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Speaker 1: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: on your twenty four to seven home of the Black

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Speaker 1: and Gold cast in Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Drive. I am Dale Lolly. He is

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Speaker 2: the Matt Williamson and now we know Matt.

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Speaker 3: Now we know, now we know.

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Speaker 2: Starting to fall into place here Steelers versus Vikings.

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Speaker 4: That will be September twenty.

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Speaker 2: Eighth at Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland, nine thirty am

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Speaker 2: kickoff local time, Yeah, yea yeah, yeah, so eastern right, yeah,

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Speaker 2: it'd be what two thirty I got five.

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Speaker 3: Hour difference, right, yeah, okay, so absolutely.

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Speaker 4: Not that different from a one o'clock start.

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Speaker 3: No, I mean they're gonna be over there all week,

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Speaker 3: and you would think their bodies are going to be

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Speaker 3: used to that.

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Speaker 2: It won't be like, sure, the game's over by four

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Speaker 2: thirty eight, No, actually five thirty local time.

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Speaker 3: Ish like twelve thirty here, seven o'clock, No later than

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Speaker 3: seven o'clock.

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Speaker 2: You're getting on a flight and you're back into Pittsburgh

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Speaker 2: by you know, one, two o'clock in the morning.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess you would, okay local time, local time,

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Speaker 3: yeah yeah, yeah, okay, so about twelve hours after kickoff.

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Speaker 3: Well no, no, no, more than more than yeah, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 3: but it's like a five hour flight something like that. Yeah, okay, No,

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Speaker 3: I'm glad we know, and we thought there's a good

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Speaker 3: chance Minnesota would be the team. Strangely, they're going to

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Speaker 3: play two games in Europe at two different cities.

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Speaker 2: I was going to get I was going to get

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Speaker 2: onto that here as the rest of the NFL announced

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Speaker 2: this entire international schedule. The Vikings are going to be

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Speaker 2: the first team to play back to back games.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, in different countries.

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Speaker 3: Right, Like the Jags did it in London, which is

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Speaker 3: kind of their home away from home. But they stayed

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Speaker 3: in London, right, they didn't have to go anywhere. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So the Vikings are at the Steelers in week four,

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Speaker 2: that's a week four. Week four following week, the Vikings

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Speaker 2: are at Cleveland. They're the visitor in both of these

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Speaker 2: games too.

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Speaker 3: No, okay, So they're knocking off two road games out

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Speaker 3: of their schedule back to back. Wow.

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Speaker 2: Okay, hopefully the Vikings don't pillage the Pillar Europe like

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Speaker 2: they did in the past.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: All these games are nine to thirty starts. That's in

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Speaker 2: week five. Then in week six, you've got Denver and

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Speaker 2: the Jets playing again at Tattenham Hotspur Stadium in London.

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Speaker 3: So the Steelers is the first international game of the year.

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Speaker 2: Well, no, because you have the the one in Brazil.

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Speaker 2: Oh right, that's again this yeah, that's September sixth, I believe.

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Speaker 3: Is that week one? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I think it was Week one last a Week one game.

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Speaker 2: We know the Chargers are going to be the host

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Speaker 2: team for that. We don't know who the opponent is.

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Speaker 3: Oh, they haven't released that one. You haven't reached at Brazil. Gain.

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Speaker 2: Uh So in week six you got that game Broncos

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Speaker 2: at Jets or versus Jets, I should say. Then you

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Speaker 2: get the Rams versus the Jaguars. That one's at Wembley

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Speaker 2: in week seven.

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Speaker 3: Did the Jags ever go anywhere else in Europe today Europe?

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Speaker 4: Not really?

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Speaker 3: They stay right, Yeah, they stay in London. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Uh So that's the Week seven game.

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Speaker 2: The Week ten matchup, we don't have one in those

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Speaker 2: next three weeks. But week ten, November ninth, you get

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Speaker 2: Falcons and Colts. That one's at Olympic Stadium in Berlin.

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Speaker 3: Wow, that's the first game ever I think in Germany

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Speaker 3: in Berlin. Yeah, okay, these are all nine thirty local

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Speaker 2: That's nine thirty there. Then you get in week eleven

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Speaker 2: Washington versus Miami. That one's in Santiago and my Spanish note,

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Speaker 2: well not great, no bueno Bernarda bou Stadium in Madrid.

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Speaker 4: Would you say, Madrid.

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Speaker 3: Well done?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go, you take yeah, and then that

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Speaker 2: is it for those games, and of course that will

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Speaker 3: So they're between week four and week eleven. Yeah, all

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Speaker 3: through Europe. Yeah, and there's more than ever.

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Speaker 2: Right, and you've got the other one that's going to

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Speaker 2: be in Brazil right also, that'll be early, it'll be earlier.

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Speaker 3: Okay. Wow, I mean it really is expanding from just

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Speaker 3: a couple of years ago. I think you even brought

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Speaker 2: I don't know if that's going to happen in five years,

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Speaker 2: it happens in ten years, but I do think it

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Speaker 2: eventually it will happen.

