February 26, 2025 • 31 mins
In the second hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain chat with Petros Papadakis about USC cancelling their Spring Game, the Luka Doncic trade, and Pete Carroll’s flight over to Indianapolis, then the guys discuss the price of the Seahawks tickets, reupped today.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
Petros Papadakas knocking.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
I don't know boutos.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Now with Petros. Here's Dave's softy muller, and it feels
like it's been forever for me, for God's sake.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
So it took last week off and I woke up
on a Wednesday morning in Carl's Bad, California, thinking I'm
missing some Petros Papadakas g I hope Dick takes care
of him.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
And he did? He did he not take care of him?
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Here he is, Boys and girls, the Prince of Pigskin,
one half of the legendary fabled Petros and Money Show
in Southern California, Broadcaster of the Month in LA as
a matter of fact, one damn fire Greek American and
Husband of the Year. It's our friend Petros Papadocus, courtesy.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
The one and only Sweet James, the dense Beard of Justice.
He can come through for you. You know, if you've ever
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That's eight hundred nine million. Hello, Softie, Sorry, I'm on
the phone. Yeah, I'm very sorry.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
I was gonna ask, what is with this archaic connection
that we have here? What's what's going on?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Well? I had to drive my son to his baseball
practice and he was with his friend and I was
yelling at them both on the way there because he
was looking at something inappropriate on TikTok and I had
to do like the thing where you had to grab
the phone like don I'm very I'm serious, I'm a
(01:56):
very angry father. Somebody.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Well, I mean, don't you have like some kind of
app blocker or net nanny or something on that phone?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I mean, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah, there's something, but there's gonna have to be more.
I don't know that the blocker I really want is
to throw it into the seat.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Did you buy your daughter a cell phone yet?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
By the way, no, no, she's still holding out.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Okay, all right, well you gotta be careful.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Of year old is a real slappy anyway, what do
you want?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I don't want anything. I'm just concerned for Fletcher. There's
a lot of stuff out there that he should not
be exposed to. It such a young ripe page.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
But the person you should be most concerned about when
in regards to Fletcher and him being hurt his beat.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Okay, I don't want to get you hurt, Pal, I
don't want to get you hurt.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
So please, for the love of.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
God, does anybody have any any advice for Petros dealing
with his son? So, I don't want the internet looking
for inappropriate stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I don't want. I just don't need him in the
back of my truck, which is relatively small now. It's
a calm I ever since so Tony, if I got
a smaller truck and had to jump to Toyota. Yeah,
I just don't need him in the back of the
truck giggling on the phone while I'm trying to drive
navigate through suburban traffic and getting ready to go on
the radio in Seattle and in my Tacoma and they're
(03:15):
giggling and I say stop, and they keeps going. And
then I got to use my big snatchhand.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I want to know what Fletcher's looking at for crying
out loud. Now, I'm intriguing.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I don't know. I know.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
So you're saying that, Hey, if Fletcher wants to go
on porn hub, that's fine, just doing do it in
the back of my car.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
That's not what I said, softie. How dare you? Hey?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
How about how about the fact the USC is not
gonna have a spring game this year? That's kind of sad.
It was the last time you guys didn't have a
spring game down there.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Well, you know, the spring game used to be a
big deal. I mean, it was a time for people
to get excited, and sometimes it was the time to
showcase great players, and it became a marketable thing and
still is throughout the SEC and in a lot of
places in the Big can Nebraska canceled their spring game, right, yep,
(04:07):
so did USC. Texas also did. Yeah. In Texas, of course,
the very progressive Steve Sarkisian, explaining everything to everybody about
these guys played twenty games. We don't need another game.
It's like, you know, actually the spring game is good
for real football. Like to be in a game like
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situation in the stadium with the clock running, with the
refs out there, with the play clock and all of
the rules applied in modern college football is very hard
to simulate, you know, how to get the special teams
on and off, and to organize all of that stuff.
There's a lot that goes into that. And half of
(04:52):
just having a successful football team is the organization of it.
Just to know who goes in. It's the l two,
the kickoff goes out. You know, there's a lot of
moving parts and a lot of different guys. So that
part of it is and I'm sure that they modern
coaches feel as if they can simulate that and your
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team changes dramatically, and that's the other part, like they
don't mention it. Stark was like, well, we got a
lot of games and there's wear and tear, and no,
it's about the transfer portal. It's about the second portal.
Nobody wants to get poached like an elephant in Africa.
You have some guy pop up who is on nobody's radar,
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who was a two star recruit that you're not paying
any money to. And that guy pops up and does
something in a spring game at whatever position, let's say
nickel corner or something, and you need one of those,
you might go poach him. And it's because you watch
the spring game for Nebraska on the Big ten network
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or the USC now the PAC twelve, we started ending
up with something even worse than a spring game, a
spring showcase. Remember those stupid things. Yeah, some guys go.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Out there and the spring fling or whatever in the
hell they used to call it over at you doub
where they would do like a ho could dance or
something and have like.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
A little game and yeah, I mean, yeah, come on,
it's whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah. And that was, you know, that was because the
PAC twelfth network, in their deal with the schools, required
you know, some kind of hours long spring programming to
go and discuss the team, and a lot of teams
started to resist that and just put on a showcase.
I think maybe Jim Mora was the first at UCLA
(06:42):
and I went to one and I said, I think
out loud, this is the dumbest thing I've ever been to.
It wasn't even as interesting as just a normal football practice.
And you know how uninteresting normal football practice is. I mean,
it's not people that's there and act like they're gleaning
all kinds of information from a football practice are the
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dumbest people I've ever seen in my lot.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
But anyway, you're saying, going to a practice and seeing
all the media writing down all the numbers and making
sure the starters are there. Yeah, here's who had a
fifteen yard out route in the first five minutes of practice,
and here's who was on the second string offensive line,
and blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
That doesn't interest you.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Well what people also don't realize and this even comes
used to come to ahead of the spring game, especially
with like uber controlling coaches like Pete Carroll or something like.
They would kind of script their own narratives and make
you put a guy out there against it. I mean,
Lane Kisson wasn't above it either. You know, he did
it with a running back. I think the guy's name
(07:44):
was Dylan Baxter, and they hyped this guy up like
he was no Tomorrow. I mean, I don't even think
he finished his first season at USC And they leaked
out they leaked out a film from the spring a
clip of him and Juke and a bunch of guys
that didn't tell people that they were all walk on
and if you looked a little closer, you're like, look, gone,
(08:06):
what if that corner doing where? You know what I mean?
