Detroit Obliterates NFL Draft Attendance Record & Brad Holmes Had A Great Weekend | 'The Daily Ticket'
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🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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From 'The Daily Ticket' (subscribe here): Detroit not only hosted a successful NFL Draft in Downtown Detroit but they absolutely dominated the event. Record setting crowds packed the city over the weekend and made Detroit a STAR. Lions GM Brad Holmes also had a great draft trading up multiple times to get the players he identified however some fans were not entirely happy. Jeff Riger brings you all the fun from the NFL Draft and tells you why there is some controversy regarding the Lions picks. It’s a jammed packed episode of The Daily Ticket!
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| 0:00.0 | There's only one. There's only one pod in the Motor City that's keeping you up to date on everything Detroit sports. |
| 0:07.0 | This is the Daily Ticket with your host Jeff Rigger. Rigger. Hey everybody, what's going on Jeff Rager? |
| 0:16.6 | Another episode of The Daily Ticket. |
| 0:19.0 | The 29 April. |
| 0:20.4 | It's a Monday. |
| 0:21.6 | It's 2024. And excuse my voice. I lost it over the weekend. I think a lot of people lost their voices over the weekend if you went to the NFL draft odds are you came home and your voice is not the same as when you went there. |
| 0:36.1 | I mean there was a lot of screaming, there was a lot of excitement and I just want to |
| 0:40.4 | congratulate Detroit in you because you know what we did? We obliterated the draft. We dominated the draft. We killed the draft. |
| 0:51.5 | Detroit did an amazing job and we're going to get into how Detroit the team actually did with the draft picks |
| 0:58.0 | because believe it or not there's some controversy that we're going to talk about but we got to spend a moment or two on the wonderful job Detroit did. So I saw these attendance records and I just want to say |
| 1:10.8 | fuck yeah, Detroit. Hell of a job so the last podcast was on Friday and I interviewed a bunch of ticket personalities and of course people at our draft party and I was asking people what the lines were going to do with 29. |
| 1:26.0 | And I think a lot of you watch the podcast, listen to the podcast, and it seemed like you enjoyed it. |
| 1:31.0 | So I do appreciate that but on Thursday they had to shut the |
| 1:36.0 | stage area down they couldn't allow any more people in because they reached a |
| 1:40.3 | maximum of 275,000 people. |
| 1:45.0 | And then on Friday, they did it again. |
| 1:49.0 | Two days in a row, that's never been done in the NFL draft |
| 1:52.0 | since it started traveling in 2015. |
| 1:55.1 | And then on Saturday there was a great crowd as well. |
| 1:59.1 | Now they didn't shut down the staging area, but Gretchen Whitmer, |
| 2:02.7 | be Gretch, they call her, she stepped to the podium |
| 2:05.4 | saying Detroit set a new attendance record |
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