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The Minnesota Vixen win the WFA Woman's Football Title - Offensive Line Coach Michele Braun Joins Sports Done Wright · Sports Done Wright w/ Vince Wright

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  Speaker 2: In a little bit, we are going to have on
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  Speaker 2: our special guest Michelle Bron from the Minnesota Vixen. She
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  Speaker 2: coaches the offensive line not only there, but Elver for
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  Speaker 2: the men's team at Augsburg as well. So this is
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  Speaker 2: gonna be a fun interview. We're gonna talk about obviously
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  Speaker 2: the Minnesota Vixen and their championship season, but also you'll
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  Speaker 2: learn a little bit about coach Bron as well and
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  Speaker 2: her background in the sport and she's been there since
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  Speaker 2: the beginning as well. And you know, I'll get into
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  Speaker 2: it a little bit later, but just great quality of
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  Speaker 2: play from the women in this league, and I'm telling
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  Speaker 2: you check them out. Look at the highlights, go to
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  Speaker 2: their website. You will be surprised. They're sticking and licking
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  Speaker 2: out there. Man. Some cold hits, some great plays, some
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  Speaker 2: good just everything. So shout out to the Vixen. And
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  Speaker 2: speaking of football, there is another football team in the
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  Speaker 2: state of Minnesota and Minnesota Vikings. Let's just get into
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  Speaker 2: this here before we get to our interview with coach Brown.
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  Speaker 2: So they go with Kyler Murray. Now, I don't think
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  Speaker 2: most people are surprised by what you hear either in
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  Speaker 2: the media, what you read online, whatever. Was it a
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  Speaker 2: true competition all that stuff. That's just for you know,
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  Speaker 2: for like people like me to talk on podcasts and
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  Speaker 2: the radio show host to talk about this and that
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  Speaker 2: decision has been made, and let's just start with JJ.
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  Speaker 2: He's saying all the right things, as you can expect.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, sure, he's disappointed, he said that, but he's
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  Speaker 2: going out there and just doing what he can to
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  Speaker 2: be ready to play. So, you know, definitely props to
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  Speaker 2: JJ for saying all the right things. Of course, now
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  Speaker 2: that Kyler Murray's been named the starter, we got to
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  Speaker 2: see what he's got, so A he's got to play
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  Speaker 2: some in this first game coming up here this weekend
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  Speaker 2: with the Giants. And because you know, not a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people have been sold on Kyler as well. You know,
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  Speaker 2: definitely has the pedigree, the resume had, you know, that
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  Speaker 2: stretch of two three really good years and you know, regress.
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  Speaker 2: But I just think that he was chosen because A,
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  Speaker 2: he's the better quarterback. B. Was it, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: was it truly a competition? Probably not in my opinion,
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  Speaker 2: just my opinion, I think they may have called to
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  Speaker 2: the competition to say, hey, let's motivate JJ to you know,
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  Speaker 2: see what he can do. I mean, he is going
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  Speaker 2: in his third year as well, so you know you
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  Speaker 2: have to see progress at that point, no matter with
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  Speaker 2: the injuries and the timeout and all that stuff. But
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  Speaker 2: Kyler Murray is in. So what I would like to
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  Speaker 2: see from the Minnesota Vikings is for Kyler to play
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  Speaker 2: maybe a quarter, a little bit into the second quarter
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  Speaker 2: of this weekend's game with the New York Giants. You
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  Speaker 2: gotta get Kyler acclimated because from if you believe again
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  Speaker 2: from what you hear from certain people that are out
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  Speaker 2: at training camp and seeing this it's not like Kyler's
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  Speaker 2: blowing the way the field with his play. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if the truth to that. I you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: just a podcast guy, got a real job, can't hang
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  Speaker 2: out there, can't see it for myself. But that's just
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  Speaker 2: kind of what people are saying there as well. So
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  Speaker 2: and you know, to be fair, JJ definitely had some fans,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in the press and in the podcast world
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  Speaker 2: for him to be the starter. So with that being
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  Speaker 2: said too, I think that you know, it's here we
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  Speaker 2: go again with the Vikings in this quarterback conundrum. It's
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  Speaker 2: just it's always something we just can't seem to really
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  Speaker 2: get a solid stretch. I mean, you know, some people
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  Speaker 2: may argue Kirk Cousins when his tenure here, but we
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  Speaker 2: still couldn't get over to hump with him. So it
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  Speaker 2: is going to be very interesting to see how this
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  Speaker 2: plays out. And it's actually made the preseason very interesting
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  Speaker 2: because you know, if, well, let's just say, what if
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  Speaker 2: Kyler doesn't look good this preseason? Not wishing anything on anybody,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying I'm just throwing out different scenarios here
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  Speaker 2: on the Sports Done Right podcasts. You know, you still
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  Speaker 2: got people even talking about yay, the Carson Wentz is
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  Speaker 2: still here in the mix. Can he actually wind up
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  Speaker 2: being the backup quarterback? Do you trade JJ McCarthy. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I heard something on the radio last week. I think
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  Speaker 2: about what was that listening. I think CBS Sports Radio
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  Speaker 2: or something, driving around and they were talking about, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: if JJ doesn't get the starting quarterback job in Minnesota,
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  Speaker 2: do you try and just put together some type of package.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe get him back out with his college coach in
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  Speaker 2: LA with the Chargers Harbaugh, and see if you can
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  Speaker 2: just kind of get rid of them on the cheap.
