The MMQB’s Albert Breer In-Studio - 3/27 (Hour 2)

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1:18Burt. Hey, guys, what's happening? Now, you're going, I heard you saying that you're taking your children, your young boys to Paris, France. Yeah, my daughter, too. Oh, that's right. You have a daughter, right? Yeah. You never talk about it. If you want to take her, too. But I can just ask John, you'll be miserable. He's doing it right. He's doing the Airbnb where you have some room. I've read, I've got a hotel room where it was like the space of that chair yourself. How old are you guys? I think you have to be careful. Well, because you just don't know what hotels are going to look like. Exactly right. Yeah. Yeah, no, you look at pictures and it's still didn't do it just yet. Airbnb's you do know. Obviously, how old are your kids? 11, 9 and 6. Yeah. What are they going to do in Paris? So we're going to take them to a PSG game on Friday night. That's good. So that'll be good. We're going to take them to Euro Disney. Oh, nice. Oh, I didn't do that. You're soaking up the culture. Yeah. That's what you said. You didn't. By Emily's very organized when it comes to this stuff.

2:22So she found like, there's like a food tour. We're doing one day where they'll take you to different historic parts of the city. And then you get like to eat different food for us, drink like wine or whatever. And then like, there's another one where we're doing like a neighborhood tour. I think we're doing a, I thought this was kind of weird. A scavenger hunt at the Louvre. I saw a group doing that when we had our kids in there. Okay. Yeah. Everybody looked long. It seems like you have had to plan a lot of non-specific Paris activity. Well, you say. You're stuck. You can do it when you're back. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'll never understand unless you have like these like brilliantly curious children that are like somehow like into the war or like, you know, or into like the great novels or something or the, you know, want to see all the where all the expats stayed during heavy ways, movable feast period, I full tower, bottle, but it's a kid who do not care about

3:27any of this. I will say this. So like, you guys know, I'm first generation on my mom's side. So I, when I was a kid, I spent a lot of time in Europe and hated going. Like so I get what you're saying. Here's the reason that this, I actually just told Rochi this and this is the reason why we started. We did it two years ago. We took him to London. My younger son Drew loves soccer. We took him to an arsenal game. We took him to a Chelsea game. The reason we started doing it is because of the freaking airlines started jacking up the prices for school vacation weeks to go to Florida. So we would go like like everybody else to Florida during school vacation week in April. And we would go to Marco Island, which was, there's a great hotel, great Mary up property down there. We would go to all that. And it got to the point where the price, I'm like, this is ridiculous. So then it would be like, you would leave three days before their school vacation started

4:27because that would throw the airline off a little bit or you would, it was just insane. So I was like, I bet you could just fly to Europe for cheaper than this. And sure enough, two years ago, I looked and it's, you could fly to Europe cheaper than you could fly to Florida. So like, I don't know, I figured, and they loved London. Like they thought London was really London is, is the, is easy. Like London is, it's like taking a kid to like New York City. Right. Yeah. So there's some, Paris is a, a different ball wax that's a, you're asking a lot. We'll see. You maybe you'll come back and say that you guys had a good time. I'll be the judge of that. But that sounds, you'll be able to see right through. I will. Well, John, I knew it was going to be miserable. And I went there with such a positive attitude, too. Now how long ago was this? This was a year ago when I was last year, okay, when April, now part of it was I had

5:31to drive four hours to Luxembourg to see my sister who lives there. Oh, there was eight hours of car rides in addition to a nightmare, which is a nightmare. But you didn't know you had to do the drive. No, I didn't. But ultimately that contributed to the experience. Well, but that's just one of the variables that was, you know, his plan was not to drive the Luxembourg. His plan was to fly in the Luxembourg. No, the plan was to fly to Paris and take the bullet train to the Luxembourg. To take the bullet train to Luxembourg. Yeah, but it was Easter weekend and we didn't book early enough. Oh, it was book. It was book solid. I don't know like we we. Yeah. So he had all that going. Now I understand seeing his sister in Luxembourg and that's just kind of your kids have to eat it. Like, you know, believe me, I had to sit at my, my mom's shack where she grew up in Kings Park, Long Island for two, three weeks with literally nothing to do. And they're old. So they didn't have cable or anything. It was just, they, they, they barely had a TV. I would throw a tennis ball into a square box that was outside or they had a, what was

