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S3 Ep13 - Trinity FC 3 - Chivas 2 · Pegasus

0:00
SPEAKER_02: Here we are, Pegasus post match from the Skyway.
0:04
SPEAKER_02: Um after Trinity uh beats uh Shiva three to two.
0:10
SPEAKER_00: Shiva Squad O'Hara, yeah.
0:12
SPEAKER_00: So yeah.
0:13
SPEAKER_00: We we're in the Skyway, so democracy wins.
0:16
SPEAKER_00: So if you don't it didn't want us in the Skyway, you needed a vote.
0:20
SPEAKER_00: You could have put us in the Gravitron.
0:22
SPEAKER_00: You could have put us in the Gravitron, but you didn't.
0:24
SPEAKER_00: So we're here in the Skyway.
0:26
SPEAKER_02: Thank God you didn't put us in the Graviton.
0:28
SPEAKER_02: Because I don't know the Gravitron.
0:29
SPEAKER_02: I don't know if I'd have made it.
0:31
SPEAKER_02: So we would have made it.
0:33
SPEAKER_02: We would have figured it out.
0:34
SPEAKER_02: It's a weird echoey thing going on in here, so I'm excited to hear what the audio sounds like.
0:39
SPEAKER_02: But here we go.
0:40
SPEAKER_02: I have a super crowded day at the fair the last weekend.
0:45
SPEAKER_02: Um good crowd at the game.
0:47
SPEAKER_02: Big crowd.
0:48
SPEAKER_02: Um and and a really great atmosphere.
0:50
SPEAKER_00: Great atmosphere.
0:52
SPEAKER_00: The whole thing starting this match and the whole thing around this is it feels very nice, feels very friendly, right?
0:57
SPEAKER_00: This game doesn't count for anything.
1:00
SPEAKER_00: But and I was in that mindset coming in.
1:02
SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm kind of late getting in, I get a Fletcher's corny dog, I'm kind of slow getting in.
1:07
SPEAKER_00: I'm the you know, like it doesn't matter.
1:09
SPEAKER_00: So, but then we're up by two, and it's like, okay, this is really good now.
1:13
SPEAKER_00: And by the end of this match, and how it plays out, there's nothing I'm wanted more in life than this meaningless match.
1:24
SPEAKER_00: It's it would it became the most least the least important, most important thing by the end of the night.
1:30
SPEAKER_00: Um, but what a match.
1:32
SPEAKER_00: So it was well, so it was so much fun.
1:35
SPEAKER_02: And what I loved about it is even though um it's not a game of importance, it the players played it like it was important.
1:43
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I mean, on both teams, there's tons of effort.
1:48
SPEAKER_02: Um we were really scrappy, and uh there's the pirate ship, so like uh yeah, the eyes out, so of course you never know if you're gonna survive on the side.
1:57
SPEAKER_00: We got like a good Twilight, like uh golden hour thing going too.
2:00
SPEAKER_01: Like really like a rage right time.
2:02
SPEAKER_01: Did you get a picture of the sunset?
2:07
SPEAKER_01: Oh my gosh, that's gorgeous.
2:08
SPEAKER_00: Okay, I've never been on this thing.
2:10
SPEAKER_01: I've been on it a couple times, but hold on, wait a minute.
2:13
SPEAKER_02: Maybe I just screwed something up.
2:15
SPEAKER_02: No, still recording.
2:17
SPEAKER_02: Okay, good.
2:17
SPEAKER_00: But I mean, we'll get to the match event eventually, but this is just so good.
2:23
SPEAKER_00: Um it's I mean, honestly, very relaxing Skyway ride.
2:29
SPEAKER_00: Um if you're not this is I think if as long as we keep doing this, this is gonna become like I think really important sporting event like beyond us.
2:40
SPEAKER_00: Like, I think I think that if we can get the like there's a little bit, a little bit more notoriety out there.
2:45
SPEAKER_00: Like, this is just like a fun festive thing that I don't know of anything similar that's going on right now.
2:51
SPEAKER_00: In I mean, obviously they do the Texas OU game and then the um the other map, the other football game that escapes me right now with um uh Grambling and I can't remember what they call that one, but you know, that is that's all very festive.
3:07
SPEAKER_00: Two very classic football matches, American football matches.
3:10
SPEAKER_00: And then for this to do this, and there's I don't think there's anything like this really.
3:14
SPEAKER_00: This festive atmosphere, it reminds me of like World Cup, right?
3:17
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, of like this kind of it's a game, but it's also a very festive atmosphere.
3:22
SPEAKER_00: It's not just 90 minutes or two hours and you're done and gone.
3:26
SPEAKER_00: And whether or not you got the points was is like, what's the point?
3:29
SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, like you're moving on in a season, but this is just like there's so much extra going on, and it's so fun.
3:34
SPEAKER_00: It's just so fun.