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  Speaker 2: That way, JJ can go, maybe sit a year or
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  Speaker 2: two without the pressure of starting, learn their system, and
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  Speaker 2: then you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, when.
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  Speaker 2: Their quarterback is ready to move on, JJ is ready
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  Speaker 2: to step in and a little bit more familiarity with
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  Speaker 2: this college coach, and maybe it just works out better.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, you've seen it time and time again.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes people just need a change of scenery. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I never wished anything bad on JJ McCarthy at all.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I was rooting for Michigan to win a
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  Speaker 2: national championship with all the SEC friends and people I
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  Speaker 2: deal with in the podcast world. But you know, change
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  Speaker 2: of seeing me, change of scenery, excuse me, may do
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  Speaker 2: JJ's some good as well. So we'll just have to
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  Speaker 2: see how it all plays out. I really like the
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  Speaker 2: Vikings and what they're doing and all, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: the rest of their team, and over on the defensive
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  Speaker 2: side of the ball, a lot of young guns over there,
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  Speaker 2: which I'm very excited to see play and see who
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  Speaker 2: kind of steps up their game to claim to the
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  Speaker 2: leadership role over on the defensive side. And often, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: if we can get this quarterback thing figured out, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we still got some receivers and some running backs and
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  Speaker 2: hopefully an improved offensive line. And this could be very
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  Speaker 2: interesting because we'll get into the NFC a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more on my next show where we'll get into predictions
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  Speaker 2: and kind of break down the actual division as a whole.
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  Speaker 2: But this is going to be a very interesting division.
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  Speaker 2: Yet again, you know, with all the stuff we were
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  Speaker 2: talking about last year with the Minnesota Vikings, what were
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  Speaker 2: they half game out of making the playoffs or a game?
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  Speaker 2: I mean never right there for sneaking into the playoffs
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  Speaker 2: with all the stuff that was going wrong last year.
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  Speaker 2: So if we can get the stuff together this year, man,
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  Speaker 2: watch out you never know but one step of the time,
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  Speaker 2: and that starts with the first preseason game against the
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  Speaker 2: New York Giants this weekend. I'm excited. I'm excited. We
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  Speaker 2: got a quarterback controversy and we're going to see how
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  Speaker 2: it plays out. Wishing Kylie Kyler Murray the best. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: as you probably saw my Facebook post over at Tommy
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  Speaker 2: Kramer's house, him and my buddy Buddy Becker. My friend
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  Speaker 2: Buddy Becker, they are friends with Kyler Murray's uncle, Calvin,
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  Speaker 2: who used to play Major League baseball and ironically he
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  Speaker 2: was the guy up the bat with the San Francisco
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  Speaker 2: Giants when Randy Johnson threw the pitch that killed the
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  Speaker 2: bird in mid flight. And Calvin also lets you know
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  Speaker 2: that on the next pitch he actually got a double
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  Speaker 2: off of Randy Johnson. So but yeah, very interesting, Excited
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  Speaker 2: for Kyler Murray, Excited for the Vikings team, and let's
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  Speaker 2: just hope that it works out because you can't keep going.
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  Speaker 2: You know, man, just google Vikings quarterbacks over the past
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  Speaker 2: thirty years or something. I mean, the amount of names
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  Speaker 2: on the list is incredible. So we got to get
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  Speaker 2: this figured out and get back to a franchise quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: H What can I say?
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  Speaker 4: Man? What can I say?
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  Speaker 2: All right, quick break? When we come back, Minnesota Vixen's
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  Speaker 2: offensive line coach Michelle Brown's gonna join us, and we
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  Speaker 2: got that interview queued up. We'll be right back. Sports
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  Speaker 2: I thank you there, mister Geffery. So let's get into
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  Speaker 2: this interview with coach Michelle Bron. It's a good one.
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  Speaker 2: It's about just over a half an hour or so.
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  Speaker 2: Settle in real good one. Minnesota Vixen, as we've been
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  Speaker 2: talking about online and then social media, won the WFA
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  Speaker 2: Women's Football Alliance Championship over the Pittsburgh Passion killed them. Well,
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  Speaker 2: what was it forty two to fourteen or something. I mean, man,
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  Speaker 2: all Minnesota watched the game, watch the highlights. Phenomenal job
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  Speaker 2: by the team. So let's get to it here, great
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  Speaker 2: interview with Michelle Bron. All right, everybody, Vince Right, sports
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  Speaker 2: governor here on Sports Done Right podcast, and we are
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  Speaker 2: celebrating a football championship in Minnesota, Minnesota Vixen meeting the
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  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Passion, and we are honored to have coach Michelle Lebron.
