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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to the Bloomberg Business of Sports podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: Michael Blarn, I'm Scarlett Foo, and I'm Mike Lynch, and

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Speaker 1: we are talking about some of the big money issues

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Speaker 1: in the world or sports. Speaking of big money, the

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Speaker 1: super Bowl is here, Los Angeles Rams against the Cincinnati Bengals. Now,

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Speaker 1: what's interesting about this, Well, it's always interesting because it's

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. But what's really interesting, Scar, is that we're

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Speaker 1: playing super Bowl fifty six at so Far in Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: which is the home stadium for the Los Angeles Rams.

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Speaker 1: Really exciting for l A Rams fans. Not so exciting

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Speaker 1: for the forty nine fans who happened to be in

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Speaker 1: l A. Which we were discussing. Actually there are a

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Speaker 1: lot of them. I wondered though, I mean, you talked

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Speaker 1: about how the big money event is here, the super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: It's actually not going to be here for another two weeks.

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Speaker 1: So the next two weeks is just gonna be a

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Speaker 1: complete ramp up to that. But I was thinking, bar

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Speaker 1: and Lynch, there is something called the Pro Bowl next week, right,

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Speaker 1: do we even care about that? That's the NFL is

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Speaker 1: All Star Game. Do we care? I'm sorry, you're talking

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Speaker 1: to me NFL care because it would appear not why

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Speaker 1: don't they just do it like like in college where

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Speaker 1: this is the All American team. You know, you name

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Speaker 1: the team and then okay, fine, because it's it's like

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Speaker 1: flag football. I'm sorry, it's you know, they make a

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Speaker 1: play and one player on the other players like, oh,

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Speaker 1: that was pretty good in the high five and yeah,

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Speaker 1: you won't see that in in a regular NFL game,

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Speaker 1: which makes me wonder, you know, Lindy, why do we

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Speaker 1: even play the game? You know, it's it's kind of

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Speaker 1: an interesting broadcast because they put wireless microphones on the

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the huddle. You can hear them calling the

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Speaker 1: play and they sort of let you inside things that

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Speaker 1: you don't really hear doing a regular game. Uh. Coaches

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Speaker 1: Mike on the sidelines, players do interviews when they come

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Speaker 1: off the many tresses them. That is doing that now

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Speaker 1: though a cass has made Pro Bowl obsolete, Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: you know, years ago it was it was an honor

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Speaker 1: for somebody. They get a little bonus money for playing

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Speaker 1: in the game. They always was played in Honolulu for

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Speaker 1: a long time, and that was incentive enough for It's

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Speaker 1: been a long season. Haven't seen the family. Lit's take

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Speaker 1: the family to Hawaii. Practices only like in a half

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Speaker 1: hour every single day and it'll be a nice little vacation.

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Speaker 1: Now it's Vegas. So, um, you know which is which

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Speaker 1: is an attraction to itself. So I want to go

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Speaker 1: back to the Super Bowl though, Um this this is

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Speaker 1: were both mentioning in the home field of the Rams,

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Speaker 1: it's not it's it's it's kind of a downer for

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Speaker 1: the Greater Los Angeles area because you only have one

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Speaker 1: visiting team coming in Cincinnati. So what does that do

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Speaker 1: for all the hotels, rental cars, restaurants. Normally it's two

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Speaker 1: teams coming from outside coming to a neutral field. And

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Speaker 1: now the Rams are already there, their fans are already there.

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Speaker 1: They're not gonna fill hotels, they're not going to rent cars,

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Speaker 1: they're not gonna go to restaurants. So it's sort of

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Speaker 1: the same thing that happened in Tampa Bay last year.

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Speaker 1: That was the first time in the history of the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl that one of the team's got to play

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Speaker 1: the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, and here we are.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be exciting. Of course, it's in Los

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Speaker 1: A Coliseum. My question though, is, Okay, first of all,

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Speaker 1: Bowl lads on TV, and the super Bowl is way

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Speaker 1: more than just a sporting event. It is an event exactly.

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Speaker 1: So you've got the Super Bowl parties all around the nation,

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Speaker 1: and and that brings up this point and here I am.

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Speaker 1: I don't mean to sound like Debbie Downer, but I

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Speaker 1: I worry about any type of COVID spreads because you're

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Speaker 1: the halftime show. Um, that dog is going to be there.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be a great show. It's something for everyone.

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Speaker 1: The Super Bowl, and it has been since this thing exploded,

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Speaker 1: It's not just a football game. It's it's an American happening.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I always think back because I always

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Speaker 1: end up having who drive one of my kids to

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Speaker 1: the youth sports teams they don't schedule games on Super

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Speaker 1: the football playoffs as well. Hockey. This is true. This

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Speaker 1: before we move on, it's what I want to say

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Speaker 1: something to the National Football League if you want to

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Speaker 1: charge media rates now the iron is hot because all

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Speaker 1: the division games the a f C NFC championship game

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Speaker 1: play of the game. I mean that, it's I've never

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Speaker 1: seen that before. Usually somebody somebody's getting blown out the smithereens.

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Speaker 1: So if I'm the league, I'm like, yeah, how much

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Speaker 1: scar have a product. Yeah, it's the best reality show ever, right,

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Speaker 1: they conscripted any better to have these games go down

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Speaker 1: to the wire like this, absolutely spectacular, kept everybody in

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Speaker 1: I have a lot of respect for the reporters that

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Speaker 1: broke this. Adam Schefter, I totally respect for for breaking this.

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Speaker 1: I now, according to Tom Brady, uh, he hasn't spoken

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Speaker 1: I don't know, this is very complicated. There's one school

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Speaker 1: there's a little financial implication here too. He is due

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Speaker 1: at anyone who's a breadwinner, right, Yeah, she's the breadwinner.

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Speaker 1: So you know, now having said all that, you know,

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Speaker 1: all that he does, which is why he can go on.

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Speaker 1: He's forty four now. If he wanted to do another year,

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Speaker 1: Schefter and some of the other reports out there. Schefter

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Speaker 1: who works harder than anybody else? And for like eighteen

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Speaker 1: won it. Like every single month, he doesn't tell you

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