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The Valenti Show

Reacting To Lions Revoking Fans' Season Tickets

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

3.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Rico start the show reacting to the news that multiple Lions fans have had their season tickets revoked for supposedly re-selling too many tickets.

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0:00.0

All right, welcome in on a Tuesday. Good to have everybody aboard. We've got a jam-pack show for you.

0:06.5

Top 10 Rico, not in the building. Top 10 Rico, not here. The dress shirt is top 10.

0:14.6

You know what? I'll bring it back tomorrow. Yes. You got a top 10 program. Act like it. All right. Let's get to business,

0:23.4

shall we? I want to jump in on something because I heard it discussed a little bit on the

0:29.0

morning show. I know Channel 7 did a report on it. And there's a lot, this is a fan issue.

0:38.2

Now, it's a fascinating one that there are lion fans getting their tickets revoked for violation of policy.

0:47.9

And it's not hurling garbage on the field or hurling racial epithets or throwing ice cream cones of children. It is a violation of

0:57.1

the sale policy. Now, what was really interesting is when the story broke, obviously it had hit

1:06.5

on social media. I don't have social media, but that doesn't preclude people from texting me and going,

1:12.7

hey, so one of the fans who lost their tickets 15 years ago is a guy who cut my hair.

1:21.1

I knew him as Paul or Pavel. He's from Sterling Heights. Now, I can just disclose you that this dude was the biggest Lions fan then.

1:31.2

Clearly, I don't think anything changed.

1:33.5

As I would laugh my ass off seeing him in every TV commercial with the team telling you to buy tickets.

1:41.3

So clearly he didn't become less of a fan. So he ended up calling the morning

1:47.1

show and it was weird to hear his voice. I haven't talked to him in probably 10 years. The point is

1:51.8

this story is going to be a question, Rico, that I'd like to tackle with you and talk to the fans

1:59.8

about is, okay, did the team do this

2:02.5

guy dirty? Now, it's complicated, right? Because you have fans like this gentleman who moved to Philly.

2:10.7

Life takes you different places. Guys originally for Sterling Heights. Guys, been to ever, I don't remember a time

2:16.5

back when I would see him every couple

2:18.2

weeks, never missed the game.

2:20.7

And I had some people go do a little deep dive into social media and his social platforms

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