WEBVTT - The Group Chat Episode 14: London Special (Feat. Paul McGoohan) 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:03.640 Hey guys, and welcome to a very special edition of 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:06.960 The Group Chat, where we're recording from right outside of 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:11.319 Wimbley Stadium in London, England. On this episode, you've got 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:14.800 the normal of myself, Will and Max talking Panthers football, 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:18.320 but we have a very special guest helping us recap 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:21.080 our trip. So far, we have two Brits in our 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:24.560 in our team. There's one of us. He's six foot 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:26.880 free and quite good at what he does, and then 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:28.920 I'm not six ft free and I'm not quite good 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:32.120 at what And then we take a look at what 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:35.760 the Panthers need to do to get a win in London. 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:38.040 How does Dante's presence, you know, how does that then 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:40.760 change the nickel with ross pack of the nickel. We've 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:44.159 got that and so much more, including a reference to 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:57.240 Harry Potter. On this week's The Group Chat. You've been 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:00.440 added to the Group Chat with your friends Carol One, Can, 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:09.800 Max Sensen and Will Brian. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:15.240 the Group Chats London Special. That was way better than 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:23.200 anything we're doing right now. Guys. We did not hire Brilliant. Brilliant, 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:27.480 We did not hire that person. That person works for 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:33.039 the Carolina Panthers. He more more than just f a is. Um. 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.679 We had organization. We have two Brits in our in 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.760 our in our team. There's one of us. He's six 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.120 ft free and quite good at what he does. And 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:43.200 then I'm not six ft free and I'm not quite 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:47.840 good at what. But you did just put the token 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:52.080 brit word in front of like describing things, any adjective. 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:55.040 Putting quite in front of it, I've learned is the 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:59.360 most brit thing to instantly sound British. You're shaking your head. 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:03.480 You agree a degree, and I definitely agree over the 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:07.240 good morning everybody, um, so over the past the past year, 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:09.960 having spent time with it with the Carolina Panthers and 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:14.440 spent numerous meetings with various people across both states, you 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:16.600 do have to go through a process and start every meeting. 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:18.840 When I start to speak and you see people's faces, 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:22.760 just go, what are you doing? Why? Why? Why are 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:26.880 you talking to me about football? Your your accent doesn't work, um, 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:28.360 And then you get into it and you get then 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:30.760 you start to explain, you know, why the NFL is 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.960 in London, why it's so big. White generation, my generation 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.800 love this game. And then people started to start to 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:38.680 warm to you, and then of course you got literally 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:43.160 the quite the amazing you know, the over politeness that 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:46.359 the US Brits have quickly followed by huge inso irony. 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:50.840 And you know, being slightly not as confident as my 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:54.040 American friends m just generally in our world and how 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:57.000 we operate as you were, not confident. That's that is 0:02:57.040 --> 0:03:01.359 a very nice way of talking about Americans. Just confident. Yeah, 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:07.440 we're quite confident. Happy, Smiley, we are. We are happy 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:09.720 most of the time. Just give everbody a bit of context. 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:13.720 Were sat in a hotel lobby right next to Wemby Stadium. 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:20.960 It is beautifully British weather, which is gray, windy, rainy. Um. 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.000 I don't know what the weather it is today in Charlotte, 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.760 but I'm assuming it's gonna be mid seven seas blue skies, 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:28.440 probably harder than that. When we came from Charlotte, it 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:30.600 was like ninety degrees all the time. I was not 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:34.399 packed properly for the thirty degree change in temperature back here. 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:37.640 But Paul, give us a quick rundown of what you 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:42.600 do for the team, just quick, quick for the fans 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:44.200 out there. What you do, how you got here, you've 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:46.280 just joined the group chat. We need we need an 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:48.760 introduction so we can put you in our contacts. It's 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.240 my name is Paul McGowan on, the vice president of 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:55.200 Business Development for the Carolina Panthers. Uh, you can ask 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:57.560 what does business development mean? As we all know, under 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:01.640 the ownership of David Tepper, UM, the outlook of the 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:04.640 Panthers has changed dramatically in terms of what we want 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:09.880 to achieve as a winning organization and winning across both states. UM. 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.000 And there's a lot of infrastructure work that goes around that, 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.000 a lot of commercial work, a lot of political work, 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:16.279 and I'm part of that executive team under Tom Glick 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.640 who's helping to bring that to life. And it's been 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:25.120 an incredible fourteen months. Loved every single minute it. It's brilliantant, 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:29.360 that's just brilliant. Everyone ahead, well, well have you picked 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.640 up in the American words since we're just saying brilliant 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:35.400 over and over again? Yeah, what do we do? We 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:39.080 just filled things in with what I found myself being 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.560 is UM I spent I spent a huge part of 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:44.120 the last six months commuting from London to Charlotte, which 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:46.719 you know, a a flight seven thirteen thirty one. I 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:48.400 can tell you all about I'll say about the menus, 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:51.440 but what I found myself being if I come back 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:54.400 to the UK, I'm naturally I'm nice, you know, I'm 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:58.840 happier being being around obviously my wonderful staff, colleagues, and 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.000 obviously the people of the people. Charlotte welcomed me. I 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:03.960 go back to UK and I find myself being really nice. 