07-06-26 Hour 1 of Broncos Country Tonight

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
USA USA is.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
We're uh, we're watching Hoody and the Blowgun and take
on the the Bell team from Belgium. This is a
team USA is. Four minutes into this one. Nick wearing
an England jersey.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Yes I am, but it's just not like a regular
England jersey. No, even though it only has my name
Perks on the back. Yes, this is Harry Kane jersey. Yes,
that was gifted to me by one of my uh
friends in England.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
But it says your name on the back.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
It does.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Ferguson the number nine.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
He's not wearing a he's not wearing another mess jersey.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
It's it's Urricane's number. But my name is on the back.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
It's just like when this is like when Jamie Tart
got the the Roy Kent jersey, but he had it
spelled differently.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yes, this is exactly like that. Yes, and wrong team.
But as you said before the show, there you.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Go, there you go. You get it. And the reason
why I pulled this out because I don't know if
you guys watched the game last night between Mexico and England.
I did, but it was really exciting and even though
I'm not gonna proclaim to be football aficionado, the one
thing that kind of sticks in my craw. I know

(01:20):
the England fans were quite upset, even though they know
the rules. When time expires, there's an extra ten minutes
that are put on the clot.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Well, there's sometimes put back on there, but in the
World Cup it's been roughly ten minutes due to the
hydration air quote breaks which are rochester to extra commercia.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Man, if you were an England fan, you were sweating
bullets because Mexico at the tail end, like with two
minutes remaining in the game, the intensity and the drama
that was the entire game just was rapped up in
that particular moment.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, And I was on Mexico in that game and
I was still there's no way they're going to pull
this up, because they kept trying the same thing over
and over. They kept trying to pitch it in from
the wing to nobody, and I was like, you guys,
can't get one guy to cut to the hoop here,
you can't. We can't get one cutter down the middle.
We can't get one guy to you know, And it
was just it was it was fascinating to watch as
England went to to a five four to one low
block and and just just played, you know, just played different.

(02:13):
Uh you know, parked the bus soccer because they were
a man down with the red card.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
It was ridiculous. And you know, I took Mexico too,
because I was thinking that, Okay, you are putting England
in that high altitude and you're giving Mexico the home
field advantage, that Mexico was going to pull it out.
And once again, it was one hell of a game.
Is exactly what we hope that this the whole World

(02:40):
Cup would actually be from a game the game basis
that that was the most exciting game I've seen this
entire time.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
So excited.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, and it was, I mean, there was so much
going on in that game. It felt like England was
kind of in control of it though. I mean they
had a couple of lucky, unlucky bouncers. They hit one
ofst the post. And I just watching that game and
I'd been on Mexico and I was like, man, Mexico,
their center mids have no vision and they just don't
know how to they don't know how.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
To cut to the hoop.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Everything is pitching in from the wing and hope they
can get the hope they can hit somebody off off
of caram like that is their entire plan of attack.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Well, I seem like the same strategy was employed in
the game that was played earlier today when Portugal faced
off against Spain.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Spain is a possession That is their deal they play.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
They play small ball, possession soccer and they play sort
of a triangle.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Often everything has worked in triangles.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
It's a lot of short passes, two dribbles and a
short pass, that kind of stuff. They will always have
the most passes and a high possession time.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
They won't always have the most shots on goal, but.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
That kind of that style of soccer that they play
matches up really well. If USA goes through, it matches
up well for Spain because USA plays a high intensity
press and if you're doing short passes, our guys get
worn out doing that.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Well. I mean, it was a very exciting game and
also it was very sad for the Postrica fans because
Ronaldo didn't advance. And I was talking about the extra
time that's put on the clock, especially in the World Cup.
There were about three times in that match the referee

(04:18):
looked at his watch like three times. Well, he said,
have blown the whistle.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
By the way, the referee in that Mexico England game,
tell me that wasn't like the Mexican ed hockey or something.
That dude had such the main character energy. I was like,
this dude is trying to get on TV.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Well, it's well, okay, I'm not going to say that
in generalize that every referee is trying to get on television.
The NFL's you know, most I guess notice officials and
ED hockey because how filled out? Can I say the
uniform was for him? Was it on for a second?

Speaker 3 (04:56):
USA is?

Speaker 1 (04:57):
No, they're not.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
Actually is that Belgium celebrating the early one zero lead there?

