That's Eli Manning from the Pro Bowl games, not the Pro Bowl,
there is no longer a pro bowl, but they call it. The Pro Bowl
from time to time. They had stadium was packed though.
Well, hey, that's the thing whatever they do, as long as it
makes money.
As long as people watch that, they had the event Thursday
night, 1.1 million. People watched that on ESPN, whatever
it was that they did, I don't know, I didn't watch it
yesterday. I was traveling.
Even if I wasn't traveling, I wouldn't have watched. It's not
football, I love football it. It's not football flag.
Football is not football. I know they're investing a lot in
flag football. That's the pathway to the Olympics. Sure.
They're trying to make football and Olympic sport tackle.
Football is never going to get there, the
trying to get there with flag football, so they're embracing
this element of flag football, okay FL right? That's fine.
That's fine.
It's still not football to me.
I've tried to watch flag football
flag. Football is not football. May be fun to play,
not nearly as fun to watch as regular football. It's not
football. No, so,
but we'll see what the ratings were.
Will see what happened? They play the game.
Today, the NFC sure they'll be good came from behind to win
the flag football game and apparently there's an overall
competition where it was
the lineman. Have a challenge and it was a flag football
score. So it was both thrown together. It wasn't just
the flag football game and they all look like they're having fun.
That's great.
They have fun. And the fans were there and they get to see
the stars. And I'm sure there was plenty of access, but
there's just a fundamental difference between watching
a football game. And and watching guys
play something that is
Football agreed, it's not the same, it is not the same,
there's no question. It's not,
I don't know what the adjustment was. I do think
the week of events and things were, I think a step up from where
they've been, I'll say that much. You know, I did like
turning it on during the week
and watching some of the challenges. Yes. Some of them
are stupid and silly whatever. But I guess what? I get back to
is I don't know how else you celebrate
the good players of the league, right? And that's what they're
trying to do, and that's where I do. Love the probe. From that
aspect. But as we've talked about before
unless they start to raise, the pay considerably,
these guys are, there's never going to be. Never be a tackle
Pro Football, Pro Bowl, football game ever again. But
the winners from this past weekend, get more than
the losers of the Super Bowl get, which is kind of amazing. It's
84,000.
I think. Are you participating? Yeah, so
there's money there. And this is all part of the CBA and it's
all been negotiated. Once they decided to take the game away,
I thought they were just going to have nothing but hey,
they're still. They can put on TV,
that people will watch and the Pro Bowl itself, had got to
the point where it was an embarrassment. And so much of
the coverage was, this isn't real football and it shouldn't
have been
once we became sensitive to player health and safety.
Once guys, embrace the realities of free agency and
want to keep themselves healthy for that crack at the open
market. Why would you show up for one more game and play hard
when you can get yourself
into we saw what happened to Tyler eifert.
So it makes sense. It makes sense. The money has become too
big in the sport and the normal Under the risk, it for
the problem, or more power to them if they can make money off of
it. Fine. But I don't care about it. A lot of fans don't
care about it as evidence by the fact that a week after 50
million tune in
for Bengals Chiefs, they'll be thrilled if 5 million thrilled.
It's 5 million to ten for yesterday. What are we at with
the Super Bowl as far as winning and losing teams,
making money now? Do you know the? I don't know but Serena
Williams is going to be
on with a soon are knew right away that the Pro Bowl winners.
Make more than the Super Bowl losers. I assume that I don't
know. I'm not going to assume anything was up every year.
It's a nice little Check. Yes, it's not. It's not. It doesn't
seem like it's going up on the price of the rest of
the league. That's what I'd like to say.
That's where my point was, I feel like it's not that much
more than when my dad was playing. It's all negotiated,
right? And, and whatever money is put in that pot is less
money. That's available under the salary cap. So that's
something to be, that's
the balance to. How much more do we pay? These guys for a few
extra game, right, and take off the table for all players, in
all games. So I think that's the balcony to try strike.
So oh, and by the way, it wasn't completely safe for
the participants. I saw a clip yesterday was good red, Iron
gauntlets. Yeah, where they had the linemen doing it look like
the old Superstars contest to the 70s
that thing looked like it could entail some risk and as it
turns out, now they're just busting through the confetti
School, through styrofoam there. But Mi Garrett
dislocated, his toe
man on this event, there he is up there. He's going to be with
us later in the week but he dislocated a toe. X-rays were
negative. I mean, you're running through his tires. You
can, you can twist your ankle? Yeah, it is not risk-free right
by
any means. So it's not. So, again, part of the balance
after strike between putting on an event, that people will be
interested in and putting guys at an unreasonable risk of
injury at a time when otherwise healthy enough to embark on and
off season,
we don't have to worry about surgery, enough to worry about
rehab and Recovery enough to worry about how it's going to
affect their financial interest. They have gotten to
a point where they should be entitled to relax a little bit
and not emerge.
From this all-star weekend with something else to worry about.
Yeah, no. I think that's exactly right. You know, we
want the players to care about their team and their career and
everything all the time and then
we can then we can't go. Well then ruin your career and your
team that you're on just for the Pro Bowl, you can't have it
both ways. So
I think this was a good experiment this week and
nonetheless for the NFL they're on the right track. Again,
I don't think they're ever going to get to the point where we're
going to look at this and go. This is like
the NBA All-Star Game
or the Major League. Baseball All-Star game, where we just
go. This is really a spectacle with in the season, it's not.
It's a difference. When were don't in the past it has drawn
more peep. I had far, the NBA in the MLB.
Yeah, it's crazy. So and I moved expect that to happen
again this weekend, so hopefully they continue to toy
with it, play with it the right way and it's always good to see
the stars of the game all in the right, you know, in
the spots and get
a little notoriety, that's going to be the real test
really. And the numbers will come out at some point today,
the ratings, for the Pro Bowl flag football. Football
/, whatever they were doing versus
real action right Hockey,
baseball basketball.
I still assume that that
the NFL experience will have drawn more
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