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Speaker 1: lot of things to talk about today, some of the
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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty two around the country. After all these years,
Speaker 1: the Washington Redskins will finally change their name. It is
Speaker 1: supposed to happen at some point today. Public pressure and
Speaker 1: strong columns from the media had little impact on owner
Speaker 1: Daniel Snyder throughout the year. I mean he has been
Speaker 1: steadfast in not changing the name. But now financial pressure
Speaker 1: and that's always the game changer that took just days
Speaker 1: to sway him. When FedEx says that we're going to
Speaker 1: stop sponsoring the stadium, name A threatened to pull out,
Speaker 1: Snyder gave in, and now they're reportedly picking that new name.
Speaker 1: And there are those that are going to argue about
Speaker 1: tradition and growing up with that team name. And there's
Speaker 1: no doubt that Redskins is hurtful to some people. So
Speaker 1: what's the point. Team names aren't sacred. Sometimes they're cool,
Speaker 1: sometimes they're silly. To quote a movie you might remember
Speaker 1: that I was in basketball. The Minneapolis Lakers moved to
Speaker 1: Los Angeles where there are no lakes, and the New
Speaker 1: Orleans Jazz moved to Salt Lake City where there's no jazz.
Speaker 1: Washington fans are going to survive, though, You'll move on
Speaker 1: get a new nickname. You know what would really help
Speaker 1: the Redskins. How about you'll win some games there that
Speaker 1: would help. That would make people happy. We did check
Speaker 1: in with the league because I wanted to know what
Speaker 1: role owners play in approving a nickname or the commissioner.
Speaker 1: This is what I got from the league office today.
Speaker 1: The owners won't be voting on this. The league works
Speaker 1: with a club on the legal and creative design processes
Speaker 1: and we have this on a reliable source of what
Speaker 1: is going on right now. There's mockups with a variety
Speaker 1: of possible nicknames for the Redskins. So you have all
Speaker 1: the marketing people with Washington and digital people and they're
Speaker 1: doing mockups right now of what something is going to
Speaker 1: look like. And this isn't something you do overnight. This
Speaker 1: is something that usually takes months and months to be
Speaker 1: able to actually roll this out. But you're going to
Speaker 1: be presented with a variety of names, and you've seen
Speaker 1: some of the names leak out. Somebody even had the
Speaker 1: silly suggestion of the Washington Generals, which you know that's
Speaker 1: the standard bearer for an aptitude. Maybe it's appropriate that
Speaker 1: the Redskins go to the generals. But then are we
Speaker 1: going to then go, well, wait, what generals are we
Speaker 1: talking about? Here? You're gonna go down this rabbit hole.
Speaker 1: They're talking about Washington Warriors. Okay, some people are gonna
Speaker 1: have problems with that. Remember Marquette was the Marquette Warriors.
Speaker 1: They got rid of that, So is the name okay
Speaker 1: or not? Okay? And then Golden State they're the Warriors.
Speaker 1: But if Washington as the Warriors, But then people have
Speaker 1: a problem with the Warriors, then does Golden State have
Speaker 1: to change their name because they were the Philadelphia So
Speaker 1: this is where we're headed, and we're gonna get a
Speaker 1: new name. I think Red Tails might be the favorite
Speaker 1: right now in Vegas. Of the Washington Presidents, the Washington Lincoln's,
Speaker 1: Washington Veterans, Washington Capitals, Washington Americans, Washington Memorials, Washington Monuments.
Speaker 1: These are some of the names in Vegas right now.
Speaker 1: But I think the Red Tails, which is a tip
Speaker 1: of the cap to the Tuskegee Airman, and I think
Speaker 1: they're the favorites. Then the Generals. I don't get Generals
Speaker 1: if I'm a Redskins fan and I got to change
Speaker 1: my name. So now we're the laughing stock of you know, losers.
Speaker 1: You know, the Generals were the team that played the
Speaker 1: Harlem Globe, Dritters, red clots, like you're the Generals, similar
Speaker 1: win loss records. Yeah, and then the Presidents, the Lincolns,
Speaker 1: the veterans. But it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen today,
Speaker 1: at least that's what some of the news stories it's
Speaker 1: being worked on right now. Here's this statement from the
Speaker 1: Washington Redskins football team. This is two minutes ago. On
Speaker 1: July third, we announced the commencement of a thorough review
Speaker 1: of the team's name. The review has begun in earnest
Speaker 1: As part of this process, we want to keep our sponsors,
Speaker 1: fan in community apprized of our thinking as we go forward.
Speaker 1: Today we are announcing we're retiring the Redskins name and
Speaker 1: logo upon completion of this review. Dan Snyder coach Ron
Speaker 1: Rivera working closely to develop a new name and design
Speaker 1: approach that will enhance the standing of our proud, tradition,
Speaker 1: rich franchise and inspire our sponsors. Sponsors goes first before
Speaker 1: fans in community. Here you notice that inspire our sponsors,
Speaker 1: fans in community for the next one hundred years. I
Speaker 1: have to applaud the owner. He's honest. This is all
Speaker 1: about the sponsors here. And look, Daniel Snyder's a businessman. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he did something right to make this money to be
Speaker 1: able to buy this team. He's going to make more
Speaker 1: money with a new logo. That's why I kept saying.