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Speaker 3: Then it's some stretch, you know, eighteen game season, maybe

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Speaker 3: two bys, that type of thing.

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Speaker 2: And I think the Vikings playing back to back games

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Speaker 2: over there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of fun. Yeah yeah, sets the stage.

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Speaker 4: Okay, what's just do?

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Speaker 3: How does how the dynamics of this workout? I forget,

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Speaker 3: where do they go after they play the Steelers? What city?

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Speaker 4: They go to?

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Speaker 3: London? Okay, so they're flying yes, yeah, it's not a

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Speaker 4: I went through that yesterday hour and a half.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, but I mean there's more travel over there, Okay.

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Speaker 2: I would think that would give them a pretty good

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Speaker 2: advantage over Cleveland.

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Speaker 3: I was saying that too, like you hope Steelers beat

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Speaker 3: them and then they wipe the floor of the Browns

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Speaker 3: after they've been in Europe for a while and used

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Speaker 3: to this thing.

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Speaker 2: Well, I would think, you know, because they're going over

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Speaker 3: Mmmm. Probably true.

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Speaker 2: Like you probably don't want to, especially that early in

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Speaker 2: the season, like pack up and move everything over there

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Speaker 2: for two full weeks or anything like that.

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Speaker 3: You probably want to make it more like ten days.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we'll know this stuff tomorrow night. But none

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Speaker 3: of them will have a bye before, right, Maybe Minnesota

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Speaker 3: gets a bye after.

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Speaker 4: Some of those ones that are later, right, right, right?

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Speaker 2: Later in the season will definitely probably end up having

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Speaker 2: buys afterwards, but they typically don't do the buy.

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Speaker 4: That's I think that's one.

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Speaker 2: Of the reasons why the Steelers they didn't want to

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Speaker 2: find out whether the league.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, but they I think they they asked for

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Speaker 3: not to have a buy.

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Speaker 2: Requested not to have a week five by so early.

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Speaker 2: That's the reason why.

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Speaker 3: It's like, okay, and again it's a five hour flight,

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Speaker 3: which isn't that much different than Seattle or whatever. Right,

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Speaker 3: you know, so, it's doable. You just go in a

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Speaker 3: different direction, right you know So, But that is interesting.

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Speaker 2: That is a home goal for the Steelers, so you're

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Speaker 2: losing the home date you might have to go. I

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Speaker 2: don't know if the league will do this or not

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Speaker 2: make them go on the road. Then the following week.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I would think you'd stay at home. I mean,

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Speaker 3: that's asking a lot and basically just because it's an

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Speaker 3: odd year. Odd years AFCs get extra well.

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Speaker 2: But the other thing though, is that you don't want

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Speaker 3: Season. Yeah, maybe a short road trip. Maybe that's a

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Speaker 3: Browns Bengals. Something like that could be yeah, that something

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Speaker 3: is opposed, you wouldn't send them a Seattle the next week,

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Speaker 3: I would hope you know, yeah, or you know, the

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Speaker 3: opposite end of the country.

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Speaker 2: I did see some things earlier today about that here.

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Speaker 2: So in terms of travel for how.

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Speaker 3: We know, like the miles and stuff, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: If you look at this now, all four of the

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Speaker 2: AFC North teams have are in the top nine in

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Speaker 4: Travel this year.

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Speaker 3: Do they all go overseas?

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Speaker 5: No? Okay?

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Speaker 3: Because you mentioned you.

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Speaker 2: Said that the Steelers and Browns both go overseas. That

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Speaker 2: pumped up their travel a little bit. So the Steelers

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Speaker 2: are at the ninth fewest miles travel this year.

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Speaker 3: Really, okay, I would have thought they'd been higher fifteen

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Speaker 3: thousand and sixty two. Obviously, AFC North travel is very

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Speaker 3: easy in the division. In the league.

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Speaker 2: The Browns, who go to lots of They are eighth

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Speaker 2: at fifteen thy and twenty eight.

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Speaker 3: Eighth most a fewest fewest okay.

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Speaker 2: The Ravens have the third fewest at ten thousand and

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Speaker 2: sixty six hundred and forty seven, and the Bengals come

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Speaker 2: in with the fewest miles travel this year eight thousand,

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Speaker 2: seven hundred and fifty three.

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Speaker 3: Interesting. I definitely think it's an advantage not to travel

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Speaker 3: super far, but I think this would be more of

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Speaker 3: a seventies eighties nineties things. I mean, travels come along

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Speaker 3: hundred miles through the air pretty quick, you know.

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Speaker 2: Linco and I on the opposite side of that, and

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Speaker 2: not surprisingly, the teams that travel the most are all

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure.

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Speaker 2: So the Chargers travel third, thirty seven thousand and eighty

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Speaker 3: You said Steelers are like eight or nine the Bengals.

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Speaker 3: Bengals are eight or nine.

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Speaker 4: The Bengals have eight.