But they created all this hype around this player and
he crashed out maybe because of it.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Yeah, see, I think I think that the concern that
coaches have petros about other teams watching the spring game
and thinking, hah, there's a portal window here and that
corner looks pretty good. I might want to call that
guy's representation. I used to make fun of coaches for
thinking that people were like spying on them and getting
all their plays and things like that. That concern that
(08:34):
you've got is actually to me legit. So there's an
easy way to get around this. Make sure all the
spring games take place after the portal closes and you're done.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Well, yeah, but then you've got to adjust the portal
because a lot of people are just trying to get
it done because of you know, their school. Some people
are on the corner right, some people are on the semester.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Why not stopping to stop associating started to interrupt you
Stop association eating athletics with academics. Stop giving a damn
when the academic calendar is so you can schedule football
and just do whatever you want forget the calendar.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
How was it? Well, you're right, and we're getting further
and further away from that. I mean I made the
point on the show that you know, when was the
last time a guy was been ineligible because of class?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Exactly?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
It doesn't happen anymore.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
I mean, let me ask you the question, how much
class invested? How much class did you actually attend when
you were at USC?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I mean it depended on if I was interested in
the class or not certainly always enough to not sail
the class, right, you know, I might wear an incomplete
on the chest and you know, stay above twelve units.
You know, you get a couple of concussions during the
season and you don't feel like going to a certain class.
I wasn't above that.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Did you know anybody who never went to school at
all that played at USC?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Sure? Yeah, of course, yeah, but yes, but but you
still but sometimes those guys would get in trouble and
they'd get suspended for a game, game or something. You know,
that kind of stuff. Does not happen anymore at all,
which is which isn't And you make an interesting point,
but the people canceling their spring game is one hundred
(10:12):
percent about the transfer portal and one hundred percent about
being scouted in the off season because more and more,
I mean, this stuff is all on TV. Everybody sees
all of it, and you you know you don't. You
don't have to like be hiding in the parking structure
with a pair of binoculars anymore with a trench coat
(10:34):
on like our coaches used to be scared of when
I played. All you have to do is turn on
the dumb ass Big ten network and there's that low nose.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Guy slow like can Johnny be good? Remember the Remember
the Scouts and Johnny.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Movie of all time used the find at steroids here
at you see see it's so good.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Dude, Hey, did you go to the Were you in
the building for the Laker game last night with Luca
against his old dam the MAVs. No, but he seems
kind of pissed off, right, Yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
He seemed to have a real issue. It is interesting.
I mean, I am not of the belief. I mean,
you can call me a conspiracy theorist. I don't even
know if that word applies anymore, because most of these
things that are conspiracies or that we're told are conspiracies,
end up being true in and outside the sports world.
(11:25):
I mean, I know way Bogs and I know he
drank all those beers on that plane, but I mean,
I am fully endorsing the conspiracy there. I do not
believe that this guy Rob Polinka and Nico Harrison worked
out this ridiculous trade for weeks and weeks in shadows
and fog without it leaking out, And it had nothing
(11:48):
to do with the Mavericks trying to move to Vegas
or the new ownership with the Mavericks and all this,
of course is Adam Silver trying to put some kind
of boost into the Lakers and getting them out from
under the umbrella of the Lebron era, which has really
polarized a great deal of Laker fans in a way
(12:10):
I never thought was possible. I mean, I thought Kobe
was polarizing, and that's not the case if you compare
it to how people feel about Lebron. Because of the
cutthroat way and the disingenuous way, a lot of people
feel like he's gone about his career, and I'm in
that boat. I mean, he's an amazing athlete and a
(12:31):
generational global athlete, but the way he's gone about his career,
the way he coaches and superstars have all been just
a trail of dead behind him. I think that the Lakers.
I think the Lakers were fed up and Jeanie Buss,
who's very close with Adam Silver, needed help. I don't
(12:52):
think they helped the Knicks anymore because nobody gets along
with that guy Dolan, even though the Knicks are good.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Yeah, have you ever sat down with Lebron for an interview?
By the way, have you chatted with Lebron?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Once?
Speaker 2 (13:03):
We were supposed to have him on the radio and
the phone was in his ear and when he realized
it was a radio interview, he said, I don't do
radio walk.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Okay, the hell with a guy? Then screw them?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Well anyway, Like anyway, My point is so they needed
to get out from under this. The thing I think
is really interesting and just kind of trips me out,
is Okay, you traded Luka Doncic. Fine, You're not popular
because of it. People are pissed in Dallas about it,
(13:36):
and you're getting a lot of heat. I mean, even
if you're taking a bullet for the NBA, you know
you expect to get the heat. You take the heat,
and you hope something else happens in the NBA to
get you off the headlines about it. I don't understand
every other day from the Mavericks standpoint, leaking out like, hey,
(13:56):
this guy's sucking a hookah all day and this guy's
half the time, and we couldn't have this guy because
it's like, you know, NBA players in the eighties are
laughing their ass off, you know, I mean, they would
drink beer in the locker room after every single game,
Kevin McHale, Are you gonna tell me he wasn't a stud? No,
you know what I mean. They'd get on Eastern airlines
(14:17):
and eat five hot dogs with a with a freaking
indigestion and go take the corn at the freaking Astrodome
or wherever. You know. I mean, being drunk and fat
is not like the guy's twenty five years old. You know,
he had you in the finals last year and he's
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one of the most accomplished young players in the history
of the league. You can't, okay, you traded him, but
then to sit there and poison him every single day
and know it's not just the beer, it was the hookah.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Yeah, trying to Okay, they're trying to justify it to
their fan base, and there's not one fan, not one
member of the media, well maybe some members of the media,
but not one fan who's ever had to take a
a hardcore, passionate take about something. Heard a general manager
talk about it and said, you know what, I changed
my mind? No, no, why even why bother? Don't bother
(15:12):
changing people's minds. You want to make the move, Make
the move and let the move speak for itself.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah, I mean once you once you dump your girlfriend
or your wife. And I hate these sports talk analogies
because they're so prevalent, but.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Let's make one.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Let's make it true, like once you once you dump somebody,
like why sit there and go and talk about how
much they sucked? You know obviously it wasn't working out.
You're not together anymore.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
It's possible the Mavericks are having second thoughts about this
and that might be why that was coming out like that.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Who knows, Maybe the guy.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Just I don't you know. I mean the NBA The
NBA did this because the NBA is not popular anymore
and the NBA needed to shot the arm and this
is providing that for now. Who knows how long it
will last.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Yeah, well, you saw Pete Carroll writing coach from Seattle
to Indianapolis the other day with John Schneider and Mike
McDonald's first class.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Did you catch that, by the way, No, I didn't.
Yeah you think it.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Chaps has asked that Mike McDonald and John Schneider are
sitting in first and he's sitting in coach.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
He's rolling in coach.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I would imagine what happened is there was a first
class flight available for Pete Carroll later, but he wanted
to be on that flight and there was no first
class available, so he was more interested in being on
the flight than being a first class.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
He's a man of the people anyway, so that's not
a big deal for him.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I mean, you're right, though, I mean it is an
interesting irony in the moment. But you know, it is
kind of funny that the NFL greades came out today
or whatever. The players play and you know the Raiders
for years. I mean I remember way back at FS
one Randy Moss talking about, you know, how everybody would
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eat in the food truck when they were playing the
Raiders because the food in the facility was so bad.