6:35a, guess it in the middle ages, a grill that was just a concrete box. And I would sit there and I somehow found a tennis ball. I'm not lying about how little there was to do like I found a tennis ball and it was like cast away with the volleyball. And I sat there alone and just threw the ball into this box over and over and over again. And so I know even when I take my kids to Florida, my 17 year old son to Florida, I have to have stuff to do every day in Florida. So I can only imagine carting them when they were little kids to Paris, woof, woof. And then you got, and then even if you're entertaining them, you got to go to your old Disney and who the hell wants to do that? I was excited about this now. I'm not anymore. I know. Well, the Fred has that effect and like as an adult, I could go to the Louvre and see things and explore it and at your own pace and like, you know, enjoy the culture of it.

7:40But now you're at some stupid thing where it's like a hurting a bunch of kids around to do a scavenger on. Well, it could be miserable the whole time. The one thing that's helps is we are going with another family, the same family we went to London with. Bring nips. Bring nips. Bring nips. Bring nips. Bring nips. Bring nips. Bring nips. Bring nips. Bring nips. Bring nips. Bring nips. Bring nips. Bring nips. I will say this from spending like as much time as I did when I was younger in Austria in Italy, as much as I despised my, when I was like 12, I despised my parents for bringing me over there, which is the most spoiled, whatever, you know, and like, because I just want to hang out with my friends, you know, like over the summer. It actually was really good for me. So even as evidence down, it was, no, it was really good for me to be able to see different parts of the world.

8:42No, I didn't realize that these trips and the, and the kids invariably start pitching in monolic. We were at the Louvre in 10 minutes. And dad, can we leave? And the answer was no, you can't, I know exactly which one of my kids is going to be that guy. But ultimately these trips aren't necessarily about the children. It's something that's necessary. They need to see it, even if they don't like it, they still have to go. That's all. That's what Paris turned out to be. And that's what London's probably going to be when I take them in July. London will be fine. London's great. London will be fine. I couldn't. Children. No, it's fine. My kids thought the subways, like it was, it's so easy to get around like I, I remember, you know, like the, the, the other family we went with were like, oh, we got to figure out the Uber situation. I'm like, we won't have to get into a car. And like that's the subway, when you get in like a subway system and one of these cities in Europe, it is like, we are so freaking far behind them. Like it is, it's like embarrassing. How bad our cities are when it comes to public transportation versus the cities over

9:44there. Now I haven't done that part of it in Paris. So we'll see how that goes. But in London, it was London is like, it's not like massive, massive place. Paris, we walked. No, you're not going to get there. London is the easiest place in the world. And there's nothing like taking kids against their will to places to really broaden their curiosities when they, that's any, any psychiatrist will tell you that force. Hey, look, you're just a home. You were miserable for a week. This is going to make you want to explore the world. A Dan going ahead. Hey, road chief, you want to see the Michael tower, me and the misses aren't doing anything this weekend. You want the front of the back. All right. There you go. There you go. Damn. A joke for Dan. From Dan. Oh, boy. All right. Well, listen. I saw England in France. I saw England in France last week right over at Epcot. See, that's the way to go. That's right. You know, no problems. Take your 10 minutes. Disney World, if you don't have those fast passes, it's like the seven circles of hell. Like it is Disney World.

