The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Clunt Without The L

Episode Date: February 29, 2024

Today's Cast: Dan, Chris, Jeremy, Mike, Roy, and Tony. Dan feels like a part of him has been awoken as he sees the sunshine of Spring Training shining through the TV. Then, the NFL team report cards came out and it leads us to a conversation on the Chiefs struggles and Dolphins success despite Dan's insistence that Stephen Ross has struggled as an owner. Plus, nicknames for Dan's wrestling costume, a potential Meadowlark Media survey, and the ChiefsAholic's is a bank robber? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe Kings Network. This is the Don Lebatore Show with the Stugatz Podcast. I had a way that I wanted to start this that included Richard Lewis, thoughts on Richard Lewis, a friend of the show, and an assortment of other things that I wanted to talk about, but I was legitimately surprised right before we started today because a part of me I thought was dead until moments ago, until I saw it out of the corner of my eye. Thought it was dead, thought this part of me I thought was dead until moments ago, until I saw it out of the corner of my eye. Thought it was dead, thought this part of me as a sports fan had been buried, never to return.

Out of the corner of my eye on one of the televisions, one of the televisions was a little bit brighter than all the others. Not because they're any different in color and tint, but because of the amount of sunshine coming through one of the televisions that is in here, a brighter sunshine than anywhere else. And I'm like, Oh, spring, the televised sports, pitchers and catchers have reported. Oh, Tani is hard launched a wife this morning out of nowhere that none of us knew about. What? P's and C's. That's correct. Uh, there, there i don't i can't read the japanese jeremy help me hear your fluent in japanese you not yeah for sure uh... the translation

so all of my friends and fans throughout i have an announcement to make not only have i began a new chapter of my life with the dodgers but i have also began a new life with someone from my native country of japan who is very special to me and i wanted everyone to know i am now married. I am excited for what is to come and thank you for your support. To whom it may concern. I mean real amateur move right? We just had Spolster in town sign an extension after he got divorced. Otani is doing it the other way. We Americans have it all backwards. Or forts. He's got. you this be me what do you mean me did you forget speak your true yes that's I thought you're not supposed to do it is

Tony it's as a ganky you got to do it as the guy and sometimes it's actually his thoughts Dan I that was me but he can disguise them all as a ganky and protect the car that one got through the character of Tony That's what I'm saying. It happens sometimes. It's a safe space for created this device for a reason So he's slightly less of an echo chamber We'll talk to you about Mitch McConnell in a second. Thank you. I was legitimately surprised I was legitimately surprised as I I was legitimately surprised. I was legitimately surprised as I felt sunshine and warmth.

And it reminded me of all those poetic columns that I wrote 25 years ago about how this time of year feels different when you're still living in cold places and the television is that bright. Like that's used to be what Florida represented to people. The University of Miami's baseball team has started their season with 18 consecutive home games because it is snowing everywhere else.

If you were to come in here, Mike, you would see what I'm talking about. Everything else has sports television on it, but it's a duller color than what is vibrant and lively coming by my television, which broadcasts to the nation, aw, the boys are in the warmth and they're almost back. As you're still covering up, cause it's still cold where you are.

Can you guys tell me what was happening in Minnesota the other day? Cause I saw that the, the daily temperatures were going from like 10 to 65, like yo, yo yoing around. I think Chicago was 70 degrees one day and then 14 degrees the next. No, but I think this happened same day. I think the difference between high, low one day

in Minnesota last week was ridiculous. We live this life though. I leave my house, it's 58, and I get to work, it's 76. Like it's a hard life out here. I put a sweater on now. It's a little different. I don't need a sweater anymore. It's a little different.

This is the coldest winter we have had down here in probably 10 years, I'm guessing. And it's only because for a month month it's been 55 some days. And then it gets to 73, it's hard out here. I gotta take my sweater off. Today in Minnesota there's a low of 15 degrees and a high of 48. So that's, you know, a 30 degrees. Alright, let me put it on the poll here for the right.

A lot of the country is still very cold at LeBatard Show. Do you feel any warmth? I really thought this part of me was dead. Do you feel any warmth when the boys arrive for spring training and you see sunshine on your Florida television? The Marlins and Cardinals were playing their first spring training the other day

and the Cardinals announcers were the ones broadcasting it and they apologized to the viewing audience in St. Louis for how beautiful it was outside in Florida in being only 73 degrees. Apologizing to their viewing audience. It's consensus the best pre-season, right? Like not even close, no other pre-season. It's just something about it.

