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You are listening to the Dan Patrick show on Fox Sports Radio.

It's awesome when the British opener, Wembleon, it's early in the morning, and you're like, yeah.

And then all of a sudden you start to plan your day.

Next thing you know, you've got soccer in the afternoon with the euros and then summer league

basketball and then at night you had copa and i'm watching um because i'm friends with rob

stone he's the host of fox sports and uh so he's hosting this and i keep waiting like i'm

waiting to go when are they going to go out to the event?

And they kind of downplayed what was going on prior to the game leading up to the game.

And all of a sudden, you realize that, you know, the Copa America final with Argentina and

Colombia was a mess.

And we wanted to talk to somebody who was there.

Paul Tenorio, the senior writer for the athletic, he was there and joins us from the Fort Lauderdale

area. Paul, thanks for joining us. When did you realize something was wrong pregame?

Yeah, it was a little bit before 6 o'clock.

We started to hear that there were issues with people that were jumping fences,

trying to get into the games, and we saw a couple photos on the Getty wires, actually,

of people being arrested.

And so at that point, my colleagues, Felipe Cardenas, Jack Lang, and myself,

we went down to the gates to see what was going on. And I got

down there at about 605 or so, and right around when I got down there, they closed the gates. And

at that point, you're kind of thinking, okay, they're going to try to get control of this situation.

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