3:35
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, one of my favorite moments, I'm sitting next to a guy who has lived in Dallas all of his life, but uh family from Guadalajara, and she chooses his team, right?
3:46
SPEAKER_02: So um the men's team he he loves and he's like also supports the women's club.
3:52
SPEAKER_02: And you know, it was just super cool to hang out together uh to praise, and uh he's like yelling for the referee, and I'm yelling against the referee, and vice versa.
4:02
SPEAKER_02: And we're already we're already done.
4:03
SPEAKER_00: We'll get off.
4:04
SPEAKER_00: We'll keep recording, but all right.
4:06
SPEAKER_00: Get off on the right.
4:08
SPEAKER_00: Step off.
4:08
SPEAKER_00: Step off.
4:09
SPEAKER_01: Do it from the crazy mouse?
4:10
SPEAKER_02: No, we're not doing it from the crazy mouse.
4:13
SPEAKER_00: No, no, crazy mouse didn't win.
4:15
SPEAKER_00: We are not doing crazy mouse.
4:19
SPEAKER_00: Next year we'll put crazy mouse.
4:21
SPEAKER_00: Maybe we'll have some audio from the crazy mouse at the end.
4:24
SPEAKER_00: If there's anything where where we are we are, it's fun right now because this this is like what a weird fun thing.
4:32
SPEAKER_02: Okay, we're gonna be crazy mouse.
4:34
SPEAKER_01: We may have to do that.
4:35
SPEAKER_01: I know.
4:37
SPEAKER_02: There's a chance.
4:38
SPEAKER_01: Okay, let's do this.
4:39
SPEAKER_00: So we're on the other side of the midway.
4:41
SPEAKER_00: I know we've got other plans.
4:43
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna stop at a beer garden.
4:45
SPEAKER_00: Some people have food ideas.
4:48
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we'll just we'll see what happens.
4:50
SPEAKER_00: Who knows?
4:51
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
4:52
SPEAKER_00: But yeah, the match, like starting that match with all the rotated players was so good to see.
5:01
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I kind of like expected that, but you wouldn't have known it from watching any of those players that they were a lot of them coming in cold, hadn't played competitive matches um against Achievist team who probably was rotated as well.
5:17
SPEAKER_00: And I mean, we held our own and got two up two goals up and teenage kicks, right?
5:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, teenage kicks.
5:25
SPEAKER_00: So Kaya, so so Kaya Brewer in her first match for us, 15 years old, scoring on for that first one.
5:33
SPEAKER_00: I mean, what what a what a thing.
5:36
SPEAKER_00: She was she was definitely tall enough to ride the ride.
5:40
SPEAKER_02: Well, she's that's the standard, is we're like, are the players tall enough to make this happen?
5:46
SPEAKER_02: And I think that's great.
5:48
SPEAKER_02: Okay, so Jesse, where were we?
5:50
SPEAKER_02: You almost took a ride off the curve.
5:53
SPEAKER_02: I did.
5:54
SPEAKER_02: I know.
5:54
SPEAKER_02: So we find we're here at the Great American Beer Station.
5:57
SPEAKER_02: It's great.
5:58
SPEAKER_02: Uh, just underneath the Texas Star.
6:01
SPEAKER_02: There's some uh Big 12 football on the big screen in front of us.
6:06
SPEAKER_02: American football.
6:07
SPEAKER_02: American football.
6:08
SPEAKER_00: Um, but we didn't get back, we didn't get back to the real football.
6:11
SPEAKER_00: We ordered at the Great American beer station.
6:14
SPEAKER_00: She already knew what we wanted, and that was confusing.
6:18
SPEAKER_00: Like she quotes us 16.
6:20
SPEAKER_00: I asked for a beer and she says 16 coupons.
6:24
SPEAKER_00: And before she just knew you needed one.
6:27
SPEAKER_02: She didn't know.
6:29
SPEAKER_02: So, I mean, good news.
6:30
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
6:31
SPEAKER_02: Uh so here we are, we're sitting on hay bales.
6:33
SPEAKER_02: So shout out to David.
6:34
SPEAKER_03: Shout out to Haybale.
6:36
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
6:38
SPEAKER_02: Sadly, that hay bale isn't here.
6:40
SPEAKER_02: I love you, David.
6:42
SPEAKER_02: Um, and that was one of the best jokes ever.
6:45
SPEAKER_02: Um so yeah, no, it was like it was really like I like I loved the like being surrounded by you know Cheavis fans.
6:53
SPEAKER_02: Um, but there was a really good showing of uh Trinity fans at the match.
6:57
SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
6:58
SPEAKER_00: When some good things happened, you could really tell the numbers there.
7:01
SPEAKER_00: I think someone said it was like uh about a third, two-thirds, maybe two-thirds for Chivis, a third for us.
7:08
SPEAKER_00: And um, I think that was a good that's probably a good thing.
