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The Steelers worldwide connection · The Irish Steelers Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Irish airline aer Lingus will proudly serve as the presenting
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  Speaker 1: partner of Steelers Ireland twenty twenty five. Airlingus's growth in
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  Speaker 1: North America continues in twenty twenty five as the airline
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  Speaker 1: prepares to fly to two new US destinations, Nashville and Indianapolis,
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  Speaker 1: using its new Airbus eight three twenty one xl or aircraft.
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  Speaker 2: This brings the number.
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  Speaker 1: Of transatlantic routes operated by the airline from Dublin, Shannon
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  Speaker 1: and Manchester to twenty four. Steelers fans traveling to Ireland
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  Speaker 1: for the big game can enjoy a relaxing journey when
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  Speaker 1: they fly with air Lingus.
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  Speaker 2: Air Lingus, You're very welcome, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome into the Irish Series podcast. As we get to
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  Speaker 3: the end of the twenty twenty five preseason, getting closer
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  Speaker 3: to the regular season night last game coming up Virgin
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  Speaker 3: Media and Off the Ball this late Thursday night early
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  Speaker 3: Friday morning for the Steelers against the Panthers on the
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  Speaker 3: Irish Series podcast presented by Erlingis and Steelers Nation, It's
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  Speaker 3: time to take flight with Erlingus, an official airline partner
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  Speaker 3: of the Pittsburgh Steeters and the founding partner of Steelers Ireland.
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  Speaker 3: There's never been a better time to book your trip
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  Speaker 3: to Dublin with nineteen North American gateways, including flights from
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  Speaker 3: nearby Cleveland, get ready for war, my Irish hospitality, and
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  Speaker 3: plenty of room on board for your terrible title, whether
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  Speaker 3: it's game day or getaway. Erlingus looks forward to saying
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  Speaker 3: you're very welcome to the players and fans of the
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  Speaker 3: Pittsburgh Steters. You can book now at aerlingus dot com. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: final preseason game coming up. Delighted to welcome in a guy.
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  Speaker 3: Add the opportunity to meet in radio row at the
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  Speaker 3: Super Bowl and that historic week when they announced the
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  Speaker 3: Steelers are coming to Ireland for the first time. The
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  Speaker 3: voice of Los Steelers, Alvaro Martin, You're very very welcome.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, Mike, thank you for having me. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we were neighbors at the Super Bowl. Literally, when Michael
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  Speaker 4: would have to leave, we'd watch over his stuff and
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  Speaker 4: vice versa. So we were definitely looking out for each
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  Speaker 4: other then. And obviously you're the hardest working man in
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  Speaker 4: American football in Ireland, so I'm glad you could find
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  Speaker 4: just a few minutes for me and also should tell
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  Speaker 4: you that we're looking forward to traveling to Ireland on
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  Speaker 4: aer Lingus because the group that's going with the team
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  Speaker 4: where actually I live in New York City. I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to fly to Pittsburgh so then I can get on
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  Speaker 4: air Linga's flight to Dublin. So we're looking forward to
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  Speaker 4: that too.
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  Speaker 3: It feels like whenever we met that the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 3: was last month. Can you believe that we're sitting here
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  Speaker 3: two weeks out from the season. It's scary, but it's
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  Speaker 3: amazing in a good way.
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  Speaker 4: It is, but it's exciting. I've seen how I called
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  Speaker 4: the first regular season game ever played outside of the US.
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  Speaker 4: It was in Mexico, San Francisco forty nine ers Arizona Cardinals,
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  Speaker 4: and I remember the feeling of anybody and everybody in
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  Speaker 4: the stadium. The last people to be infected with that
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  Speaker 4: feeling were the actual players who then got into the field,
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  Speaker 4: looked around and realized what a historical moment that was
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  Speaker 4: and how powerful that was as a marker. And I think,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Dublin said some preseason games obviously, but that
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  Speaker 4: was almost a generation ago, and so this is going
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  Speaker 4: to be that kind of a moment. And I've been
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  Speaker 4: I've seen it already in Mexico City. I can't wait
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  Speaker 4: to see that phenomenon take place in Dublin with maybe
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  Speaker 4: even a kicker slipping in into the NFL, whether it's
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  Speaker 4: with Green Bay or not. That you begin to have
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  Speaker 4: national champions as well is another important marker as well.
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  Speaker 4: But you're seeing the beginning of something big and it's
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  Speaker 4: fun to watch.