Speaker 1: He can act like he's going kicking and screaming like
Speaker 1: this is never going to happen. This will never and
Speaker 1: you can put that in large utters bold letter never
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Okay, now he's getting pressure, and now he
Speaker 1: can act like, hey, I don't want to do this,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to have to do this. And now
Speaker 1: you bring in all this new merchandise. To me, it's
Speaker 1: a win win. I brought this back to the commissioner,
Speaker 1: Roger Goodell, that I do think he's starting to look
Speaker 1: at his legacy other than hey, I made these guys
Speaker 1: a ton of money. You look at Colin Kaepernick. He's
Speaker 1: been at the forefront here trying to get him back
Speaker 1: into the league. Now under your watch, Washington changing its
Speaker 1: nickname here. So I think that has a little bit
Speaker 1: to do with this as well. But you look at
Speaker 1: the bottom line, when the sponsors start to bail, that's
Speaker 1: when things happen. And that's what happened here. Daniel Snyder
Speaker 1: did not have an epiphany. He's not woke. He didn't go,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm looking around, Maybe it's time I
Speaker 1: changed this nickname. That wasn't going to happen. You know,
Speaker 1: I find out what these owners, they're loyal to money,
Speaker 1: that's it. Among the NFL's current franchises, only six times
Speaker 1: has any of them changed their nickname, and only one
Speaker 1: time has it happened in the half century since the merger,
Speaker 1: and that was the result of a franchise move. So
Speaker 1: since the end of World War Two, the only time
Speaker 1: a team changed its name without a franchise move was
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three when the Titans the Jets changed their
Speaker 1: name from the Titans to the Jets. Now you had
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Oilers, they changed their name to the Titans.
Speaker 1: They kept the Oilers for the first two years after
Speaker 1: the move from Houston to Nashville. But that's really all
Speaker 1: we've had. Yeah, pay, Why would the New York team
Speaker 1: change from Titans to the Jets? Titans is a great name.
Speaker 1: Was that a sponsorship deal? I'm being serious? Would I
Speaker 1: have no idea that they got an airline sponsor? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know why they went from Titans
Speaker 1: to Jets. Titans is a cool name for end New
Speaker 1: York team, it sounds like, but is it a cool
Speaker 1: nickname for Nashville with Tennessee Titans? Like I've never heard
Speaker 1: you say, boy, the Titans a cool name for Tennessee.
Speaker 1: But I like antiliteration, you know, I like Nashville is
Speaker 1: a city. Yeah, the Titans is not not good, the worst,
Speaker 1: but the Bullets, the Washington Bullets change their name to
Speaker 1: the Washington Wizards. It's got to be the worst nickname
Speaker 1: in sports. Like, Oh, let's get it fired up to
Speaker 1: go see the Wizards. I mean, come on, yeah, but
Speaker 1: they they were they preceded all of the wizard wizardry
Speaker 1: that you love. Oh, Harry Potter, Yeah, you're right, You're right.
Speaker 1: Why there is something about Washington franchises that inspire boredom.
Speaker 1: I can't put my favor I mean, well, their teams,
Speaker 1: the Caps are good. I mean they want a Stanley Cup, right,
Speaker 1: but they're just never going to be as high profile
Speaker 1: as like the Red Wings or and like the Nationals
Speaker 1: are that this was one of the World Series, and
Speaker 1: I don't think the average National fan care. I mean,
Speaker 1: and this goes back to and I've been saying this
Speaker 1: for years, that I got it on you know, from
Speaker 1: a good source in the league office, that Daniel Snyder
Speaker 1: wanted to move back into Washington, d c. Which is
Speaker 1: where the Redskins used to be at RFK, and he
Speaker 1: was told, if you are thinking about doing that, you
Speaker 1: must change the name that was it. There was That
Speaker 1: was before anything was going to be broached any possible
Speaker 1: you know, deal to move back into Washington, DC. You
Speaker 1: had to change the nickname. And here he is talking
Speaker 1: about moving back into Washington, d C. Maybe you reclaim RFK,
Speaker 1: you refurbish that or build a new stadium. But I'd
Speaker 1: keep an eye on that as well. Yes, Paul, back
Speaker 1: in the over fifty years ago, maybe fifty five years ago,
Speaker 1: club president Sonny, Yeah, change the name of the New
Speaker 1: York Titans to New y Jets because the new home
Speaker 1: field was gonna be between Idlewild Airport and the Guardia Airport.
Speaker 1: That was one of the key decisions and why they
Speaker 1: changed it out. Okay, I can't find any more reasoning. Okay.
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Speaker 1: we got poll question. I'm guessing McLevin. Yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 1: pick the Washington name. We're gonna use the top six
Speaker 1: Vegas odds, and they are the red tails, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: the generals, the presidents, the Lincolns, the veterans, and the capitals.
