05-19-26 Hour 1 of Broncos Country Tonight

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to it.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Broncos Country Tonight, menement Albright, Nick Ferguson short show post
Rockies edition. Nick is starving and I said some other
stuff I'm not gonna repeat, but but he's also starving.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
We definitely don't want to mintion the other stuff. But
I am starving one from my stomach, but the other
thing that I'm starving for, Ben, I think the Mile
High City is starving for as well as when the
hell are we gonna host a Draft or super Bowl
or am I just I don't know out of pocket

(00:33):
on that.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Well, Typically the NFL starts awarding this stuff if you
build a new stadium. It's like an incentive for cities
or whatever to build new stadium.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
So if you build it, we will come, they will.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
They will break it anyway, and certainly they will come,
as we looked at the attendance numbers for Pittsburgh that
just came out. But yeah, I think with a new
stadium coming once it gets once it gets done, you
could see a super Bowl and a Draft here in
short order. I would expect within the next ten years
the Broncos will have had both hosted a Super Bowl

(01:06):
and hosted the NFL Draft. Now, I'm sure fans would
rather go to a super Bowl as a team, but
but I would say that I believe the city will
get those events and those and those dollars, which you know,
I think it comes from, like I said, from building
the stape. I don't know how many drafts or super
Bowls you've been to off of it. They're events, man,

(01:28):
they really are. Like there's more to it than just
the game. It's like a whole week of stuff that
leads up to it, and cities they certainly benefit from it.
There there's a lot of tourism money, you know, that
sort of comes from that, and it's it's become an
event and whatever else you think of the NFL over
monetizing things. They certainly have found a way to make

(01:48):
the underwear Olympics into a monetary event, and they found
a way to squeeze every dollar out of the super Bowl,
turning it into a multi week event. Well yeah, man.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
And and here's the thing that I guess from the
league's standpoint, it's all about branding. And a lot of
these cities have not actually hosted a Super Bowl, Like
I think it's been fifteen cities that haven't hosted the
Super Bowl, and the reason being because of inclement weather,

(02:18):
of the possibility. But we've seen, like several years ago
when the Broncos played the Seattle Seahawks and the Super
Bowl met life. They played in New York City. I
had never thought that they would have a super Bowl there.
It's not a dome. It can't get cold in New
York City, not like Denver. Because at Denver, like hey man,
it's springtime or summertime, well not summertime, but the springtime

(02:42):
now and you can get snow at any point. But
still at the same time, I think Denver deserves it,
but the league looks at it from this standpoint, and
you tell me where as far as how do you
see the city of Denver, because they look at smaller markets,
idea inclement weather, and more importantly, you mentioned as much

(03:04):
of a big weekend as it is, if your city
cannot kind of host all those people. Now me talking
about international people, not just people from your city, but
international people like Green Bay and Buffalo two places that
come to mind, and I'm thinking they would never host it,
even though the Bills have a new stadium. But I
would like to think, you know, d Ia is an

(03:26):
international airport, is it not? It is, I mean so
many flights and a whole other country. It's not even
located in the United States from Denver, so far away.
So what is it that stopping the NFL from choosing Denver.
I mean, we could say the stadium, but how New
York had it and they're outdoors.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, I think. I mean they've turned it into this
incentive thing to build. One part of the reason that
they haven't gotten it is the idea of inclement weather
or you know, logistics and facilities and whatnot. You know,
I disagree with that. It feels like every super Bowl
is pretty much sunny here in Denver. I've lived here
or since what twenty I moved here in late twenty twelve,
so twenty thirteen would have been the first Super Bowl

(04:05):
I lived in Denver, and I don't recall off the
top of my head a year in which there was
inclement weather that would have prohibited a Super Bowl from
being played. I think almost every year was sunny in
almost sixty during the Super Bowl. So I'm with you
on that, But the league, you know, being what it is.
I mean, for years, the super Bowls were always in
like Miami or whatever, you know, Angels now Louisiana, right,