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  Speaker 3: It's very fun as well. I guess if people are
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  Speaker 3: listening to this and you're an NFL fan, you obviously
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  Speaker 3: see the amount of things that go on around the
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  Speaker 3: world in different especially in Latin America as well. The
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  Speaker 3: Staters have got global market rights in Mexico from twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty one, thousands of Steeters fans in the market in Mexico.
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  Speaker 3: We'll talk about that in the week. Second, and for
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  Speaker 3: people in Europe listening, al Varro, talk to us a
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  Speaker 3: bit about your role, because you've been quite busy over
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  Speaker 3: the last few weeks and I could listen to work
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  Speaker 3: with the Staters.
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  Speaker 4: It is a lot of fun in terms of the
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  Speaker 4: Spanish realm, and we announced the games in Spanish. We
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  Speaker 4: happen to be now the more senior broadcast team at
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  Speaker 4: the Steelers because there's been some turnover. Unfortunately on the
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  Speaker 4: English side, we had Craig wolf Flear, a good friend,
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  Speaker 4: pass away between the seas, and so we're all very
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  Speaker 4: sad about that. But we have been broadcasting the Steelers
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  Speaker 4: have since way before global markets. So in other words,
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  Speaker 4: the Rooney family would dip into their pockets and spend
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  Speaker 4: a significant amount of money to make sure that a
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  Speaker 4: Steelers broadcast, in this case in Spanish, was available before
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  Speaker 4: you could monetize it. It became a significant investment. But
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  Speaker 4: that's how they felt about their fan base in Mexico.
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  Speaker 4: For those who are listening to us, let me just
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  Speaker 4: explain to you why the Steelers are so popular and
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  Speaker 4: football so popular in Mexico. Back in the sixties, the
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  Speaker 4: people that ran Mexican soccer were not too bright media wise,
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  Speaker 4: and they decided that every single game in their league
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  Speaker 4: would be played at noon their time, two hour blocks.
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  Speaker 4: There wasn't a staggering of games. So if you wanted
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  Speaker 4: to watch you know, football, meaning traditional football, you just
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  Speaker 4: had that window for two hours on Sunday. If you
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  Speaker 4: were a TV network that wanted to show sports, yet
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  Speaker 4: nothing to show after the postgame. So what they did
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  Speaker 4: is they started taking the afternoon games from the NFL.
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  Speaker 4: They became so popular because already college football is being
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  Speaker 4: shown on Saturdays in Mexico, that it just became a firestone.
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  Speaker 4: And that is around the time when Pittsburgh won four
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  Speaker 4: championships over six years. So everybody got into the Steelers bandwagon,
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  Speaker 4: to the point now where those initial fans have their
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  Speaker 4: grandkids become Steelers fans. Three generations now wearing the colors,
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  Speaker 4: going to games, visiting games, whether it's in Dublin or
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  Speaker 4: it's in Acrosure or anywhere else. In numbers significant numbers,
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  Speaker 4: hundreds in every game to see their beloved team. Just
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  Speaker 4: to give our listeners and viewers a bit of perspective,
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  Speaker 4: the population of Pittsburgh is about four hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 4: thousand people city limits. In Alleghany County, which encompasses many
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  Speaker 4: more cities, it's about one point two million. Well, Mexico
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  Speaker 4: City has more fans than Alleghany County has people, I
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  Speaker 4: mean Steelers fans. So the number one city in the
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  Speaker 4: world for Steelers fans is not Pittsburgh. Pittsfrom number two.
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  Speaker 4: It's Mexico City. And while I don't know the fact
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  Speaker 4: for sure, I would guess that Monterey, Mexico's number three
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  Speaker 4: on the list. Just to give you a perspective, if
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  Speaker 4: you put together all the Steelers fans in Mexico in
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  Speaker 4: the US, one out of three live in Mexico, it's
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  Speaker 4: an enormous group, probably one of the bigger fan bases
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  Speaker 4: of any team. Probably over between seven and eight million
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  Speaker 4: people avowed Stevers fans in a country where we rarely
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  Speaker 4: play a game, and we haven't played one in three decades,
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  Speaker 4: and so just for people to get their heads around,
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  Speaker 4: it was an accident that the Mexican Soccer Federation decided
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  Speaker 4: to put put all their games together in the sixties,
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  Speaker 4: opening the door of the NFL. That's when Pittsburgh one
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  Speaker 4: people got on the bandwagon. They're still in that bandwagon.
