HOUR 2: Valenti Wants To Know: Is There Too Much Football?
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Mike and Rico get the second hour started by breaking down Roger Goodell's proposed potential changes to the NFL schedule in the future, wondering if this is just too much for the average football fan. They open up the phone lines and read a bunch of your ticket texts on the topic. Then, Rico has the results of the "Prop Bet Casino" from last week before round 1, which the guys react to.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, let's get it started. |
| 0:02.0 | So, question. |
| 0:05.0 | Do we have too much football? |
| 0:10.0 | Hear me out before I get slandered by RICO or called a boomer. |
| 0:15.2 | I'm being serious with this. Roger Giddell, amidst the magic that was the draft in Detroit, |
| 0:20.0 | people setting the attendance record and us celebrating, hey, nobody got shot. |
| 0:26.6 | Pretty low bar to clear, but hey, we cleared it. |
| 0:29.4 | The point is, Roger Giddell unveiled where this is going. is season games played over 20 weeks, not 17 and 18. So that's two more weeks, which then |
| 0:47.0 | bumps the Super Bowl to the middle of February and beyond in actual late February to President's Day weekend where yes you |
| 0:55.8 | would get Monday off from a Sunday Super Bowl what used to be a joke could |
| 1:00.9 | actually be reality but think think about this. The other thing that it's going to be is more |
| 1:07.2 | prime time games. Why? They can sell them individually. You're not selling a six-pack of juice boxes. You're |
| 1:16.2 | going to sell every juice box out of your trunk at an individual markup. That's a problem because A it's going to mean more platforms, more things for you to buy and eventually it's going to affect you as a Lions fan. |
| 1:33.0 | Well, I don't have the peacock. |
| 1:35.0 | I don't want to go to Amazon Prime. |
| 1:38.0 | I don't want to go to Do-To-Do, |
| 1:41.0 | or do-B-T-V or whatever the hell these things are called. |
| 1:44.3 | The point is, this is becoming too much ice cream. |
| 1:50.3 | We all love football. |
| 1:51.4 | That's not even in the offing. No one would suggest otherwise. |
| 1:55.0 | But guys think about this. The NFL is what used to be. It started in the second week of September and was done by like the first day of February. This thing is now |
| 2:05.7 | extended that it really only doesn't have anything going on for 90 days. May, June, and most of July. That's it. |
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