August 24, 2023 • 39 mins
Today on 2 Pros and a Cup of Joe, Brady & Jonas are LIVE from Dublin, Ireland and talk about Jim Irsay issuing a deadline for Jonathan Taylor, and they are joined by Brendan Meehan - Director of the Aer Lingus College Football Classic as they get ready for Notre Dame vs. Navy!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Oh Yes, welcome. It is two pros and a cup
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Speaker 3 (00:50):
Let'll tell you what a lot a lot of Notre
Dame for us are not seeing the supporting babies.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
No Navy lopsided? Okay, wellkay, better, better question? What about
Navy plus twenty and a half? Anybody any Navy plus
twenty and a half? All right, Apparently I'm in an
island alone. It is awesome here first time for me
personally in Dublin, Ireland. Man, you Notre Dame fans run deep.
Good god, yeah it is. You have made your presence
(01:16):
fell here. So it's a lot of fun so far.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
As ton of fun. And by the way, thank you
to Busker's Bar. Kieran's right over there, the owner. Thank
you guys so.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Much for the hospital. Yeah, awesome.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
We're very lucky to be here. Obviously, not all of
us were able to make it over across. What do
you get at You're missing one of our teammates.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, but he did. Lee's right there.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I'm right here again, I'm right here.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I don't know what you're referring to. But no, it's
been a lot of fun, obviously, and then we couldn't
have made this couldn't be possible obviously without the help
of so many great sponsors and people. Jade, Where's Jade
first and foremost? Jade the Great? She's right men there,
all right by her shot or two. But Panini cards.
(02:00):
It's the official trading cards of Fox Sports Radios air
Lingus College Series coverage live from Dublin. Obviously air Lingus,
which just fantastic accommodations that they were able to provide
as we flew here on behalf of air Lingus Horizon therapeutics,
where science and compassion work together to transform lives. And
we'll be attending the Horizon Therapeutics tailgate party before the
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game on Saturday. And then of course Budweiser, who made
our broadcast today possible live from Buskers Bar here in Dublin.
So everybody involved that made this possible. Can't thank you
guys enough. It's been tremendous. We got to walk around, Yeah,
we did Dublin yesterday kind of see some things. Full disclosure,
I've never been outside of North America, all right, So
(02:44):
you get like, you get me on a freeway and
I start to go into convulsions. The electrical thing in
the hotel room. That took me a little while. I
had to call Lee, thinking that somebody didn't pay the bill.
I didn't realize you put your card in and then
everything turns off.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
So I'm walking.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Around the dark. I'm like, man, why isn't this no
AC no nothing. I can't get it.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I'm like, did somebody what am I missing here?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah? Apparently that's the thing. You put your card in
the in the little slot there, and that's how everything
turns on.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I'm just glad we're not rooming together.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah, I just you know, there's been a couple of
a couple of things here that we've been trying to
figure out as we go along.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
How about this morning I learned I've never seen this before,
baked beans for breakfast. That that was one where I
was likely to be eating baked beans. I'm not even
a big beans fan. That's protein was different, but I
mean it looked like people were eating lunch for breakfast.
It was a little much.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I mean, by the way, one of the biggest meathead
moments I've ever seen in my life. So we go
to that. We're at a steakhouse last night, and of course,
because you're probably thinking of yourself, you know, steak's not enough.
You know, I need more protein. So what do you do?
What are you gonna do? Order two eggs to throw
on top of it? For no reason whatsoever this guy did.
I thought that was somebody.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I thought that was something they did here.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
It was one of the options, throw some friday on
top of the meat.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Why not good? Yeah, if we're gonna do it hawks Moore, Yeah,
it was check it out if I had a chance yet, Yeah, that.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Was that was a lot of fun. And then just
you know, apparently like the bike lanes, you're just not
supposed to watch Jonas. I mean, what do you want
from me?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Jonas almost got hit about five or six times. Yeh, Yeah,
they were getting pissed. They were started to get before,
were starting to get what does he even like you're
apologetic about it. You're actually have a horn. You know,
you're making us look bad as as tourists and guests
coming over here.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
What's the point of happened to horn that? Like God
gave you a horn and a middle finger for a reason, okay,
and it was for driving. Let people know, Ay I'm here,
or I don't like what you did and you throw
that bad boy out the window. These guys have horns,
like lay the horn on. I don't know what's what
what a bike lane is. I'm still trying to figure
my way out around here.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
You're from California, you very well know what a bike
lane is.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Okay, The bike lanes are a little different in California.
You gotta like navigate, pass sleeping bags and all the
other fun stuff that comes along with But I'm just saying,
like there's there's a lot going on out in California,
you know, like you're just depending on what bike path
you take. But it's uh, this is new now you
are a regular here in Ireland.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I don't know about that. Yeah, I mean I've been
to Dublin many times because I'm from Dublin, Ohio, which
it does. There are some similarities to Dublin. I are
you see some of similarities back in Ohio, some structures
and some of the some of the buildings, some of
the Actually you'll if you drive out of the countryside,
you'll see a bunch of stone kind of walls dividing
up property lines. We have that in my hometown. So
(05:30):
if you go along Dublin Road in Dublin, Ohio, you
will see that. So that was one of the first
times when I drove across. We went from Uh, we
got in Dublin, drove across the country to Galway. Everyone's
thinking about this Galway girl. So I was trying to
figure out what's the deal with her? UH didn't find her,
but we ended up staying on the other side of
the country for a few days, came back across. It's uh.
I'll tell you what. Driving on the opposite side of
(05:52):
the road too will get you. Initially, you gotta be careful.
You almost got to hit yesterday because you were stepping
off the curb and you were looking the wrong way.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I mean, this is not my problem. I'm they need
to do clearly. And also just because I'm a you know,
bit of a horse's ass, if we're going to be
truthful about it, I almost went down the wrong escalator,
so I just by habit, I started veering off to
the right, and then I realized, are my legs not working? No, no,
it's coming at me, so I gotta go down. So
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it's just everything's in reverse. So there's just there's a
lot going on. A lot's happening here Lee, apparently because
for those of you, and I don't know if anybody
has a friend like this in their life, but when
they go someplace, they love to really take in everything,
and by everything, it's all the little touristy stuff. Lee
loves that.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
And the second we got into the hotel, he saw
all the pamphlets the.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Like, you know, if you want to, like, you know,
take a you know, learn how to fly kits for
fifteen pounds an hour or whatever it is, or if
you want to, like, you know, go walk around and
look at a building that may or may not have
been built in the nineteen twenties. You get like, and
you've got to grab all those I've already set us
up for like three tours after the show today.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
But but on the bus top us, I will say this,
I wouldn't trust either one of these guys as far
as walking to go to a certain places.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
One time.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Okay, the half mile thing, we were a half mile
for four miles away from the hotel.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I was really just trying to get you to a
bar where you could have your first Guinness, which we
did accomplished. We did. We did accomplish that.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yeah, we did. I mean that was that was cool
to see.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
And then we fed into your gambling habit as we
realized there was a sports book right across away from
the bar he located.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
It was great.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Why doesn't America have that?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
It's it's it's a damn shame. And you know that
in California you can't even legally do it, legally do
it because there was some law that didn't get passed,
so you can't do that. It's just a missed opportunity. Look,
I've said it before and I stand by this. If
you don't gamble on sports. I just think you're a
wretched human being. You are missing out on so many
(08:01):
great things.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Like think about it.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
For example, Navy's got no shot against Notre Dame, no
shot whatsoever. But if they keep it within three scores,
then maybe we got a shot to make some money
on this whole thing. You know, like there's an option
and a possibility for people.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
It presents.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Oh, it provides things for people other than that Notre
Dame's gonna go out there and just blow them out.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Someone say, there's more than one option. There's a triple
option technically, Yeah, there's that.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
There is that.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah, I was going to preview the game right now.
What we're thinking here, Well, you got to go to
the stadium. I walked by this, I didn't go inside,
and it's fantastic. It's awesome. It looks incredible. I mean,
it's one of those places where you wish you had
the opportunity to come play Notre Dame and played a
game like this. Unfortunately we only went to, you know,
places domestically, like we got to play in the Medal Lands.
We have to play in Baltimore. This would be special though,
(08:54):
I think for a lot of the players.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Could you imagine Brady Quinn and Jeff Samarjoe walking around
downtown Dublin in the.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Day, Oh my god, I forget Sibby City would be
right there with Oh my GODIY tried to get in
a fight at a bar with someone. Just Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
We were given strict instructions by the way from our
Cabby that took us here, places to go, places not
to go. Why you want to stay away from this
spot and that spot. He had some not so nice things.
I mean, Buskers is great, loves Buskers. Some other places
around here not so nice things to say about it.
So we've been giving the We've been given the tour
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from many of the locals here. Thus far.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
We haven't got in trouble so far. No, we've been
here like twenty four hours though. Still got time, Yeah
we do. Yeah, we still got time, especially.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
With Lee, plenty of time all the time.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, Lee's I mean this it could be a problem.
