Speaker 1: This is Bloomberg Business Week with Carol Messer and Bloomberg
Speaker 1: Quick Takes Tim Stinovic from Bloomberg Radio. The last year
Speaker 1: we were with him in Miami for the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: on Radio Row. This is our third time getting some
Speaker 1: time actually with him to talk about the big game
Speaker 1: coming up. I've got to say though, even last year,
Speaker 1: I think he let me put on I don't think
Speaker 1: he did let me put on one of his Super
Speaker 1: or his Super Bowl ring, which was pretty cool. We
Speaker 1: know it's a different super Bowl this year, and we're
Speaker 1: bummed that we're not there with him, but great to
Speaker 1: have with us. Super Bowl winning quarterback College Football Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer Joe Eisman. He's on site in Tampa for
Speaker 1: the big Game. But I understand right now you're on
Speaker 1: a driving range, Is that right? I am, Carol. I'm
Speaker 1: working on you know, always working on something. Here you are.
Speaker 1: I'm in one of the base here, just trying to
Speaker 1: although the weather is just absolutely gorgeous to seventy four
Speaker 1: degrees here and um that hurts Kansas City. I think
Speaker 1: comes in tonight or tomorrow for the game on Sunday,
Speaker 1: which is very unprecedented, interesting because under normal circumstances, they
Speaker 1: would have all the media commitments and would both teams
Speaker 1: would be on site. But this is just a little again,
Speaker 1: it's very unprecedented and very different. Well let's talk about
Speaker 1: that because it has been you know, as I said,
Speaker 1: last year, we were with you on site, uh in Miami. Um,
Speaker 1: because it's different, and you know, I saw a interview
Speaker 1: that Tom Brady didn't He said, listen, my team, my
Speaker 1: family isn't coming in. I've been twelve days in this
Speaker 1: home here in Tampa, you know, planning for the game.
Speaker 1: This is unusual for me. You know, how does that
Speaker 1: different approach before a game potentially for the players? How
Speaker 1: do you think it might impact them or just I
Speaker 1: don't know, impact the game that we see on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if it will impact
Speaker 1: the game as much as it impacts the players from
Speaker 1: a mental standpoint. Physically, you're going to practice, you're going
Speaker 1: to meetings, but when the meeting is over. In Tom's case,
Speaker 1: he's been away from Zell and the kids for two
Speaker 1: weeks now, twelve days, and so that the hardest thing
Speaker 1: to do when you don't have something to do is
Speaker 1: mentally stay focused and and there is such a thing
Speaker 1: as over preparation or overthinking. It's like anything. It's like
Speaker 1: classic example is the markets right now you've got all
Speaker 1: time highs. So now you start thinking, well, what happens
Speaker 1: if this happens? What is there going to be a
Speaker 1: sell off? Is there going to be profit? Taking? Your
Speaker 1: mind starts to play these games, And that's the thing
Speaker 1: you can't afford to do in football. What I used
Speaker 1: to do before a game is I would study my
Speaker 1: game plan on my way to I would ride with
Speaker 1: one of the guys and I would read through just
Speaker 1: lead through People magazine before the game, just to give
Speaker 1: mine just to clear my mind a little bit and
Speaker 1: then be able to focus on what I needed to.
Speaker 1: So you want to have enough creativity in your head
Speaker 1: that you're not all program just to play right exactly now.
Speaker 1: It's um, I hear that a lot. I tend to
Speaker 1: being over prepared sometimes for interviews and it's like you
Speaker 1: gotta walk away from it sometimes and just just go
Speaker 1: um and gets fresh. Then, yes, it gets a little
Speaker 1: more fresh, all right. So having said that, I've gotta
Speaker 1: make you, or at least ask you, uh the game itself.
Speaker 1: Brady versus Mahomes, what's your call? It's not I like
Speaker 1: Kansas City in this game. And that's one of the
Speaker 1: classic ways people look at this game, Brady versus Mahomes
Speaker 1: with this game really boils down to it's Tom Brady
Speaker 1: versus uh, Steve Spagnola, who's the defensive coordinator of the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: and it's Todd Bowles versus Patrick Mahomes. Of course Andy
Speaker 1: Reid is the play caller. Uh. It's it's flattering that. Oh,
Speaker 1: people always refer to the quarterback winning the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: But if you look at Tom's first three wins, they
Speaker 1: were on the foot of Adam Venatari. He made kicks
Speaker 1: that allowed New England to win. Of course Tom got
Speaker 1: him in that position, taking nothing away from the absolute
Speaker 1: greatest quarterback that ever played the game. But it's that
Speaker 1: to me, I, as I watched this game, I want
Speaker 1: to see what Spagnola does to Brady. I want to
Speaker 1: see what Bowls does to Mahomes. That and and that way.
Speaker 1: If the guys are going to be great, then they're
Speaker 1: gonna have a chance to be able to do it,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna do it against somebody that's prepared for him.