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:07.159 Within six hours of being here, I find myself being 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:13.280 slightly miserable, slightly slightly, quite slightly. The experience of going 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:15.200 on going on the tube and on the wonderful whether 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:16.960 we have in this country kind of you know, it 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:20.159 kind of dampens my mood of enthusiasm ever so slightly. 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:24.920 Um So you know, it's um, it's it's good. But 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.600 you know what, I kind of say that deliberately, knowing 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.039 that pretty well that we're recording this on Saturday, but 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:33.720 on Sunday we're going to go to this massive celebration 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:37.800 of the NFL and then for the Carolina Panthers. And 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.400 I think we've seen that seen that this week. Um, 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.680 some of the images we've seen from up up in 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.279 central London and Dave going to go to a couple 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.440 of pubs yet last night, and it's just been it's 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:53.159 a fantastic opportunity for this organization to kind of, you know, 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:54.880 pat herself on the back of a little bit, enjoy 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.160 what it is and looks at the future and if 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:58.719 we can all get back on the plane on Sunday 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:02.040 night four and two one an incredible week. This would 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.000 have been after starting oen two. My goodness to go 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:06.720 into the buyer four and two would be would be 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:08.960 something Paul, what do you think this obviously the first 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.039 time the Panthers have been in London, fitting that you 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:14.320 joined the team and here we are, is the NFL 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:17.480 taking hold in the UK? Do you've you've seen a 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.280 lot of these games come and go now for the 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.600 past few years. What do you think the impact it's 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.720 having on the fan base here? I think I think 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.160 it's two two ways to answer. The reason why the 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.159 NFL came back here in two thousand and six is 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.520 that there's a whole generation. I'm part of that generation 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.040 who just loved this game for love of the game 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.800 first and then the kind of game day experience second. Um, 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.120 you know, obviously coach Veria is part of that. That 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:47.160 fantastic five Bears team. We started to show those games 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.520 live Intrustrial TV in the UK. We only had four 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:52.840 channels in the UK in the mid eighties, which I 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.200 tell by your faces in general, that's a bit of 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:58.080 that's a bit of surprise. So we had four channels 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.600 and that every Sunday at six pm UK time they 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.000 would show a one pm Eastern game. And so we 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:08.760 went through this process of my generation watching American football 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.160 as we would call it, a gridirons as we would 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:12.880 call it. And then he had the Bears team and 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:14.840 then to be fair to the NFL and to be 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.120 fair to the commissioner is part of the set up 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:20.200 at the time. They brought those stars of that team 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.560 here to Wembley, the stadium right next door to us, 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:25.400 and started playing what they used to call the American Balls. 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.600 That one of the preseason games would always be here. 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.240 And because London acts as this major gateway city, it 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.760 is a hub city, has no doubt about it. Um, 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:37.640 you know, two loads of American forces across the world, 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:41.440 you know, and American businesses. That's why it's been so successful. 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:44.400 Then over the last ten years, where you found is 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.920 a new generation starting to love the sports. The coverage 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.720 of it is amazing. But the spectacle of going to 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:55.400 a game is incredible. And it's so different to what 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:57.480 we have in the Premier League, which is really tribal 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:00.640 and that the Premier League and European europe who in soccer, 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.720 which I still can't get used to saying that was 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.600 weird coming out. It was it was not a natural 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:08.640 and I have to I have to pause when I 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:17.200 say it. Soccer soccer be under the illusion we love soccer, 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.840 so no, and you come over to the games here 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.480 in this new generation who found it and just think 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:26.600 it's so different to what we have here. And you know, 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.200 credit to everybody the NFL for doing it. Credit to 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.800 the teams. You've come here really embraced and use it 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.679 as an opportunity to just to do something different. And 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:37.760 you guys would have seen it from a our staff 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:40.280 and be the players during this week. This the whole 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:43.760 process of going through something different for them, it's kind 