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Speaker 2: Thousand, seven hundred and fifty three miles, so about a

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Speaker 2: quarter of what Wow, the Chargers travel this year, which.

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Speaker 3: I guess isn't that unusual. I don't know what division

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Speaker 3: the AFC West plays that they play.

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Speaker 2: The AFC West and the NFC West are by far

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Speaker 2: at the bottom of this because they have to be.

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Speaker 4: The Rams are second, I.

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Speaker 3: Mean even their division games are far.

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Speaker 2: Thirty four thousand, eight hundred and thirty two. Seahawks are

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Speaker 2: thirty one thousand, three hundred and two Jacksonville's at twenty

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Speaker 2: nine thousand and six.

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Speaker 3: I'm almost certain that NFC South plays or NFC West.

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Speaker 3: They just both South. I told you that like months ago.

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Speaker 3: Well people other people told me that too, But that's

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Speaker 3: a far travel too. They got to go to New Orleans, Atlanta.

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Speaker 3: I mean, they got long road games.

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Speaker 2: The surprising one to me is that the Colts are

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Speaker 2: in the top ten in terms of miles traveled at

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Speaker 2: twenty five thousand and eighty nine. They're pretty centralized everything.

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Speaker 2: There's no real super long road trip that they could take.

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Speaker 2: There's not a Miami Seattle type of trip. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: so you look at those really, to me, the a

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Speaker 2: f C North and the NFC North in terms of

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Speaker 2: overall actual being geographically sound. If you understand what I'm saying,

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Speaker 2: they're the only ones that are in both conferences.

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Speaker 3: Explain, well, they're all they're all grouped together. Yes, there's

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Speaker 3: not a why is Miami with these other three?

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Speaker 2: Why is that would be in the a f C

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Speaker 2: South Right, Like, if you would the thirty two cities

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Speaker 2: and put them as close as they possibly could.

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Speaker 3: Miami wouldn't be with Buffalo, Dallas, wouldn't be with Washington

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Speaker 3: or the Giants, you know, those type of things. Now

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Speaker 3: the West is all West, but it's just West.

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Speaker 2: They could have, right, you know, if they if they

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Speaker 2: So we get we get Steelers Vikings. Week four might

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Speaker 3: How you doing, Michael? This is a big day for you.

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Speaker 2: Now you know you've known this game was coming, uh,

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Speaker 5: feel like to be ready even if it is a

442
00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:05,000
Speaker 5: bit of a fair or a cold day in late September.

443
00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:08,840
Speaker 2: Well that's why my ancestors moved to western Pennsylvania, so

444
00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:12,840
Speaker 2: we're kind of used to the weather being all over

445
00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:17,000
Speaker 2: the place. But it has to be Uh, do you

446
00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:21,119
Speaker 2: feel like what's your feeling though? Is it relief? Is

447
00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:24,840
Speaker 2: is it exhilaration. I mean, you've put a lot of

448
00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:25,840
Speaker 2: time and effort into this.

449
00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:31,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, look, it does. It really really does mean a lot.

450
00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:34,200
Speaker 5: I think when I think the last time we spoke,

451
00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:37,680
Speaker 5: we had pot Fry move over here and he genuine

452
00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:40,960
Speaker 5: he was really interested in being here and meeting the

453
00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,439
Speaker 5: people and seeing the stadium and it was great to

454
00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:46,320
Speaker 5: meet him. Cam Hayward come over, he was over a

455
00:20:46,359 --> 00:20:48,720
Speaker 5: couple of weeks ago. We've obviously had the draft party

456
00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:50,680
Speaker 5: brack case that was over and he was great. Cracked

457
00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:53,760
Speaker 5: it does. I think there's days of this where yes,

458
00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:57,040
Speaker 5: it's very, very busy, but as a fan first and foremost,

459
00:20:57,080 --> 00:20:59,480
Speaker 5: you have to appreciate the magnitude of what's happening and

460
00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:02,000
Speaker 5: not just that there, but just how much it means

461
00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:05,280
Speaker 5: to the organization. I'm like, Dad, I'm over the moon,

462
00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:08,399
Speaker 5: Like it's great that we're playing the Vikings, but I

463
00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:11,160
Speaker 5: keep telling people, as a joke over here, the Stelers

464
00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,440
Speaker 5: could bring over a pee wee football team and play

465
00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:16,520
Speaker 5: them and it would still sell out. So we're look,

466
00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:19,480
Speaker 5: it's great because for so many people, and look, I

467
00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:23,119
Speaker 5: know there's probably Stelers fans from the UK and Europe

468
00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:25,240
Speaker 5: as well. Listening to this, But there's so many people

469
00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:27,760
Speaker 5: that get out, like just like myself, get out of

470
00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:30,520
Speaker 5: plane five am on a Sunday morning and go to

471
00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:32,560
Speaker 5: London or go to Germany or like for a lot

472
00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:35,239
Speaker 5: of people, they fly across the Atlantic to have this

473
00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:37,880
Speaker 5: opportunity to head down on the train or in some

474
00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:40,720
Speaker 5: cases in Dublin just walk over to see the game

475
00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:45,040
Speaker 5: is really special and it's look, it's going to be

476
00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,080
Speaker 5: just a great, great moment when it happens, and I

477
00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:49,920
Speaker 5: can't wait and hopefully we can just see over every

478
00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:50,840
Speaker 5: moment of that game.

