Will Anyone Actually Tune In Just to See Football in Australia?

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3:05you wouldn't watch your own label. I would watch, but you will see what is this mean. You asked, okay, hold on. Don't act like an ass after we just had an argument about this, a bitter argument on the phone about this two days ago. Don't start switching up on me. I think you were just as mad at me on the phone. Well, I'm getting mad at you because you're switching up the whole thing about what you were right, what you were talking to me about. Because lime is whole thing is how much is too much football. Lime is a sports talk host who hates the live sports apparently all of a sudden, too much sports. No, we want to lower the baseball season. We want to reduce the baseball season, reduce the basketball season. Let's have no sports. They've watered it all down. COVID was perfect for tone. Just done like any of the sports, done like any of the games. You had asked, I'd mentioned, I'd mentioned the games in Australia. And you said you didn't care. And I'm like, well, tune in to see what it looks like in Australia. To where apparently that was a, yeah, that was just a supreme insult to Anthony Lime, but what I had mentioned that. That was just they've been doing games in other countries

4:05for years. They'll show some shots. You know, if you just watch the game, yeah, they'll show you beauty shots from that area. And I will tune in to see what it looks like in Australia. You've never seen Australia before? No, well, not personally, not since crocodile then. Not since I said. I mean, the Wiggles, they do a lot of shooting all over Australia. The last seat, I'm not familiar with the Wiggles. I saw Dora the wait, what was the finding Nemo? And that ended up in Sydney. Underwater though. It's true. And a dentist. I don't get to see much of Australia. Did you say was your take with me the other day that people will tune into this just because it's in Australia? I think they might be a little bit curious and they might tune in for five, 10, 15, whatever minutes. I do have to see what it looks like in Australia. I don't believe. Why wouldn't they? There would be one more person that would tune into the game because it's Australia. So should you tell post to here? So should you tell Jeff that he should stop mentioning that the game is in Australia? No, well, the storyline of them getting to Australia.

5:07That's been the biggest storyline. The trip, the amount of hours, how there, the two teams have diametrically opposing views. That to me is the story in the lead up to the game. Once it's a game, it's football game and we'll see whose theory ended up being right. That's a storyline. Obviously. But if this was a green screen and they were really just playing this game in a studio and Hollywood or New York City. Stanley Kubrick, Moon landing wish. I don't think there would be one more person. I don't think it would matter to any of the fans, one Iota. Buzz Alderman would like to punch you in the teeth. I would say had they actually played this at a time where it was, so it's a 1030 local kickoff. Yeah. Like a youth football game. Yeah. Yes. If they had played it for the primetime Australian audience and it became a 430 AM game for us, I think more people would make a little bit of an effort because of the oddity. It's why we like London games. At least we've discussed that on this show. Because you get out of bed.

6:08It's a 930. You wake up and there's football going. You feel like you're on the West Coast. Yeah. I got a taste of what that's like. I'm like, I can get used to this. This is awesome. That's the Australian thing. It kills it for me because it's just going to be on a time that I normally watch football on a weeknight. It's going to be no different for the fans. They played it two o'clock in the afternoon and we got, like it was a day game for a baseball team when you get to get away games, right? Sometimes that's fun. So all those things go into the general interest of a fan tuning in for five to 10 minutes to see a game played in Australia. It's 10.30 in the AM over there. How do you get to Australia? Well, you always have to go on a very long flight. There's no short flights to Melbourne, Australia. All right. I've been to an outback steakhouse recently, but I can't say that the cuisine that I'm sure they're going to show in the B-roll is anything like it. So I'm sure that, like it is the reason they do it is to draw general. I want to see how many people actually made the trip. I want to see how many people are dying the wool, Rams 49ers fans are like, I'm going to Australia.

7:10We're going on vacation to Australia to go see my favorite team play football, like when people say they're going to London to see the Browns, which I would never go to Europe or Australia to see an NFL game, but there's plenty of people who do it. So I know I'm in the minority there. So if I'm in the minority there, I would imagine that there's going to be several people tonight who tune in just to see what it's like to see a football game in Australia, which you're right. It's not like it's going to be 120 yards long and 60 yards wide. It's going to be the same dimensions, but it's held in a cricket stadium. I think the first part of your sentence is right. There will be people tuning in because there's football tonight. Then you added because Australia, why would that change anybody's? You're a football fan, you're watching it regardless of where it is. So you're going to tune in and you're not going to want to see any part of Australia. You don't care. You're not care at all. No, that's all I'm saying. Show it. It has no bearing on whether I'm going to watch the game and that was your initial premise is that people will be tuning in because it's in Australia. And I'm saying there's zero evidence to bet on.

8:10What's the point of even having the games out there if people aren't going to tune in just to see? Like when I was a kid, when I was a kid, this isn't for fans in the United States. There's nothing to do with this. They still want our eyes to watch that. If anything, all the 49er fans, all the Rams fans are mad. Their mad this game is being played. But you still want people to see it. If it's for people overseas who live in different time zones, why wouldn't they do it in their time zones? Exactly. Like this is not the NBA playoffs in the United States. They're trying to expand the footprint of the NFL. That's why. That's why. Yes. They got their own football down there. And over there. They have their own football in Europe. Down under, I believe. Down under, that's why they play any games in Europe. But it's not for us. It's to expand the brand. And that's the debate right now between, did you see the spat between, is it the president of the Rams? He was going after the 49ers writer, whatever the 49ers guy was saying, you guys don't care about expanding the sport. And he's like, because they're only going for a day. They're not spending, they're not meeting people. They're not talking to ambassadors.

