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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Business of Sports from Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 5: Welcome to the Bloomberg Business of Sports, where we explore

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Speaker 5: the big money issues in the world of sports.

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Speaker 8: I'm Vanessa Prodomo.

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Speaker 5: Joining me this week is our usual friend of the show,

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Speaker 5: US sports business reporter Randa Williams.

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Speaker 9: We're on the ground and great here in San Francisco

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Speaker 9: during the lead up to Super Bowl sixty. In this

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Speaker 9: special edition of the podcast, we are speaking to current

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Speaker 9: and former NFL players about the Big Game, plus their

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Speaker 9: ventures on and off the field.

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Speaker 8: First up, I speak with.

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Speaker 5: Former NFL quarterback and Amazon Prime analyst Ryan Fitzpatrick, and

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Speaker 5: he gives us his insight on how the game will

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Speaker 5: shake out on Super Bowl Sunday. So, Ryan, thanks so

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Speaker 5: much for joining the Bloomberg Businesses Sports.

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Speaker 10: It's great to have you here. Yeah, thank you for

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Speaker 5: Bowl week, so I got to get a couple of

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Speaker 5: you know, picks from you. Right now today is NFL Honors.

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Speaker 5: Tell me who you think is going to win MVP.

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Speaker 3: Matthew Stafford's going to win the MVP. He was incredible

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Speaker 3: all year long. I think the problem that we have

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Speaker 3: when we start talking about these guys just because I

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Speaker 3: that Drake may did, and the guys that want Drake

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Speaker 3: They both had amazing seasons. But Matthew Stafford, I think

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Speaker 5: Yeah, tell me a little bit more about the quarterback

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Speaker 5: marker right now. You obviously mentioned Matthew Stafford and Drake

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Speaker 5: May there. Obviously. Sam Donald has an amazing story similar,

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Speaker 5: isn't to yourself? That he played for so many different

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Speaker 3: and everybody. There's so many different shapes and sizes that

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Speaker 3: Those are things that are hard to measure until you

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So are there either one of them that you

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Speaker 7: A win in this game from what you've seen.

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Speaker 5: Is it you think that Drake May is going to

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Speaker 3: And New England all year long, people have just waiting,

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Speaker 12: Don't go away.

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Speaker 9: More Bloomberg Business of Sports from Super Bowl sixty.

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Speaker 1: Back, This is Bloomberg Business of Sports from Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 8: Welcome to the Bloomberg Business of Sports.

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Speaker 5: I'm Vanessa Perdomo with Randa Williams live from Radio Row

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Speaker 5: in San Francisco for Super Bowl sixty. Now we will

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Speaker 5: Welcome to the Bloomberg Business of Sports. It is so

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Speaker 11: Thank you for having me. I'm excited about this.

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Speaker 6: It's award for New Orleans, representing a city that has

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Speaker 11: And for it to be the.

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Speaker 6: That's what the NFL really represents and how we show

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Speaker 6: I mean Nationwide is born over four million dollars into

450
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Speaker 6: players causes. So like that attention of all those partners

451
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Speaker 6: kind of come together and saying hey, we want to

452
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Speaker 6: we really want to elevate. This award has really just

453
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Speaker 6: moved into a space of like most players are going

454
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Speaker 6: to resonate with that, Like it's about it being more

455
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Speaker 6: than a player, Like, Okay, if this is the highest

456
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Speaker 6: honor in the league, if I'm coming in and I

457
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Speaker 6: want to be the best I can be, I want

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Speaker 6: to strive towards being being that. And so it's like, Okay,

459
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Speaker 6: what do I gotta do? Okay, well, I got to

460
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Speaker 6: do more in the community. I need to figure out

461
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Speaker 6: what are the things that I care about. And that

462
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Speaker 6: ignites and elevates the locker room to yeah, we want

463
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Speaker 6: you to be the best players you can be, but

464
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Speaker 6: we also want you to figure out how you can

465
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Speaker 6: use this to pour into the community, Like this is

466
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Speaker 6: what the model looks like, and when you do that,

467
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Speaker 6: that's also being modeled in society.

