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Speaker 2: Welcome to a Friday edition of Texans All Access. Sean

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Speaker 2: harrisher host for this evening. Glad you are with me, man,

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Speaker 2: We got a fun show for you. We're doing a

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Speaker 2: little Who's Better with Mark here in just a second.

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Speaker 2: Then we got Glenn Davis, who is basically Houston soccer.

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Speaker 2: This guy knows it all, play professional soccer man. So

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Speaker 2: the first time I've ever gotten to share the mic

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Speaker 2: with Glenn, and he was fantastic. You're gonna love what

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Speaker 2: we've got for you, especially if you love the great

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Speaker 2: game of football. If utbol soccer is great stuff. We

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Speaker 2: had a wale of what time talking to him. But

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Speaker 2: Mark's here and I know he is chomping at the

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Speaker 2: bit for a little Who's Better?

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Speaker 1: All right, let's do it.

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Speaker 3: Two Texans pitted against each other and they didn't even

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Speaker 3: know it, but they are for the purposes of this

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Speaker 3: exercise right here.

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Speaker 1: Who's better? Better chance to get to one thousand yards?

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Speaker 1: On season?

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Speaker 3: Different kinds of yards, but one thousand yards Joe Mixon

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Speaker 3: or Nico Collins? Better chance to get to one thousand yards?

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Speaker 3: Joe Mixon or Nico Collins. Nico at thirteen hundred nearly

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Speaker 3: last year. Joe Mixon has nearly been a thousand yard

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Speaker 3: machine in his career. But we all know Nico's got

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Speaker 3: to share the ball, so to speak, with the other receivers.

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Speaker 3: Mixon might have to as well with the other backs.

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Speaker 3: How does that all go down?

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Speaker 1: We don't know. What do you think, Johnny?

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Speaker 2: Well, I would I would cheat because I would say

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Speaker 2: Joe Mixon immediately because he'll get a thousand receiving and rushing.

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Speaker 1: But you're talking rushing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right, Thank you for helping me out there, Yes, okay,

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Speaker 3: just making sure.

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Speaker 2: All right, I'm still gonna go mixing. I think Joe's

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Speaker 2: gonna get to one thousand. I think Nico gets to

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Speaker 2: one thousand and two. Look, in a seventeen game season,

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Speaker 2: if you do the math on one thousand, it's roughly

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Speaker 2: under just under sixty yards per game.

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Speaker 4: Is that right?

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Speaker 1: My mouth? Is a seventeen games saving game. You're talking

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Speaker 1: about just right at sixty yards.

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Speaker 2: A game, And I feel like both of them can

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Speaker 2: get there now. Nico last year, there were a couple

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Speaker 2: of games early on in the season where Nico would

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Speaker 2: he'd have a big game, have a couple of big

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Speaker 2: games in a row, and then there'd be one where

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Speaker 2: you know, three catches forty yards something like that.

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Speaker 1: But either way, he had those big ones that made

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Speaker 2: But I just feel like getting to a thousand yards

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Speaker 2: rushing receiving nowadays not what he used to be, obviously,

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Speaker 2: because you've brought in a seventeenth game. But I think

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Speaker 2: Joe is gonna be such a big factor in this.

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Speaker 2: I think in talking with Drew On in the lab,

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Speaker 2: just talking about you know, Kenny Green, talking about Kendrick Green,

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Speaker 2: talking about the left guard position, I just think this

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Speaker 2: offense is gonna be that much better off because they're

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Speaker 2: gonna have the offensive lines.

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Speaker 1: You know, the pieces are gonna fall back into place.

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Speaker 2: Juice moves back over to center the way I see it,

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Speaker 2: the way we see it, Titus will move back out

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Speaker 2: the right tackle. You know, Shack's the right guard, Juice

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Speaker 2: and then you got this competition for left guard. And

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Speaker 2: I think that competition will make that offense line that

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Speaker 2: much better. But also I think with Mixing, he's that

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Speaker 2: much more decisive where he's gonna run. He sees it

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Speaker 2: and he goes he's going a million miles an hour.

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Speaker 1: He's not. He's not one two three. Where should I go?

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Speaker 2: He is one two and gone, And that's exactly what

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Speaker 2: you got to have in this zone offense. He might

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Speaker 2: even be a little bit too impatient in certain respects,

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Speaker 2: kind of beating a blocks there. But I said this

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Speaker 2: a number of times early in the season. I felt

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Speaker 2: like the blocks weren't perfect right, but the running backs

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Speaker 1: I think Mixing will do that.

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Speaker 2: So I'm going with Joe in large part because I

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Speaker 2: then getting to that number of one thousand is a

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Speaker 2: huge deal. But I think he's gonna be the focus

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Speaker 2: the focus the passing game. But Mark, you know, Tank Digs, Schultz,

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Speaker 2: that might make Nico's year not as good as it

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Speaker 3: Okay, So your choice is Mixing's rushing Mixers rushing yard

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Speaker 3: were likely to happen. No, this is who's better better chance,

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Speaker 3: just repackaged, all right, continuing with who's better? As you

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Speaker 3: all know, or maybe you don't. The Patriots had their

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Speaker 3: Hall of Fame ceremony, right, and they did. Brady went

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Speaker 3: in and.

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Speaker 1: He said, it's not you, it's not me, it's both

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Speaker 1: of us. Bill. He said that in front of the fans.

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Speaker 3: Well, it brings to mind, what is the all time

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Speaker 3: best franchise in the history of this sport as we

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Speaker 3: know it? Because the Patriots have six Super Bowls and

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Speaker 3: the Pittsburgh Steelers have six Super Bowls? Right, and there

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Speaker 3: are other teams that are right up there. I mean,

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Speaker 3: the forty nine Ers have won five Super Bowl wins

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Speaker 3: and we don't have to go through all of them.

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Speaker 3: The Cowboys have five super Bowl wins. But Johnny, I'm

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Speaker 3: just gonna give you this, Who's better the Pittsburgh Steelers

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Speaker 3: or the New England Patriots franchise history?

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Speaker 2: Now, growing up as a child of the seventies, it

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Speaker 2: feels like it's a no brainer.

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Speaker 1: It's the Steelers.

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Speaker 2: But the Steelers prior to their runs starting really in

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Speaker 2: for the first time or nothing, they were guard they

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Speaker 2: were hot garbage.

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Speaker 1: Yep, hot garbage.

