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The NFL's Popularity by the Numbers · Sports Exchange

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Good even everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Sports Exchange. My
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name is Scott Morgan Roth Mortor City man Mouth. Had a great show prior
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to this was a pundents fundent and we'll get and I'll let Jacob get to
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the highlighting it in just a moment. But joining me tonight, jb Ellis,
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we've been busy, Tony haven't in the boxing world, right, jb
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us said, sports is all over the place. We gotta go with the
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action, is we sure do? And the man has been busy with me
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all week and smoking Jeremy be and I'll be smoking a little bit in a
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lot of ways today. No, boy, you got the best answer you
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can give me. Oh my goodness. I wait, I've been on fighting
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all week. I don't know what you're talking about. If you ain't been
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smoked in there, your head ain't been on fire yet, I don't know
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what I gotta do. Well, don't get me on the smoking part,
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because I'll make mention of that a little bit later in ways that we all
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want to know about, all right, all right? Yeah? And uh
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also Jacob Christeners, Jacob, why don't you get everybody to quick over your
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pundans pund in before we get going here. Oh, we had great show.
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We were talking about the Kentucky Derby, the horses that died, four
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of them that died before the derby and the two of them afterwards. We
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talked about that and then what in this era how much that means? And
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then we talked about the narratives of news like certain the six year old died
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that nobody knows about, Sir Antonio Brown, the cot that died in Jordan
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Neely and all that in the narratives that they'll bring that we talked about.
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Then we talked about the meat heads we call the meathead chronicles, the people
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that destroy their own property to the story own property to you know, basically
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to get clicks, and the immaturity of the man. Yeah, we have
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a pretty loaded show, as we always do upon this money while on a
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business here at the Sports Change. But first of all, we're going to
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talk about Super Bowl fifty seven and I'll tell you when you talk about the
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viewership for this one. This breaks the record that Nielsen released a revised number
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of one hundred and fifty is it one hundred and fifteen point one million of
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Fox Sports broadcasts of the Kcchiefs thirty eight thirty five win over the Philadelphia Eagles
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in February. The previous record was the twenty fifteen game between New England and
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Seattle one hundred fourteen th four hundred and forty two views, not including streaming.
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So as I talk about the subject, I want to give everybody an
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overview of what the show is. A couple of NFL topics. We'll talk
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about some NHL, we'll talk about some NBA, and of course the sports
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tund of the week. So what that said, We'll start with j B.
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All right, pretty impressive number for viewing for the Super Bowl, isn't
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it. It's the Super Bowl. I expect nothing less. The fact that
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there's not two hundred million or three hundred doesn't make uch sense to me.
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It's worldwide. I don't know what numbers Nielsen is looking at as a just
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state side. Are they count and streaming numbers? So to me, listen,
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I expect ninety nine percent of everyone that I know, whether they're a
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sports fan or not, of watching the Super Bowl. So the Nielson numbers
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don't matter to me. Hey, Jeremy, I said it before the Super
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Bowl will always be the biggest draw number. The number one reason is they
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say it's for the average fan, but the nosebleeds cost fifteen hundred dollars a
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piece. That isn't the average fan in the NFL. The average fan in
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the NFL is guys like me and other guys that like to go to get
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a fifty dollars seat to see a regular season football game. We can't afford
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that. It would take a month of salary for the average medium income in
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America to get that. Okay, with that said, read Will Vogals comments.
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Two high powered offense is two good defense is more so? First time
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two African American qbs playing in the Super Bowl against each other. Yeah,
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I mean that's nice, but you look at what's at the super Bowl.
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It's like the who's who of fans. It isn't your average guys. It's
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all those guys that can afford the season tickets. It's all those guys that
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can afford to be there, and a lot of them have PSL licenses for
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that. It's not it's not even a foot it's not about the football.
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It's a show. We're watching it for the football. The most people are
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watching it for the show, you know, the commercials, the halftime show,
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the pomp and circumstance, the national anthem, you know, all that
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stuff is why people watch the Super Bowl. You know. For me,
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if you want to talk about numbers, let's talk about the championship games.
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What did they get? That's how you can have a true idea of how
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the NFL is doing. I mean, granted, one hundred and fifteen billion
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or whatever it is that that's phenomenal, But like I said that, there's
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so much that goes into it. It's not just about the NFL. The
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NFL just puts on the greatest show and party that you know, happens to
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air a Sunday of February every year. Yeah, and I'll go on.
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Will's comments are briefly, these two teams and invest two teams all year.