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Speaker 11: NFL has tremendous influence.

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Speaker 6: It's an entertainment business and so many mediums of watching

470
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Speaker 6: what's happening. Well, it's also elevating society. Societies looking at

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Speaker 6: that and saying Okay, well I can have my career,

472
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Speaker 6: I can have the things that I'm focused on, but

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Speaker 6: how am I helping people? How am I using what

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Speaker 6: I'm experienced and I'm getting fulfillment in to bring fulfillment

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Speaker 6: to somebody else. That's what is modeled being modeled in society,

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Speaker 6: and that's what we want. We want that ripple effect

477
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Speaker 6: because for our country to move forward, it takes everybody.

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Speaker 6: And it's really about raising this belief that when when

479
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Speaker 6: we live on these principles, when we all kind of

480
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Speaker 6: come together, uh, there's no problem that we can't solve,

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Speaker 6: and it's like we look around and it's like, yeah,

482
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Speaker 6: it feels like it's problems all around us, but yeah,

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Speaker 6: but we can be we can be the answer to

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Speaker 6: those problems. We don't need you know, government to kind

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Speaker 6: of come in and take care of everything.

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Speaker 11: It's like we as people.

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Speaker 6: Can come together and and help the people who are

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Speaker 6: beside us. And it's just everybody having that belief. And

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Speaker 6: it's really just if you really believe that, you a

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Speaker 6: move like that. And that's what we want to ignite,

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Speaker 6: is that belief in people.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I feel ignited right now. If you don't,

493
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Speaker 5: then you're not listening right for real. So the last

494
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Speaker 5: thing you want to talk to you about is, you

495
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Speaker 5: know the New Orleans Saints. I know you're, you know,

496
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Speaker 5: trying to figure out your contract, but the New Orleans

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Speaker 5: Saints was just announced as a game in Paris. Tell me,

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Speaker 5: you know, how exciting would it be to play in Paris?

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Speaker 11: Man?

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Speaker 7: That is?

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Speaker 11: That is unreal. New Orleans has really just changed the game.

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Speaker 6: Shout out to the NFL what it's what it's international

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Speaker 6: expansion and uh, I feel like Roger Goodell has been

504
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Speaker 6: instrumental in that and really taking the elevating this game

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Speaker 6: to a to a place never been and New Orleans

506
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Speaker 6: just positioned itself at the forefront of that. Paris is

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Speaker 6: the most toward city in the world, and you know,

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Speaker 6: shout out to miss Benson for her forward thinking getting

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Speaker 6: in front of that, you know, locking in exclusive marketing

510
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Speaker 6: rights and so it's an extension of Saints Nation that's

511
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Speaker 6: going into Paris. That game is going to be like

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Speaker 6: no other game that has happened internationally. It's on the

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Speaker 6: Olympic stage, it's on the World Cup stage, it's de France.

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Speaker 6: That stadium is going to be been played be played at.

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Speaker 6: So you think about just the excitement level. I was

516
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Speaker 6: over there this past summer and man, those people those

517
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Speaker 6: people love football over there. It's such a rich hunger.

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Speaker 6: And I know who that nation is going to travel.

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Speaker 6: It's it's going to be unreal. And the New Orleans Saints,

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Speaker 6: a relatively smaller market in the NFL, really just positioned

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Speaker 6: itself as number one in the international market.

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Speaker 11: And uh just excited for that.

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Speaker 8: That was New Orleans Saints line. I'm Tomrio Davis. Don't

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Speaker 8: go away.

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Speaker 5: More Bloomberg Business of Sports from Super Bowl sixty in

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Speaker 5: San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, this is Bloomberg Business of Sports

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Speaker 1: from Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 8: Welcome to the Bloomberg Business of Sports.

