schedule release day, I mean it 2012 01:31:37.880 --> 01:31:40.880 got here. I think the UFL did it right. They 2013 01:31:40.920 --> 01:31:43.800 built a little anticipation and then they released the schedule. 2014 01:31:44.119 --> 01:31:47.039 I think the destroying appearance might have gotten canceled today 2015 01:31:47.039 --> 01:31:48.880 because you know, all the Sugar Bowl stuff that was 2016 01:31:48.920 --> 01:31:53.439 going on. But but I but I do like that. 2017 01:31:54.239 --> 01:31:57.800 I like where it's going. I like I'm optimistic even 2018 01:31:57.920 --> 01:31:59.720 more this year than I was this time last year 2019 01:31:59.720 --> 01:32:02.560 because we we didn't know what was gonna happen. We've 2020 01:32:02.600 --> 01:32:05.000 got a second season of the UFL, We've got what 2021 01:32:05.119 --> 01:32:09.039 a fourth or fifth straight season now of spring football. 2022 01:32:09.479 --> 01:32:11.560 I mean these are good times right now. 2023 01:32:11.920 --> 01:32:13.880 Yeah, And like I said, we'll do our bet. This 2024 01:32:13.920 --> 01:32:16.279 is kind of the investment that I'm into this, Like 2025 01:32:16.319 --> 01:32:18.479 I'll pop in, we'll do I appreciate. But like, yeah, 2026 01:32:18.479 --> 01:32:20.640 I think we're I think we're doing good. I appreciate. 2027 01:32:20.680 --> 01:32:23.640 I said, like subscribe, Phillip, click you know, click join. 2028 01:32:24.239 --> 01:32:26.439 It's it's ninety nine cents a month. You wouldn't even 2029 01:32:26.479 --> 01:32:28.840 think of it coming out, and thanks everyone for dealing 2030 01:32:28.880 --> 01:32:31.640 with that weird like start where it didn't it didn't like, 2031 01:32:31.680 --> 01:32:34.800 it didn't trigger on Twitter, and so like, I don't 2032 01:32:34.800 --> 01:32:36.319 think I'm live. I'm like, oh, I am live. 2033 01:32:36.760 --> 01:32:38.840 I just I saw the stream live up. I'm like, 2034 01:32:39.199 --> 01:32:39.600 what is that? 2035 01:32:41.119 --> 01:32:44.439 Yeah? So uh here Phillips, Phillips really working through that. Well, 2036 01:32:44.520 --> 01:32:47.279 I can't, I can't. I was gonna screen share Philip. Well, well, 2037 01:32:47.279 --> 01:32:49.079 I'll hit you up in the DMS. We'll see everyone 2038 01:32:49.159 --> 01:32:51.720 next time. Thanks everyone, and then we'll check you out 2039 01:33:01.319 --> 01:33:02.119 at NAS