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What's Up? Everybody's this Peter Schreger. This is

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the Season with Peter Schrager. We're

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recording this on a Tuesday morning after Championship

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weekend, going into the Super Bowl bye

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week. I'm with Aaron wan Kauffman.

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the iHeart media team.

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I'm always saddened this week.

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I know that sounds crazy. We' supposed to hyped up. It

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saddened because I know once

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the games end, Aaron, it's

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an abyss Now. I love the draft, I

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love free agency, but like I love

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the games. I love talking about the games.

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And boy do I have some thoughts

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on the games that we just watched. Before we

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turn the page and go to the Super Bowl. Let

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me take you through my weekend. Saturday

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afternoon, I take

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my son to the New York's Knicks game. Okay,

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they play the Miami Heat. It's three PM

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and I'm asking Mel, I'm like, do you want

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to go to the AFC Championship

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game tomorrow in Baltimore. You have to understand he loves

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the Ravens. He watched the entire Texans

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Ravens game. He was a nervous wreck the first

1:25

half, like cried at one point through

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a hissy fit at one point during the first half because

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like what are the Ravens doing? And then when they want

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I've never seen such joy in this child's eyes,

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Like, do you want to go tomorrow? We're going to this basketball

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game. Now you're enjoying this moment. You're

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at a live sporting event. Do you want to go? Because we will

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get on a train and

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we all stand in the rain and it'll

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be a twelve hour day. But I

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do think there's a significance to

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being a kid and being at one of these amazing,

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amazing sporting events like an AFC Championship

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game in person. And the fact that

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the Baltimore Ravens have not hosted

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an AFC championsh game since nineteen seventy

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was like swirling in my brain. Mel's

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gonna be a Ravens fan. He is a Ravens fan, his

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mom is a Ravens fan, his father

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in law is a Ravens fan, his grandfather,

2:12

my father in law, his uncle, the

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whole thing. As I've mentioned

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on other podcasts, and I think I mentioned here last

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year last week. My

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father in law, David is hardcore

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Baltimore sports fan. He was in every

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Ravens home game, I think until recent years he's

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gone to every one of them. He travels once a

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year to go to a road game with my brother in

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law. They're hardcore. Every

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Baltimore super Bowl ever he

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has been at. That includes the

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Miami you know Joe Namath

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Guarantee super Bowl three. It

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includes the win over the Colts, win

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over the Cowboys, it includes Ravens

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Super Bowl victory over the Giants.

2:56

It includes Ravens Super

2:58

Bowl victory over the

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forty nine ers in New Orleans. He's been to all of them. So

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they're Baltimore people. My son's gonna so I

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was like, I think you should want to go. However,

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Aaron, he had a youth basketball

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game the next morning. Oh. He

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loves playing for those Gonzaga Bulldogs at the Brooklyn

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Basketball Academy. Seven years

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old. He scored a

3:18

basket last week. He's feeling good. It

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is so rare that I am off on the

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weekends, which I was because Fox didn't have a pregame

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show in the early window that I could

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actually attend one of his basketball games on the weekend.

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I've never been able to do it. I went to one a

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couple of weeks ago. It was amazing. These games though

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last like thirty minutes. You know you're in your out. The final

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score is like eight to six.

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It's like a soccer match.

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Yeah, Mel loves his basketball

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team, loves his basketat So it's this moment

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it's like, do you want to go or do you not want to go? And

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he looked at me and he's like, I don't

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know, And I'm like, do I have to make this decision?

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My wife is like, if it's raining,

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I think we pull the plug. If

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it looks like it's clear skies, I

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kind of want to go too. I kind of want

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to be there. She's been to all these big games

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also. So at seven

4:07

am we woke up on Sunday morning,

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we check the weather and

4:12

it said the rain is passing through Baltimore at around

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eleven am. By three pm, kickoff,

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no rain, and off we

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went. We go to Penn Station. This

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place is Hummin' Chiefs

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fans Ravens fans. New York City

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has a good collection of both those fan bases.

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We get on the train, Northeast Regional,

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going from the lovely New York

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Penn Station New Monahan Hall. We're

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going down there and we're going to Baltimore. Three hour

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ride. We're sitting there. Everyone

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on the train is hype for football.

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It's a football train. It was so cool. It's a great

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way to prepare for a game. Hours

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in advance. From nine am to noon,

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it's all just Ravens fans and Flacco

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jerseys and Ogden jerseys and Sugs jerseys.

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We get to the train station, a flood

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of just purple and red, a lot of Chiefs

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fans, so much respect for the Chiefs fans. They travel to

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this thing too. We leave

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Penn Station. I call an uber to go to

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the stadium because I want to get there early. My

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wife's like, I don't need to be there for three hours. We'll

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go separately. I'll go to my brother's place,

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which is nearby. She takes

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an uber. I take an over. We'll get in the uber. I get

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my solo uber. I'm dressed with, you

5:19

know, big raincoat on just in case, and I've

5:21

got my phone, my portable phone

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charger because i know I'm not going to be sitting by an outlet, and

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it is traffic wall to wall from the train station

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to the stadium. I say, get me out of this uber. I

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walk about fifteen blocks. Ooh,

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and it's not New York City blocks too, so

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Baltimore blocks. And as

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you're walking, the anticipation is building build, and no

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one recognizes me. At first, you know, five

5:43

blocks, I'm just a random guy walking. Then

5:46

ten blocks, it's all Ravens fans. It's

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all Chiefs fans. I get about,

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you know, probably a half mile from the

5:52

stadium, and suddenly it's like Shreger,

5:55

Schreger. I'm like, yes, okay, I love the recognition.

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You picked against us.

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Ravens fans respectful,

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but also not so thrilled

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that they know my family is

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Baltimore. And I still picked the Chiefs

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before this thing. And the walk was electric.

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I was so hyped. We get to the stadium, I

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do a round on the stadium, I walk a lap.

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Awesome experience. I'm with Jason McCarty,

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the Ravens PR staff cool

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enough to say, you know, well, credentially, if you want

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to sit in the press box, come on in whatever. So

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I get to go there beforehand, I see Jason McCarty,

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who's doing the radio. I see Devin McCarty. We walk U

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Coast on the field. Travis Kelsey's there. I'm

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talking to Travis Kelsey before the game. He

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was dialed in. You saw the thing with Justin Tucker, like

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he was not there to do small talk. He was not there

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for nonsense. Respectful as always, but like dialed

6:42

in. I see Mahomes give him a

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pound. He's dialed in. I talked

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to some of the chiefs executives there, dialed

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in Ravenside. Jack

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Harbaugh's there, Jim Harbaugh was

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there, John Harbaugh, you

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know, dialed in. This felt

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like a Monsters game

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because it was get to the seats.

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My son is a

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nervous wreck. I could tell. I've never seen him like this.

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Like he doesn't take tests, he doesn't have homework. Yet

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this is where he's a nervous wreck. He's super you

7:14

know, in his own thoughts about whether this is gonna be

7:16

the day, and I'm like, just dude, no matter what, you're

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here, you're gonna have a story. You got to experience

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it, like just enjoy it.

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Out comes Michael Phelps, No, mel this

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is a world champion, swimmer.

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Why is he here? Well, he likes the Ravens,

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Yes, but why is a swimmer here? Yes,

7:32

he's from Baltimore. And he's like he's a

7:34

big Ravens fan. Yes, but is he swimming.