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Speaker 2: Now Patriots before Brady took over, they weren't garbage.

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Speaker 1: They weren't garbage. They had a couple of runs they did.

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Speaker 3: I would say more than a couple, because some of

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Speaker 3: the runs they had are things that you'll look to

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Speaker 3: in the recent era of Pittsburgh Steelers football and say, hey,

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Speaker 3: playoff appearance here and there, non losing seasons. Patriots put

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Speaker 3: together tons of that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I think with the Steelers once they got to the

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Speaker 2: eight for a long time.

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Speaker 1: Now, there were a couple of years where they were

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Speaker 1: very few. Should I have said Super Bowl era, who's

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Speaker 2: I mean at that point it's it's hard not to

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Speaker 2: say the Steelers. But what have the Steelers done in

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Speaker 2: the last fifteen years? Not much, not much at all.

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Speaker 2: And obviously the Patriots have won a bunch. Now, the Patriots,

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Speaker 2: you know, obviously haven't won one in since twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 1: But that's a twenty year run.

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Speaker 2: Man, that is just so good, and it covers the

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Speaker 2: free agency years, and that to me is I weighed

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Speaker 2: a little bit more because in the seventies the Steelers

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Speaker 2: drafted incredibly well.

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Speaker 1: They were unbelievable when it came.

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Speaker 2: To the draft, but they were going to keep all

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Speaker 2: those guys because that's the way the NFL was back then.

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Speaker 1: There's no free agency.

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Speaker 2: Now you got all this player movement, and yet you

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Speaker 2: still had the Patriots going to the playoffs, going to championships.

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Speaker 1: I think the.

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Speaker 2: More and more we're removed from Brady Belichick, my guess

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Speaker 2: is will appreciate the Patriots more. I'm already there. I

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Speaker 2: appreciate the Patriots more. I'm gonna go Patriots over Steelers,

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Speaker 2: in large part because the Steelers just in the last

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Speaker 2: but really it turned into the evil Empire up in

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Speaker 2: New England. And you could look at the seventy Steelers,

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Speaker 2: but beyond that, I don't know. But with the Patriots,

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Speaker 2: it started two thousand and one, it didn't stop till

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Speaker 2: twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go Patriots.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you'll go Patriots. I feel like Super Bowl era

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Speaker 3: it would be Steelers. But you're right when you go

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Speaker 3: deep into their history before that it's not good?

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Speaker 1: All right, who's better?

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Speaker 3: How about this? Let's switch sports for a moment. Better

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Speaker 3: franchise the Celtics or the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: Oh, each one.

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Speaker 3: Now, the Celtics are about to get championship number eighteen,

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Speaker 3: but they have seventeen each. The Lakers look in the

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Speaker 3: Magic Larry era. Magic won five rings, Larry won three.

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Speaker 3: We all know that they only faced each other in

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Speaker 3: the finals three times only.

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Speaker 1: That was epic stuff.

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Speaker 3: Man, I feel bad for young sports fans who had

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Speaker 3: not lived through that.

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Speaker 1: That was incredible history. That was so much fun.

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Speaker 3: And those two franchises in the o's they wake up again,

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Speaker 3: you know, Kobe with the Lakers, obviously they're on fire.

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Speaker 3: Then the Celtics get the Big Three. They win a championship,

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Speaker 3: but it's been uh, you know, flirtation here and there

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Speaker 1: But they're about to get another ring.

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Speaker 2: So what do you think I'm gonna go on the

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Speaker 2: way back machine to answer this one because you said it.

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Speaker 2: The great players on both sides have been you know,

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Speaker 2: You know, Kobe gets it back. They kind of go

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Speaker 2: back and forth with championships.

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Speaker 3: There she finally wins one without Shaq, he wins one.

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Speaker 2: The Shaq Kobe era is not and hasn't really been

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Speaker 2: matched by the Celtics over that time. However, in the

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Speaker 2: fifties and sixties when the Lakers and the Celtics met

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Speaker 2: in championships, the Lakers dominated. I'm sorry, the Celtics dominated.

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Speaker 2: It was like eight straight or ninth straight. It wasn't

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Speaker 2: until nineteen eighty five that the Lakers ended up beating

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Speaker 2: the Celtics in a World Championship finals. They did it

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Speaker 2: again in eighty seven. That's two and I think there

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Speaker 2: was one other with the Kobe s three. But they

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Speaker 2: had a run of eight or nine, the Coozie years,

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Speaker 2: the havelet Check years, all that. That was all the Lakers.

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Speaker 2: That was all the Celtics. So I'm giving the Celtics

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Speaker 2: the edge for that reason.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I got one more because we had better careers

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Speaker 3: the other night. Who was better in the better career department?

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Speaker 3: They're different, Tom Hanks or Leo DiCaprio.

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Speaker 1: Oh, who's better? This is tough.

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Speaker 3: Now, I'll give you a few of their movies, just

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Speaker 3: to sort of refresh everybody's memory here, obviously with Leo DiCaprio.

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Speaker 3: Let's just start things off with Titanic. I know there

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Speaker 3: were things before that, but it was just so massive.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 3: And you had the Beach that kind of was a

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Speaker 3: watchable movie, even though it's not reviewed. Well, Catch Me

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Speaker 3: if you Can. Gangs of New York that departed.

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Speaker 1: Let Me if you Can is a Hank's end DiCaprio together.

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Speaker 3: They overlap in that one, and you could argue Hanks

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Speaker 3: is he going downhill at that point Hanks already because

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Speaker 3: they overlap, But obviously DiCaprio being younger, Wolf of Wall Street,

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Speaker 3: Django Unchanged, Unchained rather Gatsby, you know the rest of them.

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Speaker 3: All right, As far as Hanks goes, My gosh, it's amazing.

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Speaker 3: You know, he has the Oscar run with Philadelphia, he

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Speaker 1: What's happened? Everybody?

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Speaker 2: Walking back to this Friday edition, A wonderful Friday, sun

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Speaker 2: for Father's Day this weekend. A happy Father's Day. It's

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Speaker 2: all of you great fathers out there. To Harris the scene,

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Speaker 2: Got Copa America, got two group stage games. Then we've

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Speaker 3: It's football time in Houston, Mark Vandermir, John Harris with

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Speaker 1: I don't even know how to describe you. Glenn. You're

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Speaker 2: I stop at Houston soccer like, yeah, Houston soccer boom.

