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#43 - Why American Football Reigns: Preseason Hype, Fandom & Fall Rituals · Life According to Brian and Jason

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All right, friends, welcome to another episode
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of Life According to Brian and Jason. Hey, Jason,
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it's a whole nother day, another week. What do you want to talk about?
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Hey, the NFL's starting soon. Brian, do you care?
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It's all over The web. It is.
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I know. All of a sudden, all my regular news feeds just died
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out. I don't care in a month, Jason, because I
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think August is what, preseason? Is that right? Yes.
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Yeah. Well, ask me that same question in September.
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But I do have to say, I started
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watching Hard Knocks just to kind of build
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the excitement, and I'll save that for later. But why?
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Why are you bringing this up now? Well, because like, you know,
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you look, you search up sports or just, it seems to be on there.
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Like any little thing the NFL does, Brian, is like headline
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news. Like if you want to hear, we're baseball fans,
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baseball definitely, at least in Denver with the Rockies,
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takes a second fiddle. I wonder if I was in, you know,
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LA, of course they have their football teams, you know, the Rams are
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good. They're like favored to win.
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I would be curious in those markets, maybe our listeners could tell us, you know,
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how it's perceived and stuff. It's like, you know, baseball, hockey.
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Well, we're kind of good on hockey here. They'll talk about it.
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But it's just amazing how in American society,
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how football is king. And if you didn't love football
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or like football, you'd be like, ah, you know, oh, I don't want to hear
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about the Broncos. I don't want to hear— oh, it's everywhere.
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It's everywhere. Especially, how do I know it's everywhere? All of
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a sudden I'm hearing Aaron Rodgers clips on YouTube and like, oh,
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football must be back, right?
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Right. Thanks, Aaron. I know, I thought,
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is this guy retired? Oh, he hasn't retired yet.
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And football was more, oh, let's go over
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to, you know, any kind of relative's house. They had football on.
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I watched more football at, you know, my aunts and uncles' houses
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than I think I did at home. I think it gained popularity
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over the years. So say when I was 5 years old,
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Versus, you know, I'm leaving for college. There's probably more watching
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by then. But yeah, no, we're, you know,
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my dad was a car guy, so a lot of Sundays and
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the weekends were spent doing other things than watching either baseball or
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football. And as far as being a player,
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I, I found myself to be a little too fragile.
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Let me say it that way. Played You know, you play
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like flag football in junior high and
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I was getting beat up doing that. And I'm like, I don't think
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I'm going to don the pads because I was already racing bikes,
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BMX bikes, which is just pounding me. And then,
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you know, I'm playing baseball. So parents— where were
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you? Where were you again? Remind the listeners, where did you grow
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up? I lived in at that time. So say you want
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to start playing football, you know, now back in the
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'80s, did you play like Pop Warner when you're 8 or 9, or is it
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middle school or junior high?
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It'd be a little more middle school, but yeah, you know, now fun, now it's
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everywhere. Yeah, I think in our era, you know, so we're
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talking late '70s, early '80s, I don't remember Pop
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Warner being an option. And so They started,
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we started playing football. You could pad up and
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start playing in the 7th grade. And then they had
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the 8th grade and then freshman was at the high school.
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So, you know, we were done. So you had to go that.
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And at that time I started racing bikes around 6th
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grade, 6th, 7th grade. And that
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was my jam. I liked that. I loved baseball. I think
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money-wise and time-wise, I kind of remember Mom and Dad
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saying, well, what are you going to pick? And I
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just— I wasn't that big of a football guy because I was a scrawny little
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man back then. I was probably— I remember being weighed
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in 6th grade and I weighed 88
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pounds.
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So, you know, playing football the next year, I wasn't even cracking 100
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yet. And which is probably the case for a lot of kids. But the
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point is, is I felt, I felt I already had
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kind of that gritty sport going with, uh, busting myself up,
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uh, BMX racing, which I did quite a bit.
