1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Battle @ PBA: February 19th, 12:00pm

Episode Date: February 19, 2025

DP breaks down how cold Lincoln is right now, and to pack out PBA for our Husker Hoops!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Coming at you live from the heart of Lincoln America, a 93-7-a-ticket and the ticketfm.com. Here is your host, Derek Pearson, brought to by Canopy Street Market. Boom! Lunchtime on a Wednesday. Happy hump day. Appreciate you. Wherever you are in the streets, in your office at home, whatever you do it, if you're in the garage. If you're in your garage working, you are night in the rest. You are somewhere else.

Because it's too cold to be outside working in your garage. Even if you have the immaculate garage of heating and all the consumables and everything else, it's still too cold. I'm a fan of schoolhouse rock and there was a song that they would play back in the day. One, it's the loneliest number. When I walked to work this morning, that was how many degrees there were? one and it was lonely and sad one degree we've we've we've we've we've we've we've we've caught in the heat somebody turned the heat on we're up to three degrees so keep pushing whoever's working hey everybody rubbed together let's see if we can get this thing up

to some double digits we're not even a double digits box 402 464 5668 5 started hamins x line if you want to be a part of what we're doing reach out say what's up Hit us with a what's up. Let us know you're out there. Let us know where you are today. Like, are you, I know Lincoln Public Schools is closed. So let me know if you're at home, if you're at work, are you in your car? Are you just traveling?

Are you somewhere else in the planet? If you are not in Nebraska, just text in how many degrees you have today so that we can feel your warmth from wherever you are. Send us some of what you have. Greatly appreciate. You can follow us on all the streams, Facebook, YouTube, X, and Allo Channel 961, if you want to be a part of what we're doing, and we would greatly appreciate you doing that. Lots to cover in a great hours' worth. It is a big sports day here in Huskerland. I do want to point that out a 530 tip for the Huskers in Happy Valley against Penn State.

the ladies battle here at PBA bundle up. Please, I do not want to walk into PBA and see you uncovered. I don't want to see that. I don't want that for you. I know, y'all don't listen to me. I understand y'all going to do what you would like doing, and I know that somewhere out there folks are plotting and planning to body paint and, you know, they'll spell out Huskers on their chest.

Bach, did you ever do that? Were you ever that guy that paint your body? No, I wish. Maybe I wish I was, but I never really did that. I do, it is funny because as you were talking about it, though, I was thinking because I used to be the guy that was like, I'm a bigger fan than you are. So if it's cold, I'll be there.

And over the years, I've decided, no, I'm just going to stay at home if it's cold because, right? basketball, basketball, obviously you have to travel. That's part of the toughness of being a Nebraska basketball fan. It's every winter. I go and park down there, walk up up to the bridge. It's freezing.

But it's worth it to get to Nebraska basketball. And I'm talking about outdoor events. That bridge. Oh, yeah, that bridge is a hazard, man. It's so cold. It's so terrible. Hazard. Yes.

But, yeah, for like football, like a couple years ago, the Chiefs and Steelers had a playoff game. I was thinking about going. And it was like two degrees or whatever it is now. and, you know, I thought, I thought, even at that age, I was like 28 or something, I was like, I'm too old to this. Maybe if I was 23, 22, I could, I could get together and, and feel like a man and go out there and do it. But now, now especially, no, I'm not going to do that. Six bud lights and the weather doesn't, like, the weather doesn't matter. The temperature doesn't matter for a college student.

That's right. Six bud lights for every, for every six bud lights, you get like 10, 10 degrees internal, internal body temperature. I think that's our friends in Mesa, Arizona. about a 67 degrees, 67 degrees, Barry Thompson back in D.C. And I know it's cold in D.C. Because Barry Thompson had on a skull cap, a winter coat, and the hood pulled over. So it is cold wherever, whatever's happening in D.C. It is cold. I want to give you the weather report for the night.

Just so you're planning. Again, it's a 7 o'clock tip. So on your way to PBA, at 7 o'clock, it is projected that it will be, minus two degrees at 7 o'clock. So as you're rolling up to PBA, minus two. And it says it, you know, it's my favorite thing in all of the weather. Feels like, feels like, that's right. Right?