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Speaker 3: It's almost that you don't need a title. You're Glen

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Speaker 1: That's it. Welcome, guys.

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Speaker 4: I don't know about that, but I appreciate being here

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Speaker 4: and I'm excited to talk with you about the game.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean listen, when we think about soccer and Houston,

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Speaker 1: I mean we think we think of.

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Speaker 1: How big a deal is COPA America.

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Speaker 2: I know it's come to America for a few years,

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Speaker 4: It is a big deal. It's an incredibly historic cup

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Speaker 4: that's played for obviously you mentioned it. It was here

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Speaker 4: it's essentially a World Cup of South America. Now it's

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Speaker 4: So I would say the simplest way to describe it,

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Speaker 4: So that's my easiest way of kind of explaining what

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Speaker 4: what the Copa America is. It is a prestigious, historic cup.

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Speaker 4: The Cup is actually the physical Cup is beautiful.

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Speaker 3: Well, let's get into some of the games here, because

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Speaker 4: And listen, you haven't lived until you've been in the

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Speaker 1: Everybody's got an all uniforms somewhere okay.

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Speaker 4: But listen, they're in a little bit of transition under Himilzano,

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Speaker 4: They always claim it is the most difficult World Cup

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Speaker 4: Oh? Man, you're asking me a question. I have to

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Speaker 4: So you're getting ahead here because this is the first

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Speaker 1: Okay, but I think it's is it forty eight teams?

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Speaker 4: Yeah you don't like that? Let them all stand it, no, because.

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Speaker 1: Listen, the World Cup waters down?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I agree, John, I mean, the World Cup is

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Speaker 4: And I get it from the motivation of monetization and

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Speaker 3: who says nament hardline sixty four.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking the same thing. That's exactly what you

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Speaker 1: go to twenty eight. You let them all in.

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Speaker 4: You're in my camp.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess I am.

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Speaker 3: After all NFL playoffs too, I mean, they've expanded, but

438
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Speaker 3: seven per conference seems like enough.

439
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Speaker 1: You go to one more, you get half the league

440
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Speaker 1: in the postseason, and it just doesn't seem right. All right.

441
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Speaker 4: We talked about I love MLS too, but by the way,

442
00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:57,920
Speaker 4: when they're sixty two percent of the teams make the playoffs,

443
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Speaker 4: can you really say it's a must win game in May?

444
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Speaker 1: Of course I would come at you.

445
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Speaker 4: Not even mathematically eliminated. There's three weeks left. Yeah, and generally,

446
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,280
Speaker 4: you know, there's there's we won't get into the whole playoffers, promotion,

447
00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:15,680
Speaker 4: relegation thing, but generally there's certain times of the year

448
00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:17,359
Speaker 4: where the urgency is lifted.

449
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Speaker 3: Interesting, all right, So we talked about the twenty second

450
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Speaker 3: and the twenty fourth, July fourth is the COPA quarterfinal

451
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Speaker 3: here at inn RG Stadium. Now that could possibly be Argentina.

452
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Speaker 3: So we'll look forward to that on Independence Day. Take

453
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Speaker 3: it in Messy and Argentina. That'd be awesome, you know,

454
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Speaker 3: it would be remarkable. And listen, we already know he's

455
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Speaker 3: coming here. Uh, within our Miami degres. We can talk

456
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Speaker 3: about that in a minute. Can you imagine if we

457
00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:49,680
Speaker 3: had him here twice in one summer? Yeah, I mean

458
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Speaker 3: it's rem Mark alone and I saw him the other day.

459
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Speaker 3: I think they were in Chicago, Argentina. Streets were flooded

460
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Speaker 3: outside his hotel unbelievable man, unbelievable.

461
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Speaker 4: They can't get enough of him, Yeah, you can't. And

462
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Speaker 4: you know what I like about him as an athlete,

463
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Speaker 4: and I'm interested to hear your opinions on this, but

464
00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:11,239
Speaker 4: I love the fact that there's there's however he can

465
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Speaker 4: do it with his immense fame and fortune. Is just

466
00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:19,719
Speaker 4: the humility that the guy carries himself with, right, never

467
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Speaker 4: anything controversial. He's not taking pictures of his abs. He's

468
00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:26,879
Speaker 4: a family guy. He's playing with his kids. And I just,

469
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Speaker 4: I just I love this type of athlete that that

470
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Speaker 4: you know, you just look at him and you go

471
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Speaker 4: his priority is playing this game that he loves.

472
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Speaker 1: If I had abs, I'd take pictures of them, absolutely, Glenn.

473
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Speaker 2: How much validation to his career, to his legacy, How

474
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Speaker 2: valuable was winning the World Cup in twenty twenty two

475
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Speaker 2: for Messi.

476
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Speaker 4: Huge because he was always compared with Diego Maradona in Argentina,

477
00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:57,160
Speaker 4: and Messi had the longer, the more successful club career.

478
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Speaker 4: Not that Maddona didn't do some amazing things at Napoli, right,

479
00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,399
Speaker 4: but you know he's the Champions League winner. He used

480
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,560
Speaker 4: to face a Barcelona he was there was a little kid.

481
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Speaker 4: So I think it's huge that he won that because

482
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:14,000
Speaker 4: it's just another big piece of hardware. And back to

483
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Speaker 4: our conversation about what the World Cup means, which we

484
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,080
Speaker 4: have in Houston in twenty twenty six, I mean, it's

485
00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:22,639
Speaker 4: it's it's everything to a soccer player.

486
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Speaker 2: So along those lines, Messi coming to the MLS. I

487
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,600
Speaker 2: think when I first saw that, my first thought was, okay,

488
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:31,320
Speaker 2: when I was when I was a little kid. You know,

489
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Speaker 2: Pele comes to any play, comes to the Cosmos, and

490
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Speaker 2: he was near I want to say he's near the

491
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Speaker 2: end of his career, but he was near the end

492
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Speaker 2: of his career and he still was electric. It was

493
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Speaker 2: still fun to watch him. I kind of got that

494
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Speaker 2: feeling with Messi, but I feel like Messi's got more

495
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Speaker 2: in the tank. How do you kind of look at

496
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Speaker 2: those situations with Messi coming to MLS.

497
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're different. I mean, look, we've had three watershed

498
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,400
Speaker 4: moments in this country. You named it play with the Cosmos.

