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"Don't Sleep on RFK" Episode 67 · DMV Mess Hall

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This is Will Montgomery, former Washington Redskins center.
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Y'all, what's good, folks? This is Trey Johnson, the
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headbanger. Y'all, and you're listening to
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Mess Hall with rally captain and Tailgate Ted Bird.
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What's? Going on rally.
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How you been, man? Oh my brother, my brother.
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It's been 2 weeks since we've been on the mics together and
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I've been all right. Just just busy.
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Just just busy man. There's so much SB event stuff
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going on as well as my other job.
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So and I know that you've been doggone out gallivant.
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So the question is, how have you been?
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I'm good, man. I'm good.
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It's, it has been way too long. It's been a couple of weeks
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since we've been doing this, But good news is we didn't miss
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much. There's nothing going on from a
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commander's perspective that's really earth shattering.
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And if there was, I would have paid for Wi-Fi on that cruise
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ship just to make sure that we could have got a show done.
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But made it to Mexico. They let me back in the country.
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And I didn't slice my foot open, man.
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So it was a winwin. Good brother.
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Good. I was worried about you, man.
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You know, anytime you and surfboards and and that whole 9
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yards. In the back of my mind, I always
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think Okay is the brother going to be Okay.
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I mainly spent my time in the casino and hanging out at all
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the different bars. I was on a family cruise with 12
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of us, so it was fun, but it was not even close to relaxing.
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I mean, they talk about herding. Cats.
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This was herding cats, man. Just trying to make sure
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everybody got to dinner at the right time.
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Trying to make sure my inlaws scooters had a place to park.
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You know? It was it was ridiculous, man.
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I can't wait for Mrs. Tailgate not to actually go on a real
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vacation where all I'm doing is having a drink with an umbrella
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in it and sitting in a hot tub. Those are the best, but at the
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same time you can never take away from the family so.
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That we can appreciate that. The question is, did you win or
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did you lose or did you break even?
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I actually won a couple $100. I'm excited about it and I found
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$100 lying on the ground. Lucky man.
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You've been on a cruise ship, right?
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Yes, I have. So I'm, I'm going up and down
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the stairs, You know, I'm just walking around just trying to
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find out where the family is or where this next trivia thing is
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that we're supposed to do. There was a black chip just
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sitting on the ground and I'm looking around.
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Then you can see through the stairs, so there's no one there.
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And I'm sitting here like, all right, well, what do I do with
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this thing? So if I turn it in, I don't
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think they're going to figure out who's it is.
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They're just going to keep it for themselves at that point.
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So I literally stood in that same spot for about 5-10 minutes
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waiting for someone to come back.
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No one came back. So I figured possessions, 9
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cents of the law. I don't know what it is in
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Mexico, but I think we are still in US waters.
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Maybe. So I put it on black and hey, it
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hit. So winner, winner you.
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Doubled your money. Yeah, man.
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My man, my man. Hey, can I borrow a dollar?
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I got you, man. I actually, I was going to use
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it for some souvenirs, right? And I'm walking around the
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little cruise ports in Mexico and couldn't find a single
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commanders thing there. It was all old school Redskins
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stuff, which I get. I found one commander stand.
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I didn't even find it. The guy saw me wearing my
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burgundy and gold commander shirt and he literally yanked my
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arm and pulled me over and said please buy this because he has
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had nobody come through asking for it.
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And I was just shocked that the guy even had commander stuff
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there. I mean, it was odds of that
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happening. It was a like a, you know, those
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like Mexican blankets, that kind of design.
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Kind of like that, but it was a blank.
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It was a backpack made out of that.
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So I was like, you know what, dude?
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All right, You've obviously trying to get rid of this
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inventory. You can't find anyone else that
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wants it, so I'll take it off your hands.
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You probably ripped me off, but I got a souvenir and I got a
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story to tell, so it was worth it.
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Definitely. Definitely.
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Because our listeners and viewers want to hear that type
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of stuff. Because I wanted to hear it.
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So I'm glad you told him, man. So what have you been up to the
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past two weeks, man? As I said man, working on the SB
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events stuff, getting a lot of these contracts together for
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these upcoming trips and just trying to rest as much as I
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possibly can man. And cuz my other job has been
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driving me up the wall, but hey, they butted my bread so I'm not
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gonna complain about it, you know what I mean?