(04:27):
And so now I think the NFL's figured out we
could make more money rotating this thing around. And that's
the thing now the Broncos with the new stadium not
going to be a dome, but he is going to
have a retractable roof. Yeah, I think if you are
looking at sort of a blueprint on what they're planning,

(04:48):
final decisions haven't been made, but the ideas that they
are pitching around are probably closest to what Buffalo's new
stadium looks like. And so yes, and I would suggest
that if you are, if you're wanting to get sort
of an idea of what the Broncos are trying to do,
that's what you should look at.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
See Man, I don't know, Man, maybe just me and
being a little biased, because you have the Nissan Stadium,
that's twenty thirty, that's the Tennessee Titans a stadium. So
they're going to get a Super Bowl obviously, they're getting
a new stadium or whatever. Came way to see what
those renderings look like. Minnesota, I mean, they're hosting the

(05:30):
twenty twenty eight draft. Men of freaking soda and I'm like, Okay,
what is the Minnesota Vikings from organization? What if they achieved?
And you just said it. The league has find it
to be very profitable by moving the NFL Draft from
city to city. But I'm like, gosh, don it man,

(05:52):
the Mile High City. We're primed for it. And the
argument a couple of years ago was where do you
host the NFL Draft?

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Right downtown where we've seen a lot.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
Of championships, whether it was the Avs, the Broncos, or
the Denver Nuggets. Right hosts that that I don't know
if they call it whatever it is, down by the Capitol,
that's a great place to host it.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
The River, no I do, but no, yeah, you're right.
We've seen a parade, championship parade, overflow crowds that seems
perfect in that that sort of city park area whatever
that is. I don't know what that's officially called, but yeah,
right there by the Capitol, I guess, and all that
it's it's to me, it feels like it's a it's
a no brainer and easy if you had to do indoors.
The Convention Center's plenty big, you know, I feel like

(06:41):
that there's I mean, we have the great American beer
Fest that we do.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
And here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
When when you talk draft, you talk a lot of people,
You talk a lot of people who are what they
call slithered, which means that they're drinking a lot. So
if the convention center can hold people at the beer fest,
they can do this.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
I believe that they can. Yeah, I believe logistics certain places.
But in the NFL has taken to making it a
reward for you know, put footing the bill on a
new stadium or whatever, and that's that's sort of the
incentive I think for cities to do that. Now, the
Walton Penner Group is not seeking public funding for the
stadium itself. Now the public will fund well, yeah, there

(07:23):
will be personal seat licenses, not pumped. It'spice latteses right
Edwards was trying to float. Now there will be personal
seat licenses. Tickets will be more expensive to pay for it,
but uh, it's not hitting taxpayers, you know broadly now
that taxpayers will pay for some I'm gonna call it
area beautification, but really it means area of modifications surroundings. Yeah, beautification, trees, well,

(07:46):
no modifications around the stadium in order to make it
accessible in the neighborhoods and things like that. They've already
had some of the meetings on that. In fact, there's
some there's some local commissions if you want to get involved,
that are already dealing with negotiating with the penners on
some of that stuff. Because you're gonna have there's certain
things you have to do. Now from what I understand
is they want to make the stadium and they sort
of have a tailgating area, but it's not really like

(08:08):
they don't want to have like a giant parking lot
next to the stadium. They would have like off site
parking and it'd be a walk up stadium, like there'd
be transportation to it. I don't know how feasible that.
I don't know how feasible that's going to be, but
that was the original plan. Okay, So as you so
you're not putting a whole lot of traffic into downtown.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
A whole lot of track, at least into that area.
I thought usually.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Foot traffic was perceived as wise because now that means
so many people are walking by stores and restaurants. We're
opposed to driving. So they're trying to create that type
of atmosphere plus. But we've seen the model change where
look at New England and so far, where you build

(08:50):
the gynomus expensive stadium and you have shops, movie theaters
and restaurants. So it's almost like, what was it when
we were growing up? The gentrification?