7:11
SPEAKER_00: Better representation this year overall, I thought.
7:13
SPEAKER_00: If I were good at fib, I'd go half and half.
7:15
SPEAKER_00: But um I know.
7:17
SPEAKER_02: I don't think it was half and half.
7:18
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I don't know.
7:19
SPEAKER_00: Like, I got a good view.
7:20
SPEAKER_00: I went down to the supporters section, I got a good view of when we scored, and the crowd, you it was like that's when they got up, and they it was like really everyone was raising their hand, man.
7:30
SPEAKER_00: Well, it was great.
7:31
SPEAKER_02: It was great this year coming into the fair and just I like I would just see people wearing maroon and gold.
7:38
SPEAKER_02: And last year, like I didn't feel that way about it.
7:41
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and so so that was really good.
7:44
SPEAKER_02: I also, you know, one of the things we talked about last year was um you know, when you put on this big event, it's a really cool event, but you know, you need to show well, and because you want to get like you're exposing a huge crowd to what you do, to the product, basically.
8:02
SPEAKER_02: And so here we are.
8:04
SPEAKER_02: I mean, first half, great product, even though you know we're we're playing with a lot of folks that don't normally start, some that have not seen any playing time, and and yet, you know, we go up to and we looked really good doing it.
8:19
SPEAKER_02: Like, that's what I loved about it.
8:20
SPEAKER_02: Like, we were tenacious, we fought hard.
8:23
SPEAKER_02: It was really, you know, you the people the you know, the ladies on the pitch, like they were playing like it meant something, and and that was really exciting, it was fun.
8:32
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like it I think I said that like you wouldn't know it that a lot of these players hadn't featured in a match, a competitive match at all yet, and they were out there doing it.
8:42
SPEAKER_00: Um and I mean I know like before we stopped, we were talking about Kaya Gordon.
8:48
SPEAKER_00: I think that's like an incredible story tonight.
8:51
SPEAKER_00: Like, I didn't know her name before tonight.
8:54
SPEAKER_00: Um, 15 years old, coming into this match with a huge crowd.
8:59
SPEAKER_00: Imagine that's like your first pro match.
9:01
SPEAKER_00: Um you know, all of it.
9:04
SPEAKER_00: And for her to get that first goal to score that goal, it was a well-taken goal.
9:09
SPEAKER_00: She's on that back post.
9:10
SPEAKER_00: Um like what a what a like she wasn't out of place.
9:15
SPEAKER_00: Like you know, you think of a 15-year-old, you think of maybe like you you'd definitely be able to pick her out amongst all the pros, right?
9:23
SPEAKER_00: The senior pros.
9:24
SPEAKER_00: Like you really couldn't.
9:25
SPEAKER_00: So that's I mean, that's her athleticism, that's um what she brings to the table.
9:30
SPEAKER_00: But then to play that way, as if she you just were in amongst the squad the whole time was this impressive.
9:39
SPEAKER_02: Well, and she and and she showed her toughness.
9:42
SPEAKER_02: I mean, she took the ball right to the face, a really hard kick, um, went down to the pitch, um, and yet she, you know, after a minute, shook it off, got back in the game, um, played, finished out the rest of the half.
9:56
SPEAKER_02: Um, so that was exciting to see.
9:58
SPEAKER_02: I also thought um Jamie Shepherd looked amazing.
10:02
SPEAKER_02: Um, she was really involved.
10:04
SPEAKER_02: Our captain, Sophie Braun, in the first half in particular, like she like anytime she was got the ball, she stepped in, took it away before they got in the final third.
10:17
SPEAKER_02: Like, they had it, they had so few opportunities in that first half, and it really had to do with you know our defensive line and and seeing Lauren Flynn back out there.
10:27
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, um, you know, it's the first time we've seen her since last season, and she looked really good.
10:34
SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, we get that we get up 2-0, and um I mean it's a good time, like we're having a good time.
10:41
SPEAKER_00: Again, I thought, you know, again, like a match that we kind of think of as a friendly and just kind of a fun thing.
10:49
SPEAKER_00: And there we are, we're like 2-0 up, and you know, we're the hosts of the party, right?
10:54
SPEAKER_00: We kind of feel like we're the hosts of the party.
10:56
SPEAKER_00: We might be outnumbered at the party a little bit, so we're the we're the hosts, so you kind of feel like, well, you know, we need to show up, and we didn't show up last year.
11:04
SPEAKER_00: We kind of got beat by Club America.
11:06
SPEAKER_00: And well, Club America is a better team in League of Mexico Mexico.
11:13
SPEAKER_00: Um, so they're like the top, top team.
11:15
SPEAKER_00: Well, Chibis is a little bit lower, and but they're still good.
11:18
SPEAKER_00: Number three.
11:18
SPEAKER_00: Number three, like, you know, I mean they're they're not so laugh at, but but top four out of like out of like 18-19 teams.