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Yeah, in Arizona you can race year-round. Uh, practice is every Wednesday night,
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uh, Tuesday or Wednesday. So you go out, pound yourself, get trained
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up, and then You know, there was a circuit back then.
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If you really wanted to race, you could race 5,
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6 days a week easy at many different tracks.
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And, you know, my parents capped it at one. If you want
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to go, you know, I'd hit Friday night or Saturday.
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Once in a while we'd travel, but that was, that was my
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form of contact sports, Jason, was bike racing,
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BMX. Okay. That sounds good.
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Right. So how'd you get into it? Well,
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really, I remember it most in Maine.
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My dad was Air Force stationed in Maine and we would watch—
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Dad would watch football on Sundays. You know, I played baseball.
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There was no real football for us. I was in elementary, 3rd,
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4th, and 5th grade. If there was, I wasn't
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doing it, you know, there. And Dad probably would have had me in
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that. Um, but the Patriots were the big team. I did
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like them and I watched them a lot. They were horrible,
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but I remember the logo with the Patriot down holding the football.
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I actually liked that. Um, and that
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was my first introduction where I was like, you know what, I kind of like
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them. Dad also liked the Vikings and he's a Bears fan.
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But, uh, you know, we watched whoever was local whenever he moved. And then we
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moved to Omaha, Nebraska. And I went out
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for football in 8th grade. Oh, and I got lit up.
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Just boom. I was like, man,
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no thank you. Because, uh, yeah,
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I was like, no thank you. I was like,
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I'm not doing this. Then we moved to Colorado, and I was like, you know
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what, my 10th grade high school was 10th grade. I didn't do it in 9th
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grade. I did track, uh, 9th grade, which I
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liked. But then I was like, you know what, you know, the Broncos and stuff,
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you know what, I'm gonna go out for football.
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So man, I went out for football and I
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remember I didn't know nothing. And, um,
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I don't know, I, I learned. I did a hit and, uh,
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this guy goes— that one of the coaches said
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That's a linebacker head. I'm like, oh, okay. And then they said, well, you know,
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running backs over here, linemen over here, DBs over here,
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linebackers over here. I just went over to linebackers and I wasn't very
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good, but I loved playing football. I played football in high school. We were a
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mediocre team, right? Both ways,
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which means I played offense and I was a lineman and I was an
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inside linebacker. And unfortunately, I got hurt.
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My ACL tore my senior year, so I could
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not finish. But I helped the managers, loved the team,
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stayed on it. And even now, I would not
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trade anything. So for me, football was a good experience with
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my friends, like all other sports. It was just good.
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And then, you know, staying in Colorado, like the Broncos
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and all that. And now I'm a PE teacher,
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elementary. So yeah, I kind of like all sports,
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but definitely, you know, football has a good place in my heart.
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I like playing it. And to finish
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off with that, most kids now, at the time of this recording,
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will play flag football. Actually, flag football in Colorado is
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now a high school sport for boys and girls. Wow. And people
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are playing more of that. Usually it's the gateway. Now, Late middle
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school, they switched to tackle football because
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flag, you get to play all the positions and you learn about plays.
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So many times you're so worried about hitting people, right? When there's those
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young kids that they, they're too overloaded, you know, how do I hit?
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Put my head here, blah, blah. Oh yeah. And you know, X slant,
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belly up, 4, 2, you know, and you're like, what? So I
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have found the most successful kids played flag get the lingo down
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and the positions, and then they go do middle school.
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Then learn how to tackle. Yeah, then do it. And they seem to be more
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successful with that. Now, it's not everybody,
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but yeah, football's good here in Colorado, obviously the
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Broncos. Now, you're in Arkansas. What's the team
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of choice there? Well, you know, there's no pro
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team in Arkansas, so the closest we have would be Kansas
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City. Chiefs. And so it's about a 3.5-hour drive.
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And I think that was also maybe the same issue I
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had in Arizona. Moved from South Dakota,
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which doesn't have professional football. So everyone there
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was a Vikings fan because that's the closest you got, right? Or Denver,
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you know. Yeah. Moved to Arizona in
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'79. All the way through the '80s, they don't have
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a team, you know. So now you're picking, hmm,
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San Diego Chargers, you know, what do you do?