479
00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:55,000
Speaker 3: So what percentage would you guess will be Steeler fans?

480
00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:56,840
Speaker 3: I mean, it sounds like a lot of these I

481
00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:00,159
Speaker 3: know a lot of these overseas games are not YEA

482
00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,760
Speaker 3: and Cardinal fan will go. I mean fans that aren't

483
00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:06,919
Speaker 3: aren't aren't teams aren't participating. But would you think fifty

484
00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:10,440
Speaker 3: percent Steeler fans? Third of the building is Steeler fans?

485
00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:11,000
Speaker 3: What's your guests?

486
00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:16,200
Speaker 5: If it's anything compared to And I try and compare

487
00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,600
Speaker 5: it to different games in London, for example, whenever the

488
00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:21,879
Speaker 5: Green beat Packers played the Giants, probably one of the

489
00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:24,199
Speaker 5: more high profile games over here in the last few years.

490
00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:27,679
Speaker 5: In terms of fan bases, it was really fifty to fifty.

491
00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,600
Speaker 5: When the Buffalo Bills came over a couple of years ago,

492
00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:34,080
Speaker 5: it was forty or fifty percent Bills fans in the crowd.

493
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,879
Speaker 5: I think, you know, if you're somewhere in that region

494
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,000
Speaker 5: of about forty to fifty five percent Steelers fans, and

495
00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:42,359
Speaker 5: then here's the thing you're gonna have. Obviously, and people

496
00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:45,199
Speaker 5: know this already, but you'll have that mix of different teams.

497
00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:48,000
Speaker 5: The Vikings. From seeing them and from sort of seeing

498
00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:49,920
Speaker 5: what they've done over the last couple of years, they've

499
00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:53,960
Speaker 5: really bought into going internationally, and obviously it's really interesting

500
00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:56,479
Speaker 5: for them because they're going to play week four in Dublin,

501
00:22:56,560 --> 00:23:00,000
Speaker 5: week five in London, and from speaking to coach O'Connell today,

502
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:02,800
Speaker 5: he seems really up for it. I'll be interested to

503
00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:04,879
Speaker 5: see how many fans go to each of those games,

504
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:06,960
Speaker 5: because it's over two weeks. They have a lot of

505
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,000
Speaker 5: fans in the ukn Ireland, the Vikings, so it'll be

506
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:12,360
Speaker 5: interesting to see maybe ten or twenty percent. I guess

507
00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:15,119
Speaker 5: when it's you know, distinctive colors with the black and

508
00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:17,760
Speaker 5: gold or black and yellow and purple it will definitely

509
00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:21,000
Speaker 5: be noticeable, but I would definitely expect, especially for the Sailors,

510
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,679
Speaker 5: a high turnout because it's such a one off. You know,

511
00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:26,440
Speaker 5: the reality is the team have not played a game

512
00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:32,320
Speaker 5: internationally since twenty thirteen, ironically, so you know, yeah, and

513
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,000
Speaker 5: I'm like the Vikings have played two or three times

514
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:39,439
Speaker 5: over the last five years in London. They seem to

515
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,600
Speaker 5: want to do that as much as possible in terms

516
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 5: of marketing, and that's their prerogative. And look for fans

517
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:46,440
Speaker 5: over here, it's great to see any game. I feel

518
00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:48,440
Speaker 5: like it is more of a one off in the

519
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:50,280
Speaker 5: sense of it's the first time in a long time

520
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,760
Speaker 5: for Pittsburgh, so you would expect to potentially, you know,

521
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,679
Speaker 5: see a lot more fans in the black on the

522
00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:57,040
Speaker 5: gold of the Staders as well.

523
00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, it should be very exciting, and you know, even

524
00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 2: for the as you mentioned that people who who maybe

525
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:06,760
Speaker 2: not be fans of one team or the other just

526
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:08,880
Speaker 2: to come out and see the spectacle of it all.

527
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,359
Speaker 2: It just, you know, to be able to take in

528
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 2: an NFL game without having to watch it on television.

529
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:14,800
Speaker 4: You just want to.

530
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:19,440
Speaker 2: It's a monumental event that's never happened before.

531
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,040
Speaker 5: I think the thing that people are saying over here

532
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:27,120
Speaker 5: is and since it was announced, is arguably it is

533
00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:31,480
Speaker 5: probably the biggest sporting event to ever take place on

534
00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:34,120
Speaker 5: the island of Ireland outside of our own sports. And

535
00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:36,800
Speaker 5: the Rumman joke here is we have the All Ireland

536
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,639
Speaker 5: Final in both Gaelic football and in hurling. And the

537
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,560
Speaker 5: reason I'm saying that is because basically you can't get

538
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 5: a ticket for it. It's eight two thousand people that

539
00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:47,320
Speaker 5: you literally have to ring people and ask the parish

540
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:49,880
Speaker 5: priests or after fring clubs to get a ticket. You're

541
00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:51,840
Speaker 5: talking about people seeing the game for the first time.