Speaker 1: But you're right there already is the capitals, well that,
Speaker 1: but they spell it differently. Yeah, oh you did, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: yeah right yeah. And then ConA after that you have
Speaker 1: the Americans. That's a tough one, the Washington Americans. And
Speaker 1: I don't think we're good on monuments and memorials right now,
Speaker 1: so that's probably not good. Um, Washington, Kings, Washington, Roosevelts, RedHawks,
Speaker 1: the Jefferson's, the Renegades, Arlington's, how about the Filibusters. It
Speaker 1: sounds sound like a tough guys. Snowflakes is five hundred
Speaker 1: to one, in case you're wondering Trump, Trump's is five
Speaker 1: hundred to one. I think if there's one thing that
Speaker 1: we've learned, don't name it after a person, don't name
Speaker 1: it after a group of people. Let's scratch those right off. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: I was watching the show on Disney Plus the other day,
Speaker 1: and Kings is inappropriate because the entire point of the
Speaker 1: American Revolution led by Alexander Hamilton to take down this
Speaker 1: is such a disappointment that we're not leading with Alexander
Speaker 1: Hamilton come in out of Disney. Plus I gave Seaton
Speaker 1: and an assignment for his vacat one thing. I just
Speaker 1: asked for one thing. I said, why don't you watch Hamilton?
Speaker 1: I just didn't have any time. So I came into
Speaker 1: Today and I go so and see goes so, and
Speaker 1: I go, did you watch it? Goes? I just didn't
Speaker 1: have time. You know. Every time that I fired up
Speaker 1: Apple TV and it was right there staring me in
Speaker 1: the face. I was like, oh, yeah, next time, I
Speaker 1: want to go watch these thirty seven other shows. The
Speaker 1: red Tails. Yeah, the Generals. To me, that's gonna provide
Speaker 1: a problem there because people are gonna go those union generals,
Speaker 1: the presidents. Lincoln's no veterans. How about vets, Washington vets.
Speaker 1: Now then people think it's veterinarians, and yes, boy, I
Speaker 1: gotta cup more. How about the lame ducks, the Washington
Speaker 1: lame ducks in a nice logo, play the kids, the muckrakers,
Speaker 1: kind of like a tough team that's down the mud
Speaker 1: political terms. How about hogs, Yeah yeah, but then we
Speaker 1: slaughter holl I mean, you know who knows where we're
Speaker 1: going with any of this stuff. Yeah, there is a
Speaker 1: big movement mount around red wolves, a serious one that
Speaker 1: isn't on the Vegas odds. I didn't see that. Fred Smooth,
Speaker 1: I guess, is leading a movement, and Dwayne Haskins likes
Speaker 1: it and having Ran likes it. Which a red wolf?
Speaker 1: I have no idea. It's an awesome logo though, but
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if there is such a thing as
Speaker 1: a red wolf. That could be cool. I'd like to
Speaker 1: know what a red wolf is, Yeah, like, is it
Speaker 1: a genius or the species? I don't know if there
Speaker 1: is such an animal. All Right, so that's the poll question.
Speaker 1: We're giving people an opportunity. Yeah, we'll start with that
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Speaker 1: Wh you saw that you liked you didn't like. I
Speaker 1: know I'm the bear of bad news. I'm Danny Downer,
Speaker 1: and I guess I'm going to continue to be Danny Downer.
Speaker 1: I really think that the start of the college football
Speaker 1: and NFL season are in serious jeopardy. I mean, college
Speaker 1: football is already making alternative plans. And I go back
Speaker 1: to a conversation I had with the PAC twelve commissioner
Speaker 1: that was back in May. This is May twelve, when
Speaker 1: I had Larry Scott, the PAC twe twelve commissioner, on
Speaker 1: and I broached the topic of and I have this
Speaker 1: on great authority, great source on it said that the
Speaker 1: PAC twelve was in trouble. There would be if they
Speaker 1: play only conference game. So I'm telling the commissioner this,
Speaker 1: and this is how that conversation went. What I was
Speaker 1: told a couple of weeks ago by a source was
Speaker 1: that you were going to see football when it does
Speaker 1: come back, that the conferences are just going to be
Speaker 1: playing conference games and it was probably going to be
Speaker 1: a ten game schedule. Now you might get one outlier
Speaker 1: where Ohio State plays Ohio University or something that's regional there.
Speaker 1: How does that jibe with what you've been told? Well,
Speaker 1: I can tell you anyone that's telling you now sitting
Speaker 1: here in the middle of May what it's going to
Speaker 1: be in there giving you the inside scoop isn't a
Speaker 1: very good source. Because I'm the one having the conversations
Speaker 1: with our peer conferences and our presence and We don't know,
Speaker 1: but has that been discussed. Just what I told you absolutely,
Speaker 1: that's you know, if we can't play a full season
Speaker 1: um and get the full twelve weeks plus the postseason,
Speaker 1: that would be a natural abbreviated season. Ok, you can
Speaker 1: move the conference only for us that would be nine games.
Speaker 1: And yes, as you know, as I mentioned, we got
Speaker 1: multiple scenarios. That's not what we're planning on, but that's
Speaker 1: always an option that would that would be the easiest
Speaker 1: default option. Right, that's what you know schools can control.
Speaker 1: And frankly that's the priority on our schools like playing
Speaker 1: each other. But you know, at the moment, we're playing
Speaker 1: on the full season. Right. Once again, my source was
Speaker 1: correct on this back in May. Now, I know a
Speaker 1: lot of things have happened transpired, but this is what
Speaker 1: was being discussed. And they realized that they were not
Speaker 1: going to be able to have non conference games, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know with the commissioner, and I think he has
Speaker 1: the coronavirus. So I hope that the commissioners is doing better.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I had a great source on this telling
Speaker 1: me that this is what's happening. And plus understand this
Speaker 1: the NCAA doesn't have any jurisdiction. These are all the conference,
Speaker 1: And as Polly likes to say, it's like the five
Speaker 1: Mafia families in New York. There's no one in charge.