Speaker 1 (05:03):
I'm s honestly if it was all sides or.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Not, yeah, I couldn't. They didn't go to the replace,
I can't tell.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
But but ed Hockely, I mean he was just so
and you got to figure the some officials probably do
this like purposely trying to get there at hockey time
because they know how can actually blow up one's career.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, that was the thing I was. I was like,
this guy is like he's mugging.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
He's mugging for the camera right now on some of
this stuff because it was the red card. I mean,
I get that the spikes were up as he slid,
but it was because his foot rolled over the ball,
you know. And I was on Mexico to still like,
I'm not calling a red card, Jane, It'd be a
yellow for me. He was not trying to do that
on purpose. There was no intent whatsoever. His foot just
rolled over the ball and kicked up and so and

(05:47):
so there you go.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
I mean, is what it is.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
As far as the rest of it goes, this is uh,
it's getting down to it here in the World Cup.
We're starting to see this bracket start to fill itself out.
Everybody's mad at the United States. This is certainly everyone
watching the US take on Belgium. Sentiment around the globe
is on Belgium after the last minute suspension of the

(06:12):
suspension for Blogan, after the red card he got his
last game, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
I mean a lot of individuals have had this conversation today,
I'm sure, and I would say for those fans who
are upset about this, and including fans from the United
States and you're rooting against Team USA, here's what I
wanna say to you. I'm gonna say kick rocks. And

(06:40):
the reason I would say that is because the original
sin was and this is what everyone has to look at.
What was the original sin. The original sin was the
red card in the first place. The red car shouldn't
have been called on the logging in the first place,
because there are certain players that you can go to

(07:00):
and said, well, how was it that this particular play,
and what I'm referencing is Argentina Messi. He didn't receive
a rake car. Hell, he didn't receive a Well.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
That's the gripe with they know the stars, their ratings,
and that's you know, and that's the thing. The USA
game before Belgium here the one they played against who
they played before they were playing Belgium, Herzvini, They was
the most watched English speaking telecast of a soccer game

(07:33):
in world history. Again, that says a lot, because you know,
it's it's Americans traditionally haven't watched soccer in England doesn't
have as many people as the United States. So the
United States watches something like when we watch the Super
Bowl gets massive numbers, right when we watch USA it
gets massive numbers. And I people are saying that that
they got some political pressure and they felt like you know,

(07:54):
and that that's where this came around. That's not well,
there are there are some things here that are first
of all, should have been red cards the first place.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
Second of all, you can't use VR and slow motion
to do all that. Third of all, though you.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Come back and Belgium has acasion, they made it this
morning about then you can't go back after that, and.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
So I'm like, okay, if there's no real rules, then
what are we doing.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Let's see. So once again, this is not a political issue,
and as most people try to make it a political issue,
the idea is that FIFA had.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
Well, a politician pressured them.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
Well, a politician made a phone.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Call, and hey is claiming credit for he claimed credit
or whatever.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
But if you call them and say, hey, buddy, I
need you to review this and everyone and then mama
knows that that's godn't have been a red car. And
if we're talking about suspending a suspension, well, Christianado Ronaldo
he had won himself where the amount of games that
he was supposed to be suspended for was therefore reduced

(08:53):
coming into the World Cup. So it was good for
the goose is good for the gander.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
Well, my problem with this and it isn't It doesn't.
It's not who is president. It's that politicians should not
be involved in private business. Politicians should not be involved
in private sporting. Uh, So, what happens if Jared Polis
decides that, you know what, you know, Patrick Mahomes, You've
been preparing for justin fields, but actually we're I'm going
to make a phone call, so we get Pat. And

(09:18):
now he wouldn't do that because he's here in Colorado,
and the kids say, but you get the idea.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
If you get if you get a politician.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Sitting here trying to lobby for you know, some other
I just I cannot get with that.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
So I can't get with so in this example that
you're giving a Polish police would be a flawed example,
I mean exactly, but you'll get he would do what if.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
The governor of Missouri comes to Pat Mahomes gets a suspension,
but the bron and the Broncos are headed to Arrowhead, right,
and then the day before the game, you've been prepping
for justin Fields, you know, all week whatever, Then the
day before all off season, the day before the game,
he gets with Goodell.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
It's like, you know, man, this is this is wrong.
You gotta you gotta undo this suspension.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
So they lift the suspension of the day before the game,
and and all of a sudden you're you're facing Pat
Mahomes when you've been prepping for just and fields the
whole time because politicians got it.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
All depends on what infraction was and if there was
another player with the similar fraction.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
You have to we've seen wrong calls decide games before.
Should they go back and change the outcomes of all
those games.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
If if a similar player did a similar thing and
that player with that suspension was removed from him because
we talk about well, what's the president being settled? Well,
guess what the Ronaldo played set one already. So if
you want to say that someone is out of bounds
or out of pocket, then it is don't miss direct