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No, he's not swimming. It's just he likes

7:39

the Ravens. So he's like, Okay. Ed

7:42

Reid comes out all right. That guy's one of the best

7:44

safeties to ever play, if not the best safety. Ravens

7:47

legend won a Super Bowl awesome. Ray

7:49

Lewis comes out dunt dun so

7:52

hot, he comes out, does his whole

7:54

ray Lewis dance my son time

7:57

to day. I'm like two Super Bowls, probably the greatest

7:59

player ever to wear the Ravens uniform. To

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do the toss Chiefs staffer

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and they're like, we're gonna get the Ravens ball. Place is

8:07

fired up, places nuts, Ravens

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come out three and out.

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Chiefs come out rocking stadium,

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places going wild, fourth

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and two, first down, third

8:24

and four, first down, third

8:26

and five, first down, third

8:28

and three, first down, And they do this

8:30

thing at that Ravens stadium where they where they like,

8:33

they go to the big speel like make

8:35

some noise every third down, or

8:37

it's like third down, we

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need the decibel meter higher fans,

8:41

and you're like right, And by the

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fourth or fifth one, I could see these fans being

8:45

like this, Mahomes

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is pretty good. Touchdown, Place

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is dead. Ravens

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come back, say Flowers amazing.

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Touchdown seven to seven, Place going bonkers. I look

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next week, my son is in tears. Aaron.

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I'm like, Melt, this is the

9:04

what what he goes? I missed the fun

9:06

everyone was jumping up and down. I didn't get to see it.

9:08

Oh, it's like so heartbroken,

9:11

and I'm like, looking at my wife, I'm like we should

9:13

have watched him the couch, like this isn't worth it, Like he's

9:15

not even excited for like the good moment. So

9:19

he was crying after they scored, and then

9:21

sure enough, the Chiefs are just dominant

9:23

throughout the first half. We go to halftime. This

9:26

is why my wife is my wife, and Erica

9:29

is smart and why we give her

9:31

all the credit in the world. We

9:33

get to halftime, I take Melt to the bathroom

9:35

Forever Long Line. We're in a funk. He's

9:38

in a funk. He had just been crying. The Ravens are losing

9:40

all this stuff. This is before the day Flowers thing.

9:42

My wife disappears for about five minutes. I'm like, where'd

9:44

she go?

9:45

I don't know.

9:45

Whatever. We come back to the seat, simplest

9:48

thing, some cotton candy, smiling,

9:52

sun is shining. Now, sun comes up, rain

9:54

goes away, Ravens are driving,

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say Flowers, big play, taunting penalty. All right,

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that hurts, but let's go back. They get another big play. Dave

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Flowers about to score, punched the

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ball, loose fumble. That

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was the game. I know it is this one score game. That

10:08

was the game, and I'm like, oh my god, the next six hours

10:10

are going to suck. I'll tell

10:12

you this. That was a good sport. He was

10:14

a good sport. I said, look, that's football. Just

10:17

when you think it's your ear, just when you put all this

10:19

time and effort, that can happen. Do you see

10:21

what happened with Mommy's Michigan Wolverines, Because my wife's

10:23

a Michigan over Like, that's one side

10:25

of it. You can go all the way and you can win,

10:27

and it's the best dealing in the world and you could be on cloud

10:30

nine. But there's also this side of it. Only

10:32

one team can advance in every game in the playoffs,

10:34

and in this case, if not. The Ravens took

10:36

the train back. He thought it was so cool that he was up

10:38

late. We didn't get back until like eleven o'clock.

10:40

We watched the entire NFC Championship game on

10:43

my phone on NFL Plus. He was into it. He

10:45

got to stay up late, woke up Monday morning,

10:47

was in the best moody at a great weekend. He got to go to the game.

10:51

But some parenting stuff right there. It was

10:54

touch and go for a moment. But sometimes a simple

10:56

bribery or simple pleasure of cotton candy

10:58

can do the trick.

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You don't want to be watching your team lose and

11:02

be hungry. I mean, if you can get something, you

11:04

know that.

11:05

I think that's a not only hungry like

11:07

the forbidden fruit. Yes, kids, Yeah,

11:09

this kid don't eat much cotton candy.

11:11

Yeah, he's not gonna be at home on the couchwashing

11:13

the game getting cotton candy, I would assume.

11:16

So I might takeaways from that game, I've

11:18

been saying him on Good Morning Football. The defense was so good

11:21

and if anything, we take for granted what Steve Spagnolo's

11:23

defense has done. What I read is they ran

11:25

six different defensive schemes and they rotated

11:27

those defensive schemes. Lamar could not

11:29

solve it. Todd Munkin abandoned the run

11:32

game. There was only six times in the game that are

11:34

running back carried the ball. The first time Gus

11:36

Edwards went for fifteen yards and they just like abandon

11:38

it. Dalvin Cooke didn't get a touch. He looked pretty

11:40

good in his couple of opportunities last week, and Lamar

11:43

didn't look like Lamar. So the Ravens go back to the drawing

11:45

board and for the Chiefs they go on and

11:49

obviously it's Mahomes

11:52

and Kelsey and Kelsey had eleven catches on eleven

11:54

targets. That's insane. He also touched the ball and a different

11:56

like a different play, like just amazing. But

11:59

the defense is really really

12:01

good and that defense is what

12:04

rose above. So to me, they

12:06

look like just

12:08

one of those old battled war horses

12:10

that like you cannot put down. Those last two wins

12:12

in Buffalo and in Kansas City, said

12:15

on Good Morning Football, Rudy Tom Johonovitch has

12:17

a great quote, never underestimate

12:20

the heart of a champion. I

12:22

ain't underestimating the heart of these champions. You

12:25

know who I have winning. I got the Chiefs winning the Super Bowl. We'll

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talk about it all next week they play the Niners,

12:29

which had a cool story in itself. Which team

12:32

do you think had a tougher pull to swallow

12:34

on Monday morning? Aaron? Do you think the Lions

12:36

fan who is up seventeen points

12:39

and has multiple opportunities to make it a three score game

12:41

and ops to go for it on fourth down and then to seize the

12:43

slip in between their hands? Or do you think it's

12:45

the Ravens fan that just feels like that

12:47

was such an anomaly compared to the rest of the season.

12:51

I think a Lions fan, I think the

12:53

pain of knowing you were in the lead and

12:57

for the first half, I mean, it looked

13:00

like a one sided game. It

13:02

was, you know, it was a completely

13:04

different thing. Whereas the Ravens fan, you were catched up

13:06

the whole time. Even that on

13:08

the Zay Flowers touchdown, that was like not

13:11

a Hail Mary, but that was a miracle play

13:13

that that worked. And there was never a point

13:15

when I felt like the Ravens were in control, whereas

13:17

with the Lions, I thought

13:20

I thought that was over. I was like, what happened

13:22

to San Francisco? And then here they came back. So

13:24

the Lions feel like they lost it from within

13:26

their grasp and the Ravens just they had a bad

13:28

day.

13:30

A couple thoughts on that this was an interesting moment

13:33

in time where like for years

13:35

on parallel paths, the PFF guys

13:37

and the numbers guys and the Twitter

13:39

people who always hearn such who

13:42

advocate for fourth down being aggressive

13:45

and here's how it's done, have been working.

13:47

And then on the other half has been a silent majority.

13:49

I think of traditional football fans

13:51

who understand that the analytics and the numbers

13:54

have a major role in the game right now, and it

13:56

has helped the game for the better and has helped coaches manage

13:58

situations in different ways, and they've traditionally

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done but they've been quiet, biting their tongues.

14:02

I think this was impossible to watch as

14:05

a traditional fan, knowing that a three

14:07

score lead is so hard to come back from,

14:09

but if you give them an opportunity

14:11

to keep on opening the door, they

14:13

will. In this case, I think the thing that's

14:15

missing in a lot of these analytics, and I don't want to take

14:17

on the analytics community, and I don't even call it analytics.

