I still think we would have progressed the game, but it certainly would have been delayed by potentially years, right?

I don't want to say decades, but certainly it would have delayed by years.

So, you know, credit to Paul and taking his risk and taking his chance.

And I love the dude, man.

He's one of my favorite.

I always got time for him if he texts me or calls me.

I always take it.

That was our guest, former U.S. men's national team player, Brian Bliss.

And this is founding football.

I was 11 years old in November 1989, too young to truly understand the complex global climate,

but old enough to be aware of it, definitely mature enough to understand that in the late 80s

and into the early 90s, macro-level changes were taking place all across

the world. Arguably, no event marked greater change than the fall of the Berlin Wall. In both real

and symbolic terms, November 9, 1989, was an absolutely historic date. It happened during the peaceful

revolution, where thousands of citizens gathered and climbed onto the structure and facilitated the

destruction of the wall literally and the iron curtain figuratively.

What I knew as an 11-year-old was that sitting on my cousin's couch in suburban Philadelphia watching these events unfold on TV, he had a personal attachment.

Barrett, along with his sister Devon and parents, Leslie and Joe, had lived in West Germany for a few years.

Joe was a commercial airline pilot.

He had the opportunity to be stationed in West Berlin, and they happily embarked on a new adventure.

Then they became intimately familiar with the city, the history, and the division between the communist government in

East Berlin and the contrasting freedoms in West Berlin. And when we watched the falling of the

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