Feels like negative 15 degrees. So the, and Texer, the boys, the men are at Penn State. The girls are here. The women are here at PBA tonight against Oregon. and that should be a good one. That's an 18 and 8 Oregon team with some bodies. Man, they're long and they run and it should be interesting. The men are at Penn State.

Shout out to the swimming and diving team there and Columbus, Ohio for the Big Ten championships in the swim meet. So I don't know what the weather is in Columbus, but I'm always fascinated at the transition between winter weather and then inside events where you, have to dress for both. Right? And college students do it different.

Like they do it different. Yeah, Texas says a lifelong Packers, but haven't gone to a game at Lambo. But what I do, I fully intend to go in December or later, temperature is just a number. You are, I'm going to say this. So I was at the Panthers Packers' NFC championship game back in the 90s. And I've never been colder in my entire life.

Does that Lambo? Yeah. Yeah. I have never, I, listen. I hadn't, I was on the sidelines. I was with the Panthers at the time. And I was on the sideline for pregame. Bach, I've never been so cold that I stopped moving and then didn't realize that I'd

stopped moving. Right? Like, I, like, four layers in. And I mean to tell you, bro, I see. I stopped moving and then it just struck me that everybody else was moving, except for me. And I was like, why am I not moving? And then I'm having the conversation with myself, hey, Dee, you're not moving, bro. Like, what's going on?

I've never been colder in my life. I mean, to the, I've heard people say, chill to the bone. And I never really understood that until that day. I went, oh, oh, this is really a thing. This is a thing where I could feel my blood just like, hey, man, look, we just going to chill. This is, this is it. So I'm just telling you that the way it's projected at 7 o'clock, 7 o'clock, it will be 2 below. and by the time you get out, by the time you leave, it says, hey, Bach, oh no, no, sir.

It says nine below at nine o'clock. That's not even feels like. That's just what it is. Feels like you've frozen. That's what it feels like. That's what it feels like. 21 below is what it's going to feel like. And I know that there are people that don't care.

They're going to go to this game and they're going to do like I'm I got me a face mask like a face cover not a football face mask that would be really stupid. I got a fact of one of those one of the ones you put in the touch in your in your collar and you know you can do your thing and I got one got a red one. But then a thing happens, Bach, because breathing is still necessary. That's right. Breathing is still necessary. So I tried it yesterday and it covers my nose.

right because everything but the else. But then the breathing thing has to happen and it was so cold in the under that it's freezing. Right? That spot. And so your hot air comes out. Well, not to get gross, but I'm going to get gross. My nose did a thing.

Right? Right. And you go, Bach, I don't know how, if I asked you, aside from Alaska, Right. What's the coldest part of the country in your mind? Is that like Vermont, Maine? Yeah, I would think East Coast. Right. Like that, that would be the coldest. So I'm not sure. I'm sure the text line can tell us that by climate, there's a place in America that's, you know, not Alaska because that would be the obvious choice. As the northern most, but is that the northernmost point in America or is it in the United States or is that Vermont? Yeah, I would think so. So the textures will do our thing.

Husker P says, six degrees in Bennington. Oh, man. Yeah, the upper peninsula of Michigan would be the northernmost. This is why we keep, we always say that, yeah, Duluth, we always say that the ticket sports fans are the smartest sports fans in the state. I hold that to be absolutely true. Like, I know that we have the smartest folks and the best fastest Googlers. Collectively.

Oh, though, these are masterful, masterful, masterful Google. Googlers. We understand that. Kavisker says, Kempskar, where are you now? Because Kepskis used to stop by the old station at 48th. I need to know where you are, right? Jesse says North Dakota. North Dakota is the coldest.

I don't know. So this is why I'm asking what the coldest. Because I don't want like Nebraska on a geographical line is on the same level as the D.C. area. Of course, you have different climate. controls and the flatness of Nebraska plus the ocean and the rivers around D.C. kind of land a little differently. And it's also got that thing where you're, you know, in D.C. and Virginia, you know, you can go three hours south and it's the beach. You can go three hours west and it's the mountains.

You can go through. Like, it really is kind of, you know, it's its own space. Now, for Nebraska, when I hear people talk about it and the difference, and apparently, again, I know there's a bubble over Lincoln because the weather in Lincoln and the weather in Omaha are rarely the same. Right down the street. It's true, yeah. Like, it's right down the street.

