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Bowl Opt Outs, Sports Stories of 2025 & the Voice of the Chiefs Mitch Holthus · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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I'm Hillary Condon, welcome on Are You Wednesday, the Iowa
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Sports Radio Network, Trent Condon and Kendaller for the
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next two hours to talk sports with you.
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Thanks for starting your afternoon here with us.
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Here's what's coming up on our program.
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We will begin with a complete recap of the Saluta Veterans
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Bowl. Oh, it's a good one.
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It was. You know what, It wasn't bad.
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No, we're not going to do that, but it wasn't a bad football
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game on a weird night of sports viewing last night.
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We will talk to Mitch Holtis coming up at 12451245 for the
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voice of the Kansas City Chiefs. Boy, they're in a weird spot
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with three games left to play. What's Arrowheads?
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No, it's not called that. Gia Field at Arrowhead Stadium
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on Christmas night, What's that going to be like?
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It's cold. Do you think Chiefs fans are
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going to fill the building knowing that their quarterbacks
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not going to be there? I don't know, going to be
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interesting. We'll talk to Mitch about that
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and other topics coming up here when he joins us in 45 minutes.
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Then we'll talk to David Kaplan. Cappy will help us out with the
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Bears, with the Cubs. A coming a going from last
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year's roster is Brad Keller, who is really good out of the
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bullpen last year for the Cubs. He has moved on, signed A2 year
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deal with the Phillies. Not sure if the Cubs were
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willing to offer him two years, but that's what he got to for 22
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and off he goes to the National League East to play for the
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Phillies. We'll talk to Cappy about that.
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Obviously just a massive football game on Saturday night.
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The Bears and the Packers will do that with Cappy and then Wade
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looking Bill will join us. We'll tell you, we'll talk to
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Wade about this Hawkeye men's basketball team, where they're
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at as they head into the Christmas break, etcetera, and
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come out and into the Big 10 we go.
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So Wade looking, Bill, Trent, we'll make some picks.
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Do you have an opinion on any of the Bulls tonight?
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One of which starts at 4:00. By the way, yes, yeah.
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Quick turn around. I got some leans.
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We'll see if we get there by 1:50.
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We got a winner with Jacksonville State.
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So last night night we went to the Grinch down at the Civic
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Center. The kids do that.
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Went to the play outstanding. Is it you're looking for
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something to do? The actor that played the
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Grinch, Incredible. How long?
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Hour and a half. It's not bad, yeah.
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Really good kids loved it. I loved it, wife loved it.
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Really good time, but I had my wager on the Salute to Veterans
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Bowl on top of it. As you know, I do a bowl pool
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every year with my buddies where we, well, used to be draft
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players. Now we just draft position
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groups. And one of my first draft picks
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was Jacksonville State's top running back, Kim Cook.
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You saw the story of Kim Cook last.
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Night I did right, which is 1. I don't know how you bet on
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games, I really don't. This cat who this season had
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almost 1700 yards rushing, 16 touchdowns.
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He's the best player on often best player in the team.
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He goes through warmups. Yep.
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He didn't. Everything's good.
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No, absolutely. I mean this dude, he's going out
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there and he's going to play one final time.
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He gets an in state rival. Both Alabama schools.
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Gets warmed up, ready to go. Game kicks off and I pull up my
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app after the play gets over. Nowhere to He doesn't have a
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carry yet. What the Hell's going on?
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Get home, get the kids to bed. I flip it on and then I do start
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start doing a little research. And I was not alone in my angst
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last night of him not playing in the going, going through warm
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ups. Did the Action Network have this
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one? Because that Stuckey guy's
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really good, yeah. Nobody did.
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Nobody. Nobody did.
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And there's people, of course online that are asking for
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refunds because I put this bed in about the people that had him
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in the prop market. Oh boy, do those get.
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Some places refund them, others don't.
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That stinks. Awful this is.
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I don't know how you bet on bulls.
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I truly don't. This is a step further, though,
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than injury reports. To be it is, I agree.
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This is this. Feels.
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Yes, this feels shady. It does.
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This is more shady than guys injured numb.
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This is a guy that went through warm ups and then so.
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This apparently was the plan, a preconcocted plan.
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I didn't think. You'll never get that.
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You'll never get that admission right.
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But that is. It stinks.
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That's real bad. It does.
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I have to believe and I'm actually we're going to have
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Derek Stevens, the owner of Circa tomorrow at 1:30.
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We'll get Mike Palm on Friday. And if we don't get to this with
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Derek, probably maybe a better question for Mike just 'cause we
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got so many different directions to go with Derek is I have to
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believe that betting and right on these things, number of the
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handle on bowl games going to be down significantly here as
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opposed to previous years. And that trend started, you
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know, a couple of years ago with how do you bet on these things.
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I mean, if you go in, you have to at least get in your back of
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your mind think you got this right, right, right.
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No, you don't with all the opt outs and who's trying etcetera.
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I don't know how you bet them. I really don't.
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Playoffs are another thing, although as you mentioned, we we
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recorded our Mediacom show today.
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Then it's not doesn't happen in the playoff.
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Yeah, Pro Bow Purbulla got him last year as as he opted out for
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Penn State, but I don't know. How but the window was open?
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Right at that point there was. Now, it's not going to be till
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after yes, but January 2nd is. January 2nd.