They you know, if there was construction going on anywhere
near there, they'd run out to a food truck and
right because the Raiders were so cheap. And I remember
going down to Chargers camp when they were in San
Diego and looking around and just being like, dude, this
is worse than any college team I've ever seen. And
(17:21):
and somebody was like, yeah, so the NFL they don't
have to spend money on this stuff if they don't
want to, you know, and saw, you know, and Eric
Weddell and Philip Rivers are running around, you know, out
there with like junior college equipment, and that's changed, you know,
the Chargers coming to LA and building their own facility.
That's really nice. And else of gun knowing hiring Harbaugh,
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you know, they they've they've got a different vibe about him.
And then obviously Las Vegas where there's a lot of money,
and Mark Davis is kind of shaken that I'm a
cheap old sort of connotation that's been with the Raiders
for many years. So but but yes, Pete Carroll was
in coach. He was probably high fiving everybody telling him
(18:04):
about his beach cruisers. I'm just imagining the philosophy of competition.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Just imagining Pete Carroll standing outside of food truck waiting
online for for a ruben sandwich because there's nothing inside
the raiders.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I got the berger. What are you going to get?
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Man?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
All right?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Hey, uh, tell Fletcher to stop looking at porn on TikTok.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
All right.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I don't know what he was looking at, but you
know it pissed me off.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Yeah, well you know what that that That kid better
learned that having a cell phone is is is not
a right, it's a privilege.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
And you'll take away to take that phone. I've got
to take the phone. I was such a bad decision.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Good luck. We'll talking a week.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
I'll see him, man, all right, Petros Papadaka is with
us on the air. We're gonna break a lot more
to get to including wired and seahawk tickets, so fing expensive.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
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So I paid my Seahawk tickets today for twenty twenty five. Yeah,
slightly painful, a little bit of a pill to swallow.
And so I started doing some investigation and I learned
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I went all the.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Way back to twenty sixteen.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Okay, apparently we don't keep records in our family past
twenty sixteen.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
So we're just about to shred documents past like five
years anyway, so that's.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Probably all right.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
I don't know my dad held credit card statements that
were forty years old. Okay, I mean, I'm literally right
I'm doing. I'm finding like Rainier bank receipts really from
nineteen eighty five, right first Interstate. Okay, way back in
the eighties. I don't know what the hell that guy
was doing. He held onto everything, you know, he had
(20:56):
old expired drivers' licenses, library. Oh, there's be a nostalgisstalgia,
but really he was not really into nostalgia. He had
a Mickey manno autograph baseball and there's only one reason
why he had it, because I bought a form, right,
and now it's mine, by the way.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
But I bought it for him.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
He wasn't really into all that stuff. He just for
some reason kept all that stuff. Man, So in our family,
we don't do that. But I went back to twenty
sixteen and I realized that I am now paying sixty
percent more for my Seahawks tickets. It's really eight years
later because COVID never happened, so we never got the
twenty twenty season, right, there's no tickets that year. So
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eight years later, I'm paying sixty percent more for my
Seahawks tickets than I was back in twenty sixteen. And
I just wonder if that is attributing and contributing Dick
to some of the lame crowds and people willing to
resell their seats. I mean, when these things get that expensive.
I know Brian Nemhauser, our Buddy Hawk blogger who made
Jordanus Tomorrow from the Combine, has written about this. They
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do this variable pricing thing, right, and all teams are
doing this now right when the big guns coming to they.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Charge you more. Well, that's the one game where man,
I could.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Get rid of those tickets and make my entire nut
for the entire season and have some money left over
for the playoffs. So aren't the Seahawks kind of contributing
to this with that idea a little bit?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Yes, I think they should.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
I think they should have a system where you can
sell it to Seahawks fans that makes it a lot easier.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I know Hawk Blogger had one of those. I've I
used it.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
I also sold my tickets on Twitter. I did not
put my tickets up on Ticketmaster because I didn't want
to risk having you know, I get pissed off when
people sitting next to me are Niner fans. Why would
I contribute to that by making my four seats available
to San Francisco fans. So he refused to be in
the building when nine or eight was here, by the way,
so I just go by the way. Did I tell
you that I blocked him? Not on Twitter, but on
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my cell phone, like his numbers blocked? He was He
was texting me like after Seahawk Niner games, back when
the Niners were kicking our ass and I hadn't talked
to him in months, and all of a sudden, I
was talking to I'm like, dude, what are you four
and just blocked his ask, literally blocked.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
On my phone.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
This is the same person who also refused to call
Grant Cone as a producer.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Yes, he wouldn't do it. He was like, he wouldn't
call him. He would literally make one of us go
in there and pick him a phone and make the call.
I would have to call them, put them on hold,
and run back on the air anyway back to yours.
I would just say to nine or eight, enjoy fifty
million dollars year.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Brock. That's right, that's for you. That's right. What was
I saying, how much you hate fans? Sit? Yeah, I mean,
but it's difficult. It's difficult. I mean, it takes it
takes some time.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
It took me a lot of time to sell my tickets,
and I didn't sell them for any more than face value,
so it was hard for me just to sell for
face value. Now we're talking supply, simple supply and demand.
The demand for tickets is not nearly what it used
to be, and yet locally or everywhere, I think the
demand everywhere, but I think specifically I can only speak
(23:53):
to Seahawks tickets. The demand for Seahawks tickets. It's lower
than it's been in twelve fourteen years. Yeah, okay, and
the prices are way more expensive than they've been, right,
and they've gone up faster than inflation. You mentioned you
just paid your bill. I mean sixty we got four
we have four seats, right, and that it's it's very,
(24:14):
very expensive and and so it's frustrating that you aren't
able to get that money back when you need to,
when you want to.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
You know, you've got other things going on.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Well, I'm just going to play the role of a
grumpy old man right now. I don't have kids like
you do.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
But that's the only reason I miss games is if
I have the golf tournament here or I got it
that I get That's why I have to miss game.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
I miss games because I'd rather watch a home period.
I don't mind me. I've got nothing nothing else to do.
I'm definitely I.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Don't I don't care what people think at all. I mean,
call me a bad fan whatever, that's fine. I mean
there's a lot of people that cannot afford to go
to games that are serious. Diehard seals. Absolutely, you don't
need to go to a game to be a diehard fan.