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  Speaker 4: The team has still won two more championships after that,
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  Speaker 4: and then they're competitive people of state. The flame has
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  Speaker 4: been lit and kept alive. And now the possibility of
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  Speaker 4: going to Dublin, going to Germany at some point and
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  Speaker 4: going to Mexico again, Mexico City. It's exciting, Michael, it's exciting.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm telling you, I'm not Irish, but I'm
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  Speaker 4: really excited to see the flame to be lit the
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  Speaker 4: way it's going to be on September twenty.
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  Speaker 3: Eighth, a big time. And you mentioned the population figures
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  Speaker 3: around one point two million in Dublin, so it's funny.
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  Speaker 3: Like you talk about the family, it is really being
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  Speaker 3: ahead of time and getting to that and you can
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  Speaker 3: see the dividends that have been paid from that, which
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  Speaker 3: is awesome to see. I would really recommend anybody from
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  Speaker 3: Ireland or Europe go on this theater's website and check
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  Speaker 3: out some of the parties I've had in Mexico during
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  Speaker 3: the season. When not if they do hopefully play down there,
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be awesome. Do you think there's a
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  Speaker 3: real excitement from fans down there about the game in
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  Speaker 3: Dublin because it maybe gives them a hope in the
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  Speaker 3: future that they'll come down towards Mexico as well. I
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  Speaker 3: know a lot of people. I've a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: reach out to me from North America and South America.
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  Speaker 3: Really their their their plan to fly over the their
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  Speaker 3: plan to spend a couple of weeks in Dublin, which
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  Speaker 3: is really really cool as well.
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  Speaker 4: Man, you know, it's the US. I don't know if
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  Speaker 4: it's one out of four one out of five hundred
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  Speaker 4: and six citizens of the country have Irish roots. Obviously
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  Speaker 4: with a lot of intermarriage with different people from different countries,
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  Speaker 4: but still some Irish roots, including members of my family.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, I should add, so the notion of
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  Speaker 4: Ireland is something that's not just another country in Europe.
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  Speaker 4: It's a country that has some resonance in the US.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Ireland for a lot of people mean something special. However,
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  Speaker 4: I think a lot of people still see it as, oh,
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  Speaker 4: what a fun chance to mix a visit to Ireland
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  Speaker 4: with football and my favorite team. What a great opportunity.
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  Speaker 4: I think they miss the again, the historical aspect of
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  Speaker 4: is of it, and the point and the fact that
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  Speaker 4: this is turbo charging a new fan base and activating
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  Speaker 4: a country and eventually a continent. And I think that's
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  Speaker 4: the part that they miss. I think they're going to
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  Speaker 4: see that when they come back and tell their friends
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  Speaker 4: and oh, let me tell you what's going on in Ireland.
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  Speaker 4: Ooh it was impressive, and they'll say they'll be sort
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  Speaker 4: of the the they'll be preaching that that. I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not sure they know that coming into the game.
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  Speaker 4: Other then it's going to be a lot of fun,
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  Speaker 4: and it will be a lot of fun. So to me,
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  Speaker 4: that's the part that I know because I've seen it
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  Speaker 4: before in Mexico and I twenty years ago, and I
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  Speaker 4: can't wait to see that, to see that in a
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  Speaker 4: different country, different culture, and how the love of the
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  Speaker 4: game is going to get into the reins and begin
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  Speaker 4: to spread and it won't be Christians in Rome like
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  Speaker 4: you anymore. It'll be a little bit more mainstream.
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  Speaker 3: A little under forty days of that game, I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: we'll have a chance to hopefully meet in Dublin that week. Alvarrow,
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  Speaker 3: you're quite close to the team and the fact that
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  Speaker 3: you know, you obviously cover games, you're around the team.
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  Speaker 3: One thing that has obviously changed since we last spoke
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  Speaker 3: to each other is a number of different players have
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  Speaker 3: come in, a number of players have come out. What's
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  Speaker 3: your thoughts if you had to sum up the off
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  Speaker 3: season and where we are to now in terms of
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  Speaker 3: how this team has performed.
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  Speaker 4: Well, there are two key people in the Steelers hierarchy
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  Speaker 4: that are making interesting work. Whether it's good or not,
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  Speaker 4: time will tell, and the championships or not will determine.