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Thankfully they met in a super Bowl. But belt we'll leave it at that,
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Okay, Jacob, go ahead. Well I'm with JV on this.
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I don't think it is one hundred and thirteen million. That sounds really low
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considering that you get people that aren't sports fans. And I'll watch for the
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ads, I mean, just right in and there you get. You got
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it. Around the world. I don't think it's just America. I think
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you get you got around the world. Just I could see there's eight billion
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in this world, in the whole world up to eight billion. I could
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see it being a billion, hitting a billion. As far as overall now,
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is that to me? Nielsen ratings are so outdated to begin with,
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but really overall though, the super well, that's what's keeping the terrestrial televisional
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life, you know, by itself, without the streaming, without everything,
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you get a you're not You're for the longest time at least, we're not
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going to see you a streaming thing going with the Super Bowl, unless by
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it goes with like the CBS streaming or anything like that. You're not going
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to see that. Thing. You're still gonna see, Okay, is an
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NBC. You's gonna get the super Bowl this year is Fox, and you're
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still gonna see that. It's like, it's not like WrestleMania, which will
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be completely which is completely streaming. Now. This isn't like like or just
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set a pay per view. This isn't like that anymore. It's still going
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to be a network and those type of things they will be with a few
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two three, four other other big shows and big deals will be the ones.
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Those are the ones that are keeping the regular networks alive for that stuff.
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The minute that a Super Bowl goes streaming, the networks are legitimately gone
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for good. Yeah. I don't dare to say about the whole thing I've
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covered for super Bowl games, been a part of seven. But the four
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games what I want to talk about here. You know, you talk about
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the halftime show if you're working this game. I use the longer halftime to
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interact with my colleagues and you know, drinking, a popping all that.
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So I had to admit, while I didn't really care about the halftime show,
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I needed a twenty twenty five minute break from the game because there's so
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much intensity that's going through your mind. You want to talk about the ultimate
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adrenaline rush. Covering a game in person was so much on the line,
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knowing that you're part of it, just to the ability to cover an event
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of that magnitude. You're not thinking about the halftime show and all the drama
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that goes with it. You're thinking about the fact that what you've done is
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it from six in the morning until two in the morning. You're pretty busy
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from start to finish, and that's a long day, but it's certainly one
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you always want to reminisce and think about. And I've been and I'm glad
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that I had the opportunity to cover four games, let alone be a part
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of seven. So all right, we'll go on to the next topic,
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because the title of the show is actually the NFL's popularity by the numbers.
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Okay, but you know what we're gonna go. Candy's got something that we
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want to talk about, Okay, and that's a telecast ran from six forty
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five Eastern Time to ten fourteen Eastern Time in average one hundred and twelve point
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two million viewers on Fox. In an additional eight hundred and eighty two thousand
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watch the Spanish broadcast on Fox supports Think Candy. All right, so now
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let's talk about the NFL Draft that recently concluded out in Kansas City. And
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over fifty four million fans watch the NFL Draft over the days, and a
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total of three hundred and twelve thousand fans attended the NFL Draft in Kansas City.
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You want to talk about another big party here, it is Jbllis.
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What do you think about what we saw with the NFL Draft, which,
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by the way, next year will be in Detroit and I'm hoping to get
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to it. The NFL knows exactly what it's doing. The NFL creates a
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party atmosphere. The NFL make sure the fans are evolved. You know,
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everything is all about getting people involved. The cob By they fill Lucas Oil
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Stadium with fads. The super Bowl they have a week beforehead of festivities.
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The Draft. They have a party that goes on for three days. There's
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concerts, there's everything, and then you talk about our TV. You know,
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this is why the NFL does so well. The other sports are dot
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number one because they just don't know how to market the marketing, and the
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NFL is by far the best marketing and sports there. Nothing compares to it.
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Very true, all right, Jeremy, Well, the Draft is basically
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an extension of the Super Bowl because it's just taking all the best college talent
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and throwing it on all the NFL teams in hopes that the bad teams improve
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the good. The medium teams either get a little better, sometimes they reach
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and get a little worse, and then the top teams usually stay right around
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where they're at. There's always four teams that drop out of the top every
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year. Who's it going to be this year? All right? Find out
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Jacob Well to bring up with Jab was saying, the NFL is phenomenal.
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Acts is the entertainment value at the marketing And remember this, we remembered this
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part about about it. It's like and you saw it this morning, Jab
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when we were talking about we're all talking together, we were all talking together.
