Hour 2: Cowboy Up
First Take
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4.0 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Time for a quick take into Miami. Introduce Lena Messy to a sold out crowd at their stadium yesterday the Argentina soccer star signed a |
| 0:08.8 | multi-year contract with the club and became the highest profile MLS sign-e since David Beckham joined the galaxy back in 2007 and |
| 0:16.6 | If you watch the introduction to this, I don't care if you're a soccer fan or not. I had to give you chills |
| 0:21.0 | It clearly with such a moment for the sport obviously for the US as well |
| 0:25.7 | And so what do you think of Messy can do for MLS Courtney the infinite all that familiar? |
| 0:31.4 | I'm trying to do my best David Beckham impersonation there on what was a historic night for American sports |
| 0:37.1 | And this is so different than when Beckham came here in 2007 |
| 0:41.0 | Messy's not coming to the United States to retire |
| 0:43.4 | He just won the World Cup with Argentina eight months ago |
| 0:46.6 | Tournament's most valuable player this is big for US soccer |
| 0:51.3 | Since 2007 the last time we saw when David Beckham came here attendance is up 40 percent the TV deal is |
| 0:58.0 | $250 million franchises are valued at five hundred million dollars |
| 1:01.3 | They may be the last place team in MLS right now |
| 1:04.0 | But it certainly did not feel like that in Miami last night with 20,000 plus people in attendance to witness this moment |
| 1:10.2 | And I'm sure that's gonna change |
| 1:11.8 | Quickly being the last place team. Let's go to the sport though back to it if you will that runs our world here in the US |
| 1:18.2 | And again that could be changing soon a football again |
| 1:21.2 | We go with America's team and their struggles the Cowboys have failed to make the conference championship in almost three decades |
| 1:27.2 | I'm not kidding |
| 1:28.2 | 1995 was the last time they were there and that was also the last time they won a Super Bowl |
| 1:33.1 | It has been a minute and there were all eyes and there will be all eyes on Dallas early on this year because the Cowboys open up |
| 1:40.2 | Their season on Sunday night football against a divisional rival in the Giants before facing up against Aaron Rogers and the Jets in their home opener |
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