10:45There are some rides where you can't get them. I have the ones. I, like, I had a friend who, you know, worked at, um, who worked in PR at Disney, who would give me, he used to run PR for the Falcons and he would give us, when the kids were a little way we went a few times, he'd give me a stack of fast passes. And I remember, like, then after having that, one time we had to wait in a long line and it was awful. And the worst thing about Disney World, I would much rather go to Paris than Disney World, by the way, is when your kids are really evil, what they do though, it's when you, when you, when you, when you get off of one of the rides, then they funnel you into the store. Yeah. And if you don't give, like, and when your kids are like, you're going to do that in Paris too. No, no, no, no. Yes, they do exit through the gift shop. They, they do it at everything, but they have things to get kids attention. Their buzz light year isn't sitting in the gift shop, but something that, something of that equivalency, they, they believe me, they, you know, they know how many tourists,

11:46people are forcing their children to go there. When you get out of the Louvre, you exit through the, it's the old, it's the old saying exit through the gift shop. You're going to, they're going to put you through the gift shop and there's going to be a bunch of things that you're distracted. Board kids are going to want. I just to fill the emptiness that has been the experience they just, I remember when my kids were like, I don't know, six, four and one or whatever. And I, I, we still remember getting off the buzz light year ride. And I, like, I had, we'd already bought, we'd already bought one of my sons, like things at two other stores. And I said no to a buzz light year thing that was like, I don't know, it was probably like a $30 toy that was marked up to like 150 bucks. And I said, dude, no, like I'm not buying. I'm just a total meltdown in the middle of the store. And it is evil what Disney does, how like every single ride funnels you into some store where everything is priced like a hot dog at a baseball game.

12:48Yeah, Dan. Yeah. Dan doesn't like that. Each our own. I'd rather do that. Fly over to France. Yeah. Yeah. I took my kids on a Disney cruise and there was a woman dressed as Cinderella by the elevators. And there was a bunch of adult standing around her. And both my kids said, why is this a Disney cruise and why do people like this? And I went, because, and then I looked around, this is the cruise, Dan, not the park. And then I looked around and I'm like, yeah, why, how the hell is this a Disney cruise? Just because they put pictures on the wall and they have some lady dressed as Cinderella. It's just a small cruise boat that says Disney on stuff. And then I got pissed. The waiters wearing like Mickey Mouse. Not even. They don't even do that. Like how, like it really was, they were very smart. Like I'm like, yeah, how is this Disney? And then, and then I realized it was crap.

13:49And then they, and then they never liked it. They never liked any of that stuff. It was a cruise. You, I think we've talked about how you don't like cruise. Yeah, you don't like it. You understand the point of making, say, say you love Disney. You go on the cruise, how the hell is that Disney? It's not. It's not. Thank you. Yes. You were giving me a look because you wanted to be a fan. I wasn't giving you a look because you wanted to be a fan. Who's happy out of this group? I'm happy. I was just a fan because birds couldn't have to come back and talk himself into circles about how they weren't miserable. Yes. I came up with a wonderful time. He was cheaper than flying to Florida, so I just decided to go through hell. Right. Ended up in Iceland. Yeah. Maybe they charged me fun. Yes. I charged that much to go to Florida because it's worth it. When I come back, I probably John was on it. I want to know bird. If you're, we're, we're, we're comfortable after a nice vacation. So we're bringing him in dizzy. We're bringing him to a soccer game. We're bringing him like this is something to do. I didn't do any of those things. I'm just a soccer game. No, the, the, well, the Disney thing is just, I think everyone's going to be, you'll

14:52just be. I'm not going to bring him to like the beaches of Normandy. You know what I mean? Like I don't need it. Like we're not going to bring him to stuff that they're going to be incredibly. No, but a lot of Paris is soaking in the, the, how old it is in the history and that's going to be of absolutely no interest to them. No, I didn't particularly like Paris. I like London way more because I'm simple, I'm a simple man, but I, I, yeah, I didn't get it. I didn't, and there was stuff I wanted to see in Paris and then I found myself wanting to leave. And we went to like champagne and stuff. They're not speaking with those weird words in London the way they are. Well, they can be hard enough to understand in London too. All right. We'll be back in just a moment. We'll talk football with a Berber. Draft King Sportsbook puts you right in the middle of basketball's biggest star-driven moments. Bed player props, bet live. And when a game turns fast, Draft King's has your back with early exit. If your player gets injured any time in the first half, your bet stays alive. And once it settles, you still get paid in cash.