Speaker 1: They're kind of in charge of their own area, their
Speaker 1: own neighborhoods, and there's no boss of the bosses. And
Speaker 1: that's what you have going on with college football. Pat
Speaker 1: Forty is going to join us, and I do think
Speaker 1: there'll be other leagues that are going to follow suit
Speaker 1: with the IVY League and maybe go spring. And remember
Speaker 1: where you had Philip former the athletic director Tennessee. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have a hundred thousand fans in there, and I said,
Speaker 1: I'll take the under. I don't. I just don't see
Speaker 1: any of this happening. I just don't. I think it's
Speaker 1: problematic and trying to get kids go on campus, and
Speaker 1: it's just I think there's so many different potholes here
Speaker 1: and I just don't think that they can overcome it.
Speaker 1: Just sheer numbers here. But I'll talk to Pat Forty
Speaker 1: about this, you know, and I looking at Rutgers. You know,
Speaker 1: Rutgers has non conference games that are two in New Jersey,
Speaker 1: and then you have a game against Temple in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: They're traveling to Nebraska. But you can't have two games
Speaker 1: in your own state and then go to Pennsylvania to
Speaker 1: play Temple Like it's it just doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: And even with the bubble man, that's as close as
Speaker 1: we're going to get to being hermetically sealed to be
Speaker 1: able to pull off the end of a season. Yeah. See,
Speaker 1: but is it the part I completely agree with you
Speaker 1: about the Rutgers schedule. That is ridiculous. You can't play
Speaker 1: games in your own state or neighboring state. But does
Speaker 1: that say more about like the plan is ridiculous or
Speaker 1: that the conferences are ridiculous? The conferences are the problem.
Speaker 1: I mean, they really make no sense. No, it doesn't. Hey,
Speaker 1: you can't stay in state and play somebody, but come
Speaker 1: on out to Link in Nebraska. Okay, Dan, you're sleeping
Speaker 1: the tradition of the Nebraska Rutgers game and I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna handle that on my watch. Hold on, buddy, I know,
Speaker 1: I know, all right, Let'll talk to Pat forty phone
Speaker 1: calls are welcome. Eight seven seven three D P show.
Speaker 1: We just got this from PAC twelve. Larry Scott is
Speaker 1: doing well once to rest up to make a speedy recovery.
Speaker 1: So maybe scheduling meetings for this week. I hope you understand.
Speaker 1: So that's from the PAC twelve PR department. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: knew that Larry was not doing well or not feeling well,
Speaker 1: so probably didn't appreciate me bringing that comment back from May,
Speaker 1: but just being a journalist commissioner. We'll get him on later.
Speaker 1: I'll apologize. I want to talk to him later. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll take a break, we'll get to your phone calls.
Speaker 1: We'll settle on our poll question here, we'll keep an
Speaker 1: eye on what's going on with Washington with the name change.
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Speaker 1: All right, mclovin, we got our poll question. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: we're gonna in the first hour, we're gonna name the redskins,
Speaker 1: and your choices are as follows. The redtails, the generals,
Speaker 1: the President's, Lincoln's veterans are capitals with an Oh, you
Speaker 1: can't do whips, right, that's a political term, the whip,
Speaker 1: Washington whips. It sounds like, you know, fast m but
Speaker 1: you know what's gonna happen. This hasn't even been factored
Speaker 1: in that. Let's say you have a name and then
Speaker 1: people are gonna go, what a lame nickname? It won't
Speaker 1: have any political repercussions or there won't be any you know,
Speaker 1: political correctness with this. Yet you want something that's gonna
Speaker 1: be bland and benign. Maybe that that's what they're hoping for, Like,
Speaker 1: we don't want to upset anybody. And I'm waiting. If
Speaker 1: they do warriors, then what's Golden State do If they go, oh,
Speaker 1: we had to pass on warriors. We can't have we
Speaker 1: don't want to upset anybody. Yes, mclow, you know, but
Speaker 1: there's so many lame names. Like I was like the
Speaker 1: names the Cardinals, like why there's nothing tough about cardinals,
Speaker 1: I know? Or like they's just random things. The Bills,
Speaker 1: you know, Reds, your Reds? Who are the Bill's name?
Speaker 1: They named after Buffalo Bill? I would imagine, I don't
Speaker 1: even know. And the Cleveland Browns were after Paul Brown. Yeah, boy,
Speaker 1: imagine if Paul Brown's last name were like us, would
Speaker 1: he have gone? Would he go to Cleveland? Lip shits?
Speaker 1: This is? This is, this is I don't know. Did
Speaker 1: you just get lucky that black? He is lucky? Yeah? Yeah? Uh?
Speaker 1: Pat forty Sports Illustrated Senior writer, as we somehow make
Speaker 1: the smooth segue in here. Good morning, Pat, How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm good? I vote for Washington Monuments. Well yeah, but
Speaker 1: we've been tearing down monuments, haven't we? And you know
Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah, I know it would actually make for
Speaker 1: an ugly helmet too. It just the Washington Monument the side.