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Speaker 5: I'm Vanessa Perdomo with Randall Williams live from Radio Row

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Speaker 5: in San Francisco for Super Bowl sixty. Next is a

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Speaker 5: legend of the game, arguably the greatest wide receiver of

533
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Speaker 5: all time, three times Super Bowl champion with the San

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Speaker 5: Francisco forty nine ers, Jerry Rice. He joined us alongside

535
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Speaker 5: the net app Chief marketing officer Gaby Boco.

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Speaker 7: We're here with Jerry Rice and Gaby.

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Speaker 11: How are you all today?

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Speaker 7: I'm doing fantastic, very good.

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Speaker 9: Okay, Jerry, this is like your one hundred Super Bowl.

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Speaker 9: We get this point, right, how are.

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Speaker 12: You no, man?

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Speaker 13: You know, every Super Bowl is special, super Bowl sixty.

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Speaker 12: You gotta to think about that.

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Speaker 13: And I would have loved for my San Francisco forty

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Speaker 13: nine ers to be PUTI.

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Speaker 12: It's painting right now.

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Speaker 13: But you got two great teams with the Patriots and

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Speaker 13: also the Seahawks.

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Speaker 9: Maybe you're here with NETAP. Of course, I want you

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Speaker 9: to tell me what you're doing that's special with Jerry,

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Speaker 9: with the NFL. What makes you and your company it's brilliant?

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Speaker 12: Oh?

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Speaker 8: I love that.

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Speaker 12: You know.

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Speaker 8: NETAP is a data company.

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Speaker 4: We believe that data is it powers everything, and especially

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Speaker 4: when you think about what it does for the NFL

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Speaker 4: and what it does for the forty nine ers, and

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Speaker 4: especially as it comes to life for Super Bowl sixty,

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Speaker 4: data is behind everything, right. It's this is the most

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Speaker 4: intensive data sports moment for data in sporting. And what

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Speaker 4: NETAP does is it basically creates this layer we call

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Speaker 4: an intelligent data infrastructure. It's basically what moves that data

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Speaker 4: and allows the players and the coach and fans ultimately

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Speaker 4: to experience the game at a high magnitude. I think

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Speaker 4: what's really important though, when we partner with Jerry is

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Speaker 4: it's When you think about players like Jerry on the

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Speaker 4: field at like Levi's Stadium, you're taking a stellar I'm

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Speaker 4: gonna I'm gonna love.

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Speaker 8: On you a little bit.

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Speaker 10: Okay, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 8: There's a lot of people that do so on you

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Speaker 8: a little bit.

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Speaker 4: This is a guy who has so many stats that

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Speaker 4: have broken records. That kind of data combined with a

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Speaker 4: field like Levi's Stadium, you've got kinds of data that

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Speaker 4: that really tells our story really well. So that's why

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Speaker 4: we partner with Jerry. That's what we're excited about with

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Speaker 4: Super Bowl, and that's why we're here.

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Speaker 7: Listen.

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Speaker 9: I think you're going to be party with Jerry forever

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Speaker 9: because some of his records are just not going.

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Speaker 8: To be I agree with Yeah, we agree.

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Speaker 7: Twenty two thousand receiving yards. It's just not gonna be touched.

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Speaker 9: No one's going to be playing as long as you did,

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Speaker 9: at the level you did, as long as you did.

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Speaker 13: I played for such a long time because I actually

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Speaker 13: love playing football.

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Speaker 7: You know, I didn't play for the money.

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Speaker 13: I didn't you know, I didn't play for the stats

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Speaker 13: and all of that.

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Speaker 10: But I feel like I old.

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Speaker 13: The fans something that was the unique. You know, any

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Speaker 13: time you paid your heart on arned money to come

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Speaker 13: to a football game, I wanted you to witness something

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Speaker 13: that was going to be real special. I wanted you

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Speaker 13: to leave that stadium and say, oh my god, did

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Speaker 13: you see him make that catch or score that touchdown

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Speaker 13: or whatever.

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Speaker 7: Now for you, Jerry, with NetApp a lot of data.