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That's when it. Opens right, so at least they
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got that part corrected. But man, how do you fix this
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thing? I don't know if you do how well
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I I the only thing I can think of is for instance, the rely
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quest bowl. You said both Iowa and
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Vanderbilt are playing in this game.
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Obviously, yes. And those schools respective
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conferences for participating in this game, we'll get $6 million
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each north of 6,000,000. $6.67 million, right, That is the
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payout. For Iowa.
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Now the Big 10 gets that for Iowa.
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Yep, the SEC gets that for Vanderbilt.
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That is the payout for the Reliquest Bowl that unless
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they're, unless the Gators are there, unless there is a very
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close proximity, they struggle to get 50,000 people in the
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stands for that game. A good bowl game, yeah, but not
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a great bowl game, No. They struggle to get 50,000
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people in the building for that, and yet their bull payout is
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over $13 million a year. It's unbelievable that they're
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giving to the SEC in the Big 10. That tells you obviously TVTV is
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paying. Do the do the respective cities
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fund? I saw a a number today, the
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college football player, the opening round on Saturday,
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Tulane and Ole Miss in Oxford, Ms. They think that the economic
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impact by hosting that game on Saturday in Oxford, Ms. is north
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of $74 million, north of 74 to Oxford, Ms. Yes, not a very big
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place, beautiful place. I loved it, was there, I had a
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great time. I told you how Texas Tech wanted
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a home game. Yeah, absolutely.
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Wanted a home game. You know, we should get Chris
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level on. Oh, absolutely.
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You know what? Before they play, shame on me
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that that's something we'll have to to get done early next week.
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But he covers Texas Tech for Red Raiders, whatever a part of the
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24/7. But you have to take a, a, a
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portion of that money, a pool of, I don't know, the winning,
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The winning conference puts $1,000,000 in the pot to play
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the players who participated. The losing conference gets a
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half, $1,000,000 to distribute equally amongst the players.
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Or maybe it's not equally, you know, everybody gets X.
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But if you're the quarterback or if you, you know, lead your team
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and receive, I don't know how you want to do it, how you
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reward, you know, a better game or you just distribute it
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amongst everybody. But there has to be an incentive
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for these guys to play and to want to play like we saw last
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night in Las Vegas. So you'd say it's $1,000,000, a
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$1,000,000 per the team, the roster.
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I mean, if you divvied up by 100 guys, that's $10,000 a piece,
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right? How about you just do this,
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everybody on the travel roster, 5 grand all right and then you
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take it and it's escalators you start maybe it's 10,000 you hit
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certain benchmarks, the MVP gets $100,000.
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You think those guys aren't playing a little bit harder?
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Absolutely should be in that kind of instance.
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Now the voting and we both voted for these bull game awards.
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Sometimes it's who cares write it down the piece of paper.
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Maybe you want to think about it a little bit more for the media
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that are there. But regardless of that, yes, put
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that financial incentive there Put that financial incentive
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something for making it. I was floored what I saw the
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bull payout for this for the Reliant.
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Question. I had no idea it was that level
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trend. Wasn't it like two $3,000,000
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kind of was the going rate felt like for a long time and this
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the game in Tampa, I, I was absolutely shocked.
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You brought up the NBA Cup. Which, by the way, I watched a
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lot. Of did you end up watching the?
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Second-half, just because I was texting back and forth with my
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son, by the way, he said. We asked this at the end, how
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many people are going to be there?
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He says it's about 8085% Phil. OK, not bad T.
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Mobile says what 20? Yep, big building.
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So yeah, 15,016 thousand people are somewhere around there.
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But for our market, most importantly, we're not going to
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break down the spurs in the neck.
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No, although it was a pretty good.
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Game. It was a pretty good game.
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Adam Silver though said something in his press
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conference beforehand that certainly had my ears perk up.
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He mentioned the possibility as they found not a ton of people
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traveling for this event. It is more locals that are there
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than anything is the possibility.
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But putting this in college venues.
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So when that pops into the mind, you go a couple of different
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directions now #1. East for us.
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Yes, absolutely. And the likelihood that Hilton,
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right or Carver are going to host it probably not real high
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on the list. I think Hilton would have a
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better chance than Carver would. But that aside too, he is a Duke
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alum. OK, Cameron locker rooms,
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facilities, but to play last night, the NBA Cups at Alan
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Fieldhouse, it's at Cameron Indoor.
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It's at whatever big time venue you want to talk about in
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college basketball. You watching?
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Are you more intrigued? You want to see the best NBA?
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You want to see Wemby play way? Isn't he something?
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He's my good God. What a what a freak.
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And I say that in a positive way.
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You wanna watch him though? He never got to see me.
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Cameron. No.
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But now it's gonna be your opportunity.
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And for us not at NBA market. No.
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Would that be something that would get more casuals involved,
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get the well they? Picked a great night to have the
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final because like, there was nothing, nothing if you're not a
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fan of the NHL. And I tried to watch the Wild
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last night and I can't because they're so damn good.
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I can't stand it. It's it was a perfect night.
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But yeah. And so that's what that's what
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Silver threw out there. So is that I still think it's a
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concocted deal. It is.
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But look at did you see what Karl Anthony Towns is going to
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do? He's going to give his, he got
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$530,000 for that last night. OK.