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I brought this up to John Shearer. I said, Miami is fast
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becoming a musty TV. They're fast become must see as far as the the
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as far as what their offense is their entertainment value And do I get on
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the Justin Fields with the Shiyo Bears fans, Absolutely, but he is musty
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TV entertainment value. He is well levin losses in a row. Notwithstanding you
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couldn't do that with the Trevor Simeon. That's why they still That's why they're
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gonna have those, That's why they're gonna have the Bears games, even with
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that part right there. That's the thing is they're all looking for that.
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And the same thing goes with the draft. Everybody is seventeen and oh for
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a moment when you get to the draft. Oh we're saved. Now we're
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saved. That's the entertainment value of it all, even if it is even
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if it is meat had fans in certain weights, But when you have that
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kind of the aspect and then you find and get a team that becomes very
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entertaining, very fast. Kansas City is Miami, is you know any of
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those type of teams. Philadelphia obviously is. It's not just winning. It
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isn't just winning. Winning works as far as getting in there, but getting
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on television. They need to be musty TV. No one in the NFL,
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especially in the front offices, wants a boring winner. Well, let
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me bring up a couple instances. Okay, as you guys know by now,
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I've covered the draft for the Lions and Miami Dolphins and Jacksonville Jaguars at
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their facilities. Pretty neat when you're able to be able to talk to the
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coaches and the executives. But I remember a long time ago when ESPN had
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it, when you know, they didn't have the fan faireness. JV said,
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you know, the marketing is pretty high. I remember watching Chris Burman
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Bob Lee, mel Typer and this was on for hours and hours and hours,
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and now it's spread out over three days, so which is unbelievable.
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That's point number one. Now when you also think about the NFL Draft,
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my first Super Bowl, I had an opportunity to cover the NFL Hall of
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Fame selection process and that was a good event. And now that's turned into
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that old awards thing prior to the Super Bowl. So yeah, there's no
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question that the events have changed. One of my favorite events always was going
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to the Commissioner's press conference because that was really the meat of what we were
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trying to do, and that's come up with some interesting content. We'll go
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to another one of the wild Vogel's comments very quickly, and then we'll go
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on to our next topic. All right, Jeremy read it. I agree
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marketing in the nf fella's best because look at you've got games in London,
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Mexico City, Germany, and also has international appeal as well as of course
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United States. Right now, the only I'll say against that well is Mexico
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City not getting a game this year because the Asteca Stadium is being remodeled.
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They should be getting another one. Next year. But yeah, we all
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what the point of what Will is saying is there's no question that it's growing
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internationally and that's a very positive step for the NFL. So what that said,
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We're gonna go to our sports town of the Week, okay, and
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it focuses on Boston. And get this, when you talk about the history
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of Boston, you have the Celtics, seventeen NBA titles, Boston Bruins and
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Original sixteen, and they've had their fair share titles the Red Sox and the
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New England Patriots. Now recently, the Celtics lost the seventy six Ers last
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night and trail there a series three to two. We've talked about the colossal
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collapse of the Boston Bruins City Florida Panthers. So JB wanted ten. Where
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do you rank Boston? Boston's a ted They do everything. Great baseball stadium,
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they always seem to put a decent team on the field. Basketball,
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The Celtics the winningest team in NBA history. I mean, when you think
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of the NBA in my generation, do you think Lakers Celtics right away?
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That's the first thing you think of as far as two teams playing hockey.
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The Bruins are always a good team. Uh, you know, one of
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the original teams out there. You know, so really, when you think
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Boston and their fans are so rabid they love their product, you know,
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I can't say anything else but a ted what about you, Jeremy, I
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have to agree. Then you got to throw in the Red Sox and their
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fans because they were awful forever and those fans stayed loyal. Okay, all
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right, Jacob twenty for get the one in tennis twenty they are and growing
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up as a Celtics fan, Bird fan growing up that you'd see that Boston
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Guarden. You didn't see a seat in that dang place. You didn't see
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a seat in that day. But you didn't see an empty seat in that
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dang place. In the preseasons when they would play the six or six times
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a year, you didn't see anything like that. They are crazy. The
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Red Sox, all of those teams and all the heart rights of the Yankees
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did not give up, did not give up whatsoever. And then the Bruins
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aren't original six and they and I mean Bobby Orris forever there so they I
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mean every which way but loose it's Boston. Boston's I'm gonna din me with
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Zoe. Ten. That's too low, it's twenty. That's okay, I'll
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go. Will says ten. I say ten. But I'll tell you what
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I have seen a game at the Boston Garden. Albeit I tore my ankle
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skiing on Magic Mountain on Christmas Day and I was hobbling at the Boston Garden.