Speaker 1: How was your week? By the way, Uh? Insane? Really
Speaker 1: I didn't expect it, but that's kind of how this
Speaker 1: whole thing has gone it's been. It was really busy
Speaker 1: trying to keep up with what the Big Ten was doing,
Speaker 1: the Pac twelve was doing, the IVY League was doing. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, things are happenings, and it seems like the
Speaker 1: pace of the deconstruction the season is accelerating. Did the
Speaker 1: IVY League wag the wag the dog here? Maybe? You know,
Speaker 1: it's a little different. They certainly did last March in basketball.
Speaker 1: Football is a little different because football is such a
Speaker 1: bigger revenue generator for the Power Five and really the
Speaker 1: all of FBS versus where the Ivy League plays it.
Speaker 1: But they set a tone of we're pulling back, and
Speaker 1: I think you saw that some other conferences were quick
Speaker 1: to follow that. Obviously the Big Ten, which a lot
Speaker 1: of other conferences, were surprised and a little bit annoyed
Speaker 1: that they went that quickly and basically unilaterally that way.
Speaker 1: And then the Pac twelve goes to conference only, and
Speaker 1: I think the other Power five conferences probably will eventually
Speaker 1: follow by the end of the month. All Right, explain
Speaker 1: this to me, because you're a lunch smarter about this
Speaker 1: than I am. Rutgers has out of conference games, two
Speaker 1: in New Jersey and one in Pennsylvania against Temple, but
Speaker 1: they're going to get rid of those and let them
Speaker 1: fly across country to Nebraska. So explain that to me.
Speaker 1: Here the logic of the Big Ten, Well, there's the
Speaker 1: big logical hole in this. Now. What the Big Ten
Speaker 1: will say is the biggest reason they went to this conference.
Speaker 1: The only thing is that they can control the whole
Speaker 1: schedule and basically space out nine or ten games across
Speaker 1: thirteen weeks because they feel like there's it's inevitable that
Speaker 1: there's going to be some weeks when you're going to
Speaker 1: have X number of positive cases of the virus and
Speaker 1: not be able to play, and if it's with a
Speaker 1: league opponent, they're like, oh, okay, we can just shift
Speaker 1: that around and make this work. And I think that
Speaker 1: they just feel like that's it's a lot more easy
Speaker 1: to maneuver across the course of a schedule when you
Speaker 1: take some weeks out of it and add some open
Speaker 1: dates there. The other thing, too, Dan, is that at
Speaker 1: least all the Big Ten teams can say we're testing
Speaker 1: the same way, We've got the same protocols. We're all
Speaker 1: going to decide on Thursday, Hey, is your team well
Speaker 1: enough to go play? On Saturday, you know, as opposed
Speaker 1: to when you're playing Monmouth or Temple. You can't necessarily
Speaker 1: say they're doing things the same way. I didn't know
Speaker 1: if it was another way of delaying this season. If
Speaker 1: we took out those non conference games that you start
Speaker 1: the season with, that you can buy yourself a little
Speaker 1: bit of time. And I don't know if that's part
Speaker 1: of this as well, that maybe you start to leak
Speaker 1: into October more than playing games in September. Could be
Speaker 1: could be And we'll find out because the Big Ten
Speaker 1: had does have some early conference games schedules, so we'll see.
Speaker 1: I think they're hoping to try to hammer out something
Speaker 1: of a schedule here by the end of this week.
Speaker 1: That maybe too soon, but we may start hearing some
Speaker 1: word whether that is the plan, whether just to push
Speaker 1: everything back to October first. I think they'd probably rather
Speaker 1: go by mid September at least, and like I said,
Speaker 1: use some of those weeks for cushion in case they
Speaker 1: have cancelations or postponements during the season. How optimistic are
Speaker 1: you right now that we have Power five conference football games?
Speaker 1: Not very, not very I mean, it's been nothing but
Speaker 1: dwindling confidence throughout July. It's funny the ebbs and flows
Speaker 1: of this thing, as we've talked about before, where you know,
Speaker 1: late May, halfway into June, people are really bullish and
Speaker 1: we're gonna play, and we're gonna have at least fifty
Speaker 1: percent filled capacity stands, maybe even one hundred percent. And
Speaker 1: then a month later now we're like, boy, I don't
Speaker 1: know whether we're gonna play. You know, there's more and
Speaker 1: more people looking at the spring I think as a possibility,
Speaker 1: although that has its own problems. I mean, we could
Speaker 1: lose so many of the top players then who just
Speaker 1: simply say I'm not going to play. But I'd say
Speaker 1: I feel less than fifty percent sure that we will
Speaker 1: play football in the fall. I go back to what
Speaker 1: Kirk Herbstreet said. I think that was in March, and
Speaker 1: remember everybody came out of the woodwork and attacked him
Speaker 1: where he said noun paraphrasing that we might not have
Speaker 1: college football. He didn't see it happening. And here we
Speaker 1: are right now, and what Herbie said back in March
Speaker 1: unfortunately may come to fruition. Absolutely. You know, you know this,
Speaker 1: I mean, really you can kind of look at this
Speaker 1: whole thing has just been the state of denial, and
Speaker 1: I've been part of it for Americans probably in general,
Speaker 1: but American sports fans of like every time something's been
Speaker 1: taken off the table, like what, really, there's no way, no,
Speaker 1: you know, the IVY League they're not going to play
Speaker 1: by their basketball tournament. That's crazy. Well, I'm sure then
Speaker 1: we're not going to play an NCAA tournament. And then
Speaker 1: we're not gonna have any spring sports. And then the
Speaker 1: Olympics get postponed and the Masters and so on and
Speaker 1: so on and so on, and now I mean everybody
Speaker 1: was like, surely we'll still have football. And I think
Speaker 1: the people that looked at it, you know, the pretty
Speaker 1: sober eye back in the spring and said we may not,
Speaker 1: were the ones that were ahead of the game. And
Speaker 1: I also wonder, we're talking to Pat Forty from Sports Illustrated.