(10:41):
and say, well some of the political they say that
was FIFA. FIFA has screwed it up, right, because you
and I had a text message, uh during the weekend
and we were talking about you know how corrupt he
for this, So this is a FIFA issue. They should
have been the one to correct it. Because Terry Henri, right,
we would call it. Henry who is a French player,

(11:03):
he said it best himself. Everyone knew that this was
an issue and it was up to FIFA to correct it.
But they met so much.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Time corrected that correct it the next day. You cannot
sit there. You cannot sit there. And because I mean
and Dog Broun, I'm rooting for Timsay, but you can't
do that to Belgium.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
You can't twenty four hours before put a start.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
You know, Oh, actually you've been prepping for all this,
but we're going to change that on you.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
It wasn't like it was a day of I get it.
I mean it's a day before. You still had a
large amount of time to make whatever adjustments and your
roster because it was earlier in the day when it
was proclaimed that the suspension would no longer be be
in place, so they had ample amount of time. But
the idea is like getting the Dews the day before that.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
Oh you're you're not facing Matt Barkley, you're getting Josh Allen.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Now, well, then that's on FIFA. Once again, it's their fault.
It is up to day like it's not.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
But we're not disputing that. I agree with you it
was on fIF for the entire time. Why do FIFA
do it early on what was not?

Speaker 1 (12:03):
And why did it take someone else to call him
and say, hey, man.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
You know what, there's a relationship there the head of
FIFA and the pre he was at our current president's inauguration.
Like there's there's there's been a connection there for quite
some time.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
So would you say that he forced him to do that?

Speaker 2 (12:18):
I would say he's claiming he did regardless of what
he is claiming, and you know he's claim.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
He makes a lot of claims, But realistically, do you
think that he pushed him to do that? This is
what you're gonna do? Do you really think that it's really? Honestly,
I believe that he did.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
I believe that he pressured them to do it. Yes,
then if that were.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
The case and they caved under that pressure, then that
would mean that they are the cowards that they are.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
They've always been that way. But even what Seth Blatter
was running the show, he's in jail now.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Then once again this argument is a FIFA.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
You know they they've been that way for a long
time and that that's my problem here is like you
how like we're the beneficiaries of the corruption of this
particular case.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
So we're, you know, the United States, We're all sitting there.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Well, okay, okay, when you say we the beneficiary of
the corruption, that's what it sounds like after the fact.
But we should have never been here in the first
place to begin.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
Not agreeing or disagreeing with that, I'm just saying that, like,
we're the beneficiaries of what's happening. If this was happening
against us, we'd be on the other side of this argument,
you know it, like any.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Country would, any country looking at this situation.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
Elder kind of got hosed here, and I feel bad
for them.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
I want them to.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
Because they prepped for something completely different.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
They prepared for.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Saying it's the safe to do.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
I'm telling you, like, if you hit been as a.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
Player, right and you've been Drew Brees was suspended for
something right and and for whatever, you know, some some
something that happened or some you know whatever, and you
prepped all week for I'm trying to think of who
is the backup in the in New Orleans?

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Is that what Luke McCown, you know?

