The Josh Innes Show - Nick Wright Hates Football Media

Episode Date: January 29, 2025

Nick Wright is not a fan of the way football media handles the Kansas City Chiefs. Shocker!! He's a Chiefs fan. He falls right in line with the rest of these Chiefs fans...they are mad that the world doesn't like them. I share a little bit of my backstory with Nick. I struggle to understand why it's so hard for Chiefs fans to understand why people hate them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's easy to say that fast when you're freezing gold. Hello, friends. How are you? It's Josh. You know that already. As we sit here today on this Wednesday, we are about a week and a half, a little over a week and a half away from the Super Bowl. Actually, I haven't heard a ton of Kelsey talk, which is good.

Now, granted, we're kind of in that weird week here where it's like, all right, nothing's really happening, and people are still talking about the Chiefs and how the Chiefs get preferential treatment from the refs, and then the Chiefs fans are still bitching that people say they get preferential treatment from the refs, and it's a whole deal. Dude, it is an amazing level of sad that we are at watching chiefs people try to argue with these conspiracy theorists uh you know the chiefs get all the calls the league is rigged people like the chiefs make it

so easy to want to continue to fuck with them like you're almost doing yourself in the world a disservice if you don't fuck with them. Like I do believe the Chiefs. I believe that Patrick Mahomes gets calls. I believe that there was no way they were going to lose that game to Buffalo in part because Buffalo was going to find a way to lose, but also because Mahomes was going to get a call to the Chiefs.

We're going to get a call that was going to help springboard them to victory. And that did happen. I wasn't wrong. Of course, most people feel this way. The world that is not a Chiefs fan feels this way and people love to go at the Chiefs. But the Chiefs fans make it so easy. And I know I've talked a lot about Chiefs fans here, but it's Super Bowl week and a half away. They're in the Super Bowl. They're going for a three-peat. If they get the three-peat, they're the greatest football team that's ever existed. Blah, blah, blah, right? It's so much fun because they can't handle it.

They're Midwesterners. They're just simple, common clay of the new West, moron Midwesterners who can't handle people talking shit. They don't know how to react to it. They don't know how to fight back. In their minds, everyone should love them. Let me give you an example of Midwestern people. And this is a bigger city in the Midwest, not just Kansas City. So Andy, my old program director, told me before I got to Philadelphia, and I'm trying to think of what year this was. I guess I should know this, but I don't know it. Somebody listening will.

There was a year that it was the Flyers and the Blackhawks in the Stanley Cup finals. I should know this year. I don't know this year. Sue me. But they were in the Stanley Cup finals. So they wanted to do a bit where the Philly people radio hosts kind of fought it out with the Chicago radio hosts on the air. That was the concept of the bit. Nothing revolutionary about it.

It's happened a billion times. We did it down in Houston. We would do a bit where we'd call behind enemy lines and we would be on their air at the same time we're on theirs and it's a fight. We argue about it and it is what it is so that's nothing revolutionary nothing new it's happened a hundred times but i talked to andy about this and he goes josh you'd be amazed like and you know that philly people are neanderthals anyway the radio people are neanderthals they are savages like the philly people know no shame like they they don't care if they've talked themselves into 30 corners. They don't care. They won't stop swinging, right? They are like Nemo just keep swimming.

That's what they do. There's no, I guess you got me on that one. That doesn't exist in Philly world. It's just, we're going to keep on going until we annoy you to the point that you just give up. Like that's kind of the Philly argument way. At some point, the rest of the people that aren't Philly people just go fine. You win then the Philly guy goes I beat your ass homo but like that's kind of how it goes like they they are savages and they will not stop they're relentless whereas Midwestern people eventually get to a point where they're just like okay fine I don't give a shit anymore most people outside of Philly world are like that but apparently they did one of these things where they did a crossover on the air and they were hoping to have like a knockdown drag out entertaining fuck you Philadelphia

let's fight type of deal well apparently the Philly side of it which I believe was the cuz and you know he has no qualms with putting on fake philly guy let's fight everybody in the world type of mindset he's on one end and on the other end are some jamokes in chicago and these jamokes in chicago just could not handle it to the point that they almost just hung up they're like this is stupid this is a waste of time these people are mouth breathers no thank you right like and essentially it ended up being a bad bit because the philly people just trampled the chicago people because the chic people, unlike the Philly people, do possess a little something called shame, I guess. And at some point, they're like, whatever, you win, whatever. Now, you can argue if that's a good thing or bad thing for Philly people all they have at it, but that's the reality of it.