Will they let me into Trinity's College after I go
to the bar?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yeah, the less you in whatever you do after that.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Okay, It's like, you know what's amazing. So back home
in the States, there's like these designated times where you
could have a drink, and anything beyond those times you
kind of get you know, it's like, uh, god, you're
having a beer that early unless you're an airport.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
An airport is a safe space to drink at any
point time whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, then then then you're fine. But like
you'll get like the people will give you this look like,
oh my god, you're having it well on a Tuesday night. Really,
this is what out here. If you're not having a drink,
you're an a hole. Like it's like it's completely the opposite.
Like everything is the opposite. The escalators, where the steering
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wheel is, your thoughts on drinking, everything is the complete opposite. Yeah,
it's kind of nice.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
It's really nice.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah, it's just like you know, like people just having
a pint. Yeah, let's just go have a pint. Okay,
Like I don't know, I don't know why, but okay, yeah,
let's go have a pint. And it's a it's been
a lot of fun to sort of see a new
a new dynamic and just how people do things elsewhere
and to be a little bit more cultured.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yeah, I mean it's good for you. It's the first
time you're really getting out.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
So yeah, outside of what yeah, I'm telling you Mexico,
so farthest I've been, like people are asking me quite
like they're looking at my passport, going has this everything
ever been used? Like I don't know why I have one?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
You really don't need one until now, not really like
I don't. There's well at least you got yours though,
so that's good.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Jeez, what are you getting at? Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
No, we're good, Okay, we're good.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
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Speaker 2 (12:04):
We transition over to the NFL, where we have got
ourselves a deadline, the Indianapolis Colts, whose owner is still
mourning the death of a whale. Not making that up, uh,
just saying, can you set the scene here a deadline
for what?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Well?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I just wanted to point that out.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I mean, you know the whale, understand, But he's setting
a deadline for Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I got news for you.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
I lost all sympathy the second I saw Free Willie.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
The movie stunk and and all that did, all that
did was just steer me in the opposite direction here.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
But no, no, I think, okay, here's the scenario. Okay, the
whale dying Actually, I think has now made Jim Meersy
realize he can't just do things on his own time frame.
You're right, but he needs to set a dead These
things tend to die.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Then that's a great point, because Indianapolis and Jim mersay
they've given Jonathan Taylor a Tuesday deadline to find a
trade partner. Now reportedly six teams have reached out, two
have engaged with offers, one of them being the Dolphins,
which is appropriate considering this guy still mourning the death
of a whale. That Dolphins ship.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Him off, Yeah, to the destination you're supposed to pick up.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Whale exactly, So, so that does make all the sense
in the world. But uh, just the fact that they're
giving him this deadline is hilarious to me. It's like,
why would you do that.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Look, there's a lot of things that Jim Irsay does
that we really can't make much sense of. I mean,
first off, I'm shocked he's not here in Ireland with
the Tree Leaders.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah, he might be. This seems like his type of
place based on his it's issues. Well yeah, I mean,
is there a trash bag back there? Anybody got any
where's the uh where's that? But just the idea that
you think, like they screwed this whole thing up from
the get go, As we've talked about, we've chronicled that
(14:01):
on this show.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
They screwed it up. Like when you're running back once
more money.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
He wants a better contract, and instead of talking it out,
you have some meeting with him and then sit down
on the back of a golf cart in Indianapolis and go, well,
I mean, listen, I could die tomorrow. Jonathan Taylor be
out of the league. Nobody cares. Boy, that's comforting, man
like boy, that boy, Boy, that makes me feel great
about things. So he screwed that up from the get go.
Jonathan Taylor doesn't want to play there anymore. He took
(14:29):
it personal for a good reason, and so that now
they're gonna drop this. Well, you've got to do a
Tuesday deadline. You want to get a deal done, get
one done by tuesday. How about you, guys, get a
deal done by tuesday. How about stop putting parameters on
this situation that you've already let get out of control
to begin with, and just move on and go your
self away.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
We know in negotiations, though, deadlines do deals, and whether
they're fictitious or if they're real, usually there's a sense
of urgency. Now, I don't understand necessarily how you can
even put on a deadline, like what are you gonna
do if you don't get the offer you want, Right,
if you wait into the season and maybe there's a
team that has an injury at running back and now
they might be a little more willing to give up
a higher draft pick, why would you want to hold
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on to him until then? Like, if he's not if
you're okay with him going and playing for another team,
what's wrong with stashing him on your roster and wait
until you get a better offer?
Speaker 7 (15:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I mean, he's not going to count that much against
the cap, and you know, so if he's not that expensive,
what's the point then of wanting to trade and move
on from him? Keep him? See if he doesn't realize
he might want to play this year, otherwise he's gonna
be subject to fines and all.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Like, I do wonder about this because.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
People bring up the workload because he did run the
ball a lot in college. I think, what do you
have like six hundred care ninety three carries something crazy
like that at Wisconsin. We'll call it fifteen hundred carries?
All right, let's let's let's split the difference here. Let
me to find the action, right, twenty three hundred carries
for Jonathan Taylor in college. We're going to go with that.
(15:58):
We'll go Lea's on. It is gonna find it faster me,
all right. So so this is a battle of the
Wi fi is here between Brady and Lee. Who's got what?
Brady's running some issues and down the stretch they come.
Lead the Lab looks like he's got himself a strong
link and it's secure. See, we got total carries and
(16:19):
we've still got issues here back and now Brady Quinnick,
Brady quinn it is twenty six ad. It's a photo finish,
but Lead the Lab looks like he gets it. Yeah,
So nine hundred and again twenty three hundred and nine,
twenty six same thing.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Ian were like, again, we're splitting hairs.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
We just round right up to twenty three hundred carries
for Jonathan Taylor. But people bring up the workload to me.
You're gonna get him for what four point three million
this year?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yeah, you'd have the ability to use the franchise stag
after that, which.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Is a lot two years control with Jonathan Taylor, right,
and two years control that if you pay him the
four to three and the ten million next year, seven
million a year for Jonathan Taylor for a couple of
years why not.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
No, it would be a be a good price. The
problem is Jim or say, already burn that boat and
so it's gone. Now they've got to figure out a
way of moving forward. I just I wonder how many
more running backs, though, are gonna try to press the
issue of getting a longer term deal done off their
rookie deal and then find themselves in this position. The
reality is the running back market, as we've seen this
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offseason clearly is in trouble. I mean it's i would say,
offensively speaking, probably the least compensated of any Yes, and
now you find yourself in a position where most rookie
running backs are coming to the league. Hell, some of
them may be making just as good as money if
they stay in college.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Football A nil. What do you pretty get at?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I'm just saying, it's like some of these guys are
getting paid well enough where they may come into the
league with even more wear and tear. Jonthan Taylor only
played three years. He could have played a fourth year.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
And I mean the good news is if you're a
running back, you can always go back like years later.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
And like sue some people, Oh yeah, I'm just saying
I'm gonna I'm gonna leave that one. Okay, I'm gonna
get to that.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yeah, next hour, you know, the final hour of the program. Okay,
we'll get to that next hour. But yeah, it's Look,
it's a tough spot. It's a tough spot for Jonathan Taylor.
I just I can't help but think way to screw
this whole thing up because and we've talked about this before.
You've dealt with Jonathan Taylor. Anybody that's ever dealt with
the guys stand up dude, can't say enough good things
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about him. The fact that he wants out, I think
is telling to what to what happened between him and
jim irsay, And it felt like a pretty critical year
for not only Jonathan Taylor, but the organization. You think
you finally found stability at quarterback, You've got your quarterback
of the future. To me, you'd want your running back
to be there, to be a part of it like
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that seems like it would be a you know, of
good a great interest of the Indianapolis Colts to try
and make things that much easier on the life of
Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
And instead the owner, Jimmy big.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Mouth, shoots his mouth off and now we're staring at
some Tuesday fake deadline because the organization butchered this from
the start. It just what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Dude?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Like Chris Ballard has got to be looking around going
I gotta get out of here. Seriously, I gotta get
out of here. I can't deal with this. It's it's
just an impulsive owner who makes the lives of everybody
around him that much more difficult.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
All right, here, here are the odds for the top
six teams right potentially looking to get Jonathan Taylor services.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
I guess can I guess?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
See? I mean you just looked at my strength. I didn't.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
I didn't see it. I promise you.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Let's see it. All right?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
So the top six teams the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Okay, it's number one. You what the odds for, by
the way, plus one?
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Really?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Yeah? The problem is, at least from reports, is they'd
have to give up some players in order to get them.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Well, and also, Miami's got a type. You know, certain
people have a type, and when you get to know somebody,
you know, oh that's somebody's Type's got a type. He does.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
So I saw a least type this morning at the
gym by the way.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Yea, at least team Yeah, yeah, we call Lee's team.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
But everybody's got something a flavor and ile they shop
in is Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Miami's tight.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Is he fast enough?