Speaker 4 (09:02):
No one of those roads commercials when the roaches check in,
they don't check out.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah, the raid, you say, gentrification, I'm making it.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yeah anyway, I mean, okay, real talk, that's exactly what
we're talking about now. But in this case, it's like
what they're trying to make sure that people come in
for the game, but they don't leave right away.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
They want you to spend money at the bars. They
want you to put money back in the local economy
at the shops. They want to do that right now.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
If you if they took the idea, like every amusement
park where you're going to ride, you have to go
through the gift shop in order to get out to
your car.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
Okay, that's the model. Build a stadium and you say.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
Okay, well here's a large parking dagg of parking area,
but before you get there, you have to go through
this area where the restaurants are.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
Not that now that seems ideal.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
I think that's what they want to do. I think
they want an area that's it's sort of a business
and residential district that people have to walk through, and
then the parking would be like off site. It wouldn't
be like it is, you got to take the bus
to get there, bus or or or light rail stop
or you know, a shuttle bus that shuttles between the
parking lot and that kind of stuff. The idea is

(10:25):
just to create less of a strain in terms of traffic,
because I don't know if you how many of you
listening have ever tried to get out of a Broncos
game afterwards? You might sit, ye will be good for
a couple hours. Like I'm gonna be honest. After the game,
you know, I go down to the field, do some interviews,
We go to the down to the locker room, do

(10:46):
interviews at the press conferences right there next to the
locker room, and they're still traffic trying to get out
even after I finish all that.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
I know what was interesting about that. It's funny because
after the Buffalo Bills game, obviously it's snowed that day,
and I was trying to I was hoping to get
out and beat the traffic, but.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
Luckily it was enough traffic.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
I was sitting there only to therefore find find out
or hear about the coach Peyton coming back to the
podium to therefore say that bo Nicks had a broken ankle.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, so that's because because I had already left, like
I left, you know, I had left early, trying to
beat the traffic on that one. So that was Yeah,
it's And I'm not trying to say that they need
to do that for us, you know, media types or whatever,
but I will say that it has been a problem
over the years is the amount of hours that the
downtown traffic grinds to halt. So if you have parking
this slightly off site, uh, and you could you're able

(11:40):
to stagger that with shuttle, buses, light rail and everything else.
It probably creates a more orderly scenario which people are
able to exit the downtown area and keep traffic. Plus
you get that foot traffic by all the shops and
everything else while they're waiting.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
I don't I slightly agree because like when when you
look at big metropolitan cities like Denver, the ideas that
will let's expand the highway because it is too jam packed.
You know what that means. You expand the highways, you
don't get rid of the traffic, You just add more traffic.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Well yeah, the more cars on the road, right, And
you know, I don't know if there's room to expand
in Denver anymore. You get the light rail. On the
one side, it's your box ten. You can't move that, yep.
And on the other side ofything's built up. So I mean,
I don't know that there's room to expand the Denver
freeways or anything like that. And all that really does
is just create a wider traffic jam rather than a
longer one at at a certain point because eventually the
name the lanes got a narrow back down.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yeah, but think about it.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
You leave a game and you have to get on
a tram or something that takes you back to your vehicle.
I mean, how many trams are you going to be
running simultaneously? Because I would think that that would be
a massive inconvenience. All right, that is just walking out
of stadium getting in your car. Yeah, it may take
you about thirty minutes, but just think about it.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
It's cold in Denver. You're waiting for the tram.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
You can't get on a tram. You're preaching the choir
that those are quests for the mayor and for the
Wold and Petern group and everybody else. To answer, I
don't have the answers for that. I'm just giving you
some of the some of the thoughts that have been
been put out. As far as that kind of stuff goes,
I don't know. From what I understood, it was limited parking,
and that limited parking was going to be for people,
you know, employees, working teams, families, you know, that kind

(13:18):
of stuff, and that the actual parking would be off site.
Now I don't know that that's necessarily the way they're
going to do it. We'll see. I think the other
thing that they're going to do, if they're going to
do that, is you're going to have to some sort
of if you're going to have on site parking, it's
basically going to have to be parking decks. You're going
to have to do something to build vertically because horizontal
building of that is out of the question. You don't
have to light, you don't have the real estate to

