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Speaker 1: John Middlecoff three and out podcast. Hopefully you are doing great,

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Speaker 1: And today we will we'll talk some football because it

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Speaker 1: well as the Dad Diaries before we dive into the interview.

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Speaker 1: But that will be the extent of the show. Tomorrow

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Speaker 1: Very very excited. I woke up this morning to some news.

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Speaker 1: I said, what perfect time I'm having my man Al

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Speaker 1: Guido who was you know? I knew him as the

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Speaker 1: president of the forty nine ers. In this morning, Jed's like,

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Speaker 1: he's my CEO of the forty nine ers. So al

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Speaker 1: forty nineers are obviously hosting the Super Bowl. I will

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Speaker 1: be there in the next twenty four hours. Congratulations and

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Speaker 1: good to see him, man.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Sean, Man, it's good to be on. It's great

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Speaker 2: to see you.

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Speaker 1: Does that something I mean, it didn't just happen overnight.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you've been the president of the Niners, what

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Speaker 1: almost a decade?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a decade, man. I think it's probably

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Speaker 2: not as long as I've known you. So I've been

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Speaker 2: out here for fifteen years, but I've been in the

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Speaker 2: president's chair for the last ten and so. No, Jed

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Speaker 2: and I've been talking about it for the last call

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Speaker 2: it a month or so, and it's I'm thrilled, man,

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Speaker 2: I'm humbled. It's been a great family. Jed is the

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Speaker 2: best to work for and having teammates like John and

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Speaker 2: Kyle on the football side are just is just awesome.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously I wish we were playing in this

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Speaker 2: game that we're hosting. That's the only down the bummer

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Speaker 2: about it all. But it's a really special group to

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Speaker 2: be a part of, man, and I'm looking forward to

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Speaker 2: doing it for hopefully as long as they let me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean as someone that grew up in that area,

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Speaker 1: I mean when I was a kid, Steve Young, I

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Speaker 1: was a little after Montana era, but Steve and Jerry

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Speaker 1: and you know, it was as big as it gets.

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Speaker 1: And you got the opportunity to be the CEO of

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Speaker 1: one of the biggest brands in American sports, probably in

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Speaker 1: the world. When you just factor in the brand, you know,

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Speaker 1: I talk obviously a lot of football, you know, John Kyle,

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Speaker 1: the people in those rules. When you're the president, now

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Speaker 1: the CEO, like does that from a day to day standpoint,

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Speaker 1: Like what do you do?

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Speaker 2: Well? You mentioned running the business of it, which is

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Speaker 2: frankly grown in size and people in complexity, I mean

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Speaker 2: all across the board. Right when I first got here,

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Speaker 2: we were embarking on trying to build Levi Stadium. We

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Speaker 2: went from the oldest non renovated stadium in the US

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Speaker 2: at Candlestick Park, which had tremendous great memories, but frankly

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Speaker 2: put us in the bottom quartile a lot of metrics,

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Speaker 2: and now you return to the rightful place of top quartile,

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Speaker 2: not just on the field, but off the field in

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Speaker 2: the business. And John Levi's has been great. Like it's

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Speaker 2: been a you know, twelve years, we've obviously made it

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Speaker 2: a home field advantage. Now over time, we had our

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Speaker 2: stops and starts in the very beginning, there's no doubt

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Speaker 2: about that. I think we've learned from all that we've grown.

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Speaker 2: And then you mentioned it just the international footprint. I mean,

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Speaker 2: the Niners were already a massive brand, five time Super

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Speaker 2: Bowl champions, the most dominant team in the Bay. But

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Speaker 2: now you look at us on the road, you look

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Speaker 2: at us internationally, you look at the events that we

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Speaker 2: put in this building. It's just grown. I think when

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Speaker 2: I first got here, the Niners are roughly about eighty employees,

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Speaker 2: and now fast forward, you're close to five hundred. It's

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Speaker 2: just a different operation in organization now. And I say

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Speaker 2: that for the good. It's just that being part of

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Speaker 2: the National Football League, it's just the engine man, it's

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Speaker 2: the machine that just keeps on growing, and I'm proud

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Speaker 2: to be a part of it.