11:26
SPEAKER_00: So they play real tough.
11:27
SPEAKER_00: And you know, I'm just I'm like, okay, well, this is this is great.
11:30
SPEAKER_00: Like, maybe we can finally win, get our name on the trophy that we arranged for.
11:38
SPEAKER_02: Basically a replica of the Texas Star Paris movie.
11:40
SPEAKER_00: So, like, maybe we can finally get ourselves on that.
11:43
SPEAKER_00: And um, the second half, like, we start changing, we start making changes, and the changes are a lot.
11:49
SPEAKER_00: Obviously, it's a friendly, there's no limit, right?
11:51
SPEAKER_00: So you can make all the changes you want.
11:54
SPEAKER_02: And we changed out, we changed out, we put in four new players a little bit later in the second half.
12:01
SPEAKER_02: We put in four more.
12:02
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
12:03
SPEAKER_02: Uh by the end of it, I think we'd change everybody but the captain and the keeper.
12:06
SPEAKER_00: And by the end of it, it's like, and really probably midway through that second half, we were mostly the stronger.
12:12
SPEAKER_00: What you would say is our starting up starting eleven, a lot of our our main starters there.
12:18
SPEAKER_02: But what you would also say that is by that point, it was also mostly their strongest.
12:23
SPEAKER_02: So they were doing their changes too.
12:24
SPEAKER_02: So like it, like it was like our our second second half of the squad really outplayed their second half of their squad.
12:33
SPEAKER_02: And then second half, it's we didn't have we weren't really at full strength at the beginning, but um, you know, they kind of put it to us.
12:43
SPEAKER_02: Like they they brought it.
12:44
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so you called out in the first half Jamie Shepard and her her partner in midfield.
12:50
SPEAKER_00: Um, oh gosh, I'm drawing a blank, but but we had a like a really good spine in that first half.
12:57
SPEAKER_00: We we when we made the changes in the second half, I think we lost a lot of control, and that's really how they got back into the match.
13:04
SPEAKER_00: They weren't getting a whole lot of clear-cut chances.
13:07
SPEAKER_00: They their first goal that they got was taken so well.
13:10
SPEAKER_00: It was almost like one of those things you just couldn't like what could you do?
13:13
SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah, so it could, you know, it's a shot from distance, they put it right in a corner.
13:19
SPEAKER_02: I mean, and by the way, she made a couple of incredible saves earlier in like in the city.
13:24
SPEAKER_02: Maddie Anderson, yeah.
13:25
SPEAKER_00: Man, Maddie Anderson, we haven't seen her yet.
13:27
SPEAKER_00: Another one, like coming in cold.
13:28
SPEAKER_00: We haven't seen her like the whole the whole season, like really playing well.
13:33
SPEAKER_00: And so that first goal goes in, and it's like, okay, well, nothing you can do about that one.
13:39
SPEAKER_00: But um, but a lot of our starters just kind of couldn't get a grip of it.
13:42
SPEAKER_00: You know, Sophia Siddenu's in the middle up by the end.
13:46
SPEAKER_00: Um uh Felicia Knox, I think.
13:49
SPEAKER_00: Fleesha Knox.
13:50
SPEAKER_00: She's there's our that's our our two midfielders, and we just couldn't get a hold of uh the match and kept getting knocked back and knocked back, and they get kind of a scruffy second goal on some deflections and some saves.
14:03
SPEAKER_00: So we save it and then it's deflected.
14:05
SPEAKER_02: By the way, unbelievable save.
14:07
SPEAKER_02: So so, first of all, like the the the initial shot in, like, I thought that was a goal.
14:13
SPEAKER_02: And and we come up with the save, and I'm I'm like, I was actually shocked that it wasn't a goal.
14:18
SPEAKER_02: And then the rebounds out there, like you said, really scrappy, and uh it ends up going in net.
14:25
SPEAKER_02: Of course, celebrations, time to light the red flare.
14:29
SPEAKER_02: Oh no, we'll get on to that because I think it's great.
14:32
SPEAKER_00: I think it wasn't the second goal.
14:35
SPEAKER_00: It wasn't the second goal.
14:36
SPEAKER_02: It wasn't the second goal when they lit it.
14:38
SPEAKER_02: They lit it toward the end of the game because and the guy next to me is like, this is what we always do, and I'm like, okay, that's cool.
14:44
SPEAKER_02: I mean, you know, this listen, I love I I love it.
14:47
SPEAKER_02: Like, I like I I listen, I wish that there were you know 15,000 plus people in the cotton bowl every match, and even if we were outnumbered and players being lit, like listen, I love all that.
15:01
SPEAKER_02: But I'm into it.
15:02
SPEAKER_00: But so we're we're back, so I I'll come back to the flare because you really gotta set the scene for the flare.