But look, I mean, I.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
If you do buy the tickets, then I mean, if
I buy the tickets, I want it.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I am free.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
I'm still killing on my calendar. I am going to
the Seahawks game. I have a family albigation, Like, can
I get out?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Well, I mean I buy tickets all the time.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I give them away, yeh, I sell them, and frankly,
I don't care who buys them.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
It's kind of painful though I give them free though.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Well, I mean, first of all, if I'm giving them
away for free, I'm usually giving them to either a
good buddy who I know could use them, who can't
afford to go anyway or whatever, or I'm taking care
of a client. I mean, there's a lot of things
you can do with tickets that are meaningful. But I
mean your whole thing is, you know, don't sell to
non Seahawk fans.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
I don't care. Look, I'll just admit it, I don't care.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
I mean, I'm just you know, if I can give
them to somebody who I know would appreciate him, great.
If I can get a great deal for him from
a non Seahawk fan, great, They're my freaking tickets.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
I paid for him.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
I'll do what I want with them.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
And if you want to go out of your way
to criticize somebody like me for doing that, that's your
prerogative and I understand it, and that's your right, and
it's totally fair. I don't give a damn. I mean,
it's not worth it to me. It's it's it's it's
two tickets. It's not going to make a hill of
beans difference when it's all said and done, when there's
sixty seven thousand people in the in the building. Now,
if you can promise me that all of us can
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get together as.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
A group and agreed Coali is yes to not not
coal is, then I would probably do it.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
But it's like it's like voting for the president on
the West Coast.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
It doesn't matter. That's right, it's irrelevant.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Why would I bust my balls to go find a
Seahawk fan when there's going to be eight thousand Packer
fans in my section to begin with?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Who cares?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
So?
Speaker 4 (26:26):
You know, I just think when you're paying this much
for seats, man, I don't know, dude, it's just becoming.
And maybe it's just fifty one years old, almost fifty two.
It's just the natural order of things. I'd rather sit
on my couch, scratch my Uno watch with a beer
in one hand and a cocktail on the other, and
a clean bathroom downstairs that somebody hasn't vomited in.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
You geting a six pack of beer for the price
of one year, would say sense.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
But what's disappointing is if you would have told us
ten ten years ago that, hey, you know, in twenty
twenty four Lumenfield's gonna get over run with Bills fans, right, niners, fans,
packers fans.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
I would have said, you'd.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Ask me, okay, paint the picture of how that happens. Well,
it's easy.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
The Hawks suck for like five, six, seven years in
a row. No, what, we've had one losing season.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Well, they had one losing season. But the standards are
high here and we're very fickle. I mean, I look,
I get all that that they you know, we should
be better than that. But we're not right. We're just
not you know, as fans. I don't know, Yeah, I mean,
maybe we're just not. We're too far removed now from
the twenty fourteen season. I mean, guys, that was eleven
years ago. I mean they are like we've been the
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Brown Shore a decade. But there are also like you
talked about how that generation of kids that went to
Sounder games before COVID with their parents are now gone.
If you're like a sophomore junior in high school, you
don't have any idea what real success is for the Seahawks.
We used to bust their chops all the time, the
twelve since twelve, Remember that they're gone, They're done. Oh yeah,
(27:58):
the twelve cents twelve. We busted the balls for a
reason because they've already gone poof, right, But now it's
twelve years later and we have to reset the entire thing. Dude,
The ninety five Edgar Slide game was thirty years ago
this October thirty.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
But you're thirty five. You got no idea what the
hell that game even means.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
You're fifteen years old, you got no memory of the
Super Bowl from twenty thirteen.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
None.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
But I do feel like the people that are sticking
with it and going to games in twenty twenty five
are the people that were going to games in two thousand.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
No, there is definitely a thousand four for sure, and
nineteen ninety six for sure.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Not the people that showed up in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
No, I mean, I look, everybody's got their threshold, right, Everybody,
for whatever reason, has their threshold. I'm still gonna buy
my tickets, I'm still gonna go. I'm not gonna go
to as many games, you know. I mean, I've got
different priorities.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Obviously. I feel like I can get more done at home.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
To be totally honest with you, I used to go
in the locker room after every single game and talk
to players and run these interviews on the show on Monday.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
And then I realized that nobody gave a day. That's right,
nobody cares.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Nobody cares about what a guy says for ninety seconds
and he fills it with eighty five second of cliches.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
It's worthless, totally worthless.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
I'd rather sit here and have us give your uh,
your opinion, Jackson or Dick your opinion, and and share
our thoughts and have a nice little banner on the air.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Then here Tyler locket for seventy five years old. Come on.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
I mean, if you can get some good stuff and
dig it whatever, great, But I just felt like it
was just a waste of time, well and.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
Waste of time and all this element of reselling tickets
and making sure that. That's why what what Brian Mendazer
did for Hawk Blogger was so impressive. I don't know
how many fans ended up using it, but like, if
there was a marketplace and he did pretty well to
assure that, like like he used, then that would be
obviously the thing. But that other than what he did
that that doesn't.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
I don't think the Seahawks want you doing that exactly
because it means less money for them. If they if
they had some kind of a system set up where
they would just shove all of their ticket holders into
one marketplace, and they could do.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
That if they want to. It's the Dolphins that have
done that.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
The Kraken have a rule when you buy a ticket,
and I don't know if it's a applies to single game
seats or not, but it definitely applies to the season
tickets that you're only allowed to resell them on their
approved resale marketplace, which I think is the Ticketmaster app,
which is cracking because because they get they get a kickback.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
I mean, everybody gets a kickback.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
You sell me a ticket for one hundred dollars and
you take your whatever percent, and then I resell it
for an one hundred and ten.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
You're getting paid on both ends, all right.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
I mean they just want as many people as possible
being exposed to that marketplace. It's called capitalism, and I
totally get it. I mean, everything costs more. People aren't
making more money, but everything's costing more. Ticket prices are
going through the roof. Parking is ridiculous, concessions are ridiculous,
and oh look I get it, you know, I get
why people do it, right. I mean, do I want
to go to every game if possible?
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (30:44):
What.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
I love to have my seats be in the hands
of Seahawk fans. Absolutely. Am I going to bend over
backwards and bust my ass to make that happen?
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Nope?
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Yeah, I just wish it was an event. Again, not
going to do it.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
You know, there was there was a time where it
was an event and like you just you would die
to be at that football game. Sure, and it's just
not that way anymore.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Well, let's come back at five o'clock and talk about
why that is, all right, because that's a major issue
for the Seahawks, right major major issue. We'll visit on
that at five
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
Petros Papadakas knocking.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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like it's been forever for me, for God's sake.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
So it took last week off and I woke up
on a Wednesday morning in Carl's Bad, California, thinking I'm
missing some Petros Papadakas g I hope Dick takes care
of him.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
And he did? He did he not take care of him?
