Building an empire on the foundation of grit and controversy.

Dave Fortnoy on Barstall Sports.

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Today, we have a fun show for you. Dave Portnoy joins me on building an empire, staying nimble in media, and why Barstall's grit and controversy still make it one of the coolest brands in sports and culture. Here is El Presente, Dave Portnoy. What's up, Dave? How's it going? Glad to have you here on the Will Cain show. You make me a little nervous. I never had you pegged for a show up early guy. You've been waiting like 10 minutes for this show to start live. But I guess I should have known when I saw the videos of you reintering Barstool and showing up and not seeing anybody at 8 a.m. in the New York offices,

your grinder, man. You show up early.

Yeah, I'm always an early guy, especially when you do these foxings.

They usually do, like, the testing for about 10 minutes, tell you where to sit, all that jazz.

But yeah, I'm always an early person.

You know, I was thinking about you, I don't know how you do this, but because I filter every sports viewing fandom issue through the prism of being a Dallas Cowboy fan.

I root against anybody that threatens the legacy of the Dallas Cowboys.

So I will, like, for example, always root against the San Francisco 49ers.

I don't want as many Super Bowl appearances.

I don't want the same number of Super Bowl wins. Of course, your Patriots superseded the Cowboys. You're kind of painting yourself as a Swifty, but are you going to root for the Chiefs? Because at some point here, now, they're going to become a threat to the Patriots dynasty. I put 500 grand on the Chiefs. So, yeah, I'm going to root for the Chiefs. 500 grand on the Chiefs. Yeah. I think it's stealing. You don't worry about, look, you've got six, what is it, six franchise Super Bowls? Yeah, we got six, Brady's got seven. So, but I mean, you don't worry, like Mahomes gets, what is this?

This would be number three for Mahomes in like a five-year span.

I mean, it'll be 28 years old.

He'll be well on his way to racking up more than Brady and putting the chiefs on a path

to supersede the Patriots.

So you mentioned the Cowboys and the 49ers, and putting the chiefs on a path to supersede the Patriots. So you mentioned the Cowboys and the 49ers,

and obviously the Cowboys have had a couple different iterations

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