14:19

I want to call it probability. In this case, I think

14:21

one of the things that's missing is the nuance of situations

14:25

such as the fact that, oh, I don't

14:27

know, it's in San Francisco and that crowd

14:29

as much as Honolulu Blue as you saw that

14:31

crowd like was completely given

14:34

a second life and then a third life and then a fourth

14:36

life and was in a absolute tizzy

14:38

after the seventeen point comeback. We saw the

14:41

journey performance and then like coming out of commercial,

14:44

you know, Olsen and Burkhart just laid out and they were so

14:46

beautifully attuned to it.

14:48

They're like, let's not let's not talk,

14:50

Let's just let the crowd noise take the story, Like that's

14:53

a big deal. I also think the know with the

14:55

no haul and like the wherewithal of like, hey,

14:59

these Niners have been in some huge games over

15:01

the years, like don't don't let

15:03

them hang around, and even last week against the

15:05

Packers like don't let them hang around. That makes two

15:07

straight weeks of Kyle Shanahan, who notoriously

15:10

is known for giving up major leads.

15:12

In the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl, of course

15:14

twenty eight to three, but also in a Super

15:17

Bowl to the Chiefs, they were up ten in the fourth quarter. In

15:19

the NFC Championship game to the Rams, they

15:21

were up ten in the fourth quarter. Here

15:23

we go back to back weeks after Fox shows of graphics

15:25

saying Kyle Shanahan's oh to thirty in the fourth quarter

15:27

when down five points or more, they come back and

15:29

beat the Packers and in this case, come back

15:31

from a seventeen point deficit at halftime

15:35

to beat a very

15:37

good Lions team, and the Lions go back to

15:39

the drawing board. But I think the analytics

15:41

community has been kind of feeling

15:44

itself a little bit. Every team has an analytics department,

15:46

and I think some of the old school football guys

15:48

roll their eyes and want of stuff that talk into a locker,

15:51

but they go along with it. What's the

15:53

conundrum here is that Dan Campbell is this old school

15:55

of football guy as there is, and he leaned into

15:57

the analytics so much I don't even

15:59

call it analytics. I mentioned that because like Sean

16:02

Payton did this, Bill Parcells did this, Bill

16:05

Belichick does this. It's not

16:08

numbers in the sense that it's math wizards.

16:10

It's there's football guys and football

16:12

men who do it. Also, it's just a different way than

16:14

the traditional Hey, punt the ball away

16:17

and trust your defense. I do feel

16:19

Lions fans this week though, if they're hurting,

16:21

because as much as we could

16:24

break down the new, the truth of the

16:26

matter is intricacies and nuances

16:28

and drops by Josh Reynolds and drops by Aman

16:30

Ross, Saint Brown and whatever else.

16:34

Yeah, it's just we're not going to Super

16:37

Bowl and it ends and it's

16:39

over. So it all came

16:41

together and we could do percentage points all we want.

16:43

But I say this was sadness for Lions fans. But the

16:45

Niners advance, So it's Chiefs Niners.

16:48

Real quick. On some coaching stuff. As we're recording

16:50

this, all but two jobs are filled. I

16:53

think we're gonna fill Seattle and Washington

16:55

over the next few days. Three

16:58

names to watch Ben

17:00

Johnson, Mike McDonald,

17:03

and then Aaron Glenn, defensive coordinator

17:06

of the Detroit Lions. I think

17:08

his name is being batted around

17:10

quite a bit. And then of course Dan Quinn, who

17:12

felt like he was the clubhouse leader all along

17:16

for Seattle, but that hasn't

17:18

happened yet, which leads me to think they want to still

17:20

meet with some other guys. One note on Quinn, I

17:23

don't know the numbers. We've had him on the podcast. Everyone

17:26

was surprised that he took his name out of all the runnings last

17:28

year. Like, dan Quinn makes a lot of money to be the

17:30

Cowboys defensive coordinator. He's got a really good gig

17:32

down there. He's really really well

17:34

respected, and his defense continues to

17:37

perform. The thought with Quinn if

17:39

he doesn't take Seattle, or he isn't offered Seattle,

17:41

it's like, all right, Mike McCarthy has one more year.

17:44

If that doesn't work, is it dan Quin's turn.

17:46

I just know he's well compensated. He's got a lot

17:48

of money. Money's not going to be the factor for dan

17:50

Quinn. He was the coach of the Falcons for many years,

17:52

made multiple contracts, and he has as highly

17:55

paid as any coordinator in the league. So Seattle

17:57

might feel like call him. It might be right, he might really want that. If he

17:59

doesn't get it, that's it's a

18:01

bit of a surprise. But I think as the days go by

18:04

it's less and less dan Quinn's job based on the

18:06

fact that, oh, I don't know, they could have hired him

18:08

already. As

18:10

I say that, he could be hired by noon, and we'll go

18:12

from there. As you're listening to this offensive

18:15

coordinator stuff around the league, a couple of things that keep

18:17

an eye eye out on. You saw Kellen

18:19

Moore got the Eagles one that's a big deal. You

18:21

saw your former offensive coordinator in Buffalo,

18:24

Aaron ken Dorsey got the Buffalo, got

18:26

the Cleveland job. Two spots that

18:28

are interesting. New England's is interesting.

18:30

Does Nick Kyley, who was the tight

18:33

ends coach of the Rams, take that job? That sounds like a

18:35

possibility. Tennessee

18:37

is fascinating. Brian Callahan is the offensive

18:39

coordinator. There's

18:42

a guy named Nick Holes who I've known for quite

18:44

some time, who coach with the Raiders for years,

18:46

but also coach with the Jaguars

18:48

the past year with Trevor Lawrence.

18:51

Really hot name Nick. And now you're gonna

18:53

say it's, well, it's just cronyism, but

18:55

he actually went to high school with Brian Callahan. Those

18:57

guys know each other very well, have

19:00

not coached together in many years, but they knew each other

19:02

very well, and then I believe overlapped in Oakland

19:04

when they were together working with Derek car

19:07

I think he's a name, Eric Studsville another

19:09

name to mention for that position. And

19:12

then Vegas, which right now no

19:14

offensive coordinator, no quarterback.

19:16

I can't imagine Jimmy's gonna be the guy. I don't

19:18

know if you say Aidan O'Connell is like that feels

19:21

like Sam Howell to me, like you might want to. But

19:23

they had the thirteenth pick. That's

19:25

the one that I think makes sense for Cliff Kingsbury

19:27

if it goes that way. I've actually

19:30

spoken to Cliff after his Eagles interview.