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And you want to talk about the most imma unbelievable, intimidating play shit,
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you can play. Boston Garden ranks up there and Fenway Parks a bucket
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list item for me to get to Larry Bird. What can I say?
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I compliment this guy all day long. And Bob yor if you're an old
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time hockey fan, he definitely he pandomizes what he is. But yeah,
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Boston's clear cut ten. You know, we've talked about different sports sounds.
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They win and their fans are what they are, and their history as a
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sports sound dating back seventy five hundred years across the board, with the Patriots
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being the latest of the four, you know, the youngest of the four.
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It's hard to imagine the Patriots being that, but they are, and
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they actually originated as a Boston Patriots, So you know, yeah, no,
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I guess so the Boston Celtics, they just better hope that they can
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find a way to come back in this series against the Philadelphia seventy six is
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there. It's going to be a very long summer for two teams that were
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expected to go pretty deep. So they will yeah, well, okay,
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I mean, you know, it's the best of seven and as far as
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Philadelphia is concerned, it won't go less than seven and they're hoping to close
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it in six. All right, let's go to our NHL topic of the
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night. The New York Rangers fired head coach Girard Gallant. He apparently got
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into a shotting match after the game with GM Chris Drury. So you know,
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when I think of Girard Gallant, I tend to think of Billy Martin,
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Okay, because you know when he's Billy and Martin one, but his
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tended you're a short lived. But that said, JB, what your thoughts
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about the firing of Girard Gallant with New York Rangers. Listen, you can't
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go and yell at the GM. If you're a coach, you can't do
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that. It's simple, you know. Do I agree he should have been
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fired? Probably not. But you know you can't go and do that.
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You gotta you gotta try and have some sort of maturity, you know,
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yelling private, yell at your friend and get it off your chest before you
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do something like that. But not everyone can do things like that. And
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it's a shame Joe because everywhere he goes he wins. But problem is not
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there very long. So all right, Jeremy, well you what was the
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question? I'm sorry? Oh that's all right, No, Big Dale will
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go over it again. New York Rangers firing head coach er Our Gallant and
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he apparently got into shouting man chafter Game four with GM. Chris Drury.
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Well, you know, you can't get into fight with a GM. What
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doesn't matter what coach you are. You could be a GM's best friend.
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You get in a fight where it's heard about and it gets out, its
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sally to your circle, you're gonna be done. Okay, what about you,
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Jacob, This isn't the air, This isn't that air anymore. This
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isn't see Jardlant And take a look. He doesn't he doesn't exactly look young
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He's from an era where they probably did that. They had more power.
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Coaches used to have that power. Remember we have Bob Knight, who basically
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ran over every every Indiana president there ever was in life, and even randold
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Miles Rand a little bit until the whole situation. You know, he got
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his way. Coaches don't get that anymore. They don't get that kind of
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power. I mean, you got to realize Amy Adoca over in Boston.
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Amiadoca, he basically got to a final. He gets to the finals,
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he gets that, that was it. He is the man. He's getting
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ready for the next year. And basically in what they called the inappropriate relationship,
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which was basically conceptual between two people, lost it and that was just
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on. Could you imagine if it wasn't consensual, what would have happened.
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I mean, he wouldn't be having this chance in Houston. Now, that's
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the thing. Coaches don't have the same power anymore. So you can't be
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yelling at the GM. Gerard Gahant is Girard Gallant by itself. In truth,
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he's one everywhere he's gone, but at his age and with everything you
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see, he's probably it for him. They don't want to deal with a
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say about Gerard Galant is he's won everywhere he's gone, and you know there's
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going to be a team that you know the general manager will give him a
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little bit cut him a little bit more slack, and I wouldn't be surprised
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if he lands very quickly at a place I've heard him possibly going will be
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the Calgary Flames. When you're an organization like that and you're struggling to win
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year in and year out, somehow, some way, I do believe that
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Gerard Galand's got to land somewhere in a much more you know, who knows.
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He could end up in Canada or some team desperate to win and win
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badly, despite the fact that he does bring a little bit of baggage to
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the table. But I will say that he this year's centuries version of Billy
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Martin. You win, you deal with a lot early. Unfortunately you have
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to let them go. Final topic of the night before we go to partying
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shots. Also following the Sports Exchange, we have confidential I'll be there with
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Jacob Christner. Jb Ellis so looking forward to joining that show after we get
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done here on the Sports Exchange. Now, the Miami Heat are fourteen to
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o when leading a series three to one. The Knicks are oh and fourteen
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when trailing a series three to one. Jb Ellis would gives, so Miami's
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gonna win the series. The Knicks are still although they had another year,
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which is great for the Knicks are still rebuilding. This isn't a big deal.