Speaker 2 (13:50):
And then the day of all of a sudden, Roger
Goodell is like, actually, we're gonna undo this.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
We're gonna let Drew play because because you know, because
uh this.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
This okay, good example guess me to do in that situation,
because anything in a giving NFL game can take place because.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
You have to suck it up and drive on.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
They give you a list probable, doubtful or out.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
Yeah right, but it's been out. You don't you don't know,
but it's been out.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
A guy may be probably because when we look at
Bill Belichick, he never used to give a lot of
clus as far as we always say, Top.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Brady, I'm saying this was like you were told this
player was gonna be out due to league policy, and
then the day before they're like, no, actually he playing.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
You got a ball. You gotta let him drop and
you got a ball.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
So I would I would have.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
Felt bad for whatever defense at the time you were
playing for the head.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
To deal with that. I would have been sympathetic, be like, yeah,
you guys got no one okay.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
In the game of football, American football, that is, there's
no such thing as sympathy for players. Like if a
player gets out there and you're injured, right and you
know that you're injured. Your opponent knows on.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
Just saying no.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
But I'm just tactically, You're not like a coach is
not gonna have sympathy for a player, but as a fan,
I'm gonna say to be like, yeah they got hos.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
No, I am not like if a player plays in
the game, he knows he's injured, and I've said player
doesn't play for him. Well, when that team is whatever, this.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Is a procedural, do there's no injury. I feel bad
for Belgium they got to host. I don't feel bad
that I'm like, I'm rooting for Belgium to beat the
US like you are, but I mean the US.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
I know.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
I can still feel bad that they got the short
end and it makes us look bad.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
Okay, for me, it would have made us look bad
that no one stood up to FIFA to say, you
know what, that play that red car was a bunch
of townships.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
Everybody stood up, and so no, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
See people at lawn atonem Pole, they stood up, but
no one was listening to them, and so someone else said,
you know what, take a look at it. Tell me much.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
The thing like everybody was listening was it was a
topic everywhere like it was everybody was listening.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
He's just nobody did anything.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
They took it took that to do something, And I
don't like that, President, I don't like government officials in
private business.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Wait. So, so we live in a world where there's
a policy, at least it is a policy. Not everyone
lives by season say something. So the idea is that
if you see something and you know that is wrong,
don't say anything because you feel as though you don't
have but everybody robber toss to say it. But then
the person who has a relationship with the president of
FIFA decided that you don't say something. But that's literally

(16:16):
either you say something, boy, hookup, no what you corrupt
the situation.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
Cronus man, it's a definition of cron the beneficiary somebody here,
how you slice it.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
The whole idea for me is that if we know
that something is wrong and the amount of people at
the bottom of the totem pole they're screaming, do something,
it's a fallacy. This is something's wrong with and it
goes viral and then there's someone in position to change it,
to make them take a look at it and change it.
Just like they did for Ronaldo. Why not do that?
Why let something take place when you know that it shouldn't.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
That's wrong for me. This is two separate issues. One,
this shouldn't happen to begin with. It's a wrong call.
There's got to be a mechanism. And then two, like,
you can't have governments putting their thumb on the scale
in private is this or in private sporting events?

Speaker 1 (17:01):
Right? Then? Then the UK Prime minister do something in
the Mexico.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Game where he resigned.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
Well, well, here's Armer resigned, but the prime minister for England.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah, he resigned. There's no prime mister right now, look
it up. I think what he did.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
He tried to somewhat get the game to go earlier
postpone and I have to look at it.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah, the weather. They were trying to get it without
the wacause.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
He wanted to have England fans in the stadium.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
No, that wasn't it.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
So well, the reason for the the reason for the
potential move at which it ended up not happening, the
potential move of time for the England Mexico game was
there was severe weather in the area and they were
going to move it up earlier. But then the weather
kind of deviated from course, so it ended up not
being a thing. But that was that was the reason
that they were going to move the start time.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
And they ended up delaying it. They delayed it an hour. Uh,
but they were going to move it up a couple
hours originally. And uh, and then they didn't.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
Wait a minute, wait, hold on, let me look, let
me read this really quickly, because this is in a
BBC and and here's here's the headline. Prime Minister intervenes
in the row over Mexico England kickoff time. Right here,
I haven't seen it is right here. This is the
guy who was said to have stepped down this scar.
That's right. So the same guy who was supposed to

(18:12):
have set stepped down. Even though he had stepped down,
he seemed like he had a little bit of clout
because he was trying to alter that game. So when
we speak to the idea of government officials stepping in
small to large, this is kind of the same thing,
is it not.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yeah, So what was gonna happen was the game was
gonna move from the six pm kickoff that it was
take the local.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
Time to uh move. They were gonna move it gosh,
what time were they gonna move to it? Like one pm?