499
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Speaker 4: I was fortunate to be around that. I don't know

500
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Speaker 4: where I'd be with soccer without that influence. Also, and

501
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,960
Speaker 4: then you had David Beckham, right came at a really

502
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:06,520
Speaker 4: needful time when the league prior to that a few

503
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 4: years potentially was going to go under if not for

504
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:13,920
Speaker 4: Philip Anschutz floating a bunch of the teams. So you know,

505
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,720
Speaker 4: you got to remember that Beckham just boosted the awareness.

506
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Speaker 4: All of a sudden, other guys were coming over.

507
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Speaker 1: Yep, and.

508
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Speaker 4: Then Messi now is our third water shed moment because

509
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 4: this is the most identifiable athlete in the world. In

510
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 4: my opinion. Soccer's global, as we all know. You know,

511
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,879
Speaker 4: every game you watch, you'll see somebody wearing a Messy jersey.

512
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,880
Speaker 4: It could be in any corner of the planet or Earth.

513
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,800
Speaker 4: So there's just this amazing attraction. But what he's done

514
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:45,560
Speaker 4: for the league, the eyeballs, nobody ever knew who Enter

515
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:47,920
Speaker 4: Miami was right now they know who they are now

516
00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:51,960
Speaker 4: they watch MLS, So it's a great, great effect.

517
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Speaker 1: How blown is your mind over?

518
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Speaker 3: Because you and I used to talk in the early

519
00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,080
Speaker 3: days of the Dynamo when I was doing my show

520
00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:03,320
Speaker 3: on six ' ten daily, and back then Donovo played

521
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:04,360
Speaker 3: at Robertson Stadium.

522
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,160
Speaker 1: It wasn't what it is today.

523
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Speaker 3: With these stadiums that have been constructed all around the country.

524
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Speaker 3: It feels like every market's got a soccer stadiums in

525
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Speaker 3: some cases.

526
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Speaker 1: Two, what do you think of that? The growth of

527
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 1: the sport in that way.

528
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:21,399
Speaker 4: It's pretty remarkable, and it's happened in a short amount

529
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,239
Speaker 4: of time if you really think about it. I mean,

530
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 4: when I played in the eighties, nobody ever even had

531
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Speaker 4: a conversation that they would build a stadium specifically for soccer.

532
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:31,600
Speaker 4: Either played in a high school stadium, where you played

533
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Speaker 4: in an NFL stadium. Some of them don't even exist anymore.

534
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:37,880
Speaker 4: I was just back at the Citrus Bawl. I played

535
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Speaker 4: in there once, and I was like, hey, I played

536
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 4: a couple of games in here, and the stones are

537
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 4: up here in front of seventy five thousand, except I

538
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 4: played in front of two thousand anyway. But yeah, it

539
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:52,480
Speaker 4: really is remarkable. I give my left leg to play

540
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,960
Speaker 4: in one of these stadiums. I mean, they're just spectacular.

541
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Speaker 4: They're intimate, fans are on top of you. I mean,

542
00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:02,119
Speaker 4: we've got this amazing stadium here, shell energy, as you

543
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:06,920
Speaker 4: guys know. But I don't think these things. You know,

544
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 4: you get older and your lens gets steeper by the day,

545
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:12,920
Speaker 4: and you know, I still scratch my head sometimes when

546
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 4: I see these stadiums and the ones that are being built.

547
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just it's just remarkable, really, the infrastructure

548
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:23,080
Speaker 4: and the amount of money in the game.

549
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Speaker 2: Glenn, I growing up, I don't remember ever seeing English

550
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:27,920
Speaker 2: soccer on television.

551
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Speaker 1: I remember ever. I mean for a long time, I

552
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 1: didn't even know what Champions League was.

553
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 2: But now I can watch English Premier League every Saturday

554
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 2: Sunday throughout I mean months, especially with football season's over.

555
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,880
Speaker 2: Every February March April, those weekends I'm watching English Premier League.

556
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 2: My team is Man City and I'm not ashamed to

557
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:50,479
Speaker 2: say that, but we know they. But then Champions League too.

558
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,239
Speaker 2: You can see it on CBS Sports and you can

559
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 2: stay on top of that and kind of once you

560
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 2: learn what Champions League is, I think it makes everything

561
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Speaker 2: that much more exciting to watch.

562
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Speaker 1: As soccer fans.

563
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Speaker 2: It feels like I'm like a lot of people in

564
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:04,439
Speaker 2: America that have kind of grabbed on to an EFL

565
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:06,400
Speaker 2: team and or a Premier League team.

566
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 1: That's our team, that's who we go with.

567
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,120
Speaker 2: But the recognition of the league is kind of made

568
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:14,359
Speaker 2: soccer that much more Okay, I understand this.

569
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Speaker 3: I like this.

570
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 2: I'll watch a soccer match way more than people were

571
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:20,440
Speaker 2: doing maybe in the nineties or early two thousands. What's

572
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,240
Speaker 2: been the in your opinion, what's been the impact of

573
00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 2: having English Premier League on NBC, on Peacock or whatever

574
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,719
Speaker 2: it is. What's that been like for in your opinion

575
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 2: for people that haven't been as engrossed in soccer have

576
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 2: you as you have been nowadays? Because there are people

577
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 2: more like me called jumping in want to watch Nottingham

578
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:42,879
Speaker 2: Forest taking out Everton because it might mean promotion or

579
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:44,200
Speaker 2: relegation for one of the two.

580
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Speaker 1: What's that all been like?

581
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Speaker 4: And it might mean there's some people who live here

582
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Speaker 4: from Nottingham. I mean the access in two games now

583
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 4: is incredible. I mean when I was growing up, there

584
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 4: was a half hour highlight show from Germany and there

585
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,880
Speaker 4: was a half hour highlight show from England. We got

586
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 4: to go to the Cosmos. We were very lucky just

587
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 4: geographically where we were, and that they had decided to

588
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 4: bring in all these superstars from the global game. But

589
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,679
Speaker 4: I think this is how the game. You know, people's

590
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 4: introduction to the game can be a lot of different things.