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I hear you, man. I mean, that's.
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It is, man, it is. And Speaking of around the
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corner, there's a stadium update that might be changing things.
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So before I left town, it was a couple weeks ago I did an
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interview with ABC7. And a new story came out about
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Ted Leonsis and the Wizards and the Capitals and the Nationals
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getting all butt hurt that DC's trying to court the commanders
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to come back, but they haven't made any improvements to Capital
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One Arena or down by Matts Park. Well, what just came out the
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other day? Actually, this was maybe a week
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ago. Kentucky Representative James
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Comer. He is the chairman of the House
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Oversight and Accountability Committee.
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He is preparing to introduce legislation that's going to
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ultimately allow DC to potentially bring the commanders
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back to RFK. So this isn't a land sale, DC
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Eleanor Homes Norton. They've been trying to get
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Congress to sell the RFK land. Back to DC, so DC you can then
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do what they want to with it. Comer saying it's not going to
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be a land sale, it's going to be a 99 year lease extension and
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modification to the terms of what can actually be done with
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the land. Right now the current lease
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expires in 2038 and the land can only be used for sports,
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recreation and entertainment. So they can't build housing on
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there. Or stores or anything like that.
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So this is all definitely great news because last we heard,
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Eleanor Holmes Norton, who is D C's delegate, said she wasn't
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going to introduce any federal legislation unless DC Councilman
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Phil Mendelsohn, who was opposed to the actual stadium coming,
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and Mayor Bowser kiss and make up, Well, those two don't like
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each other. They're not able to get along
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and they just can't agree on what the land should be used
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for. Mendelssohn doesn't want a
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stadium. He wants a mixeduse development
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and he wants housing. Bowser wants a stadium and wants
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everything that you can possibly put there.
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So Norton said, I'm not going to bring this to Congress because
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DC doesn't even agree. Good news is doesn't matter.
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We don't care if Norton doesn't bring it because Comer.
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Is actually going to bring this to the table for all of us,
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which to me is kind of surprising that a guy from
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Kentucky has this much control over the DMV.
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That's crazy. You don't want to fight with,
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man. If it gets us a potential chance
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to have RFK 2.0, hell yeah, let's do it.
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Man, so you know, I've been out of the loop and all I kept
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hearing today was. Hey, there's a there's a new
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change possibly in the stadium deal and I was like, well, what
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the heck could it be? Well, now I know, and man, it's
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it's not a done deal obviously. But like you said, the sun is
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shining definitely brighter on it than before because before
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all we were getting was rain on it.
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So now it it appears as if maybe the right foot can start going
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in front of the left foot and vice versa, and we can.
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Make some traction with this thing, man.
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Now here's a good question for you.
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Where did you tailgate when RFK was open?
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So back along the actual riverbed, we would post up right
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there and probably not the cleanest and safest spot to be
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in, but to me that's just was the easiest place we pulled into
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and it was a landmark. You're right along the shoreline
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right there. Is that what the Anacostia?
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Which I think they're actually starting to let people swim in
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for the first time. And how long?
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That blew me away too, bro. I mean, I go stand up, paddle
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boarding out there and I fall in every once in a while and I have
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had to scrub down and basically have like biohazard stuff on me
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to clean me off. I don't know if I trust that
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water, but they're saying they've been doing a ton of work
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to clean that place up and this, Can you imagine an actual
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stadium? Back there with potential
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waterfront property and being able to actually be around that,
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it's just, it's starting to feel like everything's coming up
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burgundy and gold for a change. And yes, we're, you know, cart
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before the horse way too much. But yeah, we're not used to
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having nice things here, man. No, we're not.
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We we're used to taking our brothers and and and trashing
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it, that little brother or sisters and then trashing it and
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then blaming it on the dog. But I was.
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So I was talking to someone last week and I was saying, hey, the
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time is starting to change. We're starting to evolve a
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little bit and if you can't see that, then you don't wanna see
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it. I mean, there is a new aura
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that's permeating here throughout the DMV.
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And Commanders fans worldwide, they feel it.
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We all feel it. It's just now it just needs to
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happen, man, so that we can finally get this monkey off our
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back. I.
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Mean I'm I'm walking around on the boat and I'm wearing and
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rocking my commander's gear. You know, I'm doing my best
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rally and I'm wrapping it hard while I'm, you know, out there
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in Mexico. I had people and I was early on
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when the name changed and people say, how can you wear that?