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Speaker 2 (00:48):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Here he is, Boys and girls, the Prince of Pigskin,
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a matter of fact, one damn fire Greek American and
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Speaker 2 (01:08):
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He can come through for you. You know, if you've ever
been in a car accident or a motorcycle accident, if
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That's eight hundred nine million. Hello, Softie, Sorry, I'm on
the phone. Yeah, I'm very sorry.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
I was gonna ask, what is with this archaic connection
that we have here? What's what's going on?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Well? I had to drive my son to his baseball
practice and he was with his friend and I was
yelling at them both on the way there because he
was looking at something inappropriate on TikTok and I had
to do like the thing where you had to grab
the phone like don I'm very I'm serious, I'm a
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very angry father. Somebody.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Well, I mean, don't you have like some kind of
app blocker or net nanny or something on that phone?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I mean, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah, there's something, but there's gonna have to be more.
I don't know that the blocker I really want is
to throw it into the seat.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Did you buy your daughter a cell phone yet?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
By the way, no, no, she's still holding out.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Okay, all right, well you gotta be careful.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Of year old is a real slappy anyway, what do
you want?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I don't want anything. I'm just concerned for Fletcher. There's
a lot of stuff out there that he should not
be exposed to. It such a young ripe page.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
But the person you should be most concerned about when
in regards to Fletcher and him being hurt his beat.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Okay, I don't want to get you hurt, Pal, I
don't want to get you hurt.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
So please, for the love of.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
God, does anybody have any any advice for Petros dealing
with his son? So, I don't want the internet looking
for inappropriate stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I don't want. I just don't need him in the
back of my truck, which is relatively small now. It's
a calm I ever since so Tony, if I got
a smaller truck and had to jump to Toyota. Yeah,
I just don't need him in the back of the
truck giggling on the phone while I'm trying to drive
navigate through suburban traffic and getting ready to go on
the radio in Seattle and in my Tacoma and they're
(03:15):
giggling and I say stop, and they keeps going. And
then I got to use my big snatchhand.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I want to know what Fletcher's looking at for crying
out loud. Now, I'm intriguing.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I don't know. I know.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
So you're saying that, Hey, if Fletcher wants to go
on porn hub, that's fine, just doing do it in
the back of my car.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
That's not what I said, softie. How dare you? Hey?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
How about how about the fact the USC is not
gonna have a spring game this year? That's kind of sad.
It was the last time you guys didn't have a
spring game down there.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Well, you know, the spring game used to be a
big deal. I mean, it was a time for people
to get excited, and sometimes it was the time to
showcase great players, and it became a marketable thing and
still is throughout the SEC and in a lot of
places in the Big can Nebraska canceled their spring game, right, yep,
(04:07):
so did USC. Texas also did. Yeah. In Texas, of course,
the very progressive Steve Sarkisian, explaining everything to everybody about
these guys played twenty games. We don't need another game.
It's like, you know, actually the spring game is good
for real football. Like to be in a game like
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situation in the stadium with the clock running, with the
refs out there, with the play clock and all of
the rules applied in modern college football is very hard
to simulate, you know, how to get the special teams
on and off, and to organize all of that stuff.
There's a lot that goes into that. And half of
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just having a successful football team is the organization of it.
Just to know who goes in. It's the l two,
the kickoff goes out. You know, there's a lot of
moving parts and a lot of different guys. So that
part of it is and I'm sure that they modern
coaches feel as if they can simulate that and your
(05:13):
team changes dramatically, and that's the other part, like they
don't mention it. Stark was like, well, we got a
lot of games and there's wear and tear, and no,
it's about the transfer portal. It's about the second portal.
Nobody wants to get poached like an elephant in Africa.
You have some guy pop up who is on nobody's radar,
(05:35):
who was a two star recruit that you're not paying
any money to. And that guy pops up and does
something in a spring game at whatever position, let's say
nickel corner or something, and you need one of those,
you might go poach him. And it's because you watch
the spring game for Nebraska on the Big ten network
(05:56):
or the USC now the PAC twelve, we started ending
up with something even worse than a spring game, a
spring showcase. Remember those stupid things. Yeah, some guys go.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Out there and the spring fling or whatever in the
hell they used to call it over at you doub
where they would do like a ho could dance or
something and have like.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
A little game and yeah, I mean, yeah, come on,
it's whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah. And that was, you know, that was because the
PAC twelfth network, in their deal with the schools, required
you know, some kind of hours long spring programming to
go and discuss the team, and a lot of teams
started to resist that and just put on a showcase.
I think maybe Jim Mora was the first at UCLA
(06:42):
and I went to one and I said, I think
out loud, this is the dumbest thing I've ever been to.
It wasn't even as interesting as just a normal football practice.
And you know how uninteresting normal football practice is. I mean,
it's not people that's there and act like they're gleaning
all kinds of information from a football practice are the
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dumbest people I've ever seen in my lot.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
But anyway, you're saying, going to a practice and seeing
all the media writing down all the numbers and making
sure the starters are there. Yeah, here's who had a
fifteen yard out route in the first five minutes of practice,
and here's who was on the second string offensive line,
and blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
That doesn't interest you.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Well what people also don't realize and this even comes
used to come to ahead of the spring game, especially
with like uber controlling coaches like Pete Carroll or something like.
They would kind of script their own narratives and make
you put a guy out there against it. I mean,
Lane Kisson wasn't above it either. You know, he did
it with a running back. I think the guy's name
(07:44):
was Dylan Baxter, and they hyped this guy up like
he was no Tomorrow. I mean, I don't even think
he finished his first season at USC And they leaked
out they leaked out a film from the spring a
clip of him and Juke and a bunch of guys
that didn't tell people that they were all walk on
and if you looked a little closer, you're like, look, gone,
(08:06):
what if that corner doing where? You know what I mean?
But they created all this hype around this player and
he crashed out maybe because of it.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Yeah, see, I think I think that the concern that
coaches have petros about other teams watching the spring game
and thinking, hah, there's a portal window here and that
corner looks pretty good. I might want to call that
guy's representation. I used to make fun of coaches for
thinking that people were like spying on them and getting
all their plays and things like that. That concern that
(08:34):
you've got is actually to me legit. So there's an
easy way to get around this. Make sure all the
spring games take place after the portal closes and you're done.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Well, yeah, but then you've got to adjust the portal
because a lot of people are just trying to get
it done because of you know, their school. Some people
are on the corner right, some people are on the semester.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Why not stopping to stop associating started to interrupt you
Stop association eating athletics with academics. Stop giving a damn
when the academic calendar is so you can schedule football
and just do whatever you want forget the calendar.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
How was it? Well, you're right, and we're getting further
and further away from that. I mean I made the
point on the show that you know, when was the
last time a guy was been ineligible because of class?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Exactly?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
It doesn't happen anymore.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
I mean, let me ask you the question, how much
class invested? How much class did you actually attend when
you were at USC?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I mean it depended on if I was interested in
the class or not certainly always enough to not sail
the class, right, you know, I might wear an incomplete
on the chest and you know, stay above twelve units.