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Speaker 1: You know, when I worked for the Eagles, I used

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Speaker 1: to work out some times in the morning, but i'd

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Speaker 1: go there to shower. My locker was right around Don Smilenski's,

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Speaker 1: who used to just be there bright and early, riding

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Speaker 1: the bike, and I used to pick his brain because

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Speaker 1: you know, they had a newer stadium relative to the

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Speaker 1: you guys a couple of years before, maybe like a

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Speaker 1: decade or whatever, but it was so big for you know,

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Speaker 1: Taylor Swift or whoever would come by, and obviously that's

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Speaker 1: a big deal for you guys. Stadium talk is such

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Speaker 1: a big deal in the NFL, because is it the

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Speaker 1: importance of the suites? Is it the importance of getting

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Speaker 1: the Royal Rumble, the WrestleMania, Taylor Swift? Whatever? Because football

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Speaker 1: is not basketball or baseball, right, you only get eight

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Speaker 1: or nine games.

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Speaker 2: Yep, It's it's so important, man. I mean, look, it's

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Speaker 2: it's good for our community too. Like I don't want

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Speaker 2: to overstate the importance for the forty nine ers, because

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Speaker 2: But you know when you go on and bark about

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Speaker 2: building these stadiums, they're no longer. You mentioned the Eagles, right,

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Speaker 2: and Don's a dear friend. I think he's one of

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Speaker 2: the best people in this in our industry. You know,

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Speaker 2: those stadiums cost three four hundred million. Right now you've

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Speaker 2: got stadiums costing two three six billion dollars. And so

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Speaker 2: to pay for those stadiums, you can't just put ten

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Speaker 2: games on, right, it just doesn't make sense. And then

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Speaker 2: to be able to host a Super Bowl, it's not good,

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Speaker 2: not just good for us. Frankly, it's okay for the

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Speaker 2: forty nine ers, it's fine. It's actually great for our region.

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Speaker 2: You know, we talk about two billion dollars of economic

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Speaker 2: impact that's been delivered since we opened up Levi Stadium.

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Speaker 2: That's in the first twelve years. We're going to do

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Speaker 2: over a billion in the next six months between the

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Speaker 2: Super Bowl and the World Cup, talking about ten thousand jobs.

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Speaker 2: I mean Daniel Laurier, our great mayor of San Francisco,

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Speaker 2: the other day he told me one point three million

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Speaker 2: people are going to fly in here over of course

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Speaker 2: to seven days, four hundred thousand hotel rooms are booked. John,

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Speaker 2: you know this market really well, right. It got beat

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Speaker 2: up during COVID. There's a lot of national stories about it.

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Speaker 2: I was fun to see Charles Barkley admit the San

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Speaker 2: Francisco is a great place during the NBA All Star Game.

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Speaker 2: But I kind of view that as our jobs, like

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Speaker 2: we're behind the scenes. To your point, the actors and

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Speaker 2: the actresses, they're the stars, John, Kyle, the team, they're

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Speaker 2: the stars, but there's a lot of people behind the scenes.

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Speaker 2: I use a lot of sports analogies, like we all

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Speaker 2: scenes that the forty nine ers are just fantastic. And

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Speaker 2: you know, when you got a good quality product on

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Speaker 1: So let's talk some super Bowl. When you get a

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Speaker 1: new stadium, do you automatically get the Super Bowl? Is

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Speaker 1: that why you got it the first time? Or you

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Speaker 1: don't exactly get it?

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Speaker 2: No, you don't. Actually, as a matter of fact, you

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Speaker 2: have to. You have to go through the process. John.