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I mean, I would have liked to see them win their home games,
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which is what you need to do with the NBA, and of course
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they would have won the series for three. Have that been the case,
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but they're still rebuilding that team. They were in a much better shape than
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they were a few years ago. They have a nice core guys. There,
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they be some good moves. Listen, They're going to lose the series.
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Miami more power two of them. They were at a seventh seed to
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begin the playoffs. They just dand injuries throughout the year and they didn't play
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well. But Miami's a really good team. I wouldn't hold my head down
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if I'm the Knicks, you know. I think that they have something special
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that they're trying to build, which it's been years since they've had. I
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see good things in the future for them. Miami will is losing tonight,
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so the Knicks and blowing them out tonight. So there'll be a Game six
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in Miambi, which we'll end the series. I mean, I can tell
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you Eric Spolser is the most underrated coach in basketball. And Jimmy Butler's a
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guy I'd love to him on my team all day long, all right,
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Jeremy Oh, I fully expect that Miami will win the series because, in
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all actuality, that is a built team that keeps plugging in a player here
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and there to keep them relevant. Whereas the Knicks, they are still one
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or two pieces away. I think they're one player off the bench and one
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in the starting rotation away from being that powerhouse that they want to be.
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Yes, they had a better year, but they're still missing something. Okay,
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Denzel Snive's update Miami New York eighty four in Miami seventy four in the
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fourth quarter. So thank you very much for the update. All right,
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Jacob, what's your take on the Miami eight? Theyll stole my thunder.
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I was about to say that, but no, here's the thing about the
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NBA. It's like the New York's gonna lose this series. They're going Miami's
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just too good. But every time there is a powerhouse NBA or it's coming
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around, it is Chicago being good, New York being good, Boston being
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good, Philadelphia being good. I'll forget Detroit either. Troit. Yeah,
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well, let's see Detroit. I can't wait till Detroit gets there too,
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so that really, you know what I'm saying. I can't wait till they
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finally figured out what Detroit because they needed too that. You know, the
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city needs it more than anything. But I'm just talking I'm bringing up just
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the names that we've known in our past, all of those Los Angeles being
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good, we'll say Detroit, but Los Angeles being good, those names,
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it's like, guess what it's not. I mean, as much as we
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love for Papavige, it's not San Antonio, it's not Toronto. It's like,
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that's not a strong NBA. That's just you know they're there, But
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those names, Detroit's the same, all of those. You need a powerhouse.
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New York's gonna lose this series, but they need to stay good because
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the NBA. It big for the NBA, because because New York fans are
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just like when we were talking about with Boston fans, they get riled and
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then they come to these games and they want the Knicks to be good.
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Well, I just hope that James Dolan isn't dumb enough to let Tom Thibodeau
24:37
go, because I think he's the best thing they've had in New York and
24:41
along I really do. I think Tom Thibodeau has a great track record,
24:45
winning everywhere, and he's one of those guys that actually believes in defense,
24:48
and of the league doesn't believe in defense. So James Dolan, leave Tom
24:55
Thibodeau alone. The initi will be fine and you're actually have something worth selling
25:00
for a change. You know, Tom Thibodeau here. Tom Tibodeaux can actually
25:04
make James Dolan look good, So don't screw it up. All right,
25:08
Well, we do have time for parting shots. Everything is rolling along really
25:11
smoothly air. But that said, j b ellis go for it. So
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if you look on the Sideline Sports Instagram today, if you store my Twitter
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last night watching the Lakers game, the Lakers are the island of misfit toys.
25:29
You know, you have Lebron James, who's just the greatest thirty eight
25:32
year old basketball player in the world and probably ever. You have Anthony Davis,
25:37
who's one of the top five players in the world, who's a second
25:41
away from getting the weirdest injury you've ever seen, and a bunch of guys
25:47
that aren't the right fit for that team to make them win. With those
25:51
two guys in the starting lineup, they are not a sevent seed. The
25:57
fact that they got a sevent seed is the gusting When you have one of
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the top five players and the best thirty eight year old who would probably be
26:06
top fifteen and still an All Star if he was twenty four twenty five years
26:10
old. So you know, to me, I watched the Lake to watch
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the Laker game the other night against the Warriors, and that doesn't mean that
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they're a bad team, because a lot of people said, oh that,
26:19
what do you You don't think the Lakers are good? No, I don't
26:22
think that they're bad. They beat the Warriors the other night. Both teams
26:26
were awful. But you know, it's it's the land of misfit toys.