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I'm sitting here in Cozumel and I have people high five and they
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do. It's just it's different.
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And it's because that cloud is being lifted.
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It's Tuesday, July 11th when we're recording this.
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Nine days, man. 9 days until the NFL owners meet and they vote on
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Josh Harris and his group taking over from Napoleon and just
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finally getting rid of him and letting him die.
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And I just, I can't believe it's almost here.
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Nine days, bro. Yeah, Nine days as the military,
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8 days and a wake up. So yeah.
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I'm ready. I think that's why the
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Councilman and not the Councilman.
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I think that's why the congressman is trying to put
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this forward. And my only hope is that those
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DC Council members that were saying we don't want a stadium
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in DC. Partially because Dan Snyder had
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two has two investigations that are actively going.
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They just didn't want to work with someone like that.
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I mean, Virginia had that bill that they put forth where
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they're going to get a billion dollars together, but then all
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the Virginia constituents said we're not giving taxpayer
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dollars to a guy that's being indicted right now and being
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investigated. Well, so all of those.
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Doors that were closed to us. As a franchise and a fan base,
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they're starting to creep open just a little bit.
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And I think on the 20th, eventually once the season gets
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here and then some more good publicity starts coming around
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because let's just be real, It can't get worse than what it
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was. So once this stuff starts
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happening, that crack in that door is just going to open wider
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and wider and wider and people are just going to start opening
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their pockets and wanting to work with these guys.
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Well, we already know they want to work with them.
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I mean the writings have been on the wall once this had this news
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took place. They've been wanting to work
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with them. And you know what they say, man,
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all it takes is a spark and that spark will become a flame.
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And right now they are doggone hitting that Flint rock trying
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to to get that spark because they know that once you it
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ignites and you blow them a little bit, man, here we are.
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And it's going to happen sooner. I don't think people actually
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realized how soon this thing could take place.
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Now, granted, shovels in the ground, that's going to be a
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while, but once that ball gets rolling, it's going to go by
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fast, man. It really is.
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It is and one thing that was announced while we were out by
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Mark Maskey and Nikki Javala from the Washington Post.
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New ownership is planning on keeping Jason Wright once the
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sale is finalized, so under NFL rules.
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The Harris Group is not allowed to talk to current employees of
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the team, so they can't really talk to them about future plans
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until they take off. But to me, some fans are
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surprised that Jason's sticking around.
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Some fans are happy that he's sticking around.
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Some fans just want him going now.
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Curious what your thoughts are. Well, I got to tell you so I
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think like anything in life. When you take on a new job,
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you're going to have some hiccups.
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And we know that Jason has had some hiccups.
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But at the same time, to me, he has taken care of those hiccups
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and he he realized some of the things that he may have done may
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not have been right. But that to me that's just the
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newness of the job. And if anyone can't get past
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that. And you got a problem because we
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all had to start from somewhere. And I I'm not saying that he's
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the second coming of Jesus. I'm not saying that.
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I'm just saying that that for me, the mistakes that he's made,
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he has made-up for them in other ways.
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And so I give him a pass. And I'm sure just like the
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ownership gives gives him a pass.
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But also realistically, what are you going to do, fire him now
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and have nothing? You got to have something.
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Allow the man to to put on a little soft shoe for you and see
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what he can do for you. I mean, he's held us down thus
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far. I think that with someone that
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is in his corner and I don't know if Dan was in his corner or
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not, I I don't know. So I can't really necessarily
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speak on that. But I feel as though if they
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gave him carte Blanc that and he can truly mold the clay how he
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wants to and they allow him to, I think we'll be all right.
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So I agree with you. To me, the fans that want Jason
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gone, I want to say a majority of those fans are ones that are
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pissed off about the name change and the name Commanders, period.
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If you were to survey those people and then say do you want
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Jason Wright to stick around or do you think he should stick
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around? And then if they say yes or no,
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hit that with a follow up question.
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How do you feel about the name? I think it's going to be one of
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the same. And that's why you have those
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people that just have that. They just have that thought of
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Jason Writes and the Today show and we are the Commanders and
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how poorly that went. And look, I'm a fan of Jason's.
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You know, we've taken pictures with him.