You know, you get a couple of concussions during the
season and you don't feel like going to a certain class.
I wasn't above that.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Did you know anybody who never went to school at
all that played at USC?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Sure? Yeah, of course, yeah, but yes, but but you
still but sometimes those guys would get in trouble and
they'd get suspended for a game, game or something. You know,
that kind of stuff. Does not happen anymore at all,
which is which isn't And you make an interesting point,
but the people canceling their spring game is one hundred
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percent about the transfer portal and one hundred percent about
being scouted in the off season because more and more,
I mean, this stuff is all on TV. Everybody sees
all of it, and you you know you don't. You
don't have to like be hiding in the parking structure
with a pair of binoculars anymore with a trench coat
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on like our coaches used to be scared of when
I played. All you have to do is turn on
the dumb ass Big ten network and there's that low nose.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Guy slow like can Johnny be good? Remember the Remember
the Scouts and Johnny.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Movie of all time used the find at steroids here
at you see see it's so good.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Dude, Hey, did you go to the Were you in
the building for the Laker game last night with Luca
against his old dam the MAVs. No, but he seems
kind of pissed off, right, Yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
He seemed to have a real issue. It is interesting.
I mean, I am not of the belief. I mean,
you can call me a conspiracy theorist. I don't even
know if that word applies anymore, because most of these
things that are conspiracies or that we're told are conspiracies,
end up being true in and outside the sports world.
(11:25):
I mean, I know way Bogs and I know he
drank all those beers on that plane, but I mean,
I am fully endorsing the conspiracy there. I do not
believe that this guy Rob Polinka and Nico Harrison worked
out this ridiculous trade for weeks and weeks in shadows
and fog without it leaking out, And it had nothing
(11:48):
to do with the Mavericks trying to move to Vegas
or the new ownership with the Mavericks and all this,
of course is Adam Silver trying to put some kind
of boost into the Lakers and getting them out from
under the umbrella of the Lebron era, which has really
polarized a great deal of Laker fans in a way
(12:10):
I never thought was possible. I mean, I thought Kobe
was polarizing, and that's not the case if you compare
it to how people feel about Lebron. Because of the
cutthroat way and the disingenuous way, a lot of people
feel like he's gone about his career, and I'm in
that boat. I mean, he's an amazing athlete and a
(12:31):
generational global athlete, but the way he's gone about his career,
the way he coaches and superstars have all been just
a trail of dead behind him. I think that the Lakers.
I think the Lakers were fed up and Jeanie Buss,
who's very close with Adam Silver, needed help. I don't
(12:52):
think they helped the Knicks anymore because nobody gets along
with that guy Dolan, even though the Knicks are good.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Yeah, have you ever sat down with Lebron for an interview?
By the way, have you chatted with Lebron?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Once?
Speaker 2 (13:03):
We were supposed to have him on the radio and
the phone was in his ear and when he realized
it was a radio interview, he said, I don't do
radio walk.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Okay, the hell with a guy? Then screw them?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Well anyway, Like anyway, My point is so they needed
to get out from under this. The thing I think
is really interesting and just kind of trips me out,
is Okay, you traded Luka Doncic. Fine, You're not popular
because of it. People are pissed in Dallas about it,
(13:36):
and you're getting a lot of heat. I mean, even
if you're taking a bullet for the NBA, you know
you expect to get the heat. You take the heat,
and you hope something else happens in the NBA to
get you off the headlines about it. I don't understand
every other day from the Mavericks standpoint, leaking out like, hey,
(13:56):
this guy's sucking a hookah all day and this guy's
half the time, and we couldn't have this guy because
it's like, you know, NBA players in the eighties are
laughing their ass off, you know, I mean, they would
drink beer in the locker room after every single game,
Kevin McHale, Are you gonna tell me he wasn't a stud? No,
you know what I mean. They'd get on Eastern airlines
(14:17):
and eat five hot dogs with a with a freaking
indigestion and go take the corn at the freaking Astrodome
or wherever. You know. I mean, being drunk and fat
is not like the guy's twenty five years old. You know,
he had you in the finals last year and he's
(14:38):
one of the most accomplished young players in the history
of the league. You can't, okay, you traded him, but
then to sit there and poison him every single day
and know it's not just the beer, it was the hookah.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Yeah, trying to Okay, they're trying to justify it to
their fan base, and there's not one fan, not one
member of the media, well maybe some members of the media,
but not one fan who's ever had to take a
a hardcore, passionate take about something. Heard a general manager
talk about it and said, you know what, I changed
my mind? No, no, why even why bother? Don't bother
(15:12):
changing people's minds. You want to make the move, Make
the move and let the move speak for itself.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah, I mean once you once you dump your girlfriend
or your wife. And I hate these sports talk analogies
because they're so prevalent, but.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Let's make one.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Let's make it true, like once you once you dump somebody,
like why sit there and go and talk about how
much they sucked? You know obviously it wasn't working out.
You're not together anymore.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
It's possible the Mavericks are having second thoughts about this
and that might be why that was coming out like that.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Who knows, Maybe the guy.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Just I don't you know. I mean the NBA The
NBA did this because the NBA is not popular anymore
and the NBA needed to shot the arm and this
is providing that for now. Who knows how long it
will last.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Yeah, well, you saw Pete Carroll writing coach from Seattle
to Indianapolis the other day with John Schneider and Mike
McDonald's first class.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Did you catch that, by the way, No, I didn't.
Yeah you think it.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Chaps has asked that Mike McDonald and John Schneider are
sitting in first and he's sitting in coach.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
He's rolling in coach.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I would imagine what happened is there was a first
class flight available for Pete Carroll later, but he wanted
to be on that flight and there was no first
class available, so he was more interested in being on
the flight than being a first class.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
He's a man of the people anyway, so that's not
a big deal for him.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I mean, you're right, though, I mean it is an
interesting irony in the moment. But you know, it is
kind of funny that the NFL greades came out today
or whatever. The players play and you know the Raiders
for years. I mean I remember way back at FS
one Randy Moss talking about, you know, how everybody would
(16:57):
eat in the food truck when they were playing the
Raiders because the food in the facility was so bad.
They you know, if there was construction going on anywhere
near there, they'd run out to a food truck and
right because the Raiders were so cheap. And I remember
going down to Chargers camp when they were in San
Diego and looking around and just being like, dude, this
is worse than any college team I've ever seen. And
(17:21):
and somebody was like, yeah, so the NFL they don't
have to spend money on this stuff if they don't
want to, you know, and saw, you know, and Eric
Weddell and Philip Rivers are running around, you know, out
there with like junior college equipment, and that's changed, you know,
the Chargers coming to LA and building their own facility.
That's really nice. And else of gun knowing hiring Harbaugh,
(17:43):
you know, they they've they've got a different vibe about him.