Like I'll lose interest a month and a half in, but for this, like when I see spring baseball, I just love it. I love putting it on, little background TV. So good, the best pre-season by far. far Roy's like hockey hockey is definitely the best. No, I agree with you. It's okay. Good. I mean, it's a thank, thank you for just assuming pretty my opic. We have sold out European soccer clubs coming to the U. S. On tour all the time selling out the big house. I mean, if you want to go just from a revenue perspective, it's very clearly European

soccer. There's no heart in that I want to get to these grades in a second because we really do see the dirty workplaces of people This was a funny story yesterday the gossip where you get to if I simply said to you hey This is what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna demand that for one day Everyone who plays football has to sit in front of a camera and tell me the truth about how they feel about their workplace. Like how do you really feel about everything? Are we doing grades here? No, well, I'm gonna wait for a second to do it

because there's something else I wanna do, but I want people to know that we are going to do it because we really got to sniff around in the laundry room and the underpants of the NFL yesterday by finding out, hey, how do the players really feel about the training staff, the food, how they live, how they're treated as human beings, the weight room to see the dolphins get the best grades all around everywhere. Straight A's means that Stephen Ross is indeed great about treating his employees well at the front of

a franchise that has made him a lot of money, has made him a conqueror, has, he has made Stephen Ross has been, by results, a truly terrible owner. Truly terrible. One of the worst in the history of this market. You could say worse than Jeffrey Laurier if you want to say, well, at least Laurier won a championship. Steven Ross got straight A's yesterday on how he treats the employees in his business. He was voted the best of all of the owners. There is none better than him. But the owner of the chiefs, Clark Hunt. Clont.

No. I could have been. I could have been. I could have been. I could have been. I could have been. I could have been. I could have been. I could have been. I could have been. I could have been. I could have been. I could have been. I could have been. I could have been. I could have been. I would have been out of that. I'm scared with this precedent for adding the L Jensie would have said hmm that was such a good joke without the L There's press out. Yeah, I'll straightly into it Clark Hunt got cunt Supercharged that man. I don't know after you do that felt my coach was disappointed in me.

So I was like, I got to go back in. Right. Yeah. I give him an A for that one. What's your grade on that? They're not live. It's fine. You were, you were surprised. You were surprised that Stephen Ross scored so highly. I think Stephen Ross, I'm not a Dolphins fan at all, but just as a neutral, I think Stephen Ross is incredible. I mean, I understand that he has one pretty huge scandal with Brian Flores out there, but trying to get ready. The scandal at the heart of it was he was trying to get the greatest quarterback of all time who, who went on to

win a Super Bowl. What he's done in the facilities, what he's done to, as someone that has been working in media for 18 years and has seen the sea change from Heisinga and the Parcells era of how they treated the media to Stephen Ross, it's much more first class than it ever was back then. I think Stephen Ross has been a tremendous owner. Okay, well let me explain some of the history to people of how money gets passed down in towns to make men wealthy real estate tycoons. We've only had a handful of them down here. Mickey Erison has

owned one of the franchises, but this franchise, that stadium, that ground, bankrupted Joe Robbie's family. Joe Robbie built that stadium, used some of it it was dumb enough to use some of his own money, bankrupts his family. Heizenga comes in and becomes local rich guy who takes over and wins a championship in baseball and wanted to buy the heat. They wanted to buy all the sports teams wanted to be what Stephen Ross is now wanted to build a Disney world around that whole area of the land that Steven Ross now gets for F1 and other things. Instead he just bought a Supreme Court judge.

That's right. That story's amazing. I did not know how, that's on my watch that I don't know that Wayne Heisman, the local sports owner has bought Clarence Thomas. And I'm the, I'm, I'm, I'm, I was the journalist in town as he built all of Fort Lauderdale out with money. Yeah. I saw, I saw Heisinga's face in the graphic that John Oliver was doing on that. So it was amazing to watch that the whole thing. So we can't say much, but so Heisinga makes a lot of money. Kobe and does some winning, tries to get the best coaches gets Jimmy Johnson eventually

fails at football and now they've desecrated what Don Shula and Dan Marino built and all Stephen Ross has done since then product on the field is lose and be irrelevant and give back all of the collateral that the dolphins gave him and this town before the heat arrived and before the Marlins arrived. He's done nothing but losing. He's been a... And create probably the greatest sporting facility in the history of our planet. No, so, but the reason that I want to bring this part up is because... Using his own money. The reason I want to bring this part up is There is next to no correlation Between how good your ownership is and what the results end up being on the field