542
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:53,760
Speaker 5: I tell you what, las by god if they're sitting

543
00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:56,200
Speaker 5: in that stadium in September. So I've done it very

544
00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,200
Speaker 5: well because this is this is the hottest ticket in time.

545
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 5: I'm getting phone call from guys and Carrie and Cork

546
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 5: who I don't know who. They are looking ticket. So

547
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 5: people want to go and see Mike Tomlin and the

548
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 5: Cedars lads in Dublin, which is great to see.

549
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 3: So Michael, I'm sure there's plenty of Guinness at Croke Park,

550
00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:14,480
Speaker 3: but is there hot dogs? Nachos?

551
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:14,639
Speaker 2: Like?

552
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:15,919
Speaker 3: What are the concessions like?

553
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 5: For there.

554
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:19,800
Speaker 3: I mean the guys are making there are the travel plans.

555
00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:21,360
Speaker 3: Now what are they going to eat and drink while

556
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:22,120
Speaker 3: they're watching the game.

557
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:27,399
Speaker 5: Well, I can, you know, confirm and let people be happy.

558
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,320
Speaker 5: But this there's definitely Guinness the one hundred and it

559
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:35,240
Speaker 5: starts sometimes though, like from being at the different London

560
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:37,920
Speaker 5: games and from being at the different games in Germany,

561
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:40,440
Speaker 5: et cetera. I think sometimes I need to confirm this.

562
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:42,600
Speaker 5: I think the NFL maybe take over the concessions a

563
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 5: little bit, a bit more Americana to an extent, so

564
00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:49,359
Speaker 5: I would expect nachos and stuff what I would say, like,

565
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:51,200
Speaker 5: you know, and hot dogs and never I would say, Look,

566
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:52,840
Speaker 5: I mean anybody that's going to come over and I

567
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,120
Speaker 5: know and I've heard, and it's fantastic. There's a lot

568
00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:58,520
Speaker 5: of fans coming over from Pittsburgh and beyond it just

569
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,320
Speaker 5: within the state as well. And beyond that, there's going

570
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:03,440
Speaker 5: to be so much to do, Like every bar, there's

571
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,119
Speaker 5: going to be team bars and stuff, and you'll be

572
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 5: able to eat and taste and drink traditional Irish dishes

573
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 5: and pilots, shall we say, over a number of days.

574
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 5: But then yeah, it should be quite similar to what

575
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 5: you sort of expect in a citium, I would say

576
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:19,680
Speaker 5: in America on game day, I'll try and find out

577
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 5: for the next time we talk about.

578
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:23,480
Speaker 3: I was thinking the week leading up to the game

579
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:25,120
Speaker 3: might be as much fun as the game.

580
00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:30,919
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, like I tell you now, I like I

581
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,639
Speaker 5: tell everybody this. Tom Brady was over here last week

582
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 5: on the equivalent of like Tonight Show in Ireland, and

583
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:40,760
Speaker 5: for me, like I'd be very lucky to go to

584
00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,199
Speaker 5: a few Super Bowls. One of the greatest experiences I

585
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:45,560
Speaker 5: had was that first game of Munich, which was his

586
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:49,879
Speaker 5: last game internationally. The week it was just it was different,

587
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,720
Speaker 5: and everybody in the city could feel some sort of

588
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:55,400
Speaker 5: emotion or feeling. It was just very very special. Every

589
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:58,159
Speaker 5: bar was popping off, there was food stalls. It was

590
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 5: just after october Fest, coming into Christmas, so it was

591
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 5: very very cool. I feel like, you know, you're banging

592
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:07,879
Speaker 5: even from you know, we obviously at this time we'll

593
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:09,880
Speaker 5: know tomorrow night. We don't know who the Steders have got.

594
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,440
Speaker 5: Week three. I can imagine if it's a road game,

595
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 5: you're gonna see Staters fans flying in on the Saturday

596
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 5: before going to the bar and watch the game. At

597
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 5: six o'clock local which is one pm Eastern, or nine

598
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 5: o'clock local, which is four pm in the late window,

599
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 5: and just having a week of it. And I can

600
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 5: even imagine now people will do that. It will probably

601
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 5: be an East Coast game if they had to put

602
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,719
Speaker 5: money on it. But you know, there'll be stuff happening

603
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 5: throughout the week. Usually m the commissioner those stuff on

604
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 5: the Saturday, like a big fangs at like a big

605
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,960
Speaker 5: fans festival. For every international game there's at least a

606
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,679
Speaker 5: couple of pubs for each team. Let me make it

607
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 5: very clear, Dublin will be like not It'll be like

608
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 5: anything the league has not seen before. Staniers fans, Bikings

609
00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:54,399
Speaker 5: fans will have a week for the ages. I can

610
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,240
Speaker 5: definitely guarantee that right here, right now.