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I mean I would, I don't know if he's as
fast as the guys they've got, because Jeff Wilson.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
And Devin A. Chain runs like a two. Yeah, Devon
A Chaine him too. You should see how fast debit is.
But like, just so, yeah, I wonder if that's his type.
But Miami's on the list, all right. Let me throw
out another team, Buffalo.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Buffalo is also on the list. That plus four fifty.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Okay, so the Bills, which makes some sense.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
They could use little help. They've always been in the
market for running back seemingly well, it seems like they're
always in the market for wanting to have a running game.
But then they just don't have a running game.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Yeah, but when you got Josh Allen, I mean, mister indestructible.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
All right, so the Bills, I will go the Bears.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Bears are not on this list. They could be, but
they're not on this list. One I've seen right here there. Okay,
I will say Lee's combating that because he's got a
different list I am.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
I am combating that.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
This is from August twenty second, So who's your source,
the DraftKings DraftKings. Okay, well you can use yours then,
because I'm not.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Using this is from August twenty second.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Yeah, mine's from August twenty second as well.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Okay, yeah, I'm seeing Bears plus four hundred. Carolina Panthers
not on this list. Carolina Panthers. Panthers are not on
this list, Green Bay Packers not on this list.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Tampa Bay, Minnesota, New Orleans Cowboys, Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
They just got rid of, well.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
They just got rid of Dalvin Cooks, so maybe they
could use Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
It's been and Josh Jacobs, I guess, I guess he
hasn't signed his franchise tag. So there was a report
he was going to be with the Raiders week one
that's apparently still up in the air.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I just I don't know what options these guys.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
The problem though, was like, why would the Raiders though
be interested only because you run the same issue with
Jonathan Taylor unless this has been such a bad experience
he just wants to get to another team. And then
they say all right, I'll play it out and I'll
revisit this after the year.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
I think that's what I just think once out.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Probably at this point, but either way, it's gonna put
him in a really tough spot though after the season.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
And so Indianapolis wants a first round pick or picks
equivalent to a first round pick, right Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Which, for those who don't know, there's a draft chart,
there's a value acquitted East draft pick, so roughly they
would need the amount of picks that would compensate to
someone in the first one.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
It's just funny how Ersay has been, you know, trying
to tell everybody the true value of a running back,
and now he's demanding the value in return for a
running back.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Well, he values a dead whale at twenty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
A great point, Hey, great point. No, twenty five million,
twenty million though it was twenty yea, yeah, yeah, he
was gonna pay twenty million dollars for a dead whale,
was he some?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
It wasn't. It wasn't dead at the time. He was
going to pay for it.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Okay, so now you can get it for half off
ten million dollars to throw that thing on your wall.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Can we be honest though? How do you think this
came about? It was an old will was he like
drunk and watching Free Willie? And it's like, you know what,
there's that way?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yeah, why not? It's a great idea. But I'm telling you, like,
could he buy the wail stuff it?
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Throw it on the wall? How do you even ship away?
Are they freighting it? Like through the air?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Why do you ship it?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Now?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Like two three ziplocks? Come on, you get yourself a
decent blender, one of those industrial bad boys they got
here in novelin be talking about?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Oh God.
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Speaker 3 (24:17):
Really yes, okay?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Who will be a part of Saturday's game, the first
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But now we welcome in Brendan me Hanny is the
director of the aer LINGUS College Football Classic.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Here.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Brendan cannot thank you enough. What a setup, man, I mean,
you're the man. You're the man who made the sion is.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
I don't know if I'm the man.
Speaker 9 (25:18):
I'm the man of my own home anyway, at home
with my wife and my kids, but I'm certainly not.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
I don't think I'm the man around.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Town more than me.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
But yeah, this doesn't happen without you.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Well, I'm part of a team that it doesn't happen without. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (25:30):
So I'm part of the organizers or the game promoters.
So we have entered into a five game series. First
game last year, second game this year, third game next year.
And we're eager that the first game of the US
college football seasons played in Dublin.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Arda forevermore a.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Man, how did this come about? Where was the brain child?
Were you sitting around having a guess and You're like,
you know, what, what do we what do we gotta
do to get Brady Quinn out to Dublin, Ireland. Part
of what like, what do we gotta do? How did
this come about?
Speaker 9 (25:59):
Yeah, I'd love to take a huge amount of credit
for this, but unfortunately I can't.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
It was the brainsh Isle of John Anthony and Pork Cocaine.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
John Anthony of Anthony travel fame in the US, pork
Cocaine here in Ireland. They have been involved in American
football for the last couple of years and various guys
is bringing it to Ireland in modern times. We had
a game in twelve fourteen sixteen and there was a
bit of break after sixteen and the momentum kind of
waned this small bit and they got together, you know,
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with us in Ireland, with the team in the States.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
We said, we have to make this.
Speaker 9 (26:29):
Happen, whatever it takes, whatever it does, We've got to
make sure that this continues. It can't just fall apart.
Someone else is going to grab it. This is going
to start happening in London or Tokyo or somewhere. We've
got to keep it in Dublin. So we are essentially
a public private partnership. We couldn't do without the sponsor
the help of our title sponsor aer Lingus, but also
the Irish government, So we sit within the Department of
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Tourism and Sports.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
We are more of a tourism proposition than a.
Speaker 9 (26:53):
Sporting proposition, and we are aided by Tourism Ireland, Falls
Ireland and Dublin City Council. So we are a really
good example of a public private partnership that works. And
we're you know, we're extremely proud and all our stakeholders
are extremely proud that of you know, what's this, what
is what it has become and what it is becoming.
And you know, having this having the likes of you
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guys in town and your colleagues from the Dan Patrick Show,
it just it increases in the US what it is
we're trying to do, and especially when we're trying to
target future universities and future schools to come over and
play here.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
This all helps.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Big shout out to the Lord mayor die he was
on with a certain Yeah, I assume they played a
role in all of that. Talk to me a little
bit about just how you go about selecting which teams
fan bases that you think would be a good fit.
It feels rather obvious that Notre Dame makes a lot
of sense, But like next year's Georgia Tech Florida State,
talk to me through the process of selecting maybe schools
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or teams.
Speaker 9 (27:48):
Yeah, so Brady went out giving too many trade secrets
these things.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
As you know, we'll come back to commerci shows.
Speaker 9 (27:54):
So our model is based on essentially buying out the
smaller teams university game. So when we talk about the
smaller teams, we talk traditionally about the likes of a
Navy or a Northwestern or the University of Illinois or
Georgia Tech. So you're talking there people maybe with twenty
five thirty forty thousand fan base. But to make it
work from a tourism proposition, they have to be playing
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your Florida States or you're please God someday oh Ohio
State or Michigan. This year's obviously slightly different. So this
year we started obviously.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
In twenty twenty.
Speaker 9 (28:26):
It was a Navy home game and that fell apart
and we were devastated, and COVID hit and.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
It hit Ireland hard, as it hit the whole world hard.
Speaker 9 (28:34):
And we started negotiating this game with Notre Dame, with
the athletic director there as far back as twenty twenty
to make this happen. And when we looked at the schedule,
and again this is all done through John Anson and
his team in the US, When they looked at the schedule,
there's no obvious Navy home game against Notre Dame coming
for a while. Twenty six was kind of the first
year the potentially could make this happen, and the opportunity emerged,
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why don't we potentially bring a Notre Dame game here?
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Now, this goes against the model.
Speaker 10 (28:58):
I've just described to you, right, because for us to
compensate Notre Dame for moving a game out of South Bend,
we essentially have to pay the check to Notre Dame
that they would have gosh for playing that game in
South Bend.
Speaker 9 (29:12):
Right, So obviously with eighty thousand people against Navy, that
you know, But the Irish goverment came to the table.
Air Lingas came to the table, all the stakeholders came
to the table, and we said, you know, this is
happening in twenty three, we're just coming out of COVID.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
We have to make this happen, and thank god we did.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Well, we're thankful that you did.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Hell. Yes, Brendan Mehan, the director of the air Lingus
College Football Classic, joining us here on two Pros and
a Cup of Joe here on Fox Sports Radio Live
from Buskers Bar in Dublin. So I got to ask
you about the reach of football, which we look at America,
American football, American football. So I got to ask you
(29:52):
about the reach out here. When did you notice, damn,
even people out here love this stuff like this is
something that we got to figure out a way to
get out here and present to the fans because obviously,
you know the NFL college football it's growing leaps and
bounds seemingly every single year. But when did you first
(30:14):
notice here in Ireland that there was a reach and
a grasp here that would make this something that you
would guys who want to be interested in putting on.
Speaker 9 (30:21):
Yeah, I suppose it's been growing over here for a while,
and over the last kind of five or ten years,
it's really kicked off. Like the NFL has always been
big here and the availability of Sky Sports and what
they do just enhances that coverage and things like the
red zone, et cetera.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
It's a sport that's growing hugely over here.
Speaker 9 (30:39):
When I started got involved in this first I found
out by surprise that we actually.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
Have an American football league in Ireland.