You may think Bobcraft is better at this than others, but the two-time champions are run by F minus Clark Hunt I'm scared F minus I didn't know was a grade put it on the pole, please Juju at LeBatard show Did you know F minus was a grade? I thought, I thought F was the worst that you can do. If A minus is a grade, why wouldn't F minus be a grade? It's dead. I knew there was an F plus.

I didn't know about the minus. I had never seen an F minus before. You didn't see me in geometry. In calculations of any kind. No, you get a participation trophy. Put it on the poll, Juju. Did you know there was an F minus? Forgive my ignorance for not knowing that.

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My overall point was I remember how much criticism Heizenga and the Robbies got because they could never win after the Dolphins became used to winning. Steven Ross, how do you do the calculations? Mike, you're just here to say that it has nothing to do with sports results. You're here to say- No, the results matter. No, he cares and he's made my facility great, my experience great and he treats the employees well. Isn't that what you want from an owner?

And you want them to do everything that they can to win. And sometimes that's at a detriment. Is he this middling owner that works against the best interests of the franchise? Maybe when you see the big scandal being a direct result of his involvement, you can be held hostage by some of these owners at times. Look at how involved Jerry Jones is,

but he is a multiple time champion in that sport. And the thing maybe holding them back at this point is his direct involvement. I do think that there are some lucky aspects. What's going on with the hunt family. They, they lucked into Patrick Mahomes teams passed on that quarterback and they're going to be perennially important as long as that guy is playing. But I do think ownership matters. I think we've seen it down here with the, the Miami

heat. I think Mickey Erison, even though I'd like him to spend a hell of a lot more has a proven formula of success. I do think ownership matters. If the shoe is on the other foot and he did everything this great. Yeah. Thank you. If he did everything great on the field, but then treated everybody like shit and, and the facilities were terrible, we'd still say the same thing, right?

Oh, wait a minute. You think that before yesterday, everyone in the country knew that the chiefs are run like shit, that the two time champions are treated like shit. I hadn't heard that recently, but I had not heard shit. I don't hear a whole eight. You know, who got an eight plus Andy Reed for covering all that shit up. Cause they love that dude. He gets an eight plus, but the chiefs are shit. Like the chiefs employees are like, Hey, we feel pretty disposable here. Like they, in fact, can you guys find,

they're not hugely wealthy, right? A lot of these, I'd be curious to see, I think a lot of these legacy ownership groups that have had the, the teams down by their families, like their main source of revenue is the sporting team. And they often get hit with that. The bulls and white socks ownership group always notoriously accused of being cheap because that's the main source of revenue for the family. Yeah. Clark hunt isn't very wealthy. He's only worth $2 billion. If I may guys, I saw this, he is kind of like a minnow. Is that asset in that room?

You say this, but I find this part interesting because we really got to sniff the underpants of the NFL yesterday. Like this is how the employees feel about the people they work with, how they're in charge, how they're treated as humans by the organization. Like there are a lot of reasons this story is interesting. But I also saw that Clark Hunt at the chief's facility, and I need your help with this because on the way in, I wasn't able to get this edited

to make sure that I have it right. I saw a video of Clark Hunt's suite at Arrowhead Stadium and it's six bedrooms. It's a home. It's not a suite. He's got the man lives inside. He has a home inside of the stadium that acts as his suite. And I was trying to verify if it was real or not. We ran out of time before we started. I don't know how much space that stadium has. If that is indeed the case, I wish he would give some of that up because as someone that has done the hospitality lounge at arrowhead

I can't believe that that's actually hosting World Cup games in 2026. It is such a dated facility Your arm your legs are in your chest the way that it would be at the old Yankee stadium It was just built when people were smaller except for this Luscious apartment. He's got two stories. It's three stories. What? No, he's got a home.

Fireplace. I didn't even know that stadium was capable of that. But it's real. All of that is real because- I mean, this looks real. Yes. And I continue to wonder, whenever I go anywhere in the internet, I'm like, this can't be real. How is this real?