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Speaker 2: So it used to be that cities would bid against

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Speaker 2: each other, and I'm glad they changed that to be

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Speaker 2: totally honest. Like, So what happens now is you eventually

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Speaker 2: of interest. So then you get a note back from

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Speaker 2: the NFL says, hey, we're willing to talk to you

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Speaker 2: about Super Bowl. Then you have to put your best

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Speaker 2: your job interview. So for us, I don't remember exactly

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Speaker 2: when this happened, but I started I've embarked on this

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Speaker 2: our support necessary to convince the commissioner and Peter O'Reilly

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Speaker 2: and everybody else to bring it back. But to do that,

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Speaker 2: we had the entire Barrier Caucus sign up for support.

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Speaker 2: You have all your corporate spond to sign up for support.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you got to raise a significant amount of

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Speaker 2: money just to put this event on, just given the

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Speaker 2: size and scale that it's grown to John and so

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Speaker 2: we were never guaranteed a Super Bowl. We felt good

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Speaker 2: that we were going to get fifty, knowing that we

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Speaker 2: built the stadium. But you fast forward to get sixty,

641
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 2: the competitive landscape was entirely different. Allegiance didn't exist in

642
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 2: Vegas so far didn't exist in LA. You already had

643
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl markets in New Orleans or others right

644
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 2: in Miami, and so now it's a really really competitive

645
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 2: thing to be able to win the rights to host

646
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 2: one of these.

647
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 1: So it's when you say, Roger and his team, is

648
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:39,360
Speaker 1: it you presenting or like you put in a bit originally,

649
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 1: and then there's a process from there where you start

650
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 1: doing a presentation in front of goodell.

651
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, we actually do. It's a

652
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 2: fun sales pitch man, and I we're aggressive here at

653
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 2: the forty nine ers, Like I didn't wait for that

654
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 2: indication of interest to come. I sent over a note

655
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 2: in letters to the league telling them why they needed

656
00:34:58,719 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 2: to come back here.

657
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 1: Uh.

658
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 2: And then obviously got that got our foot in the door.

659
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 2: And you know when we when we got when we

660
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 2: got our foot in the door, man, we just knocked

661
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 2: out of the park. And it takes an army and

662
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 2: we host. You have to have a nonprofit entity and

663
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 2: we already had one in Super Bowl fifty, but we

664
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 2: dissolved it and so we recreated something called the Barrier

665
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 2: Host Committee, which is effectively a nonprofit commission to help

666
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 2: put on the event. And what I was proud about

667
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 2: this time around, John, because we had to make the

668
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 2: best sales pitches. Every single one of my counterparts at

669
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 2: all the other Barrier Professional Sports team signed up to

670
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,440
Speaker 2: be part of that board. They all actually put in

671
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 2: their own dollars to support our cause and effort. And

672
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:42,280
Speaker 2: you look at now like Chase Centers involved in the bid,

673
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:44,840
Speaker 2: SAP Centers involved, which is where the home of the

674
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:48,239
Speaker 2: San Jase Sharks, Larry Bear and Oracle Park, you know,

675
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:51,239
Speaker 2: their whole ball ballparks involved in the bid. Because the

676
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 2: footprint is just so drastically different, and so yeah, it was,

677
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 2: it was. It was a hard thing to do. You

678
00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:59,359
Speaker 2: don't know who you're competing against. Frankly they never tell you,

679
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 2: but you know, never let let anything or you know,

680
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 2: never have a risk a chance, just put your best

681
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 2: foot forward.

682
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 1: So it's almost like a construction company if they want

683
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 1: to build something and four people put in bids. Let's

684
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 1: just pick a number one hundred million dollars give or take,

685
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: and that company picks the guy that did the highest.

686
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 1: Let's say it's one fifteen one of those. It's kind

687
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 1: of a blind bid and it goes like that year

688
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 1: to year. When do you officially find out is that

689
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 1: an owner's meeting, when Roger announces that you guys got

690
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 1: the super Bowl.