Speaker 9 (30:44):
We have over around three thousand players now and that's
growing the American Football Ireland or the governing body of
American Football in Ireland.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
So as you say, it is a growing sport.
Speaker 9 (30:53):
It's still obviously a smaller sport in Ireland, but it
is a growing sport.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
And we have now.
Speaker 9 (30:57):
Teams playing throughout the country, throughout the Island of Ireland
every weekend during football season. And you know, one of
our big jobs, and certainly my big jobs hanging out
to talk to people, is college sport in Ireland is
not big.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
It's not huge, and I.
Speaker 9 (31:12):
Would have played it and I would have won what,
you know, the soccer equivalent of the biggest competition the
college would cut back in nineteen ninety nine, a long
long time ago, and there might have been a couple
of thousand people and that was the biggest college of
soccer and that hasn't you know.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
So for us to explain to the Irish domestic markets
what is college football, it's just a different scale. Like
you know, you guys understand it.
Speaker 9 (31:33):
You've obviously played it, but for us to explain to
people that these guys are playing a week in, week
out in front of eighty thousand people, you know, this
has blown people's mind the way this is bigger than
the NBA, It's bigger than the MLB stuff like that.
So that's a huge part of people are beginning to
grasp that. Now they're understanding is ten years ago they
might have gone to college football games see potentially future
NFL fans. Now they're going to college football game, see
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college football, and that's huge for us.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
That's awesome. That's awesome. You know, as we get ready
to tops to the game's gonna kick your start off Saturday.
What keeps you up at night? Like at this point
in time, Like I think both teams will probably either
here or almost here. They're probably traveling right now. What
are the things that concern you the most? Where you're
trying to sit back, enjoy nice guinness, whether you're drink
of choices, maybe it's a dealing whiskey, but whatever the case.
Speaker 9 (32:21):
Is, Brady Hoping, I don't know answer that question at
this stage. It's nearly too near to worry. But like
we organized, like our tagline is much more than the game.
So while the college football is the main thing, the
game on Saturday, we have over fifty events organized in
Dublin throw Game Week, this being one of them, Dan
Patrick Show. But we have medical soummus, we have religious
we have masses, we have taygating, We've pep rallies, educational seminars,
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business and everything in between.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
So when I'm what keeps me up at night now is.
Speaker 9 (32:49):
Making sure that there are no major faux paus out
there that we have the you know, the politicians, the dignitaries,
the VIPs. They've all got their tickets, They've downloaded their tickets,
they're on their phone, the likes of your like yeah, well,
the US Embassy and the Department of Pair and Affairs
ringing and saying can you get tickets for some senators.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
Coming in and we're going like this two days before?
Speaker 3 (33:10):
But you know what, you know, what's gonna happen about
what happened.
Speaker 9 (33:14):
We've we've someone from the House of Representative saying, who
are these guys? You know, so we just want to
make sure they're they're an old major full pause. It's
gonna be like as I was discussed with the lowerm
outside we're like a duck on the on the on
the front, we look as if everything's under control, but
we are badly, madly underneath. But it's gonna be cool.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
So then how long is once this is over? And
Notre Dame wins that game on Saturday by more than
by more than twenty and a half, they win by
more than twenty and a half?
Speaker 5 (33:44):
Is that the best?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
I mean, it's just whatever the best a random number.
But we're so Notre Dame takes care of business on Saturday.
When does it start for next year or is it
now to where you guys have got sort of a
foundation in place, and then you know you can relax
a little bit and then.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Come say March, you start to look ahead towards.
Speaker 9 (34:06):
The follow Jonas, I wish we are out in Georgia
Tech on Thursday week their play, Yeah, they're playing at
home and you're gonna I can't even remember they're playing.
And then we're out in on the seventh of October.
We know the Florida State are playing Virginia Tech and
at nighttime game, so we're out at that And again
it's just.
Speaker 5 (34:24):
So you start right away, Yeah, we've started.
Speaker 9 (34:26):
So tickets are on sale, through hospitality and through travel
for the twenty four game already. So our job at
the moment is to you know, promote advertised market with
the help of the likes of Tourism Ireland to you know,
in in Tallahassee and in Atlantic, to the Georgia Tech
and the Florida State alumni. We've already started organizing other events.
Last night, I think Two Pros and Cup of Joe
(34:48):
and the Dan Patrick Show both promised us that they'd be.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
Back next year. Yeah. Now I think the minutes will
show that way.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Can I say this though, I'm not apologizing advance for
the Florida State fan base. I lived in South Florida.
Currently they are time top five of them more insufferable
at least compared to the Notre Dame fan base. So
once you get this much better than at least, how
the Florida State fans going to conduct themselves next year?
Speaker 5 (35:13):
I promise, Yeah, yeah, we've heard, but we're yeah.
Speaker 9 (35:17):
Yeah, we've had we've had the ad over and we've
had we've met some of them, and we're ready for them.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
And we're hoping that they travel in their troves.
Speaker 9 (35:24):
And obviously they're hugely confident and about their chances this season.
So all of a sudden for a guy who used
to work in the bank ten years ago, I think
on Friday week, I'm going to be.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
Glued to FSU against LSU, and.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
It's the better they do, the better we. I mean, now,
are you a little bit because look, I was expecting,
you know, a Notre Dame crowd. I mean, what are
we looking at?
Speaker 4 (35:47):
Was it one in the afternoon, one fifteen in the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
I was expecting a little be a little bit more noisy?
Are you? Are you disappointed with just how how quiet?
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (35:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Who?
Speaker 5 (35:57):
This man?
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Who? This?
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Many second? Hey, hold on, did Brian Kelly just walk by?
What's what the boring about?
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Another reason? The root for Florida state here coming up?
Speaker 5 (36:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Yeah, oh that's true. That's true. Now, I mean, what
do you make of just the outpouring of support from
Notre Dame. Because we talked about it early in the show.
This Notre Dame fan base runs deep and they have
shown out here in Dublin. So what do you make
of just this outpourn.
Speaker 9 (36:28):
I'm not just saying because I'm sitting in front of you.
So the figures in the fact speak. So our model
is built on twenty five to twenty eight thousand Americans
coming to any one of our games. So last year,
obviously Northwestern, we're absolutely fantastic. I think Jacob Smith, the
director of football Operations, is listening. Nebraska were brilliant, but
we were marketing and we were advertising Nebraska.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
And Illinois during COVID.
Speaker 9 (36:49):
Next year we get twenty five to twenty eight thousand
fans from Georgia Tech and from Florida State University, and
we will get that number as long as we get
your Tennessee's, your Michigan's, your Ohio states.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
We have forty thousand Americans in town this way and
that's sounded well.
Speaker 9 (37:08):
Navy are brilliant partners of ours, but that is down
to the Notre Dame fan base.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
You can all see and not alone that.
Speaker 9 (37:14):
But we are hearing and that he alluded to it
earlier on you know, Killarney.
Speaker 5 (37:18):
Westport, Galway, the golf courses all over.
Speaker 9 (37:20):
This country, our thirty two counties in the North as well,
they're all benefiting from it. With the interlocking end is there.
People are seeing this. We can't thank you enough.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Well, thank you and I just said this. You know,
it's so appropriate because I think Dohie mentioned this earlier
forty thousand the most Americans coming over. Yeah, double, and
I believe since said World War Two. Now, if you
know the history of Notre Dame playing Navy, it really
started out where Navy used Notre Dame's campus as a
really training base and helped bail out the school at a
really difficult financial time. Yeah, so it's so appropriate that
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you kind of hear those numbers and it brings back
to me, like the reason why these two teams play
every single year is for that arrangement, that agreement way
back when, back during World War Two. So it's pretty
incredible what you've put together, obviously, and bringing these two
teams together here in Dublin. We're so appreciative you bring
us out.
Speaker 5 (38:08):
Yeah, and it's it's so cool, Brady, that story.
Speaker 9 (38:10):
We've told that story many a time, and like the
respect that Navy.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
Have for Notre Dame and that Notre Dame have for Navy.
Speaker 9 (38:16):
You know, the fight songs after the games on Saturday,
and it's it's huge to us And people say, oh,
is it a huge rivalry? And I suppose we kind
of describe it as maybe a friendly rivalry as opposed
to anything else, you know, so it's you know, we
US Navy are They brought their home games here before,
so we wouldn't have a Notre Dame here before without them.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
They are brilliant partners of ours.
Speaker 9 (38:36):
And then this year to have a Notre Dame home game,
it's it just elevates it to a whole different level.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
It's awesome. Brend I've got a present of the AAR
I got a pressient.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Yeah yeah, how about this?