And if it's real, how does not everyone know about it? Why? How is it that I'm just now learning that the super, this is a, you would agree with me, right? I mean, Cures all Dan. Okay. But wait a minute. You guys would agree with me.

Pretty well covered sport. Yes. Kansas city. We all remember pandemic football is going to save the country. They boo unity in Kansas city. Remember that? Boonity. Yeah. They booed you. I mean, you certainly remembered it. And then they win a couple of championships because my home solves all and Kaepernick, all that stuff. My home says, stop that. And then they stop it. And at the center of the spectacle

of a sport that's covered very well, you guys are telling me that like me, you're learning yesterday that the chiefs are run like shit and that their owners of ballers Got a home in the stadium. You guys knew that well no and to be fair I don't think we know that now we all we have is this one data. That's right We also have a Nessian article from 2014 about the multiple living rooms inside this home That's been built inside the stadium and by the way, I was wrong about the billion. It says the hunts as a family, they're worth 15 billion. This article can't please you. You're ripping Steven Ross for getting straight A's in the chiefs for doing bad grades. What does this all mean? Who's going to see? Thank you, Chris.

Thank you. I appreciate this. We'll get to the gossip in a, in a second. F minus coach. You guys got the F minus coach. Did you see the F minus coach? The hunt family is actually super lucky. He's no longer coach. The Hunt family is super lucky. Not just because they have this quarterback, the head coach tandem, which you can't strip away their, their hand in that, but they're a border town. There's two different Kansas cities. When it comes to publicly financing their next stadium,

they get to pit one state against another. They hit the jackpot. That is correct. And in the middle of all of this gossip, Josh McDaniels was the worst coach in the NFL last year. F minus players really, really hated him. Man, they could turn this into a reality show. Just sit these guys down and talk honestly about your employers. Tell us why you're giving those grades. What do you mean the Tampa Bay bucks are rooming together on the road and paying for it What do you mean? No, if you want to a room for yourself if you if you want a room for yourself You got to pay a couple thousand dollars. Otherwise. You got a room with somebody What is a multi-billion dollar organ it what?

Get an extra We don't room with people when we go on the road. What are you doing? You're the NFL Can you imagine if I said the bucks and other the glazers were bad? I don't know, but I didn't know this did you know this you're gonna pretend you knew this. Oh your American minds It's cute sometimes. All right. I'm gonna I'm gonna make it so that's two gods and Tony have their room on the road together perfect love I'm gonna make it so that Stugatz and Tony have their room on the road together. Perfect. He'd love that. He'd love that.

Yeah, yeah. There's Stugatz. Sigs inside. I would say if you're from Miami, I would love Steven Ronge just for the shade at the stadium. Did you ever go to a Sunday ball game at that stadium? So, dude, game changing. My skin would bubble.

I think it's the reason I currently have skin issues is because of going to all those games on Sunday afternoon. Can I, can I just, uh, so thank you for correcting me, Chris, because yes, you are, you are right that I might sound a bit conflicted here, but here's where I am not because I've seen the history of sports in this town and I've just heard so many years that the problems with the dolphins begin because of the leadership at the top. Like- I'm just saying though, your perception of Stephen Ross, I hear way more of what me and Mike say about him.

I understood and so I'm telling you is that I'm coming from an antiquated time with what I heard the criticism of the Robbies, Heismas and everyone B. Whenever it is there was an absence of leadership in the organization, it always rose above the coaches fault. It wasn't the front office's fault. You lose for 10 years, 20 years, shool is legacy. It's because you've got a rotting organization. You're not Bob Kraft. You don't know how to run your place. Yes, Stephen Ross locally

has a very popular reputation because of all the reasons you mentioned, but I am with David Samson. When David Samson says, well, the results haven't been anything. And it used to be that fans didn't care how we were treating the employees as long as we got the results. Ross has gotten no results. They're going to pay two. And now he's going to be one of the highest paid players in the league. No one squeezed more out of a single title outside of maybe Paul Pierce than David Samson. Okay. Okay. Regardless, what I'm telling you is so right, I can call him one of the least popular owners in the history of South Florida sports because

of the results and then have this report card thrown in my face and you would say, no, he's a good owner. Yeah, I think if you poll South Florida sports fans, they'll just say that because people tend to conflate on field success with how good their owner is. I think that's ingrained in fandom, especially in the social media age. It's just from where I'm looking,

where I can disassociate myself from the emotion of on field results as just a South Florida sports fan. I think he's done an amazing job from where things were, from dealing with that front office and group, to attending sporting events at that stadium. I don't think, what he's done with that stadium is revolutionary. There isn't a place like that on the planet.

