FULL SHOW: Thursday, February 26th

The Valenti Show

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4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 139 minutes

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Summary

On today's edition of the show, Mike and Rico began with their thoughts on some of the new rules for the UFL and which of them they'd like the NFL to adopt. They took this topic up until the second hour, where they had a conversation on how bad the Red Wings have been in March, how confident they are in them turning this around, and Valenti's trade target for Steve Yzerman. The guys spent the third and final hours discussing a multitude of topics, one of them being the unaffordability crisis in sports, partially driven by Fanatics.

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0:00.0	Well, I'm going to tell you that's unfortunate.
0:02.1	Jeremy Otto just got the Pink Panther right off the stage there. Are you okay? I'm good, yes. Okay. I'll recollect for three. You were in shock. We were in shock. I think Metro Detroit was in shock. The man was mid-sentence. My God. We've got a lot to do today, so let's get to doing. and three o'clock.
0:22.8	All I can tell you is
0:24.3	Kenny to We've got a lot to do today, so let's get to doing.
0:29.0	Three o'clock, all I can tell you is Kenny, to kick off the second half of the Red Wing season, has big data energy.
0:35.0	And Kenny's going to ask a critical question of all of us, including Red Wing fan. And then at a certain point, I'm going to teach Kenny how to be a man.
0:37.9	I'm going to fix his problem.
0:39.6	I'm going to fix his problem.
0:40.6	Okay.
0:41.3	And then the fans are going to get mad at me, and it'll be the circle of life.
0:45.9	But to start the show, I absolutely love this.
0:50.6	I do.
0:51.6	Like, I love this because in years past, we would disregard this as he-hees and ha-haz. But actually, this league has kind of been a think tank for the NFL. I give you the UFL. And the U UFL has a bunch of new rules
1:14.5	going into effect this year.
1:17.2	We've selected
1:18.2	four of them.
1:20.6	You need to pick which
1:22.4	one you would bring
1:24.3	to the NFL and if you would bring
1:26.5	multiples, you got to give us the top of the pops. And if you would bring multiples,
1:30.1	you got to give us the top of the pops.
1:32.4	You got to give us your number one overall pick.
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