26:30
It's it's that island. You know, get the right guys around Lebron in
26:33
a d and you're a one or two seat easy and you're win a championship
26:37
year after year. So they got to figure that situation out because you got
26:41
maybe one or two years left to Lebron before he's gone. And he's still
26:45
playing at a high enough level that he'd be an All Star at twenty four
26:48
years old, and he's doing with us at thirty eight. Thank you very
26:52
much on the kind of words, but days so we appreciate it. I
26:56
should also point out that when we talk about Lebron James that his son Ronnie
27:02
committed to USC so I don't know why I have a weird feeling about this,
27:06
but Ronnie will play there probably one or two years, right until Lebron's
27:12
contract is up, and then I wouldn't be surprised to see Lebron James pulled
27:17
a Gordon Haltrik joining his son. Wherever it may be, it seems like
27:22
it has that feel to it. All right, Jeremy, go ahead.
27:29
I don't really have a parting shot tonight. I mean I don't know.
27:33
That's okay, no problem, all right, go ahead and Jacob. All
27:38
right, fans, this is another fan saying this isn't on the bear sisted
27:42
by itself. Steve, I brought this up with you know, when it
27:47
came to destroying your your property and all that stuff. But there's another issue
27:52
you have you haven't. There's a problem with an immaturity that you think you
27:56
can do what you can't. There's an issue. And I saw somebody.
28:00
There was the guy that said he would on and I'll say the name,
28:03
Clay Harber said he was six four, two hundred and fifty. You guys
28:07
met him. I think you guys met him at the interviewed him. I
28:11
interviewed him. But he said he's six four two, but he said he
28:15
could beat up a he said. He said on there he could beat a
28:18
one hundred and thirty pound professional fighter, he said. And it's like it's
28:22
like that's fan talk. They're professional for a reason. And this is the
28:29
issue I have with this issue I have. I mean, it's destroying your
28:33
stuff and everything. But this is what I was talking about, that we
28:36
are in trouble as men. It's like your immature, you don't understand what
28:40
you're talking about. I have been in a ring before. I lost both
28:45
fights. I know what that is like. It is not as easy as
28:48
you think. It is, like if it takes a mind to get it.
28:51
It takes a mindset to get in there. And it's like we gotta
28:55
quit same things like Lebron James can beat up Mike Tyson, that you can
28:57
beat this guy. I did this before as a kid with a tennis player.
29:02
Once I did this as someone got ten years ago. Didn't even know
29:07
what I was saying. And it's like we But I learned really really fast
29:10
though, And I did a tournament I did. I learned really fast in
29:12
a much lower tournament. And you learn fast that guess what professionals, but
29:18
they are and they're playing the guy who plays professionals. There, it's a
29:22
different level. And people that are online and they're on Twitter all the time
29:27
and blab bit off. They don't know what they're talking about, and it's
29:32
time they started learning. Well said, all right, well, I actually
29:37
have two, but kind of one and a half. And I'll tell you
29:41
what I mean by that. First of all, today the news came where
29:44
Mike Shashefsky has now been named a has gone in the NBA, and what
29:48
an executive consultant role to try to help assist the league out. You know,
29:52
the NBA's gonna need a whole lot more than Mike Shashevsky because the biggest
29:55
problem they have is lower management. I don't care if you rEFInd the collective
29:59
bargaining agreement to take up personal awards or any of that, it doesn't matter.
30:03
I mean, obviously I didn't think Mike Saschski was totally tired. He's
30:06
had past dealings with NBA players. Why not go ahead and be a part
30:10
of that league. Now, see what you can do to help it.
30:12
But the NBA has a lot of problems and until they're able to take the
30:15
drama out of what's going on. No, Mike Shashfski is gonna be able
30:18
to save face for a league that right now has a lot of regrouping to
30:23
do. But it doesn't hurt to have a Hall of Fame legendary ear to
30:27
go out there and provide a suggestion or two. Anyhow, Now, this
30:32
one's the next comment I have is very close to me, So listen very
30:36
closely, and I'm taking a deep breath over this one. Yeah, No,
30:42
fifth, I am okay, Jeremy. Fifty years ago tomorrow, my
30:48
grandpa Sidney Morgan Roth died of lung cancer fifty years and I only knew when
30:56
I was ten years old. At stinks, I mean when I have always
31:03
had an opportunity to hammer smoking cigarettes and JBI whatever you do, were war
31:10
smokers. It's not designed to single anybody out. I just want to point.