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  Speaker 4: But it's you know, Omar Khan, a guy of Honduran
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  Speaker 4: and Pakistani descent, and then Andy Widel who's from Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 4: old German family in Pennsylvania, in the Pittsburgh area, and
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  Speaker 4: he has an eye for talent by position and what
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  Speaker 4: team construction should be. Omar also has that. People short
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  Speaker 4: change that, but he's a whiz at setting up the
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  Speaker 4: team for transactions. What surprises me is not the amount
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  Speaker 4: of change and the sort of transactions they're making trades,
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  Speaker 4: big trades involving stars at their peak, like MIKEA. Fitzpatrick
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  Speaker 4: going to Miami in exchange for two starters, but the
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  Speaker 4: way that the Rooney family and the Pittsburgh fan base
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  Speaker 4: has adapted to that. I think anybody else does that,
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  Speaker 4: especially an outsider. If someone from outside of Pittsburgh. We
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  Speaker 4: didn't grow up in the team vital again from the area.
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  Speaker 4: Omar had been there sixteen years as an assistant that
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  Speaker 4: Kevin co bar for that, they would have never accepted
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  Speaker 4: these changes. It would have been on Pittsford light. It
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  Speaker 4: would have been criticized. They're making such significant changes and
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  Speaker 4: moving the pieces on the chessboard in anticipation so well
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  Speaker 4: and without any president. When it comes to Pittsburgh that
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  Speaker 4: it is stunning to see that. It is stunning to
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  Speaker 4: see the amount of change and the acceptance of the
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  Speaker 4: change in Pittsford. I think part of it is the
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  Speaker 4: way the league runs right now. It's very difficult to
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  Speaker 4: really construct the team strictly through your draft, but they're
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  Speaker 4: trying and they're actually having success. But the amount and
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  Speaker 4: the scale and the importance of change in Pittsburgh so
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  Speaker 4: quickly has been accepted by everybody incredibly Well. Again, results
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  Speaker 4: will be results, and in the end that everybody will
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  Speaker 4: be judged by then the standard is a standard, right,
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  Speaker 4: We know that phrase, But I think that's the most
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  Speaker 4: important thing I can tell you. It's just amazing to
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  Speaker 4: see the Rooney family be equanimous about just the change
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  Speaker 4: that's happening. Well, we've never done this before, and it's
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  Speaker 4: like open but it's we have to do this. So
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot of consensus that this is the right
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  Speaker 4: way to do that and that they're setting up the
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  Speaker 4: team for great things in the future. We'll find out
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  Speaker 4: this year again, but but I think that's probably the
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  Speaker 4: feeing that I can convey to you. It is stunning
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  Speaker 4: to see that. That's very unpitchfored like, but I think
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  Speaker 4: it's a good thing. And again we'll find out how good.
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  Speaker 3: I can't do Anna more than the great. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's been a really interesting off season interest in somewhere
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  Speaker 3: and I'm really excited to see what happens. We're actually
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  Speaker 3: bringing you all Alvarro before the final preseason game, just
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  Speaker 3: to remind Irish listeners the pont first staters game late
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  Speaker 3: Thursday night early Friday morning this week Virgin Media. To
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  Speaker 3: watch it on TV, you can listen and off the ball.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna have a podcast outs in the middle of
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  Speaker 3: the next week recap and not looking ahead to the
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  Speaker 3: season to college football game all over at Larder this
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  Speaker 3: weekend as well, so it's a busy weekend and you
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  Speaker 3: can catch the Mike Tomlin Show this season on Virgin Media.
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  Speaker 2: What's your thoughts?
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  Speaker 3: Just finally being Alvaro of the preseason so far. Obviously
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  Speaker 3: Jacksonville that first game, close loss to the Bucks and
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  Speaker 3: the home opener in preseason last week, and not an
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  Speaker 3: opportunity for guys that might not start to come out
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  Speaker 3: in this final game against the Panthers to try and
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  Speaker 3: cement their chances. You know, sometimes people can be very
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  Speaker 3: die on the preseason, but for a lot of these guys,
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  Speaker 3: this is you know, their their careers, their moments where
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  Speaker 3: they have to show some development, they have to shine
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  Speaker 3: in these big moments because for a lot of players,
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  Speaker 3: this is a huge importance to this game this week.