Speaker 9 (38:46):
So my inside my insider Jay told me Jonas, you're
a medium.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Oh that's right, Brady, your extra medium. Oh yes, yeah,
I like it painted on and you're extra lives Brady,
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 9 (39:00):
Right there, the Travis Matthew arning is college football classes, yes,
you can wear around town and promoters l yes, yes,
the one yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
All of it is because of this guy, Brendan Behan,
director of the Aerlingus College Football Classic. Round of applause
here you guys, live from Buskers Bar in Dublin, Ireland,
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
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Speaker 3 (00:50):
Let'll tell you what a lot a lot of Notre
Dame for us are not seeing the supporting babies.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
No Navy lopsided? Okay, wellkay, better, better question? What about
Navy plus twenty and a half? Anybody any Navy plus
twenty and a half? All right, Apparently I'm in an
island alone. It is awesome here first time for me
personally in Dublin, Ireland. Man, you Notre Dame fans run deep.
Good god, yeah it is. You have made your presence
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fell here. So it's a lot of fun so far.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
As ton of fun. And by the way, thank you
to Busker's Bar. Kieran's right over there, the owner. Thank
you guys so.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Much for the hospital. Yeah, awesome.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
We're very lucky to be here. Obviously, not all of
us were able to make it over across. What do
you get at You're missing one of our teammates.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, but he did. Lee's right there.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I'm right here again, I'm right here.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I don't know what you're referring to. But no, it's
been a lot of fun, obviously, and then we couldn't
have made this couldn't be possible obviously without the help
of so many great sponsors and people. Jade, Where's Jade
first and foremost? Jade the Great? She's right men there,
all right by her shot or two. But Panini cards.
(02:00):
It's the official trading cards of Fox Sports Radios air
Lingus College Series coverage live from Dublin. Obviously air Lingus,
which just fantastic accommodations that they were able to provide
as we flew here on behalf of air Lingus Horizon therapeutics,
where science and compassion work together to transform lives. And
we'll be attending the Horizon Therapeutics tailgate party before the
(02:22):
game on Saturday. And then of course Budweiser, who made
our broadcast today possible live from Buskers Bar here in Dublin.
So everybody involved that made this possible. Can't thank you
guys enough. It's been tremendous. We got to walk around, Yeah,
we did Dublin yesterday kind of see some things. Full disclosure,
I've never been outside of North America, all right, So
(02:44):
you get like, you get me on a freeway and
I start to go into convulsions. The electrical thing in
the hotel room. That took me a little while. I
had to call Lee, thinking that somebody didn't pay the bill.
I didn't realize you put your card in and then
everything turns off.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
So I'm walking.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Around the dark. I'm like, man, why isn't this no
AC no nothing. I can't get it.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I'm like, did somebody what am I missing here?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah? Apparently that's the thing. You put your card in
the in the little slot there, and that's how everything
turns on.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I'm just glad we're not rooming together.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah, I just you know, there's been a couple of
a couple of things here that we've been trying to
figure out as we go along.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
How about this morning I learned I've never seen this before,
baked beans for breakfast. That that was one where I
was likely to be eating baked beans. I'm not even
a big beans fan. That's protein was different, but I
mean it looked like people were eating lunch for breakfast.
It was a little much.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I mean, by the way, one of the biggest meathead
moments I've ever seen in my life. So we go
to that. We're at a steakhouse last night, and of course,
because you're probably thinking of yourself, you know, steak's not enough.
You know, I need more protein. So what do you do?
What are you gonna do? Order two eggs to throw
on top of it? For no reason whatsoever this guy did.
I thought that was somebody.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I thought that was something they did here.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
It was one of the options, throw some friday on
top of the meat.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Why not good? Yeah, if we're gonna do it hawks Moore, Yeah,
it was check it out if I had a chance yet, Yeah, that.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Was that was a lot of fun. And then just
you know, apparently like the bike lanes, you're just not
supposed to watch Jonas. I mean, what do you want
from me?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Jonas almost got hit about five or six times. Yeh, Yeah,
they were getting pissed. They were started to get before,
were starting to get what does he even like you're
apologetic about it. You're actually have a horn. You know,
you're making us look bad as as tourists and guests
coming over here.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
What's the point of happened to horn that? Like God
gave you a horn and a middle finger for a reason, okay,
and it was for driving. Let people know, Ay I'm here,
or I don't like what you did and you throw
that bad boy out the window. These guys have horns,
like lay the horn on. I don't know what's what
what a bike lane is. I'm still trying to figure
my way out around here.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
You're from California, you very well know what a bike
lane is.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Okay, The bike lanes are a little different in California.
You gotta like navigate, pass sleeping bags and all the
other fun stuff that comes along with But I'm just saying,
like there's there's a lot going on out in California,
you know, like you're just depending on what bike path
you take. But it's uh, this is new now you
are a regular here in Ireland.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I don't know about that. Yeah, I mean I've been
to Dublin many times because I'm from Dublin, Ohio, which
it does. There are some similarities to Dublin. I are
you see some of similarities back in Ohio, some structures
and some of the some of the buildings, some of
the Actually you'll if you drive out of the countryside,
you'll see a bunch of stone kind of walls dividing
up property lines. We have that in my hometown. So
(05:30):
if you go along Dublin Road in Dublin, Ohio, you
will see that. So that was one of the first
times when I drove across. We went from Uh, we
got in Dublin, drove across the country to Galway. Everyone's
thinking about this Galway girl. So I was trying to
figure out what's the deal with her? UH didn't find her,
but we ended up staying on the other side of
the country for a few days, came back across. It's uh.
I'll tell you what. Driving on the opposite side of
(05:52):
the road too will get you. Initially, you gotta be careful.
You almost got to hit yesterday because you were stepping
off the curb and you were looking the wrong way.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I mean, this is not my problem. I'm they need
to do clearly. And also just because I'm a you know,
bit of a horse's ass, if we're going to be
truthful about it, I almost went down the wrong escalator,
so I just by habit, I started veering off to
the right, and then I realized, are my legs not working? No, no,
it's coming at me, so I gotta go down. So
(06:19):
it's just everything's in reverse. So there's just there's a
lot going on. A lot's happening here Lee, apparently because
for those of you, and I don't know if anybody
has a friend like this in their life, but when
they go someplace, they love to really take in everything,
and by everything, it's all the little touristy stuff. Lee
loves that.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
And the second we got into the hotel, he saw
all the pamphlets the.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Like, you know, if you want to, like, you know,
take a you know, learn how to fly kits for
fifteen pounds an hour or whatever it is, or if
you want to, like, you know, go walk around and
look at a building that may or may not have
been built in the nineteen twenties. You get like, and
you've got to grab all those I've already set us
up for like three tours after the show today.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
But but on the bus top us, I will say this,
I wouldn't trust either one of these guys as far
as walking to go to a certain places.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
One time.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Okay, the half mile thing, we were a half mile
for four miles away from the hotel.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I was really just trying to get you to a
bar where you could have your first Guinness, which we
did accomplished. We did. We did accomplish that.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yeah, we did. I mean that was that was cool
to see.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
And then we fed into your gambling habit as we
realized there was a sports book right across away from
the bar he located.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
It was great.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Why doesn't America have that?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
It's it's it's a damn shame. And you know that
in California you can't even legally do it, legally do
it because there was some law that didn't get passed,
so you can't do that. It's just a missed opportunity. Look,
I've said it before and I stand by this. If
you don't gamble on sports. I just think you're a
wretched human being. You are missing out on so many
(08:01):
great things.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Like think about it.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
For example, Navy's got no shot against Notre Dame, no
shot whatsoever. But if they keep it within three scores,
then maybe we got a shot to make some money
on this whole thing. You know, like there's an option
and a possibility for people.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
It presents.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Oh, it provides things for people other than that Notre
Dame's gonna go out there and just blow them out.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Someone say, there's more than one option. There's a triple
option technically, Yeah, there's that.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
There is that.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah, I was going to preview the game right now.
What we're thinking here, Well, you got to go to
the stadium. I walked by this, I didn't go inside,
and it's fantastic. It's awesome. It looks incredible. I mean,
it's one of those places where you wish you had
the opportunity to come play Notre Dame and played a
game like this. Unfortunately we only went to, you know,
places domestically, like we got to play in the Medal Lands.
We have to play in Baltimore. This would be special though,
(08:54):
I think for a lot of the players.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Could you imagine Brady Quinn and Jeff Samarjoe walking around
downtown Dublin in the.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Day, Oh my god, I forget Sibby City would be
right there with Oh my GODIY tried to get in
a fight at a bar with someone. Just Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
We were given strict instructions by the way from our
Cabby that took us here, places to go, places not
to go. Why you want to stay away from this
spot and that spot. He had some not so nice things.
I mean, Buskers is great, loves Buskers. Some other places
around here not so nice things to say about it.
So we've been giving the We've been given the tour
(09:29):
from many of the locals here. Thus far.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
We haven't got in trouble so far. No, we've been
here like twenty four hours though. Still got time, Yeah
we do. Yeah, we still got time, especially.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
With Lee, plenty of time all the time.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, Lee's I mean this it could be a problem.