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You pick an LA team? Do you go with your childhood favorite?
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I have to tell you, regional teams have a big impact on how
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many kids want to play football, especially farther. Now,
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small rural towns, you know, Nebraska, huge football state.
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Oh yeah, that's, that's the college feeder system, you know.
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Yep. And they do a great job. They really build that into
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the high schools and they layer that on down. I don't think Arizona
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had that just because it's kind of a transient culture back then.
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A lot of people moving in and the growth was exponential.
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And I just remember baseball having a whole lot more
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roots as far as Yeah, you could play 3 leagues
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in a year. You could do this, you could do that.
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So to me, that's, that's what sucks you in is like,
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okay, oh, here's Little League. Oh, here you can go to batting
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cages. You know, there was a network of people that played
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just because spring training was in Arizona and ASU, which I
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went to. They're a nationally recognized college baseball team.
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Reggie Jackson went to ASU. You know, so baseball
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was king when I was a kid in that environment. You know, this is
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all pre-internet. You're not— you're— how do you get information? Get information
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from friends and the newspaper. That was it. Like,
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right, where do you go to play or learn extra football
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skills? Well, you don't. You just go to school. And for
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me, uh, I had a pretty significant tear in
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my right knee on a BMX race.
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And it's actually a kid I went to high school with. I think we were
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both freshmen at the time. And yeah,
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it was a bad, you know, like a pedal in the front wheel
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of my bike at full speed down the hill and wind up tearing
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the cartilage, the meniscus. And I
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was on crutches for 6 weeks. And that kind of told me too,
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yeah, I don't think I'm playing football,
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you know. So you had injuries early, early on,
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you know, that kind of changed the score. So I did
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things like ran cross-country. I did other, you know, running-type sports,
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but basically they were bad. And see, I even got injured playing baseball.
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Well, it's probably more bike racing. So my freshman year played,
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did pretty well. Sophomore year, I'm injured.
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And then I go from player to, hey, I'm team equipment
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manager because, yeah, I'm laid up. So, yep,
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yep, that knee, hip issues. Yep. So,
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and had to take, uh, my junior year and
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run cross-country, build up all my legs and my ability,
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tried out for varsity, did well. Did you
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ever have surgery on that knee? No. Wow, what the heck?
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Yep. I'm surprised you could do all that. Sorry, ACL.
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No, so yeah, it was kind of just, I think bike racing kind of
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ended my baseball career early because Again, when you're
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prone to injuries, there's no way you can play full seasons,
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right? So, so that happens. That's why
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we test out sports when we're kids, you know, what works for you.
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But football was not for me, Dale, but I do enjoy watching it. And here's
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why. It's, to me, it's the shift of the seasons,
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even though it's bloody hot right now. We're in a bad
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heat wave this summer. I— the days are getting
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shorter and, you know, fall is coming, and I love
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that. It's just something about the magic of football,
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fall, the season's changing, and also baseball
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playoffs. It's kind of the magic trifecta of sports
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all starts to happen this time of year. I would agree,
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and football really is another thing TV-friendly,
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man. It is a game made for TV, and TV obviously
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rules, you know. That's right. Yeah, yeah,
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totally. And, uh, you know,
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that's— they do a great job. You know, baseball,
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uh, postseason's fantastic. I love that, don't you? I mean,
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I don't know, it's just— look at all, dude, how much in the preseason you're
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trying to do the faithful. Well, we're doing double dipping. You're watching early football
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and baseball close out. It's like, oh, how do I spend my time?
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Right. Well, baseball would take over a little bit. That's a little more
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interesting. Preseason is preseason, but I'm watching it. I'm caring.