Speaker 1: You know, last night needs two teams played to score.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say, were you anticipating that it's going
Speaker 1: to be a close game? I think so. There's only
Speaker 1: so much you can change. That's about all you can
Speaker 1: do is prepare and how much do you change? That's
Speaker 1: the big thing, the fundament you've you've played football all
Speaker 1: this time, eighteen thanking football games. You're not gonna throw
Speaker 1: everything out and starts up something new. What you're gonna
Speaker 1: is your add about fift You'll add about half a
Speaker 1: dozen plays, maybe two or three or four formations, just
Speaker 1: to try and create an opportunity for a big play.
Speaker 1: So I gotta ask you about your old team, uh,
Speaker 1: the Washington Redskins. We know now that the Washington football
Speaker 1: team when the division made the playoffs this year. Good season.
Speaker 1: With all the changes that you're seeing with the team,
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts about the direction of the franchise.
Speaker 1: I think the direction of the franchise is solid as
Speaker 1: can be. Make it to the playoffs, put a great
Speaker 1: taste in everybody's mouth for the off season as far
Speaker 1: as the name goes, Just to put in perspective, there's
Speaker 1: so much more than just a name change. The Los
Speaker 1: Angeles rams change their logo on their helmets. That took
Speaker 1: two years. So you have all of the things that
Speaker 1: you need to go through from a legal standpoint to
Speaker 1: make sure it's okay. And in the case of the
Speaker 1: Washington football team, you want to be able to find
Speaker 1: a name that most people won't be upset with. Somebody's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be upset with it. I mean, that's just
Speaker 1: everybody's upset with something. So but most people, what do
Speaker 1: they do, how are they approaching it, and how do
Speaker 1: they feel about it. I think they've done a great
Speaker 1: job taking their time, and I believe it will be
Speaker 1: two thousand and twenty two before there's actually a new
Speaker 1: name for the Washington football team, because we can't stay
Speaker 1: the Washington football team. That's just I'm sorry, it's got
Speaker 1: to be something else. It seems kind of like not descript. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: it's like watching white paint dry. Exactly. Got a name
Speaker 1: out that maybe you've proposed to them, No, I haven't.
Speaker 1: I haven't really thought about it, to be honest with yet.
Speaker 1: I will, and I will as we get more into
Speaker 1: the off season. But there's a bunch of them out there,
Speaker 1: and who knows what it's going to be so listen, Joe,
Speaker 1: I've only got a couple of minutes, but I got
Speaker 1: to ask you the market. I know when we talked
Speaker 1: with you down in Miami last year, I think you
Speaker 1: took a call from your broker or you were trading
Speaker 1: Game Stop. Were you playing that at all? I didn't
Speaker 1: play Game Stop, to be honest with you. It got
Speaker 1: when stocks get parabolic sometimes, you know, it scares the
Speaker 1: when when they run like that. And we saw with
Speaker 1: game stock, you know when Robin Hood got involved and
Speaker 1: read it and knows people started doing that and they
Speaker 1: took it up there. A lot of people made a
Speaker 1: lot of money, but a lot of people make the
Speaker 1: money going the other way too. Now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: somebody shorted it. So now it's back down. Um. I
Speaker 1: just I've you and I talked about this. I like
Speaker 1: cannabis stocks. I think that with this administration, and there's
Speaker 1: been a lot of talk that there will be legalization
Speaker 1: of marijuana in this country in all the states. And
Speaker 1: if you stop and think about it from a common
Speaker 1: sense standpoint, uh, some states have it now. If they
Speaker 1: were to legalize it, then they could tax it like
Speaker 1: gasoline and tobacco. Then you could then the government would
Speaker 1: have a revenue stream as far as money goes, and
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have to raise taxes, you wouldn't have to
Speaker 1: hit people. You could you know, dig into the stimulus
Speaker 1: packages that have been given out, but you would have
Speaker 1: a way for the government to be able to collect,
Speaker 1: like I say, with tobacco and alcohol, right, and it's come.
Speaker 1: I think it's yeah, certainly politically. And I'm just looking
Speaker 1: at the Advisors shares pure us Cannabis et F it's
Speaker 1: up three five per already. H this year. Joe. Never
Speaker 1: enough time, so I hope somewhere in the next few
Speaker 1: months we can find some more time with you. You're
Speaker 1: always a gem to make sure your carve out a
Speaker 1: little space for us every year, and we really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Have fun at the game, Stay safe, UH, and look
Speaker 1: forward to talking to you again. Joe Thiesman of course,
Speaker 1: winning quarterback of Super Bowl seventeen and joining us UH
Speaker 1: on the phone from Tampa. What a week, folks. I
Speaker 1: want to thank our Bloomberg Business Week team, UH, Sarah Livesey,
Speaker 1: Reggie Brazil, Nick Falcom, Marufo Hussein, Chris Tracomi, Tim Harrow,
Speaker 1: Charlie Valmer, Donnie Holloway, Aerial Legami and Paul Brennan. It
Speaker 1: takes a village, have a safe week and enjoy the game. Everyone.
Speaker 1: For Tim Standavick, I'm Carol Masser.