The Greenbrier's Greg Furlong

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🗓️ 29 September 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The Greenbrier resort in West Virginia has been hosting NFL teams for training camp since 2014. Vice President of Sales & Event Services Greg Furlong sits down with Andrew on this week's podcast to talk about the evolution of the Greenbrier Sports Performance Center & Sean Payton's influence (2:48), the recruiting process for NFL teams (5:07), the financial impact of hosting teams at the resort (8:43), west coast NFL teams using the facility on back to bak east coast trips (16:01), & other sports that have used the Greenbrier (17:59). Connect with the Pod Website: https://www.andrew-brandt.com Andrew’s Sunday Seven Newsletter: https://www.andrew-brandt.com/sunday-seven Twitter: @AndrewBrandt Instragram: @AndrewBrandt2 Clubhouse: @adb719 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, boys and girls. Welcome to another edition of the Business of Sports with Andrew Brand. I'm Andrew Brand.
0:04.4	We got a special edition tonight. This comes to you from the Greenbrier Resort in White Silver Springs, West Virginia, beautiful resort in West Virginia.
0:13.6	I've been down here hiking and biking and running and enjoying the outdoors, what it has to offer in this beautiful time of year.
0:21.2	But I wanted to interview the guy who brings the sports teams here.
0:25.0	That's right.
0:26.2	Patriots have been here.
0:27.3	Cardinals have been here.
0:28.7	Saints have been here multiple times.
0:30.6	And the past two years, including the past week, the San Francisco 49ers have come and stayed here between visits to teams back east in weeks one and two last year.
0:41.3	I'm sorry, two and three last year, weeks one and two this year.
0:45.3	I thought it was fascinating that they have basically built an entire NFL training camp here to be used maybe a few weeks a year, and then for teams that are staying
0:56.1	on the East Coast between games. It's a fascinating subject to me. I reached out. I got the
1:01.3	vice president of marketing and sales, the guy who's recruited and got these teams to come here,
1:06.7	and explains how it all happened. And I'll get to that. Right after a quick word from Draft King's, our sponsor,
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