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  Speaker 4: You know, and Irish American head coach it's very famous
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  Speaker 4: named Bill Parcells used to say about young players, it's
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  Speaker 4: like puppies. You know, they may not have any teeth,
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  Speaker 4: but you don't want them to just bark. You want
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  Speaker 4: them to bite. And I think these preseason games allows
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  Speaker 4: players like the ones we're watching play with twenty two
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  Speaker 4: who starters essentially being held out of the games and
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  Speaker 4: probably held out of all of the preseason. But I
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  Speaker 4: still love these games and why For example, let me
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  Speaker 4: show you Roderick Jones and Troy Feltano, the tackles on
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  Speaker 4: the offensive line on either end they're playing. They're not
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  Speaker 4: playing the full game, but they're playing a significant amount.
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  Speaker 4: And this season will go as far as they will perform. Literally,
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  Speaker 4: it's the prism through which the light of this season
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  Speaker 4: will be projected and will know exactly how good they
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  Speaker 4: are and how they keep everything together. And let the
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  Speaker 4: offense become a contributor as opposed to an appendage to
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  Speaker 4: the defense. They play, You got to watch them play.
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  Speaker 4: Then you've got the rookies, Caleb Johnson the running back,
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  Speaker 4: You've got hy A Black, You've got Derek Harmon, You've
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  Speaker 4: got Jack Sawyer. They play. They play what you see
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  Speaker 4: Roman Wilson, it's almost like a hidden player. Basically didn't
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  Speaker 4: play much the last season as a rookie, and so
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  Speaker 4: now you begin to unveil what he can do. That's
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  Speaker 4: what these games are about. Yes, you can tell me
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  Speaker 4: it's not the top, top notch competition. I get that part.
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  Speaker 4: But there are things that they do that they will
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  Speaker 4: do against top notch competition on the field, against whoever.
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  Speaker 4: It's what they're made out of. And I think that's
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  Speaker 4: what makes these games so interesting because, as you know,
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  Speaker 4: the NFL is an attrition league, and unfortunately, the people
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  Speaker 4: that start the season will not be the same people
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  Speaker 4: that end the season. One thing that Omar has done
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  Speaker 4: very well is create death. But I think part of
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  Speaker 4: what's happening here, and it's up to the coaching staff,
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  Speaker 4: is to get a Roman Wilson to become the number
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  Speaker 4: two receiver or to fight with Calvin also to be
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  Speaker 4: the number two receiver or who knows if more than that.
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  Speaker 4: That is a fun thing to watch in every team
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  Speaker 4: every year has at least one player that makes that
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  Speaker 4: significant step. What you'd like to see in Pittsford is
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  Speaker 4: a number of them make that step. And it's the
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  Speaker 4: preseason that allows you the first chance to see, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: what do they do between seasons? What do they work on?
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  Speaker 4: How do they get better? And you're seeing that right
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  Speaker 4: now and it's really really quite fun watch.
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  Speaker 3: It is fun to watch. And one more thing that's
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  Speaker 3: fun for Staeters fans in Ireland is when they wake
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  Speaker 3: up on Friday morning, hopefully after having a late night
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  Speaker 3: watching the game. The next game is going to be
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  Speaker 3: that week one game in these Jersey and we're almost there. Alvarrow,
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  Speaker 3: I would just firstly ask people to check out Lost
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  Speaker 3: Steelers across social media. You'll see this guy pop up
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  Speaker 3: a number of times throughout the season. I want to
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  Speaker 3: wish you the very very best for the season and
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  Speaker 3: thank you very much for coming on and really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure we'll have the opportunity to hopefully say hello
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  Speaker 3: in Dublin, but for now, grasses over.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for well.
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  Speaker 4: You're the James Brown of American football in Ireland. You're
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  Speaker 4: the busiest man. So if we just wave at each other,
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  Speaker 4: that will be enough for me, and hopefully we'll meet
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: again in less hurried circumstances. But I'm telling you, I
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: share your excitement about this game. I share the importance
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: of this game historically, It's a watershed moment. I can't
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: wait to see that, and hopefully the Stealers will pull
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: off the win.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Thank you much.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Chutty'son Irish airline air Lingus will proudly serve as the
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: presenting partner of Steelers Ireland twenty twenty five. Airlingus's growth
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: in North America continues in twenty twenty five as the
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: airline prepares to fly to two new US destinations, Nashville
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: and Indianapolis, using its new Airbus eight three twenty one
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: xl or aircraft. This brings the number of Transatlantic routes
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: operated by the airline from Dublin, Shannon and Manchester to
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: twenty four. Steelers fans traveling to Ireland for the big
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Game can enjoy a relaxing journey when they fly with
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: air Lingus.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Air Lingus, you're very welcome