15:08
SPEAKER_00: You really gotta set the scene for the flare.
15:10
SPEAKER_00: So they get back to um, so it's level, and there's about 20 minutes left.
15:16
SPEAKER_00: I think there's about 20 minutes.
15:17
SPEAKER_00: It was right at right to 4 minutes 70 of the scores a second.
15:22
SPEAKER_00: And we kind of think like, well, if this carries on, there we're probably letting an we're gonna probably let in the third.
15:27
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we had to really tighten up, which we did.
15:30
SPEAKER_00: Which we did.
15:30
SPEAKER_00: And um it was really hard to get uh Jasmine, because Jasmine Ahmed was in the match at that point, seven had come on.
15:37
SPEAKER_00: Um Anya Gagamera on the left side had come on, and we just could not connect, we could not get anything to stick going up going the other way, and it was almost like um like a like a switch.
15:51
SPEAKER_00: And to me, in my mind, the switch was their flare.
15:55
SPEAKER_00: So they like that flare, it's two two, and this gets me all the time.
16:00
SPEAKER_00: I don't I love the idea of flares and like having it pop off, and but you're two two.
16:06
SPEAKER_00: To me, like it's a celebration, right?
16:09
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was kind of weird.
16:10
SPEAKER_00: You don't pop it off, you don't pop it off at 2-2.
16:13
SPEAKER_02: Honestly, I don't think they were I think they were popping it off because look, they've come back from 2-0 down.
16:19
SPEAKER_02: Um, and and it's like it's like okay, there's like there's like six minutes left, and it's like, alright, you know, we're tied, we tied this game.
16:28
SPEAKER_02: We we thought we'd lost it in the first half.
16:31
SPEAKER_02: Maybe it's just but dude, yeah, no, it was not good timing for that.
16:34
SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's just something that they do.
16:37
SPEAKER_00: But to me, you pop the flare when you win the match.
16:40
SPEAKER_00: We didn't have a flare to pop, but they popped theirs at 2-2, and the game was still going on, and there was still about 10-15 minutes left in this match.
16:48
SPEAKER_00: There's nothing to celebrate yet on either side.
16:51
SPEAKER_00: There's still you celebrate when you because they came back down from two, but the game was literally in the balance, and both teams had near their full strength, best 11, were trading blow for blow, going down at one end, and then coming back on the other end.
17:05
SPEAKER_00: And we get it was like their turn, but then we got the last turn, and we really started to be able to get things to stick.
17:12
SPEAKER_00: We got Cam into the game late on.
17:15
SPEAKER_00: We got our we basically got were able to get things to stick.
17:19
SPEAKER_00: We were able to get it wide and then get it, move it back in to their credit.
17:25
SPEAKER_00: That possession game that we always loved.
17:28
SPEAKER_00: I would be shocked if we were we won the possession in this match because they were not letting us on.
17:33
SPEAKER_00: Like a super league team.
17:35
SPEAKER_00: Um and this is another good thing about this match is playing a team like this.
17:39
SPEAKER_00: This was on another level of of um not only Cheetus' structure, but their energy, their organization closing us down.
17:47
SPEAKER_00: That possession game that we were really get comfortable in, that was not something that was available to us throughout the whole match.
17:54
SPEAKER_00: But we but we adjusted stuff.
17:56
SPEAKER_02: We we did pretty well.
17:59
SPEAKER_00: Um but things were moving a lot faster and they were pressing higher with a lot more energy and a lot more structure than we faced in in the Super League, I thought, throughout the whole match.
18:09
SPEAKER_00: But we adjusted real well towards the end.
18:11
SPEAKER_02: We got our foothold in, and about 82, about minute 82, it felt like we kind of rided the ship.
18:20
SPEAKER_02: We got sort of back into um not dominating possession, but when we were in possession, it didn't look frantic, it looked like we knew what we were doing.
18:31
SPEAKER_02: We had a cutting edge towards the end, and yeah, and the last real five minutes like it really was our show.
18:37
SPEAKER_02: And we had a couple almost before the final corners, and like we just like we were really pushing for it, which is another thing that I love.
18:47
SPEAKER_02: It's like, look, you can this is a friendly you can I mean it's just pride on the line, and you know, you go to pins, it's it's like it's not the end of the world.
18:59
SPEAKER_02: And and we talked about it's like we've never seen this team go to pins.
19:02
SPEAKER_02: Wouldn't that be fun, right?
19:03
SPEAKER_02: I mean, yeah, I mean, I don't know, maybe it wouldn't be fun, but well, it would be something I never we never saw on the convoy.
19:08
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so that'd be different, but it didn't need to go to Pins.
19:12
SPEAKER_00: No, and I mean credits, uh you've got to credit Cam on the assist, Jasmine, Jasmine had a had a tough part of the reason why we got why they got back those two goals was our our strikers not able to keep on with him.