19:32

He thought that went pretty well. It wasn't sure it

19:34

was the right fit. They went with Kellen Moore. I

19:36

think that was kind of a mutual deal where whatever

19:39

it was, that wasn't going to be the place for Cliff

19:41

this time around. But there's only so many seats

19:43

on the carousel with these offensive coordinator jobs, they are

19:45

being filled up offully quickly. I look

19:48

to Vegas. I think that would be a good fit if Cliff

19:50

can bring his guys with him and

19:52

they kind of work with Antonio Pierce, who's the defensive

19:54

guy who has not been an NFL head coach. Maybe

19:56

Cliff can be kind of that shoulder to lean

19:58

on. So that's some thoughts on the coaching

20:00

stuff. We'll find out more this week. I think

20:02

those all those spots would likely be filled in the next

20:04

couple of days, but we do

20:07

have to turn the page to Super Bowl, which is not this

20:09

weekend but the following one. And for

20:11

our guests, I wanted to bring in somebody interesting

20:13

who might have a sports business

20:16

slant to this. And they're saying this is

20:18

the hardest ticket, most expensive ticket super

20:20

Bowl history. So I brought on someone who knows that

20:22

world very well. His name is Brian

20:24

Baslow. I'll explain who he is and we'll get

20:26

him on after this, all

20:35

right, For this week's guest, I wanted to bring on someone

20:37

who is in the sports business

20:39

world and the business of the Super Bowl. I thought it was

20:41

really interesting. We've done coaches, we've done

20:44

gms, we've done owners, we've done celebrity

20:46

fans, we've done the gamut here, but we

20:48

haven't had someone who's got this

20:51

vantage point on the Super Bowl. And I wanted

20:53

to bring in Brian Baslow. Brian is

20:56

the CEO of Concierge

20:58

Live, which is a ticketing company. We'll get into

21:00

the business of it, but before this, Brian

21:02

was the EVP of ticketing at

21:05

the Brooklyn Nets. Ryan's got a real grasp

21:07

on ticket sales, ticket trends

21:10

and all of that. And Brian, I wanted to welcome you on

21:12

the season with Peter Schreger. What's up, buddy, Peter.

21:14

Thanks for having me man, I appreciate it.

21:16

It's gonna be fun, no doubt. So

21:18

as this thing was shaking out, I'm

21:21

watching the AFC Championship game in person,

21:23

and I'm like, all right, so Chiefs are going,

21:26

which is probably more

21:30

glamorous for the Super Bowl

21:32

then Baltimore. But then you had Lamar, and I'm

21:34

doing the storylines on my head and I'm like, I personally love

21:36

the Lamar storyline, but I guess

21:38

there's other things with the Chiefs, with dynasty and Taylor

21:41

Swift and all that. And then when I see the

21:43

Niners whin, I'm like, yeah,

21:45

but Detroit's the better story

21:47

because of Detroit not going, So I would imagine those

21:49

tickets would flow the market, but it's a West coast

21:52

trip, so it's easy. You could do it in a day. So

21:55

I'm gonna go to you who knows ticketing inside

21:57

and out and has devoted a career to it. I

21:59

saw a headline saying it's the most expensive,

22:01

hardest to get ticket in Super Bowl history. Take

22:04

it away, Brian, explain why and

22:07

how it shook out that way.

22:08

Yeah, Peter, that's a great lead, and this

22:11

game is an absolute monster.

22:13

I mean, simply put, it is the most expensive

22:15

ticket in the history

22:18

of the Super Bowl so far. And I'm just doing I was doing

22:20

those same machinations as you sort

22:22

of what's going to drive the super Bowl. You'd

22:24

think with Kansas City there be a little bit of a been

22:26

there, done that fast. Sure, been

22:28

there four times in the last five years. But no, man,

22:30

I mean, there's a confluence of factors. But simply

22:33

put, it's the most expensive ticket the gain in

22:35

ticket, Peter, the least expensive ticket

22:38

on the first day of sales was nine

22:40

thousand dollars, nine

22:42

thousand dollars to get in the game. I mean the average price

22:45

right now even is around twelve thousand dollars.

22:47

And there are a couple I mean, there are a couple of tickets in excess

22:50

of fifty thousand dollars per ticket.

22:52

Okay, and you think that's all

22:54

right, Let's start with the Taylor Swift factor. Is that the casual

22:57

fan saying, look,

22:59

I want to go anyway, it's a cheat and

23:02

if I'm ever going to go, it's the year Taylor Swift? Or

23:04

is it the Hey, this Chief thing might be might

23:07

be ending, and this might be the last time, and

23:09

I want to be there when Mahomes gets his third and

23:11

we win second straight. Like, if you're

23:13

weighing out the factors, is it Mahomes and Kelsey

23:15

and that or is it Taylor Swift is in the building and it's kind

23:17

of cool to be there. It's gonna be an event that everyone's gonna

23:20

be watching.

23:21

Yeah, listen, Peter, this Taylor Swift

23:23

effect is real, man. I mean we've seen

23:25

it through the regular season and the

23:27

beginning parts of the playoffs. Tickets

23:29

are typically probably twenty to fifty percent

23:31

more expensive just because she's gonna be in the building.

23:34

I mean, she's not a good performance, she's just there. And

23:36

I think that is the differentiating factor

23:39

on the Chief side. One of the biggest driving factors

23:41

also is just like San Francisco. That

23:43

Niner team is huge

23:45

there. Following is amazing. Probably twenty

23:47

six percent of the tickets that are sold right now

23:50

have been from San Francisco. And you see it. You see it when

23:52

you're on the road anytime San

23:54

Francisco is

23:57

traveling. I mean there's a sea of red. That

23:59

team travels as well as anybody.

24:00

Well, it's also a national fan base,

24:02

I think in the eighties where a lot of these fans

24:04

that have now the money to go buy

24:06

tickets and travel to Super Bowls. They were born and

24:09

they grew up with Montana and young. So

24:11

now that generation's in their thirties and forties

24:14

and then oh yeah, in between, you've had some great

24:16

runs with Alex Smith and Harbaugh, some great run with

24:18

Kaepernick, and then these last five years have been just

24:20

success. So to finally see

24:22

those Niners hoist of Lombardi first

24:25

time, I think in twenty nine years it'll be or twenty

24:27

three years, I think that matters. But you're right,

24:30

Niners fans they do that. You know, bang

24:33

bang Niner gang. They are everywhere in Philly.

24:35

Last year at NFCY Championship, there was a sea of red

24:37

and that's Philly fans who do not sell their tickets to opposing.

24:39

Fans exactly exactly.

24:41

Also, most of those fans that were in the eighties

24:43

that grew up with Montana, many of them have started

24:46

tech companies, so they drive the price up

24:48

as well. So but yeah, man, it's

24:50

huge.

24:51

Is that? Is that? Another thing? It's like, who's

24:53

spending nine thousand dollars for just

24:55

a general admission, like a regular ticket in a stadium,

24:57

other than someone who's got the money to spend it.

25:00

Yeah. I mean the other thing, Peter, that we haven't talked about

25:02

is the Vegas factor. Man. It

25:04

is a it is a real factor. So the Raiders

25:07

and you'll enjoy this. I mean the Raiders. Just in the regular

25:09

season, the average ticket price for

25:12

a Raiders game is a little over

25:14

one thousand dollars. That's one hundred and fifty percent more

25:17

than the average ticket in the NFL. And I don't

25:19

think it was because of the Raiders, like hot you

25:22

know, play on the field. It is you

25:24

know, particularly road teams. Those

25:26

fans love to travel to Vegas to see their

25:29

team play. Now both teams, you know, and now

25:31

you have both markets going to and

25:33

then as you know, you know, the super Bowl's never

25:35

been in Vegas. I can't even

25:37

frankly like fathom

25:40

the idea of Super Bowl weekend in

25:42

Las Vegas kind of breaks

25:45

my brain thinking about like what it's

25:47

going to be, Like it will probably be good for your sponsor betterhelp,

25:49

Like I like, it's it's

25:52

gonna be a big weekend.

25:53

Yeah, so the TV ratings will be through the roof. I

25:55

think it's gonna be you know, Mega maybe

25:57

the highest traded ever. And again the

26:00

swift thing is real. But also these are the

26:02

two probably the best teams of the last

26:04

five years, if you want to say it, like who gets the furthest

26:06

in the playoffs? Niners have lost

26:08

multiple NFC you know, playoff

26:11

games in recent years, but of course have been to the super

26:13

Bowl and want to redeem themselves buying

26:16

a super Bowl ticket Like it sounds so naive

26:18

from me, and it sounds like an arrogant media

26:20

guy who would never have to, you know, go in these waters

26:22

because I'm there with the credential. But like, if

26:25

I wanted to buy a ticket, like, how is that done?