611
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 2: I'm met what I can imagine that we may be

612
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 2: doing some shows over there, you know, at some of

613
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 2: those local establishments, and uh, that'll be a lot of

614
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 2: fun as well. I know a lot of people of

615
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 2: wanted Matt and I to take the show on the road.

616
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 2: Well we may take the show on the road hopefully,

617
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 2: who knows, but certainly would I'm really looking forward to it.

618
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 4: I was over.

619
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:21,159
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, for the last Steeler game there, the

620
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 2: only other NFL game there was a preseason game. But

621
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 2: I was there for the week for that game back

622
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,159
Speaker 2: in back in the nineties, and uh, it was a

623
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 2: great time. And you know, everybody was very open and

624
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 2: and and just really happy to uh to see us

625
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 2: and and friendly and it was it was just a

626
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 2: great time all week long. And and uh, really looking

627
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 2: forward to this one as well.

628
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 5: And there's been such a jump from ninety seventh, and

629
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 5: I on the stands of the world is always a

630
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 5: get smaller with the Internet, et cetera. Back in those days,

631
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 5: people watched highlights. Well, like I know it was probably

632
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 5: a bit different towards the end of the nineties, but

633
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 5: you've a generation there that watched highlights one week on

634
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 5: and for a lot of people, the only game that

635
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 5: they got to watch live was the Super Bowl and

636
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 5: then they had to listen to the radium for like

637
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 5: live commentary in the playoffs. So for those people today,

638
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 5: like that's the sort of people I'm thinking of, Like

639
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 5: the guy Tom McCormick who was the International Fan of

640
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 5: the Year and ironically made probably the biggest talking point

641
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 5: pick of the draft of will hired a few weeks ago.

642
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 3: Agreed.

643
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 5: But you guys that got there like this means it

644
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 5: really does mean like an awful lot to those guys,

645
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 5: and like I know, it means a lot to everybody.

646
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 5: But you know, the thing that has changed, obviously, the

647
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,240
Speaker 5: world's got a bit smaller. Dublin really is now an

648
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 5: international hub, but more so now Croke Park has transformed

649
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 5: from that day into it'll be a seventy six thousand

650
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 5: capacity on the day, which is awesome to say. It'll

651
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 5: be up there with some of the biggest attendances that

652
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 5: I have ever been recorded internationally for the league, and

653
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 5: more so now. The thing that has changed is and

654
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 5: it's one thing that Cordell Stewart said when he came

655
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 5: in the first time, he couldn't get over the difference

656
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 5: in the stilium. It is a bit like a gladiator arena.

657
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 5: And I could see whenever Cam Howard walked on to

658
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 5: the field a few weeks ago, he couldn't get over

659
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 5: the sheer size of it. And that's really all. And

660
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 5: like you know, we know already how many staters fans

661
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 5: are gonna fly over and there's gonna be a lot

662
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 5: of them it's you know, it's our job, it's the

663
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:13,240
Speaker 5: Sears fan's jobs to make up the coliseum for today

664
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Speaker 5: and really take over. And I'm like that will make

665
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 5: a difference, especially when you're up against a team that's

666
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 5: really honestly used to traveling in which is a big,

667
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 5: big deal as well. Yeah.

668
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 4: Absolutely, our guest has been Michael McQuaid. Do I will

669
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Speaker 4: let you.

670
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Speaker 2: We appreciate you dropping by, Michael, and we will we'll

671
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 2: be talking again, I'm sure and maybe in person, maybe

672
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,239
Speaker 2: in person here, not too long in the future here,

673
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 2: so the way, Yeah, looking forward to that. But uh, Michael,

674
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 2: you can check him out at at McQuaid NFL. Lots

675
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 2: of good stuff on there if you want to keep

676
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 2: up on what's going on in Dublin, uh in really

677
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 2: in Ireland as a whole with this game. Give him

678
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 2: a follow there on the ex Twitter. I'm Dale yah

679
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 2: that his podcaster as well has great stuff. Uh, I'm

680
00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:59,480
Speaker 2: Dale Lollie. He is Matt Williamson. You're listening to the

681
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Speaker 2: Driver here and Steelers Audio Network, Matt and I'll be

682
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 2: back with more right after.

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Speaker 1: This at least is the Drive with Dale Lolly and

684
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 1: Matt Williamson on your twenty four to seven home of

685
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 1: the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

686
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 2: Welcome back. I am Dale LOLLI. He is the Matt Williamson.

687
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 2: We want to thank Michael McQuay there. Good dude, you

688
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 2: can't wait to him. Maybe tip a glass with him

689
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 2: there several We'll probably do that once or twice, I think.

690
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 2: But yeah, really exciting. And I know some Steeler fans

691
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 2: will look at disc one. Yeah, but we're losing a

692
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 2: home game. True, you still have eight and you know

693
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 2: that really hasn't changed.

694
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 4: They've added that.

695
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 3: And honestly, the way Steeler fans travel everywhere.