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We've talked to him a ton. I think he's a good guy.
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I also think that he's made some mistakes.
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You cannot hide from the mistakes that were made.
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I think that there were some people that were a kept in
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positions. And be put in positions that
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they probably never should have been put in.
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You know, misspelling players names on your 90 greatest
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players roster. Travesty.
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Travesty. You know, Jason didn't proofread
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that and I would never expect A-Team president to proofread
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that. To me, those are like 5 rungs
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below him on who made that mistake and hopefully heads
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rolled and quality control and things were put in place.
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Yeah, it. Goes back to what I was saying.
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You know, he's new at this position.
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He's not going to know everything.
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But each day he gets better and better.
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And we've seen him, to me, go from the terminology, excuse me,
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a small pup, even though he was a president.
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But now he's a grown dog, if that makes sense.
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You know what I mean. Those mistakes, I don't see him
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making those same mistakes twice.
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I just don't. I hope that they're not done
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twice. My thing is, with the new
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ownership group coming in, 1000% agree with you that it's going
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to be July 20th. Rookies report July 21st,
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training camp opens. What the 27th?
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You're going to fire the team president right before all this
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stuff happens? Doesn't make any sense.
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I mean, usually, I mean, I've been a part of a acquisition, so
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past life, other big boy job that paid my healthcare bills.
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We got bought out by company from China.
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No joke. They gave us Rosetta Stone so we
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could learn Chinese. At that point, I realized I got
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to start looking for another job.
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And no offense, I mean, I love Chinese food, but what they were
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trying to get me to do wasn't what I want to do for my career.
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So then they brought in people over top to kind of shadow
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because they knew there was going to be an exodus and they
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knew the people were going to leave.
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And to me, the Harris Group, they're doing what's right.
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They're not trying to up in the apple cart because they weren't
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able to buy the team in your typical turnover time frame in
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the NFL, which is right after the Super Bowl in your February,
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January if your team's not in it.
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And let's see how these guys go. I've got a lot of friends over
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there that are damn good people that they're lumped in with the
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bad because they worked for. Damn.
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But these people did the best with what they could, with the
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limited resources, and I can only imagine how good a job
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they're going to do once they have an ownership group that is
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competent and that's going to back them.
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He said, a mouthful. That's that's what it boils down
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to, man. Our listeners know that I am not
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one to. Kiss the franchise's ass.
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I will call them out left and right.
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But if the right people are kept in place and obviously there's
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going to be a new blood brought in, But if they're given a
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chance, and I hope that they're given a chance, then man, talk
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about just doors opening and people wanting to give money to
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the team and sponsors. But to me, what do you think
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Jason needs to do to be? Successful to stick around, not
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just this next year, but for years to come.
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Well, I think that he needs to have his finger on the pulse
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with the fans. Now granted you, you get fans
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who come up with sometimes these farfetched ideas and you just
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can't entertain it. I mean, you listen to it, but
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you just can't entertain it. But when you've got true fans
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that have their finger on the pulse and say, hey man, you
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know. We've done it this way before
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and it's actually worked. What do you think about this?
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And then you can see him, the wheel spinning in his head to
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get it done. Fan input, man.
23:58
I I really believe in that. Now there, like I said, there's
24:01
going to come. There's going to come a time
24:02
when it's like you're kid and a parent because he's the
24:06
president, he's not going to entertain it.
24:08
He's going to no, you know, this is how it is.
24:10
But there's some things that I do believe that he can enter
24:13
that he can. Change and so that's my biggest
24:16
thing is listen to the fans. We are all aren't gonna steer
24:22
you in the wrong direction. Some will like I told you but
24:25
some won't. So we have, I believe, great
24:28
intentions, I. Mean some stuff is common sense.
24:32
I mean, you got fans that are pissed off because it's Pepsi
24:36
versus Coke in the stadium. And you know, hey, sorry, that's
24:39
not a priority. Like what, Soda.
24:42
There was actually a guy on our cruise that are heard talking at
24:46
dinner at a table beside us saying he won't go.
24:49
I think it might have been on Carnival that he won't ride
24:52
because they've got Pepsi products.
24:54
Like if you're not going to, you know, come to a commander's game
24:57
because they got Pepsi over coke, then you know what, watch
25:01
it on TV. That's not something that is
25:03
pressing, needs to be taken care of right now.
