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The Valenti Show

Are You Back Into Video Games With CFB 25?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

With the release of EA Sports College Football 25 at the top of the hour, Mike discusses the immediate impact of the game, which is 10+ years in the making.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thank you very much. The Godfather joining us all week. Rico's world tour continues.

0:07.1

But this is a very special moment in time for many of us, men out here.

0:11.7

This right now, literally right now, for the first time in 10 years,

0:17.0

college football, EA Sports, it's back. It just went live at 4 o'clock Eastern Standard and all over relationships are being

0:25.9

destroyed. Man ignoring wives and girlfriends because they're about to become the head coach of Bowling

0:31.9

Green and try to bring them to a national title.

0:34.1

I wanted to ask this question because I think this is a fascinating case study that first of all, if you're a child of the 90s and you're in your 40s you grew up where

0:46.8

video games were becoming popular the old Nintendo super Nintendo Sega Genesis, whatever may be.

0:53.4

NHL 94, wrap-around move, still undefeated.

0:57.2

But college football disappeared 10 years ago.

1:02.0

So you have this collection of people who have waited for this game

1:06.5

to come back for a decade, but then you have the younger people. If you're in your

1:11.0

20s, this game disappeared just when you would hit the point in your life where you would have been all in on it.

1:19.0

You've only heard about the legend that was NCAA football. You have these two groups and I've never seen the

1:28.1

hype for a sports video game like this. Now the beauty of this release date, if you're a dude this is the

1:35.0

the slowest sports week of the year

1:38.0

so this isn't about being a burnout like Kenny and smoking egregious amounts of weed and not showing up to work.

1:47.4

This is about, well I was just making sure you're paying attention.

1:50.3

This is about that at the end of your work day and at the end of your responsibilities as a husband the father whatever may be

1:56.9

That little time at the end of the evening and all of a sudden you have this but are there people who took today off to play

2:06.5

this game oh yeah right now Jim Costa he's probably three national titles deep

2:10.4

at CMU but yeah he's been out for three minutes and 54 seconds.

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