WEBVTT - Let’s Bring the Commanders Home! | Get Loud Live from Duffy's with Doug Williams, Mark Clouse & Shawn Springs | Get Loud | Washington Commanders 0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:02.720 Here we go. 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:06.480 It is the Game Loud podcast presented by seat Geek, 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:09.520 the official primary ticketing partner of the Washington Commanders. 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:12.399 Find tickets to Commanders games and more at seat Geek. 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:16.200 That's Fred Smoot. I'm Michael Jenkins Smoot. These are our people. 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:17.880 We got Oh my god, how. 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:20.600 You guys doing tonight? Can y'all rock? Can y'all step 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:21.040 right on? 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:21.360 Paul? 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:23.880 Yeah, well live and Duffy's captain. 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.400 We got Major Tuddy here, we got the command Force, 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:28.639 we got a Super Bowl MVP, we got I P. 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:33.800 And we're right round the coming from marfk How that 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:42.080 feel good? F k o k o k oh okay, 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:44.920 we got a hem, oh my god, gott a hem. 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:47.040 You know, normally when we do this show, they give 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:49.600 us like a glizzier to overs. 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:52.519 Yes tonight, it's prime, Yes we do. 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:55.520 We are talking to the team president of the Washington 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:56.840 Commander's Mark Klaus. 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:00.840 Come on in, welcome you again to him? And how 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:05.280 about this? What's going on? Guys? You doing what? Man? 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:07.679 Thanks for coming man, This is exciting. It's great to 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:10.000 officially meet you. Of course, we've seen all the great 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:14.800 work you've done and your background is amazing. From West 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:17.040 Point to weaving your way to the business world to here. 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:18.400 What has that journey been like? 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:22.240 You don't understand soup connected to football. I'm trying, Okay, 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.360 I help you, help you with that? Now, Look I 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:30.640 I have. I've had a wonderfully blessed journey. I started 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:34.760 uh playing basketball west Point. I was in the army 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:37.840 helicopter pilot around the road. 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:40.600 Yeah. I was a pilot for about six years. 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:43.240 And then left and went right into food. So there's 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:48.200 another transition, right, all right. And I've managed brands all 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:51.320 over the world. We've lived in China, we lived in Brazil. 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:55.720 I ran brands like Oreo Cookies, an the Oreo Fans, 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:59.120 Pepperig Farm, Goldfish. 0:01:58.800 --> 0:01:59.559 Campbell's Soup. 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:03.200 So that I also uh have worked on some uh 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:04.880 some cocktail brands. 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:12.400 How about Jack Daniels. Let's go get Duffy's rolling. 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.680 So you know, for me, my life has been spent 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:24.800 leading teams, transforming brands, and really bringing iconic organizations back 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:29.320 to prominence. And this has been a terrific opportunity. Uh 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:32.359 Josh as he was putting together the team, and obviously 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:36.359 we all know what a great choice in Adam Peters, Uh, 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:39.520 Dan Quinn. Of course amazing and you know, look to 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:43.239 be part of that group with Josh working on this, 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:45.760 it was just too great of an opportunity to pass 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:48.880 up the NFL. 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:52.079 You had some special things, but you you basically did 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:52.720 no seconds. 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.160 Man, there's nothing that you haven't done. 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:59.960 I'm trying to accumulate all those experiences we've We've said 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.680 the coaching in Washington change, and we know that has 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.360 a lot to do with coach Queen, but has a 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:06.800 lot to do with Adam Peterson. 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:10.080 How have you enjoyed watching the coach a change? 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:13.000 Yeah, Look, I could tell you firsthand it is all 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:17.000 about culture. What's happening here is getting the right people 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:20.320 and the right shairs that are making the decisions, that 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:23.680 have the right set of principles and values and the 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:27.040 right clarity of vision for where we're going. 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:28.680 And that's a big part of why I joined. 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:30.760 Before I join this team, I spent a lot of 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:35.080 time talking to Adam, talking to Josh and just believe entirely. 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:36.600 And where we're headed and what we're doing, and how 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:39.400 does that connect when you take football coach. I understand 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:41.720 that in the building when it comes to the football team, 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:43.920 but how does that connect and how does it affect 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:44.960 the business side. 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:48.160 It should touch everything that we do, right, whether we're 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:52.400 talking to sponsors, whether we're out with fans, whether we're 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.240 working on how we're going to build the community around 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:57.440 the new stadium, all of that. 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:58.920 Should feel like it's connected. 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:00.480 We talk about it all the time, and we got 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.840 to all be rowing in the same direction as one team. 