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  Speaker 2: She coaches the offensive line and the reason and we
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  Speaker 2: were just talking beforehand. Here the reason I wanted to
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  Speaker 2: have the coach on. You know, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: misconceptions with women's sports in general, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: tell you guys right now, make sure you watch not
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  Speaker 2: only the Vixen but the WFA. Great football, great quality product.
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  Speaker 2: And for any kind of dude out there'd be like, oh, man,
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  Speaker 2: women's football. Blah blah blah blah, doing yourself a disservice man.
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  Speaker 2: So with that being said, coach, thank you for joining
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  Speaker 2: us tonight on the Sports or Sports dumb Right podcast.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 4: I'm great, Vince, Thank you again for having me on.
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  Speaker 4: It's such an honor. You know, I've followed your podcast
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  Speaker 4: for a while. I've followed you on on X and
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  Speaker 4: formerly Twitter, I still call it Twitter. You know, you're
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  Speaker 4: in Minnesota, sports homer like I am.
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  Speaker 5: Know.
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  Speaker 4: It's just great being here. It's great being and enlightening
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  Speaker 4: your viewers. You know, there's so many rooms that are
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  Speaker 4: out there that that are so sad in the winter
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  Speaker 4: time and the spring because there's no football out right. Dudes,
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  Speaker 4: come to a Vixen game, come to a w f
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  Speaker 4: A game. Man. We put out a great product. It's
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  Speaker 4: a great atmosphere at Handling. We've got food trucks, We've
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  Speaker 4: got great fans. We have almost over one thousand and
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  Speaker 4: eleven hundred fans per game. We just put out a
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  Speaker 4: really great product. And you want to see really great
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  Speaker 4: quality football with a lot of good hitting, a really
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  Speaker 4: good quality offense and defense. Come out to our games.
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  Speaker 4: It's just a lot of fun. And if you want
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  Speaker 4: to see, you know, a good product and you still
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  Speaker 4: want to you know, get involved and see football, come
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  Speaker 4: out and watch a game. It's just a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: Oh absolutely. I mean, I'm definitely gonna be there next
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  Speaker 2: season and that and that's the thing. Because now we
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  Speaker 2: have the internet, we have YouTube. And I implore you, folks,
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  Speaker 2: because that's what I've been doing the past few days
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  Speaker 2: since we finalized the interview with Coach Brown. Here is
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  Speaker 2: watching WFA football and amaze amazing. And you know, I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to sound condescending when I say that, but
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the hangup when you know, especially guys,
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  Speaker 2: they think, oh women's football, blah blah blah. Man Like
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  Speaker 2: you said, coach, there is some excellent hitting, some great
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  Speaker 2: play calling, some great d passing, some great football is
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  Speaker 2: what it is. So how did you find your way
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  Speaker 2: to football? You know? And you know as a kid
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  Speaker 2: growing up.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, I've always been a football fan for
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  Speaker 4: whatever reason. Since I've been five years old. I've been
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  Speaker 4: a Vikings and Gophers fan for the for the longest time.
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  Speaker 4: You know. I grew up in the town of Hutchinson,
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  Speaker 4: big football town, Grady and Andy Rosberg have made Hushinson
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  Speaker 4: football the namesake and state of Minnesota grew up with that.
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  Speaker 4: Grew up, you know, as a junior and senior in
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  Speaker 4: high school. Our boys won the state championship. When I
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  Speaker 4: was a junior and senior, idolized those guys as far
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  Speaker 4: as what they got to accomplish, and you know, it
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  Speaker 4: just was always was always a Homer, was always a
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  Speaker 4: dream playing football. And when I was thirty one years old,
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  Speaker 4: I got a chance in nineteen ninety nine to have
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  Speaker 4: a little one inch ad in the Star Tribune saying
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  Speaker 4: Women's staff of Football Tryouts Metro Dome. Well, if you
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  Speaker 4: were a kid, if you were a person that loved football,
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  Speaker 4: and you got to go to the Metro Dome to
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  Speaker 4: go try out and play football, would you do it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: So I answered the ad and it was the at
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  Speaker 4: that time it was the WPFL, which is the Women's
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  Speaker 4: Professional Football League, which was a league that two gentlemen,
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  Speaker 4: Carter Turner and Terry Sullivan. Terry Sullivan was involved in
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  Speaker 4: the in semi pro men's football in Minnesota in the
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  Speaker 4: area for a long time and he wanted to kind
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  Speaker 4: of jump on at the success of the women's professional
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  Speaker 4: soccer in the World Cup that had won in nineteen
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  Speaker 4: ninety nine, and so he barnes we were going to
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  Speaker 4: have a barn storming tour. He wanted to have kind
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  Speaker 4: of like the Harlem Globetrotters versus the Washington Generals and
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  Speaker 4: kind of have a barn storming tour. So he had
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  Speaker 4: nationwide tryouts and into Canada for we had to think
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  Speaker 4: the first tryout at the Metro Dome. I think we
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  Speaker 4: had over three hundred women trying out. I was there
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  Speaker 4: that at that time in November, and then we started
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  Speaker 4: in the fall of ninety nine. I got to make
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  Speaker 4: one of eighty spots and so it was the Lake
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  Speaker 4: Michigan Minks mythical Lake Michigan Minks team and the Minnesota Vixen,
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  Speaker 4: and it was we had forty each on a roster
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  Speaker 4: and we played a six game season barn storming tour
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  Speaker 4: of the Midwest to her interest in this league. And
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  Speaker 4: it was great in the effect that we garnered interest.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't great as being a Vixen because we lost
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  Speaker 4: every single game, but it did work because it did
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  Speaker 4: start the modern era of women's tackle football. You know,
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  Speaker 4: back in the nineteen seventies, women's tackle football was a
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  Speaker 4: thing and it was really big. They even made a
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  Speaker 4: TV movie about it in like nineteen seventy six, nineteen
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  Speaker 4: seventy seven. It was called the Oklahoma City Dolls. That
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  Speaker 4: was actually the team name. But the Toledo Troopers at
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  Speaker 4: that time were huge women's tackle football. It was a dynasty.
