Stadium Building 101: How the Buffalo Bills got the deal done; NFL diversity coaching program has major flaws (Episode 565)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Baseball, Business

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘1.4 Billion’ as in $1.4B as in one point four billion dollars as in that’s the cost of the new Buffalo Bills stadium. How does this get done? Are the Bills paying for the whole stadium? Ha. $850M will be coming from tax payers. The Bills will only pay $350M and the NFL will fund $200M. Why is it done like this? Let’s talk about Marlins Park. (21:10) What’s going on with NFL diversity programs in coaching hiring? The NFL is launching a new program where teams are required to hire a minority or a woman for an offensive coaching role. The payments are not from the team, but from an NFL fund. What? (31:35) Review: Pam & Tommy. (37:30) Will Smith apologized for the incident at the Oscars. (40:25) NPPOD. (42:40) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Dave Roberts said the Dodgers are going to win the World Series. He said to write it down in Sharpie now. Someone asked me if I like when my manager says this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Many of us are already planning our New Year's resolutions to work out more in 2023.
0:04.4	But let's face it, they rarely stick.
0:06.6	Well, Peloton's got a gift for you.
0:08.6	Get up to $200 off accessories, like non-slip-grip dumbbells, cycling shoes,
0:13.1	heart remonitors, and more, with the purchase of a Peloton bike, bike plus, or tread.
0:17.3	Don't wait. Get this offer before it ends on December 25th.
0:20.7	Visit 1Peloton.com. All Access Membership Separate Offer ends December 25th.
0:25.6	Cannot be combined with other offers. See additional terms at 1Peloton.com.
0:49.7	1.4 billion. That's the nothing personal word of the day for
0:55.2	Tuesday, March 29th, 2022. We're two days away from the end of the first quarter of 2022 already.
1:06.4	Boom, Tempest Fugit folks, Carp Bay, some deems today.
1:11.6	We're going to talk about Buffalo. Who talks about Buffalo? I do. I love Buffalo.
1:18.6	The Buffalo Bills, not often can you go to four straight super balls and lose.
1:23.6	They're people now who don't remember that time when Jim Kelly and the Buffalo Bills
1:28.7	went to the Super Bowl every year and then could not win. Yeah, giants.
1:34.4	1.4 billion is the word of the day. People are up in arms. Let's have a stadium financing conversation.
1:40.9	Let's maybe have the final stadium financing conversation we're going to have. Now we're not
1:45.6	going to have it. I thought we were done with public-private financing, with public giving money
1:50.2	after Marlon's Park. Everyone was up in arms. People losing jobs. Mayors being recalled.
1:58.4	Total absolute nightmare getting the deal done. Got it done.
2:03.2	Economic studies that say it is a great benefit to Miami to have Marlon's Park.
2:09.0	Economic studies saying it will do nothing to have Marlon's Park. The truth is probably
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from David Samson, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of David Samson and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.