Here you go.

go.

go. Champions. That's the nothing personal word of the day. It is June 25th, 2004, and the Florida Panthers are NHL Stanley Cup champions. Yes! I'm going to start in a place where I'm not sure where Leavittard is going to start today when he starts at 9 o'clock.

Lots of bits to be bitten, lots of follow-up, lots of excitement. I want to talk about a franchise

winning its first ever title, the sense of relief that you have, the sense of

elation, the sense of dread that you have, the sense of elation, the sense of dread that you no longer are

searching for your first title, you've made it to the mountaintop and now you've got to try

to get there again. Made crystal clear by the GM of the Panthers in the

post came interview, hey I'm sharing this with my dad, I'm crying by the way the

drafts in 72 hours. That is really what it's like when you win a title, you're

excited. I was on a show this morning, Koca question, what were you doing when the Marlins won the World Series?

And I was celebrating, but also doing math,

thinking about where the salaries were going to go for our players,

where the payroll was going to go. How quickly do we have to not bring back Pudge Rodriguez or trade Derek Lee? What's the amount of total revenue we're going to get? What's the pool of money from baseball for this post-season run

that we've had? Where's the parade going to be? What's the ring going to look like? You're thinking about a lot of stuff and the

Stanley Cup is I agree the hardest and greatest trophy to win.

You're around the ice skating, holding it up, some sort of dead lift because it's a 35 pound

trophy. I don't love the fact that all the players chose to kiss it in the same place.

There was a lot of kiss on kiss going on, but I get that

you kiss a trophy. I would have just carved out my own little area where I ever

to have been lucky to have done that. I don't think I ever kissed the World Series trophy. I think I may have hugged it. I don't think there was any lip contact.

For a network, when you get rights to a league you want the playoffs to be successful and successful

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