696
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 2: As it is, this is a pretty special off, pretty

697
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 2: special opportunity, and this is where the league is going.

698
00:31:58,400 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 4: You know, you have to you have to jump on

699
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 4: the train here.

700
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's gonna be a time where, probably not so

701
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 3: far distant future, where they travel as an away team

702
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 3: and only really have seven away games. They all make

703
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 3: up for itself going to Dublin again, As we said,

704
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 3: it's a five and a half.

705
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 2: Hour flight Pittsburgh, and I bet the rest of the

706
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 2: country it's not even that far.

707
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 3: And I do bet there's gonna be a home field

708
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 3: advantage there.

709
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 4: I would think so.

710
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 3: I would definitely think so. It won't be acting sure,

711
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 3: and I know some people their season ticket holder, Well.

712
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 2: Steeler fans have had an opportunity to gear up for

713
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 2: this now since the announcement.

714
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they've known since you.

715
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,959
Speaker 2: Know, and you already there were already people selling packages

716
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 2: for this ahead of time. Yeah, you can check that

717
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 2: out on the steel on Steelers dot com. Uh, the

718
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 2: package that the Steelers have with that, whereas the Vikings,

719
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 2: on the other hand, just found out today.

720
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, right right. I guess that's a good point, right

721
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 3: to be.

722
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 4: There after a running start on this thing.

723
00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 3: It's been several months that we've known, Oh yeah, more.

724
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 2: Than I can't tell you how many people have had

725
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 2: to ask me when's that when's that game going to be?

726
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 4: I'd like to go over.

727
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 3: Oh, I can't tell you. I have no idea.

728
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 2: I have an idea of it's not gonna be late

729
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 2: in the season because of their football and.

730
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 3: Everything football, because their season starts up.

731
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 4: But I can't tell you exactly when.

732
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 3: No, what I thought was cool, there was a lot

733
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 3: of things from Michael that are great because it's just

734
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 3: such a different perspective on the team and the sport

735
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 3: and you know, talking about like the last time they

736
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 3: were over there, the only thing that he could see

737
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 3: was a Super Bowl start to finish and you're listening

738
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,720
Speaker 3: on the radio and but what I really stood out

739
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 3: to me was a glad gladiator like stadium. I'm like,

740
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 3: that sounds awesome.

741
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 2: I will tell you this when the Steelers went to

742
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:50,719
Speaker 2: London in twenty thirteen and they played the Vikings, the

743
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 2: way the crowd reacted when they sang God Saved the

744
00:33:55,400 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 2: Queen before every person in the stadium was singing it. Yeah,

745
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 2: we were, our seats were out in the press box

746
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 2: was actually out in this in the seating area, like

747
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 2: it wasn't an enclosed press box, and like the hairs

748
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 2: on the back of your neck kind of rose them

749
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 2: like wow, this is this is a big deal.

750
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:15,799
Speaker 3: For this is a big deal, right all right. And

751
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 3: that they have different traditions.

752
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 2: Like that, you get the soccer crowd, I'm sure with

753
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 2: with the with the you know, the Irish, they'll have

754
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 2: some traditions that they do for their Gaelic football and

755
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 2: things of that nature that you try.

756
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 3: To maybe some of the implants the people that go

757
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 3: over will be like I'm not sure what's going on here?

758
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 3: But this is pretty cool.

759
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,439
Speaker 2: And I will tell you, having spent the week over

760
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 2: there back in the nineties in Ireland in Dublin, it's

761
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 2: really easy to pick up the brogue really talking and

762
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 2: you start like, what did I say?

763
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 3: That just slipped right out before you know it.

764
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 2: That's all you're you're here, you can certainly you can understand,

765
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:56,720
Speaker 2: you know, what they're saying. They're speaking English the same.

766
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 3: As we are, well not the same, but it's it's

767
00:34:59,520 --> 00:34:59,879
Speaker 3: I mean.

768
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:01,799
Speaker 2: You can understand what Michael was saying, and I'm sure

769
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 2: he could understand what we were saying the.

770
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:05,399
Speaker 3: Same words, and that's the beauty of it.

771
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 2: Like I've been to you know, when the Steelers went

772
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 2: to Barcelona, when they went to you know, I've been

773
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 2: basically everywhere that they've gone since ninety three, and some

774
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 2: of those instances like it's it's difficult, Oh.

775
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 3: I bet there's something that there's not a lot of

776
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 3: English being spoke right right some of these different places.

777
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 2: When I joked about the Spanish thing earlier in the show,

778
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 2: I took Spanish in high school, I took Spanish in college. Yeah,

779
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 2: I don't retain any of them, and I certainly wasn't

780
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 2: speaking the same Spanish they were speaking in Barcelona, just

781
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:36,359
Speaker 2: how they say Barcelona.

782
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 3: They had their own dialect there. I'm like, okay, I'm lost. No,

783
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 3: that's gonna be cool too though.

784
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 2: I mean, like so and everybody was so friendly, and

785
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 2: you could go into the pubs and start, you know,

786
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 2: talking with people, and it just they were It was great.