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16:58Even if it means sitting front row at a comedy show. Hey everyone, check out this guy and his bird. What is this your first date? Oh no, we help people customize and save on car insurance with Liberty Mutual together. We're married. Need a human, him to a bird. Yeah, the bird looks out of your league anyways. Only pay for what you need at Liberty Mutual.com. We understand, but make sure you bring the sports app with you so you can hear more of toucher and hearty. That's what I want to my tombstone on the sports. You talked about Jackson Smith and Jigba in his new deal. You know, how he's up for a new deal and the Rams would be keeping an eye on that because of you had said they had some concerns with Pooka, Nakua. Yep. And now here we are with Pooka Nakua. What's going on with him? I think, well, you guys saw a story this week, obviously Fred. You know, I just think like they feel like they still love him.

17:58And the dichotomy with him is he's everything that you want between the lines. And then you got the stuff off the field. And so they're managing that. I don't think any of it is sinister. You know, I think that there's more that's going to come out with that story. But I think he is a kid in his 20s who's doing a lot of dumb stuff. You know, and get it and putting himself in positions where he can be putting a lot of things in jeopardy. And so does he get that? It doesn't seem like he does. It's growing up is what he needs. And then I, and that's what everybody around him tells you is like we love him. He's a good, hard kid. He does some dumb stupid stuff. Like, and it's just, and I think I, I think that's part of the reason why. And I told you guys this like, I think I've told you guys this for a few weeks now that like I think that they were going to wait on, on paying him. Now the difference between him and JSN is that JSN had the fifth year option because JSN was a first round pick.

19:04Puka was a fifth round pick. So functionally what that means is that if they don't pay him after this year, he's up. And so yes, he's eligible for the first time, but they don't have the extra year flexibility that the C ox had with with JSN. So if they don't pay him now, then they got to franchise him after the year and then you know how those things can go. So my guess would be that they would probably let this ride. The market's already moved. We know what the market's going to be for Puka. And you're probably talking about him maybe doing a deal in July or August. Okay. So what they feel that he's immature off the field. Yeah. And I mean, I think that's pretty clear now. What's all this and he keeps with all this anti-Semitic stuff. I don't understand. Like there was a thing. So if you watch the thing like, and I watched the whole live stream, that was an October, I think, right? There was a live stream of these guys playing ping pong with them and they kind of set them up to say some anti-Semitic stuff, right?

20:10Am I reading that correctly? Yeah, they set them up to do a celebrate. I'd say, hey, would you do this as a touchdown celebration? And I guess it was some sort of trope about Jewish people with like money grubbing or whatever it was. Like rubbing the hands. And so like if you actually watch the YouTube, you'll see, and I'm not excusing anything because obviously all that stuff's terrible. Well, no, but he was set up, but he was set up. Like you can see the guys walking away and say, hey, like let's see if we can get him to do this. And then he's like, and then they take him through how to do it. And he's like, yeah, I'll do it. Not really knowing fully what it was. Yeah. So like, you know, I think, again, but that's another example I think of what the issue is with him, which is like you keep putting yourself in these positions where these things can happen. And there is obviously if you're doing that, it's awful, right?

21:14Like if you were going to knowingly do something like that, that's terrible. But there's also another level down of that, like where it's, are you, like, why are you going on with those guys? Like what are you, like what good is going to come up to going on with those guys? Like if you were making like, like so I get, and my guess at the time was, and I wound up more or less confirming this is, like a lot of these guys have like, you know, some 25 year old girls, they're publicist. And that publicist sees, well, this YouTuber is really popular. And maybe that publicist who lives in Los Angeles doesn't do their homework. And then it's like, well, you should do this because it's good for your brand to do it. Now you're sitting on a, you know, you're sitting in like some sort of sound stage for 35 minutes. And instead of it being cut into a commercial like it used to be, the whole thing's being streamed online. And once something gets streamed online, so anyway, it's another example of him.