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Speaker 13: If you had if I had this, if I had

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Speaker 13: if I had net app back in the day, and

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Speaker 13: to have all that information right in front of me

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Speaker 13: and be able to get that information so quickly and

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Speaker 13: stuff like that, maybe I would have been able to

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Speaker 13: double all my stats.

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Speaker 7: You think you would have forty thousand or seven yards.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, from the twenty two, eight hundred and ninety five yards,

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Speaker 13: the five hundred and forty nine reception, the two hundred

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Speaker 13: and eight touchdown, the thirty seven records, so more.

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Speaker 12: I would have doubled it.

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Speaker 9: So now tell me the ways that NetApp and data

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Speaker 9: are impacting athletes in ways that they don't know.

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Speaker 7: Because we see a lot.

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Speaker 9: Of teams hire data officers and bring in people from analytics.

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Speaker 10: How are that?

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Speaker 7: How is that impacting athletes from behind the scenes?

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Speaker 4: You know, I think it's really how the coach takes

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Speaker 4: what their strategy is and is using what the sensors

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Speaker 4: are that are players now, what's happening inside the stadium

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Speaker 4: and pulling all that together. And I would say the

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Speaker 4: big driver for how to use data is AI right now.

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Speaker 4: So when you think about how to bring AI into

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Speaker 4: a let's say the Super Bowl Levi Stadium data center,

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Speaker 4: you're looking at it in not just three K, four K,

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Speaker 4: You're looking at in four D.

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Speaker 8: And that's going to how.

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Speaker 4: Players change how they throw, how they run, how they catch,

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Speaker 4: how they partner with their teammates on the field. And

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Speaker 4: that's going to help coaches define the plays even better.

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Speaker 4: We've we'd like to say that's in the invisible layer,

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Speaker 4: and that's truly the case. It allows players like Jerry

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Speaker 4: to shine.

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Speaker 7: All right, yeah, so why are you partnered with the NFL.

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Speaker 7: Let's let's ask I.

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Speaker 9: Want to ask that because the hard question is the

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Speaker 9: NFL experience.

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Speaker 10: That's it's the NFL experience.

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Speaker 13: Speak to this because it is like global, Yeah, you

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Speaker 13: taking it global.

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Speaker 10: I don't care.

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Speaker 13: You know, it could be Silicon Valley, it could be

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Speaker 13: any continents. It's just making it so accessible, you know,

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Speaker 13: for the fans. Sure, in which I feel like it

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Speaker 13: plays a very important role.

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Speaker 8: That is absolutely the truth.

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Speaker 4: Right when we look at how we tell our story,

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Speaker 4: we want to make it approachable for everybody. And there's

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Speaker 4: no greater base of customers slash fans than the NFL.

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Speaker 9: Jerry you talked about globally, we're seeing more games played

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Speaker 9: internationally than ever before. Talk to me a little bit

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Speaker 9: about where would you like to see an NFL game

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Speaker 9: or where would you have liked to play.

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Speaker 13: To be honest with you, I was talking this over

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Speaker 13: with my manager this morning. I want to go to

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Speaker 13: Australia and I think they just announced something about the

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Speaker 13: San Francisco forty nine Ers that they're going to be

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Speaker 13: playing there, and I heard the fan base. Yeah, I

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Speaker 13: think they make I think they announced that. I'm not sure,

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Speaker 13: you know, you might want to check that, but I'm

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Speaker 13: thinking that Australia and we have a fan base over

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Speaker 13: there like crazy with the forty nine ers, just like

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Speaker 13: in London.

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Speaker 10: It's the same way.

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Speaker 7: So I would love to go there.

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Speaker 9: Roger Goodel's mentioned sixteen international games.

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Speaker 7: Is that good for players?

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Speaker 9: Do you think players actually want to travel not every

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Speaker 9: single week, but to be going to Spain and to

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Speaker 9: Paris and potentially Italy and Australia and so many other places.

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Speaker 7: You think that's good for players.

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Speaker 13: You know, I can't really speak on that for everyone,

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Speaker 13: but if I was playing, I wouldn't.