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He's giving it to his his charitable fund.
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That's awesome. It's, yeah, it's wherever he's
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from to make him public. I'm not sure where he's from,
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but that's where he's going to funnel his money to.
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So some of it's going to good. Some of these guys aren't
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making, they're all making good. Money, yes, Yeah.
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But some of these guys are making cuckoo money.
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But just the thought of that, yeah.
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Something. It's tough.
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Cameron. The visitor locker room, people
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talk about it. I mean, just an absolute
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dungeon. Thinking of NBA guys playing
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there. Logistically, how about
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Hinklefield House? Oh my, it's in Indianapolis, so
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it's a major city, but then play there.
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Yeah, I'm certainly boring Lexington.
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Are we alone because we're in this market?
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I'm not sure where you put a game, say it is at Allen Field
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House. They don't have an NBA team.
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They don't get to see these guys.
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You know the number of people, not just Kansas fans and people
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that are in Lawrence, but people in Kansas City.
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That opportunity to see that game, I thought it was something
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that at minimum was intriguing. So Knicks fans, they, I mean,
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obviously Spike Lee was there, but he's gonna, he's got
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millions of dollars, right? It's a different level of fandom
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for him. But yeah, I get the point.
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I see it. It was.
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If it's not going to turn into a big travel thing, from the
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sounds of things, that really hasn't morphed into that unless
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the Lakers are involved, right? Because it's the Lakers.
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And I mean, the number of Laker fans just in Vegas coupled with
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the drive that they can make short of that, they're just not
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a whole lot. Do something different.
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I it would make it better for me, certainly.
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Yeah, I think, I think you might be on to something there.
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Speaking of better for you, did the Twins get better for you
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with the news the last couple of days?
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Not that they've signed anybody, but seemingly the poll ads are.
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I don't know if their hands out for money or their arms up.
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We need help over here. Hopefully it's a little bit
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it's, it's the latter, but they're they're looks like
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they're they're bringing some ownership on that actually, you
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know, understands the business of sports.
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Well, and the twins, they're spending, they went out and got
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Josh Bell. Well, there you go.
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It's. Here we go, plan the parade.
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You want a guy that's one, Central goes.
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Through the Twin Cities. That's 185 with 22 homers.
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He is your guy. That was that was.
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I see I missed that. One that's a big ticket item
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yeah a couple days ago they they got him I don't know.
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I I, it's nothing that I get excited about.
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Yeah. I.
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Proof is in the pudding. Yeah, it's nothing.
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That certainly changes the equation.
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They're rebuilding. They're breaking it down.
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I still think that there is a high likelihood that you're not
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going to see the top level stars there.
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At least a couple of those guys, certainly Lopez and Joe Ryan at
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the top of the list. And if that happens, then what
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about Buxton? I think it's going to be ugly
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and I think baseball is going to be difficult to watch here for
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me coming up the next 2-3, maybe 4 summers.
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Yeah, it's seemingly A downward trend is in the offing, no doubt
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about that. All right, we tried to get this
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sound for you. We wanted to play this for you.
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Unfortunately, we couldn't make it work, so I'm just going to
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have to read it to you. But I thought that this was this
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is from the New Heights podcast. And it was in respect to, I want
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to get the right one up here, Trent, because Travis Kelsey and
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his brother Jason, they do their their podcast and, and it came
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up, Patrick Mahomes came up obviously in the conversation.
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And Travis Kelsey was, and I'm paraphrasing here.
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Hopefully the chiefs can get him back soon.
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What does that sound like to you?
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Guy that's retiring. Did you hear the word weak?
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Right. Yeah.
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Hopefully we can get him back soon.
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No, Travis Kelsey's response was hopefully the Chiefs can get him
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back soon. That kind of sounds to me like
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the mind's already been made-up now.
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He's already made-up his mind that he's going to play the last
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three games. Kelsey is.
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But man, you just wonder, is this the first domino to fall?
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And then how many more dominoes are going to fall?
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We're going to talk to Mitch Holtis in half an hour about
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that. He's fearless, A fearless
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warrior, warrior When it comes to the football thing.
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He's going to make sure it comes back stronger than ever.
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Hopefully the Chiefs can get him back as soon as possible.
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End of quote. Now, do we know how often he
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refers to the Chiefs as we as opposed to that?
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I don't listen to podcasts. Right.
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And it it leads to speculation though, what use that kind of
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terminology and you don't use the we and I know the we drives
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you nuts fans though, you do it. In, in sports talkers.
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Yeah, the media, right? The media.
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We yeah, yeah. My, we's are the Winnipeg Jets.
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They don't get involved here a lot.
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Not often, right. My bias towards my hockey team
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doesn't come up very often. All right, we're going to take a
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time out. We come back, We're going to,
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I'm going to put Trent on the spot.
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Usually the first thing that pops in your mind is, you know,
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it, it may or may not be the right answer, but we're going
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to, we're going to do because here's the here's the deal.
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The reason we're going to do what we're about to do.
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And it's 2025 for ladies is where we work Monday, Tuesday
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next week. And then we're off 2425262728.
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Come back, work the 29th and the 30th, the Monday, Tuesday.
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Yep. Then we're off the 30th and the
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no, we're off the 31st and the 1st.
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Then we work Friday. So by that time there's not
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going to be a lot of time to, you know, 2025.