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.200 And that starts with a lining behind that culture. So 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:10.280 it's a huge part of the foundation that we're building 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.880 and now we got to keep expanding that across everything 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:13.280 we're doing. 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:15.680 So when you talk about the stadium, obviously you're right 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:16.800 in the middle of this project. 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:18.320 And I don't have to tell you. 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:20.479 I think anyone that's familiar with this franchise knows the 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.520 connection that this has with that site. 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:26.120 Yeah, it's the spiritual home of our football team. It 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:26.599 really is. 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:29.839 When you think about whenever I talk to fans and 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.400 they talk to me about the memories of whether it's 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:36.200 the stadium shaking because it was so loud, or seat 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:39.120 cushions flying all over the place, or you. 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:41.800 Know, running up to Super Bowl championships. 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:45.760 It is a special place and I think it's it's 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:49.520 important for the city too. This is the nation's capital. 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.760 We should have a stadium in the nation's capital that 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:58.080 is worthy of being in the nations. And that's what 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:00.160 RFK is all about, and that's why we want want 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.720 to bring that back and get that done and do 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:06.560 it by twenty thirty. I want us play football twenty 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:07.880 thirty in that stadium. 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.680 And I think people jesse a stadium, it's gonna be 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:12.280 a lot more than the stadium. 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:16.240 Right, one hundred percent. So what makes this such a 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:20.000 special location is right now, if you if you drive 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:24.840 in that area, you see the old stadium that's right, 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:28.560 the armory it's there. We want to transform that into 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:30.800 the jewel of d C. Right, it's one hundred and 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:38.160 eighty acres. That includes riverfront, so Anacosta River waterfront. You've 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:42.760 got an incredible set of communities. We want every form 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:48.760 of housing, retail, entertainment. It should truly be the crowning 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.599 jewel of DC. And I think with partnership with the 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:54.400 city and City Council and the communities, we can. 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:55.080 Build that together. 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:57.520 And when you talk about a standalone bill that could happen, 0:05:57.560 --> 0:05:59.400 does that change the timeline at all? 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:01.480 How does that How does that shift anything, if at all? 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.120 What's that the if it becomes a standalone bill or 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:05.120 the politics of it, does it. 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:05.680 Change the time? 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:05.880 No? 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.840 Look, so I think that that the good news is 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.719 everybody that I'm talking to and working with, whether it's 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:16.640 the mayor's team that have been terrific partners or city council, 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.600 everybody is really trying. 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.520 To find the right path to get all of this done. 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:23.760 And as you know, there's a lot of a lot 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:25.640 of complexity, a lot of things that have to be 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:29.039 talked through and decided. But I feel like right now 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:30.880 we're in a moment where we got to go and 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:33.000 make this happen. This is our window, this is our 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:37.359 opportunity for the city, for the team. 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:39.159 We got to get the things done. 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:41.680 We got to make sure we come together and close 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:43.400 the door and get it out, get it going well. 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:45.200 One thing, you know, for me being in the city 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:47.920 and talking to fans and stuff, you know, tailgating. 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:50.240 Is a big, big tradition here. Sure people really really 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:51.200 love doing it. 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:52.919 And every time I hear I'm like, they'd be like, 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:55.520 I'm ready for the statement, But are we gonna have 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:57.160 any anywhere to tail getting? 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.800 We are gonna have places to tail date all right, 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:03.440 promise you I know how poor that is. And so 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:07.640 as we think about the design and how we're building out, 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:10.680 of course, when we first open the stadium, there's still 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:12.560 going to be a lot of surface parking where you 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:16.120 can tailgate. But even when we're building the structured parking, 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.800 we're going to ensure that there's going to be just 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:22.760 over a thousand spaces that are dedicated to tailgating. Think 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.760 of the roofs of the structure or near in areas 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:27.680 where fans are going to be able to still come 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:30.240 and tailgate. But we're also going to give you a 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:33.040 lot of options to tailgating. We're also going to build 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.080 that plaza that will sit in front of the stadium 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:36.720 is going to be the home to a lot of 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:40.600 great establishments like this where you can go have a drink, 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:44.600 have some food, pregame, and and tailgate in a different way. 