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Speaker 7: Have a problem with it. You wouldn't have a problem now,

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Speaker 7: because I love playing football.

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Speaker 13: I was one of those guys that actually went to

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Speaker 13: training camp with the rookies, and I was a veteran,

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Speaker 13: so I was always ready to go. But you know

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Speaker 13: that's gonna have to be decided. But yeah, if it

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Speaker 13: was me, I would do it.

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Speaker 9: Gaby, tell me a little bit about what NetApp is

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Speaker 9: doing in terms of the international growth and the presence

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Speaker 9: that you all have just domestically.

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Speaker 7: But overseas well.

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Speaker 4: We definitely partner with the NFL as the presiding sponsor

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Speaker 4: and partner of most of their, if not all, their

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Speaker 4: international games, including their expansion games which are being announced.

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Speaker 8: Against his against his whistless.

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Speaker 4: But we do it because we thought it was an

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Speaker 4: important move because the NFL is spreading this fandom globally

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Speaker 4: and there are, as Jerry said, fans in countries that

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Speaker 4: you know, with the US, sometimes we kind of think

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Speaker 4: of ourselves, you know, we do one thing. The NFL

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Speaker 4: has fans everywhere, and we want to be part of

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Speaker 4: a team and a company that takes that and expands

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Speaker 4: it because data sits has bound has no boundaries, right,

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Speaker 4: And nothing says that better than a sport that has

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Speaker 4: fans around the world. So I think it's a great

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Speaker 4: opportunity for the NFL. It's a great opportunity for the players.

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Speaker 4: And who doesn't want more fans.

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Speaker 7: I can't find anybody who doesn't want more fans.

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Speaker 13: And I think it's so cool too, man, because when

703
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Speaker 13: you go to you know, different countries and stuff like that,

704
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Speaker 13: to actually see someone wearing your jersey, yeah, I mean

705
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Speaker 13: the connection there and I'm like, oh my god, you

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Speaker 13: know this are you is this for real?

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Speaker 10: Now? Are you serious?

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Speaker 13: You know, like it could be London, it could be

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Speaker 13: any other country and stuff like that. You have really

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Speaker 13: loyal fans and they love American football.

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Speaker 9: All right, let's do some fun ones before we get

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Speaker 9: out of here. Last year, the Super Bowl was watched

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Speaker 9: by one hundred and twenty seven million people, driven by

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Speaker 9: the storylines of Jalen Hurts, Chief's three pete. How many

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Speaker 9: people do you all think are going to tune in

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Speaker 9: this year?

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Speaker 13: I think much more because of Sam Donald. Because Sam

718
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Speaker 13: Donald he was with us, then he went to the Vikings,

719
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Speaker 13: then he went to the Panthers, then he went back

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Speaker 13: to Seattle.

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Speaker 7: So he'd been you know, sort of like a journeyman.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, a little bit.

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Speaker 13: So I think a lot of people are going to

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Speaker 13: be pulling for the Seattle Seahawks, Davy, I don't know.

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Speaker 8: I think we're gonna be a little up.

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Speaker 4: I think all the Patriots will want to come back, say,

727
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Speaker 4: I haven't been here in a while.

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Speaker 8: I gotta watch.

729
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Speaker 7: I got only been ten years or so. There's some

730
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Speaker 7: franchise that have never been there.

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Speaker 4: And then the Seahawks, right, definitely, they've got to be there.

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Speaker 8: They've got a rep. So I think people are going

733
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Speaker 8: to tune in in mass.

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Speaker 7: All right, pick your winner, Seattle, play for the Seahawks.

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Speaker 7: We ain't forget. We haven't forgot. There's some people who

736
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Speaker 7: don't know that, but.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, yes, Seattle.

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Speaker 8: No, I'm not gonna I'm gonna pick the.

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Speaker 13: Pets, okayful Drake May Yeah yeah, yeah, you know, rookie,

740
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Speaker 13: this is this opportunity. One thing about the Super Bowl.