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.400 of really had this positive impact on the organization. I mean, 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:48.760 I know you've done it before in your in your 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:52.040 previous previous role, but certainly just seeing seeing the guys 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.960 this week and just just the general it's a real 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.040 air of enthusiasm this week, and not even two days 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:03.160 in London can damp that well. I thought an interesting 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.760 part of this week was so you mentioned Tepper going 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:08.600 to the pubs and there were a couple of pub 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:11.920 parties and we weren't. We weren't there, but I heard 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:16.280 that we are. We didn't get to go. Um just kidding, 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.880 We went and um one of at the first pub, 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:23.120 the bear Boy and Banker, there was this group of 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:27.319 guys there that we're not Panther fans at all. They 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:31.520 just happened to go, but they stayed like at the party. 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:34.320 I mean, they were Panther fans. Everywhere. The music was 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:37.600 extremely loud. People were yelling keep pounding, and I was 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:40.480 trying to look at it from their perspective of they're 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:43.440 they're not Panther fans. They don't get the sweet Caroline thing. 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.080 They don't get to keep pounding that there. You know, 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:49.120 wired so many drunk Americans in this pub right now, 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:53.000 you know, looking around, But it was they were fascinated 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:56.520 with this, just like the world of the NFL. And 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:58.280 of course they know the emblem and they were kind 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:00.480 of getting into it. But I mean, the three of 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.120 them were just sitting back at a boost just looking out, 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.559 and I thought that was just really interesting because that 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:09.400 would never happen in the US. They you know, that 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:14.160 would everyone's kind of used to this football world, and yes, 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:15.719 it is like you get wrapped up in it. But 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.679 I thought, what an interesting perspective that they have right now, 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:24.000 that this team that they've really probably maybe have heard 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.719 of but they're not fans of that have taken over 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:30.920 their normal Friday Saturday night pub. I just imagine those 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.319 guys showing up and thinking it was going to be 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:36.480 a normal day and then being like, what is happenings 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:39.439 going on right now? We picked a very strange day 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:43.040 to have a pintier. But yeah, I mean I think 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.559 I was blown away with like just the passion we 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:47.600 saw last night. I mean, I think that's the thing 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:50.520 I've always loved about the Premier League is the pageantry 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.680 and the passion that the fans have for their clubs. 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:55.719 And I think, yeah, if we're going to continue with 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:57.800 this theme of the three random guys who were at 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:00.040 that pub last night, I imagine they looked at that 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.360 and we're like, yeah, I mean this, this is the 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.920 passion that we would see for for Chelsea for Arsenal 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:12.920 for Tottenham. That same sort of fervent passion exists for 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:16.800 the Carolina Panthers fan base in the NFL. But inter 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:18.400 you say that. So, I went to my very first 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:23.120 Panthers game preseason a year ago and before officially was 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:26.520 involved with the organization and sat there was a Friday 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:30.440 night game. It was against the Dolphins, and I felt 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:33.320 like I was going to somebody else's party. It was amazing. 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:35.839 It was like I can come out to UK and 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.199 described to people it was a Friday night and you 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:41.240 had everybody just celebrating and the working week they was 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:45.000 celebrating together. And instead of having this guy with a 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:47.839 funny accent and going WHOA, who are you? You have 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:53.920 people literally handing me beer and boj Angles. Is that beautiful? 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.920 That was my That was my first experience boe Angles 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:07.240 and a British accent. Could we hear that again? No? 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.360 I think that really is like the cool part though 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:12.160 of when I came over in sixteen, and that was 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:15.160 when they did the big fan fest on Regent Street 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:19.440 and it was our first experience because we were saying, 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:21.400 about an hour and a half outside of London, so 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:23.480 that was our first chance of going to central London 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.880 and seeing, you know, all the buildings that you see 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:29.319 when you look up London on Google. So everyone, you know, 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:30.959 we're looking around like, oh my gosh. And then you 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:34.000 pop out on Regent Street and there are jerseys from 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.719 every single NFL team, and like a person might have 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.360 on a jersey from one team and a hat from another, 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.160 like they're just excited to be around the NFL. But 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.760 then when you end up talking to these fans, they're 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:48.600 extremely knowledgeable about the game, and it's not so much 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:52.160 about their team per se, but about the game. And 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:54.360 I spoke to a couple of fans last night that 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:58.040 are from London and they were at the pub and 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.480 I said, do you might be after my job? I 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:05.040 mean they knew more people like where they were, you know, 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:07.600 where they're from, where they went to college, how they play, 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.079 and and it was just simple questions of you know, 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.319 who's your favorite panther We were trying to do just 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:14.719 like this fun. Oh you've been at this pub for 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:18.079 many hours drinking, let's ask you some puny questions. No, 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:21.199 they wentn't straight into like here's who this guy is, 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.120 Here's how he's played this year, here's you know. I 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:30.080 just I was blown away by the knowledge. This after 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:33.160 the Place sixt event with the kids from Harrow School. 