787
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 3: I mean the stadium game day, the game itself will

788
00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 3: be awesome, but I'm as excited as you know for

789
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 3: the pubs and that type environment, you know what I mean.

790
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 3: I'm sure there'll be a lot of black and gold

791
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 3: in those pubs that are local or that are close

792
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 3: to the stadium, and people like I hadn't thought of

793
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,880
Speaker 3: the what Michael mentioned. He said, if the Steelers are

794
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 3: on the road the week before, maybe people will go

795
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 3: over Friday Saturday watch the road game and then just

796
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:18,319
Speaker 3: stay the week.

797
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 4: You know.

798
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 2: I imagine a lot of people do want to just stay,

799
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 2: you know, yeah, make this your vacation.

800
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 3: I mean right, right, And even if the Steelers are

801
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,359
Speaker 3: playing home and you're not going to Acusher, you can

802
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 3: still do that.

803
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah. So it should be a lot of fun.

804
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 2: I expected to be something of a spectacle. I mean,

805
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 2: the league has made these things. Even though there they

806
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 2: are more of them. They're a big deal.

807
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 3: Oh, they're a big deal. They're always standalone games. You know,

808
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 3: they're early, they're at an unconventional US time to have

809
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:48,800
Speaker 3: a football game, you know, and it's a huge.

810
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 2: As we're both fantasy football players, as somebody who does that,

811
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 2: you love. I'd like the early nine thirty start just

812
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 2: from the fact that you get that first game in

813
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 2: rolls you right into the one o'clock game, which rolls

814
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:04,920
Speaker 2: you into the four o'clock games, which rolls you in

815
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 2: like it's an all day it's all day football, it's

816
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 2: all day football, and it's a little tough I think

817
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 2: on the West Coast people well, yeah, don't live on

818
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:13,320
Speaker 2: the West.

819
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 3: Coast, live on the West Coast. Yeah yeah, yeah, no,

820
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 3: it's right.

821
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 5: It's great.

822
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,879
Speaker 3: You can still sleep into some degree roll down from

823
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:21,400
Speaker 3: nine to thirty to basically midnight.

824
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 2: Is it's just really those are what like when I've

825
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 2: been on the West Coast to say, for a you know,

826
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 2: a late game on the West Coast, for a Monday

827
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 2: night game on the West Coast, and you get there

828
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 2: early and you wake up in the morning and there's

829
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,400
Speaker 2: games on because from the one o'clock starts, and it's.

830
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 3: Like, you know, some people love it and some or

831
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 3: the pregame show is already on.

832
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,319
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's not eight o'clock in the morning. With

833
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 2: three years, right, it is a little it takes a

834
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 2: little bit to get used to, but.

835
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 3: As many international games we have lately, I'm getting used

836
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 3: to it too. Yeah, these nine thirty starts.

837
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,880
Speaker 2: You know, the people who really really get screwed on

838
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 2: this is if you live.

839
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 3: In Hawaii, then you gotta change your life.

840
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 2: I think that's a five hour an or five hours

841
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 2: behind stay up, yeah, six hours behind us.

842
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, just stay up.

843
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 2: I remember seeing that when when my wife and I

844
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 2: went over a few years ago into or went to Hawaii,

845
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 2: and we went to a bar near where we were

846
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:16,280
Speaker 2: staying at and they had their NFL schedule up and everything.

847
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 4: I'm like, what time did the game start?

848
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:17,799
Speaker 5: Here?

849
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:19,720
Speaker 4: Like like six am?

850
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 3: Okay, that's you're gonna be pretty dedicated. But hey, I

851
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 3: mean and I'm like, do you fill it up?

852
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 2: They're like, oh, yeah, we fill the bar and people

853
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 2: come in, the fans come in at our teams playing.

854
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, well, How did Michael have to watch

855
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 3: the NFL and watch NFL his whole life, you know,

856
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 3: from Ireland. I mean, it's not conventional times for those guys,

857
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 3: and they love it.

858
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 2: It's it's it's the the game of the US. It's

859
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 2: the US's premier sport, sure, but it is growing internationally

860
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 2: and rapidly it should. I mean, it's a it's a

861
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 2: great sport to watch.

862
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 3: It's a great sport to watch, and it's not that

863
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 3: hard to follow along and figure it out, and then

864
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 3: you can really get deeper and deeper with the the

865
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 3: intricacies of cover two. And you know, I mean it's

866
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:01,399
Speaker 3: not just you know, like I sit there and watch

867
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 3: soccer and I'm like, these guys kicking the ball around,

868
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 3: but I'm sure there's a lot more going on that

869
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 3: I don't know about it.

870
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:11,439
Speaker 2: They actually run places I can't see it. Anyways, let's

871
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:12,759
Speaker 2: get to a break. That's going to do it for

872
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 2: our number one of the drive here on the Steelers

873
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 2: Audio Network.

874
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 4: Matt and Now will be back with our number two

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Speaker 4: right after this