591
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 4: You know, it could be your son or daughter playing,

592
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 4: but to have it on TV as often as it is,

593
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 4: and you can find any team that you want in

594
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 4: the Premier League, the English Championship. Listen every single college game,

595
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 4: not that it's high quality, but most colleges you can

596
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 4: stream and watch your son or daughter play, So the

597
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 4: access is incredible now seeing the Premier League and Champions

598
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 4: League all the time there, it does set a real

599
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 4: high bar when you're comparing it to other leagues around

600
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 4: the world and including our MLS, So people can get

601
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 4: a little bit eurocentric and a little euro entitled and

602
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 4: have a hard time kind of differentiating between the salary

603
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 4: cap of the Premier League and you know, the minuscule

604
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 4: in comparison and salary cap of MLS. And when you

605
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 4: look at the MLS salary cap and what some of

606
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 4: these teams and guys are doing with it, it's pretty remarkable, yeah,

607
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 4: quality that they put out.

608
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 1: All right, So you do what you do.

609
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 3: Glenn Davis with US Houston's soccer guru, for lack of

610
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 3: a better way of describing him, got your show on

611
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 3: ninety seven five, you call Dynamo games.

612
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 1: We'll get to that in a moment, But what are

613
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 1: you a fan of? Glenn? What do you consume?

614
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 3: Do you have a team that you like above all

615
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 3: else internationally or nationally besides the Dynamo. But what is

616
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 3: it that drives you as a fan these days? Having

617
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 3: played the game and now you're such a consumer. Obviously

618
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 3: you're a commentator.

619
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Speaker 4: But just what flows about all of those things. I

620
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:42,960
Speaker 4: was even called the cheerleader once and I said, yeah,

621
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 4: you're right. I mean, it's okay. It's just it's okay.

622
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 4: So you.

623
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 1: Never never signed thirteen one season?

624
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 4: Well the guy who said it to me, I was like, listen, yeah,

625
00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 4: you're right, But I'm not a cheerleader anymore because I

626
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 4: don't have to be. Okay. It stands on its own

627
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 4: now with participation and eyeballs and the connection all over

628
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 4: the world. You look at all the American ownership in

629
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 4: leagues all over the world. Now it's crazy. I mean,

630
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 4: look at what Jeff Lunau has done. Jeff Lunaw bought

631
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 4: a second division team in Spain. They just got promoted

632
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 4: to the first called lega ase they're going to be

633
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 4: playing Real Madrid and Barcelona. Imagine the cash windfall when

634
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 4: you get promoted like that. So what do I consume.

635
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 4: I'm a huge US men's national team fan, obviously because

636
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 4: I'm from the American system. Why wouldn't I be right.

637
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 4: I'm a huge Dynamo fan over all these years. I

638
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 4: always wants best for the Dynamo in this market because

639
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 4: I think it's a great market. I'm not afraid to

640
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 4: give my feelings about it. I do believe every single

641
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 4: one of these Dynamo games should be sold out. This

642
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 4: is a city full of authentic soccer fans. But I

643
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 4: don't really I just I look for the quality of

644
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 4: the game, the uniqueness of it. You know, maybe it's

645
00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 4: a player or a player I don't know about. Listen,

646
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 4: my eyes, like everybody else, has gotten drawn to the

647
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 4: w NBA because watching the amazing Kaitlin Clark play the

648
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 4: game and the variety of skills that she has, you know,

649
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 4: without getting into all the other garbage that's going on.

650
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 4: So I think it's a lot of different things that

651
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 4: draw you.

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00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 1: So along those lines, Glene, who in the world of soccer?

653
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Speaker 2: If you were sitting and talking with somebody that you

654
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Speaker 2: were selling the world of soccer and you mentioned Kaitlyn

655
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Speaker 2: Clark and that kind of popped in my head, Who's

656
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 2: the one player that you would say you gotta go

657
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 2: see this guy or maybe this woman. I don't know,

658
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 2: which player would you say to appreciate the game itself,

659
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 2: to see everything about.

660
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 1: The game, the beauty of it. What player would you

661
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: want them to go see?

662
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Speaker 4: So they're creators, they're skilled players, right, I mean, that's

663
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 4: kind of the thing with Kaitlyn Clark. I think is

664
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 4: that that you know, I get it, You're you're big, tall,

665
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 4: you're under the basket and that part of the game.

666
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 4: I like the creators. I like Messi. I like people

667
00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:59,719
Speaker 4: who handle the ball. I like people who take more

668
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 4: of the risk, are trying things that are maybe a

669
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Speaker 4: little bit unique. In the world's full of these types

670
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 4: of guys. Of course, Messi killing them. Bape of France,

671
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 4: who's going to be in the Euros that are coming up?

672
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 4: They start, they start, and hund go to Real Madrid.

673
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 4: That's a bigger deal than I think anybody knows. I

674
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 4: mean they Real Madrid just wins champions and now they

675
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 4: added Bape. Yeah, I mean, is that now a quote

676
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 4: unquote super team at Real Madrid? We thought they've got

677
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 4: I think they've always been a super team. They've won

678
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 4: more Champions League titles than I've ever before. Listen. Venetius Junior.

679
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 4: We just had them up in college station eighty five

680
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 4: thousand people.

681
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Speaker 1: I mean that's incredible.

682
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 4: This game is limitless. I mean it's infinity. We're looking

683
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Speaker 4: at here in the future.

684
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Speaker 1: All right.

685
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 3: So Johnny and I we were in London in twenty

686
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 3: nineteen when the Texans took on the Jaguars and Sean

687
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 3: conn owns Fulham and we were invited to Fulham to

688
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 3: be in a suite and watch Fulham play. I forget

689
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 3: who they were playing that day, john whole city, Okay,

690
00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:58,160
Speaker 3: I remember city.

691
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Speaker 1: Okay. So we're fucking around this small little town.

692
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Speaker 3: It feels like poor section of London with pretty low buildings,

693
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 3: two three story buildings, max old buildings, and all of

694
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 3: a sudden it's oh, here's Craven Cottage the stadium. Now

695
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 3: I fell in love at that moment because we walk

696
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 3: into this area. It says oldest football facility in London,

697
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 3: and I thought this is awesome because you wouldn't even

698
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 3: know it's there.

699
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: Almost you could walk by it.

700
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Speaker 3: And it's an actual soccer stadium right on the Thames right,

701
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Speaker 3: So it's just not downtown London, but it's outside a

702
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 3: little bit and I was blown away by the whole

703
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 3: atmosphere and they were still constructing this riverside part of it,

704
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 3: but it didn't matter. It was a phenomenal place to

705
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 3: be and I just felt the whole vibe of it.