691
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're told privately right before, Like generally speaking, they

692
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,879
Speaker 2: do it at the annual meeting in March. I want

693
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 2: to say ours was like two years ago, was when

694
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,799
Speaker 2: they officially announced US. I think we knew probably a

695
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 2: couple of months prior to that. But John, this was

696
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 2: even more delicate because the year of twenty six also

697
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 2: includes the World Cup year in the United States, and

698
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,720
Speaker 2: so you have I think ten cities in the US

699
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 2: that are also hosting US bids. And so what was

700
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 2: important to the super Bowl or to the NFL, I

701
00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:03,359
Speaker 2: should say, was that we had the not just monetarily,

702
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 2: but that we had the capacity from a political perspective

703
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 2: and a corporate perspective on the support to host the

704
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 2: Super Bowl and the World Cup in the same calendar

705
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 2: year and will be the only stadium that has ever

706
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 2: done that in the history of those two events. And

707
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 2: so I'm really really proud of our region and our

708
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 2: team to pull that off because frankly, a lot of

709
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 2: people probably didn't want to, you know, undertake that effort,

710
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 2: but we did.

711
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 1: Does the World Cup entail like downtown, the Moscone Center,

712
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:30,760
Speaker 1: all the different stuff going on as well.

713
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 2: It's a little different because it's spread out a little

714
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 2: bit more in that regard where you'll have the participating

715
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 2: countries or teams you know, stay mostly in the South

716
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:43,880
Speaker 2: Bay in and around the facility, just given the tournament

717
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:48,240
Speaker 2: nature and so where Yeah, there's probably more events happening

718
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:49,880
Speaker 2: in San Francisco, and then there might be in the

719
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 2: South Bay. Since you know the market, I can speak

720
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:53,720
Speaker 2: to you in that way. The World Cup will probably

721
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 2: flip John where most of the events will happen more

722
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 2: in the South Bay than they will in San Francisco.

723
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 2: Just get dude, the you know, the event schedule. But

724
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 2: the good news is, you know, between NBA All Star

725
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 2: which happened here at Chase Center, the Super Bowl, and

726
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:11,440
Speaker 2: the World Cup, like I mentioned, that's over a billion

727
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 2: dollars in economic impact and literally like less than a

728
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 2: year timeframe, which is which is really awesome.

729
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:20,360
Speaker 1: So as this stuff's going on right now downtown the

730
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 1: Super Bowl week as the host team and obviously you

731
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:27,839
Speaker 1: run point for the business of the forty nine ers,

732
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 1: how much is that on you and your guys run

733
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 1: and point all this stuff and how much of it

734
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:35,400
Speaker 1: goes on rog and his team because obviously it's a

735
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:36,919
Speaker 1: huge NFL corporate event.

736
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 2: Is that fair to say, Yeah, it's fair to say.

737
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:44,320
Speaker 2: I would say the Monday through Saturday it's probably split.

738
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,279
Speaker 2: Call it fifty to fifty them us. Game Day is

739
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:50,919
Speaker 2: a lot of us, and I mean like the particular

740
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 2: parts of game day, right the stadium operation. We already

741
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 2: know how to operate that building, and so they rely

742
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 2: on a lot of our staff, the grounds crew, and

743
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,359
Speaker 2: I think Mack Grinder, in my opinion, is the best

744
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,399
Speaker 2: in the game. Our field at Levi's is known as

745
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 2: one of the highest rate of fields there and so

746
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:08,759
Speaker 2: to know that Matt and his team are working on

747
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,919
Speaker 2: that on behalf of the teams themselves, which is Look,

748
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 2: it's a little weird because you're throwing a party for

749
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 2: in one case, our division rival, in another case an

750
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:22,440
Speaker 2: AFC team. But I'm proud of our staff man. They're

751
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:24,439
Speaker 2: working their tails off to to do a good job

752
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 2: on the two on behalf of the two participating teams.

753
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 2: Darnold former Niner, So I mean, hey, listen, Sam, Sam's

754
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:34,279
Speaker 2: Sam's a great guy. And uh, look I'm gutted. Of

755
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:36,440
Speaker 2: course every year you want to win the thing and

756
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:38,479
Speaker 2: we want to put a six Lombardi Trophy in there.

757
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:41,400
Speaker 2: But uh, you know, hard pressed not to be happy

758
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:43,319
Speaker 2: for him as a human. He's so such a good dude.