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  Speaker 4: And I actually played against a lady that played for
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  Speaker 4: the Toledo Troopers, Mitchie Collette. She was a coach of
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  Speaker 4: a Toledo team that we played later in the early
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  Speaker 4: two thousands. But that's kind of where it started, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, we just kept going from there on. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we are the longest continually operating women's tackle football team
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  Speaker 4: in the nation. Nobody has been going for you know,
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  Speaker 4: twenty seven years. As we've been still operating and being
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  Speaker 4: successful and now finally to put the icing on the
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  Speaker 4: cake and win a championship has just been fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. So let's talk about the Vigson here. So you
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  Speaker 2: are the offensive line coach, if you could tell people,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, because I think that's really the bread and butter,
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  Speaker 2: the offensive line. What is it about the offensive line
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  Speaker 2: that is so important to the football team.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's big. You know, I'm actually the co offensive
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  Speaker 4: line coach. My other offensive line coach is Maria Beck.
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  Speaker 4: She's actually was a former player as well. I played
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  Speaker 4: with her, she played for fifteen seasons and she's actually
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  Speaker 4: been our This is her second year of coaching offensive
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: line with me, so she's been really vital to our
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: success as well. You know, people just underestimate the offensive line,
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: which really ticks me off because if you don't have
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: a good offensive line, you can't do anything. And it's
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: hard because I think I think the way offensive line
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: is being viewed has evolved, which is great because you know,
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: it was kind of a position where, you know, you,
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: for lack of a better word, you stuck overweight people
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: and in people with maybe not a lot of skill.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: But that's really evolved, and thank goodness it has because
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: it's shown that you have to have skill, you have
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: to have strength, speed, power, agility, quickness, and you have
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: to be successful at those things. To be able to
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: do that, you have to have five people playing as
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: one mind and being able to do that at the
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: same time, which is extremely hard. You know, you have
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: one quarterback, you have one running back, maybe you have
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: one receiver, but you have to have five people playing
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: as one, which is really hard to do. And I
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: think that's what actually gets overlooked as offensive line. For Yeah, So,
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: I mean as far as coaching that, you know, you
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: have to there's a lot of different aspects you have
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: to coach with that. So and and actually now I'm
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: also coaching Augsburg. I'm the assistant offensive line coach at
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: Augsburg men's football as well, And you know, that's kind
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: of one of the things I'm hoping to instill in
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: these guys this this this fall, the summer too. You know,
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: they've got to trust each other. And that's the hardest
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: thing you got to do, is you've got to trust
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: each other, and you've gotta be you got to be
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: a family out there, and you've got to be able
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: to kind of instinctially know what each other is doing,
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: which is hard.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Well, you mentioned you're also the coach over at Augsburg
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: and the men's team, and let's just take a pivot
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: over there as well. What has that been like. Has
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: there been any pushback? You know, just the usual stuff.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: You know, all this lady's gonna come in and try
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: and tell me what to do, all that stuff. What's
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: it been like being a coach on a men's football
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: team over there on the collegiate level.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: You know, I've been very lucky. The staff has been
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: very good over there. That the gentlemen last year were
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: very welcoming to me. I won't lie the first day
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: they were kind of I was kind of getting some
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: looks like who are you? Like, what's going on? Like
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: what is it? But that faded extremely fast. I try
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: to be very disarming to people. Sometimes I can be
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: kind of quiet. Sometimes I can be very not loud,
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: but I can be I try to be disarming in
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: certain ways. But I just try to be I try
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: to gauge a room, you know. But everybody's been very
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: very welcoming, very good. Coach keiwan Ware, who's the head
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: coach there, made me feel very welcome and made it
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: just seem very seamless, which is I'm very grateful for.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: I'm very grateful to be back there this this the
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: summer of this fall. We're gonna be actually starting Saturday,
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: so it's just like right back into the end of
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: the fire again. But it's been very good and it's
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: nice because they listen to me, which is good. So
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: you know that that's actually good. So, but it's just
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: it's just a little different. It's just a little different verbiage,
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: a little different, but it's the same thing. You know,
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: we're doing the same thing. So it's just it's just
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: a little different nuance. Yeah.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: And then and that's exactly kind of where I was
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: going with it, between coaching men and women. So and
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: that's phenomenal that Augsburg has welcomed you the way that
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: they have their real quick before we pivot back to
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: the Vixen, just for our local crowd here, how's Augsburg
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: been doing in football? You know, it's been a roller
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: coaster over there, you know for you know, years and
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: years and years. They've had some good times, some bad times. Uh,
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: present day Augsburg football, what's it like and where's it going?