706
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Speaker 3: Last summer I was with my family in London. We

707
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 3: toured Chelsea Stadium because it was postseason and they said, yeah,

708
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Speaker 3: Fulham's right down the street. Basically it's a couple of

709
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 3: miles away. That boggles the mind that the Premier League

710
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Speaker 3: teams are worth what they're worth billions or whatever, and

711
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 3: they have more fans apparently outside of England then in

712
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 3: and that speaks to your point about it being a

713
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Speaker 3: global game and the access that you have to all

714
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Speaker 3: these matches now.

715
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Speaker 4: Hundred percent the beauty and the difference is these provincial teams,

716
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 4: like you're saying, so that's replicated all over in England

717
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 4: in the various divisions of the league. So these teams,

718
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 4: they're the only game in town. It turns over generationally

719
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 4: the season tickets. Everybody's mood is altered and probably business

720
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 4: is altered by the success or failure of the team.

721
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Speaker 4: And it's highly identifiable. It's not like the US, so

722
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 4: whenever you get somebody that says to you, oh, soccer

723
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 4: is not big in America. No, it's not true. It's

724
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 4: an American game. But you also have to quickly factor

725
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 4: in that there's three other traditional sports here, maybe four.

726
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:56,919
Speaker 4: There's lifestyle. There's all these different things that come into

727
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,399
Speaker 4: play here when it comes to choice. But if you're

728
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:03,320
Speaker 4: growing up Hull or you're growing up in Sheffield, you

729
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,760
Speaker 4: know you're either a Sheffield United fan or a Sheffield

730
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,800
Speaker 4: Wednesday fan. That is what is close to you and

731
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 4: that's what's in the fabric of your being. So it's

732
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Speaker 4: hard for people to understand unless you've ever visited there.

733
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Speaker 4: And I spent an off season I had six weeks

734
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 4: training at Sheffield United once back in the eighties. What

735
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 4: an education that was for me, you know, to see

736
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 4: how woven into the fabric of the community, the protein

737
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 4: was Glenn.

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Speaker 2: Once I learned about promotion and relegation and I kind

739
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 2: of started understanding.

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Speaker 3: You proposed it to the NFL, right, No, that's what

741
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:40,800
Speaker 3: I'm gonna That's what I'm gonna ask you.

742
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:44,360
Speaker 2: Maybe not to the NFL football, but college football seems

743
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 2: like it might be prime for something like that. Do

744
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 2: you think that promotion relegation, even though it's a concept

745
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 2: foreign to a lot of people, and obviously a lot

746
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 2: of administrators throughout and high ranking officials here in the

747
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 2: United States, because I think watching a match where a

748
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 2: team has the possibility of getting relegated.

749
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Speaker 1: This happened. Actually it wasn't Fulham, it it was Everton.

750
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:08,959
Speaker 1: I think it was a couple of years ago and they.

751
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 2: Were right on the line and they had to win

752
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 2: this game to stay in Premier League, and they ended

753
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 2: up winning it, and the celebration was unbelievable, like they

754
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 2: are celebrating.

755
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: For being in sixteenth place. I thought it was incredible.

756
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 2: Do you think promotion slash relegation could ever work in

757
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 2: an American based sport like football or one of the

758
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 2: other sports that we have here.

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Speaker 1: Do you think it could work?

760
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Speaker 4: I think it could work, but I don't know if

761
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 4: it'll work from the capacity of people wanting it to work,

762
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Speaker 4: because we're a playoff country, right, I mean, we're all

763
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 4: about playoffs, keeping people engaged. I mean that's the model

764
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 4: of a lot of the pro leagues, right. It's basically, hey,

765
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 4: we don't want somebody to lose their first four games

766
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 4: and the season's over and nobody wants to buy tickets

767
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:56,400
Speaker 4: and the interest wanes. Right, you got to keep people engaged,

768
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:58,719
Speaker 4: and that's part of the way these playoff systems are

769
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Speaker 4: set up. I think it's high dramatic. I mean, as

770
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:06,879
Speaker 4: someone that's a soccer purist, my take on who has

771
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 4: a good season is who's put together the most consistent season. Right,

772
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 4: So in MLS, a lot of times you'll have the

773
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 4: team that had the most consistent body of work during

774
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 4: the year get knocked out in the playoffs. A lot

775
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 4: of times it happens in the first or second round

776
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 4: and they were the best team over a time period.

777
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,480
Speaker 4: But really that's just kind of swept away and dismissed.

778
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:29,320
Speaker 4: So it just depends on how you look at it,

779
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 4: and I think they both have their merits.

780
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 2: It's interesting you said about the playoffs because when you

781
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 2: listen to English soccer fans talk about the playoffs, it's

782
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 2: almost because you didn't get one of those top one

783
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 2: or two promoted spots. Now you've got to fight for it.

784
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:48,719
Speaker 2: They almost look at the playoffs as a bad thing,

785
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 2: like it's still a lifeline, but they almost look at

786
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 2: it like, oh, we've got to play in the playoff now.

787
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 2: And I find it fascinating because over here it's like,

788
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 2: oh no, we're in the playoffs, we got a shot.

789
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:02,279
Speaker 2: But for them, it almost feels like the playoffs it's

790
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 2: almost a backhanded slab like, ow, we're in, but I

791
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:06,320
Speaker 2: don't know, you got to play our way through it.

792
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 1: They don't like it.

793
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:09,799
Speaker 2: It's it's so true, the difference in just the word

794
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 2: playoffs and what it means there and here.

795
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,279
Speaker 4: Guys when they come to MLS have to adjust to it.

796
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:15,800
Speaker 4: Like like I've talked to players off the record and

797
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 4: they're like, the hell is going on? There's no pressure

798
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 4: on it? You know, there's really but but but healthy

799
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:28,400
Speaker 4: pressure is something that this league needs. Certainly the Dynamo

800
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 4: need it. Certainly we need it from the media down here.

801
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 4: Just but you know, when you when you look at that,

802
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 4: then you say, the difference between being promoted or relegated,

803
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 4: the amount of money that these games, you know, they're crazy.

804
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 4: It's it's yeah, it's beyond my comprehend right right.

805
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: The franchise value skyrockets, like you mentioned, you know.

806
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:50,360
Speaker 4: You got an owner is about to jump off the

807
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,319
Speaker 4: ledge if they don't, you know, remain in the Premier League.