741
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Speaker 13: You get one shot, that's it. The best team is

742
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Speaker 13: going to win on that given date. And uh, I

743
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Speaker 13: just feel like with US Seattle, the offense and the defense,

744
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Speaker 13: and you win championship with defense, We'll see what happens.

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Speaker 5: That was Super Bowl champion and NFL Hall of Famer

746
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Speaker 5: Jerry Rice alongside net app CMO Gaby Boco.

747
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Speaker 9: Sticking with the forty nine Ers, fresh off his incredible season.

748
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Speaker 9: MVP candidate running back Christian McCaffrey.

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Speaker 5: So, welcome to the Bloomberg Business of Sports. It's so

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Speaker 5: nice to have you here. Thanks, thanks for coming by.

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Speaker 12: Absolutely appreciate you.

752
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 5: So you came by with something right there, some big

753
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Speaker 5: hardward tell.

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Speaker 10: Us about it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got the FedEx twenty twenty five airon Ground

756
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Speaker 2: Player of the Year.

757
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Speaker 12: It's an unbelievable honor, you know one.

758
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Speaker 2: It's a it's award that's been around for twenty three years,

759
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 2: which one of the longest standing NFL words, and it's

760
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Speaker 2: really cool because it's voted on by fans and so

761
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Speaker 2: anytime you get you get recognition like that, it means

762
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Speaker 2: a lot.

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Speaker 12: And then also FedEx is.

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Speaker 2: Donating fifteen thousand dollars to a Feeding America food bank

765
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Speaker 2: right here in San Francisco. So anytime you getting an

766
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Speaker 2: award being able to give back a little bit means

767
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Speaker 2: a lot.

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Speaker 7: Yeahah, that's amazing.

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Speaker 5: So tell us more about that fan connection and fans,

770
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Speaker 5: you know, like you said, being able to vote on

771
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Speaker 5: this ward and does it mean a little bit more

772
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Speaker 5: that way?

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Speaker 12: Do you feel like, well, you know, it means a lot.

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Speaker 2: You know, I feel like we have the best fans

775
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Speaker 2: here in San Francisco in the world. You know, anytime

776
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Speaker 2: we travel and go to away games, they're always they

777
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Speaker 2: always show out.

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Speaker 12: They're really loud there. You know.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes we'll go to games and it feels like there's

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Speaker 2: more of our fans than other teams fans. And so

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Speaker 2: anytime you you kind of get that recognition from them

782
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Speaker 2: and fans that I respect and have so much love

783
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Speaker 2: for means a lot.

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Speaker 5: So NFL Honors is tonight. Tell us about you know,

785
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Speaker 5: the other people are going to see the other people

786
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Speaker 5: are gonna be honored with this award that FedEx is

787
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Speaker 5: honoring with these as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think anytime you're in rooms around just greatness,

789
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Speaker 2: you know, you got it.

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Speaker 12: It's really cool.

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Speaker 2: You have guys from the past that I used to

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Speaker 2: look up to and had posters of on my Wall.

793
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Speaker 2: You have current players that are you know, playing at

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Speaker 2: elite levels. It's always really cool to be around great players.

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Speaker 5: So we're here in San Francisco. It is a home

796
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Speaker 5: super Bowl. You said you didn't have to go too

797
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Speaker 5: far away. How how is it do you be here

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Speaker 5: for you in this market in San Francisco?

799
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Speaker 12: It's great?

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Speaker 3: Man.

801
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Speaker 2: San Francisco is a city that has so much character,

802
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Speaker 2: and so when when it's always cool when as as

803
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Speaker 2: popular of a city as it is and as great

804
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Speaker 2: of a city as it is, I feel like people

805
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Speaker 2: still don't understand it. So seeing other people come from

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Speaker 2: across the country here has been so cool to just

807
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Speaker 2: hear how much people love it. It feels like a

808
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Speaker 2: second home to me. Obviously, I'm here all the time,

809
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Speaker 2: and I went to Stanford here and I have so

810
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Speaker 2: many Bay Area you know connections. It is home, and

811
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Speaker 2: you know, so for people to see what we love

812
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 2: so much about it is really cool.