759
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:45,239
Speaker 2: He was good, he's good with us, and he's had

760
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:45,680
Speaker 2: a hell of a.

761
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 1: Year, you know, for your role for people listening, you know,

762
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: I think you know, the GMS and the coaches now

763
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: are so famous as the number one television show in America.

764
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 1: These guys are just famous as the players, especially they

765
00:39:56,719 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 1: coach like Kyle as CEO president running the business side.

766
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 1: You know, we talk a lot about alignment, right, you know,

767
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 1: just inside the organization, your role working with those guys

768
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:12,360
Speaker 1: on a daily basis, over the the aggregate of a season,

769
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:17,680
Speaker 1: over the off season, how is your role impacted by

770
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 1: their role beside you know, wins and losses. I'm just saying,

771
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 1: working with them, how often do you rely on them?

772
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 1: Do you ask them for stuff to help you out?

773
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 1: Because clearly, you know from seasons I saw you know,

774
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,920
Speaker 1: Robert Sala taking phone calls. You know, that's that's always

775
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: a new coach thing. A little different with Kyle who's

776
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 1: what he's going to be going on year ten. Him

777
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 1: and McVeigh hired the same cycles. They've been here for

778
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 1: a while, so it's not like he's got to get

779
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: on the on the horn. It sells itself. But your

780
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 1: role relative to the GM and the coach.

781
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:43,880
Speaker 2: I talk to him all the time, you know, I

782
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:46,799
Speaker 2: consider myself their teammate and I'm here to support them

783
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:49,399
Speaker 2: and what they need. Right, the reality is our job

784
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:52,280
Speaker 2: is to win football games and put a Lombardi Trophy

785
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,280
Speaker 2: in there. Like that's not lost in all of us, Frankly,

786
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:56,400
Speaker 2: like you mentioned some of the guys, we stand on

787
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:58,359
Speaker 2: the shoulders of giants who came before us. Like if

788
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 2: we ever forget what our goal is, we're reminded the

789
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 2: minute we walk into four nine four nine, when we

790
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 2: stare at the Umbardi trophies what our job is to do.

791
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:08,839
Speaker 2: But they also understand John that look like, you know,

792
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 2: if all we do is win, we will have failed. Right.

793
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 2: We do have other goals, and our fan base has

794
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 2: been supportive of us through the ups and downs. I've

795
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:19,920
Speaker 2: been in the National Football League twenty years with two

796
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:23,319
Speaker 2: different franchises, and I gotta tell you, like John and

797
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 2: Kyle are the best teammates I've ever had, and they

798
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 2: understand that there are requirements that sit outside of just

799
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 2: coaching that or just picking players, and that it's bigger

800
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:34,239
Speaker 2: than that. But I'll tell you, like when it comes

801
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 2: around to Sundays, man, I feel good about our opportunity

802
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,959
Speaker 2: to win based off the work they do. And John,

803
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:41,560
Speaker 2: we have a salary cap in our league. So the

804
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 2: truth of the matter is, no matter how high our

805
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:46,240
Speaker 2: revenue streams may go or what we do, there's always

806
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 2: going to be some level of economic parody. Yeah, right,

807
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 2: but you're hard pressed. I mean you cover this league.

808
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 2: The teams who consistently win, right, are teams that have

809
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 2: alignment between their business and their football staff and their

810
00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 2: ownership team. And Jed York's awesome, man. And to know

811
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Speaker 2: that I've been having I guess what ten years with

812
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 2: these guys is coming here on the continuity of our group,

813
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 2: the getting to know each other really well. We enjoy

814
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:11,840
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815
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 2: of work. We're dear friends. I think it matters. I mean,

816
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:16,800
Speaker 2: you've been in NFL buildings, you know what that feels like.

817
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 2: When you got a group that's working hard together for

818
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:20,959
Speaker 2: a common goal, and we got one. Here.

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Speaker 1: A couple more questions. I know you're a busy man.