808
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:57,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, Dynamo as we speak, what's seventh in the West.

809
00:38:58,160 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 3: So how's it going?

810
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:00,759
Speaker 1: Where is it headed this year?

811
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:04,319
Speaker 4: Well, he just made a big signing and it's one

812
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 4: that I think the fans have been clamoring for. It's

813
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 4: an actual striker, a finisher and a goal scorer. His

814
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 4: name is Ezekiel Ponce. He comes from Argentina. He comes

815
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:18,759
Speaker 4: from a team in Greece called ae K Athens and

816
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:23,920
Speaker 4: he's scored a goal every two games there. The Dynamo

817
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 4: have needed a striker to complement a lot of the

818
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 4: other pieces they put in place, so I think the

819
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 4: fans are going to be excited about this. This guy

820
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:34,800
Speaker 4: comes from a club in Argentina called Newell's Old Boys,

821
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 4: which is is Messi's club as a kid, and it's

822
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 4: a known club for developing soccer players, so I think

823
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 4: there's a lot of excitement to see how he's going

824
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 4: to adapt to MLS. He's coming off a season scoring

825
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 4: goals in Greece for a second or third place team,

826
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 4: so we'll see. He'll get to start playing at the

827
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:57,239
Speaker 4: end of July and they're going to hope that he

828
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 4: adapts very very quickly and can be the different and

829
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:02,839
Speaker 4: you know in a playoff league where now you're getting

830
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 4: into the money time and he can help them ascend.

831
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 2: So we were talking earlier about Copa America and the

832
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 2: United States involvement in Obviously it's taken place in America.

833
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:16,840
Speaker 2: Houston's got a couple of matches in the group stage

834
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:19,759
Speaker 2: and then they've got one in the quarterfile stage. We

835
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:21,800
Speaker 2: looked at the US men's national team because it was

836
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:23,720
Speaker 2: announced today what they're going to have for Copa America,

837
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:25,800
Speaker 2: the twenty six they are on the roster. Your overall

838
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 2: thoughts to the American roster, how it's constructing, what you

839
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:29,800
Speaker 2: think for Copa America.

840
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:31,919
Speaker 4: So never in our history of soccer in the US

841
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:33,920
Speaker 4: if we had guys on big clubs all over the

842
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:37,839
Speaker 4: world like you know, Chelsea, Juventus, Milan, I mean never,

843
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:40,320
Speaker 4: never in our history if we had players at this

844
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,920
Speaker 4: level raw material wise, right. So I think there's a

845
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:45,880
Speaker 4: real pressure on the US to do well now. They

846
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 4: they have got some tremendously young, talented guys that I

847
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:53,239
Speaker 4: like a lot. And if you guys remember remember that

848
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 4: time when we didn't qualify for the World Cup. The

849
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:59,320
Speaker 4: world was falling, yep, it was. But then when you thought, Okay,

850
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 4: now you can accelerate these younger guys, right, you can

851
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 4: sweep out you know some guys that have been great servants.

852
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 4: You can put these young guys in. You can accelerate it.

853
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 4: And there's some wonderful guys on this team. I do

854
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 4: think though, that they have to go quarter finals are

855
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 4: beyond come ons in the United States. You got it

856
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 4: here in twenty twenty six. We have to raise the bar.

857
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,880
Speaker 4: Even the other night, everybody, oh, it was a good comeback.

858
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,239
Speaker 4: We played well against Brazil, and they did and they

859
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 4: played with fire and with energy. But my first comment was, okay,

860
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:32,799
Speaker 4: but when are we going to win that game? When

861
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:34,840
Speaker 4: are we going to win the game where we outplay

862
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 4: England in the World Cup but we don't take what

863
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 4: we deserve, We don't produce the goal to win this thing?

864
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:42,080
Speaker 1: What is that?

865
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:42,400
Speaker 2: Is that?

866
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:43,279
Speaker 4: A mentality?

867
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 2: Is that?

868
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 4: What is that? And you can't just say, well, if

869
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:49,359
Speaker 4: only we took that chance. No, there's something else there.

870
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 4: So I think there has to be real pressure on

871
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 4: the manager, Greg Burhalter. It's in the United States. This

872
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 4: is a tremendous dress rehearsal and you're going to get

873
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 4: to play teams like or why who are high end level,

874
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:04,920
Speaker 4: top teams in the world and you measure yourself to that.

875
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:06,399
Speaker 1: I've got one more.

876
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 3: How hard is it for players who play on different

877
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 3: clubs all over the world to come together on a

878
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 3: national team which is basically an all star team, and

879
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:16,279
Speaker 3: play well together as a unit.

880
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 1: How difficult is that process?

881
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:20,840
Speaker 4: I think it's very I think it's very difficult, but

882
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 4: I think it's a known entity. So as coaches and

883
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:27,760
Speaker 4: managers of these teams, they have playing styles in place.

884
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 4: There's constant communication with these guys. They talk about the

885
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:37,359
Speaker 4: way they're going to play. So, yes, it's difficult. Yes,

886
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:40,920
Speaker 4: people are fatigued. Yes they have long season. Yes the

887
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 4: athlete is overburdened. But it's just the way it is

888
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:48,239
Speaker 4: year round sport. Yeah, yeah, I mean there is no rest,

889
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:53,319
Speaker 4: especially if you're on national teams. It's about as many

890
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 4: games as possible. It's about playing as much as possible.

891
00:42:56,640 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 4: It's about the stars being out there. But you know,

892
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 4: you have to come in and adapt quickly. And I

893
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 4: think if a team has a really good concept that

894
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 4: is sort of a unified concept like the US has

895
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 4: been noted for over the years, and that is one

896
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:14,360
Speaker 4: of our strengths. We play for each other. I think it.

897
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,279
Speaker 4: You know, you can't use it as an excuse, I

898
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:18,440
Speaker 4: guess is what I'm trying to say.

899
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 1: Cool.

900
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 3: Well, well, we're looking forward to Copa America June twenty second,

901
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:25,319
Speaker 3: June twenty fourth, July fourth, and of course August third

902
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 3: with Inter Miami taking on Tigris. I'm gonna be awesome,

903
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 3: excellent atmosphere. Thank you Glad Davis for joining.

904
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 4: Us, Mark John thanks for having me on. I really

905
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 4: enjoyed it.