(13:39):
do it. So if you are going to build something
like that, you're probably going to have to build like
a parking deck system that uses some sort of ticketing
system in order to charge for parking that kind of thing.
You know, I don't know, you can keep cost a
lot lower in terms of parking if you have off
site parking. Everybody knows you go park in a Broncos game,
and you know, I mean, you and I are lucky.
We've got the iHeart Pass, so you go, we go

(13:59):
sit in the you know, THEPLI for free. But for
the average fan, you talk about one hundred bucks fifty
to one hundred bucks just for park just to park
your car.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
So wouldn't be a good idea if the team could
package parking in your season tickets all the one lump sum.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Yeah, I mean you probably have some of that where
you build it in and you get a little pass
that you scan when you go in the parking deck
or whatever that kind of thing. Season ticket holders are
in the parking deck orverybody else is off site. There's
there's ways to do that if you're buying, especially if
you're gonna be buying PSLs, which you're gonna be doing,
you know what. Okay, you know you can tell my
disdain for that.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yeah, that's a dirty word.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
It's very much a dirty word. You can tell my
my word. I mean, it's a it's a necessary evil.
Otherwise you get to charge all the taxpayers, which I
don't like either. Like I don't believe that taxpayers should
have to pay for stadiums, right if you believe that
people who use the stadium should pay for the stadium.
And so I understand, like it sucks when you have
an extra fee tacked on there, but I would rather
have an extra feed tacked on for those that use it.

(14:55):
Then you know, a whole bunch of people who don't
use it get in charge for that kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
It just seems like either way you're going to get
it coming or going, and there's gonna be a fee
to pay.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Well, yeah, you can't get away from that. If they're
if they're if they're building something and it costs them money,
you're gonna pay for it. Somehow. They're gonna bake that
cost in one way or the other. Either you're paying
a million dollars for a cookie at the stadium or whatever.
But they're gonna bake that cost. In fandom is very costly.
Well that it is. So we've talked about that over
the uh we talked about that.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
Over the weeks.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
It's not just all the streaming services and everything else.
It's you know, it's a price to go on site
and you know and stuff like that. And Yeah, I
think the NFL really does have a you know, an
inflection point on its hands here soon when when they've
made you know, you hope you don't make the game
inaccessible to your fans by you know, this kind of
stuff and getting the prices to a point where people

(15:45):
can't afford it.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
See, it makes me think about something I never thought about.
What sport is the most expensive sport for a fan?

Speaker 1 (15:56):
Which one?

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Uh for for what?

Speaker 3 (15:58):
For like a championship game or no, tell me attendance,
like going to a game like I'm thinking the Cleveland
Browns haven't been that successful. You got to think that
maybe it is more cost effective to go to a
Cleveland Browns game than maybe a team that has won
a couple of playoff games or a championship.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
I don't know what the most expensive one to attend is.
I know the motorsports are the most expensive one to
get into, but I don't know which one is car yeah,
oh yeah, really yeah, NASCAR in NASCAR and equestrian sports
are the most those the most expensive to get into.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
I thought it would be F one, well that F.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
One more motorsports in the Formula one carting rally and
all of that stuff. We got to hit a break.
But let's look at up there because I'm curious to
see what is the what is the gateway to get
into that kind of stuff? Will I know? I know,
like I said, what's the most expensive to participate? And
I just don't know what's the most expensive to attend. Guys,
listen to the Broncos Country to night. We'll be back
Cram after this. Welcome back to a Broncos Country tonight.

(16:56):
Benjamin Albright, Nick Ferguson here again, short show post Rockies edition.
We have a full show tomorrow though Wednesday, so you
guys want to be in here tuned in for that,
and then of course Thursday and Friday will carry you
up to Rockies Covers. Thursday and Friday. I think Rockies
Cover starts at seven pm, so we'll be live up

(17:16):
up to that point as well. We were talking about
we started off talking about you know, getting the draft
and the Super Bowls here in Denver sort of veered
into costliness with the new stadium and all that kind
of stuff. We're looking it up there at the Breakuse
I was right. I knew it was motorsports the most
expensive to get into as a as a participant. But