841
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Speaker 1: We get asked a lot about like why is the

842
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Speaker 1: owner so important? Why is the guy at the top,

843
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:49,759
Speaker 1: and you know, sometimes hard to find it's easy to

844
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:51,960
Speaker 1: go well Kyle called a bad play there, or he says, hey,

845
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Speaker 1: we should have done this. The game's very you know,

846
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847
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 1: It's like it's hard to tell. You know, everyone in

848
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:02,520
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849
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 1: Why is it so important for that that guy's role

850
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,600
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851
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 1: and cutting checks, but what role do they play in

852
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:17,080
Speaker 1: the success of an NFL team?

853
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 2: Oh, so they're so important, John, And it's hard. It's

854
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:22,359
Speaker 2: like that's a hard job, right, I mean, you think

855
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:26,440
Speaker 2: about it. There's few companies in the world, businesses in

856
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 2: the world, and the NFL is a business too that

857
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 2: like you have this many people telling you what to

858
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 2: do every day, and and to have an owner that

859
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 2: you know is patient and understands that none of this

860
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:44,359
Speaker 2: stuff happens overnight, that you know is not suaded by

861
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 2: one ounce of media coverage or the other. And I

862
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:48,880
Speaker 2: don't say that in a bad thing, Like I'm gifted

863
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 2: by the fact that so many people care about our game.

864
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 2: And that's his viewpoint on it too, Like all of

865
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:56,919
Speaker 2: this is actually good and helpful. But I think John

866
00:44:57,040 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 2: is sort of like to have the patience right to

867
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 2: have you know that you talked about. The resources, of

868
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 2: course are important, but to me, when when leadership matters,

869
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 2: and when you're leader, which in Jed walks into the

870
00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:14,960
Speaker 2: building and he's confident in the people he's hired. He's supportive,

871
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 2: he's patient in getting to where we got to go.

872
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:20,719
Speaker 2: He picks us up when we're down right, Like it's

873
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:24,239
Speaker 2: really easy to play ther your fault, you know, my

874
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 2: fault type of thing. We don't get that. Like we

875
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 2: go through the ups and downs together as a group.

876
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:31,839
Speaker 2: There's no finger pointing inside of our room. We all

877
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:33,520
Speaker 2: know we got to get better at every single thing

878
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:36,800
Speaker 2: we have. It opens an open and honest dialogue around that.

879
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:39,800
Speaker 2: That part. And look, I've been part of two owners,

880
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:43,240
Speaker 2: you know, and that you know my previous one was great.

881
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 2: But I'm really blessed to work for the York family

882
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 2: and prior to them, John, you know you covered this franchise,

883
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 2: the York de Bartolow family and what that's meant to

884
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:54,359
Speaker 2: the National Football League. Jed Jed certainly leans a lot

885
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:56,720
Speaker 2: on his mom, his dad and of course his uncle.

886
00:45:57,120 --> 00:46:01,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, I recorded that was last night the A See debut.

887
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:02,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a couple I think it was a

888
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:04,359
Speaker 2: couple of days ago. But yeah, I know what you're

889
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:04,799
Speaker 2: talking about.

890
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, recorded on YouTube. Okay, yeah, last night was when

891
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:11,799
Speaker 1: it got air. But yes, okay, from your seat, you know,

892
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:15,840
Speaker 1: the GM role is clearly evolved from just sitting in

893
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 1: an office and watching tape and John's John, I'm sure

894
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:23,439
Speaker 1: wears a lot of hats. What from you from your standpoint,

895
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:26,719
Speaker 1: what just big picture? What makes that role so difficult?

896
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 1: And what do you see that in John Lynch that

897
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 1: he brings the table. That just is something that you've

898
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:35,120
Speaker 1: been impressed by in your ten years or whatever being

899
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:37,880
Speaker 1: around him.