26:27

To the Super Bowl?

26:29

Yeah, I mean, listen, the only sort of official

26:31

way is a company called On Location

26:34

Experiences. I used to work there. It's a portfolio

26:36

company of the NFL and then partnership and the

26:38

owners and endeavor. So that's the

26:40

official way. And then listen, there

26:42

are lots of different you know, sort of secondary

26:45

markets that that where people

26:47

can source tickets, and

26:49

you know, there's lots of different ways, but the main sort

26:51

of official way is that company on Location Experiences.

26:54

Okay, now, your company, Concierge Live, you're

26:56

not a ticket broker, you are a ticket

26:58

provider for I love your your

27:01

concept here because we've talked

27:03

about it. Can you tell the listeners what your company

27:05

does and how you know, how

27:07

you look at that market from a strategic of

27:10

vantage point, but also looking at it from almost like a mathematical

27:13

way.

27:14

Yeah, thank you so much for asking. So, like our

27:16

core business, we are a software for sports

27:18

sponsors to manage

27:20

their tickets. We're like a CRM system for

27:22

sponsors to manage their tickets. That

27:24

is our core business. But our clients

27:27

also say, hey, listen, it's not in our

27:29

regular tickets, but we're looking to go to the Super Bowl.

27:31

Can you help us source these tickets? So

27:33

that's where sort of the interest and keeping an eye

27:35

on these things comes from Yeah.

27:37

So give an example. Say you're you know, you

27:39

have a client and it's like, let's just say it's Morgan

27:41

Stanley or Goldman Sachs and they come to

27:44

your company and they say, we want to go

27:46

forget the Super Bowl, we want to go to

27:48

to Nix versus

27:51

Heat. Where do you go from there?

27:53

So they say, we want to go to Knicks versus

27:55

Heat, and we we ask them

27:57

different questions as far as like where they want to sit,

27:59

who they're taking, what part of the produce. It's not just

28:02

the ticket all the time. Sometimes they need sort

28:04

of a whole run of show. So we'll

28:06

we'll take that information, we'll go source the tickets,

28:08

we'll give them prices, and then

28:10

we can actually just shepherd them the entire

28:13

time.

28:13

Yeah, okay, So do you feel like this

28:15

this crowd is gonna be a mix of mostly corporate

28:17

or do you think this is the Chiefs

28:20

fans. They're like, we're coming

28:22

and the Niners fans are coming. I said

28:24

it last week walking around the AFC Championship game.

28:27

I'm like, I love the Super Bowl and

28:29

it is awesome in the building and it is one of my favorite

28:31

things to be at, especially in the opening kickoff and the lights go

28:33

out. I'm like, put this element of looking

28:35

into the crowd and seeing a sea of purple and

28:37

a sea of red, and knowing every single person that's

28:40

here is here because they freaking love

28:42

their team. It's a little different than the super Bowl, which

28:44

is still amazing in its own way, and it's the biggest

28:46

stage. What do you anticipate because

28:48

these two fan bases are very good.

28:51

It's a new listen. That's a great question. And

28:53

I think historically and the super Bowl has gotten a little

28:55

bit of a bad rap of being a corporate scene I have

28:57

personally seen, and I don't know if you agree, Peter.

29:00

I think the last couple of years, fans have really

29:02

stepped up totally and it's been

29:04

more fan engaged. Being in the building has

29:06

a much better energy than it had maybe five

29:08

or ten years ago. I think these teams are gonna show

29:10

out. I think it's gonna show up in a big way. I also think

29:12

because it's a rematch, because

29:15

both these teams are probably the best two

29:17

teams in the league as predicted by you a

29:21

year in advance, which is also incredible. I

29:24

think it's gonna I think it's gonna

29:26

be a fan based thing, and I think it's gonna

29:28

be a really exciting crowd.

29:29

Yeah, I do too. I think

29:31

the Bengals Rams one was interesting because it was

29:34

in Los Angeles, so I assumed would be all Rams fans.

29:36

That place was flooded with orange and black

29:38

and white, and like Bengals fans knew we hadn't been to the

29:41

super Bowl since nineteen

29:44

eighty nine, like we're coming. This

29:46

one's a little different, and yet I feel like both

29:48

fan bases will show out. Do you have any idea where Swift

29:50

will be seated in that Las Vegas

29:52

super Bowl?

29:54

That one?

29:54

Not yet?

29:55

I mean, I'm likely she'll be in a sweet but I'd be happy

29:57

to sort of follow up with you on that one. How

29:59

does any other.

30:00

Yeah, how does that even work? Like? Does

30:03

she does? CBS? Like do they

30:05

take care of that and say we want the best vantage point for

30:07

when our cameras come or is it Travis

30:09

Kelcey suite? Like I think it's interesting

30:11

tell them about because this is the story I heard that

30:14

the super Bowl is in Los Angeles and

30:16

like all year long, whether

30:19

it be Kelly Stafford and Matthew Safford like

30:21

some people or maybe the coaches, maybe McVeigh.

30:23

I forget what it was. Those guys

30:25

in their contracts have suites

30:28

for games, but then once the Super Bowl happens,

30:31

that goes to the league, like because I think

30:33

it was interesting, Like it became a different conversation. Nothing

30:35

bad. I think Kelly Safford was it was very happy

30:38

to be celebrating Super Bowl in a suite. It wasn't an issue.

30:40

But I think that was a

30:42

unique one in the Tampa one was because those were in

30:45

their buildings. But who owns

30:47

the suites? Because is it the Raiders

30:49

handle it or the league handles it.

30:50

It's a great question. At the top of the pyramid, it's

30:53

the league, so the league will be working

30:55

all that out. Also,

30:57

I'm the Taylor Swift macker. Have you been following this? By the

30:59

way, the internet is like trying to solve

31:01

the mystery of how to get Taylor to the game.

31:04

She has a show in Japan the beforehand,

31:07

she has a show right after in

31:09

Australia. The internet is trying to solve

31:12

the mystery of how to get her there. There's a one hundred

31:14

hour.

31:15

Yeah, solving for you a massive

31:17

private jet. That's how there's

31:19

the internet mystery. Now, in all seriousness,

31:22

I was on Simmons and I was like, do you think she'll be there?

31:24

He's like yes. Then I asked my co host,

31:26

Aaron wan Kaufman. Months ago, we talked

31:28

about this and we kind of came out not

31:30

realizing the show was the night

31:33

before. I thought it was the night of that she had a

31:35

show. It sounds like she's got four nights in a row

31:37

and the last night ends, and then the super Bowl

31:39

is after that and then it's Australia

31:41

that she can make it all work. But if

31:44

it was the same day, you

31:47

know, you work in ticketing, what kind

31:49

of disaster would that be for Taylor Swift if she

31:51

just canceled a show in Japan?

31:53

She can't do that, right, Listen,

31:56

We're in uncharted waters at this point.

31:59

But I think at this point Taylor Swift can do

32:01

sort of whatever whatever she wants to do. And I'm

32:03

feeling, come hell or high water, she'd be at the.

32:05

Game and get up here on the mic, because I think

32:08

we had we had the debate and we said what

32:10

she could do is if she was to cancel, it's all,

32:12

what if sounds like she's going to be there. If she

32:15

canceled, she can give

32:17

back like two nights and

32:19

have two more nights later on for all

32:21

the people who she canceled on. Does that sound like a

32:23

nice compromise in the ticketing world.