How does that relate to this Chiefs thing? If you go to the Midwest, that's the way people here are. Midwestern people will talk shit and they have no qualms with talking shit. They love to talk shit about everybody else. But the second you talk shit about them or you talk about their teams, they kind of ball up and they want to know why you don't like them. And let me give you an example of somebody doing this. So, and this is a national media person. It's a national media person that I know on a personal level, but haven't talked to in a million years because we don't like each other. And that's fine. But this national media person is named Nick Wright. Now, Nick Wright is from Kansas City and Nick Wright is a diehard Chiefs fan. Okay, fine. Nothing wrong with that. Nick Nick and I if you don't know uh worked at the same radio station forgot how long we were there together I guess he got there in like 12 and I left at the end of 13 maybe it was over a year I know that and I had no qualms with him

when he came in um from what I heard his goal was like to knock me down because I was the big guy at the station he wanted to take me out whatever that's fine um so it turns out we didn't like each other and then I said some shit and by the way I've said some shit about him and and his family back when I was like really at my fucking wildest and I've apologized for that because I'm like listen it's one thing taking shots at you but taking shots at your family and all that I'm sorry whatever uh I never got a response from that but I did apologize like I was an asshole he not say he was like, I don't want to absolve people from being assholes to and be like, Hey, I'm the only asshole on the planet. Like I would have never said anything bad or had any beef with Nick, right? If Nick Wright wouldn't have started

it with me, but I took it to the next level. Cause that's what I do. That's kind of my thing is I tend to not start shit with most people. Most of the time when there's a beef of some sort, someone else has started it or I've heard. Same thing happened with the cuz. I had no issues with the cuz in Philadelphia until he started talking shit about me behind the scenes. Then I went after him. Same thing happened with Nick Wright. I had no problem with Nick Wright. Nick Wright comes in and tells people that he's going to take my ass out because I'm the big dog at the station. I'm like, dude, go fuck yourself. And then we don't like each other and that's fine. But I have texted him and apologized.

I said, listen, I shouldn't have done that. I felt bad about it. This was like after I'd gotten fired in Houston at 790. I had gotten fired and I was just trying to apologize. Like I apologized to Spike. Like there's nothing wrong with apologizing to people if you think you were wrong to someone. Like, I don't like to apologize for things I say about, like, opinions I have or jokes I've told because I think that's lame. Like, you know what you meant. Fuck everybody else,

right? Like, when the thing happened with the Kelsey thing, I didn't apologize for that. Now, might I apologize to Kelsey if given the opportunity? I may just because, like, it was a joke. Like, take a joke. But I wasn't like, it was a joke, like take a joke, but I wasn't going to apologize for saying it because I know what I meant. I wasn't going to apologize for posting the picture of Al Jolson because I know what I fucking meant. I know the joke.

Just because you're easily offended and you don't get the joke, that's not my fucking problem. But anyway, I digress. But I've apologized to Nick before and I never got a response. And then once,

this is a funny story, there was a job opening to work with one of Nick's like best buddies on a radio station and so I texted him like hey man like if you need a partner like I could do it whatever and I know that like because Nick and all of his like partners they're very left-wing people and that's fine I was like hey I understand that you're politically different than I am but you know could make for a good show and this guy basically told me he's like go fuck yourself you're a fucking loser and you used to host Rome and now you're this and you're a racist and you fucking look at all this Clay Travis shit and you rip my friend I would never work with you because Nick's like my friend I'm like holy fuck bro okay fine but like that's kind of that world but look I'm not someone that tells

you that you should go in and grovel to people and be like hey you know I'm sorry but sometimes I do think it's okay on a personal level if you feel like you went over the top on something to be like fuck it dude like I'm sorry I didn't like me and Spike are now good like I said some fucked up shit about Spike towards you know at, WIP. And eventually I reached out to him and I'm like, dude, like I'm my bad, man. Like I was in a fucking wild headspace. Like I never really disliked you. I never really disliked the guy when I worked with him. I just I'm a fucking mental case in a lot of those instances.

Right. So but that's kind of how it was with Nick. I didn't dislike Nick, but then Nick came in and they were all telling me like, oh, yeah, Nick behind the scenes says since he knows you're the big dog his goal is to like overtake you and I'm like this is so fucking stupid but fine and then like really when I was at my zaniest and wildest I would fight with people on Twitter all the time and just say dumb shit and again I apologize for the shit I said because like I didn't I brought the dude's family into it and shit and um I never heard anything back but look it is what it is sometimes you gotta make it I've I have attempted to make amends with numerous people who like you know the part that sucks about trying to make amends with people is like an admittance that you were wrong and you know

you did something wrong but you give them the out to play the victim and never acknowledge they did anything wrong you know what i'm saying and in some instances two parties shocker i know two parties can do something wrong but when you apologize you almost absolve that other party from feeling like they did anything wrong you're like so you're gonna apologize to me now for some of the shit you said about me or the things you started with me? And it's like, no, I feel good. Thanks for apologizing. And you're like, you fucking assholes. That's why I hate apologizing so often. But I have apologized for certain things I've done. Now, there's some people I'll never apologize to, you know, my biggest regret in life, like just like I've got a lot of regrets, right? But my