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Yeah. Right, right. Yeah. Well, with, uh,
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with that, what are you expecting this year? I mean, for me,
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I get the Kansas City Chiefs feeds, um, because that's
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my proximity, pops up in my different, you know, because it's on our local news
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channels, things like that. Patrick Mahomes,
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he'll be back, but he may not be playing any preseason. So,
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so, you know, there's a lot of hype around, uh, Chiefs, uh, might be
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rebuilt enough to actually be competitive this
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year. So just real quick, would you say if you saw any jerseys around
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your area, it would be Chiefs? Oh yeah, yeah, if at
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all. Yeah, yeah. See, I live on the border of Missouri and Arkansas,
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even though I'm in Arkansas, And the Walmart I shop in is in
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Missouri. So when you go into that Walmart, what's the merch?
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It's all Chiefs, right? Wow, no Broncos?
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Walmart owns the Broncos, right? No, it's all Chiefs. And ironically,
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there's more Cardinal baseball gear than
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Royals gear, which I find very strange. Well, they're winners,
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you know. We're closer to the Royals, but yet I
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have less selection of swag. What's going
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on there, Walmart? I don't know. Yeah, it's a little strange.
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But then you go into Bentonville and you
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go to that Walmart. Um, yeah, you still have Chiefs
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swag, but I wouldn't call it as prevalent, you know.
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You know, sure, in Arkansas, right? Yeah. And they—
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right, surprised they don't have Broncos just for the hell of it, you know,
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just see what happens, right? I thought being so close to Texas
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I'd see a lot more Texas teams. No. That must be,
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must be the mindset of Arkansas. Like, yeah, we'd rather wear
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just our college Razorback gear than wear a Texas
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team. So I don't know, I could be wrong on that. I will admit
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I do. I have some Razorback gear. I do like
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the logo. I, you know. Yeah. You know, that, that mean-looking
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pig is sharp. It's got it, man.
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But, you know, yeah, that's all the rage around here. I mean,
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my feeds are going to be about college football more so
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than the pros because that's what we have in Arkansas. So,
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but now I'm, I'm going to, you know, you'll watch a little
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ball. I'll watch ball. I'll watch Broncos at all because when they play,
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you just get the Chiefs game, whoever the Chiefs play. Yeah, typically.
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But Broncos, see, usually they're on CBS,
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right? Yes. Yeah.
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See, I don't get that. I don't get that out of the airwaves, so I
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always have to subscribe to— or
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go to your local establishment. Yeah. And have a cold one.
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Right. So I have to either go over to my— but you don't really care
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in that way. You're, you'd just rather have some football on. Whatever football's on,
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you're watching. Yeah, it is good. See, and that's,
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that's another weird thing about football is people will cross
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over and watch other games all day long. Even though they
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are a staunch whatever fan, right? They could be the
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biggest Dallas fan in the world. Once the Dallas game's over,
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they're watching other games or they're watching the game before the Dallas game.
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So that's— that doesn't happen in baseball.
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Have you ever found anyone, hey, I'm watching 12 hours of baseball? Yeah.
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No, dude, that's because like at the beginning of our podcast, man,
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football is king. It is just Yeah.
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Why is it so easy to digest? Why do
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you think that is? Why can someone watch football
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games on a Sunday? It's like these little goals. Yeah.
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You know, they're trying to get the goal. Can they get to the 4th down?
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No. Okay, done. It's like little mini stories. It's easy
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digestible. I could walk away, come back. All sports
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is social, but You know, especially holidays.
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I don't know. Yeah, football is really good at that. I mean,
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think about it. Would you watch 3 hockey games back
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to back? I don't think I would. No, no, I wouldn't watch baseball
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back to back. That's unbearable, you know.
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But somehow football, you can just have it on from 11
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o'clock in the morning to 10 at night, you know.
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Yes, it's on all day. Well, also, of course,
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you could do this with all fantasy I'd be remiss. All sports,
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even rodeo. There's fantasy for rodeo. I was watching rodeo with my father-in-law,
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and you can have fantasy, you know, riders and get points
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and stuff. So I'm doing fantasy football this year. Yeah. And, uh,
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so all the games have a little special meaning for me. Okay. A little extra
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scratch. I, I still don't understand people. I tried doing fantasy
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football about 20 years ago when it was pretty low-tech,
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you know? Yeah. And I just didn't get it.