(17:36):
what was the costliest sport for fans to attend? Also
Formula one motorsports, But the NFL was number two. And
I'm looking at I'm looking at this right here. It
says on a week to week basis, the NFL is
the most expensive of all the major domestic league sports,
commanding an average single game ticket price an average ticket
price of two hundred and ninety seven dollars. High demand

(17:58):
markets in the regular season like the Raiders are not
feature regular season ticket entries crossing two hundred and two
hundred and thirty fourth for the cheap seats you know,
the nosebleeds as we refer to the Super Bowl. This
is routinely the most bank breaking annual sporting event in
the world. Average resale tickets for recent games like the
most recent Super Bowl, reached twelve one and twenty eight dollars.
Base secondary averages generally float between six thousand and eighty

(18:21):
five one hundred dollars per ticket. Now the most expensive
one again. Formula one Motorsports Grandstand tickets for premier weekends
range from five hundred and fifteen hundred just for admission,
and then destination races like the Grand Prix, the Las
Vegas Grand Prix or Monico Grand Prix can be ten
thousand to one hundred and ten thousand dollars a ticket.

(18:41):
What that is insane? And then third is is FIFA
International Soccer. It says it's usually about sixteen hundred dollars
for secondary market tickets, but you can find costs as
high as as sixteen thousand, and then top tier category
seating with official pricing reaching up to thirty three grand.
Now here's the one I would have thought would have

(19:02):
been higher. Number four is high Stakes Boxing and Mma Mayweather.
Paquiel saw premium ring side seats from forty tow one
hundred thousand dollars on the secondary market. The reason I
would say that is because it's a small ring and
it's just two guys, and so you would figure like
there wouldn't be as many seats. Like at an NFL game.
You can have seats for the back, you get one
hundred you know, yards of field and all that kind
of stuff. So the for the the octagon or whatever

(19:24):
for ringside fighting, you would think that that would be
a smaller you know, you'd want a smaller venue because
you couldn't see it really from.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
Well, I mean they've had them in like kind of
basketball type arenas that seats maybe like twenty two thousand
people or something like that. But Jerry Jones and Jerry's World,
he's hosted a massive events MMA and also boxing. So
you're talking about the NFL stadium. Obviously they have the

(19:52):
section it off because it's too big, but still that's
an enormous amount of people taking in in a sport.
And then also too with boxing you have the pay
per view portion of it as well.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
That's where they make their money. Everybody makes some money
in broadcasts or sales of media stuff because even with
these tickets being expensive to go to these things, they
really don't make that much money on that. That's just
that money covers the cost of the stadium or covers
the you know, the employees that are working in the
staated because you know how many people are employed on
a game day. It's not just the people in the
in the restaurants. It's not just the people, the ushers

(20:27):
in the in the stands, the security, the referees. You've got,
Like most people don't get to see how many people
are working the media side of the house like you
and I can see you off back there like you
know Russ used to do it. I don't know the
lady that runs it now. But you go back to
the Bronco vision thing. You in that room, there's like
seventy people in there working those those different things just
to get the screens up and running and all that

(20:48):
kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
I can tell you, man, I've been in that room before.
There's a lot of things that go on. It's an
actual production. I know, you get CBS, Fox and ESPN
whomever covers the games, they have their production crew. But
the Broncos during any game under vision, Yes, it's just
like you got to produce it. Go give me camera one,
give me camera two, give me close up on PS two.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
You know.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
So there's a lot of things that kind of go
go into that and I guess that's where the cars
started to come in. But it's still staggering that, you know,
prices for sporting events continue to escalate and and my
daughter now is now become like a big Formula one thing.

(21:35):
So I have a cousin lives in uh Las Vegas
and he's a photographer, and he you know, I think
it was early like this year there was F one
championship race there and he was like, hey, man, you
know you guys okay with her coming out?

Speaker 2 (21:50):
I was like, no, man, you know how much that
ticket is going to cost?

Speaker 1 (21:53):
Are you shoo?

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Man?