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Take a look back. I thought we'd do that right now
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because tomorrow we've got a I know you looked at me funny
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earlier in the week when I said I think the game of the years
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tomorrow night in Seahawks and the Rams.
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It's certainly would you not knowing, you know, you don't
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have on the top, top of your mind all the games that have
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been broadcast on Thursday night, right?
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But you have to think this has got to be the biggest.
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Right. Absolutely yes.
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So we're going to talk a lot about that obviously tomorrow.
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So we'll do that on the other side.
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Got a couple of things post Trent.
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See what pops into his mind right off the bat and maybe if
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the audience wants to participate once we do this,
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you're able, you're welcome to do so.
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We will go to a break on time because we've got a lot of
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ground to cover with the voice of the Chiefs, Mitch Holtis, as
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they enter territory that they have been in since 2014.
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Miller and Condon underway on a Wednesday.
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It's the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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I'm Mary Connon, welcome back. It's the Iowa Sports Radio
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Network 1225 on a Wednesday, top of the hour.
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David Kaplan will join us. We'll talk bears with Cappy as
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they get set to host the Packers on Saturday night.
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And just a massive, massive affair.
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That one promises to be also some Cubs in there as Brad
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Keller is now a Philly a field bar.
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The left-hander is back. He was good out of the bullpen
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last year. So we'll talk Chicago sports
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with Cappy to kick off our number 2.
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And then Wade looking and Bill, Trent and I will take a look at
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where Iowa is as they get set to, well they got 2 left before
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we get into the Big 10 play about that maybe something.
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Like that UMass lol. Saw some $10 tickets available
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for that one and Bucknell. Downtown here Des Moines this
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coming Saturday. Are there tickets available for
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that? Still are there.
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And hyveeticks.com. Hyveeticks.com for that one at
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the Casey Center. That's right.
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Have you been to it since it's been renamed?
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I have and if they got a stand a.
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Session stand. Yeah, remember I told you a
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couple weeks of Disney on Ice? And yeah, got a slice of pizza?
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Caseys Kiosk. So because beforehand and when
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it was the well you could get pizza at some of the concession
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stands, but so is it they they got their own now.
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Their own Casey's Pizza. It's the real thing.
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It's the real deal. They got stuff.
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Let's take a look at some of the bigger stories in in 2025.
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What's the one story Let's do national before we take an Iowa.
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What's the biggest story to you in sports this year?
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Could be a team, it could be a championship, it could be, you
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know, whatever. Where?
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Where does your mind go? 1st So there were kind of three
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things that jump to the top. It wasn't the Dodgers winning
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the World Series. It was that series.
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It was phenomenal. A great series that was.
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We saw baseball with kind of back.
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Right. Yeah, it was really good for
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baseball. It absolutely was a good
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playoffs. Playoffs, yeah.
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We got Yankees, Red Sox and around.
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Like there was a lot of good and I think culminating with that
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seven game, an all timer. That was a good one, but didn't
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quite make the top for me. Eagles over the Chiefs.
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Yeah, I'm with you. Just Ohio State.
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I mean, the story is interesting.
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Ryan Day If he loses to Tennessee in the first round, he
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might be fired. Probably would have been because
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they just lost to Michigan in the game before that.
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Instead, they win that even as there were 10s of thousands of
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all fans in the building at the shoe for that game.
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And then the onslaught continued from there as they win the
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national championship, but not the story of the year.
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I'm going to go a direction I don't think you would head.
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Do. Collapse basketball?
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No, that wasn't there for me. It was Rory that was mine.
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That's mine as well. Is it OK?
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Right. Biggest story for me was Rory
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finally winning his Grand Slam. Now, anything else on your list?
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No, my list was was World Series and Rory and then the gambling
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scandal when it came to the pitchers throwing away huge
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contracts, throwing away careers to win a couple of $1000.
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Yeah, they're buddies. They're.
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Buddies, it's just ridiculous when they're betting on this
20:36
ball going to be or this pitch going to be a baller strike.
20:38
Just absolutely nuts. We still don't have the full
20:41
fallout of what happened in the NBA with that scandal, that's
20:43
true. And the poker and the full games
20:45
that were happening. And that's probably a clip and
20:48
save for 2026 at some point, some of the some of the sports
20:54
betting scandals, I guess would be it.
20:56
But other than that, I don't think it was the best year
20:59
nationally of sports stories, right?
21:02
Like you said, Eagles won the Super Bowl.
21:06
I we didn't talk about the NBA Finals, and that could have been
21:12
Indiana pushing them on the brink.
21:13
Well, that was true because especially when Tyrese got hurt,
21:15
right? Because they thought.
21:17
Yeah, that that's a good one, Trent.
21:18
That should, because you know what, it's funny.
21:20
It just goes to the show, right? It's not the biggest NBA market.
21:23
Yes, that it just who won the NHL?
21:28
The Florida Panthers. Florida Pan I, I was seriously,
21:31
I was racking my brain and I, I couldn't remember.
21:34
So no, it's also I'm not a hockey fan in.
21:37
Oilers for the second straight. Year.
21:39
Oh yes, yes, I do remember that now that you say that, but I
21:42
needed your help to get there. Didn't exactly.
21:45
No, no, you know what? You know what a hockey story you
21:48
might remember? At least I certainly I thought
21:50
the Four Nations Cup was a huge success.
