Valenti's Cold Open: I was "Moved" By Significance of Lions Win
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 16 January 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Mike and Rico open the show breaking down what this Lions win meant to the city of Detroit, and how they feel about the team going into their home matchup with the Buccaneers. Plus, they send a message to Kelly Stafford and her family.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh my god. I'm so thankful we get to come on the air today and not do disaster radio. How is everyone? |
| 0:08.0 | Oh, don't worry. I'll save the anger for later in the week. I am just... It's on your mind, Mike. So, Rico. So many things. But we're only going to talk about one of them, which is something that felt almost, not almost, it felt owed. |
| 0:31.1 | It felt like these fans were entitled to and I just will take you back to third and four from the 37 yard line and I went oh my God not like this |
| 0:43.4 | Don't, please, and a foreign change to go. |
| 0:48.0 | Don't, don't do this to these people. |
| 0:50.6 | Don't allow Stafford to go down, run the clock, kick the field goal and |
| 0:55.0 | beat them please. And it didn't happen. And I've never seen a venue, like that sound like that here locally I mean the |
| 1:06.2 | closest would be when the Tigers were in the World Series and Comerica was a total |
| 1:10.0 | snake pit you know you want to say the palace back in |
| 1:13.0 | oh four okay you want to say the Joe back in the day fine but anyone who was at |
| 1:19.8 | that game's going to tell you that that was different. Dan Campbell acknowledged it was |
| 1:23.6 | different. You guys were incredible. And credit Ford Field, it looked great. Like |
| 1:28.9 | it looked the part of a major market venue. |
| 1:33.0 | And it's funny, Rico's always said something, |
| 1:35.0 | and it's real truth. |
| 1:37.0 | We view LCA is this empty, sterile, boring, lousy place, right, where it it's like there's nothing there |
| 1:44.5 | it's because it's never seen a winner. Yep. Ford Field hosting a playoff game |
| 1:50.5 | you can't sell me that Arrowhead was a tougher place to play or you can't sell me that whatever the hell your field is in San Francisco is a tough for place. |
| 1:58.0 | Snake Pit. It just it was incredible and I will tell you this you can laugh, say whatever you want obviously I've been here my whole adult life |
| 2:06.5 | I am not a lion's fan but I have a weird trait that I am able to be happy for other people |
| 2:11.8 | like it's okay, unlike Kelly Stafford. More on that later. |
| 2:16.4 | I was moved by what I watched. And you know, when they put up that hundred year old dude or 92 or 88 |
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