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Clue me in, Jason. Well, I don't understand. Social. It's all talking.
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I mean, yeah, it's good. I'm not any good at all. And the people,
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you know, it's like gambling. You have no idea. People get hurt.
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When you say social, what do you mean? Like get-togethers? Yeah, you get
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together like, like in your group. You're like, you said you had someone's house
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together. Yeah, we're going to do a draft. Some people are in-state,
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some people are out, and we're all just talking. There's smack talking.
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Throughout the week. It's, you know, on text
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or whatever. So, what do you got, like people on Zoom? What is this?
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No, no, it's just, you know, there's like 10
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people in mine and I'd say about 6 are
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now in Colorado. The rest are either Dallas
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or Salt Lake now.
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So, they just, you know, it's your turn. The app works it, man.
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Yeah, it makes it work. And then during the games
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you might call or they just text trash talk.
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Okay. You know, it's just trash talking and I'm joining the families
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and I've known the family for a long time. Okay. But, you know,
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it's just talking. It's a way to communicate. All sports is social,
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you know, talking to my father-in-law,
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my dad when he was alive, just, you know, hey, Dad, what about the Bears?
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Right. Yeah. You know. Right. It's just that social aspect.
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But football, even if you didn't play,
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people tend to like, well, I'll watch a little. But if you don't,
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man, it's sure shoved down your throat. Right. So what's the timeline
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of fantasy football? Because preseason,
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which NFL starts this weekend and they what,
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play 4 Sundays? Yeah, 3, 4.
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And then football starts. So what's the timeline here?
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So you go, uh, until like
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the next to the last games. Okay.
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Because you don't do the last because of
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injury. You know, you don't want to be playing your last
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game on the, um, you know,
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like still playing your, uh, league when
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someone's hurt because, you know, there's like 1, 2 um,
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3, 4 preseason games, and then August 13th it
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really matters, you know, and you're like watching it. But injuries are
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so key. They play too many games anyways. It is— everyone gets beat up by
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the end, you know. So toward the end,
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um, you're, you know, the 18th—
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there's 18, you know, games or weeks
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of it, you know, and that's a lot. Right. So at the end, you just
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don't— you're, you're, uh, the main
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league is over. And if there's different points, I don't know enough
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to know all this. Uh, our listeners would know, but like there's, uh, point systems.
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I have 2 QBs in mine. Others have 1 QB.
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You get more points for running back touch— running down touchdowns,
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quarterback throws. So you get to a
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certain point, you make it to the playoffs, and then then you're still in.
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Certain people are still in playing at that time
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to win your league.
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Hmm. So you do this on like an app now? Yeah,
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like ESPN app. Okay. ESPN. But there's many.
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Yahoo. I mean, right. Okay. ESPN, I think, is pretty big.
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Well, I think, I think you should do a whole podcast
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on how to get started. Dude, I can barely even say or
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talk to you right now. I've only done it. This is my second year of
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it. And believe me, I was, no one
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wants to hear my takes. I was like next to last in my,
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and I was playing with kids, you know. Oh gosh,
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you're getting smack talked by kids. Yeah, getting beat by kids. Now they may or
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may not have been having help from their parents, but still elementary and middle
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school. Now that would be funny. I would pay money to see you get smack
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talked by 12-year-olds. Well, just getting beat, like their team's better than mine.
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I'm like, what's going on here? Oh, that's too good.
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That's too— well, but, you know, I mean,
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what a world, you know? It's like you're running, you're watching the
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regular season, you're playing fantasy. I mean, you're immersed, right?
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Wouldn't that be the word for Americans with football?
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You're immersed. And then at elementary school, wear your jersey on Friday.
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Oh yeah, teaching in Grand Junction, Colorado, right?