19:25
SPEAKER_00: Jasmine was a big, was she she had a hard time getting in the match, but she was in it at the end.
19:31
SPEAKER_00: And she took her goal, she took her goal with about 90 seconds left, and from the start of the whole day of oh, this is kind of a nice afternoon out, by that last 90 seconds, it was the most important thing of sporting event I had ever seen in my entire life.
19:48
SPEAKER_00: I wanted nothing more than to win that match, more than any match we'd ever played.
19:54
SPEAKER_00: And for us to get the goal, to get a well-taken goal, it wasn't scruffy, it wasn't something like, you know, we got a tip and a deflection and oops, it went in or something.
20:04
SPEAKER_00: No, we we opened them right up and put it in the net, and then that was that was game over, then basically.
20:11
SPEAKER_02: Well, it was really fun too.
20:13
SPEAKER_02: So, like, you know, we're we're in our normal seats, but we're surrounded by Chivas fans and some really nice folks, and like like it was like it was really like the atmosphere was great.
20:24
SPEAKER_02: But like when we're when we score, like there are friends that sit behind us, and normally there aren't people between us, so if we score at home, like we get up and go to their seats or they come to ours and we hug it out.
20:37
SPEAKER_02: It's awesome, right?
20:38
SPEAKER_02: Like, we have a great time.
20:39
SPEAKER_02: Couldn't do that this match, but but we did, but like it was like pointing and and smiling, and like it was almost more like it was almost better than the hug, honestly.
20:51
SPEAKER_02: Because no, seriously, because it's like the looks on like looking at Alex and like and David and and Rick and some of the other folks, like it was just so much fun to like like have that moment together, um, even though we're we got people in between us.
21:07
SPEAKER_01: It was the game overall, so much fun.
21:12
SPEAKER_02: And once again, I mean like you've got a big crowd here checking out Dallas Trinity.
21:18
SPEAKER_02: Maybe they're cheavist fans, but but this is an opportunity for people who live in Dallas to see what this team is about, and I love the fact that we put on the show, even if we had, even if it went to pens, even if we had lost, I think the show that we put on was something that was attractive that would have gotten people excited.
21:40
SPEAKER_02: The fact that we won the match, even more so, and I'm really, really happy for the club, I'm happy for the team.
21:47
SPEAKER_02: I was really excited for the players on the pitch, and just and a lot of the players that like you said, they're not normally starters, they're not normally seeing game time for them to have some really great moments in front of.
22:00
SPEAKER_02: Of the biggest crowd they'll see all season.
22:04
SPEAKER_02: That's awesome.
22:04
SPEAKER_00: I mean, like, like what like some more can you ask for?
22:07
SPEAKER_00: Some might some that might be some's uh some of those biggest crowds they've ever played in front of.
22:14
SPEAKER_00: Um it really is I mean, depending on how careers go, how long they go, and how much the game grows.
22:21
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's a huge crowd.
22:22
SPEAKER_00: It was a huge crowd for for for the game here, especially for the women's game here.
22:29
SPEAKER_00: Um just good.
22:31
SPEAKER_00: It was good to get the win.
22:32
SPEAKER_00: It's good to good to be a part of the whole thing.
22:35
SPEAKER_00: Um and like I said, started the day, wasn't sure.
22:40
SPEAKER_00: Towards the end, this was the most important most important, most important, least important thing I'd ever experienced in my life.
22:49
SPEAKER_00: I wanted it more than anything.
22:51
SPEAKER_02: Um I do want to bring up one thing on a serious note, and that is so the ref I don't know where the refs came from.
23:04
SPEAKER_02: Like, I feel like this is something that the clubs had to like you know, they had to bring the refs in, right?
23:10
SPEAKER_02: And what I would say is like they were really good.
23:13
SPEAKER_02: Like that no, they no, like there were offsides calls at like legit off like several, like, because they were fast enough to keep up with the players.
23:22
SPEAKER_02: Like they were like, like overall, I felt like this was a really well-reffed game, even though it's a friendly, and but it wasn't a it wasn't a game for the super league game, right?
23:33
SPEAKER_02: So you don't have the refs, they're they're refing core.
23:37
SPEAKER_02: And and I was really nice to watch a match where you had very competent refs that were up to the level of play.
23:45
SPEAKER_02: And and sorry, like Jesse's looking at me like I'm crazy, but it's true.
23:50
SPEAKER_02: Like, no, like I know it's a friendly, but seriously, like we can do better.
23:54
SPEAKER_02: I know I harp on this a lot, but it's it's frustrating watching league games, and we've got refs that just don't seem like they're up to the task of doing it.
24:03
SPEAKER_00: I'm looking at you like I'm crazy, like you're crazy because it's like like there's that thing of like um, you know, like I don't even think about them.
24:15
SPEAKER_00: I really don't.