I think he's been incredible. And to do it with largely his own money too, what else do you want? Also, Steven Ross, I should tell everybody in the audience, as graded by his employees, his rating here wasn't just best in the sport, it was near perfect. They're asking their employees questions and the rating is near perfect for their owner. You have Formula One, a world-class tennis. This this summer you're gonna have the Copa America final. You're gonna have six to seven world cup games in 2026. The guy's killing it. Killing it.

And has it changed your perception in the last week? Do you think of Stephen Arrows any differently seeing this? What I would say to you is that if you treat your employees well, if you, if, if in that league, which makes so much money and still finds a way to be Clark Hunt, where you're not distributing it among the people who are working with you so that the players are noticing how small their seats are when they're the big people and the staff is up front. Like they're noticing, why is staff in first class?

We're the economy. We're the two-time Super Bowl champions. Why don't we get more of this guaranteed? I see from that perspective how it is that anyone in that sport who climbs to the top of ownership and is viewed as seeing the players and treating employees most humanely, then yes, I would have to alter my opinion on how it is to have a good hand. Yeah! This is a massive achievement. Bishop the Rook nine?

To change an over 50 year old man's mind in this country. You do not take that for granted. Any time you get a man of that age to admit he was wrong about something, you can move mountains my friend. you can move mountains my friend Well, I think move mountains what if employees em it'll lock me to get a similar survey. We think would happen Let's all do let's do lunch right now. I'm going B plus. I'm going a plus Yeah, you know healthy at times, but it's too healthy. You know what wait a minute. Let's do this I would really like to actually do this because that we should have we should make that a segment. The anonymity protects you.

Very important anonymity. I'll let you show her. And outside like, well, boss, with this survey that you've given me, I truthfully tell you that you're about, you know, incomplete grade for me personally. It's incomplete. I was on a vision.

I give you that. And I'm still here. A plus. Well, okay, I'd like to do this. Honestly, if I'm calling for the NFL to do those, Hey, can we sniff your underpants and find out how the employees really feel about the, about the bosses? I think we got to figure out a way to do that. I think we got to figure out a way to do that. And the other thing I wanted to do, we'll have awful announcing reach out. We're ready. We have to independent Chris

Cody's not feeling confident about the montage he put together in service of Richard Lewis and our memory involved with the show. He's worried about how long it is and well, how long is it right now? It's at 14 minutes. Roy's coming through it, but I think it's, I mean, it's just so many funny moments with him. It was hard for me to cut stuff 14 minutes. Yeah, nice your show pal The other thing I wanted to get to and I don't know that there's something I miss more from anything that we've done in the last 20 years than the ability for our audience to creatively compete against each other to make fun of me and They do it by text and now when I'm in a wrestling costume they have given me an assortment of Wrestling names that what my wrestler would be named because yesterday I was in a

Natural libre costume so you guys tell me from among this list of names, which you like the best for my Character my wrestling character. Cold stone cream Austin. That's a heck of a- I mean, you're leading all the gates. Yeah. Entree, the giant. I mean, these are saying the triple.

Good two hole hitter. Three other. Brutus the barber cheesecake. Slap single. Hulk Hogi. That's a cleanup hitter? The ultimate worrier. That's what I hitter? The ultimate worrier. That's what I'm looking for.

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Oh, no. Truck out swinging. Flan Sena. I didn't even get that, so. Yeah, hit with the pitch. Instead of John Sena, Flan. Flan. No, I got it.

The custard, the Cuban. Okay. Way Mysterio, Filet Mysterio, Souffle Mysterio. Three up through down. Dethas Roja. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha L.A.S.O.WYPE-O Mr. 305 pounds Yeah, no these are all strikeouts all of them. What about the gates strong? What about red tits? That's great. No popped out any time you say tata's good Don lebatard 10 teammates can't shoot from three now they're gonna see a different Jimmy now He's just just playing nickel back in the locker room and

Stugats! they'll play D and show threes as they chase the Nats for the sixth seed these five words in his head scream are we winning games yet this is the Don Lebatar show with the Stugats This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stu Godz. ["Humong"] Razor, Hamong, Spanish for ham. Ham, ham is funny. Just the word, the word ham.