31:15
Of course, of course we know that, but this is of all
31:18
the losses that I've had in my life and my life, my grandpa Sidney
31:23
Morgan Row to me, is the biggest of them all, and I mean
31:29
the biggest died at the age of fifty five, and unfortunately, I wish
31:36
we had digital phones are probably would have gotten a few photos with the guy.
31:38
But ten years of age, and maybe one of these days i'll see
31:41
if my dad had any I don't know, I haven't looked at pictures,
31:45
and who knows how long. But you know, Grandpa said, I miss
31:48
you very much. But the legacy that he left with me for a couple
31:52
of things. That year when I played ball, my team, the Wildcats,
31:56
went twenty one in oz and won the city champion ship. And we
32:00
played that season for my grandpa's Sydney and it was unbelievable, and my dad
32:05
happened to be the manager of the team. Unbelievable. Now, the biggest
32:10
lesson that my grandfather taught me, although I don't know if he ever knew
32:14
he taught me, but he did as I never took on the habit of
32:20
smoking, never took on the habit of smoking when that habit killed my grandfather.
32:29
Okay, if that isn't the hardest lesson that you could ever learn,
32:34
tell me if there's another harder one. I don't know. I think of
32:37
all the fact that all the times I missed with my grandfather because of this
32:43
despicable disease cancer, and I had to deal with it at a younger age,
32:50
losing him my dad. What he did when my grandfather died as he
32:52
took his pack of cigarettes and flushed it down the toilet. And you talk
32:58
about quitting cold turkey, Yeah he did. So what I want to do
33:02
tonight, okay, in front of three of my closest people, is I
33:07
want to dedicate this sports exchange to my Grandpa, Sydney Morgan Roth. I
33:13
know you rested in peace for fifty years. My grandmother's there and we have
33:15
an awful big group over at clover Hill Park Cemetery in Birmingham, Birmingham,
33:22
Michigan. No, not Birmingham, Alabama. I don't think we made it
33:24
down there. But no show where Birmingham is anyways, It's all over the
33:29
place. But Grandpa, I love you. I hope you're watching these shows
33:32
from heaven with the rest of our family, my grandma Sophie, my aunt
33:37
Judy, and a bunch of grandmothers. Of course, my mother's buried there
33:40
too, Mom, and of as you dealt with COPD, so anytime you're
33:45
dealing with cancer and smoking, that will always be a sensitive topic with me,
33:52
because when you lose somebody that you barely were getting to know way too
33:55
early. It stays. I don't care if I'm sixty years old. It's
34:01
in him when I was ten stings and I've had to deal with it.
34:05
But when you think about fifty years without your grandfather, you know, I
34:10
just wanted to bring that to the forefront that when you see a post on
34:14
Facebook tomorrow about me mentioning fifty years without my grandfather, I will definitely mention
34:20
that I never started smoking because it's iconic, unbelievable man that I never really
34:23
had an opportunity to get to know. But I was proud of the ten
34:27
years that we did experience together. So that's why I led with the NBA
34:30
a little bit, and I wanted to dedicate tonight's edition of The Sports Exchange
34:35
and my Grandpa's Sydney Morgan Rob Grandpa, I love you, I miss you
34:38
very much, and one day I'll see you, although not at clover Hill.
34:43
I already have my funeral arrangements in Milwaukee, so I'll have to take
34:47
the I'll have to take the sky from ninety four over the Barkingham, Michigan,
34:54
and he's taking a dirt nap. But I got a conquering NAP so
34:58
I may have a little different wrestling period, but what can I tell you,
35:02
It's just something that I really felt in my mind that I really feel
35:08
me I wanted to bring out and I'm glad that you guys were understanding of
35:14
the fact that when I say one and a half, the Sizewski thing was
35:19
half and my grandpa Sydney Morgan Roth was the one and Denzil I can't thank
35:23
you very much for the kind words that you put in the chat, because
35:27
you know what, this is just something that you know, we don't bring
35:30
enough of this stuff up, and it's important to go out there and make
35:35
sure that we're not afraid to talk about our pain at all. We really
35:38
are not afraid because our pain sometimes really, in my opinion, mountain dew
35:44
or not, can be our gain. Although I don't find anything gained about
35:47
this. It really really is difficult. But I'm just so happy to be
35:52
surrounded by a lot of great people that my grandpa Sydney would be proud that
35:54
I'm associated with both here at Sideline Sports and of course my wife Candy.
36:00
I'm laying here through the Southward Tribune as well as being my soul mate.
36:04
So those are my closing thoughts tonight, and I'm gonna let JB Ellis we
36:07
have confidential. We're actually making pretty good time tonight to get over there.