24:16
SPEAKER_00: I watch games, I watch matches, and like I mean, maybe if it gets real bad, I think about them and then I know it's bad because I'm thinking about them.
24:24
SPEAKER_00: But I mean, I don't know these refs, I don't know where they came from.
24:28
SPEAKER_00: I got I like I got the sense that yeah, I think they were really good in helping keep the game flowing.
24:33
SPEAKER_00: Um I think that was key, and I think that's kind of what we miss in the in the league is that quality of riding a line um in in matches, um and allowing.
24:46
SPEAKER_02: I mean like there were like it was it was really basically basically not inserting yourself.
24:50
SPEAKER_00: We get a lot of that in the super league where where those referees uh end up in a place where they're kind of like doing this main character stuff and calling people over and you know running around the field and trying to show people up.
25:05
SPEAKER_00: And um, we didn't get that definitely, and and you know, and maybe it was that had a lighter touch because it was a friendly, but um I the other thing though that with the referee is what I picked up is the styles of play were similar.
25:21
SPEAKER_00: And so when styles of play are similar, the game can flow a little bit more.
25:27
SPEAKER_00: So what we would have what would happen in Super League against most of our opponents, right, is we want to have this possession game where most opponents in the in the super league, they want to smash us and break up play and and stop play and get free kicks and disrupts and disrupt play.
25:44
SPEAKER_00: And so I think that's I think that I think that's part of it.
25:47
SPEAKER_00: I don't know about the level of this reference, but I think it's all plays into it.
25:52
SPEAKER_00: I think there was the level of the opponent, I think it was the occasion, I think it was the players on the field, you know.
25:58
SPEAKER_00: Like when you're not coming in, you haven't played a lot, you want to show what you can do.
26:03
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
26:04
SPEAKER_00: And players, if you want to show what you can do, are typically not coming in, which like they, you know, they're like, Man, I really hope to get in there and break up play.
26:13
SPEAKER_00: Like, that's not an aspiration for most players.
26:16
SPEAKER_00: So they want to get up and show themselves off.
26:18
SPEAKER_00: And so that was a big part of it too.
26:20
SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, it it all contributed, whether it were the referees, whether it was the the two teams, the players themselves, and all the changes, the the coaches, um, all of it.
26:32
SPEAKER_00: The people that put it on, um it just made for a for a great afternoon, and it's just so good that we came out on top.
26:42
SPEAKER_00: And um, I don't know what else we got.
26:44
SPEAKER_02: We got I just I just I think the one thing I want to recognize is from the organization, from Trinity organization.
26:53
SPEAKER_02: This is and talking to some folks um within the organization before the match, like this is the most challenging thing that they do all year.
27:03
SPEAKER_02: It's I mean coordinating the entry because the tickets didn't get you in, and like that was a whole ordeal.
27:09
SPEAKER_02: So they had to have someone manning areas at every gate.
27:14
SPEAKER_02: Um just the the size of the event compared to a normal Super League match, um, and everything that went into it.
27:22
SPEAKER_02: Um I know that it was like such an undertaking, but it really went off like truly without a hitch.
27:31
SPEAKER_02: And and and then and then to top it off, the product on the titch, this friendly match was actually a really compelling match with lots of excitement, um, lots of really fun play, and you know, and just and like you said, like a really festive atmosphere.
27:51
SPEAKER_02: And like I don't know what more you could want if you're you know Trinity FC and the organization and putting this on, like it truly like what a successful day this was, and and as a supporter, what a fun uh event and a fun day to come to the fair and really experience some great football on the pitch and just a really fun afternoon.
28:16
SPEAKER_02: Like, I was like, wait, this was such a joy.
28:19
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, and it's really unique, just so unique.
28:22
SPEAKER_00: Um so we're at the fair.
28:25
SPEAKER_00: What is your food thing that you really like?
28:29
SPEAKER_02: Well, my favorite fair food of all time is the chicken fried bacon.
28:34
SPEAKER_02: Um, it won like 15 years ago best new food.
28:38
SPEAKER_02: Um, I didn't have it today out of Fletcher's Corn Dog, of course, because like that's if you come to the fair, like I feel like you've got to visit Fletchy's, whether you're doing like Karen got the the cheese stick, um, which is also very good.
28:54
SPEAKER_02: Um, but you can't beat the classic corn dog.
28:56
SPEAKER_02: What about you, Jesse?
28:58
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, corndog, I did the um the chocolate too.
29:01
SPEAKER_00: That was like some big new big winner, the chocolate corn dog thing.
29:05
SPEAKER_00: Whoa.
29:05
SPEAKER_00: So how does that what is that?
29:07
SPEAKER_00: Well, so it's the same batter as the corn dog.
29:09
SPEAKER_00: But with chocolate in it?
29:10
SPEAKER_00: No, there's no dog in it.
29:12
SPEAKER_00: Like the inside is chocolate, like a chocolate gooey, like a like a lava cake, but but it's still the corn on the outside.