Speaker 1: I'm wondering about these big name players in college football
Speaker 1: that are they going to play this season? Would we
Speaker 1: hold it against them? We you know, we had players
Speaker 1: who sit out a bowl game, but if you're Trevor
Speaker 1: Lawrence or some of these other players, I just wonder
Speaker 1: the risk and the reward of playing a season and
Speaker 1: do we have players who hopped out of the season
Speaker 1: because they want to get ready for the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one draft. I think we have dozens of them, possibly
Speaker 1: even hundreds, who knows, you know. I mean, but I
Speaker 1: think if you feel pretty secure that you're going to
Speaker 1: be a first or second round draft pick, you're probably
Speaker 1: out other guys you know who are maybe third through
Speaker 1: fifth round picks. You're You're like, Okay, I want to
Speaker 1: try to improve my status still, so maybe I want
Speaker 1: to play. But I think there will be some of
Speaker 1: them too, will say it's just not worth getting injured.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a really, really difficult thing
Speaker 1: if it's a spring season for schools to be able
Speaker 1: to put, you know, anything close to a full, high
Speaker 1: powered lineup on the field. If you are at a
Speaker 1: Power five team with a bunch of pro prospects, it's
Speaker 1: gonna it's gonna be a major attrition. What's Notre Dame
Speaker 1: do well, that's a great question. I wrote about that
Speaker 1: way back in Gosh was in April or May, I
Speaker 1: don't know, but I talked to Jack Swarbrick, then the
Speaker 1: athletic director, and he said he that the the ACC
Speaker 1: Alliance basically would help them in it. Has They've got
Speaker 1: six games scheduled with ACC teams, they should play all
Speaker 1: of those. John Swafford, the commissioner, has said that Navy
Speaker 1: absolutely wants to play them. That gets them to seven.
Speaker 1: Beyond that, we'll see, you know. I would imagine Western
Speaker 1: Michigan is still out. They're saying, yeah, man, we're scheduled
Speaker 1: in there, please let us play. Let us go to
Speaker 1: Notre Dame Stateium and play that game for the money
Speaker 1: and the exposure. So maybe that gets you to eight.
Speaker 1: And after that, I don't know. If it's a spring season,
Speaker 1: you may not get more than eight, maybe eight or
Speaker 1: nine games. If I made you the head of the NCAA,
Speaker 1: Mark Emert, and you actually had power, what would you do?
Speaker 1: That's the thing, see this is laid bare how little
Speaker 1: power they have over anything. But first of all, what
Speaker 1: I would do. I would absolutely there would be uniform
Speaker 1: testing and eligibility procedures as far as whether when players
Speaker 1: could practice, when they could play, when teams could play. Secondly,
Speaker 1: I would have every conference commissioner in the Indianapolis. I mean,
Speaker 1: if the SEC eighties could meet in person today in Birmingham,
Speaker 1: you could have everybody in India and say we need
Speaker 1: a completely uniform schedule here. We need we don't need
Speaker 1: this conference saying that and this other conference doing something different.
Speaker 1: We've got to have some sort of unified schedule here
Speaker 1: that actually is for the good of everyone as opposed
Speaker 1: to every conference being out for themselves. Well, we liken
Speaker 1: it to the five mob families, the power five, and
Speaker 1: then there's no boss over those five mafia families. That's
Speaker 1: what you have here. It is that's all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you know, Michael Corley Oller can go settle all family
Speaker 1: business one day without consulting the rest of them. That's mayhem,
Speaker 1: it really is. I mean, we'll see if they actually
Speaker 1: come to some uniform decision, but there's absolutely no unifying
Speaker 1: power both here. Great talk to you again, Pat, Thank you,
Speaker 1: my pleasure. Dan, thank you. That's Pat Forty covers college
Speaker 1: sports for Sports Ray. They're a senior writer. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: just start to look at I'm just being realistic. I
Speaker 1: know I'm supposed to be optimistic and I try to be,
Speaker 1: but I have to be realistic when it comes to
Speaker 1: this of just trying to we're trying to force things
Speaker 1: through and go back to all of the time stamps
Speaker 1: that we had with these commissioners. Well, we're going to
Speaker 1: be back here, We're going to be starting here, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be doing and you see that it's all fluid,
Speaker 1: and that's what's happening. And I still think the start
Speaker 1: of the college football in the NFL season are fluid
Speaker 1: and I would not be surprised at all. I here's
Speaker 1: my surprise that they start on time, that's my surprise.
Speaker 1: And if they do great, I just don't I don't
Speaker 1: have confidence that even if we start that we're going
Speaker 1: to finish. I just looking at the numbers, looking at
Speaker 1: the timeline and trying to be able to pull this off.