Speaker 3 (21:56):
And it's just like, as a fan, you may have
it make it to a point with all these escalating prices,
you may become a fan of a sport based on
what you can actually afford from a family standpoint.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
It may be, it may it may hit that inflection point.
I don't know. Currently in America the top five, Formula
one is the most expensive, and it's basically double everything else,
Like it is so expensive to go to Formula one.
NFL is number two. The average Formula one ticket prices
between five hundred and fifteen hundred first standard race, NFL
average game day price two hundred ninety seven across the league.
After that, Soccer, Major League soccer is actually uh, I mean,

(22:28):
soccer is more than golf. Soccer is more, yeah, because
it doesn't cost that much to get into golf. Man,
it really doesn't.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
Okay, like the mask, it.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
Doesn't really cost that much to get it, and the
concessions aren't that expensive.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
Wait, okay, let's put that in context. It doesn't really
cost that much. What does that mean?

Speaker 2 (22:42):
I can look up I'll look up those those exact
prices here in a minute. But I mean, like, if
you want like a hot dog and a drink, it's
like ten bucks at the Masters, Like it is not expensive. Now,
I'll look up those prices. But soccer is interesting because
the average game day price is the cheapest at one
oh five, but the championship stuff is expensive at thirteen
to six grant.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
And that's just FIFA.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yes, yeah, major League soccer and FIFA. NBA basketball about
averages about one hundred and sixty five a ticket, and
NHL is about one hundred and forty six dollars a ticket.
So hockey's the cheapest in basketball, and then NFL and
then Formula one is that I had no idea Formula
one was so expensive. Learned something every day.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
Do you think, and I know you know, working in
the media, we get access to a lot of different
things that other people don't.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
Well, let's just say you are a fan.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
Thinking about it from a fan standpoint, do you think
that there would ever be a breaking point where you go, like, man,
if you're a regular, average person that you go, you
know what those prices are too damn hot. I just
cannot see paying that amount, So you stop going to
certain games.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
I can because I never I've never paid attention to
what the cost I've never had to pay, you know,
So I've never paid attention to what the costs were
and then finding out what those costs actually are to
send people the game, Like I wouldn't be going to games,
Like I wouldn't be spending that kind of money to
go to games.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
You know, you just pissed a lot of people off
by saying.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
Probably, But I'm just saying, like being honest, Like, if
we're being real here, if it wasn't free, you know,
like for if it wasn't free for me, if it
was free to go, I'd be watching a lot of
games on TV, you know, which.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
Is why now the streamers services prices, it's been an
uptick on those.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
Yeah, that's that's I mean, that's one of those things
like I'm like, you know, to be honest with you,
if I didn't get the perks that I got for
doing this job, And I started like mentally calculating, like
what is it? What is field access? Every game cost?
What is you know, what is the free parking? What
is the you know that kind of stuff like, you know,
because we joke about not making much money in radio
because you really don't, like, you don't make much money

(24:40):
doing this, but the perks on top of it are
kind of kind of decent, and so that that's one
of those things I think, you know, if I if
I were stuck paying that, it's tough to And that's
why it's tough to hear people talk about this on
the air a lot of times because they have no
concept of what it costs, you know. I had like
that was the thing I started talking about this. I
was like, I should probably know what this cast. Like,
I'm outraged for the fans, but I really don't know

(25:00):
how much this come. So I started looking at I'm like,
oh my god, you know, like you see the signs,
I'm like, oh man, what idiot's paying one hundred dollars
for parking? You know, as you're pulling up, and then
I'm like, this is everybody.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
Everybody's paying that, and you gotta figure it. Like last
year the Broncos had some postseason games. Who some postseason
games and you say, okay, well is the charge the
same in the regular season as it is in the postseason?

Speaker 2 (25:25):
Man, I can't even tell you. I don't even know.
I think it went up for the postseason, but I
don't think it was that much. I don't remember seeing
like obscene parking numbers. I do remember seeing. I'm like,
I've seen one hundred and twenty. I think I don't know.
You guys tell us five six, six nimes zerod text one.
You guys, text us what's the highest parking around a
Broncos game that you've seen? Because I like, I don't

(25:47):
I genuinely don't know, and I think a hundred hundred
and twenty is like the highest I've seen off the
top of my head.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
Well, you know, people are going to say that we
are spoiled because being a player, obviously.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
But we are I don't know what we are spoiled,
know what that parking is?