25:05
But to me. Fans are coming back, they're
25:09
buying tickets, companies are buying suites, sponsors are
25:14
giving money no matter what, just because Dan is gone.
25:19
So to me, for him to stick around and be successful, it's
25:24
got to be a smoother operation. The small blocking and tackling
25:29
that was missed, the things that went wrong with the Sean Taylor
25:35
statue with the. Towel debacle years what two
25:40
years ago? Those things have to be
25:43
addressed and there has to be a plan for what the new stadium is
25:50
going to do. Because Jason cannot affect wins
25:52
and losses, but he can affect talking to those politicians and
25:58
trying to see where we can get our new stadium making headway
26:02
there. Because never knew what the hell
26:04
Bruce Allen did. They just said all he did was.
26:07
Try and get us a new stadium. He's a great negotiator.
26:10
Yeah. Didn't happen for a great
26:13
negotiator. We got screwed over and Kirk
26:15
Cousins contract and Trent Williams for nothing and we
26:18
still have a crappy ass stadium, so maybe that can be Jason's
26:22
legacy here. Fingers crossed.
26:25
Ted, man, I think that anything is possible right now.
26:31
I, I, I look at this like. You know what Double Dutch is,
26:36
right? Jumping rope, Double Dutch.
26:38
So you know how you've got the don't.
26:40
Ask me to. No no no.
26:42
But you got the basically you got the two people on the edge
26:45
who are swinging the rope and the ropes are are turning in
26:48
ever you know at opposite ends well and and the.
26:51
Person they're. Looking in it and they want to
26:53
jump in. That's how I view our fan base.
26:58
That's how I view Jason Wright. He's waiting.
27:03
He's waiting on this time to to to jump in and as soon as they
27:07
say go, I have a feeling that he's going to take us to the
27:12
next level. Our fan base, a lot of them have
27:14
already jumped in, but you still got those ones who are on the
27:17
outside and they're waiting. They're waiting to see when it's
27:21
my time that that they do enough for me to be able to jump in and
27:26
I think in eight days in a wake up, well, I'll say 12 days.
27:33
I'll give it. I'll give it a couple days.
27:35
I don't think they're just going to jump in right when it
27:36
happens, but I'll give it up until that Wednesday or Friday
27:40
that next week. That's when I see that they're
27:43
going to jump in and they're going to make some things happen
27:46
for all of us. Then I saw you post about the
27:49
Commander's ticket deal that they were doing on there.
27:51
Was it 91st birthday? Yeah, yeah.
27:54
I mean, that was pretty sweet, man.
27:56
That just the fact that they were offering that to us.
27:58
So, you know, so man, you know, I'm a positive guy.
28:03
And all I want to do is bring positivity.
28:06
And one of the things that someone said well yeah they may
28:09
have been doing that for the tickets but the parking is still
28:11
60 bucks and I just I I almost lost it because I said that you
28:19
could carpool with someone you could catch the Metro if you
28:23
wanted to you can rideshare you can do whatever you wanted and
28:26
and and that's just one lot they have plenty of lots where it
28:30
just. It it's, it's less than 60 bucks
28:33
to park. You know, at this point, stop
28:36
making if you stop making any excuses, if you don't want to
28:39
go, just say you don't want to go.
28:41
That's how I feel, man. I'm at the weather dude.
28:43
I just, I don't have time for it because everyone will look for a
28:47
reason to be negative. And I, you know, admittedly am
28:52
like that with this team sometimes where I don't digest
28:56
all the rosy crap they try and feed me.
28:58
You know, I try and make sure that they're not trying to shove
29:01
something down my throat, but the guy complaining that parking
29:03
60 bucks. If you go to a Capitals game,
29:07
parking is 30 bucks. And guess what?
29:10
There are 41 games, right? So you're going to go to a lot
29:15
more Caps games at that point. If you're a season ticket
29:17
holder, then you are Commanders games where you only got eight
29:19
games. So just doing the math, you can
29:22
still take the Metro down there and like you said, there are
29:24
other lots. You got the Jericho lot out
29:26
there. It was the.