36:10
So you know, JB do all the talk about the things, and I
36:14
do want to mention something real quick. JB Ellis and I will be starting
36:16
in the next few weeks or so a show called The Celebrity and the Journalist.
36:22
And you know, JB, that's gonna be a whole lot of fun,
36:23
isn't it. Oh definitely. I can't wait. Yeah, I don't
36:28
wait either. This is a boxing match on the air waiting to happen.
36:31
So we'll just see whether they're old is better than young, Although I don't
36:37
know what are we twenty years apart? That doesn't matter. And the interesting
36:39
part about that entire show is, you know, my brother from another mother
36:44
here and I are gonna go at it in a lot of different ways.
36:46
But we'll release more details as time goes on. JB. Ellis. Let
36:52
everybody know how they could get a hold here. So JB underscore the program
36:55
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37:00
Scott did some great interviews the last couple of days with Star Boxing. They
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38:36
And I am also presented by Sideline Sports as well, and occasionally I'm
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on the Gauntlet with this guy that's too my right on here, Jacob Christner.
38:47
Nice, yeah, alright, get occasional appearances on there. According to
38:51
Denzil, so go ahead, Jacob, don't want to steal your thunder,
38:54
all right. I am now on now on substant I'm gonna be righting my
39:00
first thing real soon. I did Jake the Pundit. I am now on
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Patreon, Jake the Pundit. I am now on Twitch Jake the Pundit.
39:07
I'm gonna be adding my stuff on there very soon. Sunday Nights, the
39:12
Sunday Nights Basketbros. Monday Nights The Pundit Views, which we've which I've had
39:15
a couple of nice interviews lately, so it keeps building up. Tuesdays off
39:20
Wednesday nights, these three shows, third one Confidential coming up, and I
39:22
had the Pundits Pundit Thursday nights once and we're working there. I had t
39:28
J. Sanson my original from to Yin and Yang on Monday nights, so
39:31
we had a great interview there, so Yet and Yang. And usually Thursdays
39:36
when I'm called I had to get off the bench. I am on Gauntlet
39:39
on Fridays and then and then I'm actually working on scripts. They had got
39:44
a couple of movies in the nine so working on it all right. Well,
39:46
you know what, I got a pretty interesting coming in the chat room.
39:51
When is sports betting coming back to Florida? I don't know, stay
39:53
tuned. I can tell you though, Tommy, we do a guy that
39:58
does sports betting that you can see him on Monday nights a couple of times
40:00
a month, and during the NFL season it'll be on every week. So
40:04
thanks a lot, Tommy for asking. I don't, unfortunately don't have an
40:07
answer to that one. Otherwise, if we weren't happy to give it to
40:09
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40:14
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40:53
talk about an MVP, You're welcome, Tommy Trotter. Candy Ambling to me
40:58
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41:00
she has to and without her we would really be in trouble. And also
41:07
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now and then the Gauntlet if it doesn't interfere with Date Night. Yes,
41:24
I do have one once in a while. Okay. So you know everything
41:28
that we do here and thinking and I have that we're planning on working on.
41:34
So I hope everybody enjoys the partnership is though that we have with Sideline
41:37
Sports, and we have a lot of things that we're looking forward to in
41:40
the hopper. We've gotten a lot dumb, but we have a whole lot
41:44
more to do. And I'll tell you one thing on this show. I
41:46
never go out there and leave He's stolen on Turn Tommy, I'm glad you've
41:52
been watching the Gambling show. I have a feeling that with our buddy John
41:54
Ryan, he's certainly going to be somebody worth watching, right, Jeremy,
41:58
give Tommy Trotter's a little bit about what he's looking for when he gets John
42:00
Ryan. John Ryan is an excellent sports handicapper. He does a really good
42:06
job of explaining it plainly and clearly. He's not gonna promise you the moon,
42:12
but he is about sixty to seventy percent right. I believe that's what
42:15
he said. Anybody that says they're eighty percent right is lying, so that
42:21
his words. Yeah, that's how realistic John. I mean, he's a
42:27
really legitimate guy and I met him on Twitter. So with that said,
42:30
we hope you've enjoyed this edition of the Sports Exchange Fundent. Fundent preceded us
42:36
to Fidential will follow us, so, I mean half of j b Ellis
42:39
Smoking, Jeremy b Okay and Jacob Christener the pundit okay, who are giving
42:45
me some nice signals that we are time to wrap it up, which we
42:49
will. We want to thank you very much for joining us. We are
42:52
out and we will catch you the next time. Good Night, everybody,
43:14
all right, I will see you guys. The