900
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 2: His ability to connect with players I think is really

901
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 2: important John, and not just our currents, but you know

902
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 2: draft eligible players. Look, you you spent time in this world,

903
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 2: so you're gonna know what I say here. The margin

904
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 2: of error and or success is so small in this league, right,

905
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:01,280
Speaker 2: everybody is big and fast and strong, and they play

906
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 2: at big time football in college, but truly like the

907
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:09,440
Speaker 2: people that you select and draft into your room and

908
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 2: the culture that that makes up. Like, I'm really proud

909
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 2: to be affiliated with this team because people talk about

910
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:18,080
Speaker 2: how good guys they are, right they police themselves, and

911
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:20,879
Speaker 2: how hard they work. Well, you've got to know people

912
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 2: on an emotional level. And John playing the sport, broadcasting

913
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:28,960
Speaker 2: the sport, and now in this I think he's just

914
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:30,839
Speaker 2: got a really good lens to look at this where

915
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 2: it's like, Hey, they're not just draftable assets, they're actually humans.

916
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 2: And they're humans who play a tough, grimy, gritty game.

917
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 2: And I know how to actually understand what's in here, John,

918
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:44,359
Speaker 2: not what's on the stat sheet, but what's actually in

919
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:46,399
Speaker 2: here in the heart. And I like to think that's

920
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:48,920
Speaker 2: what's made us successful in the fact of not only

921
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:51,840
Speaker 2: have been good on the field, but we drafted really

922
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:55,279
Speaker 2: quality players off the field, and that's led to having

923
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 2: a great culture and able to build us a fantastic brand.

924
00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:00,880
Speaker 1: Well, how many businesses in the world at the scale

925
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:04,160
Speaker 1: in which the NFL is is the product the human capital? Right,

926
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:06,280
Speaker 1: you know, you look at Apple, you look at Costco.

927
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 1: It's all some form of widget, whether it's a phone,

928
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:13,720
Speaker 1: whether it's a piece of meat, what regardless. But football,

929
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:15,240
Speaker 1: it's the players, right.

930
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:17,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a it's one hundred percent and it's and

931
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 2: it's insuler and the fact of you know they're they're

932
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 2: in there by themselves. It's the ultimate team sport. You're

933
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:24,680
Speaker 2: literally getting knocked down. You got to get back up.

934
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 2: I mean, character matters. You talked about it, right like,

935
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:32,919
Speaker 2: that's why the ownership matters, because the belief, the going

936
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 2: through hard times together and how people it's always look

937
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:37,640
Speaker 2: it's easy when everything's up into the right, whether that's

938
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 2: business or on the field. You really find out a

939
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:43,279
Speaker 2: lot about people when you're going through the downtimes. And

940
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 2: we went through some some downtimes with this regime, whether

941
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:48,479
Speaker 2: it was injury related or whether it was the early

942
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 2: days and rebuilding the roster, and just to see how

943
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:55,360
Speaker 2: hard this group works. It makes it really easy to

944
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 2: go into the office every single day.

945
00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:58,879
Speaker 1: I'll get you out of here on this I get

946
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:01,120
Speaker 1: asked a lot of questions, advice and how to get

947
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:03,759
Speaker 1: into the sporting world. And you know, if you're a

948
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:06,400
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame player like John Lancher. You know, Kyle's

949
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 1: dad's Mike, and then he plays at Texas and he's

950
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:11,440
Speaker 1: clearly just a brilliant born into the life. Like the

951
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:14,560
Speaker 1: Kubiak fam. I mean, there's and then there's Alguido. You

952
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 1: played small school football right in New Jersey and whatever.

953
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:22,160
Speaker 1: A couple of decades later, you're the CEO of the

954
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 1: forty nine ers. You've been the president for a decade,

955
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:27,160
Speaker 1: so you get asked this. You probably have people always

956
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 1: wanting to work for the forty nine ers. Just any

957
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 1: I would say general macro advice to young people that

958
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,240
Speaker 1: are listening to this that want to quote unquote work

959
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:38,440
Speaker 1: in sports, because I think it's easy to say that,

960
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 1: But then you start attacking, like where do I even start?

961
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 1: And you correct me if I'm wrong. You got your

962
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 1: start in ticket sales.

963
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, buddy, you know it. Well, Look, I'm I'm blessed.

964
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 2: I had two great parents. My father and my mother

965
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:53,400
Speaker 2: is stilled a good work ethic of me. You know,

966
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 2: when I was a little kid, I got great coaches.