Speaker 1: And the NBA is going to have issues during this pandemic,
Speaker 1: during this bubble tournament. Can they get through that? You
Speaker 1: have players who are getting sick? How many players will
Speaker 1: it take before a team can't really field a team
Speaker 1: or the team that we expect. What if it's Milwaukee
Speaker 1: has you know the Greek freak that goes down, you
Speaker 1: don't get a true representation of how great that team is,
Speaker 1: or something happens to the Lakers. By the way, Rajen
Speaker 1: Rondo is out sixty eight weeks with a thumb injury.
Speaker 1: So they've got Avery Bradley that they're without. Now you
Speaker 1: have Rajen Rondo, And to me, this is all about depth,
Speaker 1: going into the bubble healthy, those who are healthiest, and
Speaker 1: those who have the most depth are going to be
Speaker 1: playing for a championship. I mean, it's really that simple,
Speaker 1: you know, because LA doesn't have a home court advantage anymore.
Speaker 1: They got JR. Smith. They those two players who contribute
Speaker 1: quite a bit with Avery Bratton in plus. I don't
Speaker 1: want them during the regular season, Rondo and Avery Bradley,
Speaker 1: but during the postseason, I really want them. And Rondo
Speaker 1: is a playoff guy, and Avery Bradley gives you that
Speaker 1: experience as well. I mean, those are two losses, big
Speaker 1: losses for the Lakers here, and you know, we got
Speaker 1: a neutral playing field court and I just think those
Speaker 1: who stay the healthiest, those who are the smartest, and
Speaker 1: those who have depth, you're gonna be playing for a
Speaker 1: championship here. All right, we'll take a break. We'll get
Speaker 1: to your phone calls coming up, best and worst of
Speaker 1: the weekend. And by the way, Lebron, did you know
Speaker 1: there was a press conference where Lebron said the NBA
Speaker 1: is doing everything they're supposed to. Here's a portion of
Speaker 1: that conversation. They took all precautionary reasons measures to make
Speaker 1: sure that we as a as a league as as
Speaker 1: safe as we can be. Obviously, you know, in anything
Speaker 1: that you do, there can be things that could happen,
Speaker 1: but we will cross that line if it happens. But
Speaker 1: we're doing everything from a league, from every franchise to
Speaker 1: make sure everyone stays safe during COVID during this pandemic.
Speaker 1: But I believe in Adam Silver. He has given me
Speaker 1: no reason to never not believe him since he took over,
Speaker 1: and I believe in our franchise that we are doing
Speaker 1: everything that we can to stay safe. So I have
Speaker 1: no concerns. Less concerns was you know, started to happen,
Speaker 1: and we can across that bridge if it happens. But
Speaker 1: I'm here one hundred percent in great health and I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward again back on the floor. This is just
Speaker 1: a little side story, but this will give you an
Speaker 1: idea of they're going to be players who are probably
Speaker 1: not going to align themselves with the strict rules in
Speaker 1: guidelines because social media, I think had somebody who was
Speaker 1: in the import export business bringing in a girlfriend, and
Speaker 1: all of the sudden, guys are trying to figure out, Wait,
Speaker 1: who's who's bringing in a friend? They call that the
Speaker 1: fast past out of the you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: get right through the line import export business. So you're
Speaker 1: gonna have some guys who probably under quarantine who saw
Speaker 1: that coming. No, no one saw that one. You have
Speaker 1: workers there who will leave the bubble, leave the property
Speaker 1: and go home. And now you're gonna have guys who
Speaker 1: are trying to get a hook up here and bring
Speaker 1: somebody in. Can you imagine trying to do that and
Speaker 1: making sure that nobody sees that. Yeah, Tod, do you
Speaker 1: rat that player out and burst their bubble? Well, I
Speaker 1: see what you do at that time. You see what
Speaker 1: you did with that. You gotta worry about your health.
Speaker 1: You can't be so worried about you know, those other needs. No,
Speaker 1: I know, I know. We'll take a break. We got
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Speaker 1: do much on my vacation. In case you were wondering,
Speaker 1: here's the big thing I did on my vacation. Get
Speaker 1: ready for this. I already told you guys. In fact,
Speaker 1: I told you, and you probably don't realize that that
Speaker 1: was the big event that I had over my vacation. Oh,
Speaker 1: you didn't travel, you didn't do home projects. I didn't
Speaker 1: go anywhere. You could give me a million dollars right
Speaker 1: now if I got this, or I wouldn't be able
Speaker 1: to guess it. I have no idea what you're referring. Okay,
Speaker 1: I didn't go anywhere because I want to stay safe.
Speaker 1: I didn't do anything, and I played nine holes of
Speaker 1: golf with my wife. Now that wasn't the big event.
Speaker 1: The big event was we ordered pizza from so no, no, no,
Speaker 1: hold on, it gets better. Yeah, this is crazy. We
Speaker 1: ordered now New Haven Pizza's the best pizza that you'll
Speaker 1: find in a mar and Peppies and Sally's they have
Speaker 1: modern pizza. There's bar and so we decided that we
Speaker 1: were going to order all of the pizzas from each place,
Speaker 1: and then we were going to have a taste testing competition.
Speaker 1: It was a pizza slam down is what we called it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we got all of the pizzas and then we
Speaker 1: had one person who put everybody got a slice of
Speaker 1: each of these pies and then we rated them and
Speaker 1: then we decided who had the best pizza. That was
Speaker 1: my big event on my vacation. Yeah, yeah, se Uh,
Speaker 1: do you want to give away the winner or uh?
