Sports Adjacent, Episode 153: Last Days at The Tropicana ft. Cameron Wolfe

House of L podcast

Laurence W. Holmes

History, Sports

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode of Sports Adjacent, Cameron Wolfe from NFL Network returns to join the pod. Jason, live from the Super Bowl, gives a detailed review of the accommodations during the final days of the famous Tropicana Hotel and Casino. The discussion leads the guys into a conversation of what to look for in hotels around the country and their preferred pillows. Cam tells the guys what life is like NOT covering the Super Bowl this year, while Jason covers the biggest story from the Super Bowl ... Taylor Swift and Travice Kelce. Finally, Cam tells the guys about his daughter's newfound prowess picking NFL games.

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0:00.0	adjacent. Okay, I like that. I just learned something new today. Adjacent.
0:13.0	With Jason Leisure or Russell Dorsey on the House of Vale Network.
0:16.0	We're doing everything I dreamed of as an adjacent.
0:19.0	You got to write about Taylor Suf and Travis Kosszy. I'd be like, no, fire me.
0:25.0	Like that, like that is, if your People magazine or National Inquire and all those those places blogs teams cool do what you got do I get it
0:36.9	but like I'm not writing about Travis and Taylor so I kind of would have felt like that too. But at some point you just surrender to it. You're just like this is the big dominant story.
0:50.0	Travis Kelsey is drawing more media members
0:55.2	I saw the podium as
0:56.2	than anybody, in my homes or anybody else.
0:59.6	And to resist it is kind of like you know there's no point.
1:06.0	So I wrote a whole column about Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift yesterday
1:10.0	and I was like that big numbers. There's well well yeah but I want to do a good job on it I want to write well I want to do a great I want to write a great column on it and it's like if you're hating it the whole way and hating that you have to do it the whole way, it's you're not going to do very well.
1:27.5	You're better off to just embrace it and be like, all right, this is the big deal. Let's just get into it and do it.
1:34.6	No, I get that.
1:36.6	I get that.
1:37.1	I know we live in the age unfortunately where people, writers, good journalists have to think about,
1:45.0	all right, well, what's gonna get traffic?
1:48.0	And I know editors and higher ups there,
1:51.0	like, I know what gets traffic.
1:52.0	And if you know damn well that higher upstairs We got it too. I'm sure that's some of the thinking behind it. I don't really think like that. I just more I was on board with the idea of writing about it because it's just such a big story and love it or hate it and a lot of people hate it it has taken over the
2:16.1	NFL this season it's going to be a huge part of watching the Super Bowl on Sunday.
2:23.0	Like, if you're going to write about it, just get into it.
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