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Speaker 8: What if they don't understand?

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Speaker 5: Do you think, like, like, what do you think that

815
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Speaker 5: people see when they come here that maybe is different

816
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Speaker 5: from them more unique?

817
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Speaker 12: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think when you think of West Coast cities,

819
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Speaker 2: they're very new. A lot of times it's people from

820
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Speaker 2: all over the place that live there.

821
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Speaker 12: But San Francisco's not that way.

822
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Speaker 2: You have so many locals, there's so much history and

823
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Speaker 2: character to San Francisco that's very specific and unique to

824
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Speaker 2: the city itself, and so I think that's the energy

825
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,319
Speaker 2: that people feel. Obviously, you have the iconic hills, the

826
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Speaker 2: iconic houses, the Golden Gate Bridge, the food is unbelievable, Alcatraz,

827
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Speaker 2: the beaches, you know, everything that has to do with

828
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Speaker 2: the setting of it.

829
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Speaker 12: But I think the people is what make it really cool.

830
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Speaker 5: So one of the other things you're doing here this

831
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:56,320
Speaker 5: week is a partnership at Sport Beach with Athletic Brewing.

832
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Speaker 5: Tell me about that.

833
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're we'll be at Sport Beach with with

834
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Speaker 2: While on Earth, which I'm a co founder of the company.

835
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 2: It's a brand started by a guy named Todd Mulaney

836
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 2: who's an unbelievable, unbelievable person, let alone business man, and

837
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 2: so partnering with him was super easy for me. I

838
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 2: fell in love with the brand, I fell in love

839
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,399
Speaker 2: with the team, and you know, it was really cool

840
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 2: for me to step outside of football, to step outside

841
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 2: of any kind of alternative investment areas and venture areas

842
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 2: and go into the startup world a little bit and

843
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:27,439
Speaker 2: try to grow a business and see what that's all about.

844
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Speaker 2: And it's been really fun.

845
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Speaker 10: Man.

846
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Speaker 2: I've just had such a blast learning more than anything,

847
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 2: and you know, hopefully we can take this to where

848
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:35,279
Speaker 2: we think we can.

849
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:37,360
Speaker 5: What have you learned in this seat that you have

850
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 5: that's new for you in business being in them startup?

851
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I've learned a lot. I've learned patience is key.

852
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 2: I've learned to have have big goals, but but don't

853
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:50,800
Speaker 2: put timelines on things. In the athleisure space and footwear

854
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 2: apparel space, it's an unbelievably competitive area and so you

855
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 2: really need to have good quality.

856
00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 12: The shoes are fantastic.

857
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 2: We're coming out with so many really really cool projects

858
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,400
Speaker 2: that I can't wait for people to see. But overall,

859
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 2: the company itself has just been really fun to work

860
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 2: with in that sense.

861
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Speaker 5: And what made you decide to become a partner in it,

862
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 5: not just you know, be an ambassador, just kind of

863
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Speaker 5: have that sort of partnership.

864
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think I wanted something that transcended football,

865
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:21,839
Speaker 2: and I think when athletes put you know, myself, when

866
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:23,520
Speaker 2: I put my name on something. I want it to

867
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Speaker 2: be something that I align with from from a business standpoint,

868
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 2: from an ethics standpoint, and while on Earth was the

869
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:31,800
Speaker 2: perfect fit, and I was really blessed.

870
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Speaker 12: It kind of just fell into my lap.

871
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:36,880
Speaker 2: Todd came over to my house and presented me this

872
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 2: opportunity to be a co founder. You know, we talked.

873
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 2: We talked for longer and longer, and the more I

874
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 2: thought about I was like, this is exactly what I

875
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:44,959
Speaker 2: need right now. And God kind of has a funny

876
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 2: way of putting things in your lap when when at

877
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 2: the right times. And so, you know, you do a

878
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 2: deal with a with a with a brand while you're

879
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 2: playing those end you know, they they'll they'll give you

880
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:55,279
Speaker 2: some money.

