971. Nice to have you with us. We will get to an NFL issue that we like to joke around

about, but I've arrived at a point of conclusion. We'll get to that in a minute. I just wanted to

add this. You can do what you want with it. Adam Silver, Commissioner of the NBA, was on with

Dan Patrick. And Adam Silver floated a change to the NBA.

Now, it's no secret.

The NBA's ratings are in deep decline.

Largely, it is nothing more than an AAU-style open-run, three-point shooting contest

that usually features low effort to no effort and a cast of basically 75% completely unlikable detestable superstars.

And that's before you get to politics being thrown into the game left and right.

Okay.

I have it.

Now, Adam Silver has an idea.

And I want you to tell me whether this fixes the league.

Okay.

He floated the idea to Dan Patrick today of going from 12-minute quarters to 10.

Now, besides the immediate alarm bells going off in my head of,

what's the players union going to say about that when the owners try to say,

hey, eight minutes less game a night equals X percentage of you getting less revenue.

But that's just because I'm cynical.

I guess I'm wondering why? Why? Less crap?

I mean, most of the

less wear and tear on the body for load management?

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