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:46.720 So there'll be choices, you can do it all. And 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.000 that's really what we want to offer, something for all 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.040 of our fans to find the way they want to 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.680 get ready for us to win games in RFK. 0:07:54.360 --> 0:08:00.280 Damis you know, and what I appreciate about you guys, Fred, 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.360 You're always out is that you're always taking feedback from 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:03.720 the fans. 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:05.000 What have you heard from some of the fans? 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.080 Come, yeah, look, I think there's been a lot of 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.960 good questions, but there's also a lot of stuff out 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:10.600 there right. 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:12.840 Now that's just not accurate. 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.320 Like I was, I spent a couple hours with the 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:20.280 firemen yesterday walk visiting some firehouses around the city and 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:22.880 won the fire I said, hey, who's who's for the 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:25.840 stadium and who's not And one of the guys like, well, 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:27.720 I live in the area and I know you guys 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:30.640 are going to close the soccer fields that are there. 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:34.200 I'm like, what, No, I know how important those soccer 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.640 fields are to the city. We will not close them. 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.200 We will not close them. We're not going to use 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:44.000 them for construction. One of my favorite groups and I've 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:47.760 got I've loved getting to meet these guys, the skateboarding community. 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:49.680 Yeah, there's a skate park. 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.160 It is, and they want to make sure that we're 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:54.920 thinking about that and we will have a skate park 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.720 place for them to skate when they're there. So I 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.360 just I'm trying to do my best and make sure 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.480 that when people have got questions, you know, we go 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:05.199 out to these town halls, we listen, really try to 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:08.240 give them the true scoop because honestly, I can tell 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:09.920 you if Josh was sitting here, he would say the 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:14.160 same thing. The commitment here beyond building a great stadium, 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.079 it's really about building a community. 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:18.520 If you see what happened, because when I moved here 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:22.520 in one the baseball stadium six, it was industrial and 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.719 you if you go over there and now is revitalize 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:25.920 the whole entire area. 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.319 This is the This is the fastest. 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:32.120 The stadium is the fastest and surest way that we 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:33.520 can develop. 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.760 The RFK area. And you are right, I mean d 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:37.079 C and I've looked. 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:40.199 I've studied all these around the country and DC has 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:43.959 one of the best track records of utilizing sports as 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.440 the platform to develop and transform areas. 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:48.160 And that's simply what we want to do there too. 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:49.760 And now we have actual football coming up. 0:09:49.920 --> 0:10:01.240 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm true. Rookie, right, the NFL rookie, Klaus, 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.320 go get the gatorade. That's all right, let me go 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:08.080 get the gatorade. But no, look, it's been so fun 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:13.360 to watch how coach Quinn and the whole coaching staff, 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:17.800 you know, mixes these veterans, guys that have been here 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.240 with the team for a while are rookies, and how 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.680 to bring them together to really turn it into this 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:28.400 high powered, functioning team and everything they do is purposeful. 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:31.000 It's been incredible to why I can't wait for training 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.280 camp because I know we're like third gear right now. 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:35.360 We got to we're about to shift into fourth to 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:37.040 fifth gear, and it's going to be exciting to be 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:38.160 able to be there and part of that. 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.880 And I think the fans really enjoyed the training camp 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:42.200 experience last year. 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:44.880 Any new things they are into the training camp experience 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:49.880 this year, we're continuing. I was there today and it's 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:51.640 a little scary. There's construction. 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:57.959 The bubble is now replacing replacing the shell, so it's 0:10:57.960 --> 0:10:59.800 a little nerve racking, but I can tell you what 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:03.520 we're doing is really transforming that into into what the 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.160 players and what the fans deserve, which is a world 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:07.400 class training facility. 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:09.880 And that starts with the facilities. 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:13.000 It starts with the training equipment, every aspect of it, 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.000 as well as making sure that when our fans come 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:16.600 out to training camp they're. 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:17.760 Having a world class experience. 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:19.439 So I think you're going to see a lot of 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.800 great excitement and fun out there when when we open 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:22.120 it up. 