29:28
What? Two years ago when the Chargers
29:29
came to town, my buddies from Bolt Pride wanted me to host 200
29:33
of their fans, said no, I will not host 200 Chargers fans at my
29:37
tailgate. But go hang out the Jericho lot,
29:42
the old lot right there on Arena Drive and they set up a major
29:46
shop out there. They brought in a food truck,
29:48
did a bunch of stuff, and it was still cheaper than parking in
29:51
the stadium. And you're 1 parking lot farther
29:55
away than the actual stadium lots.
29:57
But guess what? You're that much closer to the
30:00
highway to get all out of the stadium and to get on actual 95.
30:05
So, you know, people might bitch that it's a farther walk in, but
30:09
you're not going to be sitting as much traffic getting out.
30:11
Just look at the front side of it.
30:14
The people just want to complain, to complain.
30:16
So I I had to. I had to put on my good boy hat
30:21
and just let it ride. But the deal?
30:25
Basically 2. Tickets.
30:28
Upper level for 40 bucks apiece. I mean, that was awesome.
30:33
And then if you wanted one ticket for 80 bucks, 79 bucks
30:37
for the lower level, 200 section, if I'm not mistaken,
30:39
that's a great deal. Now here's the thing, How about
30:45
doing it? Sprinkling it in for other games
30:49
throughout the season, not just the first game.
30:52
You want to bring people back, Keep doing incentives like that.
30:57
But, but let me put a caveat there, But don't do that in
31:01
Center for the Eagles game. Don't do that in Center for the
31:04
Giants game. No, no.
31:07
Or make it so only people with a DMV zip code can buy these
31:13
tickets cannot be resold. Are you listening commanders,
31:17
These these these are Nuggets. You know as as in in the
31:22
military you know we we call that a clue.
31:25
We we you know somebody will be tapping their foot.
31:28
So you know do it for another another game And what like Ted
31:34
said with our zip codes, our area like they did for the
31:38
playoffs, I remember that. I, I remember them doing that
31:41
for the playoffs. They said no, if you're out of
31:43
out of the zip code you're not going to get it now.
31:46
I'm sure that the secondary market had somebody, hey, I'll,
31:49
I'll give you 300 bucks to buy five tickets or whatever have
31:52
you. We can't stop that, but.
31:54
You actually can, so you can put on the ticket stipulation that
32:00
they cannot be resold. So I had World Series tickets I
32:05
got directly from the Nationals. These tickets I could not
32:09
transfer and if I posted the bar code online.
32:14
They look online and see all that inventory.
32:17
They can come back to me and take those.
32:19
Tickets away. There are ways.
32:22
That it can be done so you can just specifically help out the
32:26
people here. And I talked to a commander's
32:29
representative a couple years back.
32:31
This was our conversation we had.
32:33
So the stadium is empty. Why don't you guys give tickets
32:37
to Little League football teams, so football teams, boys and
32:42
Girls Club, things like that. Well, they actually can't do
32:46
that because it comes out of the team's pockets because it's all
32:52
revenue sharing. They have to then pay the other
32:55
NFL owners their percentage of those tickets if they donate
32:59
them out. So it's not as simple as me
33:02
saying, hey, these seats are empty, let's just invite these
33:06
clubs down there. Because to me, you want to build
33:09
a new fan base, you want to get new fans, get them in the
33:12
stadium. And the seats going to be empty
33:14
anyway? Let them come for free.
33:16
And maybe while they're there they'll buy concessions.
33:19
But it's actually not that simple.
33:20
But if you can make it so the tickets are discounted to a
33:23
degree, and you use this promo code and you're here and your
33:27
credit card lines up, then why not?
33:29
Why not do it instead of being empty?
33:31
I was shocked though, man, that they still had tickets available
33:35
for the home opener. I couldn't believe that they
33:39
could still offer this package for the home opener,
33:41
considering. Dan's gone for all intents and
33:44
purposes. I told you, people are still
33:47
double dutching bro. I don't think.
33:49
They were for the home opener, man.
33:50
I mean, no DC, DC. Is a.
33:53
See or be seen town. We're a bandwagon.
33:57
Let's just go town. Trust me, I hear you loud and
34:01
clear bro. But once again you know that
34:03
there's deep speeded hate. Oh.
34:06
Still and and until he is gone. It's just not going to happen.
34:11
He it's got to be a situation where he is completely out of
34:14
the picture and right now it's still.
34:17
He's, He's. He's got that still there.