32:26

Yeah, I mean I think if she rescheduled

32:28

that show and added an additional date, more

32:30

people get to see her. I think fans would be in

32:33

general very happy with that.

32:35

Brian, your thoughts.

32:37

You're offering a two for one tailor. Hey,

32:39

sorry, mister, now you can go to two shows.

32:41

That's a nice compensation, right, That's

32:44

kind of nice.

32:44

Man. I like what you're doing here is the hell of a business

32:46

plan.

32:47

That's what That's what I would do, all

32:49

right? So super Bowl big picture,

32:51

because you do all sporting events, is that

32:53

the hardest ticket to get in sports? Or

32:55

am I often it's like some random tennis

32:58

match or something.

32:59

No, you're hunter, right, So super Bowl

33:01

typically has been the most expensive by a factor of

33:03

a lot. The one thing kind of creeping up on it has been

33:05

F one. F one has been like a craze in America.

33:08

Two years ago. The one in Miami just

33:12

just really set some records but super Bowl

33:14

is in a category it's all the.

33:15

Time, and that's always been the case, and since

33:17

you've been doing this professionally, or is it like is

33:20

that the last decade where super Bowl just took on

33:22

a different demand to be there.

33:24

It's it's always been the case, but the

33:27

different like the factor at which it's

33:29

the highest, and just sort of the professionalization

33:32

of on both sides of it, the supply side

33:34

and the demand side. Super Bowl

33:36

is the biggest, but it gets more and more and more

33:39

expensive and the market gets more more efficient

33:41

every single year, even last year. I thought

33:44

so last year with Philly cuming that's

33:46

a huge market, again, very wealthy market,

33:48

a much bigger city than San Francisco. That

33:51

was a monster game. And this is Peter,

33:53

this is double double the initial.

33:56

Pres I think you hit it with the location. I think

33:58

Vegas brings a different glamor and glitz

34:00

and excitement level than perhaps

34:02

Arizona, which has had many Super Bowls and is

34:05

a bit sleepy. If you will, if you're like, oh, I'm

34:07

coming with my boys, I'm already like Vegas.

34:09

I feel like already had this amazing aura

34:12

around it for a celebration and a party

34:14

and now you add the biggest game, and I keep on

34:16

mentioning swift. I think it's real.

34:19

It is real. I mean it's like statistic really

34:22

real that Uh, it's

34:24

it's just gonna be It's gonna be a huge weekend.

34:26

Okay. And before we let you go, my

34:28

last My last thing is when

34:31

you go to the super Bowl and it's

34:33

the average fans buying the ticket, what

34:35

else do you get in that if you just get

34:38

a super Bowl ticket, is it just access to the game,

34:40

or are there ways that you can also in

34:42

that journey you package it with.

34:44

I'm gonna get to go to an exclusive party, I'm gonna

34:46

see t Paine perform. I'm gonna end up seeing Zach

34:49

Bryan perform. Like I know the NFL has

34:51

on location and they have events, but is it

34:53

a la carte? How is that all handled? If I'm

34:55

Johnny Niners fan and screw it,

34:58

I just hit the lottery, or I just had a really good year financially,

35:00

I'm taking my kids to the super Bowl. Is it just we

35:03

got the game, we gotta find our own hotel, or like, how's it

35:05

all done?

35:06

Yeah, that's a great question. I mean, on location experiences

35:08

again, they do tickets, hotels, they

35:10

sponsored their own events.

35:12

Then that's called on location experiences

35:14

if you're looking like that's what that company is called, correct.

35:16

So they specifically have it and they have their

35:18

own proprietary pregame event. But there

35:21

are every hospitality vendor

35:23

in the world has some pop up going

35:26

on that weekend.

35:28

Also, as you know, there are some of the best parties

35:30

throughout that weekend that Thursday night, Friday

35:32

night, Saturday night Sports Illustrated as

35:35

a party fanatics

35:37

and Michael Rubin has a secret VIP party

35:39

that everybody tries to get into. There's some pretty

35:41

fun events that weekend.

35:42

I went to the Michael Ruben party last year.

35:45

Were you there, Brian?

35:47

I was not. I'm hoping this podcast

35:50

will help me in the go forward.

35:51

I went there last year. It

35:54

was in Arizona. It was

35:56

really fun. I have never

35:59

even thought to be invited to the July fourth

36:01

thing. That's not my world. They don't want

36:03

the disgusting me coming in there

36:06

with my stained white T shirt and

36:08

old navy white pants. But I

36:10

did go to the Super Bowl and I was happy enough to go. And

36:13

I will tell you, uh, I

36:15

saw Bryce Young talked to him for a while,

36:18

saw Michael Parsons talk to him for a while,

36:20

and then I saw at that party David Tepper,

36:22

Jerry Jones, Mark

36:25

Davis, Bob Kraft

36:28

like that. That party is a party

36:31

to be at, and yet I think it's

36:33

nearly impossible to get in unless you know someone

36:35

who knows someone who knows someone who. In last year's case,

36:38

I did.

36:38

Listen, you're with someone I know. Listen, you

36:40

know next time, go for go for a plus

36:42

one.

36:43

I'm a bill, you could come, We could do it. We could

36:45

do it, all right, super Bowl.

36:47

That's in, Brian, I appreciate it real quick.

36:49

Tell us about your company, where we can find it, and if

36:52

there's a website we can we can use to use

36:54

your services.

36:55

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36:58

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37:00

out. We'd love to help you.

37:01

Okay, when you say sports sponsors, just real quick, what does that

37:03

mean? Because I'm I'm thinking of like, Okay, Doritos

37:06

spawned, there's a you know, a

37:08

Super Bowl party. But when you say sports sponsors for tickets,

37:10

what's that mean?

37:12

Yeah? No, it just mean usually when you're a sponsor,

37:14

when you're sponsor of a league, or a team or a venue.

37:16

With those sponsorship come a lot of tickets.

37:19

And that's where our company comes in when you when

37:21

you need to manage those tickets on a day to day basis. We're

37:23

sort of the CRM system for you to manage all those

37:25

tickets.

37:26

Got it? And it's a software that I can log in and

37:28

not have to use a middleman. I could just kind of go in and

37:30

see and it could be like, all right, well you could

37:32

give these tickets to these people, and this is how we

37:34

do that. We divvy it up amongst employees, whatever else.

37:37

Totally. If you work for Chase Bank and

37:39

you're an employee and you're saying, hey, how do

37:41

I accest the company tickets, we're

37:44

the portal for you to be.

37:45

Able to do that's great. I love it. Smart. If

37:48

the NFL has free tickets line around you, let me know.

37:50

I'd love to hit that part. Maybe I could.

37:52

I don't know if they're a client, but maybe I can help you make

37:54

that introduction as well. All right,

37:56

Brian Baslow, awesome stuff. Thank you. The

37:59

hottest ticket of all time?

38:01

It sounds like the Super Bowl fifty

38:03

eight in Las Vegas. Dude, I appreciate your time.

38:05

Thanks so much.

38:06

Being that

38:14

was pretty interesting. I knew it would be.

38:16

I always I also thought for some reason, like that the Detroit

38:18

factor would be overriding as far

38:20

as ticket sales go, that

38:22

every single person who's ever rooted

38:25

for the Lions would find a way nine thousand dollars,

38:27

fifteen thousand dollars, like my mortgage,

38:30

my house would put it on sale, like, so I can go.