So there's a bubble. There's a bubble going on. I don't know what it is. Yeah, it feels like negative 7 in Duluth. So, yeah, cups here's in Selena, Kansas. Okay, bro. All right. Well, we miss the senior round all the time.

Greatly appreciate it. Yeah, Bones says, yeah, I went to Duluth, Minnesota for work once. in the wintertime. Oh, my goodness, cold. Yeah, I don't... Lambo... Lambo was the coldest I've ever been. The coldest game aside from that. And I've been to several games at Lambo.

That one, because it was late in January, was the coldest. But I've sworn off Army Navy because the last two Army Navy games I've been to, whether it be Philly or Landover, Maryland, we're both just obnoxiously cold. Yeah. And I just, that's the only memory I have.

Like for all the pageantry, all the beauty, all the great company. That's your favorite rivalry, right? It's, it took, okay. So let's have this discussion. When we talk rivalries in sports, especially here in America, there is one rivalry. There's one. There's one. Everything else, get in line behind the big boys.

Get behind the thing that unites us and say. separates us all, right? Army Navy is the rivalry in sports. Army Navy football is the rivalry of all rivalries. It doesn't matter. You can tell me Duke Carolina, nope, because they're parts of the country, don't care. Don't care. You can tell me Ohio State, Michigan. Guess what? The West Coast, ah, they laugh at you. In the South, they don't believe you, right? So it doesn't really matter. Army Navy is the rivalry, sports rivalry of all rivals. Everybody in the country has some connection to it. Everybody in the country has some feeling about it. And it is, that's That's why the game is played unto itself.

That game and the championship game are the only ones that are played by themselves. No competition. No distraction. No lack of focus. It's Army Navy. Get your color, right? Pick your color. Get your sign, right?

Get all your really, really cool quotes. Get them out. And then we all as a country get together on Army Navy Saturday. and we watch a game together because we're all connected to it and all matters the most. It's not, it's not Dodgers Yankees. It's not Celtics Lakers. Sorry. It's not.

America's game is Army Navy. And I will, I will stand on that, I will stand on that hill. It has been floated out there to maybe move to the start of the season. Would you like that on its own to begin the season? Are you like where it's in? No, I love, well, here's the thing. if you were going to do it in absolution and make it the first game of the year, I could get behind.

Now, it loses some of the sauciness of that cold. Like, yeah. It's been West Point, Philly, you know, New York, Philly, Baltimore, Maryland, etc. Right? It's kind of locked into a space where those, you know, Annapolis and West Point, New York, still there. but I think the pageantry behind it would be spectacular. It could move some of the other focus because, again, the other things going on that day are the lower level championships,

which I'm fine with as well, right, that they would get their own day. They would get their own playoff day. And if done right, again, soapbox DP, that if they really cared about this thing, you really wanted it right, and it's what we were saying about, fire trucks down the street,

hope everybody's okay. That if they really want to do it right, like college football didn't listen to the fans for a long time about college playoffs, right? Football, more football, more meaningful games, cool, cool, cool. Greater exposure, greater money. Though that's the way it works. Greater exposure equals greater money.

If they took the lower, level playoffs and broadcasted them the way they do the other playoffs? Tell me if you're at Ithaca or at Shippensburg and you get ESPN in full for those three hours, what are you doing for that school in those programs? You're changing it for the greater good. You're giving them great exposure. You're giving them access to greater resources, TV money, radio money, internet money, social media engagement, all those things would be spectacular.

Like, imagine what it would do if Nebraska Wesleyan goes to the championship, what it does for their admissions, their enrollments, all those things in play. So they could do those things. It would make wonderful sense, right? And in this day and age where you're going to transition to 105 players only at the higher levels, in theory, that trickle-down effect is going to land. somewhere and it'll start to balance. Well, give them their own three weeks.

You have until you start, you start the East Coast, right? Games can start 12 o'clock. Yeah, 11 o'clock for Central, right? 10 a.m., 9 a.m., all the way around. Blow it up. Highlight those games. Highlight the players, right? Tell those stories.