Speaker 2 (18:39):
I think they were gonna move it up five hours
to try to avoid severe weather. And he argued against
doing that when they were gonna move it up, So
he was like, don't do that, leave it here, let
and then play it later, which they did.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
They played it no hour later.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
Because I say foreign Foreign Office officials were also in
touch with the British diplomats in Mexico City to request
they made representation against a change to try and ensure
that three thous I was in traveling England fans didn't
miss the match. Right now, I seem like two different things.
But you have someone in the political position trying to
step in for a particular reasons. He was trying to

(19:11):
keep it to gain favor in some particular way.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
No, he was trying to keep it the way it was.
Like it's the actual opposite. He was trying to keep
it the way it was. They were trying to move it.
The fans weren't gonna be able to make it in
from their flights.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
But either way, he was stepping in to try to
change something, to assist this team by giving them somewhat.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
Of he was change something. He was stepping in to
keep it the same, and there was no home field advantage.
It was just there was weather. Like he was trying to.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
You know, he was trying to ensure that the three
thousand traveling England fans got.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
To see the game.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
That's right, because when you are on the road, you
like to have to look in the stands, see your mom,
your dad, some individuals who are dressed in your team colors,
because that helps reinforce you, It gives you a little energy.
That's what he was trying to do.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
So but again he wasn't trying to change any fief
was trying to change something.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
He was trying to give his exact opposite way.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
He was stepping in for a particular reason to either
keep something the same in order to get those three
thousand fans in the stands to give his team.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
I'm not seeing the connection. You have to explain to
we got hit a break. We'll be back big go wow.
Belgium answers right back, I mean just right back. We'll
see if that is that because they're looking real quick.
But it looks like it was good to me. Let
me check it out on my phone. Yeah, just right back,
just counterputch Belgium was I mean the US I couldn't getut.

(20:30):
We couldn't get out our own hand playing off the
back foot, couldn't get out of our own hand. And
that's been the story of the first half so far.
Belgium just kept it right to right down. There was
an excellent movement there as Belgium went out to the
left wing and then put it back in for the
header off the baseline.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
The one thing we were talking about during the break,
oh yeah, is the fact that the difference between the
way the US plays defense and in Spain and watching
them play against Poortugal is the fact that they're always
putting pressure on the ball and it just seemed like
the US is always playing defense, they're always playing back.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
Well, that's how that they play is is you want
to be pressuring. They want to they want to be
admit third pressure with it. They've got kind of like
a like a geek and press. If you've ever watched
German soccer, that's that's kind of what the US does.
Spain plays possession football. It's all short passes, triangles. It
said tiki taka, you know, uh, Guardiola rooted.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
Sort of sort of soccer. And that's that's how Spain plays.
This is for the US, like Spain is a bad
matchup for what the US does. Uh, we'll see.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
I thought they were gonna be Belgium, but Belgium is
playing with with an intensity right now.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
The US is not matching.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
No, they can't. They they're not. And you would have
thought that because of everything that took place over the weekend. Uh,
the large amount of conversation, the back and forth that
with But I'm gonna being a lined back in the
game that you will see it more intense US team.
But you're not seeing this at this particular moment.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
Coach is upset right now.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yeah, yeah, he's you guys talk about me kicking over
the Gator Bay table. He's there.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
Yeah, that's a power Aide's Power aid table.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
You're not a power Ay table, but a couple of.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
Carriers, like a little carrier.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
Oh, somebody's got a yellow. It looks like we did
Weston McKinney yep for the US.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Yeah, he did the same thing there with See he
got a yellow for what England got a red card for.
And the difference is his was looked deliberate the spikes
are up like that's you know, his spikes are up,
that should be a red.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
The difference is the.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
England player yesterday his foot rolled over the ball and
he didn't have any control of it, like his foot.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
Just went up.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
That's where VRS v R should be used right to determine,
you know what really took plays on a particular play
because in full of speed, okay, you.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
Can't, right, you can't help you know, bank bank plays
you don't have in football.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
You can't help some of that kind of stuff. So
that's the thing.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Five six nine zero, the two one four says, we
win this match. I want us to win in a
way that the world cant question the legitimacy of it.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
This is just not the way you want to win.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
In my opinion, I wish the player had chosen to
set the game out. Ironic to me that he's someone
that wanted to desire deny citizenship to just last week
and then he's out advocating because he's a birthright citizenship person.