967
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 2: As you mentioned, I was able to play D three sports,

968
00:49:57,680 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 2: and you gotta really love football to play D three sports.

969
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:01,920
Speaker 2: No one's giving you a scholarship or name, image and

970
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 2: likeness to do that.

971
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:05,239
Speaker 1: Were you like were you like Debo or McCaffrey, Like

972
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 1: I was a slot receiver.

973
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:09,279
Speaker 2: I was a quarterback when I got there, and then

974
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:11,439
Speaker 2: some six or five kids transferred from D one down

975
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:12,839
Speaker 2: and they quickly moved me to wide out.

976
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:14,320
Speaker 1: So you're like the Jersey Edelman.

977
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 2: I'll take it, man, I'll take it. My advice John

978
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:22,880
Speaker 2: is like, it's no different than Look, I got to

979
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:24,719
Speaker 2: work for a lot of good people. I would say

980
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:27,880
Speaker 2: I was inquisitive around the business itself. I wanted to

981
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 2: know everything, like how things worked. I wanted to know

982
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:33,040
Speaker 2: how media deals worked. I wanted to know how sponsorship

983
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:35,520
Speaker 2: deals work. I would just ask a bunch of questions

984
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:37,480
Speaker 2: and I would get a lot of people around me.

985
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 2: But look, it's cliche, but it hangs as a quote

986
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:42,960
Speaker 2: in my you know, in my office and at my

987
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,799
Speaker 2: home for my girls. I have three girls, teenage girls. Look,

988
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:49,719
Speaker 2: the dream is free, the hustle is sold separately. Everybody

989
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:52,319
Speaker 2: wants to be in sports entertainment. If you're a sports fan,

990
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:55,320
Speaker 2: like I was right, I would read every single publication

991
00:50:55,440 --> 00:50:58,000
Speaker 2: growing up. I'd watch Sports Center seven times on replay

992
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 2: and I would know exactly every word by the end.

993
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:04,120
Speaker 2: But just loving it is not enough. Just enjoying sports

994
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 2: is not enough. Like how you treat people on the

995
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:09,640
Speaker 2: work ethic that you have, you know will dictate your future.

996
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:12,200
Speaker 2: And I appreciate the platform John to come on because

997
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:15,840
Speaker 2: to me, and I tell my kids this, like anything

998
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:17,799
Speaker 2: can happen, right as long as you're willing to dream

999
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 2: it and work hard enough to go get it. And

1000
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 2: I'm an embodiment of it. But it is an honor

1001
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 2: to sit in this chair and to spend some time

1002
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 2: the other night with Carmen Policy who got to do

1003
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 2: it for me and win all those Super Bowl trophies

1004
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 2: with Eddie like it gives me something to strive for, man,

1005
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:35,239
Speaker 2: And my hope is that and then you know, call

1006
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:37,719
Speaker 2: it the near future that while I'm here, we get

1007
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 2: to put another trophy back in for this fan base,

1008
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:41,120
Speaker 2: because man, they deserve it so much.

1009
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:43,360
Speaker 1: So where are you and Rodge going to dinner tonight?

1010
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:46,239
Speaker 2: I don't actually know. I think he's doing the State

1011
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 2: of the Union. So we'll see what's up.

1012
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:51,520
Speaker 1: Okay, standing invite to that volume party on Wednesday night.

1013
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 1: I'll text you later this week, and thanks again for

1014
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:55,880
Speaker 1: coming on and congrats on the Super Bowl, grats on

1015
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:58,359
Speaker 1: the World Cup, and again congrats to you personally. That's

1016
00:51:58,880 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 1: that's a big time bro.

1017
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:03,000
Speaker 2: All right, right back at you man, Congrats to your family.

1018
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:04,960
Speaker 2: So happy for you and UH and you and the

1019
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:06,880
Speaker 2: cown and the rest of the team. All right, appreciate you.

1020
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 1: See I'll see you, see you buddy. The volume

1021
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:15,239
Speaker 2: M hm