9:12They're just like the Rose Bowl, like the link up. Yeah, that's what the NFL wants. That the NFL wants, wants the people on the ground there to embrace the sport. Remember like when the calves went to Paris two years ago, three years, and they went like three days early, and they did a bunch of convention type of things before the game. Made the game kind of suck really. But I would expect there'd be more convention to it for potential. It's the Europe stuff though. At least you have the travel is so much easier if you live another country. I mean, who's, I'll show you what else are you connected to that you can get there easily if you're in a different area? Nothing. Well, I don't know if that I'm flying for many of the other islands in the Pacific to go watch football in Australia. I'm not watching the NFL. That's even a, I mean, even for people in Thailand. Yeah, it's a journey. Yes. If it happens, I mean, if I happen to be there, if I happen to be there, then fine, I'll go, but I'm not going to make these special trips just for the NFL.

10:15But my whole thing is, you're not wrong. Not saying this is not about, you're right about the expansion brand. But I'm the only guy who tuned into preseason football in Tokyo just to see what it was like in the Tokyo dome. Like the only person maybe I was trying to watch. I was trying to watch Jose cover kicks. But I'm five years younger than you. And they did it like four, whatever years in a row, I found myself tuning in just to see what it looked like in, in Tokyo. It just seems to me that it's kind of the same wherever it is, not in this country. It's just a bunch of fans that are cosplaying whatever team they've decided to root for as a diehard fan of that team. So they get their face painted. I do wear the jerseys. I have no idea who the players are on the team. And they're like, yeah, in Europe, you see a ton of jerseys from teams that are not there. That even area. So I wonder if it's going to be less of that in Australia. And more of the two specific teams, because there's, I mean, there's a smaller pool to pool from as far as getting people in, you know,

11:19expats, especially. I'm sure there's enough to fill up a stadium there of expats, but it's not in the millions like it is in Europe. That's true. They're pro, they're both popular teams. I don't think there should be any empty seats, but I just kind of want to see what it looks like in Australia. You got five million people that live in Melbourne. There's five million people live in Sydney. It's like four hours apart. So there's 10 million people. I mean, there's enough fans. That I'm guessing in 80,000 seats. They cricket's pretty expansive. Yeah. Be kind of far away from the sidelines. I'll be like, old municipal. You said, okay, the cricket thing, that may be the way to pull me closer to you. Like when they play these games in the soccer stadiums, like, I don't want to see what that looks like. But that's a, that's an interest for like three minutes. Then it's, that's a football. Well, is a cricket stadium going to end up being like the, the design then for the future, like the soccer, like, that's a soccer stadium over there in Buffalo.

12:19I mean, you know, you know, you know, damn, well, that's a premier league soccer stadium over there in Buffalo. It looks exact. If you didn't know it was in Buffalo, you would say that that's in whatever end of London. I don't know. I never been over there. You figured out someone call Paul Brown and tell me which end. But that would look like somewhere over there in London. So I don't want it to turn to that, but maybe they're trying to find ideas. I'm sure it's, hey, all right, almost here. Are you ready? Just grabbing my shoes. That's what you said 10 minutes ago. I just wrapped the video call, uploading this giant file on my tablet, looking at my watch group and Nana's with the group chat, and of course, still lining up tonight's playlist on my phone. All at once? Yep, story of my life. That's why I switched to D-Mobile. They have the fastest 5G network. OK, multi-tasker. I see you. Honestly, I never imagined I could do all this at once. It's awesome. Say no more. I'm totally switching. My post is taking way too long to upload. That's a sign you've got to get D-Mobile.

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15:26Like, all right, you've got to see what that's like. And sometimes for the wrong reasons, it's like, oh, they have to switch sides of the field. There's not enough room in the back of the game, so. That's kind of a disaster. All right, I'm tuning in to see how the teams deal with that. But I don't know, is the cricket stadium any different? Are we expecting that to be an issue? I don't think it seems to be... Crickets are pretty expensive. It's an issue in 20-26, but you never expect games to get canceled because the paint wasn't right and things like that. Oh, and they played a basketball game, right? The first time they tried to play one on a ship. Remember. And then it got canceled because it was just too wet. That famous Rams chief scheme that was like 60 to 50 or whatever it was supposed to be in Mexico City. And then the turf wasn't right. And they ended up just playing it in LA. There is going to be plenty of room there. I just did a cricket field compared to a football field. You will have plenty of space to explore at the cricket stadium.

16:26I knew it was pretty big. Coming up next, Mary K Cabot. Has she ever been new, Australia? Does anybody care? There's only one way to find out. Go and ask for that and also some changes could already be coming to the offensive line. I think people care very much way more about that. And the Shawn Watson has already forgot about the Buffalo game, but which one? It's all coming up on the face. Hey, our rides almost here. Are you ready? Just grabbing my shoes. That's what you said 10 minutes ago. I just wrapped the video call, uploading this giant file on my tablet, looking at my watch group and Nana's with the group chat. And of course, still lining up tonight's playlist on my phone. All at once? Yep, story of my life. That's why I switched to D-Mobile. They have the fastest 5G network. OK, multi-tasker. I see you. Honestly, I never imagined I could do all this at once. It's awesome. Say no more, I'm totally switching. My post is taking way too long to upload. That's a sign you've got to get to mobile.

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