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And that was a big day. Wear your Broncos. And if you're not wearing Broncos,
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you get a little side-eye. Right, right. Yeah,
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yeah. I remember someone gave me, um,
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I don't know, I think it was a Shannon Sharpe jersey or something because
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I kept showing up at school without a Broncos jersey.
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They're like, uh, man, you gotta join the club. I don't know one.
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Yeah, there you go, I got an extra. What, you have extra jerseys?
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What is this about? So yeah, so I
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know, so when I say I'm a football fan. I say that very lightly,
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like small f on fan, right?
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You know, but I do, I do like the, I don't know, just the
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tradition. I like the feeling that it gives you, like, oh, Sunday,
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it's football. It's like home,
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right? It's like, yes, it's just like Sunday, you know, get the
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snacks, you know, find the game you're looking for.
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And what's funny is it's digestible by everyone.
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Even my mom who doesn't watch sports, we'll turn the game on when we're
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at her and, you know, we're chatting, talking. Yeah, because you can talk
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and— right. And you don't have to
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know much besides, oh, look, they scored a touchdown. Yay. You know,
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and so, yeah, Tanis and I will watch,
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we'll pick our different teams. You know, what's funny is she's
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probably maybe even more a football fan than me. And we'll
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look at the rundown of the games on the Sunday and go, That's the
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matchup to watch. That's what's cool. You know, it's like, okay, I want to budget
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our time. We got things to do, but that's the matchup,
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you know, because usually someone's keeping track of
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the scores, you know, and their wins and losses.
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And so, yeah, that's the— that's what's fun is
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then you only have to think 18 games versus baseball is
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like, man, that 155 games, you kind
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of start to lose track, you know, of where things are
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at. And, you know, other than in postseason, you're like, okay,
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the rest of you go home. Let's go, boys. It's September.
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And I do love that part because it simplifies the game.
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It takes all the other hoo-ha out of it, you know,
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all the other stuff, and just gets down to brass tacks.
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Now it's business. It's playoffs. And football
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brings that level of urgency almost every weekend, wouldn't you think?
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Oh yeah, that's that. And each down, each— right, you know.
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And there, there is 17,
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but remember, everyone has a bye week. Sorry. Right, right. So there's—
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they're talking about an 18th game because,
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you know, money, money. And they're playing— don't get me started. We had— look
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at our past cast just really quick. You know,
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now you have to have Netflix for a Wednesday night game. They're playing games on
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Wednesday. What are we doing here? Thursday,
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Friday, the preseason games have— the Broncos are on then. And then throughout
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the season, they'll have specific games on certain days.
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You know, it's just unfortunate, but that could be even another
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podcast. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They do a great job of spreading it
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around. It's like, oh, I'm locked in starting Thursday night,
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you know, and then you're locked in till Monday. And you're like,
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what do I do with myself on Tuesday and Wednesday? There's no football.
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Who knows? It might be changing. Yeah, who knows?
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If they do that, then it's a little too much. Now it's saturation.
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So, well, I don't know. There's a tipping point. You know, they throw— they
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have us and they have the Hard Knocks, which I have not
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seen. You said you were watching that. I've not seen any of that. But just
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think, you can watch the games then. I think Peyton Manning has a quarterback
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show. I mean, Dude, it's everywhere. Well, I have to say,
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the Hard Knocks season that's on right now is on the
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Seattle Seahawks, and it's a pretty— it's,
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it's not like,
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okay, let's watch. Like, have you seen Drive to Survive?
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There's all these like reality shows and other sports. They're usually
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from the last season. Hard Knocks is current
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training camp. Like their turnaround time of the
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episodes is super quick. So it's like present tense
29:29
almost. So the episode starts off because Seahawks
29:34
won the Super Bowl last year. They start off the episode with
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their rings, their Super Bowl ring dinner.