34:21
And so I got and I think that's one of the things that I said
34:25
that I mentioned in my video that, hey, look, I understand
34:28
that you still may not want to spend any money because I don't
34:32
know right now if you spent money to go to the game right
34:35
now. Whose pocket would that go to?
34:37
Would that go to Dan's? Or will they go to the new
34:40
owners? So maybe people were thinking
34:42
that way. I still won't spend any money
34:45
right now until the contract is signed, and I feel as though
34:49
once that contract is signed, the floodgates will open.
34:52
But right now people still, I told you they're double
34:55
dutching, bro. They're they're waiting for
34:57
their chance to get in. Well, Dan's getting his 6.05
35:01
billion, no matter if you buy tickets now or don't buy tickets
35:05
now. Principal.
35:09
I hear you. But you know, I don't know,
35:12
like, did someone have a Budweiser over July 4th?
35:16
You know, are you drinking beer because you're putting money in
35:18
Dan's pocket? Still, there's still revenue
35:20
share there. You know, if you want to talk
35:23
about Budweiser, we know that their stocks and sales have
35:27
plummeted. Big time, big time, bro.
35:31
Maybe they were begging people to buy, they said.
35:33
You know, it got to the point. It got to the point where they
35:36
said think about the Budweiser employees.
35:41
You got to feed those horses, man.
35:42
Hey, those Clydesdales and those things are massive, by the way.
35:46
I was out there last year. I saw them at their factory at
35:49
the brewery. Yeah, massive so.
35:54
I just hope those fans that are still waiting to jump in get a
35:58
chance to actually get some tickets without getting ripped
36:01
off come week one when. There's nothing left because the
36:07
party that is going to be at FedEx Field is going to be
36:11
unreal. It's the.
36:13
Only thing that is officially happening to commemorate that
36:16
Jackass being gone. And best believe FedEx won't
36:20
know what hit it, man. All I can think of is 2012 when
36:25
Robert was running down the sidelines against the Vikings.
36:29
And how loud how would electrifying that stadium got?
36:33
It's going to be like that times 1000, man.
36:37
And he was looking back at the at the defender going down the
36:40
sideline and and and he kicked the afterburner in so commander,
36:44
Commander Nation. Or.
36:47
Commander's ownership. How about this?
36:53
I saw the ticket special late. How about doing it again, doing
36:59
it one more time and giving more of a lead?
37:03
Time to so people could purchase tickets.
37:05
How about that? If if you can do it, figure out
37:07
some kind of special that you promotion that you want to do.
37:10
I don't know, but just give it one more shot and see how it
37:14
goes. Hey, I'll, I'll do this man for
37:17
our listeners. If you want to get tickets and
37:21
you want to take advantage of my season ticket holder discount
37:25
and trying to avoid some of that stuff, hit me up.
37:27
I got no problem. Helping you guys out, get seats
37:31
and trying to avoid some fees because I want Burgundy and gold
37:34
in those stands. Granted, I don't think Cardinals
37:36
fans are going to travel, but we need as many of us in there to
37:42
commemorate this day as we possibly can.
37:45
Because I remember the first game after the name change and
37:50
how packed that stadium was, and I had a talk with the junkies
37:54
the day after and I told them it's just going to be like this
37:58
today. It's not going to be like this
38:00
two weeks down the road. Imagine if we could just
38:03
recreate this, man and just get these people out here.
38:06
And you know, these players, I think they're feeling it too.
38:11
You know, Jahan Dotson was practicing during his own time
38:17
in Florida, hanging out with OBJ, Elijah Moore and Zay
38:22
Flowers. He was in Fort Lauderdale.
38:27
And I was just down there. That's where my boat left from.
38:30
The humidity down there was ridiculous.
38:33
This young man is taking time out of his vacation because this
38:37
is the players vacation time right now to put in work.
38:41
These guys are hungry. Jacoby Brissette, Sam Howe,
38:46
Brian Robinson. Today we're just seeing on I
38:49
think it was Brian's Instagram story practicing together.
38:54
You know there's just. I don't remember hearing these
38:57
stories before, man. I I really don't.
38:59
And maybe I've just got all the jaded stuff in here, so kick the
39:02
good stuff out. But hearing these guys trying to
39:06
get together and build this rapport and work on their craft
39:10
with other vets to me is awesome.
39:14
Ted They see what everyone else sees.