And then obviously Las Vegas where there's a lot of money,
and Mark Davis is kind of shaken that I'm a
cheap old sort of connotation that's been with the Raiders
for many years. So but but yes, Pete Carroll was
in coach. He was probably high fiving everybody telling him
(18:04):
about his beach cruisers. I'm just imagining the philosophy of competition.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Just imagining Pete Carroll standing outside of food truck waiting
online for for a ruben sandwich because there's nothing inside
the raiders.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I got the berger. What are you going to get?
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Man?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
All right?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Hey, uh, tell Fletcher to stop looking at porn on TikTok.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
All right.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I don't know what he was looking at, but you
know it pissed me off.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Yeah, well you know what that that That kid better
learned that having a cell phone is is is not
a right, it's a privilege.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
And you'll take away to take that phone. I've got
to take the phone. I was such a bad decision.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Good luck. We'll talking a week.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
I'll see him, man, all right, Petros Papadaka is with
us on the air. We're gonna break a lot more
to get to including wired and seahawk tickets, so fing expensive.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Now next on ninety three three kJ RFM, Mud from
the R and.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
R Foundations, but Broadcast Studio. Now back to Softie and
Dick on your Home for the Huskies and the Cruken
Sports Radio ninety three point three KJR FL.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Hey, by the way, if you haven't checked out the
brand new free iHeartRadio app, I want you to do it.
Google play Store, Apple App Store wherever you download your apps.
By the way, I actually used it on Monday morning.
I was driving around town doing some stuff for my
mom and was able to grab the app and search
the Chuck and Bucks show and find there a Poto
interview from last week and listen to it.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
And it was easy, peasy man, all free.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
And the thing I love about the iHeartRadio app, besides
it being free, is it's more unfriendly.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Okay, I mean it really is idiot proof.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
If I can use it, if Dick can use it,
and really, let's face it, if Jackson can use it,
then you know anybody can use it. All right, So
jump on the web download the free iHeartRadio app. You know,
podcasts of shows, interviews, the whole thing. And did I
mention it's free, by the way, because.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Why would anybody pay for this? Why would you pay
for this crap?
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Why?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Why?
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Why?
Speaker 4 (19:58):
We are smart, we know nobody would pay for this,
so we give it away for free. Now I'm kidding partly,
but yeah, Chucking Buck did a great job, and I
was able to find their interview very easily on the app.
So check it out, the brand new free iHeartRadio app.
So I paid my Seahawk tickets today for twenty twenty five. Yeah,
slightly painful, a little bit of a pill to swallow.
And so I started doing some investigation and I learned
(20:22):
I went all the.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Way back to twenty sixteen.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Okay, apparently we don't keep records in our family past
twenty sixteen.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
So we're just about to shred documents past like five
years anyway, so that's.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Probably all right.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
I don't know my dad held credit card statements that
were forty years old. Okay, I mean, I'm literally right
I'm doing. I'm finding like Rainier bank receipts really from
nineteen eighty five, right first Interstate. Okay, way back in
the eighties. I don't know what the hell that guy
was doing. He held onto everything, you know, he had
(20:56):
old expired drivers' licenses, library. Oh, there's be a nostalgisstalgia,
but really he was not really into nostalgia. He had
a Mickey manno autograph baseball and there's only one reason
why he had it, because I bought a form, right,
and now it's mine, by the way.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
But I bought it for him.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
He wasn't really into all that stuff. He just for
some reason kept all that stuff. Man, So in our family,
we don't do that. But I went back to twenty
sixteen and I realized that I am now paying sixty
percent more for my Seahawks tickets. It's really eight years
later because COVID never happened, so we never got the
twenty twenty season, right, there's no tickets that year. So
(21:33):
eight years later, I'm paying sixty percent more for my
Seahawks tickets than I was back in twenty sixteen. And
I just wonder if that is attributing and contributing Dick
to some of the lame crowds and people willing to
resell their seats. I mean, when these things get that expensive.
I know Brian Nemhauser, our Buddy Hawk blogger who made
Jordanus Tomorrow from the Combine, has written about this. They
(21:55):
do this variable pricing thing, right, and all teams are
doing this now right when the big guns coming to they.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Charge you more. Well, that's the one game where man,
I could.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Get rid of those tickets and make my entire nut
for the entire season and have some money left over
for the playoffs. So aren't the Seahawks kind of contributing
to this with that idea a little bit?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Yes, I think they should.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
I think they should have a system where you can
sell it to Seahawks fans that makes it a lot easier.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I know Hawk Blogger had one of those. I've I
used it.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
I also sold my tickets on Twitter. I did not
put my tickets up on Ticketmaster because I didn't want
to risk having you know, I get pissed off when
people sitting next to me are Niner fans. Why would
I contribute to that by making my four seats available
to San Francisco fans. So he refused to be in
the building when nine or eight was here, by the way,
so I just go by the way. Did I tell
you that I blocked him? Not on Twitter, but on
(22:45):
my cell phone, like his numbers blocked? He was He
was texting me like after Seahawk Niner games, back when
the Niners were kicking our ass and I hadn't talked
to him in months, and all of a sudden, I
was talking to I'm like, dude, what are you four
and just blocked his ask, literally blocked.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
On my phone.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
This is the same person who also refused to call
Grant Cone as a producer.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Yes, he wouldn't do it. He was like, he wouldn't
call him. He would literally make one of us go
in there and pick him a phone and make the call.
I would have to call them, put them on hold,
and run back on the air anyway back to yours.
I would just say to nine or eight, enjoy fifty
million dollars year.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Brock. That's right, that's for you. That's right. What was
I saying, how much you hate fans? Sit? Yeah, I mean,
but it's difficult. It's difficult. I mean, it takes it
takes some time.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
It took me a lot of time to sell my tickets,
and I didn't sell them for any more than face value,
so it was hard for me just to sell for
face value. Now we're talking supply, simple supply and demand.
The demand for tickets is not nearly what it used
to be, and yet locally or everywhere, I think the
demand everywhere, but I think specifically I can only speak
(23:53):
to Seahawks tickets. The demand for Seahawks tickets. It's lower
than it's been in twelve fourteen years. Yeah, okay, and
the prices are way more expensive than they've been, right,
and they've gone up faster than inflation. You mentioned you
just paid your bill. I mean sixty we got four
we have four seats, right, and that it's it's very,
(24:14):
very expensive and and so it's frustrating that you aren't
able to get that money back when you need to,
when you want to.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
You know, you've got other things going on.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Well, I'm just going to play the role of a
grumpy old man right now. I don't have kids like
you do.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
But that's the only reason I miss games is if
I have the golf tournament here or I got it
that I get That's why I have to miss game.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
I miss games because I'd rather watch a home period.
I don't mind me. I've got nothing nothing else to do.