21:51
Yeah, I didn't get into it like you did, but yeah.
21:54
I thought it was a huge success. I can't wait for February for
21:57
the Olympics. I mean that is my favorite team,
22:01
Team Canada US or Team Canada hockey and the rivalry with the
22:04
US. But that's coming up next year
22:06
in February. But I thought the Four Nations
22:08
was really good. Rory winning his Masters.
22:12
Was there anything Liv versus PGA?
22:14
Not really was a non Olympic year.
22:17
So there's nothing that can go. Caitlin getting injured for
22:21
some. It's a story, but it's not the
22:23
story of the Year 2. 1025 kind of a how did I say yeah, in in
22:29
sports, who was the team of the year in the state of Iowa team
22:34
of the year. So we're talking calendar year,
22:37
talking calendar year starting in January, starting in January
22:39
and finishing on December 30. First the team of the year.
22:43
The team of the year wrecking my brain going through.
22:47
Came to me very quickly. Came to you very quickly.
22:50
Was it wrestling? Basketball.
22:53
No. Football?
22:55
I don't think so. What am I missing?
22:58
Drake, Drake, You're probably right.
23:03
McCullum, Oh Getting to the second round of the tournament,
23:07
winning the Valley, I thought that Drake coming in, who is
23:13
this guy? Who are these guys?
23:16
Right? And then they just roll.
23:17
This isn't you can't bring D2 players and play.
23:20
In the valley? Come on this.
23:22
Isn't going to work. Oh.
23:24
Absolutely not, Albert. It, it worked in a big way.
23:27
I worked in a big way. There's really the football
23:31
teams overall, Iowa obviously could have been Iowa State could
23:35
have been with the start that they had and the the story that
23:40
they were writing. But I think at the end of the
23:42
day, with the finish, both teams mean Iowa not making the College
23:46
Football Playoff. Iowa State quote struggling to
23:49
A7 and five record. I think Drake is for that reason
23:54
would be the team of the year this.
23:56
One, it doesn't quite work because the Seihawk series is
24:00
during the school year, so it'll be 2526.
24:03
But the domination from Iowa State this year dominating that
24:08
win both basketball win wrestling for the first time in
24:10
20 years coupled with another upside winning football.
24:13
I think everything except for maybe one like there is maybe
24:16
soccer or something like that. But yeah, overall that
24:19
definitely, but it's funky because that goes by the school
24:23
year, but it's definitely needs to be on the list.
24:25
I got 3 high school ones for you.
24:27
OK, so West Des Moines Valley, 3 peat.
24:31
Oh, in basketball. In basketball, the domination
24:34
continues for the Johnston girls.
24:35
They those kind of go hand in hand.
24:37
Dowling won the championship this year for the first time
24:40
since 2019. That's that's kind of a story in
24:44
itself, right? Because.
24:44
They had that long run. And the other sport that I do a
24:47
ton of is baseball. For the first time ever, a
24:52
championship event was held in Sioux City and great for Sioux
24:54
City to get that event. It was a one off.
24:56
It'll be back in Cedar Rapids next year.
24:59
But on top of it, for the first time in almost a decade, we
25:01
didn't have a central Iowa team in there.
25:03
That's good. It was Iowa City City High
25:05
against Bettendorf for the championship and the Little
25:07
Hawks got it done there. So we're so used to, and
25:10
baseball maybe more than any sport, the domination that we've
25:13
seen from the CIML and it didn't happen this year.
25:16
So those were the 3-4. I guess when you throw the
25:19
basketball, two of them together, then jump to the front
25:21
of my. No, I like that.
25:22
I like that. Let's get Todd in here.
25:24
He's got a national. Story.
25:25
This is a great one. Is it alright?
25:27
I can't wait to hear it. Then I got another one for you.
25:29
Want to pose? Hi Todd.
25:30
What did we miss, Todd? So the one I called in about,
25:34
and I thought of another one while while I was on hold, but
25:36
the one I called in about, and I'm not even an NBA guy.
25:39
Luca to be the Luca Donyon trade, yeah.
25:42
We're going to be talking about that trade for decades.
25:44
We'll remember that trade for as long as we're alive.
25:47
Todd, that's a good one. And then?
25:49
Another another one I just thought of is if the Chiefs were
25:53
good or still in it. Patrick Mahomes got the number
25:56
one spot locked up. We're.
25:59
Not even talking about that because because of how bad the
26:02
Chiefs are and now they're saying he might not even play
26:04
next year. Yeah, that's true, Todd.
26:06
Thanks for listening. Appreciate it.
26:08
You have a good holiday season, bud.
26:09
Thank you. Yeah, that's true.
26:11
And and he's right about. If the Chiefs.
26:13
Were Oh my God if they were the one seed right now.
26:15
They're 12 and 3. How different Their fan base
26:19
already bought their tickets to San Francisco for Super Bowl 16.
26:22
Gardner Minshew, OH. In a way, I wish we lived in an
26:28
alternate universe and that. Yeah, wouldn't that be some?
26:30
What's the story of the year in Iowa?
26:32
In sports, the. Story of the year in Iowa.
26:35
In sports, you have the team of the year.
26:38
In Drake, the story of the year. Well, next year will be the
26:42
Field of Dreams Returns. Yeah, that's good.