Will they let me into Trinity's College after I go
to the bar?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yeah, the less you in whatever you do after that.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Okay, It's like, you know what's amazing. So back home
in the States, there's like these designated times where you
could have a drink, and anything beyond those times you
kind of get you know, it's like, uh, god, you're
having a beer that early unless you're an airport.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
An airport is a safe space to drink at any
point time whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, then then then you're fine. But like
you'll get like the people will give you this look like,
oh my god, you're having it well on a Tuesday night. Really,
this is what out here. If you're not having a drink,
you're an a hole. Like it's like it's completely the opposite.
Like everything is the opposite. The escalators, where the steering
(10:29):
wheel is, your thoughts on drinking, everything is the complete opposite. Yeah,
it's kind of nice.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
It's really nice.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah, it's just like you know, like people just having
a pint. Yeah, let's just go have a pint. Okay,
Like I don't know, I don't know why, but okay, yeah,
let's go have a pint. And it's a it's been
a lot of fun to sort of see a new
a new dynamic and just how people do things elsewhere
and to be a little bit more cultured.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yeah, I mean it's good for you. It's the first
time you're really getting out.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
So yeah, outside of what yeah, I'm telling you Mexico,
so farthest I've been, like people are asking me quite
like they're looking at my passport, going has this everything
ever been used? Like I don't know why I have one?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
You really don't need one until now, not really like
I don't. There's well at least you got yours though,
so that's good.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Jeez, what are you getting at? Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
No, we're good, Okay, we're good.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
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Speaker 2 (12:04):
We transition over to the NFL, where we have got
ourselves a deadline, the Indianapolis Colts, whose owner is still
mourning the death of a whale. Not making that up, uh,
just saying, can you set the scene here a deadline
for what?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Well?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I just wanted to point that out.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I mean, you know the whale, understand, But he's setting
a deadline for Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I got news for you.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
I lost all sympathy the second I saw Free Willie.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
The movie stunk and and all that did, all that
did was just steer me in the opposite direction here.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
But no, no, I think, okay, here's the scenario. Okay, the
whale dying Actually, I think has now made Jim Meersy
realize he can't just do things on his own time frame.
You're right, but he needs to set a dead These
things tend to die.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Then that's a great point, because Indianapolis and Jim mersay
they've given Jonathan Taylor a Tuesday deadline to find a
trade partner. Now reportedly six teams have reached out, two
have engaged with offers, one of them being the Dolphins,
which is appropriate considering this guy still mourning the death
of a whale. That Dolphins ship.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Him off, Yeah, to the destination you're supposed to pick up.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Whale exactly, So, so that does make all the sense
in the world. But uh, just the fact that they're
giving him this deadline is hilarious to me. It's like,
why would you do that.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Look, there's a lot of things that Jim Irsay does
that we really can't make much sense of. I mean,
first off, I'm shocked he's not here in Ireland with
the Tree Leaders.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah, he might be. This seems like his type of
place based on his it's issues. Well yeah, I mean,
is there a trash bag back there? Anybody got any
where's the uh where's that? But just the idea that
you think, like they screwed this whole thing up from
the get go, As we've talked about, we've chronicled that
(14:01):
on this show.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
They screwed it up. Like when you're running back once
more money.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
He wants a better contract, and instead of talking it out,
you have some meeting with him and then sit down
on the back of a golf cart in Indianapolis and go, well,
I mean, listen, I could die tomorrow. Jonathan Taylor be
out of the league. Nobody cares. Boy, that's comforting, man
like boy, that boy, Boy, that makes me feel great
about things. So he screwed that up from the get go.
Jonathan Taylor doesn't want to play there anymore. He took
(14:29):
it personal for a good reason, and so that now
they're gonna drop this. Well, you've got to do a
Tuesday deadline. You want to get a deal done, get
one done by tuesday. How about you, guys, get a
deal done by tuesday. How about stop putting parameters on
this situation that you've already let get out of control
to begin with, and just move on and go your
self away.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
We know in negotiations, though, deadlines do deals, and whether
they're fictitious or if they're real, usually there's a sense
of urgency. Now, I don't understand necessarily how you can
even put on a deadline, like what are you gonna
do if you don't get the offer you want, Right,
if you wait into the season and maybe there's a
team that has an injury at running back and now
they might be a little more willing to give up
a higher draft pick, why would you want to hold
(15:09):
on to him until then? Like, if he's not if
you're okay with him going and playing for another team,
what's wrong with stashing him on your roster and wait
until you get a better offer?
Speaker 7 (15:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I mean, he's not going to count that much against
the cap, and you know, so if he's not that expensive,
what's the point then of wanting to trade and move
on from him? Keep him? See if he doesn't realize
he might want to play this year, otherwise he's gonna
be subject to fines and all.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Like, I do wonder about this because.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
People bring up the workload because he did run the
ball a lot in college. I think, what do you
have like six hundred care ninety three carries something crazy
like that at Wisconsin. We'll call it fifteen hundred carries?
All right, let's let's let's split the difference here. Let
me to find the action, right, twenty three hundred carries
for Jonathan Taylor in college. We're going to go with that.
(15:58):
We'll go Lea's on. It is gonna find it faster me,
all right. So so this is a battle of the
Wi fi is here between Brady and Lee. Who's got what?
Brady's running some issues and down the stretch they come.
Lead the Lab looks like he's got himself a strong
link and it's secure. See, we got total carries and
(16:19):
we've still got issues here back and now Brady Quinnick,
Brady quinn it is twenty six ad. It's a photo finish,
but Lead the Lab looks like he gets it. Yeah,
So nine hundred and again twenty three hundred and nine,
twenty six same thing.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Ian were like, again, we're splitting hairs.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
We just round right up to twenty three hundred carries
for Jonathan Taylor. But people bring up the workload to me.
You're gonna get him for what four point three million
this year?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yeah, you'd have the ability to use the franchise stag
after that, which.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Is a lot two years control with Jonathan Taylor, right,
and two years control that if you pay him the
four to three and the ten million next year, seven
million a year for Jonathan Taylor for a couple of
years why not.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
No, it would be a be a good price. The
problem is Jim or say, already burn that boat and
so it's gone. Now they've got to figure out a
way of moving forward. I just I wonder how many
more running backs, though, are gonna try to press the
issue of getting a longer term deal done off their
rookie deal and then find themselves in this position. The
reality is the running back market, as we've seen this
(17:20):
offseason clearly is in trouble. I mean it's i would say,
offensively speaking, probably the least compensated of any Yes, and
now you find yourself in a position where most rookie
running backs are coming to the league. Hell, some of
them may be making just as good as money if
they stay in college.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Football A nil. What do you pretty get at?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I'm just saying, it's like some of these guys are
getting paid well enough where they may come into the
league with even more wear and tear. Jonthan Taylor only
played three years. He could have played a fourth year.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
And I mean the good news is if you're a
running back, you can always go back like years later.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
And like sue some people, Oh yeah, I'm just saying
I'm gonna I'm gonna leave that one. Okay, I'm gonna
get to that.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yeah, next hour, you know, the final hour of the program. Okay,
we'll get to that next hour. But yeah, it's Look,
it's a tough spot. It's a tough spot for Jonathan Taylor.
I just I can't help but think way to screw
this whole thing up because and we've talked about this before.
You've dealt with Jonathan Taylor. Anybody that's ever dealt with
the guys stand up dude, can't say enough good things
(18:20):
about him. The fact that he wants out, I think
is telling to what to what happened between him and
jim irsay, And it felt like a pretty critical year
for not only Jonathan Taylor, but the organization. You think
you finally found stability at quarterback, You've got your quarterback
of the future. To me, you'd want your running back
to be there, to be a part of it like
(18:41):
that seems like it would be a you know, of
good a great interest of the Indianapolis Colts to try
and make things that much easier on the life of
Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
And instead the owner, Jimmy big.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Mouth, shoots his mouth off and now we're staring at
some Tuesday fake deadline because the organization butchered this from
the start. It just what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Dude?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Like Chris Ballard has got to be looking around going
I gotta get out of here. Seriously, I gotta get
out of here. I can't deal with this. It's it's
just an impulsive owner who makes the lives of everybody
around him that much more difficult.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
All right, here, here are the odds for the top
six teams right potentially looking to get Jonathan Taylor services.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
I guess can I guess?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
See? I mean you just looked at my strength. I didn't.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
I didn't see it. I promise you.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Let's see it. All right?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
So the top six teams the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Okay, it's number one. You what the odds for, by
the way, plus one?
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Really?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Yeah? The problem is, at least from reports, is they'd
have to give up some players in order to get them.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Well, and also, Miami's got a type. You know, certain
people have a type, and when you get to know somebody,
you know, oh that's somebody's Type's got a type. He does.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
So I saw a least type this morning at the
gym by the way.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Yea, at least team Yeah, yeah, we call Lee's team.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
But everybody's got something a flavor and ile they shop
in is Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Miami's tight.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Is he fast enough?
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I mean I would, I don't know if he's as
fast as the guys they've got, because Jeff Wilson.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
And Devin A. Chain runs like a two. Yeah, Devon
A Chaine him too. You should see how fast debit is.