Speaker 3 (23:06):
Man.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
But you don't need to get into all that. All
we need to do is stick with the facts that
was it a red card last time? Absolutely not? And
should he have been suspended. Absolutely not. We can definitely
agree agree on that.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
I just think Faiths should have done it themselves days ago,
and and and they hung.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
Belgium out to dry here by doing it last minute.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
But the reason they didn't want to do it because
it was just like, oh, well, we have a tradition
normally we don't do things like this. Like look, if
something is a foul and everyone knows that it wasn't
the way that it should be, it is on you
to correct that. I expect expect for for you to
do that. It's no different than if it was in
an NFL or any other sports league. You're talking about

(23:46):
protecting the integrity of the game. You can't protect the
integrity of the game if the rules are different from
for these players opposed to the poll the players and
door number one or door number two. Rather, it's like no,
you can't do that. And that's where the confusion comes in.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
Yeah, and you know FIFA had there's a long and
troubled history of of of coroniism and things like that.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
This doesn't do anything for their reputation. I just you
know it.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
Certainly, the buzz online became a wave of anti American
sentiment because there are other people that are like, why
didn't our red card get you know, why didn't our
stuff get so?

Speaker 1 (24:18):
And that goes back to FIFA and correcting it.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
Like people, what messy should have gotten a card? Didn't
you know? And there was when there were you know,
so there there are. I get what the complaint is.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
I think at this point it's just one of those
things where it makes us look bad.

Speaker 3 (24:32):
Hopefully we pull this thing off so we don't have
to worry about it.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
I don't believe it makes the United States look back
because the FILEWUS committed against the United States and it
was corrected in the way that most people are not
liking at this particular moment. But the same situation, I
go bet happened for Ronaldo. So is their difference for
I don't know, American players, because the European or international

(24:57):
football players and associations don't look at the United States
the saying well, you're on the same playing field as
we are. Is that what it is?

Speaker 2 (25:05):
I'm just saying I saw an overwhelming tide of kind
of we're for Belgium in this one. They're getting hosed,
you know, sentiment going across my feet on Twitter.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Bro, you know what I say to those people, Well,
I mean.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
Right now they're saying scoreboards, so we got I mean, okay,
but no matter what happens in the game, whether it's
US victory or Belgium victory, at least have your players
on on the on the pitch.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
To do that.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
I mean, I again, it puts US in an unenviable spot.
And in the end, I mean, if Belgium wins, they
won fair and square.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
You know, that's it. No one, no one says a
darn thing. That's it.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
No asterisk as far as that goes.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
If someone said said something to me, well, if the
US win, there's an asterisk that should be placed by
I'm like, no, hell no, they don't.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
It's just this is do that.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
Like, I get it, I get where people sentiment is.
But no, they're not going to do that. And uh,
the problem is just that the winner of this game
is going to go out to play Spain, who is
probably the best team in this tournament.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
Uh if not, if not one, then they're probably two.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
And so that's gonna be that's gonna be an entirely
different you know, back apples, when when whoever wins this
game wins this game.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
But here is what I think should be a bigger conversation.
Where has the United States come as it retains to
this sport of football aka what we call soccer in
comparison to our international counterparts. Now, we're never going to
I'm not gonna say never. Let me take that back
right now. We're not up to where maybe England is.

(26:38):
Oh we don't have.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Yeah, we don't have that cache or that respect, and
we don't have we don't have to be fair. Some
of these teams have helped better players, you know. It's
it's difficult, it is, right. A lot of America's use
to play basketball or football instead of soccer, you know,
or baseball whatever.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
So I'll say that.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
But that being said, I do think that this helps
us on the world stage with that game. I mean, fans,
we're talking about soccer here forty minutes into the show,
which is more soccer than we've discussed throughout the entire
time we've been on the air together as radio partners,
you know.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
And I sent this to you and I just wanted
to let audience know. I was at the gym the
other day and a woman who works out at the
gym all the time. I see her all the time.
She's not an avid soccer fan, but she came up
to me and she was livid at the red car,
but she was relieved when I told her, Hey, Began
is going to He's going to play. So even as

(27:28):
they say with you know, in news, even bad news
is a good news because it helps for branding. This
whole situation, the World Cup being in the United States,
Belogan being thrown out, he's been suspended, he's bringing back.
It has elevated the sport and the conversation in ways
that we've never had before. Like you said, we've we've

(27:49):
talked about soccer for two segments.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
Yeah, and putting it into the aid block let alone.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
The only other time I think we've ever talked about
soccer was a game I wanted to watch like a
year ago or whatever at La Liga between Tefan Youurona
and and we talked about it for like eight minutes
and everybody's like, all right, what are you? What are
you guys doing here? So I I do think this
draws attention to it. I still think the United say
this is a ways to go. MLS soccer is not
on the level of the Premier League and some of
these other you know, betting a bunch of LGA, La Liga,