26:44
I can't wait. That's.
26:44
Going to be incredible and maybe the one game I'll watch my twins
26:48
next year. You'll be there opening day.
26:50
Come on, I know I will. What do you got?
26:55
I think it's Matt Campbell. Matt Campbell leaving, yes.
26:58
I think it's Matt Campbell. That's going to resonate for a
27:00
long time. It'll be a remembered.
27:02
Yep, no doubt. I think that is at the top of
27:04
the list. Yeah, 'cause William won't.
27:06
He is a here for lifer. Can't see him leaving.
27:09
There's only a couple of jobs. Well, Notre Dame's not going to
27:12
open Ohio State. And then the Penn State
27:14
opportunity and he made the right decision.
27:16
He made the right decision. My runner up actually was
27:18
another coaching story. Oh yeah, Fran McCaffrey.
27:21
Yep, all time winningest coach. Definitely, absolutely did good
27:27
things. Pulled them out of the hideous
27:29
quagmire that Todd Licklider built them into.
27:32
Yep, got them mad again but then just couldn't take that final
27:36
step. Yeah, and and and his oldest son
27:38
is still mad, by the way, did you see his?
27:40
I mean, come. On he's a moron.
27:41
He might. You know what?
27:41
I He's a stupid person. I think he is and I don't want
27:45
him to be because I loved the way he played.
27:47
I absolutely. Did we defended him?
27:49
Both. Every time, every chance we
27:50
could. For all the limitations as a
27:52
shooter, there were so many good things about him.
27:55
But his personality, Oh my God, get over it.
27:58
Really. I'm I'm with you and if you if
28:01
you didn't see it, he was he was re quoted something about a
28:04
cyclone state. You know it.
28:06
It's obviously he's he's he's hurt.
28:08
By the way, look, you if anybody Connor should know that coaches
28:13
are hired to be fired. You've lived with one of your
28:15
entire life until recently. But I mean, we loved, I loved
28:20
this game and he didn't have a ton of game.
28:22
He had a ton of will and he was the first guy off the bus and
28:25
and I loved the fact that he stuck up for his team and he's
28:28
got a little hockey player in him.
28:29
You know, he's a power forward in hockey and I like that part.
28:32
He's not, but you know what I mean?
28:34
I just like that kind of personality.
28:36
But come on, get over it. Your dad's in a great place now,
28:39
right? He's happy.
28:40
He got to go back to his alma mater.
28:43
This finishes gets to go back to Philly where he was just by.
28:46
The way what kind of what kind of year is Jack McCaffrey
28:49
having, if have you seen what kind of start he's had?
28:51
I don't even I'm following him at all.
28:53
Butler. Yeah, the he's played, he played
28:55
a little bit early in the season.
28:56
I I haven't looked here the last.
28:57
So he's not lighting it up by any means.
28:59
No, I think he had a couple of decent games in the beginning.
29:02
They're eight and three right now.
29:03
They got blistered by UConn last night, but let's see.
29:07
Where's Jack at? He's played nine games.
29:11
There's a little red mark, so hasn't played the last couple of
29:13
games. So I wondered if he is injured
29:15
at this point. But he's not shooting the ball
29:18
well from the outside. 3 or 14 from three offensive rating OK,
29:23
but playing looks like 810 minutes a game, something like
29:26
that. Freshman, Yep, minutes will be
29:29
there. It just kind of this whole
29:32
exercise that we just spent doing just kind of tells you
29:34
right it's wasn't the greatest year.
29:36
So 2026 crystal ball. OK, somebody makes a deep run in
29:43
basketball. Yeah, they it's 70° for the
29:46
Broncos Super Bowl parade in in downtown Denver.
29:49
That's not going to happen. Well, obviously, I mean, I Iowa
29:55
State's both of their teams, TJ and and Fenley's team, both of
30:00
them have a chance to make some runs in this thing.
30:04
By the way, I didn't know the Iowa women play.
30:05
When's the UConn game? Saturday.
30:07
My God. Yes.
30:09
I mean, we're all pumped up on Iowa State, Purdue in man's.
30:12
Get get ready for the whooping though.
30:13
Oh. I know it's probably not going
30:15
to end well, right? What do you think the projected
30:17
point spread for that's going to be?
30:19
I know where I can turn to, where I can look at you and you
30:21
can dig in. It's got to be oh God, 2018.
30:26
So let's see Bart Torvik, who, by the way, has Iowa ranked 11th
30:31
in the country by his rating system.
30:33
So. Very good team.
30:35
He has Yukon favoured by 17 1/2. I think it's going to be well
30:40
north of that and if it's anything short of 2223, 1/2.
30:45
That's your. That's your.
30:46
They're all going to be playing the Huskies and the Emily
30:48
Rodriguez situation. There's something going on
30:50
there. Isn't there.
30:50
It's very weird. Yeah, something's going on
30:52
there. I wonder how that is going to
30:54
turn out, but probably not. Well, where did she?
30:57
A Big 12 school. Right UUCFUC.
30:59
F yeah. OK, well, take your time out.
31:01
Mitch Holtis joins us next. Anxious to talk to Mitch, by the
31:06
way, during the break, ask him what he wants to do the next
31:08
couple of weeks because we're off both Wednesdays.
31:10
Got to do the same with Kathy, I guess, right?