But like, just so, yeah, I wonder if that's his type.
But Miami's on the list, all right. Let me throw
out another team, Buffalo.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Buffalo is also on the list. That plus four fifty.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Okay, so the Bills, which makes some sense.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
They could use little help. They've always been in the
market for running back seemingly well, it seems like they're
always in the market for wanting to have a running game.
But then they just don't have a running game.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Yeah, but when you got Josh Allen, I mean, mister indestructible.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
All right, so the Bills, I will go the Bears.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Bears are not on this list. They could be, but
they're not on this list. One I've seen right here there. Okay,
I will say Lee's combating that because he's got a
different list I am.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
I am combating that.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
This is from August twenty second, So who's your source,
the DraftKings DraftKings. Okay, well you can use yours then,
because I'm not.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Using this is from August twenty second.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Yeah, mine's from August twenty second as well.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Okay, yeah, I'm seeing Bears plus four hundred. Carolina Panthers
not on this list. Carolina Panthers. Panthers are not on
this list, Green Bay Packers not on this list.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Tampa Bay, Minnesota, New Orleans Cowboys, Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
They just got rid of, well.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
They just got rid of Dalvin Cooks, so maybe they
could use Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
It's been and Josh Jacobs, I guess, I guess he
hasn't signed his franchise tag. So there was a report
he was going to be with the Raiders week one
that's apparently still up in the air.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I just I don't know what options these guys.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
The problem though, was like, why would the Raiders though
be interested only because you run the same issue with
Jonathan Taylor unless this has been such a bad experience
he just wants to get to another team. And then
they say all right, I'll play it out and I'll
revisit this after the year.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
I think that's what I just think once out.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Probably at this point, but either way, it's gonna put
him in a really tough spot though after the season.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
And so Indianapolis wants a first round pick or picks
equivalent to a first round pick, right Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Which, for those who don't know, there's a draft chart,
there's a value acquitted East draft pick, so roughly they
would need the amount of picks that would compensate to
someone in the first one.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
It's just funny how Ersay has been, you know, trying
to tell everybody the true value of a running back,
and now he's demanding the value in return for a
running back.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Well, he values a dead whale at twenty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
A great point, Hey, great point. No, twenty five million,
twenty million though it was twenty yea, yeah, yeah, he
was gonna pay twenty million dollars for a dead whale,
was he some?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
It wasn't. It wasn't dead at the time. He was
going to pay for it.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Okay, so now you can get it for half off
ten million dollars to throw that thing on your wall.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Can we be honest though? How do you think this
came about? It was an old will was he like
drunk and watching Free Willie? And it's like, you know what,
there's that way?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yeah, why not? It's a great idea. But I'm telling you, like,
could he buy the wail stuff it?
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Throw it on the wall? How do you even ship away?
Are they freighting it? Like through the air?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Why do you ship it?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Now?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Like two three ziplocks? Come on, you get yourself a
decent blender, one of those industrial bad boys they got
here in novelin be talking about?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Oh God.
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you're the man. You're the man who made the sion is.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
I don't know if I'm the man.
Speaker 9 (25:18):
I'm the man of my own home anyway, at home
with my wife and my kids, but I'm certainly not.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
I don't think I'm the man around.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Town more than me.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
But yeah, this doesn't happen without you.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Well, I'm part of a team that it doesn't happen without. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (25:30):
So I'm part of the organizers or the game promoters.
So we have entered into a five game series. First
game last year, second game this year, third game next year.
And we're eager that the first game of the US
college football seasons played in Dublin.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Arda forevermore a.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Man, how did this come about? Where was the brain child?
Were you sitting around having a guess and You're like,
you know, what, what do we what do we gotta
do to get Brady Quinn out to Dublin, Ireland. Part
of what like, what do we gotta do? How did
this come about?
Speaker 9 (25:59):
Yeah, I'd love to take a huge amount of credit
for this, but unfortunately I can't.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
It was the brainsh Isle of John Anthony and Pork Cocaine.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
John Anthony of Anthony travel fame in the US, pork
Cocaine here in Ireland. They have been involved in American
football for the last couple of years and various guys
is bringing it to Ireland in modern times. We had
a game in twelve fourteen sixteen and there was a
bit of break after sixteen and the momentum kind of
waned this small bit and they got together, you know,
(26:26):
with us in Ireland, with the team in the States.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
We said, we have to make this.
Speaker 9 (26:29):
Happen, whatever it takes, whatever it does, We've got to
make sure that this continues. It can't just fall apart.
Someone else is going to grab it. This is going
to start happening in London or Tokyo or somewhere. We've
got to keep it in Dublin. So we are essentially
a public private partnership. We couldn't do without the sponsor
the help of our title sponsor aer Lingus, but also
the Irish government, So we sit within the Department of
(26:50):
Tourism and Sports.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
We are more of a tourism proposition than a.
Speaker 9 (26:53):
Sporting proposition, and we are aided by Tourism Ireland, Falls
Ireland and Dublin City Council. So we are a really
good example of a public private partnership that works. And
we're you know, we're extremely proud and all our stakeholders
are extremely proud that of you know, what's this, what
is what it has become and what it is becoming.
And you know, having this having the likes of you
(27:13):
guys in town and your colleagues from the Dan Patrick Show,
it just it increases in the US what it is
we're trying to do, and especially when we're trying to
target future universities and future schools to come over and
play here.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
This all helps.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Big shout out to the Lord mayor die he was
on with a certain Yeah, I assume they played a
role in all of that. Talk to me a little
bit about just how you go about selecting which teams
fan bases that you think would be a good fit.
It feels rather obvious that Notre Dame makes a lot
of sense, But like next year's Georgia Tech Florida State,
talk to me through the process of selecting maybe schools
(27:48):
or teams.
Speaker 9 (27:48):
Yeah, so Brady went out giving too many trade secrets
these things.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
As you know, we'll come back to commerci shows.
Speaker 9 (27:54):
So our model is based on essentially buying out the
smaller teams university game. So when we talk about the
smaller teams, we talk traditionally about the likes of a
Navy or a Northwestern or the University of Illinois or
Georgia Tech. So you're talking there people maybe with twenty
five thirty forty thousand fan base. But to make it
work from a tourism proposition, they have to be playing
(28:15):
your Florida States or you're please God someday oh Ohio
State or Michigan. This year's obviously slightly different. So this
year we started obviously.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
In twenty twenty.
Speaker 9 (28:26):
It was a Navy home game and that fell apart
and we were devastated, and COVID hit and.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
It hit Ireland hard, as it hit the whole world hard.
Speaker 9 (28:34):
And we started negotiating this game with Notre Dame, with
the athletic director there as far back as twenty twenty
to make this happen. And when we looked at the schedule,
and again this is all done through John Anson and
his team in the US, When they looked at the schedule,
there's no obvious Navy home game against Notre Dame coming
for a while. Twenty six was kind of the first
year the potentially could make this happen, and the opportunity emerged,
(28:54):
why don't we potentially bring a Notre Dame game here?
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Now, this goes against the model.
Speaker 10 (28:58):
I've just described to you, right, because for us to
compensate Notre Dame for moving a game out of South Bend,
we essentially have to pay the check to Notre Dame
that they would have gosh for playing that game in
South Bend.
Speaker 9 (29:12):
Right, So obviously with eighty thousand people against Navy, that
you know, But the Irish goverment came to the table.
Air Lingas came to the table, all the stakeholders came
to the table, and we said, you know, this is
happening in twenty three, we're just coming out of COVID.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
We have to make this happen, and thank god we did.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Well, we're thankful that you did.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Hell. Yes, Brendan Mehan, the director of the air Lingus
College Football Classic, joining us here on two Pros and
a Cup of Joe here on Fox Sports Radio Live
from Buskers Bar in Dublin. So I got to ask
you about the reach of football, which we look at America,
American football, American football. So I got to ask you
(29:52):
about the reach out here. When did you notice, damn,
even people out here love this stuff like this is
something that we got to figure out a way to
get out here and present to the fans because obviously,
you know the NFL college football it's growing leaps and
bounds seemingly every single year. But when did you first
(30:14):
notice here in Ireland that there was a reach and
a grasp here that would make this something that you
would guys who want to be interested in putting on.
Speaker 9 (30:21):
Yeah, I suppose it's been growing over here for a while,
and over the last kind of five or ten years,
it's really kicked off. Like the NFL has always been
big here and the availability of Sky Sports and what
they do just enhances that coverage and things like the
red zone, et cetera.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
It's a sport that's growing hugely over here.
Speaker 9 (30:39):
When I started got involved in this first I found
out by surprise that we actually.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
Have an American football league in Ireland.
Speaker 9 (30:44):
We have over around three thousand players now and that's
growing the American Football Ireland or the governing body of
American Football in Ireland.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
So as you say, it is a growing sport.
Speaker 9 (30:53):
It's still obviously a smaller sport in Ireland, but it
is a growing sport.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
And we have now.