906
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 1: Yeah man, You're welcome here Ony time. GWEA thank you.

907
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:38,319
Speaker 1: Yeah man.

908
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 2: We had a blast talking with Glenn Davis checking the Dynamo.

909
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:45,399
Speaker 2: As you talked about Dynamo try to make a run

910
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:49,440
Speaker 2: here over the summer. And what a great location for soccer.

911
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 2: Shell Energy Stadium just incredible place downtown, great location, great stadium.

912
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:57,439
Speaker 2: And I love when we had that conversation about soccer

913
00:43:57,520 --> 00:43:59,880
Speaker 2: only stadiums. There's so many of them now, they're building

914
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 2: for men's and women's soccer around the country. It's just

915
00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 2: it's really cool to see the growth of a game

916
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:10,879
Speaker 2: that I know I've been all about since really kind

917
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,240
Speaker 2: of catching the wave in like twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen

918
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 2: and have been on it ever since. Just really really

919
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 2: cool stuff. But glad that Glenn was able to come

920
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 2: over for a little crossover talk with us.

921
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: That was fun. Hey, maybe that's the thing we do.

922
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 1: Maybe we do a little crossover.

923
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 2: Maybe we bring somebody in from the Astros, Maybe bring

924
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:27,319
Speaker 2: somebody in from the Rockets and come in and talk

925
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 2: with us.

926
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 1: That'd be kind of fun. Caught the crossover, man, I'm

927
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 1: just creating ideas.

928
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:33,759
Speaker 2: Tonight on the show, are We Get Back, We'll go

929
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 2: around the NFL things that are happening. Trevor Lawrence signed

930
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 2: his contract. What's been the fallout from that. We'll talk

931
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,320
Speaker 2: about that around the NFL. Next to Texans All Access,

932
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 2: we go a final segment of this initiative, Texans All

933
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 2: Access from the Texans Radio studio. I'm your host, John Harrison,

934
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 2: Football and a sideline reporter. Getting ready for a great

935
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 2: Father's Day weekend. As we talked about a little bit earlier,

936
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 2: Go hug your dad, say a prayer for your dad.

937
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 2: For those of you who lost your parents, lost your father,

938
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 2: my heart goes out to you. Thoughts to all of you,

939
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:09,600
Speaker 2: so much love to everybody celebrating Father's Day this weekend.

940
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:12,279
Speaker 1: All Right. One of the major things.

941
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 2: That obviously happened that market I talked about last night

942
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:17,879
Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence signing a big deal five years, two hundred

943
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:18,760
Speaker 2: and seventy five million.

944
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:21,279
Speaker 1: That's fifty five million per year.

945
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 2: He's tied Joe Burrow for the highest average annual per year. Apy,

946
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 2: I thought something was interesting. This is a statement from

947
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 2: shod Con that came out yesterday maybe today.

948
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:37,400
Speaker 1: I think it came out today, he said, and.

949
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 2: I quote, I am delighted that we've agreed to terms

950
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 2: on a contract extension for Trevor Lawrence. Trevor and Trent Balki,

951
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:45,280
Speaker 2: the GM both deserve a ments credit for the determination

952
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 2: over the offseason to reach a deal that will provide

953
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 2: long term benefits to our football team, the Jacksonville community,

954
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 2: and our fans everywhere, to get it done comfortably and

955
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,440
Speaker 2: amicably ahead of training camp, as with the long term

956
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 2: agreement we reached in April with Josh Allen, the outside linebacker,

957
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 2: even as a further statement that Jacksonville Jaguars are committed

958
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 2: to winning now and for many seasons to come. And

959
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 2: it was I saw that last sentence Jacksonville Jaguars are

960
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:14,600
Speaker 2: committed to winning now and for many seasons to come.

961
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:17,359
Speaker 2: And it hit me like, wait a second, and then

962
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 2: I saw Ian Rapaport's tweet. Here's Ian rapaports tweet, and

963
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:24,280
Speaker 2: then it all sort of crystallized. A statement from Jaguars

964
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:26,719
Speaker 2: owner Shot Connor to the Trevor Lawrence extension a huge

965
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:30,280
Speaker 2: few weeks for the team as the Jaguars and Jacksonville

966
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:34,839
Speaker 2: Mayor Donna Degan form formerly Donna Hicken. When I lived there,

967
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:38,719
Speaker 2: she was television, she was a news host. Will be

968
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:42,320
Speaker 2: presenting the stadium renovation funding plan to the city Council

969
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 2: on June twenty fifth. And then it went boom, just

970
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:49,239
Speaker 2: like the light bulb. Just oh my gosh, it makes

971
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:52,520
Speaker 2: all the sense in the world. This funding meeting is

972
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 2: on June twenty fifth. A great day in Harris household

973
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:58,680
Speaker 2: because that's my little bit, my little daughter. Her birthday

974
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 2: is June twenty fifth. But either way, getting this done

975
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:05,800
Speaker 2: with the two foundation pieces of Josh Allen and Trevor

976
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:10,799
Speaker 2: Lawrence signals to everybody in the Jacksonville area, Hey, we're

977
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 2: gonna have this foundation going forward.

978
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:16,359
Speaker 1: And it just made all the sense in the world.

979
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:19,040
Speaker 2: And look, it was not as if I didn't think

980
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 2: Josh Allen was going anywhere and ANYTHINGK Trevor was going anywhere.

981
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 2: But the fact that they're both re upped this year

982
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 2: eleven days before they have this meeting with the city council,

983
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 2: that is a sheer. I mean, that basically is the

984
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:40,200
Speaker 2: Jaguar saying we want to stay. And now look what

985
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:41,760
Speaker 2: we've done. We've made this commitment.

986
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do to follow this up?

987
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:47,759
Speaker 2: It's just interesting how politics and football come together in

988
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 2: that particular moment right there in Jacksonville makes all the

989
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:53,279
Speaker 2: sense of why this was done before June twenty fifth.

990
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 2: All right, big thanks to all of you, Big thanks

991
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:56,600
Speaker 2: to Glenn Davis for coming on. That was one of

992
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:59,400
Speaker 2: my favorite segments that I've done all year. Today that

993
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:01,919
Speaker 2: was really really so thank you everybody. Have a great

994
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:03,880
Speaker 2: Father's Day of a great weekend. We'll see on Monday,

995
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 2: and as always, go Texans.