All right, let's talk stadium and the DC City Council's job in a few months or less to

hopefully approve what we heard about on Monday. Mayor Bowser and Roger Goodell and Josh Harris

getting everybody excited about the team's return to DC and the RFK site. Joe Maloney was the VP of Public Affairs for the team,

and he was the point person for the team on all of these stadium conversations over the years

with Virginia, with Maryland, and with D.C. Now, Joe is not with the team anymore.

He's now the senior VP of Communications with the American Gaming Association.

But a lot of the conversation we're having today is because of Joe.

And I want to start with this.

And it's kind of cutting to the chase because there's been a lot of conversation post Monday about certain city council members not being thrilled with the deal or not knowing enough about the deal.

I'll ask you, was it premature on Monday to be as celebratory as the mayor and Josh Harrison Roger Goodell were about a

return to D.C. There's several more very important steps to take place, but I do think the

staging of that event was very intentional. And when you're in the types of work that involves

creating a majority for the purposes of approving a specific type of package, it's important to

generate enthusiasm, energy, demonstrate momentum, and get your story out there.

So the event was intentional.

It was done for those reasons.

I would describe the event as an overall success.

But history is littered with a lot of events such as these that have gone sideways that become unfortunate artifacts in

deals gone wrong.

And we have seen it in other NFL cities that have had various episodic examples of these

things going sideways.

It begins with Governor Rowland in Connecticut holding up a jersey and handing it to Robert Kraft in the late 90s to the various machinations in the Chicago

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