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: Well, I'm hoping this year is a little bit better. Man.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: You know, the Mayac is tough, the Maak and the
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: Mayac is is just brutal. You know what amazes me
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: is just to see, uh, the changes and the battles within.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: You know, you've got your stalwarts like Saint John's and
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: and seeing Bethel just get so much better, but seeing
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: you know, just places different like Saint Olaf Carlton. But
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: you know, I'm really excited to see what Augsburg is
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: going to do this year. You know, We've got a
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: lot of our staff is back, a lot of our
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: players are back. We've got some new additions. We've got
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: some really interesting freshmen coming back. Our our quarterback is back,
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: Hayden Roanovich is back, and he's I think he's going
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: to be even more comfortable as has his as his
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: second year into this system. So I think he's going
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: to be more comfortable in things. And I'm just really
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: excited to see the vibe of camp and to see
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: how their intensity comes up, especially the seniors, and just
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: kind of understanding like, look, this is your last year
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: of football, you know, and now it's make or break time.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Now you've got to step up and and and bring
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: that physicality and bring that intensity and then just really
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: show what your what you can do from what you
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: learned last year and kind of you know, those types
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: of things. So I'm just excited to what what we're
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: going to be able to accomplish this year.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Good to hear. Good to hear. Now, let me ask
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: you this getting back to the Vixen here and this
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: championship season, which has just been phenomenal. What's it been
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: like for you to witness this? I mean we'll get
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: into the games here and then talk about a couple
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: of the players here in just a moment, but just
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: you know, on a personal level, as a coach on
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: this team, what has this season been like for you?
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Because you know you've been close before, didn't win it,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: and now you finally got over that hump, and then
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: in a coming in fashion against the Pittsburgh passion as well.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: I mean no disrespect to Pittsburgh, but Minnesota came out
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: to play and then they put it on them.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: Well, you know, Vince, I tell you, you know, we
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: played I played in I played in as a player,
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: I played in two previous championships, and I was a
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: coach in two previous championships. And you know, I'm always
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: an internal optimist. I always believe you got a chance
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: any given Sunday, right, any given Saturday, any given game.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Anybody can be anybody, right, and so I always have
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: that mindset.
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: But sometimes you kind of come into a game and
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: like in our games, you know, we kind of came
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: into a game and it was like, man, this is
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: not working.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: You know, this is not our this is not our game,
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: and you're kind of like, crap, that's just not gonna work.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: And that's kind of how it happened with our four
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: previous games, and you kind of just kind of know
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: what and then it sucks and it's sad and you
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: ugly cry and it's just, you know, crappy and you
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: kind of like, you know, you you know, would it
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: could have should and all that stuff. But this season
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: was just it was just weird. First of all, for me,
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: I was a little bit more disconnected from it because
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: being at Augsburg, I wasn't at any of the trouts,
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: so I didn't know. I didn't know any of these
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: new rookies until like January when I started practice with them,
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: So I didn't know any of these new rookies. I
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: was like hearing things and everything. So when I started
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: in January practicing with everybody, I didn't know, like who
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: these people were. And knowing what I knew and then
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: fighting out and seeing how they were in practice, I
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: was kind of like, this vibe is different, vibe is different,
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: the whole thing is different. And as the games went out,
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: and I was really bombed because I was actually I'm
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: actually the flag coach over at Augsburg like football. Women's
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: flag football were Oxburg as well in the spring, and
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: the first game we played against Saint Louis, I couldn't
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: go to that because we were having our flag championships
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: at TCOLT at Tcol for Augsburg, so I couldn't go
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: to that first game. And I told those guys that said, look,
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: I said, have you guys won that game? I said,
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: you guys, go down there and you beat Saint Louis,
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: which is our huge rival, don't get me wrong, huge rival.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: I said, I will go in my cul de Sac
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: and I will film myself hollering and everything if we win.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: And as soon as unfortunately, we lost out in our championship,
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: so I got to be starting to watch that game
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: pretty early. And I watched the game and I was
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: just stunned. I was like, what is going on? Like
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: we were just like handling these guys, like what's going on?
