Hello Sunshion I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome to the State of the Union podcast where we look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the

lens of red white and blue-colored glasses. This show will be talking

Javi, Vinny, The Lions,

Polisic, McKinney, Des, Geo, Flow, KDB, U.S. Soccer Coaches

Convention, Lane and Donovan, Brad Friedl, Connecticut United, 20 years on from retirement,

bit-conned, and so much more.

But first joining me as always, my friend, my colleague, my guiding light,

David Mossier soccer, savant, and a fox soccer researcher and writer,

Extraordinary! Mossy, how you doing on? soccer researcher and writer extraordinary.

Well, see how you doing on this Monday, January 15th in the year

2024.

Doing well after a busy weekend of NFL playoff action

congratulations on your Detroit Lions.

Thank you very much for those that watch the pod you can see me in all my glory

here in a bit of solidarity not just with the Michiganers out there but much of the country is

freezing their ass off right now so I got my little you know hat on here my USA hat but as you mentioned let's not bury the lead how about

them lions my friend uh it was wonderful it was emotional my wife tears streaming down her eyes, it was romantic. It was also interesting,

Mossi as I was watching this game, and for those that maybe don't follow American football, whatever, you know, first time in 30 years that the Detroit Lions have won a home playoff game and it was just it was just a wonderful celebration of a city obviously that means a tremendous amount to me.

An area of you know of the world that made me who I am but I also couldn't help thinking while I was watching this this celebration

how the hell is it that mLS still does not have a Detroit team.

You know, I am a proud owner of Detroit City there,

but you see the passion, you see the numbers, you see what that city is and especially downtown which is what has been

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