22:18Like he needs to grow up and understand like the implications of his actions. He needs to grow up and understand like, this is probably not a good idea for me to be doing this or putting myself in this position. And even like the thing with the thing he was accused of with this girl, it's like there's part of it like where, and it sounds like, like he's, it sounds like this is going to wind up being like he's falsely accused. But there's also the example of like, who are you hanging around with? And like what, what sort of situations are you putting yourselves in yourself in? And when you're in Los Angeles, and we've talked about this with Miami, right? Like the dolphins have to be careful about what sort of players they sign. When you're in Los Angeles, all that stuff's right there for you. You know what I mean? Like, and so I still remember Troy Brown saying this when I did, you know, I did TV with him for a couple of years. And you always say this and he, I thought it was like such a great way to put it. Money only makes you more of what you already are. So if you're going to pay a guy, you're not going to, you can't pay a guy and just expect him to change.

23:20It's like, oh, yeah, like, well, Pam, and he'll be more responsible and he'll grow up. No. When you pay a guy, you're validating the way that he's behaving. You're validating the way he's acting because you're rewarding him. So, you know, I, I, I think the kid, like I said, I think I think that Puka's got a, by all accounts, a good heart. He's, you know, like obviously a great football player. But there's just, I think some of that growing up that probably needs to happen with him. I wanted to ask you about Tom Brady because he's back in the news this morning or not this morning, but this week, I knew he couldn't leave it alone. Regardless of how many times he said, you know what, I'm the owner of this team, I'm running this team. He admitted this week, he's, he thought about unretiring again. Now the league frowned on it. But yeah, I mean, this is more of a general question. What is he doing in Las Vegas? It doesn't seem like he's doing many things right. Yeah, I think a lot of people wondered like how much he was going to struggle with being retired.

24:22And like, you know, you know, I do think that there's like a little bit of figuring all that out now. I mean, he's turned himself into a really good broadcaster, like which surprised me a little bit because I don't think he was very good at the beginning. And the Raiders, everything sort of runs through him there, you know? So doesn't sound like things are going well. And yeah, they've had their issues now. Like so, maybe they get it right now with Clint Kubiak in there as the head coach. And Fernando Mendoza in a month, they'll be the quarterback there. No, we'll see. But I think he's still, I think he's figuring out that some things are a little harder than they looked on the surface. The whole thing about him going back. I mean, look, I know people like, you know, there's some comparison there to Philip Rivers, right? Yeah. So Philip Rivers did it for like two or three weeks. Right. Do you really, like, I saw that, like, little movement in the flag game, like everybody else did, like, whoa, like that looked like him.

25:26It was a good pass. It was a good pass. It was a big throw. It was the movement. A little shuffle step. Yeah. Right. Like so, oh, that's, that's still him. There's also an element of the amount of a 48 year old getting hit in an NFL game over and over and over again. And then bouncing back to do that week after week after week after week. I, I don't, that's the part. Like I don't doubt his ability. I think he can still throw the ball at a high level. And I think a lot of these guys, like, I think an, a, a picture will tell you in baseball, like, you can throw until you're 50. It's your ability to recover. It's your ability to kind of come back the next day. And that's where I think the question would be. But I think he's still figuring all of this out. Ultimately, don't you guys all think, like, I think we all think he's going to ultimately wind up just running the Raiders, right? Well, he's basically doing it now. Right. But I mean, like, I think eventually, like, that'll be his focus.

26:28Sure. The more I watch him try and run this franchise, the worse, I feel for him. I mean, they're a great athletes to try to get into ownership of coaching, magic Johnson, Michael Jordan. But you just aren't very good at it. You can see as you can already, you can see his influence because that's the guy who's like, like, no, you guys saw the news about the succession plan. Yes. There's another, there's another guy in place that's going to take over for Mark Davis, his guy. Oh, okay. It's like one, like, so he went one of the reasons why they brought him in. I actually think this was really smart. Now, how much of it was Mark Davis and how much of it was the other people there. But Michael Meldman is one of the new minority owners. He is the founder of Discovery Land. Discovery Land is the real estate company that developed the Yellowstone Club. So he's very close with Brady. Egan Durbin is the CEO of Silver Lake Capital in the Bay Area with connections to Brady. And then the guy Brady bought in with is his partner in Birmingham City, the soccer team they own over there.