38:32

But I guess San Francisco. He's right, it's

38:34

a. It's a it's a

38:36

it's a combination for those fans of like, yes,

38:39

they might have some tech money there,

38:41

but also we've been knocking on the door for so long,

38:43

and it's in Vegas. It's a short flight. You're not spending

38:45

on the flight. You could even come in the day of and

38:49

do one night, or even fly in day

38:51

of and maybe get a flight out back to

38:53

San Francisco. Aaron, were you surprised that this is

38:55

the hottest ticket in the history of the Super Bowl.

38:57

Absolutely not. I mean, I think, like

39:00

you said, two dynasties that have

39:02

both been very good the last five years,

39:05

So you have of as cynical

39:07

as this is, you have like true lifelong

39:10

fans. And then you also have people who maybe just got

39:12

into the NFL in the past five years, have

39:15

loved Mahomes the whole time, and they're like all

39:17

on board. And then there's Taylor

39:19

Swift, and then it's Vegas. I

39:22

think there's it's a perfect storm of everything

39:24

going right.

39:25

The Taylor Swift thing is interesting. So I have a friend,

39:27

Aaron Luber, who's been on this show many

39:30

times, and he said

39:32

his wife has never watched down a football, his daughter

39:34

never watched down a football, and they're upsessed with the Chiefs

39:36

because of Taylor Swift. And I think that sounds very simple,

39:39

like football man's wife is now into it. It

39:41

sounds almost cliche, but they

39:43

really root for the Chiefs. They're

39:45

on this ride. I

39:47

don't think they're alone. But how

39:49

does that translate to wanting to be at

39:52

the game because she's there, you're not gonna guarantee

39:54

yourself an interaction. I'm surprised that her being

39:56

at the game has played a role into

39:59

ticket sales viewership.

40:01

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't. That's

40:03

a great question because he said he.

40:05

Said twenty percent that the thy percent higher in the games

40:07

that she's at. Is it just the idea of being around a celebrity

40:09

like that, she's in the building.

40:11

I'm in the building, I guess, and like you're

40:13

there when she's kind

40:15

of there as a casual real person because

40:17

she's just there watching Travis play.

40:19

She's not there performing. It's not like I

40:22

don't know. I don't understand that.

40:25

You know.

40:25

You and I have talked about Taylor Swift on this show more

40:28

times than anyone would have expected. I think

40:30

twelve part of the story it.

40:32

Is, if you were to tell me the story

40:34

of this NFL season, I'm

40:36

coming to a blank when I'm trying

40:38

to think about, like we could talk about Lamar

40:40

and the amazing seasons that the

40:42

Browns and Lions had from out of nowhere and

40:45

what Demko Ryans did, but you better believe it's

40:47

been this Chiefs team. And then

40:49

how this Taylor Swift Travis Kelsey

40:51

deal has taken pop culture by storm too.

40:54

I have a lukewarm take that I haven't

40:56

voiced at all.

40:57

I don't know if I'm in the mood for that this week

40:59

go.

40:59

On, did does

41:02

the Taylor Swift Travis Kelsey relationship

41:04

overshadow that Kelsey just had an incredible

41:07

game it was his best game any

41:09

thing.

41:10

If anything, it puts more of a spotlight. He eleven

41:12

catches on eleven targets. He was amazing. And then

41:14

afterwards

41:17

kind of sweet guy who has

41:19

a new girlfriend are embracing and

41:21

kissing and not scared to show their affection,

41:24

and she says on the mic, up, I'm

41:26

so proud of you. You don't even know, like it's

41:30

hard to be cynic man.

41:31

Yeah.

41:31

Yeah, okay.

41:34

So, as I mentioned to

41:36

you off Mike, I thought we'd wrap the podcast

41:38

with a little something. Okay,

41:42

I did a segment on Good Morning Football. I'm gonna

41:44

bring it back. It's gonna be recycling content, if

41:46

that's okay. The segment

41:49

was five media

41:52

ideas that I have for Bill Belichick

41:55

for next season. And it looks like he's

41:57

not gonna be a head coach. He could still be a defensive coordinator

41:59

somewhere. I can still coach across somewhere. I can still coach

42:01

college. He could be an executive

42:04

somewhere. That's all possible if he goes into meeting.

42:06

Yeah, I think the standard ideas

42:10

are he'll be in a booth, he'll be in a studio

42:12

show, he'll have a podcast, I listed

42:14

five ideas. I'm gonna bounce him off with

42:16

you, Aaron, and you tell me your thoughts Number five.

42:20

One of the greatest clips of Bill Belichick

42:22

is when Randy Moss comes in in a twenty

42:25

eleven documentary that he did for NFL

42:27

Films where they were tracking the twenty eleven

42:29

Patriots, and Randy Moss comes in and

42:31

he just gives Bill Belichick the heads up, we're having

42:33

a Halloween party tonight. It's gonna be had a roller

42:36

skating rink. We'd love for you to come, you

42:38

know, bring Linda, who is his girlfriend at the time,

42:40

Like, we'd love for you to but we're just giving your heads up. We're having

42:42

a party. I don't want you to be surprised by it. And

42:44

then the next clip is Bill Belichick

42:47

dresses a pirate doing laps

42:49

in roller skates and everyone loving it,

42:51

and the relationship between Belichick

42:53

and Moss is real. I I don't know if I've ever told

42:55

this story, but the Minnesota Super Bowl, which

42:57

happened to be Patriots versus

43:00

Eagles, I think yeah, Patriots

43:02

Minnesota super Bowl, Randy Moss had a birthday

43:05

party. I want to say this was fortieth day party. I had worked

43:07

with Randy at Fox. We had a really strong relationship

43:09

with the time. We're still friendly. I still text with him, but this was

43:11

like we would talk often we worked together, and

43:14

Randy had just started at ESPN,

43:16

and he invited me to his fortieth birthday party

43:18

and Gary Owen did the comedy and performed

43:20

that like Gary Allan, I'm if you're a fan or if you know his

43:22

work, and I get there and I was

43:25

amazed to see the week of the Super

43:27

Bowl, I think it was the Thursday night. Bill

43:29

Belichick was there to celebrate Randy Moss's

43:32

birthday party, and so was Rex Ryan, and

43:34

so were so many other teammates of Randy's

43:36

and it was just a really cool room. But

43:39

I think my idea is pairing

43:41

Randy Moss's passion and Bill Belichick's

43:44

knowledge. And I think Belichick's also a man of the

43:46

sea, obviously his Navy

43:48

background and his love for Nantucket a

43:51

phishing show. Bill Belichick

43:53

and Randy Moss, your thoughts, I love

43:55

it.

43:55

I can just I mean, everyone always talks about

43:57

the viral clip of Bill, you

44:00

know, in a press conference after the game.

44:02

He's never happy and then someone asks him

44:04

about a long snapper, and he goes on twelve

44:07

minutes. I can just imagine that two

44:09

of them sitting on the dock or the back

44:11

of the boat a port or starboard,

44:13

whatever the back is, and

44:16

Bill taught like Randy calling

44:18

out some fish that they're trying to catch. And Bill

44:20

goes on a fifteen minute soliloquy

44:23

about how much he loves this one

44:25

particular, the skip back tuna, because

44:27

it's, you know, like the way that they travel in

44:29

school. I would love it a plus.

44:31

All in amazing. I love it that

44:33

it would be those two guys who have been so guarded from

44:35

the media for so many years. Just Uncut. Number four

44:38

a Patriots focused podcast with noted

44:40

Patriots fan Bill Burr.

44:43

O have

44:46

have Burr and Belichick done? They

44:49

corected it all.