Speaker 3 (26:01):
Like, I just know they get me pass, they say,
show up here, boom. You should be flashy, show it
to someone.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Yeah, little scamkill code and they take care of you. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
So does this give you a whole different perspective of
the average everyday fan and what they must go through,
not just paying for the ticket, but parking and all
of that changer.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Yeah, it does. Like it sucks they have to pay
all that kind of stuff. Like it really does. That's
one of those things I think that It's why it's
so funny to me to see guys, Oh, the city
should pay for a new stadium and all this kind
of stuff, and a lot of fans will be fine this,
and I'm like, man, how do you How are you
sitting here saying that you don't pay anything to go?
You go sit up in the media row. Yeah, you
get in free. You go sit up in media row

(26:45):
for free. And you're sitting here. Oh it's all right,
the fans will pay it. Who you know. That's part
of the reason I started digging in on it a
little bit.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
Well, I mean, yeah, it is.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
And if you have a family of for trying to
get everyone to the game and first of all being
able to have season tickets, that's hurtle number one to
just kind of try to get into the stadium. But
all that extra stuff, man, it's very costly. It adds up.
That's why, man, I've always appreciated you know, fans, not
just because of this conversation we have now, but just

(27:17):
just growing up as a kid and my parents not
being able to afford us tickets to go to a
game and have to pay for parking, sit outside of
the stadium and just kind of listen or have a
you know, dating myself plug in black and white TV.
Yeah dad had so. Yeah, man, I got a lot

(27:38):
of respect for those fans. That's why even as a player,
I would always sign out autographs for those fans because, man,
they made the game what it is.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
They still do and they're a huge, huge part of
the game.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
I love you guys, man, continue to support the team,
and hopefully at some point, man, there's some discount prices
through the league with the streaming service or tickets to
the game, and if you guys, I love you, guys
can team to come out and show, uh, you know
how much you love the team in the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
And that that is one of those things I think
I appreciate when players put the extra effort in for
the fans, you know, show up with the extra effort
of the fans, because I'm like, man, the dude's pay
people pay a lot of money, you know to come
see this kind of stuff, and it's it's it's good
to see. It's good to see the players, you know,
do like they do that, put that go the extra
mile to put that, uh to put that effort in.
So and we'll keep you up to date on the

(28:25):
latest on the stadium and what we you know, what
the plans are and all that kind of stuff. Right
now again they're they're kicking around some ideas and so
I just want to get it. I don't know if
you saw this one today. Jackson Smith and Jigba is
somehow the Defensive Player of the Year. He got his
trophy and it had a typo. Yeah, Jackson Smith and

(28:46):
Jigma's Offensive Player of the Year trophy had a small problem.
There was a typo on it, says Defensive Player of
the Year Chief NFL spokes and Brian McCarthy uh said,
we sincerely apologize to Jackson for the error and in
the process of creating and shipping him a new trophy.
Of course, like the teams, he played against this year.
We know how great offensive player is. We just had
apparently a problem spelling it. So, I how do you like?

Speaker 4 (29:12):
That?

Speaker 2 (29:12):
Feels like one of those things like there's goofs, there's
mess ups, everybody messes up. I get that here the league, though,
what's the quality control process here that you can't even
realize that you sent a wide receiver the defensive player
of your trophy.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
See what it happened was was that that when they
first initially sent it in to have everything signed, Uh,
it was supposed to go to the defensive player, but
someone at the engraving place they put the wrong platelet
on the trophy itself. So you know they're gonna say

(29:43):
it's a minor you know of this comfort or whatever.
We're definitely gonna take take take care of it. But
just think about it. If you were that person that
would task with that duty just to the inscribing of
the player's name, and you would one that got it wrong,
someone is either gonna get fired, which I don't advocate

(30:04):
for that with anyone. Mistakes happened, But at the same time,
if you don't get fired, you're gonna get an ear full.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, I mean that was I don't know justice with
the Jigba seemed to like kind of roll his eyes
about it a little bit, and he's gonna make it right.
But that's just one of those things where you're like,
what kind of attention to detail is going on here?
If you know, if you can't even get something this
meaningless meaningful, right? I mean, look, what is the quality
control check here? Who double checked it?