27:29So he's going to have it in control on all sides when Mark Davis finally steps down. I mean, I think that those minority owners are in the draft room. So like, I think all those guys are going to be involved. So what's the end game for Tom here? Is it to run out of the Fox broadcast? I think it's to run the Raiders. Yeah, that being out far away is that. I mean, the money's too easy. I mean, he's making $37.5 million a year for how much work? For 50 days of work a year. Like, if they'll let you do both, it's kind of hard to walk away from that, isn't it? I mean, I don't care how rich you are. But does it satisfy him? That's the question, right? I mean, I think he's gotten competitive about it. Do I think like if all things were equal that like he would probably just go run the Raiders and live in Las Vegas? Probably. I think his kids ages might like play into that too. Like, you know, he's kind of anchored. He can't live in Las Vegas because his kids, they're anchored in Miami.

28:29And so, you know, when, when his, his younger son and his daughter graduate high school, maybe there'd be more flexibility for him to go live in Las Vegas, maybe. You know, but I think all those things are moving parts with what's going on with him for sure. What's the incentive of having him run that team? Like, if I buy it and there's a succession plan, sure, I'm, you know, friends with Brady and maybe have some business dealings with him. But if I own it and he can't run the team, what's my incentive to keep him around? Like he's part of the team. But he's a minority owner. Right. So, but he that doesn't give him control. It doesn't know. I mean, I, and I think that that's where it gets a little tricky to like that's, I think that's sort of the always situation in Denver, right? Like it's like, okay, you bring in John L. Way to run the football operation. But how would you ever fire him? You know what I mean? Like ultimately they forced him out. They didn't. I mean, like, but he kind of wanted, like he was kind of went away on his own.

29:30So, like, I think L. Way hit kind of gotten to the point where it was like it didn't look great. And they were able to kind of manage that through. And they were selling the team and all that different stuff. But yeah, like that's definitely like a tricky part to it. It's like if Tom helped you get in and Tom was part of the bridge to get in for you. And position guys is being like part of the succession plan when Mark Davis isn't around anymore. You know, then obviously you're going to be beholden to him. And so if he shows he can't run the football operation, that's really, really sticky. But maybe he can. He's still learning it. You know, so we'll see. And he's got, you know, his people in there now. And he's going to have a quarterback. And we'll see where they take it. Yeah, but you're married to him forever. And that's the thing. Right. And if it doesn't work out, you're really screwed. Yeah. So if I'm buying some $100 billion business and I got a guy who's a minority owner,

30:32but he wants full control and he's not doing a good job, my patience is going to be very low for that. Right. So it just seems like at a high level, things are being done in kind of a half-assed way. Yeah. I mean, I mean, it is, I will say with the people who work there, it is pretty cool. Pretty clear who's in charge. Yeah, but puts the onus on him then. Yeah. And he's got to be good. And that's the thing is he's got to be good at the job. Like, do I think he's, and I think it's like really clear to like what he's interested in. Do I think he's interested in running the whole team? No, I don't think he's interested in running the marketing department. You know, so now it's like, okay, like so if you're running football operations, those are jobs that are like the marketing director isn't going to be judged on wins and losses. The guy who's running football operations, that's what he's, that's what he's, he's judged on. And so, yeah, I mean, I'm with you.