44:49

I don't know. Maybe I'm sure

44:51

Burr is known by Belichick.

44:53

Oh yeah uh.

44:55

Burr obviously one of the greatest comedians, one

44:57

of the most candid and unfiltered

45:00

people in our world. Also

45:03

huge Patriots fan, huge

45:06

Patriot. It's fan. Interesting

45:08

one. Number three The Coach

45:10

Cast with Nick Saban and Pete

45:12

Carroll, So you know, the Manning Cast,

45:15

and I say, the Manning cast

45:17

works because you get the football insights,

45:19

but you also get the crosstalk and the

45:21

conversation. Nick Saban

45:24

currently not employed, Pete Carroll currently

45:26

not employed. I don't know what they plan on doing in the

45:28

future, Saban. I'm sure we'll have some advisory role with

45:30

Alabama. Carol can have the same with

45:33

Seattle. Until then, every

45:36

let's pick a how about Amazon

45:38

picks them up for every Thursday night, these guys

45:40

break down the game on a second alternative telecast

45:43

your thoughts.

45:43

Oh, I would love that because, I

45:46

mean one of our favorite things

45:48

about your coworker, Greg Olsen, like Greg

45:50

when he's sitting there in the booth

45:52

breaking down the plays as they're happening

45:54

and predicting what's going to happen and like

45:57

unfolding each team strategy

45:59

in real time. Imagine having three

46:02

of the best coaches doing that at the same time.

46:04

I mean, that would be great.

46:05

I'd love that. And I can't imagine Belichick

46:07

busting chops with Carol Saban, Like

46:10

that'd be fun. I think he respects both those guys.

46:12

Yes, all right. Number two A

46:15

show called Eighties and Nineties Giant

46:17

Stuff, and it's with Bill Parcells, Phil

46:19

Sims, and Lawrence Taylor and they just go back and watch all Giants

46:21

games and talk about them.

46:23

So this is like, uh, like

46:26

every every sitcom

46:29

has a rewatch podcast, and this

46:31

would be Bill hosting it.

46:33

Scrubs going back watching episode.

46:35

And they bring in a guest each week who

46:38

you know, Like this week it's the it's you

46:40

know, the wide Receiver, and this week it's.

46:42

Yeah, I think it's the Office ladies,

46:44

it's Jenni Fisher or not jennif Fisher,

46:47

Angela, Yes,

46:50

Angela Kinsei who play Pam

46:52

and Angela from the Office. They go through every

46:54

episode. Now, I personally got

46:56

sucked into the Sopranos one with

46:59

our guy Sharipa and

47:01

Michael Imperioli when they watched every single episode

47:04

and did a recap. But to your point, they brought on again,

47:06

it'd be like here's the guy who played

47:08

cousin Veto and like he's gonna talk about

47:10

it, and here's the guy who played Angelo. So

47:13

in this case, eighties and nineties

47:15

Giants stuff. I think the Giants have a huge fan base.

47:17

Jason English are our buddy from my iHeart

47:20

is in here, and I know he is a hardcore Giants head

47:22

of this era. You're in for it, all right. The number

47:24

one though that I thought would be fun. Number

47:26

one idea drum Rope co

47:28

host the NFL Red Zone with Scott Hanson every

47:30

Sunday.

47:33

What two different levels of acargy?

47:35

Which would be Which would be great?

47:39

Man?

47:40

The I Also I think back to

47:42

my favorite I don't know favorite is the right word,

47:44

but one of the most memorable moments from Red

47:46

Zone this year, of course, is the fire alarms

47:48

going off. Can you imagine Scott and

47:51

Bill, Like I can just see Bill totally

47:53

unfazed.

47:53

Scott, Yeah, Scott, don't

47:57

panic. That's why that's the fire

47:59

department. They'll do their job. That's

48:01

what they're there for. Also,

48:03

like in the moment there's

48:07

five games going on, fourth quarter,

48:10

you hear Belichick in the corner and be like, oh,

48:12

yes, yeah, what is Belichick into it?

48:14

And he's watching some random Bear Saints game

48:16

that the game's like a twenty point game and it's not significant,

48:18

but it's like a punt.

48:19

Also, I would love, you know, Scott is

48:21

there. Witching Hour

48:24

is Scott's thing. He's so excited

48:26

for that one moment. Maybe Bill gets a

48:28

moment in the second slate of games when his

48:30

dog Nike shows up and just like sits

48:32

on his lap for a couple of plays and then leaves

48:35

like that would be good too.

48:36

Totally. Those are my five ideas.

48:39

If you have any others, please send him our way.

48:42

Let's do the Uber sponsorship

48:45

at the end here? Is that still a sponsor?

48:46

Aaron?

48:47

We're still with those guys?

48:48

Oh yeah, and I'm we got

48:50

to start thinking about what food. I actually already

48:52

made some grocery orders for Super Bowl, so

48:54

I have, you know, big bags of chips

48:56

to eat during the game.

48:58

This is gonna be the first Super Bowl in many years that

49:00

I will not be attending, and maybe

49:03

I should use some Uber eats.

49:05

Is that the Uber eats is because it's almost

49:08

almost anything that we can get. Maybe they can

49:10

make me some guacamole and

49:12

some chips and we'll

49:14

go down there.

49:15

What about cotton candy? You think Uber eats could

49:17

get you some? Can'ty?

49:18

Do you think they could? They get almost almost anything

49:21

the season when Peter Schragger delivering results is presented

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by Uber eats. This week, I want

49:28

to shout out brock Purty as

49:30

our individual who purely

49:33

delivered in the biggest moments. Party

49:35

down seventeen. I think he went five

49:37

of seventeen with a pick in the first half. And

49:39

I said it on air on Good Morning Football. I had

49:41

friends in my mentions in a text

49:44

chain, I'm on saying time

49:46

to go to Donald What are we doing here? Like even now

49:48

they still don't believe in Party, even all of you, that's

49:50

still gonna be Let's go to Donald. Well, Party

49:52

turned it around, had some amazing drives, had

49:55

some key passes to Juwan Jennings, and

49:57

some key plays to Deebo, Samuel and Kittle, and

49:59

of course the little toe tap from us Check

50:01

which was so impressive and so good.

50:04

Brock Purty delivered results. And now it

50:06

just this his second year in the NFL, he will be playing

50:08

in a super Bowl against the greatest quarterback

50:10

of his generation. I say that without maybe saying

50:13

possibly or anything contingent

50:15

on anything. It is Brady and it is

50:17

now Mahomes. When you're talking about the last twenty years

50:20

of NFL quarterbacks and the

50:22

guys who win the games, brock

50:24

perty is going to try to dethrow mahomes

50:26

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50:29

I was delivering results abou uber eats soherea can

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partner of the NFL. Order

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Now, Aaron, thank you for joining

50:38

me. Jason, thank you for joining me. Enjoy the

50:40

next two days. I'm gonna go down to Mobile, Alabama

50:42

for Friday afternoon. I'm going

50:44

to check out the Senior Bowl. Oo.

50:46

Any players you're particularly excited to see,

50:49

yeah, all of them.

50:50

I haven't done the research yet. I've got to dig in. Our NFL

50:52

networks doing a good job. They got all the guys down there. I'll

50:54

start digging in, but I like to get

50:56

my feet on the ground a little bit, touch the grass

50:58

if you will, and I'll have some stories

51:00

I'm sure, hopefully not any travel

51:03

stories. Yeah yeah, connecting through

51:05

Atlanta and a little puddle jumper to a mobile

51:07

all should go well with that. Thanks

51:10

for listening, everybody. Thank you to all

51:13

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51:15

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51:17

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