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:23.679 I've told the story a few times that a few 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.280 months ago and this was not for shows on camera, 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:28.640 and I walked in and someone was polishing the Super 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:29.240 Bowl trophies. 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:31.440 Yeah, that's right, And I was like, oh. 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:36.679 Detail, this is what I would say. I just I 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.439 love what the ownership group has done. They have reached 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.240 out and touched every facet of his team, from the 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.360 old stadium that we have now Norwest Stadium, to the 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.760 practice facility, to every imprint on this team. 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:50.199 Yeah, you know it is so true. 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:52.959 And it is and I can tell you I'm in 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:57.520 all of those conversations, and we start those conversations with 0:11:57.679 --> 0:11:59.920 what's best for the team and what's best for the 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.280 like one of the things I'll tell you, Yes, I'm 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:04.679 excited about the new stadium, but we're going to be 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.440 playing a lot of football in Northwest Stadium. And I'm like, 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:08.880 I don't want to hear I tell the team all 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:10.240 the time. I don't want to hear that this is 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.440 an old building. I don't want to hear any of 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:15.560 those excuses. We can have better food, we can have 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:19.000 better fan experience, We can improve parking, We can do 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.240 the things that we need to do to make sure 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:24.079 when people come to a game, they're having an amazing experience. 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:25.760 I tell them all the time, some of the most 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.360 fun I ever had in my life, you know, fifteen 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:31.640 fourteen years old, in the basement of my friends, paneled walls, 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.960 maybe a couple of beers, a couple it's great music. 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:38.760 We can have an amazing time anywhere. It's up to 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:40.640 us to make that happen most and what's. 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:42.440 Amazing is that you hear the players who talk to me. 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:44.880 They say, I'll go to DC now like you made 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:46.240 it a yeah destination. 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.200 They want to come, and I think, you know, that 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.720 is the culture again, right. They know something specials here. 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:55.959 They know the history and the heritage which we are 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.840 so incredibly proud of, you know, guys like Doug and 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:02.680 others that laid that found work, that groundwork. The players 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:04.520 want to come be part of that and to see 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:07.199 it come back to life has just been an extraordinary 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:08.120 experience to watch. 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:10.520 Most definitely, he's the team president of the Washington Have. 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:15.520 I appreciate you all right, let's get the let's get 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:21.000 the main event going on. Appreciate you appreciate. 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:26.600 So hashtag bring the team home. You're making up hashtags 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:27.040 on the spot. 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:28.920 I know you make it up on the spot because 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:32.719 unlike y'all, I never got the chance, unlike Doug Williams 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:34.280 to play in that building. 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:38.240 They went winning championships in that building. That's a special place. 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:40.719 If you want to keep up with all of the 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:44.120 latest partners, just go to Commanders dot com New Stadium. 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.600 You can sign up and learn extra ways to voice 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:48.760 your support. Thank you for coming out tonight and voicing 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:50.040 your sport. Because we're just getting started. 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:52.280 Man, we just get started. The party is just getting started. 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.120 I might have to take him up on that, Jack Daniels, 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.640 I was trying to wait a little bit. We might 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:57.480 have to go mid show. 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.400 I have to go min show, all right, right, So 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:02.640 we got a ton of great guests tonight. We're gonna 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:06.120 bring up two more guests right now until Travis hunder 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.679 place the highest drafted cornerback. 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:10.720 Oh please, don't you say it. 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:21.760 No, No, first of all shot Springs in the house. 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:26.120 Sean Springs is now the second highest drafted cornerback of 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:27.200 all time. 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:32.800 I tried, man, which one? Here's the receiver? Man, you 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:36.160 want to make more. I would have been smart. He's 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.760 receiver right now. I know, I know, man, but here's 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:39.120 the man. 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:43.880 And also how about the Super Bowl MVP, the legend, Williams, 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:46.920 the legend. 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:51.320 You know, Man, I'm here glistening like Jamaine Jax. 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:57.560 Thanks for being I know you've already talked to a 0:14:57.600 --> 0:14:59.440 lot of fans. And since we were talking about r 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:01.200 f K, can you take us back and tell us 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:02.320 what that must have been like? 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.840 Yeah, paint that picture for man. What what a story? Man? 