31:33It's like kind of like Jerry and Dallas, right? Like Jerry runs football operations there. But he is the owner of the team. And he's the owner of the team. He's the owner of the team. And so like, but do you see like where that comes in, right? Like where it's, you can't get rid of. No, you can't get rid of him. So Jerry doesn't do. But we know what this is like sticking the same way. Just obviously like with a little bit of a different dynamic and that he's not the majority owner. Which was in my opinion a very big dynamic. And by the way, Brady's already got control of the media because they're all praising their offseason and it's ridiculous. They just threw a bunch of money around. And it's, which you could be fine, usually it isn't. But it's being treated like it was somehow some brilliant offseason. And now they're a playoff. No, what's going to come, what it's going to come down to with them is like they need, they need a draft better. Like what it comes down to with everybody, they need to get the quarterback right. And then they got a draft better. Yeah, there's strength to schedule game in the first pick. So they get, so that's what it is. I mean, that's a, they're locked into that.

32:34And all the rest of the stuff they did was just throw money around. And if they don't fail to trade. And if they draft well, then like signings like Tyler Linderbaum and Kuwaiti pay and, and Quay Walker and the Kobe Dean, like all the speedy nailer, all those, all those signings will look great if they draft well around them because those will be the core players, the team. And so, you know, it's getting more guys like Brock Bowers in there who are homegrown and wind up being really good players. And then the, the, well, they got a center and it's the most important thing because the he's going to call the line. And he's going to call the car windows. Right. And then you say, wow, well, congratulations. You set the market on centers. So you, yeah, you threw him as much money as you could possibly throw at him. And you got him. Great. Well, that's, it might be a very, it might very well be a good move, but it's so hardly rocket science. You just paid a guy a lot of money. All right. We'll be back in just a moment here, the headlines. Draft King Sportsbook puts you right in the middle of basketball's biggest star driven moments.

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34:37Like you, Fred, I'm not worried. We are a toucher and hearty Dan Roach is in for hearty today. Birds are not nervous about going to Paris as you should be. Despite your best efforts. No, because of my best efforts. It's funny you guys talk about these premier league games that you've gone to. I'm rereading that among the thugs book, which Bill, I forget. Bill Buefer, he was living in London, so he started hanging out with the firms, like the Lads, those like Hooligan gangs. Yeah. And then he, I just, then there was that Hillsboro Stadium, 1989, 97 deaths, 766 injuries. They used to put people, this is not forever ago either. They used to just put the crowd in standing room pens. And there would be these like massive washes of crushing. Like it was a whole situation.

35:39So like I said, like when we went to Chelsea at, we went to Chelsea in Arsenal. And Chelsea was like very like kind of, it was like Fenway or Riggly, like very, you could tell, you could feel the money in there. And it's old, but it's been refurbished. Arsenal was wild because you could tell it was way more of a blue collar crowd, right? And so they were playing against Austin, Villa. And Fred, they had, there was like a visiting supporters section, right? Like that's like carved out for the other team. It was, ring around it of like armed police. And it was, it was like, and they had it at the Chelsea game too, but there wasn't a problem. And then when we were walking out, because in Arsenal year, like in the middle of this neighborhood in North London, like they're yelling, it just felt like a fight was about to break out. Because I think Arsenal was, Arsenal had won the Premier League and forever. And I think they were in first place in Austin, Villa upset them.

36:42And so Austin, Villa, the fans coming out were feeling themselves. Feeling themselves. Yeah. Yeah. It felt like, I don't know, like before they fixed Fenway, what a Yankee Red Sock game was. Oh, I think like 1995, you know? Yes. Yes. Yes. So anyway. So there is this, you were mentioning this flag football thing that occurred. Yep. I did not see anything of it, nor do I care to. You didn't take in one minute of it. I did not take in one minute of it. But is the NFL pretty married to this thing? Yeah. So this actually like, this is about globalizing football. And, you know, they've tried, obviously, forever, they're going to have, they're going to be, and I think what is it, six or seven different, I count them up, but like six or seven different countries this year. And one thing they've found that I think was obvious from the start was you can only grow so much if kids aren't playing the sport.