Speaker 1: I think I? I think I gave you the winner,
Speaker 1: didn't I? Paul? I think yeah. Before we get to
Speaker 1: the winner, how was it? What? There's categories like, yes,
Speaker 1: best overall pie, best crust, like presentation, How did you
Speaker 1: hide the piece to boxes from people? And how not
Speaker 1: to give out the They were in the kitchen. Then
Speaker 1: everybody else went into the dining room and then we
Speaker 1: had somebody who took out the slices and then put
Speaker 1: them everybody on their individual tray. Did the people at
Speaker 1: the pizza places know what was going on? You're pretty
Speaker 1: well known guy, you roll in the New I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't go anywhere had a proxy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's nothing. My daughter, That's why I have kids so
Speaker 1: they can go do things for him general appearance, appearance
Speaker 1: of the pizza, yeah, crust, yeah, quality of toppings, and
Speaker 1: overall taste, which is the most important, right yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: See there's already a lot of scuttle But about you
Speaker 1: claiming that New Haven pizza is the best in the country.
Speaker 1: That immediately set off firestorm. I will give New York pizza,
Speaker 1: and maybe I separate New York pizza because they have more,
Speaker 1: they have more bad pizza. New Haven just has great pizza.
Speaker 1: But there are some great pizza in Brooklyn and in Manhattan.
Speaker 1: But if I look at what New Haven off nobody
Speaker 1: comes close to what New Haven offers for pizza per
Speaker 1: capita per pa. Yeah speak even who says like, oh,
Speaker 1: this place has the best geese stakes per capita. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously the best cheese steaks are in Philadelphia, but if
Speaker 1: you go to this small town in New Jersey per capita,
Speaker 1: you can't throw it per New Haven has the best
Speaker 1: pizza in America. You know that such dy is crazy
Speaker 1: in America. It's not that crazy. You have a statement
Speaker 1: when you not when you when we talk about pizza,
Speaker 1: have you guys been in New Haven to eat the pizza?
Speaker 1: I have, I've been in frank Pepe's in New Haven
Speaker 1: many times. Okay, I've had that too. It's amazing. Did
Speaker 1: you have Sally's, No, I haven't had. We gonna add
Speaker 1: modern modern is Modern is great too. I think your
Speaker 1: point about like you can go to Brooklyn. If you
Speaker 1: walk into any pizza place in Brooklyn, get a slice,
Speaker 1: it's a fifty fifty shot where that's really good pizza
Speaker 1: or bland pizza, been sitting out there all day. In
Speaker 1: New Haven, you're probably going into a high end pizza
Speaker 1: place if you go into one, right, But the top
Speaker 1: four or five pizza places in the world are like
Speaker 1: like they're either in Italy or Brooklyn or New Haven.
Speaker 1: Trust me. I mean, like, no, if you come from
Speaker 1: everywhere to go to Brooklyn pizza. People come into New
Speaker 1: Haven just to eat the pizza. Still like Grimaldi's World.
Speaker 1: Grimaldi's is great. It is uh, Bleeker's Street Pizza is great.
Speaker 1: Like there's John's, There's there's all these kess Day or
Speaker 1: Keys Stay is another one. Like there's so many great
Speaker 1: pizza places. I just think New Haven's got the best
Speaker 1: pizza in America. And so my opinion, it was my holiday,
Speaker 1: It's my story, Okay, and by the way, I'd never
Speaker 1: go to any of these places of Brooklyn. I'm only
Speaker 1: going on random articles I've read it. Yeah, yes, boy,
Speaker 1: it's funny that mclovan's lived in Brooklyn now for you know,
Speaker 1: quite a long time. But Fritzie hasn't lived in Brooklyn
Speaker 1: in about thirty years. But he's defensive about it. And
Speaker 1: his favorite Fritzie likes a chain pizza. Yeah, you like Sparrow, Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: Something about Brooklyn pizza. Actually, because I was born and
Speaker 1: raised in Sabarrow the best. I think you can go
Speaker 1: to the worst pizza place in Brooklyn and it's still
Speaker 1: superior to so many parties. Look at the list and
Speaker 1: maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm you know, factually incorrect here,
Speaker 1: but look at the best pizza in America in the
Speaker 1: rankings and tell me where New Haven ranks. Sally's, Peppe's
Speaker 1: Modern Yes here, Yeah, you'll probably get if you look
Speaker 1: at a top ten, you'll probably get more in New
Speaker 1: York than in New Haven. But the New Haven will
Speaker 1: be there two or three times. I'm gonna guess. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess. Three of the top ten are probably
Speaker 1: new Haven Pizza, and New York has fifteen million people
Speaker 1: in New Haven has a couple hundred thousand. Yes, Ton,
Speaker 1: That's why I got to put the per capita finger
Speaker 1: the numbers a little bit. So that was my big story. Okay,
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to cause the controversy, but that's my
Speaker 1: big story from my vacation. A lot of carbs, by
Speaker 1: the way. I know, I know. I started where wearing
Speaker 1: darker colors because they're slimming. Because I walked in today
Speaker 1: and Pauli goes ah looking slim, I thought you look
Speaker 1: good today. I'm wearing dark colors USA Today. Top fifteen
Speaker 1: Pizza places number one, rank Pepe's number two. Defara Brooklyn
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