(28:15):
whatever your you know, whatever your your top tier leagues are.
But you know, I mean, we could be on the
way back, and I think I think that's good. I
think soccer is a fun sport if you if you
enjoy spacing, concept sports, if.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
You like hockey, if you like basketball, that I think
you like soccer.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
But I think that this is the type of action
that opens up the sport to a larger audience. Because
even though we're talking about the negative things that happens,
who's fault and place and blame and should it be
on FIFA, at the end of the day, you could
say even taking an l FIFA actually got a W
because now people are talking more about the sport, even

(28:50):
though those in every negative way, and now everyone wants
to watch to see what happens.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
I'm glad you fished that out the way, so I'm
never giving FIFA W. But then you said yes they attention,
So yes, I no, won't take up that Darius Rutger
R and B album.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
You know you won't.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
It's horrible.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
It was really interesting, really quickly about you know this
Rutcker is that how do how does one go from
all they want to be with you to a country song?

Speaker 3 (29:19):
Well, he didn't go there.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
He went to All the Way with You to cut
an R and B album and it flopped, and then
he came back.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
A few years later doing country.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
That's what I'm saying. He went to the country. And usually
when certain fans see you in a certain I mean hood, he.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
Was already on the border of country.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Well the Blish was like on the border, like like
dappling the water. It wasn't country music, but they had
a toe of the water, maybe two toes.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
So are we talking like country to it? Yes? What
is country music today? It's all a country music stuff
they play on the radio. I mean, like, what's the.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Difference between Morgan Wallat and Hooty and the Blowfish, Like,
there's a difference now.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Morgan there, there is a difference between the two because
you have a little twaying in there, a little twang.
But I and then when he gets with post Malone,
it sounds a little different though, But.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
That's just saying like that post Malone. But you know,
like that's such pop. That's not country music's pop. That's
the stuff that like, you know, guys like Shooter Jettings
and stuff make.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
Fun of when you do today.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
They're they're they're acting like they're you know, certain level
of country and it's just pop pop country stuff.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
Oh listen, I was talking to my kids about this,
so I'm gonna toss it out to you guys. You
tell me, you guys think I was telling my kids
that country music and hip hop it's not really that different.
There is a difference in how the delivery. I mean, yeah,
it's it's kind of the same because everyone's rapping about

(30:44):
the same thing. It's a little different, right with country music,
guy's rapping about what his truck. Hip hop they're rapping
about the car. That car. Yeah, but those cars have
like spinners on them or big tires of twenty two's.
You're not fighting they still, Yeah, if they do, I've
never seen them. Well I've seen someones with them them

(31:06):
fake health caps or whatever caps. Yes, but country music
and hip hop music is slightly the thing because you're
wrapping about your car. Coustou music, they're wrapping about their guns.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Right.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
Hip hop music and guess what, same guns the women.
It's the same kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
I mean, to be fair, there are themes that are
shared across most music, so yeah, it's I mean, there's
there's there's similarities to it.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
As it goes, Belgium is still up to one on the.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
US six minutes extra time in the first half, and
we're about to that six minute marklet little higher thought
it's gonna be more minutes in that first half because
you had a player go down, look like an injury earlier,
you had a couple of different obviously had three goals.
I thought that thing was going to be I thought
the thing was gonna be more minutes than that. Well,
we'll see six additional minutes in the first half. We'll
see see how that ends up. Going to the half
right now, looks like the US. It looks like you're

(31:55):
ready to take a corner. But it looks like Belgium
up to one, and they they've really kind of put
it to the US most of the first half.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
That's what it's supposed to because I mean, Belgium is
a bra though. Yeah, but they're ranked ninth by a
fee for rankings, so you expected this type of I'll
come for sure from Belgium. It was it was just
on the US to say, can they elevate their love
will play based on the teams they had played leading
up to this point, and this is where we get

(32:25):
a chance to see.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
It'll be an interesting second half.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
I WINNA lose. I'm still proud to Team USA no
matter what.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
Yeah, that's I mean. Yeah, we're all you know, it's
is further than the US is gone quite some times.
We're all we're all certain thing on that we had
a break Broncos Country to Night. We'll be back for
a final segment before we hand off Jack and Zach
for Rockies Baseball. We'll be back right to this