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Speaker 1: Course Stadium yesterday, and you ask fans to get up

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Speaker 1: We just paid two hundred and twelve million dollars, gave

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Speaker 2: You got to clean your own seats off. Now what

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Speaker 3: Well, keywords you said was bare minimum, and that's what

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Speaker 1: Well, the good news is that I have a copy

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Speaker 3: We should have you know, we've got it again. If

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Speaker 3: it's hard to have leverage if you've given them the

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Speaker 2: That's over.

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Speaker 3: I tried to have some Yeah, you talked about seat

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Speaker 2: I don't know how you hold it.

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Speaker 1: Most I would say almost every other NFL team save

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Speaker 1: It's a bad look for the team. It's a bad

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I can't tell you how they think. I just

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Speaker 3: there was so much pressure to pass this two hundred

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Speaker 3: And now they've done it, and uh, it's two hundred

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Speaker 1: You feed enough pigeons, you get fat, happy pigeons.

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Speaker 2: That's what you get.

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Speaker 1: Commissioner Lisha Reese on seatgate this morning on seven hundred

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Speaker 2: It's over.

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Speaker 3: No, I think it's you know, we got to bring

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Speaker 3: when they write, they keep saying commissioners passed two hundred

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Speaker 3: it was two to one.

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Speaker 2: We know, we know you made your case.

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Speaker 3: We got it.

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Speaker 1: I told you so, the I told you so, the

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Speaker 1: I told you so. Alisha, I always appreciate you coming out.

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Speaker 1: know this, but Alisha Reese did not vote for She

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Speaker 1: always brings the heat, and God knows we need some

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Speaker 1: that is the bare minimum, Bengals, the bare minimum. And

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