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:36.559 I assume that they had pretty limited knowledge of the 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:41.000 of the roster, right, I mean that was just an assumption. Um, sure, 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.079 Cam and Christian. But I figured I was like, I 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.640 wonder how many players these kids actually know. So I 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.040 went up to one of the kids and was just like, 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:50.880 do you know any of the Panthers players, and expecting 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.559 him to, you know, have pretty limited knowledge. And he 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:58.000 turns to me and he goes, um, yeah, I know 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:00.559 quite a bit of the plays. And he was like, 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:05.319 first name a kid you not? He goes, you know Alexama, 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.800 you know, the fullback And I looked at him and 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.800 I was like, oh damn. I was like, I've made 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.880 I've made a grave mistake. That was like apologies. You know. 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.480 I was blown away that he, of all the names 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:19.320 to rattle off, rattles up. I mean, that would be 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:21.920 like Paul, that would be like me if somebody asked 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:24.560 me who I knew, you know, played for Tattenham, and 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.400 I rattled off like the guy who's never listed in 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:29.840 the squad, who was the bottom of it? I was. 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:33.160 I was shocked that he pulled that out. One guy 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.720 told me his favorite UM players Ray Ray McLeod and 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:40.560 I was like, that was my reaction. I was like, 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.480 Ray Rays wonderful, but he's not our poster child, like 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:46.000 where he's not on any tickets, he's not on any 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:49.640 team on the team, he doesn't have an amazing name though. 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.200 That was it, So I said, I said why him? 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:56.080 And then this, you know, very British like James was 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:57.680 his there or something. He was like, well, all of 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:02.800 our names over here are like John, Paul, James. It's 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:06.080 wrong with Paul, absolutely nothing, but it is not Ray 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.440 rag okay so and he said that it's just such 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:11.280 a fun name that when they were looking at the roster, 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:16.800 like his name is Ray and I don't know. Yes, yes, 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:20.760 so you mentioned actually mentioned Tottenham, which is that's how 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:25.120 I say it, which confused everybody. So tomorrow we get 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.720 to play in some incredible stadium six or two thousand, 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:32.520 I think about a thousand more than than Arsenal, which 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:36.440 if if any of you understand the if anybody understands 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.080 the dynamics of just a little more founding Premier League, 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:41.520 that they would they would get it um. It's an 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:43.720 incredible facility. Was open in April's lucky enough to go 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:47.520 to its opening night and then see it first time 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:49.880 set up for the NFL UM. I was here with 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:53.320 with f A and Marrow Addison in July. And I 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:54.800 think for the players who get to see if they 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:56.520 get to see it later on on the Saturday for 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.360 the first time as we do a walk through, it's 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.920 an incredible all place to play their game. So I 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:07.240 think the biggest concern for the organization coming over wars Okay, 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:09.000 are we going to be able to perform out here, 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:10.800 you know, because we're here to win us first and 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:12.360 for Ace, we're here to win, and I think the 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:16.480 stadium is going to give the players the best opportunity 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.760 to shine. You know. CMC could have one of those 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:22.680 days tomorrow where we all just go, yep, he's MPPs. 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:24.560 Don't know about he's just the m v P. But 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:28.360 the facilities are fantastic and our fans, you know, there's 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:32.160 three thousands of them. We know we're here, there's many 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:35.200 many more we don't know about, and we're so looking 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:38.560 forward tomorrow just to see a sea of blue and black. 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:41.720 And I think it's just gonna be, you know, but 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:43.880 people often talk to me about the atmosphere of going 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:47.520 to a going to an NFL game, and there are 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:51.080 certain moments of going to Bank of America Stadium, you know, 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.640 some big key moments. He saw against the Jags last week. 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:56.080 You know that there were some big moments in that game. 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:58.800 The noise, and we generate the stadium the way it's 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.560 designed and built, designed to keep all the noise inside. 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:04.320 And so if we which I know we were at 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:07.639 certain points during the game tomorrow, our fans will make 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:11.000 that noise. It will certainly just have an impact on us, 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:13.119 but also on the players, will be a great impact. 