29:21
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
29:21
SPEAKER_00: And then they had like a frosting that is yellow, so it looks like the mustard, and then like this like uh strawberry like jam thing, so like the ketchup.
29:33
SPEAKER_00: I mean it's really rich and everything, but what is the worst thing you've had at pair?
29:38
SPEAKER_00: Oh man.
29:40
SPEAKER_00: Not not this year.
29:41
SPEAKER_00: Last year they had, and apparently it oh no, I don't remember what it was.
29:46
SPEAKER_00: It was the thing that um they remember they brought in Joey Chestnut to like do the whole like uh uh food competition thing and they had him eat crab risotto balls.
29:59
SPEAKER_00: Right.
29:59
SPEAKER_00: That was the worst thing I think I ever.
30:01
SPEAKER_00: It's like crab orancini.
30:03
SPEAKER_00: Orancini, yeah.
30:04
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, fried risotto balls.
30:05
SPEAKER_00: Fried read these fried crabs are horrendous.
30:09
SPEAKER_02: And like by the way, crab and risotto, like crab and risotto really aren't a thing, but okay.
30:13
SPEAKER_00: Like, like it was just the grossest thing, and it like I can't imagine.
30:18
SPEAKER_00: I don't know how many ate.
30:19
SPEAKER_00: Ate more than any human should ever eat.
30:21
SPEAKER_00: You shouldn't have eaten more than two of these things after I ate them.
30:24
SPEAKER_00: But apparently that one like won something last year too, but it was bad.
30:27
SPEAKER_00: It was not it was like one of the worst things.
30:29
SPEAKER_02: The worst, the worst thing I've ever had here at the fair was fried beer.
30:34
SPEAKER_02: So they uh is where they froze beer and they put batter around it and then fried it.
30:40
SPEAKER_02: And so when you bit into it, you tasted the batter, and then it was like this stale, lukewarm beer inside that was flat, super gross, yeah, terrible.
30:53
SPEAKER_02: Like truly what I would say is like I know you're trying to be innovative, and I appreciate the idea, but terrible execution.
31:00
SPEAKER_02: It was really bad.
31:01
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no one needs that.
31:01
SPEAKER_00: No one needs that.
31:03
SPEAKER_00: I'm looking for, so we're gonna we're gonna stop here, but I'm there's a couple things that I'm looking to be looking for.
31:09
SPEAKER_00: We have like way too many tickets, so we're gonna have to like like notch some out.
31:15
SPEAKER_00: The two things I'm really looking for is there's something like 3D ice cream, and so they have like this mango or it's I think it's like umy, yumi ice cream, but like it's uh mango or peach, and they dip it in a chocolate shell.
31:30
SPEAKER_00: I'm a sucker for that treat, like DQ, like dairy queen, where they like dip the kind of like that's like one of my favorite things.
31:38
SPEAKER_00: Um I don't know, another one was like Italy.
31:41
SPEAKER_00: Italy had a Porchetta thing on their menu, like a Porchetta focaccia thing that I'm really want to like really want to try and tuck into.
31:50
SPEAKER_00: I mean, anything you are looking to try.
31:54
SPEAKER_02: No, I think I've done my no, I have not done it all, but I have to say, like I I I have a fair limit.
32:02
SPEAKER_02: Like I I may be close to that limit.
32:06
SPEAKER_02: So uh it may be time just to go have some good tech specs uh at a little restaurant around the corner.
32:11
SPEAKER_02: So yeah.
32:14
SPEAKER_02: Can't convince you to go around, okay?
32:16
SPEAKER_02: I could go around for a little while.
32:18
SPEAKER_02: Um, all right, so there we are.
32:20
SPEAKER_00: Um back at it in the league next weekend.
32:23
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, back at it.
32:24
SPEAKER_00: I think we're in DC.
32:25
SPEAKER_00: I think they go to DC next Sunday.
32:27
SPEAKER_00: I think so.
32:28
SPEAKER_00: I think that's right.
32:30
SPEAKER_00: Um I don't know, we gotta do business there.
32:33
SPEAKER_00: They're a tough team.
32:34
SPEAKER_00: We just gotta like let's just like build on positive moments and positive things and see where we go.
32:40
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I mean, and and I feel like we've we've had some positive moments.
32:45
SPEAKER_02: Um today was a great one, and hopefully it was a confidence builder for the team.
32:51
SPEAKER_02: And I think anytime you're playing competitively, um even like this, like it's a chance for you to like build upon something.
32:59
SPEAKER_02: And so um there we go.
33:02
SPEAKER_02: Uh, fantastic afternoon, evening at the state fair of Texas, El Classico, number two in the books.
33:08
SPEAKER_02: Our name's finally on the trophy.
33:11
SPEAKER_02: Uh, my name's Rich is Jesse, and we will see you next time.