Speaker 9 (30:57):
Teams playing throughout the country, throughout the Island of Ireland
every weekend during football season. And you know, one of
our big jobs, and certainly my big jobs hanging out
to talk to people, is college sport in Ireland is
not big.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
It's not huge, and I.
Speaker 9 (31:12):
Would have played it and I would have won what,
you know, the soccer equivalent of the biggest competition the
college would cut back in nineteen ninety nine, a long
long time ago, and there might have been a couple
of thousand people and that was the biggest college of
soccer and that hasn't you know.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
So for us to explain to the Irish domestic markets
what is college football, it's just a different scale. Like
you know, you guys understand it.
Speaker 9 (31:33):
You've obviously played it, but for us to explain to
people that these guys are playing a week in, week
out in front of eighty thousand people, you know, this
has blown people's mind the way this is bigger than
the NBA, It's bigger than the MLB stuff like that.
So that's a huge part of people are beginning to
grasp that. Now they're understanding is ten years ago they
might have gone to college football games see potentially future
NFL fans. Now they're going to college football game, see
(31:55):
college football, and that's huge for us.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
That's awesome. That's awesome. You know, as we get ready
to tops to the game's gonna kick your start off Saturday.
What keeps you up at night? Like at this point
in time, Like I think both teams will probably either
here or almost here. They're probably traveling right now. What
are the things that concern you the most? Where you're
trying to sit back, enjoy nice guinness, whether you're drink
of choices, maybe it's a dealing whiskey, but whatever the case.
Speaker 9 (32:21):
Is, Brady Hoping, I don't know answer that question at
this stage. It's nearly too near to worry. But like
we organized, like our tagline is much more than the game.
So while the college football is the main thing, the
game on Saturday, we have over fifty events organized in
Dublin throw Game Week, this being one of them, Dan
Patrick Show. But we have medical soummus, we have religious
we have masses, we have taygating, We've pep rallies, educational seminars,
(32:45):
business and everything in between.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
So when I'm what keeps me up at night now is.
Speaker 9 (32:49):
Making sure that there are no major faux paus out
there that we have the you know, the politicians, the dignitaries,
the VIPs. They've all got their tickets, They've downloaded their tickets,
they're on their phone, the likes of your like yeah, well,
the US Embassy and the Department of Pair and Affairs
ringing and saying can you get tickets for some senators.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
Coming in and we're going like this two days before?
Speaker 3 (33:10):
But you know what, you know, what's gonna happen about
what happened.
Speaker 9 (33:14):
We've we've someone from the House of Representative saying, who
are these guys? You know, so we just want to
make sure they're they're an old major full pause. It's
gonna be like as I was discussed with the lowerm
outside we're like a duck on the on the on
the front, we look as if everything's under control, but
we are badly, madly underneath. But it's gonna be cool.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
So then how long is once this is over? And
Notre Dame wins that game on Saturday by more than
by more than twenty and a half, they win by
more than twenty and a half?
Speaker 5 (33:44):
Is that the best?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
I mean, it's just whatever the best a random number.
But we're so Notre Dame takes care of business on Saturday.
When does it start for next year or is it
now to where you guys have got sort of a
foundation in place, and then you know you can relax
a little bit and then.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Come say March, you start to look ahead towards.
Speaker 9 (34:06):
The follow Jonas, I wish we are out in Georgia
Tech on Thursday week their play, Yeah, they're playing at
home and you're gonna I can't even remember they're playing.
And then we're out in on the seventh of October.
We know the Florida State are playing Virginia Tech and
at nighttime game, so we're out at that And again
it's just.
Speaker 5 (34:24):
So you start right away, Yeah, we've started.
Speaker 9 (34:26):
So tickets are on sale, through hospitality and through travel
for the twenty four game already. So our job at
the moment is to you know, promote advertised market with
the help of the likes of Tourism Ireland to you know,
in in Tallahassee and in Atlantic, to the Georgia Tech
and the Florida State alumni. We've already started organizing other events.
Last night, I think Two Pros and Cup of Joe
(34:48):
and the Dan Patrick Show both promised us that they'd be.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
Back next year. Yeah. Now I think the minutes will
show that way.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Can I say this though, I'm not apologizing advance for
the Florida State fan base. I lived in South Florida.
Currently they are time top five of them more insufferable
at least compared to the Notre Dame fan base. So
once you get this much better than at least, how
the Florida State fans going to conduct themselves next year?
Speaker 5 (35:13):
I promise, Yeah, yeah, we've heard, but we're yeah.
Speaker 9 (35:17):
Yeah, we've had we've had the ad over and we've
had we've met some of them, and we're ready for them.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
And we're hoping that they travel in their troves.
Speaker 9 (35:24):
And obviously they're hugely confident and about their chances this season.
So all of a sudden for a guy who used
to work in the bank ten years ago, I think
on Friday week, I'm going to be.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
Glued to FSU against LSU, and.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
It's the better they do, the better we. I mean, now,
are you a little bit because look, I was expecting,
you know, a Notre Dame crowd. I mean, what are
we looking at?
Speaker 4 (35:47):
Was it one in the afternoon, one fifteen in the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
I was expecting a little be a little bit more noisy?
Are you? Are you disappointed with just how how quiet?
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (35:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Who?
Speaker 5 (35:57):
This man?
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Who? This?
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Many second? Hey, hold on, did Brian Kelly just walk by?
What's what the boring about?
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Another reason? The root for Florida state here coming up?
Speaker 5 (36:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Yeah, oh that's true. That's true. Now, I mean, what
do you make of just the outpouring of support from
Notre Dame. Because we talked about it early in the show.
This Notre Dame fan base runs deep and they have
shown out here in Dublin. So what do you make
of just this outpourn.
Speaker 9 (36:28):
I'm not just saying because I'm sitting in front of you.
So the figures in the fact speak. So our model
is built on twenty five to twenty eight thousand Americans
coming to any one of our games. So last year,
obviously Northwestern, we're absolutely fantastic. I think Jacob Smith, the
director of football Operations, is listening. Nebraska were brilliant, but
we were marketing and we were advertising Nebraska.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
And Illinois during COVID.
Speaker 9 (36:49):
Next year we get twenty five to twenty eight thousand
fans from Georgia Tech and from Florida State University, and
we will get that number as long as we get
your Tennessee's, your Michigan's, your Ohio states.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
We have forty thousand Americans in town this way and
that's sounded well.
Speaker 9 (37:08):
Navy are brilliant partners of ours, but that is down
to the Notre Dame fan base.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
You can all see and not alone that.
Speaker 9 (37:14):
But we are hearing and that he alluded to it
earlier on you know, Killarney.
Speaker 5 (37:18):
Westport, Galway, the golf courses all over.
Speaker 9 (37:20):
This country, our thirty two counties in the North as well,
they're all benefiting from it. With the interlocking end is there.
People are seeing this. We can't thank you enough.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Well, thank you and I just said this. You know,
it's so appropriate because I think Dohie mentioned this earlier
forty thousand the most Americans coming over. Yeah, double, and
I believe since said World War Two. Now, if you
know the history of Notre Dame playing Navy, it really
started out where Navy used Notre Dame's campus as a
really training base and helped bail out the school at a
really difficult financial time. Yeah, so it's so appropriate that
(37:53):
you kind of hear those numbers and it brings back
to me, like the reason why these two teams play
every single year is for that arrangement, that agreement way
back when, back during World War Two. So it's pretty
incredible what you've put together, obviously, and bringing these two
teams together here in Dublin. We're so appreciative you bring
us out.
Speaker 5 (38:08):
Yeah, and it's it's so cool, Brady, that story.
Speaker 9 (38:10):
We've told that story many a time, and like the
respect that Navy.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
Have for Notre Dame and that Notre Dame have for Navy.
Speaker 9 (38:16):
You know, the fight songs after the games on Saturday,
and it's it's huge to us And people say, oh,
is it a huge rivalry? And I suppose we kind
of describe it as maybe a friendly rivalry as opposed
to anything else, you know, so it's you know, we
US Navy are They brought their home games here before,
so we wouldn't have a Notre Dame here before without them.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
They are brilliant partners of ours.
Speaker 9 (38:36):
And then this year to have a Notre Dame home game,
it's it just elevates it to a whole different level.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
It's awesome. Brend I've got a present of the AAR
I got a pressient.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Yeah yeah, how about this?
Speaker 9 (38:46):
So my inside my insider Jay told me Jonas, you're
a medium.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Oh that's right, Brady, your extra medium. Oh yes, yeah,
I like it painted on and you're extra lives Brady,
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 9 (39:00):
Right there, the Travis Matthew arning is college football classes, yes,
you can wear around town and promoters l yes, yes,
the one yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
All of it is because of this guy, Brendan Behan,
director of the Aerlingus College Football Classic. Round of applause
here you guys, live from Buskers Bar in Dublin, Ireland,
Hosts And Creators
Brady Quinn
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