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:17.680 And I know we're officially the awayside, it doesn't feel 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:19.960 like it, do you do you feel like some of 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:23.520 the London fans, the fans that are just here that 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:29.200 might be wearing various jerseys seeing the Panther fan further, 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:31.879 will they kind of pick a side or will they 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.639 continue to just kind of cheer from everything? Well, we 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:36.400 do have the We do have the the other brit 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:39.280 and the Panthers, which is this incredible story. And you guys, 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:41.000 you guys know FA and you know what what a 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:45.400 just a nice gentle giant he is and his story 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:48.840 is clearly resonated here. So you know, you would hope 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.280 that that the fans who are going to game be 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.199 the Eagles fans, Patriot fans, Ryans, fans, whoever they are, 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:56.840 that they go there and they're cheering for the brit 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:59.760 and he happens when playing for us. So you know, 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.400 one would hope that that that that works. Who works, 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:05.200 who are our advantage? And outside of that, it's the 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:08.080 same thing of you know, people like the stars. So 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:11.280 we mentioned Christian La. Everyone knows this guy's star and 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:15.399 you know they'll be as he runs tomorrow and does 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:19.200 you know got numerous numerous, numerous first downs and hopefully 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.600 a couple of touchdowns that you know, the celebration for 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.879 him because everyone knows they're seeing something and somebody special 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:27.800 and that will resonate. It's you know, it's like when 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:30.000 Messi comes to the US. You know, people want to 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:33.680 see the big guys do amazing things. Especially with Christian 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:36.119 flipping over a dude for a touchdown last week. I mean, 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:39.399 he couldn't be a bigger star right now. The f 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:41.879 A thing is gonna be fascinating though. F A has 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.640 a flair for their dramatic last year, his first ever 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:48.600 first ever game action a sack and an interception. He 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:51.680 hasn't had quite their production since, but you just sort 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:54.639 of have a feeling that with everything charged up into this, 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:57.240 if he were to make a big play, I mean, 0:18:57.280 --> 0:18:59.160 what an amazing moment it would be. I think we're 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.760 all just sort oferst cross that he does and has 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:04.199 that chance to do something special because what I mean, 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:06.400 what good just what the story would write itself out 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:08.359 of it. So I think it's amazing story for for 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.120 for the game and actually just shows you how powerful 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:13.560 this game is and actually the impact of it all. 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:16.800 And in July they launch the NFL Academy, which is 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:19.840 in the UK, which is that they're the starting point 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:23.240 to try and create a halfway for the next generation 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:26.240 of a to come through because his story is so 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:30.080 unique that what the NFL quite rightly of understood is 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:32.040 there's a huge amount of talent here and people just 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:34.320 love the game. So how do we harness that talent, 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:36.600 how do we how do we create that next generation 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:38.719 of international start be they from Europe, be they from 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:42.359 other parts of the world. I think the intern internationalization 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:45.679 of the of the NFL is is something that's it's 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:48.840 quite fascinating to see um and now working and and 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:51.440 understand it because it comes down to the game, and 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:53.439 the game is just amazing. The games are an amazing 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:56.280 game of strategy. And I think this is what so 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:59.600 many people friends of mine have grown up and actually 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:01.520 love the they realize that's what it is. And that's 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:04.719 where it's different from the premier league and different from 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:07.600 our from our football is the strategy and the moments 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:11.240 that you get in the in the in the NFL outstanding. 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:14.040 You know, there's big free into form one moments where 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:16.520 you know that this is this is it. You feel 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:19.240 the suspense and just just building up. Yeah, this is 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:21.280 a very different game in that way, you know. Whereas 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:26.560 your football is a continuous action, you know, and there 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:30.399 are tactics before the game and at halftime, in the NFL, 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:33.920 every play is dialed up from a guy up in 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:36.240 the boot, you know. Norv is literally you know, telling 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:38.200 his guys what he wants them to do before each snap. 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:40.600 So this, the strategy element is is a very big 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:42.720 difference in this and the fact of course that there's 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:45.600 only maybe one or two goals scored in in your 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:48.440 football versus hopefully some more points to give people something 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:52.040 to cheer about on Sunday. Yeah, it is a it 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:55.359 has been a very cool trip to to see, you know, 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:58.480 the passion from the fans, not only Panther fans that 0:20:58.560 --> 0:21:00.480 have traveled over, but fans that are he or And 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:01.960 I do want to give a shout out on here 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:06.840