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: And we won the game sure enough. I filmed myself
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: hoop it and hollering in my cul de sac, put
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: it on our team chat and from there on in
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: and was like just different vibe. It was just a
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: different vibe.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, where are I haven't written
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: down here on my phone a nice formal question. Where
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: are the next great female players coming from? Coach Brown?
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Are you seeing more young ladies? Well, I mean, obviously
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: we are, because as you said, now we have flag
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: football leagues in the NFL has actually put in a
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: lot of money and then trying to get leagues going.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: So those next generation of players, where are you seeing
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: them come from?
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: Well, you know events. Actually it's interesting because some of
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: these players are playing tackle football. A couple are, like
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: our offense. One of our co offensive Rookie of the
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: Year was our starting right guard Natalie Kellamu, who was
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: who had played high school tackle football at Modamia and
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: she played tackle football there, So you know, you know,
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: some of them are playing in high school and and
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: bless those coaches that are allowing those ladies to play.
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: You know, the team we've played out in Utah, the
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: Salt Lakes Salt Lake City team, they have a whole league,
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: high school league out there that plays tackle football, uh
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: for for women for girls out in elt in Utah.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: They don't play by the exactly same rules that we
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: play in the w f A and which is college
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: n Cuba rules. But you know, I think we always
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: looked and we've always recruited players who have played multiple sports, basketball, soccer, lacrosse, hockey,
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: you know those types, softball, any type of active sport.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: So now you've got excuse me, flag players. You do
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: have people that have played tackle football. You know a
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: lot of our players played tackle football, some of them
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: up until ninth tenth grade. So the opportunities are there,
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: you know, if if if the player, if the girl
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: and the woman wants to play, or if the parents
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: want to allow them to play, it's just kind of
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: up to the coach and up to the system if
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: they want to allow that.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: So yeah, very interesting. And Mona meat I kind of
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: close to my heart. That's where my ex wife graduated
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: from and so my kid, we you know, spent a
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: lot of time out there on that field at that
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: stadium and everything. So yeah, very cool that mount of
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: meat I did that. That's awesome. Yeah, all right, so
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: let me ask you this here. We got a few
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: more minutes here with coach Brown here on the Sports
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: un Right podcast. Everyone was there a particular time during
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: the season, coach where you said, this team is different
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: we may be able to really do something, maybe win
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: that championship. Was there a moment, a game or something that,
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: you know, anytime this season that gave you that thought.
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: I would. I think when we when we beat Saint
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: Louis in our first round playoff game, and the way
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: we beat Saint Louis, you know, we unfortunately because of
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: the proximity of them, you know, we sometimes play them
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: three times in a season, playoffs included. We played them
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: the first game of the season. Excuse me. We played
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: them at home, and we played very poorly. Our defense
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: played great, but our offense did not. And they were
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: a very very physical football team, and we just did
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: not play up to our offensive expectations and left a
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: lot of things out there. And we think and we
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: also missed three field goals, which doesn't help. So we
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: lost ten to seven. But when we went to play
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: them again in the playoffs, in the first round of playoffs,
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: we got to host that game, and we kind of
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: changed our mindset in our play calling and had some
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: things out that we'd never done before. We did something
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: is like some reversus some statue of liberty plays, did
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: some things that they weren't expecting and I had told
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: our head coach Connor Joe Lewis months back. I said,
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: you know, we need a in case of emergency break
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: glass play, Like you know, it's third and fifteen, we're
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: down by three, third quarter. We need something. And you know,
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: as she degreed, yeah, we need to figure that out.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: And we kind of brewed it right, We didn't really
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: talk about it, and all of a sudden, like like
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: a week before that game or so, she pulls out
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: all this stuff and I'm like, wow, okay, great, let's
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: let's say I'm all for that. I love I love
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: gadget plays, I love all that stuff. You know, I
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: always believe that that stuff can work because it does. It.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: It worked, You've seen it, people use it. But you
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: have to be able to show that you can work.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: And it did. It worked really well for us. If
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: you looked at that playoff game against Saint Louis, we
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: just really they just didn't have any answer for what
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: we were able to do. And they were a very
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: good football team. They were two time defending WFA champions,
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: and we just really just put them back in their
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: spot and it was a really really resounding win for us.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: And when we won that game. I knew going to
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: Salt Lake would be tough. They're a very good football team.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: You know, they had won the D two championship the
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: year before. Anytime you win the D two championship, you
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: go up to the pro level, and I knew it
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: was gonna be tough. But I knew when we won
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: that game, I thought, Okay, here's our shot. I think
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: we have a shot here. And so you know, from
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: that on that I think it was it was a
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: good possibility, absolutely, and you know that brings us right
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: up to the championship game, Pittsburgh Passion.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: You know, I just before we hit the air tonight,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: I was watching highlights of that game. Again, I watched
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: the game a little bit when it was actually on,
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: was on ESPN two. And again that's really why I
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: wanted to reach out to you, coach, because I was
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: again just blown away, not only by the team's performance.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, this was professional football, the play calling, the execution.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: As I pull up a couple names here that jumped out,
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: in particular, we're running back my namesake, tiff right, the
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: quarterback Aaron Kelly, who I mean, great arm, phenomenal, and
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: obviously many more names you know, we could be here
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: all night talking about the entire team, but you know,
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: I mean it was just the massacre that was put
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: on Pittsburgh, and Pittsburgh obviously a very good team. They
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: just had no answers for what you guys were doing.