big regret, and we've talked about this before is that I sent that stupid email to Missanelli when I was trying to get the job in Philly and remember they reached out to me and I know that this started as a Kansas City thing and I will get back to that about Nick's opinion uh on this but but first of all let me play have I done any commercials yet have I played commercial let me play a couple commercials here and then we'll continue all right if you're ready to win some real cash during the basketball playoffs you got to check out pick six from draft kings when it comes to basketball payouts draft kings pick six posterizes the competition including price picks it's a very simple concept. Hit all your picks and score higher minimum payouts on pick six, plus even more cash if you outscore the competition.

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from the guy running ESPN or running The Fanatic in Philly. And he's like, we want you on The Fanatic. I'm like, all right, cool. And I had long conversations with him. They're like, I asked people here who could move the needle for us on this station. And they were like, well, it's either Craig Carton or Josh Ennis. Those were the two names that were thrown out. Okay, cool. And they wanted to hire me. And then like, I was, they were like, Mike just won't do it. And I'm like, let me send him an email. Biggest fucking mistake I ever made. Cause there's no way that

motherfucker was going to do it. There was no way he was going to be like, yep. And to a degree, I don't blame him, but like there was no way he was going to go. Yep. That's best for business. Let's bring this guy in and try to win. Blah, blah, blah. No way. Never got a response. Just got ridiculed for it. And I fucking hate myself. I wanted to suck on a gun barrel after that. Like it was the fucking worst. That's kind of the way it went. And that's like, as far as like not on air shit I've done but just shit I've done that I regret that like I shouldn't have done but my agent was like here's a good idea send him a message because we want to get you this job and I'm like all right I will and I sent this email and it was just like oh I just hate myself for it that is something I regret greatly. But anyway, now that I've somehow gone down this path

back to the Midwestern people. So these people in the Midwest, these Kansas City people like Nick Wright, who let me read his comment. He was on the Dan Patrick show. I'm angry at how last I'm angry at how last week got hijacked. I'm angry at folks instead of being like, I'm sorry I was wrong, created a nonsense conspiracy. I'm angry at the way we cover football. Nick is angry at the way we cover football because Nick is a Kansas City Chiefs fan. And as a Kansas City Chiefs fan, Nick wants them to get their flowers and the world to blow them. The problem is, Nick, that's not going to happen. This is 2025. This is the era of the internet. The world and the media and

everybody else will not be covering your football team the way you want them covered. But that's the problem with these Midwestern Kansas City people. They have this desire to be loved. They want the world to admire them. They want the world to fall at their feet and say, we are witnessing the greatest run in history. And I bet in 20 years, people will. In 15 years, people will. They'll say, wow, we were part of something special and we got to watch greatness. But as of right now, no one's going to do that. Your problem with the way the NFL is covered is the NFL is covered in a way that people are questioning your football team. If that football team were any other football team, I don't think

you'd care nearly as much as you do. But deep down, you're just as desperate as the rest of these Midwestern Kansas City people who just want to be loved and can't embrace the hate. Embrace the hate. Embrace the fact that you're a villain. Embrace the fact that you're on the verge of a three-peat. Embrace the fact that people think your spoils are ill-begotten. How about that? But instead you don't. Instead you beg them to love you. I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to love me. That's you. That's what you're doing right now. You're annoyed by the way the media covers things because they're covering your team in a way that you don't feel is adequate.

I don't like the way sports media changed in the mid-2000s when people like Nick Wright decided to hijack Sports Radio 610, turn it into MSNBC, thus creating this era of racially and politically driven sports talk that is boring. I don't like that. But Nick did it. And that's what we do now. When I got to six 10 shit was fun. It was almost don't talk. They would say, don't bring up politics. Just go have fucking fun. Go laugh at shit. Don't you? Whatever. Then, and this is the red letter thing. This was the moment that changed everything. And I think it's the moment that got

Nick to where he is. Uh, and again, like I have no personal ill will still against the guy like i really don't give a shit but this is kind of the where it all kind of changed for him and i was already gone i believe at the time but when um when uh adrian peterson was like hitting his kid with a like an electrical cord or whatever and that was in houston nick somehow and I forgot how he did but he had insight on how this went down like he had sources and it became a big story and like every day 610 was just breaking down more shit about Adrian Peterson hitting his

kid with an electrical cord and basically Nick was able to hijack the show that he was doing with John Lopez and at the time Jim was the producer because Jim was doing afternoons with me he moved to mornings when I moved and they were doing the whole like every day it was just some new political social fucking thing and he hijacked the show and they knew why he was hijacking the show it's because he was trying to get the job at Fox and he was feeding the shit to Fox and like hey here's