I'm definitely I.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Don't I don't care what people think at all. I mean,
call me a bad fan whatever, that's fine. I mean
there's a lot of people that cannot afford to go
to games that are serious. Diehard seals. Absolutely, you don't
need to go to a game to be a diehard fan.
But look, I mean, I.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
If you do buy the tickets, then I mean, if
I buy the tickets, I want it.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I am free.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
I'm still killing on my calendar. I am going to
the Seahawks game. I have a family albigation, Like, can
I get out?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Well, I mean I buy tickets all the time.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I give them away, yeh, I sell them, and frankly,
I don't care who buys them.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
It's kind of painful though I give them free though.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Well, I mean, first of all, if I'm giving them
away for free, I'm usually giving them to either a
good buddy who I know could use them, who can't
afford to go anyway or whatever, or I'm taking care
of a client. I mean, there's a lot of things
you can do with tickets that are meaningful. But I
mean your whole thing is, you know, don't sell to
non Seahawk fans.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
I don't care. Look, I'll just admit it, I don't care.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
I mean, I'm just you know, if I can give
them to somebody who I know would appreciate him, great.
If I can get a great deal for him from
a non Seahawk fan, great, They're my freaking tickets.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
I paid for him.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
I'll do what I want with them.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
And if you want to go out of your way
to criticize somebody like me for doing that, that's your
prerogative and I understand it, and that's your right, and
it's totally fair. I don't give a damn. I mean,
it's not worth it to me. It's it's it's it's
two tickets. It's not going to make a hill of
beans difference when it's all said and done, when there's
sixty seven thousand people in the in the building. Now,
if you can promise me that all of us can
(26:04):
get together as.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
A group and agreed Coali is yes to not not
coal is, then I would probably do it.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
But it's like it's like voting for the president on
the West Coast.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
It doesn't matter. That's right, it's irrelevant.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Why would I bust my balls to go find a
Seahawk fan when there's going to be eight thousand Packer
fans in my section to begin with?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Who cares?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
So?
Speaker 4 (26:26):
You know, I just think when you're paying this much
for seats, man, I don't know, dude, it's just becoming.
And maybe it's just fifty one years old, almost fifty two.
It's just the natural order of things. I'd rather sit
on my couch, scratch my Uno watch with a beer
in one hand and a cocktail on the other, and
a clean bathroom downstairs that somebody hasn't vomited in.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
You geting a six pack of beer for the price
of one year, would say sense.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
But what's disappointing is if you would have told us
ten ten years ago that, hey, you know, in twenty
twenty four Lumenfield's gonna get over run with Bills fans, right, niners, fans,
packers fans.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
I would have said, you'd.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Ask me, okay, paint the picture of how that happens. Well,
it's easy.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
The Hawks suck for like five, six, seven years in
a row. No, what, we've had one losing season.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Well, they had one losing season. But the standards are
high here and we're very fickle. I mean, I look,
I get all that that they you know, we should
be better than that. But we're not right. We're just
not you know, as fans. I don't know, Yeah, I mean,
maybe we're just not. We're too far removed now from
the twenty fourteen season. I mean, guys, that was eleven
years ago. I mean they are like we've been the
(27:37):
Brown Shore a decade. But there are also like you
talked about how that generation of kids that went to
Sounder games before COVID with their parents are now gone.
If you're like a sophomore junior in high school, you
don't have any idea what real success is for the Seahawks.
We used to bust their chops all the time, the
twelve since twelve, Remember that they're gone, They're done. Oh yeah,
(27:58):
the twelve cents twelve. We busted the balls for a
reason because they've already gone poof, right, But now it's
twelve years later and we have to reset the entire thing. Dude,
The ninety five Edgar Slide game was thirty years ago
this October thirty.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
But you're thirty five. You got no idea what the
hell that game even means.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
You're fifteen years old, you got no memory of the
Super Bowl from twenty thirteen.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
None.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
But I do feel like the people that are sticking
with it and going to games in twenty twenty five
are the people that were going to games in two thousand.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
No, there is definitely a thousand four for sure, and
nineteen ninety six for sure.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Not the people that showed up in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
No, I mean, I look, everybody's got their threshold, right, Everybody,
for whatever reason, has their threshold. I'm still gonna buy
my tickets, I'm still gonna go. I'm not gonna go
to as many games, you know. I mean, I've got
different priorities.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Obviously. I feel like I can get more done at home.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
To be totally honest with you, I used to go
in the locker room after every single game and talk
to players and run these interviews on the show on Monday.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
And then I realized that nobody gave a day. That's right,
nobody cares.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Nobody cares about what a guy says for ninety seconds
and he fills it with eighty five second of cliches.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
It's worthless, totally worthless.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
I'd rather sit here and have us give your uh,
your opinion, Jackson or Dick your opinion, and and share
our thoughts and have a nice little banner on the air.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Then here Tyler locket for seventy five years old. Come on.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
I mean, if you can get some good stuff and
dig it whatever, great, But I just felt like it
was just a waste of time, well and.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
Waste of time and all this element of reselling tickets
and making sure that. That's why what what Brian Mendazer
did for Hawk Blogger was so impressive. I don't know
how many fans ended up using it, but like, if
there was a marketplace and he did pretty well to
assure that, like like he used, then that would be
obviously the thing. But that other than what he did
that that doesn't.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
I don't think the Seahawks want you doing that exactly
because it means less money for them. If they if
they had some kind of a system set up where
they would just shove all of their ticket holders into
one marketplace, and they could do.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
That if they want to. It's the Dolphins that have
done that.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
The Kraken have a rule when you buy a ticket,
and I don't know if it's a applies to single game
seats or not, but it definitely applies to the season
tickets that you're only allowed to resell them on their
approved resale marketplace, which I think is the Ticketmaster app,
which is cracking because because they get they get a kickback.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
I mean, everybody gets a kickback.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
You sell me a ticket for one hundred dollars and
you take your whatever percent, and then I resell it
for an one hundred and ten.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
You're getting paid on both ends, all right.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
I mean they just want as many people as possible
being exposed to that marketplace. It's called capitalism, and I
totally get it. I mean, everything costs more. People aren't
making more money, but everything's costing more. Ticket prices are
going through the roof. Parking is ridiculous, concessions are ridiculous,
and oh look I get it, you know, I get
why people do it, right. I mean, do I want
to go to every game if possible?
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (30:44):
What.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
I love to have my seats be in the hands
of Seahawk fans. Absolutely. Am I going to bend over
backwards and bust my ass to make that happen?
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Nope?
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Yeah, I just wish it was an event. Again, not
going to do it.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
You know, there was there was a time where it
was an event and like you just you would die
to be at that football game. Sure, and it's just
not that way anymore.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Well, let's come back at five o'clock and talk about
why that is, all right, because that's a major issue
for the Seahawks, right major major issue. We'll visit on
that at five
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