Hello Sunshine. I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome to the State of the Union podcast where we look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the

lens of red white and blue-colored glasses. This show will be talking the U.S. Men's National Team Camp,

Eh, let's call it Cream Puff, MLS versus U.S.L. the Naddy, Polisic Waya, Robinson, Vasquez,

Stephan, D.K. Pep, the Missouri Athletic Club, Mary Tyler Moore,

Franz Beckenbauer, promoting American soccer, the National Anthem, and so much more.

But first joining me, as always, my friend, my colleague, my guiding light David Mossy a soccer

savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary

Mossy we are again ships passing in the night you went one way went the other way, I now come to you from our studio here in Los Angeles, and you are in what producer Sean over the last couple of days has referred to the naddy me thinking okay

Mossy's gone to Cincinnati for some reason but evidently you're not in

Cincinnati but you are somewhere else for your Wolverines who are in the

the championship game I guess it would be in the in the playoff final, right?

Correct, I'm doing well. I'm in Houston, Texas.

Tonight is the big one, Michigan Washington National championship game. I initially did not think I was going to go to this game but

all my college buddy started texting me and telling me they were going so it became sort of a college reunion type thing and we're all going to the game so yeah here I am

awful weather outside so I don't know what that's going to mean for tailgating and stuff but the game is in a dome, so I can't wait.

Two quick questions.

One, how did you procure your tickets for this game?

StubHub.

StubHub. Stub Hub.

And did they make you pay out of the nose or were they reasonable?

Out of the nose.

Yeah, now, let me put it this way.

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