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: You know, our coaches all year, we have done an
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: amazing job as a staff to game plan. We go
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: through so much film, and our players buy in to
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: go through film. You know, you can you have to
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: be able to understand what to look for in film.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: You can't just watch film, right, You have to understand
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: what you're looking for in film and what you're trying
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: to understand about film. And our players really understand what
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: to look for in film, which is great, and they
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: understand what, you know, what they're looking for when we
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: look at opponents to scout. But we all bought into
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: that and we looked at so much film from Pittsburgh.
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: We have a ton of respect for them. I mean,
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: first of all, you know they I had watched them
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: when they had won the IDBFL championship a few years
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: oh gosh, six or seven, eight years back when they
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: had won, and I was super impressed with them then.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: And that's when they had frank O Harris, the late
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: frank O Harris was there, was their owner co owner,
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: and yeah, see he was involved with them, and he
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: actually went to a practice and was like, wow, this
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: is fantastic. He just fell in love with it and
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: he has been had been supporting them up until unfortunately
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: is untimely passing a lot. I think it was last year. Yeah,
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: he was a great namestay for them and a great
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: inspiration and owner for them for many years. So we
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: knew that that organization with that type of a backing
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: was definitely gonna be no joke. But we did a
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: lot of We did a lot of scouting for them,
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: and we took them very very seriously. And then Terasa
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: Cone and their coaching staff is really a great coaching staff.
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: But you know, our players just came to play. And
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: I will never ever say this, but I was amazed
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: how easy it was. And I'll never say that, but
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: it was super I was expecting, like second quarter, like Okay,
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: now they're gonna rise up, Now they're gonna now they're
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: gonna say, wait a minute, weren't this game too, and
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: they're gonna fight back, and you know, but it just
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: never happened because we just didn't allow it. We just
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: didn't We just didn't allow it to happen.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. I mean, you know, they got a couple of
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: touchdowns later in the game, but I mean, you know,
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: forty two to fourteen, I mean, it was just phenomenal.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: And again that's why I was just sucked into it too,
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: because that was honestly, Coach, that was the first time,
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: like you know, I've interacted with you on Twitter, but
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: that was really the first time I sat down and watched,
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: you know, and all of a sudden, within literally five minutes,
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: you had another fan. But like I said, great quality football.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: And that's the point that I want to try and
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: get out for people because I want people to show
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: up at the stadium. I'm definitely gonna be out there
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: next season doing whatever I can to help support and
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: promote you guys. But folks, I'm telling you, you know,
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: then we got YouTube and everything. That's what we have nowadays.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: Take a look at the Minnesota Vixon, You're you're gonna
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: be very impressed by what you see.
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: Well, you know, you're exactly right, Vince. You know, it's
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: really says offense, offense wins games, but defense wins championships.
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: Our defense put an exclamation point on that game. I mean,
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: our defense just totally came out, and especially in that
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: first drive, it was like, Yep, there you go, We're
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: gonna start it off, and they did and it was
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: just so so flipped and wonderful because I mean, they
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: just set the tone and they've been tonesetters the entire season,
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: so that was really really fun to watch and they
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: really did it and they are are off. Our defensive
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: coordinator Tim Tim Cornish just did a fantastic job and
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: he just he deserves all the credit.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: He really does absolutely. All right, folks, as we wind
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: it up here with coach Michelle Bron, first off, thank you.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: We you know, I told you about fifteen twenty minutes
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: we're going on and a half an hour, but I
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: kind of anticipated that because once you get talking and stuff,
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: and I've really enjoyed our conversation tonight. Coach, let me
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: ask you this, when people think women's football Minnesota vixen.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: Let me just turn it over to you, because I've
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: been chatting here and blowing the horn here, but you know,
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: when people, you know, find out what you do and go, oh,
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Minnesota vixen.
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: What's that?
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: What do you tell them? What do you do to
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: try and get them entice and interested? You know, if
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: they've never heard of women's football, women's tackle football in particular,
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: or the Minnesota Vixen.
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: Well I basically tell them, Nick, where have you been?
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: Because we've been around for twenty seven years, you know,
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: the vics that have been around for twenty seven years.
