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Speaker 1: It's time to get inside the Giants Huttle on Giants

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the newest edition of the Giant Shuttle Podcast.

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Speaker 1: My name is John Schmilk. Today a very special announced

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Speaker 1: by the New York Football Giants, and to join us

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Speaker 1: to talk about it is our chief commercial officer Pete. Welly, Pete,

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Speaker 1: how are you. I'm doing great, John, I'm excited. Camps rolling.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we're getting ready to start the season. It's

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Speaker 1: it's a great day if you're in football, it absolutely is,

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Speaker 1: and a very exciting day for Big Blue. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: the fans have seen on social media by now if

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Speaker 1: they're listening to this podcast. But why do you give

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Speaker 1: a little summary of the big announcement the Giants made

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Speaker 1: today in terms of what they might look like in

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Speaker 1: a couple of games on the field this year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, it's always exciting when you bring back

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Speaker 1: a piece of history, and and that's what we did.

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Speaker 1: I think from day one, we're looking for ways to

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Speaker 1: celebrate the amazing heritage of this organization, and there's no

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Speaker 1: better way to do that than through the uniforms and

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Speaker 1: so we knew we were going to be releasing some

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Speaker 1: new uniforms coming up. You know, obviously, I'm sure we'll

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Speaker 1: it into It's a lengthy process, but we had so

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Speaker 1: much kind of feedback that people love those uniforms from

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Speaker 1: the eighties through that, so many of our great players

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Speaker 1: war We thought this was a perfect place to start. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's the blue jerseys from the eight six

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, the nineties super Bowl. Uh, a lot of nostalgia.

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Speaker 1: Why did you think it was important for ownership for

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Speaker 1: the organization to come together to bring these classic legacy

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Speaker 1: uniforms back. Well, well, I think it's the only way

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Speaker 1: and there's been so many memorable seasons pulling that group together,

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Speaker 1: being collaborative and trying to understand, you know, what should

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Speaker 1: release it, what should it look like? Making sure we're

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Speaker 1: getting all those perspectives, And I think, probably more than

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Speaker 1: anything else down this is so important to our fans.

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Speaker 1: I get so much feedback from fans on uniforms, even

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Speaker 1: minor tweaks that we make. We knew there would be

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Speaker 1: a keen interest in this Yes, the the presence of

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Speaker 1: I great, when did this process start? Like, when did

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Speaker 1: you guys start trying to work on this? Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: you don't wake up in the morning and decided to

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Speaker 1: change uniforms. It takes time. I've been involved with a

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Speaker 1: number of these processes and they're all pretty lengthy. We

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Speaker 1: started this one about two years ago, and we worked

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Speaker 1: very closely with the league. There's a number of standards

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Speaker 1: involved process. But this one in particular started about two

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Speaker 1: years ago, so it's nice to see it come to fruition. Now,

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Speaker 1: how did the cup together right? Because you want to

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Speaker 1: match the colors exactly, it has to you know, the

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Speaker 1: fabrics using the eighties are different than what the fabrics

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Speaker 1: are now, so the colors might look different. How did

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Speaker 1: you work with the league? I'm sure with Nike right

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Speaker 1: with Jackie are equipment director and everybody else to kind

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Speaker 1: of make sure this was exactly what you wanted to Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And you mentioned Jackie Miles, so you know, this is

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Speaker 1: like bringing LT back into the folding work with her?

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Speaker 1: You know, from the day I got here, John, you

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Speaker 1: an incredible base of alumni. The are all very active,

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Speaker 1: much they both enjoyed it in that video production. No. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: him and tell us about it. Yeah, you know Carl

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Speaker 1: really isn't a better person to get involved in something

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Speaker 1: and we worked closely with Carl. He recommended a number

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Speaker 1: definitely a retro play so far. The feedback we've gotten

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Speaker 1: the apparel, Well, it's gonna come out kind of in waves, right,

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Speaker 1: So you have the two games, you have Chicago and Washington.

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Speaker 1: we thank you for joining us on today's episode of

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Speaker 1: the Giant Subtle Podcast. My name is John Schmilk. Has

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Speaker 1: been a long slot folk with the season is finally

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Speaker 1: upon us with training camp. Can wait to see you

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Speaker 1: out to hope we see your practice in the coming weeks.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy it and we'll see you next time on the

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Speaker 1: Giants