31:13
Miller and Condon, we will be back and joined by the voice of
31:16
the Kansas City Chiefs. We're here until 2 off the bench
31:18
at that time. They join you, take the airwaves
31:20
at 2. Miller and Condon glad you're
31:22
with us on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
31:41
I'm Mary Condon, welcome back. About 1/4 before one, 12:45-ish
31:47
on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
31:50
David Kaplan kicks off hour number two.
31:52
We'll head to Chicago, catch up with the cap man, look forward
31:55
to doing that. Bears, Packers Saturday night,
31:58
Cubs, etcetera with Cappy. We'll do that and then Wade
32:02
looking Bill Trent and I will take a look at the Hawks where
32:05
they are at as they come down the final couple of non
32:08
conference games before the big 10 plays in earnest.
32:11
Working on Mitch Holt as the voice of the Kansas City Chiefs.
32:15
Hopefully we'll get him in here at some point.
32:17
So last night, you know, pissing around on the on the iPad
32:21
killing time trying to figure out because this I don't know
32:24
why it bugged me all day trying to figure out the tip time for
32:27
Illinois and Iowa because I wanted to be early.
32:29
You got I got nothing to do, you know, Jeff that was asleep.
32:32
Cindy was doing her thing and and it wasn't a great night of
32:36
sports anyways. Because I want Illinois and I
32:40
would have played 11 because I want to, you know, not be
32:43
interrupted. Watch that game in football.
32:46
I'm all excited because I'm looking at the teams in the AFC
32:50
and the and the and the teams that are going to host the first
32:54
round of the wild card. I'm thinking I got this figured
32:56
out. All these games are these are
32:58
all these teams that play in the Eastern Time zone.
33:01
Oh, OK. So they're all going to play at
33:02
noon. So for sure Fox is going to get
33:05
a late game. I didn't all figured out.
33:08
Nailed it. Nailed it.
33:09
Then I looked at the NFC. Bears are in the central, Eagles
33:14
are in the east. Tampa's in the east.
33:16
So I'm back to square one. All right, Mitch Holt is calling
33:19
in. We'll get the Mitch here coming
33:20
up. Yeah, we were talking about it
33:22
yesterday. Illinois and I will play on wild
33:24
card Sunday and that game is to be determined as far as a tip
33:29
time. Let's get to the voice of the
33:30
chiefs. Papa John's central Iowa
33:32
sponsors Mitch on a weekly basis.
33:34
Mitch Tren, Ken, thanks for doing this.
33:36
Appreciate you coming on just different times over there,
33:39
right. It's first time since 2014.
33:43
I think Mitch, at the at the end of the day, I can speak for a
33:45
lot of non chief fans, the NF LS better when they're in it.
33:49
They really are. That's how I see it.
33:51
I want to root, you know, against Patrick Mahomes and
33:54
against this dynasty, but I every every good story.
33:58
Also, not that you guys are a villain, but you get my point,
34:01
right? It's better when the Chiefs are
34:03
in it, and sadly they're not going to be.
34:06
No, we have to face the realization that, Yeah, first
34:09
time since 2014. And then to your point, I think
34:14
though the Chiefs have drawn such a big number, there's been
34:17
such an interest around it. And for example, 107 wins in a
34:21
seven-year period is the most in NFL history.
34:24
And I think it's one of those stats that kind of just gets
34:27
glossed over. But the fact of that, in the
34:32
fact that the Chiefs won't be in it and they've pulled a number
34:35
for so many years, whether you love him or hate him will be
34:38
interesting. Now we can get into the whole
34:40
AFC playoff picture, which I think is very intriguing.
34:43
But part of this Chiefs 7 year run, I'm going to add this
34:47
Buffalo has 87 wins in that span.
34:50
The Chiefs have 107. The Buffaloes 84, wins the most
34:53
by a team that has in a seven-year span that has never
34:57
been to a Super Bowl. And so the point is the doors
35:01
wide open. Buffalo's never won it.
35:04
Jacksonville's never won it. Houston's never won it.
35:07
The Chargers have never won it. Sean Payton's trying to become
35:10
the first coach in NFL history to try to win a Super Bowl with
35:13
two different teams. I mean, you have bunches of
35:15
storylines sitting there waiting in the playoffs in the AFC, and
35:20
the Chiefs are gone. So that's open the doors, open
35:23
the door for these other teams. Going to be an incredibly
35:25
intriguing AFC race, but going to feel much, much different, no
35:29
doubt with No 15 there and obviously Kansas City.
35:32
So I'll look towards the future. And Mitch, I said it yesterday
35:35
on the program, drives me nuts. People throwing dirt of the
35:37
dynasty. The dynasty is not over.
35:40
Look, when the Patriots got beat in the playoffs or Brady tore
35:43
his ACL. I know people are racing because
35:46
they're just sick of certain teams winning year after year
35:49
after year. But there is retooling that
35:51
needs to be done. What is maybe at the top of your
35:54
wish list when you look at some of the things that need to be
35:57
done? When you look at the roster,
35:58
different spots? What do you think needs to
36:00
change as we look to 2026? Well, and I get it too, people
36:04
are hoping the dynasty's over then or wanting it to be over
36:09
and, and I understand that, but I would also tell them maybe
36:15
just hang on and Pat's already. The fact that he was able to get
36:19
into his surgery literally the day after a game and not having
36:23
the swelling go crazy to allow that to happen puts him on a,
36:27
you know, mad, furious path to get back what has to be done.