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:09.560 You know, just tonight coming here, we passed stuff here 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.240 and we turned around and as we was turning around, 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.040 the statements right there in our faith and it's so 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:17.000 much history there. I know when I came here in 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:20.120 eighty six, you know, I thought I died and went 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:23.360 to heaven. Not so much the stadium because I hadn't 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:26.160 been there the player, but when I did get in there, 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:29.320 and the intimate, the intimate of that stadium. Man, you 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:31.240 can walk out the dress room, people can touch on 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.560 the head, and you look up when you're playing, and 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:36.120 bleachers was just rocking. It was just one of those 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:39.560 statements where you know, it's not like an open statement. 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:40.960 It was more on top of you. 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.560 And that's what made it so well, you know, and 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.040 you know the grass was great, but the most important 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:47.880 thing was the player. 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:49.680 The Burgan didn't go. That's right. 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:53.360 It wasn't the day that we walked out of there. 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.200 We didn't feel like we was gonna win the football. 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:57.960 And I think that's what we're getting back to. But 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:01.080 I'll tell you that plays over there. You know, there's 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:03.720 a lot of ghosts and everything else is in that place, 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:07.200 just still running over there. I can see Dexter Mainland 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.320 and Charles coming. 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.920 Off the edge. Now you know dal Green, I know 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:13.160 we'll forget Daryl Green. 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:14.920 And when we went to the Super Bowl in nineteen 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.640 eighty eight, the biggest player of that game was the 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:20.520 past that Darrel Green knocked down at the gold line. 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:23.240 And I saw there today. Man, every time I think 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:26.600 about Dale Green, I think about the punt return in Chicago, 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.960 but the past that he knocked down against Minnesota. 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:33.960 Running down twenty set was again, yeah, but it was. 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.680 There's so much history over there, man, it's unbelievable, and 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:39.040 you know it has to be torn down, and you hate, 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:41.760 you hate for it to be torn down, but we 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.400 all know the history can always be that and the 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.000 most important thing. We can put another stam up in 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.800 that spot and that would be big. And you know, 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.840 I don't I'm not too much in the politics, but 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:55.760 let me say this. I think all the councilmens that 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:59.000 are in DC, you know, just need to understand what 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:02.400 it means to d see. Yes, the brain the command 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:06.560 us back home and and I know Mark and Josh 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:09.040 and everybody's working on it, but I just hope that 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:10.920 all these politicians go to bed. 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:12.280 That night and wake up and say, you know what, 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:14.320 let's get it done. We got to do that. Let's 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:14.760 get it done. 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.800 And I don't know what council, what Ward you live 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:19.880 in and what have you, but if you live in 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:21.800 any of Ward, you need to tell many guys, we 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.600 got to bring this stadium home, you know, because let 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:27.000 me tell you, you out there playing whatever you plan 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:30.040 and it don't happen. I think it's gonna hurt DC. 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:32.800 And that's what we can't afford to hurt d C. 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:34.480 I think that's the most important thing. 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:35.680 Yeah, most definitely. 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.159 And let me ask you this, dun if it was 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:41.240 any unique piece to keep from their statum, maybe a 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:45.840 brick conerstone, maybe a section that goes up and down 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:48.320 with some of the original seats. What would you what 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:50.919 would you like to take from r FFK one and 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:52.120 put it at rf K two. 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:54.840 Well, you know what, I was in there not long 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:57.040 ago when the mayor and everybody else there, when they 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.480 had took taken a whole lot of stuff out of there. Yeah, yeah, 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:00.919 and seeing nothing out. 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:08.880 Like you certainly can't use to steal around. 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:11.240 So I don't see anything. All the seats are gone 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:14.119 and yeah, it's just concrete there. 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:15.800 Did you ever think you'd see the day where this 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:17.239 is a real possibility the way it is? 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:19.560 You know what, I've been here. 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:21.400 I'm going into my twelfth year, and I can tell 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:24.480 you what last year and this year is the best 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:27.960 year that I've been here from a feeling standpoint of 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:31.359 the ownership, the players, and the possibility of getting a 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:32.000 new stadium. 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:34.080 To me, that's that's big for me. 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:37.199 You know, I might not be around in twenty thirty, 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:39.760 but at the same time, Stave need to be. 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:44.680