Hour 4 - NFL is King
The Ben Maller Show
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Ben Maller talks about the shockingly good ratings for the Steelers/Lions preseason game on CBS and if it will be a wakeup call for NBA and Adam Silver, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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| 0:29.8 | Hello and welcome. |
| 0:32.4 | It's our number four, hour four of our radio show, |
| 0:39.3 | and we go to the boob tube. |
| 0:43.2 | Tremendous domination for a practice football game |
| 0:47.8 | and exercise in power over the entire sporting world by the NFL. |
| 0:54.4 | Why? |
| 0:55.1 | Why did the Steeler Lion game do so well and draw such a big audience? |
| 1:01.3 | And will this be a wake-up call for Adam Silver in the NBA? |
| 1:05.2 | The exhibition football game drawing bigger ratings than NBA Christmas Day games |
| 1:10.7 | and just how big a gap is |
| 1:14.2 | there between the NFL and the other sports products in North America. |
| 1:20.3 | We'll get to that and a whole lot more right now in our number four. |
| 1:25.5 | Here it is. |
| 1:28.4 | There is no stopping the monster. |
| 1:31.6 | You cannot contain. |
| 1:33.5 | You cannot cage the monster. |
| 1:35.8 | Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Maller show. |
| 1:43.0 | We are in the air everywhere. |
| 1:46.5 | Close by, as we know, sliding ain't easy. |
| 1:50.5 | Coast to coast, border to border, and beyond, on the vast. |
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