Speaker 1 (30:30):
Well?

Speaker 3 (30:30):
See that that's the thing in our business. Before you
come up with a story, It's been said that you
need to at least have two to three sources before
you come out and release his story. Yeah, so there
has to be a chain of command. But that's that's
the whole thing about the supply chain. Man, you get
someone not paying attention something like this happened gladly. This

(30:54):
a war was not handed or presented to him, and
in front of a bunch of people, know where, he
held it up and then someone zoomed in and saw, ah,
it's not offensive player is defensive player.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
I was like, man, they had to bump his tackle
rating in Madden or something.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
Listen, if I'm him, I would may would have made a.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
Joke out of this same defensive player of the year this,
I would have trolled defensive coordinators and teams that I
played last year and to say, well, I was so
dope that they put Defensive Player of the Year on
the troop.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
I got the little plaque and like, can't defend me
player of the Year. I was like, I would have.
I would got a little plaque and like change. Yeah,
I would have just done some something like that. I
thought that was funny. One other things I want to
get to here is kind of a strange media dust
up that's come out in recent days. After ESPN Shams
Karana reported that okay, see shy Gildas Alexander had won
the MVP Award. The report sort of upstage I guess

(31:49):
Amazon Prime's official announcement of the winner, and it prompted
Blake Griffin, who works for Prime Video, to say it's Sunday, Shams,
go get brunch, you nerd. And I get that from
understandably frustrated at having its it's thunderstolen because they paid
for the right to announce that, you know kind of thing. Uh,
So they get that. A situations created a debate over

(32:11):
whether Shams could have should have kept his mouth shut. Basically,
this is not like tipping picks for the for the
NFL draft or any of that kind of stuff. But
you know, from a reporting standpoint, it's really not that
impressive to learn the name of the MVP before it's
announced either. But the idea that he shouldn't have reported that,

(32:32):
I think is wrong. Like if you got the info reported, dude,
like I and so they're all you know. To me,
this is an indictment on the NBA and the selection
of the MVP and that leaking out. They should have
kept that closer to the vest and tipped their broadcast partner,
you know, and kept it to their broadcast partner so
that they could make that good. It's not Sham's Krania's

(32:53):
fault that he learned the information to put it out there.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
Well, and you know his the fans, I mean, he
he does a great job of reporting and breaking a
lot of news. And there's a lot of individuals who
would like to be in his shoes with the news
that he's breaking. But his job is to break the
news when he gets it. Isn't that the whole purpose
of being somewhat of a I'm giving air quotes here

(33:17):
an insider. Yes, you're getting information that no one else
can get and it's an arms race who can get
it out there at the fastest.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
Yes, So if someone's sitting in that role, I can
tell you. And I've got restrictions because I you know,
I'm at a disadvantage for other people because there's stuff
that I know that I can't say because we're broadcast partners,
and so things that I learned in the process of
doing things because we're broadcast partners that other people don't
have access to, right like they don't have fair access
to it, I'm not allowed to report on. So I

(33:47):
have to sit on stuff. It sucks sometimes and so
like I sort of get it. Sham's Korani is not
beholden to that. He doesn't have that restriction rule in
place on what he does. And to me, you know,
journalist him is reporting that which somebody else doesn't want
to see the light to day. Everything else is public relations.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
So, and being able to do that once again, even
if at the the negative narratives about him kind of
putting the information out there, let's just say too prematurely,
it's only going to build his profile even more as
a guy that can get information that maybe someone else has,
but he's able.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
To expose it and put it out there first.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
So, like they say, even bad news is good news
in a sense.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
So hey, if the lead doesn't want that stuff out there,
then they got to put a lid on it until
you know, they give it to their broadcast partner. I
on them, appreciate you guys being along for the ride.
Broncos Country Tonight back full show tomorrow,