To Be The Best, Do You Have To Beat The Best?

The Valenti Show

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Sports

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Would you rather have your team beat the best possible opponent to win their respective championship or does that not matter?

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0:00.0	You know what, Stoney?
0:02.5	What's so funny?
0:03.5	I love our listeners.
0:05.2	I was just reading the Twitch board.
0:08.3	I don't care if the Lions beat a team
0:10.2	full of blind third graders for the Super Bowl just win.
0:14.5	That's true.
0:20.3	Listen to 49er fan who's been, who won some Super Bowls making fun of a lion fan. No, I'm not. I just thought that was funny. It is fun. I know. Hey, I said it. I don't care. You know what? The Niners beat Bobby Ross and the Chargers and beat the brakes off of him. I know. And I didn't care.
0:37.8	Rice scores on the first play.
0:39.3	Great.
0:39.6	You know what that means?
0:40.8	Less stress, less pressure because you know you're the better team.
0:44.9	So I'm all for the easiest path to get that ring or to get that title.
0:48.9	Who are you rooting for in that game, by the way?
0:51.1	The AFC championship game.
0:55.8	That was a Chargers and Colts.
1:03.3	I believe so, yeah. Yeah, that was Harbaugh, the Hail Married, Aaron Bailey. He mentioned his son the other day, actually.
1:07.3	I was room for the Chargers. Okay. Yeah, I was room for the Chargers because you knew that.
1:11.2	Because Harbaal was just a pain in the butt. And it was just like, you know what?
1:15.4	I don't want this guy having this miraculous Super Bowl.
1:18.0	Give me the charges at Bobby Ross.
1:19.5	That was Dan Feltz?
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