881
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Speaker 12: That's how the partnership works. And they wear their clothes.

882
00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 2: But that ends now, you know, life after football is

883
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 2: still life and you still have to you know, and

884
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:04,320
Speaker 2: I want to put my name on something and be

885
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,240
Speaker 2: a part of a team, be a part of something

886
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 2: that's bigger than myself, which is what football is. And

887
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 2: I felt like this was the perfect opportunity and I

888
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:12,720
Speaker 2: couldn't be happy to represent this brand.

889
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:14,319
Speaker 8: Are you thinking more about that?

890
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 5: Obviously, you're still well into your prime and your playing grip.

891
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 5: Are you thinking more about things like that outside of football,

892
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 5: about what life is going to look like after what

893
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 5: businesses you want to get involved in.

894
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 2: My first few years in the league, you're so wrapped

895
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 2: up in football. You're kind of getting the feel of

896
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Speaker 2: the routine of the offseason and it's all ball all

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Speaker 2: the time. But now that I kind of have that

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Speaker 2: have that down, and you get older and wiser and

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Speaker 2: more experience, you do have to start thinking about those things.

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Speaker 2: And so that's why this was such a cool opportunity

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Speaker 2: for me, because you know, I love being a part

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Speaker 2: of teams. I love being a part of something bigger

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Speaker 2: than myself and football ends one day and a lot

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Speaker 2: of guys struggle with that, and so this was an

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Speaker 2: avenue that I was like, you know what, I know sportwear,

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00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 2: I know apparel. I know how shoes are supposed to

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Speaker 2: fit and feel. I feel like I can add value

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Speaker 2: to this company. I work out for a lit and man,

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Speaker 2: I think, what a great opportunity where I can I

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Speaker 2: can give my two cents on everything from design to

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Speaker 2: feel to fit and let the guys who are much

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Speaker 2: smarter than me handle a lot of the business stuff,

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Speaker 2: So it's been really cool.

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Speaker 5: I was gonna ask about how much you are taking

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Speaker 5: part of in design and how much are you really

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Speaker 5: interested in that part of it, you know, tell us

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Speaker 5: more about what your vision is for what it was

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Speaker 5: and how you're making will on Earth different.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, you know this. I'm in every meeting, every meeting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's been really cool too, hearing from people who

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Speaker 2: have been there and done that. Todd was the CMO

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Speaker 2: at Noble and helped grow that brand to where it

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Speaker 2: is now and came off and now is doing his

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Speaker 2: own thing. So he has experienced growing businesses and understanding

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Speaker 2: how to do it in the correct way. He also

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Speaker 2: has experience with how not to do it, how to

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Speaker 2: do it, and that's there's so much value in that.

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Speaker 2: Me personally, I love sitting in the meetings and listening.

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Speaker 2: But but yeah, like I said, I work out for

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Speaker 2: a living, I wear athletic clothes for a living, and

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Speaker 2: I feel like I can provide a lot of value.

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Speaker 2: So not only am I helping with design, but I'm

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Speaker 2: testing the shoes myself, walking around in different products that

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Speaker 2: haven't come out yet, wearing different products that haven't come

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Speaker 2: out yet constantly taking notes, you know, examining. I think

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Speaker 2: when you're in this world now you have a you

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Speaker 2: have a different eye for we're wearing yeah, yeah, and

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Speaker 2: so you know, it's it's been a lot of fun.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Christian, thanks so much for joining Bloomerg Business Sports.

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Speaker 5: We super appreciate the time.

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Speaker 12: Appreciate it. Thank you.

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Speaker 5: That was San Francisco forty nine Ers running back Christian McCaffrey.

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Speaker 5: And that does it for this special edition of The

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Speaker 5: Bloomberg Business of Sports. Stay tuned for more Super Bowl

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Speaker 5: related content on our podcast