Because they haven't gotten that exposure all year, all year round. They haven't gotten that exposure. Okay. So then the next set of games, right? And you can do a different level. Hey, you can watch the Division III playoffs. Here we'll have, what, what are there?

There are four games that day in each level. Okay, let's show them. Let's show them. You do some on Friday, some on Saturday. Hey, man, just for grins and giggles. You give them exposure and make it about that. So if you're going to do that and you're going to do that, and you're going to put Army Navy as the first game.

Again, what better way to give exposure to Army Navy, right? Because those are our heroes. Like we like to say the best of the best up, but those Military Academy folks are the best of the best. So give them exposure. Let's tell the stories of where these kids from these military academies, those feature officers, where are they from? What's their story?

They wouldn't get the viewing. Abe says they wouldn't get the viewing. Yeah, they would. If those are the only football games on the week as the season before conference tournaments or after conference championships, yeah. Yeah, they would. I've been in Texas for those championship games in Frisco. I know what it does for the hotels and restaurants in those areas.

I know what it would be. Spectacular. And here's the other thing. Imagine that you start to invite some of those smaller programs to play in these bigger cathedrals. Like, I'm not going to limit you to. to 8,000 people, I'm going to let you play in front of 18,000 or 28,000. And that's money in those cities. In times when there's nothing else going on.

I mean, it takes some creative thinking, and I think that this is a big part of people doing business the way that they've always done business. But I'm not a member of that club. Well, I think the problem is, like you said, it's business. And as we're seeing with the NFL and college football, I thought one of the problems with the college football schedule playoff this last year is there's a game on Thursday and a game on Friday and then a game on Monday. And it's all to avoid competing with the NFL. I think you kind of feel the same way here is, you know, you're still got to compete with the NFL.

It's still got to compete with college football, you know, the Division I. So if everybody worked together and gave each other your own day, it would be better for the whole. But that's not how business works generally. They're just, what's going to make us the most money this day? Yeah, Texas says this. Army Navy could both be one-less and every college football fan would still be excited for the game. 100%.

And the honoring of it makes perfect sense. Texer says that, that, you know, listen, it deserves its own space. And that's not to devalue Air Force Academy in this thing because I've got former students who all graduated, who played there and graduated from there, who are part of it, had cousins who coached at Air Force. Force Academy. Like, I get it. I get it. But there's something special about Army Navy. And it's

been built that way. And listen, if you said to me that the first game was going to be military and it was going to be Air Force and Army or Air Force the Navy, I'm okay with that. Let that be the first game of the year. Let Air Force get in, right? And you could base it and rotate it, you know, every three years, right? You change it around that the first one is Air Force. Air Force now gets to kick off every football scene, playing either Army or Navy. Right? Okay, cool. Right. And that means that these academies get the national exposure games. They get the national TV games. If you tell me it means that much to you, that would be a wonderful thing to do. But that's just me. Now, speaking of different business ideas, I need the text line. I need your help.

I'm going to ask Bach a question when we get back. Well, I'm asked Bach the question now. And then when we come back, you guys can hit us up on the text line and let me know what your thoughts are. But, Bach, here's the question. Would you be interested in participating in actually being on a tunnel wall? Yes. Every sport or any sport? probably yeah i mean i probably wouldn't remember for you right if they put a number on it and said

all you have to do is donate to the program and you get to be a part of the tunnel walk you get the experience walking out of the tunnel whether it be volleyball wrestling basketball football baseball whatever it is you get that experience would you pay for it and there's a number i know there's a number, right? Yeah, there's got to be a number for everybody. Text line, give me your number for participating in a tunnel walk. Just text it in, first of all, football, football's one, volleyball is two, basketball, either program, right, because there's 30 home games between the two. There's eight football games. You could make it 10 by doing a spring practice and whatever, like one other time you get to do it. Baseball, you can do the dugout walk and you can do the sprint out to you take the

flag out to center field, right? You can. You can do. You take the flag out to center field. Right. You would pay for that, right? That would be another thing, right? The tunnel, the wrestling tunnel walk out where you get to walk out with the team. I'm not talking about standing there. I'm talking about walking through. And then there are folks who would do it for every sport. I need your numbers.

What would the worth of that be for you? I'll get your answers and read your text. We come back to one-on-one.