36:32
That there's several different things.
36:33
You're looking down the barrel at Kelsey retiring, but they've
36:37
got to look at getting more impact defenders, edge rushers,
36:44
coverage guys. The third down and longs have
36:46
been madding and it's happened all year long.
36:49
I know I talk about it every week, but it just keeps
36:51
happening. And so you've got to look at
36:53
everything, but mainly you got to get guys that can cover and
36:57
tackle because because corners have to tackle in this defense
37:01
and they do. But there's been a coverage
37:03
issue offensively, you've got to look at something that Kelsey's
37:09
irreplaceable. There's something there that can
37:12
give you an explosive play, whether it's a move tied end or
37:15
a bigger wide receiver. And then running back.
37:18
I think the offensive line, that's the most nobody's ever
37:21
going to check out on us now. But those inside the Fort.
37:24
A lot of my attention this week has been an Essa Pole.
37:27
If he can become a player coming out of nowhere, you're going to
37:30
get Simmons back. You're going to have a decent
37:33
offensive line next year. The interior 3 will all be
37:35
there, but you've got to get a running back for a play that's
37:39
designed to be 8 yards. You get 18.
37:42
It's really been for Denver's purposes.
37:45
Before JK Dobbins got hurt, he was doing that, but now Harvey's
37:49
doing it. So they're playing it pretty
37:51
tight. Play action, passing.
37:52
I'm giving Denver as an example, but they'll have a play design
37:55
for eight that they may get 12 or 15 or 18, which means
37:59
everything to them right now. And the Chiefs have got to find
38:02
that. It doesn't have to be the new
38:03
Saquon Barkley, but it's got to be someone that's going to give
38:06
you an explosive play when the design of the play isn't
38:09
necessarily going to be explosive or the defense has got
38:13
it fairly defended. Sometimes that doesn't always
38:15
work. So the Chiefs have got to get
38:16
some explosiveness back in their offense at wide receiver slash,
38:20
move, tight in and running back. You mentioned Kelsey and Willie
38:24
or will not retire. Sure the the quote is made it on
38:28
his New Heights podcast when he's asked about Patrick
38:30
Mahomes. He's going to come back stronger
38:32
than ever. Hopefully the chiefs get him
38:34
back as soon as possible. Not hopefully we get him back as
38:37
soon as possible. I don't know people are reading
38:39
into that right third party. I know what this first thing I
38:42
thought of when I read the I heard the quote.
38:45
It's it's it seems like he's obviously he's going back and
38:49
forth and as they all the great ones do.
38:51
When do you think he will definitively know what he's
38:53
going to do, Mitch? Well, I think that I think it
38:58
will be fairly soon. I think he's been thinking about
39:01
this for more than just the last 60 days.
39:05
And I really thought last year he was going to do it.
39:07
You know, I would see him and there'd be Senate kind of some
39:10
melancholy moments. And I thought, oh, he's giving
39:12
it up. And then I think the Super Bowl
39:14
ended so poorly. He didn't want that, you know,
39:16
to be it. Well, he didn't look, didn't
39:18
think this season going to happen.
39:20
But I think it'll be fairly soon because he knows the team needs
39:22
to know fairly soon. You're talking about salary cap
39:26
position, you're talking about draft strategy, you're talking
39:30
about free agent strategy. So I think he does a favor and
39:34
we'll think this way because he'll think to you first to let
39:37
them know. Let the Chiefs know as soon as
39:39
possible so they can act accordingly.
39:41
Again. He's irreplaceable.
39:43
There's nobody like him. I think he's one of one.
39:44
I'll argue everybody all day long that he's one of one.
39:48
But still, you've got to do something to figure out a
39:51
strategy to fill in a little bit of the void that you're going to
39:54
lose with him. No doubt, Mitchell, we are short
39:56
on time, but we've got to save some time for our friends at
39:59
Papa John's. I know they're closed on
40:00
Christmas, but there's nothing like Papa John's Cold just
40:03
right. Off No, I'm kidding.
40:04
And it's all big games this week.
40:06
We all know you just laid out some of these big and starting
40:09
tonight, that's a giant Thursday night game with the Rams and
40:12
Seahawks. So I don't know.
40:14
I think they're the official pizza of Christmas.
40:16
I believe they are. I don't know that you red and
40:18
green. Yes, let's go.
40:19
Yes. And I didn't know Boone.
40:21
Boone High School is red and green.
40:23
Go Boone. Go baby.
40:24
Find me another Trent. Find me some more red and green
40:26
schools in Iowa. That was the only one I have
40:29
now. If you get their mascot, that's
40:30
double bonus points there. The Pioneers, if they're not The
40:36
Pioneers, they ought to lose yardage.
40:38
I mean lose yardage because Boone and you're not The
40:40
Pioneers. The Toradors.
40:42
The problem? Torador.
40:43
Pretty good. Pretty good.
40:44
Toradors, pretty good corridors. Toradors.
40:48
Toradors, that's very good. Absolutely.
40:50
That's excellent, Excellent. Hey, we got.
40:52
I'm a real Boone. Thing they have to e-mail you.
40:54
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40:56
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