39:17
We We had just a small taste of it last year.
39:22
Just a small taste. And now.
39:25
Everything, as we've said is starting to come together, is is
39:29
starting to mold and it's you. Can you, you see it And not only
39:35
that, you feel it and like they say, you feel good, you play
39:39
good. And these guys are trying to go
39:43
back and make the playoffs. They're trying to make the
39:45
playoffs, bro. I mean to me, forget making the
39:49
playoffs. We haven't won a playoff games
39:52
and Gibbs 2.0. Yeah.
39:55
What? Let's let's do something.
39:57
You know, it's there was an article that John Keim wrote and
40:00
I've been trying to catch up on everything and it was about Eric
40:03
the enemy, but it was coming from the players perspective and
40:06
how he is instilling a sense of urgency, but also a sense of
40:13
ownership. And there was a play where Sam
40:17
Howell got to his second read late.
40:21
He got to his read, but he got to it late.
40:23
He came off the field. And immediately apologized to
40:27
the enemy, said sorry coach, I saw it late.
40:30
The enemy said you saw it, that's all that matters.
40:34
And he is training these guys. He's changing these guys.
40:38
No offense to Scott Turner and the other coaches that were
40:40
here, but why receivers weren't running the same depth on
40:44
routes. There just wasn't that
40:46
consistency. There wasn't that
40:48
accountability. The enemy is putting it in here.
40:50
And you know, we asked our listeners, you know.
40:54
Vegas has us at six and a half wins.
40:56
Where do you see us before we get to the season?
41:00
I want to hear where you think we're going to be pretraining
41:03
camp and then post training camp once we actually get a chance to
41:07
see. Because to me, we got some
41:10
players and This is why I'm also so excited about don't Sleep
41:13
Energy coming on board because there are some Commanders
41:15
players I'm saying the NFL better not sleep on because if
41:19
you do Jahan Dotson being one of them, you're going to get
41:22
burned. And it goes back to the whole
41:26
Madden rating type of thing where players are like I should
41:29
have a better rating than that. I used to be really into Madden.
41:31
I'm not into it as as like I used to be, but but I think that
41:36
when it comes down to it, man, we're going to open a lot of
41:40
eyes. So to answer your question,
41:44
right now I'm going to say 7 1/2 wins.
41:48
How do? You get 7 1/2.
41:51
And I I got to go with 7 1/2 wins right now because I just
41:56
haven't seen any pads. You know, now once after
42:01
training camp and during training camp, I'll be able to
42:03
say, ooh, man, it's going to go higher or lower right now, 7 1/2
42:09
wins. All right, so I'm going to give
42:12
you mine later on. I took the over under, I took
42:17
the over that we had at six and a half and I put some decent
42:20
money down. Just because to me, they're
42:22
either going to do really well or they're going to do really
42:25
bad. And I want to ask you a couple
42:28
bold predictions before the season starts.
42:31
I have one. I know that's not going to make
42:33
some people happy, but that's why it's going to be a bold
42:35
prediction. But I talking about this man,
42:40
I'm literally, I know it's hard to see, but I got goosebumps and
42:42
I cannot wait because just a couple more sleeps and training
42:46
camp is going to be here and this season is going to be over.
42:50
And all this crap about the I'm sorry, Crap's probably not the
42:56
right word, but I don't care about the Home Run Derby.
42:59
I don't. Care about Wimbledon.
43:02
I don't care about the NBA Summer League.
43:05
I care about the NFLI care about the burgundy and gold.
43:09
And I want football back. And it's been nice to have a
43:12
break from it for a little bit. But no, I'm hungry.
43:16
And I need to hear some pads being hit.
43:18
Man. Oh, you're going to eat, bro.
43:20
We're going to eat. And in eight days and a wake up
43:25
it's going to happen, all right. And I can't wait to be out there
43:28
with all of you guys. And I hear the music playing.
43:33
But I, I, I got to mention once again thank you to don't Sleep
43:38
energy drink for being a sponsor of the DMV mess hall.
43:42
Get your don't sleep energy drink, ladies and gentlemen.
43:46
And I'll be remiss if I didn't say it, yell Gay Ted, Rally
43:52
captain. We're going to wrap it hard or
43:56
we're not going to wrap it at all.
43:58
We'll see you guys next week for another edition of the DV Mess
44:02
Hall.