Hamong is too, by the way. Hamong is too. Even funny. When you're doing that, you do miss Stu Godz laughing even though he has no idea what you're saying. I do miss that, of course. He's going to have a book published. He's getting the money in advance from the book dealer Random House, not a Random House. It's a big publisher.

He hasn't written it, and now money is coming in from our fans in ways that put him up a top bestseller list. And he's still going with a ghost writer in the age of AI that's pretty impressive. Yeah. He should probably just have a book with blank pages in it, right? It was a pitch that we received. Oh my god. Hahaha.

Oh, it warms my heart. There he is. Oh god, it's, if you can, if you can, Chris. I feel safe now. Chris, I will tell you. It's completely old. Chris, here's the future for you in this business. If you learn how to manipulate those sounds,

so it feels like his spirit is here supporting me with fake laughter. Ha, ha, ha, ha. You will get a better me and you will get less of him. And that's how you will usher us into retirement. Yes. It'll be lovely. I want to remind people that the Kansas city chiefs with the worst organization we found

at yesterday, even though they're two time champions also, and this is under reported, had a bank robber fan who called himself chiefs, a holic and he became famous. He became a famous fan. So the, or two time defending champion, more famous than ever because of Taylor Swift have a bank robber fan who is now, uh, he's going to get like 50 years in jail. He's got to return $532,000 and a photograph, an autograph Mahomes photo, which seems excessive. It seems cruel. And then his attorney, his, I didn't think this was a real thing. You talk about AI, Mike.

I thought this was a spoof. I thought I'm watching this on the courthouse steps with some trash in the background. And I'm thinking, no, this is funny or die. This is a comedy team. This isn't chief Sahal like actual attorney. From the beginning of this case, folks, the government has been blitzing and Xavier's pocket was collapsing. But today, Xavier stepped into the pressure. He took responsibility for his actions. He took responsibility for his actions. He stood up in court, humble and repentant, and admitted what he had done.

Now if I know anything about Xavier and if the chief's kingdom knows anything about Chiefs Aholic, we know that he doesn't give up. We know that if he stumbled and he fell, he didn't let his knee touch the ground. And that's because he's capable of doing a great thing and he knows that there's still hope. We still have a lot of work to do on his case, but Xavier wants everyone to know that he loves the Chief's Kingdom, he loves Kansas City, and he hopes that you'll rally to his support. Thank you and God bless. If I frame that differently and just told you that was the Daily Show, the Daily Show

had hired a paid actor to do that. The Chiefs have a bank robber who's going to jail for a long time with the misery of, I used to be our most famous fan. And now it's that Taylor Swift. I used to be, I used to get my entire identity as a chiefs fan and let me explain something to you. I'm a bank robber. I rob, I rob banks. I think it's to support a gambling habit. I think it's it is nice. It is, it tickles me. His voice for how many of those do you have? If you've got a variety of them, you could tickle me for the rest of the show. You got to get better at it. That didn't seem like a real thing. Did it? Did it seem, did it, you're, you're

watching that and you think that's, that looks like a real thing. Did it? Did it seem, did it, you're, you're watching that and you think that's, that looks like a spoof. The hard R on Xavier threw me off. That was crazy. Xavier. Young Charlie Casterly over there really forcing that hard R. I find myself bemused by the fact that as much as we cover this sport and we cover the holy hell out of it, we have this going on at the top of that sport and I can't engage you guys in a tour conversation because what the chiefs have figured out is how to remain championship worthy when you have the best quarterback and you pay him correctly and you have him cheap at the beginning of the career. He develops a

relationship with the coach. The coach gets an A plus from the staff because he's making the entire thing run and Taylor Swift surrounds it and makes you the biggest thing in the biggest thing. It's pretty amazing to learn as a journalist yesterday the chiefs are run like shit. Yeah, it's become fact. We don't have the data points. We know that their building is super old and some people don't like the tailoring. But I think of the Bengals that way. I think of the bangles again, the same, the same thing. These franchises that have been handed down where the main revenue stream is the actual team. You'll run into that. Did you see the notes on what the bangles have to go through as far as their