what we're doing here and more power to him He used it to springboard himself into this world of Fox and good for him. It's about upward mobility and he had upward mobility and he made those moves. But when Nick is sitting here breaking down about how football is covered, and I'm upset that people talk about conspiracy theories and blah, blah, blah. Well, I think there's a lot of people who in like 2013, 14, 15, 16 really didn't want sports radio to be about protests and be about domestic violence and social issues and racial issues. But that's what you turn the media into. You're laying in a bed that you've helped create. You've created this world of like going away from fun and frivolous and stupid sports talk, guy talk to like super serious shit. And now you're upset that you're laying in this bed of this shitty industry that you've helped mold. You've helped mold this world of, of really a lot

of times just fucking drivel. It used to be fun, man. When I got into it, the whole purpose was to be fun and, and wacky and, and like laugh and everything. That's why I got hired in Houston. It was have good opinion, have your opinions, but fucking laugh and have a good time. Then it became super serious and everything was like, we got to cry in sports media. And why don't women get this? Why don't minorities get this and race and like, oh, the cops and fuck the police and all this shit. And it's like, that became sports media and you help do that. That's the sports media. I don't like, but that's where we are. So Nick is upset because Nick wants people to give his team flowers and blow them and say

it's the greatest team ever. And that's not going to happen. And it's really not going to happen when everyone associated with the organization is in a consistent state of crying and a perpetual state of crying over the fact that they're not getting this recognition. Their play-by-play announcer is fighting with people on Twitter over the penalty debate. Like, dude, you're the play-by-play guy. You're getting to ride this super high. Why are you fighting with people on Twitter? Just embrace that people aren't going to like you, especially when you win. I know that in theory, everybody should love winners, but that means one team is winning and 31 others aren't one team is dominating

the league and 31 others are not you know what that means there's 31 fan bases that are super pissed that their team doesn't win and you expect them to all fall at your feet and be like oh my god my team sucks but thank god we're living in an era where we get to watch Travis Kelsey and Pat Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs dominate the league. Like, why the fuck should we feel that way? And if you want to say, well, that just makes you guys bitter, yeah, that's called being a sports fan, friend. Have you not learned what sports fandom is? Sports fandom is not, well, my team didn't do well this year, but at least some team is, so I'm rooting for them. That's not sports fandom, you puds. That's not how it works. Sports fandom is you fucking hate the people that are

winning because you're not fucking winning. Just like I'm sure Kansas City did all those years when John Elway won Super Bowls, whenever Peyton Manning was winning Super Bowls, whenever Tom Brady was winning Super Bowls. Do you think that Kansas City people sat around and were like, man, we suck, but thank God I get to live in a world where Tom Brady's here. Like I was worried that I wouldn't get to witness this greatness. Of course not.

Because that's not how sports fandom works. I'm a Saints fan. Do you think I wanted to watch the Falcons win the Super Bowl? I'm glad they didn't. But do you think I wanted to watch that? Do you think when I sat there, I'm like, well, if we can't win it, I sure hope the city that fucking hates our

guts. I hope those fans get to celebrate. Fuck no. Like you people not understand how fandom works. Do you not understand that people will look to do anything to dismiss and diminish what you've accomplished? Cause it's not their team. This isn't hard, but you guys are talking like it's the most serious fucking topic ever like it's so serious it's not people hate your fucking team embrace the hate it's not difficult god i don't like the way we cover them i don't like the way football is covered why because people think your guys getting the benefit of calls oh boo fucking who you're about to win three Super Bowls in a row, maybe. Hopefully not, but maybe. Boo fucking hoo, as Rod Tidwell once said. Boo fucking hoo. Deal with it, you Midwestern simpletons. You can't handle it. You cannot

handle the fact that these people hate you because you're good. That's it. You know who people don't hate? Losers. No one hates the Oakland A's. Why? It's a throwaway shitty organization that doesn't win. You know who people hate? The Yankees because the Yankees have won historically. You know who they hate? The Astros because the Astros fucking win and win a lot. That's why people fucking hate them. Winning makes people hate you. This isn we're like but in the minds of kansas city winning should make you admire them and and and fawn over them bull fucking shit i'm a saints fan we can't find a fucking coach we don't have a coach nobody wants the job mike mccarthy's like i'll just wait till next year you guys are a cluster fuck i'll wait till some other dickheads

get fired somewhere else saints last possible place for Mike McCarthy to coach there are no more openings and Mike McCarthy's like yeah I'm gonna I got a guy on the other line about some white walls I'll talk to you later didn't even want the job and you want me to sit here and go boy I sure do love watching Pat Mahomes win three Super Bowls. Boy, thank God I live in an era where I can watch the Kansas City fucking Chiefs. God, these people are insufferable. Anyway, I love you.