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And so I'll just give a little teaser to our audience,
29:47
but If you watch it, they're all sitting in this big room
29:50
and all of a sudden these boxes start getting lowered from the ceiling right
29:54
in front of the player. And you take the box off and there's your
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Super Bowl ring. And then the ring has a secret
30:02
button on it. And when you push the button, the sides of
30:06
the ring pop out and it says World Champions in there. Okay, that's kind of
30:09
cool. Yeah, it's pretty cool. So that's— so I'm just
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saying that's a nice hook and And then it moves into
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current, you know, like early practices,
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you know, where they're practicing with no pads, kind of those soft practices in
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the summer. And they're kind of talking about, you know,
30:30
who's coming back, who's injured. I was impressed
30:34
how quick a turnaround. I'm like, wow, it's a pretty fresh show because we're
30:38
not even at preseason yet. And that just came out. I don't know, a week
30:42
ago or maybe 4 or 5 days ago. And so anyway,
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if you like football, that is— watch it. You should watch
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it because you gain a lot of insight on the
30:54
sport itself that the news, unless you're really a deep diver
30:58
into football and you read articles on
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their rings and all that, then it's probably not much of a surprise.
31:06
But for me who You know, my focus is
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on baseball. I'm not getting any— I'm not worried about training camp,
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put it that way, right? For anything, you could care less what happened.
31:16
But it is interesting, I have to say, you know,
31:20
these coaches, boy, they dedicate their lives and time to playing
31:24
that sport and preparing and getting these guys ready and
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the things they have to do to balance. And, you know, just the money
31:32
thing, money's in insane that they talk about.
31:36
It's just crazy. And, you know, here's a guy being paid
31:40
$40 million, he's rolling around on a knee cart, you know, it's like,
31:44
oh, they're still writing checks for that guy, you know.
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And so that's what's amazing is just the collateral
31:53
damage that goes with that kind of shit, you know, kind of sport.
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And so check it out, dude. I would recommend I will.
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Well, man, guess what? What? Hey, we're nearing
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the end. Anything you want to close with? I do. Do you know
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that I'm going to my very first Savannah Bananas game this Friday?
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That's what— yeah, you said that last podcast. I am going.
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I am going. And all right, as we talked about all this football,
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uh, Savannah Bananas are a baseball show, but it's kind of a weird
32:25
show. I'll tell you all about it next week. Yep, we're talking. We're talking.
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And Hey friends, there's a few things that you probably don't care
32:33
about, but we're going to say it anyway.
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This Thursday, August 13th,
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on Netflix is the MLB Field of Dreams. So if
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you've seen the movie Field of Dreams where they play
32:47
in the Iowa cornfield, Kevin Costner, very famous '80s
32:51
movie, that's actually a field and
32:55
has been. It's been kind of a tourist thing, but they play ball there.
32:58
So the Phillies and the Twins are playing, and, uh,
33:02
sounds like they improved the field. I think they act— it's kind of
33:05
used to be kind of a portable kind of thing. But right, here's what
33:09
I know about Iowa in August: hot. Oh,
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I was in Nebraska. Have you ever
33:17
been through farming? See, they're,
33:20
they're irrigation farmers. In Iowa. I grew up in South Dakota, which is
33:24
dry farming, most of it. Um,
33:28
but Iowa is just saturated with irrigation
33:32
farming, corn, you know, all that kind of stuff. And so the humidity rate's
33:36
just crazy high, you know. And, uh,
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yeah, it should be fun. So go ahead, Bryce Harper,
33:43
have fun with that, buddy. Um, so yeah, so that's
33:47
going on. And then, uh, Maybe at some point we'll
33:51
circle back around to this. Women's pro baseball is back.
33:54
I won't say any more on that, but it's an interesting prospect,
33:58
and we'll watch this over the years where they're forming
34:02
an actual pro league again. It's been on and off.
34:05
If you ever watched the movie League of Their Own, used to have that back
34:08
in the '40s, and then it kind of died out in the '50s. And but
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yeah, it's back. We'll talk more later, dude. So sounds
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good. Hey, it's a fun episode. Thanks, man. Appreciate it.
34:20
Yep. All right, friends, thanks for joining us on this episode
34:23
of Life According to Brian and Jason. And until next
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