37:43And so they've tried to export the sport, but exporting American football is not like exporting soccer or basketball, where you can roll the balls out and put up a couple of goals and, you know, everybody's good to go. So how do you make the sport more accessible? Flag is how they plan to do it. And so that was why they pushed it into the Olympics. And that is the idea of what they had on set. Now, remember, like the thing on Saturday wasn't supposed to be in LA. It was supposed to be in Saudi Arabia. So there were some other things at play here, but the NFL's overall aim is to make flag football more mainstream sport. So you get, well, here it means you get girls playing, right? And then in the rest of the world, you make it more accessible to people who, you know, were to places where they don't, they aren't gonna, you know, put in the infrastructure to have 11 on 11 tackle football.

38:45Right. Yeah, it's just a, it's not football. It's not a problem. Well, it was funny too, because like when I watched that, like when I was in college, we won our fraternity league. And so we thought we were, that was great. There was no reason for you to say that. No, no, no, no, no. There was no reason for you to throw that ball. No, no, no, no, I am none. I swear to God, I'm going so bad. Oh, no, you're not. I swear to God, I'm going so bad. Okay. So we want, we want our flag fraternity. Sure. Yeah. So then one of my, one of my buddies had the bright idea, like thinking we're hot, you know what? Uh-huh. To enter us into like the local Nike League. And we got run off the field like you wouldn't freaking believe. Because all the fraternity league was, was a bunch of old, washed up high school football players running football plays. When you got into the Nike league, it was laterals and throwing sideways.

39:45And like, it was totally different. And it was a different type of kid too. They were all like little soccer players. So like, I wasn't surprised. That's just my point of reference. I did not mean to. But, but that was for the record. There's still a lot of reason for you to bring up the fact that you were a champion. But that's why we entered into the Nike League. Right. And the Nike League. I'm like, when I say we got our, I think we quit the league. I think it was that bad where it was like, we got our brakes knocked off, you know? And it was. So anyway, it is a totally different sport. When you're actually running strategy and gaming it up. Like, and when I heard Brady say, like, they got to put in some rules to make this more like real football. It's like, it's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. And that's the thing is that it doesn't translate. It's like playing something else. It's not even the same game. So that's why I think I don't think it's wise that the NFL is investing all this into flag football.

40:50I guess if it makes money at a youth level, but in terms of. Because it's not going to translate into kids playing football. And if you don't have a pipeline of kids playing football, the strength of the sport. Right. Because that was the original plan. Right. It was to get kids to participate in football without the violence at a young age. More of helmets and things like that. That was the initial plan. And then they started to think bigger picture with it. And what's going to be really interesting though. The NFL pushed this really. And now they actually like voted in rules that's going to like that would force like owners to allow their players to play in the Olympics. Did you get any idea watching that that the NFL players are going to be able to make the Olympic team? No. I just saw Robert Griffin Jr. name to the list for the world championships. Right. But that's the thing it's like, what does this become then selecting team USA? Because the NFL's whole intention is to make flag football a bigger deal.

41:55Right. Well, how do you make it a bigger deal? You get it in the Olympics. And then how do you get eyeballs on it when it's in the Olympics? You get big stars into it. So like, how do they pick team USA? Then is team USA picked based on who the best players are? Who are the guys who just ran the NFL players off the field? Or are they picked in the team based on star power? And like, how can we get the most eyeballs? You don't think the NFL players with like five seconds to kind of absorb the rules and understand what's going on. They are good enough athletes to do well. They could do fine. But will they be the best at it when you get these guys who play year round? Like that's that that that to me. And I'm with you. Like for the most part, like these guys are great athletes and all that. But it like when I say it's a different sport. It is a different sport when you watch these guys like a lot of those guys who are out there were division one double a football players who are 160 pounds. Yeah, size doesn't matter in flag football.

42:55And that's the big thing is that the NFL you got to be big and suitable for contact and be able to run through tackles. And that doesn't matter in flag football. It's entirely quickness. It's a stupid game. All right. Bert Breer, thank you. M-M-Q-B. And he will be galavanting around Paris. Very, very miserable. All right. Thank you, Bert. We appreciate it. Danny Roch. Danny Roch is created a game for us. We will have that for you coming up.