For the Love of the Sport

For the Love of the Sport

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Did you get that piece of audio from Goodison Park
the Everton and Liverpool game today?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
I assured it.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
I just wanted to play this because this is the emotion.
This is what the Super Bowl doesn't have. This is
what American sports in most cases do not have. It
is this kind of love and passion for something that
it kind of resonates in a way that college sports does,
but in a way that is like way more like
could you imagine if college basketball was the only sport

(00:26):
that we really cared about in this country now instead
of it being college Now, imagine like Nebraska itself has
a professional team, but every single area or place or
city around the United States has a team. Now imagine
that Omaha has a team, but so does Council Bluffs,
and we have this major rivalry, but we're playing in

(00:47):
a really old historic venue like Rosenblatt Stadium for instance,
or whatever. And then this is the last time this
incredible rivalry is going to happen here, right because Everton
and Liverpool both are in Liverpool. I'm trying to paint this.
It's something the American mind cannot comprehend, and I'm trying
to illustrate the best that I can, but there's just
no way. Just listen to Peter Drewy, who is the

(01:11):
commentator for NBC, doing this Premier League match between Everton
and Liverpool last time that they're going to play this
rivalry in this building before he gets torn down. One
hundred and thirty two years old. By the way, this
building like this is one of the oldest venues that
they're still playing professional sports in anywhere in the world.
Last time these rivals are going to play each other.
Liverpool leads two to one and it's the last moments

(01:34):
of the match and Everton has the ball getting into
the penalty area. Listen to Peter Drewy and the crowd
loft it in by Michael Ncoln Rabona and you're not

(02:07):
seeing this, but the crowd it is incredible stuff and
you can't see what the audio is that they go

(02:27):
celebrate into the crowd. In the corner. Security is there
trying to like maintain some order, but the players go
into the crowd to celebrate as this is like the
end of the match essentially, and they're just losing their mind.
I mean, it's just the emotion you saw the video.
Matt explain to the people what the passion is that
you're seeing here and just this is this is what

(02:48):
I want to feel when I am watching sports.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
This. Yeah, that was some cheering. You think about that?

Speaker 1 (02:55):
So we don't saw a tie, by the way, right
to salvage a tie that kind of reaction.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
There is something, I mean, what is it about that moment?
There's the goosebumps moment of the uh the play by
play announcer there was yelling as loud as he could
just to get his voice over the.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Crowd, and I mean you could hear his emotion as well.
He couldn't believe what he was witnessing. And by the way,
for the record, Peter Drury you may not know of
him because you don't watch soccer. He is like the
Joe Buck of English football, if you will.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Are we just a more reserved people over here?

Speaker 1 (03:29):
We just it's too cool to not care, you know
what I mean? The generations of people like I think
Nebraska is the best way to describe it. How do
you feel about Nebraska football?

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Now?

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Crank crank that thing up, because every town has one
of those. And in your town, the way you feel
about Nebraska football, crank it up because every town has one,
and this is yours. You were born here, you were
raised here, This is your team, and you want to
see your team do well, but you especially want to
beat your arch nemesis, your biggest rivals, who exist also

(04:04):
very close by. Whether you're shaah border in this case,
you share a city. There's something about carrying that much,
and there's something about the way that that culture is
with that sport. It's unlike anything else.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
I'll posit the closest comparison that I personally, in my
own personal life can come up with. For that Nebraska
Cornhuskers against the Oklahoma Sooners twenty ten, I was in
attendance for that game, and that'll be my top Husker
moment forever, just because I was there that night in Lincoln.

(04:39):
That crowd was so loud, and I was a part
of that crowd. I lost my voice, so did eighty
thousand other people that night. It felt, you know, when
you're just cheering that loud, you feel like you're just
one giant, loud voice that is shaking the world.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
It's literally like a never forget moment, like you're never
gonna forget it. For a variety of reasons. That's why
we love sport. Okay, I don't need Kendrick, I don't
need entertainment. I don't need to see teams like You're
not going to feel that as a neutral viewer, you

(05:13):
know what I mean. And that's not to say you
can't watch things as a neutral viewer. I do that
all the time. But there's something about your team that
you care about more than ever, more than anything, and
you see them do something like that, especially in person,
especially with a bunch of people that feel the same
way as you do, and you just can't replicate it. Now.
I know soccer may not be for everybody, but that

(05:35):
video right there is just like, Wow, could you imagine
being there? Could you imagine saying you were there for that.
I'm going to be chasing my entire life to have
that moment somewhere I don't know where, but just to
be somewhere like that when something like that happens an
old place, the one hundred and thirty three year old
stadium that's going to be torn down at the end

(05:56):
of the season, your arch nemesis, your arch right that
exists in your town just down the street, and that
moment for your club and you're there and then the
players go into the stands to celebrate. You can't beat it,
you can't beat it. It's just it's amazing.