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: We bring a great product to women's soccer football out
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: for people to enjoy, for people to see. It's full contact,
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: eleven on eleven. You know, we we have what's cool
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: about ours is that unfortunately, well it's not cool necessarily,
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: but it's pay to play. You know. We have women
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: that are mothers full time.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: We've had people that have been doctors, lawyers, teachers, police officers, firefighters,
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: everybody under the sun. And we've had we've had people
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: that have had four or five children and bring their
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: kids to games and practices, you know, and and they
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: come out, but they have such a passion for this sport,
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: which is which is the coolest thing. And if you've
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: ever had a passion for something and then you finally
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: get told that hey you can do this and you
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: can play this, You're going to want to do it,
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: and it doesn't matter what the cost of it. Once
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: you fall in love with something, you're gonna really want
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: to do it. My hope someday is that we'll get backing,
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: like you know, we just found out, you know, we've
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: got I think it's the Minnesota Forage is our new
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: volleyball team. Owner Craig Leopold from the Wild is backing
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: the Minnesota Forage, which is the new volleyball team. I'm
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: hoping that that. You know, I would love it if
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: the Wolfs could say, hey, we you know, we'd love
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: to back you guys, and we'd love to have you
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: play at TCO. I mean, I'd love to be there.
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: It'd be fantastic, you know. But you know, you hope
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: and pray, and like I said, I hoped and prayed
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: for twenty seven years we've been a championship and then happened.
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: But hey, you know, it'll maybe happen.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: I can also exactly because you know the women, you know,
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: they pay their own expenses, you know, to get to
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: games on the road. Do you guys act to do
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: the players get any type of stipend, any type of money.
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: It's it's really hard. We tried to get we try
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: to get player sponsorships.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: And where I was going next, I saw that on
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: the website.
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we try to get player sponsorships. Pay players can work.
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: We work security shifts to help with player fees and
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: things like that. The players have a player fee, so
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: I mean there are things that the players can do.
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: We we're going to be at the State Fair. So
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: we're gonna have a move at fan Central at the
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: State Fair down on dan Patch Avenue. And so if
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: you are going to come to the State Fair, you
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: can come say hi to a bunch of Vixen players.
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: We're gonna be there for the entirety of the State Fair.
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: We've been there if we've been there for I think,
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: god since two thousand and five, I think we've been
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: at the State Fair. So yeah, we'll be there, and yeah,
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: it's always been a lot of fun. But yeah, players,
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: you know, anybody can do the Adopt to Vixen on
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: our website. Anybody can sponsor a Vixen player or coach.
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: Anybody can talk to Laura and James Brown or owners
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: and say, hey, gosh, I'd love to get involved in this.
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: I'd love to help out. I'd love to help sponsor
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: you guys. You know, we've we've had some really great
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: answers over the seat over the years that have helped
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: our season, which has been really helpful. So yeah, anything
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: and everything that helps us helps this team immensally and
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: helps keeps it going. So we're very.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: Grateful for that. Awesome. Well, I'm gonna do my part.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: I've enjoyed our time tonight, and we're just getting started
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: because you know, I'm gonna be at games, I'm gonna
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: you know, reach out for press passes and I'm going
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: to be covering you guys a lot more next year.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: And again, Coach Michelle, thank you so much for joining
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: us tonight. I really appreciate you taking the time and
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: enlightening the audience about the Minnesota Vicent.
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: Well, Vince, I know I'm going to be in quite
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: a lot of more contact with you over the fall
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: and we're going to talk the vikings and go for football.
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: So we're gonna have a great time this fall, and
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: I totally appreciate you giving us a voice and a
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: platform for doing this. I really appreciate it. Thank you
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: so much.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: Absolutely anytime, coach, thank you, yep, thanks a lot. All right,
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: there you have a coach Michelle bron bravo, A lot
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: of fun to chat with her, the education that I
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: got and excited to cover this team next year and
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: also to keep an eye on her over at Augsburg
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: and the Miyak as well. So thank you the Minnesota Vicksen,
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: champions of the WFA. And there was no doubt in
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: that game. No doubt. I mean they were up. They
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: had thirty five points at halftime if I remember correctly,
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: all Minnesota Vixen in that game, and they came to play.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: So congratulations to them again. And actually I'm getting a
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: quick score update here because the Minnesota Twins are in
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: the Field of Dreams game tonight with the Philadelphia Phillies.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: Twins on the verge and fighting for the last wildcard
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: spot over in American League. With a sixty and sixty
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: two record, they're taking on the Phillies Philadelphia as a
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: record of sixty four and fifty eight, bottom of the eighth.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: All Phillies tonight, by the way, seven to one, big
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: three run inning that I was watching a little bit ago.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: But yeah, all Phillies tonight, at least so far. But
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: what do you think about the field, the Dreams game.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: You know, first time I did it? Cool, Now they're
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: doing it every year? Is it kind of even? You
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: know with the Twins in the second year here, A
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: few people are like, Eh, I don't know, but it
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: is what it is. And the Twins are not looking
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: good tonight, but who knows, maybe a late evening rally.
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: All right, So with that being said, I'm gonna get
• 46:39
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• 46:41
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• 46:44
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• 46:49
  Speaker 2: I am gonna go have myself a little. I think
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: I'll do a little bourbon tonight, have a little sipper.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: I don't know what that's gonna be, but yeah, I
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: think that's the Sports Gov's going to go with. Thank
• 47:02
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• 47:05
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• 47:09
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