like shower and the toilet? They only have five working toilets, by the way. Tony, the bangles, I didn't read yesterday's Bengal stuff. The only one I knew, I'm not plugged into football this way. Maybe Peter King knew this stuff. Maybe I probably mean a bunch of others. I did not know this stuff. The only organization in pro football in my modern age covering that sport,

as it's gotten very wealthy, known to be cheap, was the Bengals. They weren't trying to actually win. They were just trying to keep the business afloat, and they were cheap in a million different ways, and it didn't feel like you were playing in the NFL, or in a top tier organization, be playing for the Bengals, because they were doing it cheap

while everybody was making money. I did not know that about the Kansas City Chiefs, our two-time champions, and I'm not sure if America knew it, and I feel it's, it's, it's not exactly journalism because it's just, you know, a bunch of players talking anonymously, just asking about their work conditions, but I appreciated the honesty. All of this just proves what we already knew. Quarterbacks are the most important. It doesn't matter what your training staffs like, your training room, your facilities, how your owner

treats you. If you have a good quarterback, you win. And if you don't like the dolphins, A is everywhere. What does it get us? Nothing from the actual report cards is under Cincinnati's tab. The players reported that half of the showers in their locker room don't function properly, lacking either warm water or sufficient water pressure. They also mentioned a persistent plumbing issue, leaving them with only five functioning toilets for the entire team. Last year, the Bengals didn't provide three meals a day for their players. This year they do, but only on Wednesdays. I'm just looking at this whole report card graphic for the first time green bays. Number three. Yeah. Okay. Calling into question. All of this, Tony, how are our grades coming

along? Our grades are working on them. All right. Let me find out what's happening here we doing lunch? What are what are the categories? Can I at least get some categories from you guys if you're grading your work environment? What are some of the I mean because they got training staff they got cafeteria. We got vibes vibes vibes are important here I'm working with the video team. I'm putting together our report card should be coming up soon We're putting the fire and they know the final touch it working anonymity. We've got only a couple left We should don't pressure very very quickly It takes a little bit to be careful because you're obviously a part of the graphic Yeah, you don't want to change the grade on you. I don't want to change this one down. All right I don't want to change the grade. I just went down.

All right. Uh, can I ask a couple of questions of, uh, I want to get to the grades and we will because I think it, there's some funny stuff here. But when you hear the reports that Caleb Williams was paid a $10 million for the last two years, NIL and endorsements, and they got him cheap by the way, like that's, that's about the going rate for a starting quarterback. And it's not going gonna stay that cheap very long. It's not just NIL It's NIL plus other endorsements because NIL's afforded this path. Yeah, that's crazy But so but when I tell you so ten million dollars over the last couple of years

I just I asked this question sincerely. How does Reggie Bush feel about that? Oh at that school. Yeah Reggie Bush feel about that. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. You must be infuriated. I mean, they took his highs. Get the highs and back at least. They took his highs in. The other question I wanted to ask you was about Tyreek Hill and, um, paternity suits. And just, it seems like in the last year of, uh, Tyreek Hill's life, there's just a lot of volatility. It seems that that life is a bit explosive. There are a lot of things happening around Tyreek Hill that you're not reading about happening around

all of the players in the league. Here's a tweet from Black Sports Online. In the last 12 months, Tyreek had three babies, got married, got divorced, stayed married. His house almost burned down. He almost had a 2,000-year-old season, and he's presently being sued by Thic for breaking her leg for tackling her in his backyard. I for one am shocked that Tyreek Hill has volatility going on.

I know, I well, but no, okay. It cannot be shocking and still be a lot. It can still seven children and four paternity suits. And you know, they just, we just got done with hard knocks showing us the inside look of this interesting team That's getting all a pluses It's getting all a pluses everywhere even though all it's done is lose for two decades because they got a couple of new guys Well, I will say these scandals if you could even call them that I mean it it shows a marked improvement on the man's character I just my response to everything Terry kill it doesn't work on a podcast. I'm just shaking my head Let's all do it together. Okay. That's just it like just a silencer

Yeah, so not but like they'll understand people on the podcast. Let's all do it just for a second just All right, it happened with me naturally because of that idea Well, no, I you know what I'm with it was Tyree Kill, I'm telling you. You think it was me, it was Tyree. I'm with Chris Cody on this one. Us sort of shaking our head in shame, but not saying anything, but you know what we're saying. Exactly. It's just, that's all, that's enough.

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