July 17, 2026 • 52 mins
In the third hour, Dick Fain, Hugh Millen and Jackson Felts bring back Bracket Friday as they discuss the best jerseys and uniforms in Pacific Northwest sports history, with one representative from most of the region’s most iconic looks, then they look ahead to the World Cup Final Sunday, then Congressman Adam Smith from the 9th District joins us.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, let's roll in the five o'clock. I've been
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waiting for this hour all day long, been waiting to
when's the.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Last Tibody had to bracket Jackson? Probably a month, month.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
And a half ago, month and a half.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Yeah, you know why, because we'd have this little thing
called the World Company's been taking up our time for
much of the last month. But it is bracket time,
and this is a fun This is one we've been
wanting to do for a while. The greatest jersey slash
uniform in local sports history, and we're going to jump
right into it. The one versus the ash. We list
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all of them ahead.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Of time, and we should note only each team only
gets one representative. So correct now multiple Seahawks, one team,
one jersey unislash uniform for one team.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
And if you.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Out there don't like the one that we chose, tough,
because we talked about it yesterday and you had a
chance to text in your opportunity to volley in, it's
too late now.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Number one overall.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Seed, the og Seahawks home uniform, the blue with the
silver pants nineteen eight to two thousand and one. That
is the one seed. The number two seed, the classic
Husky football Don James era, purple gold helmet, gold pants
with the stripe. I can see Hugh Millen dropping back
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to pass right now in that uniform.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
My god, I mean make a tackle.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, I mean that was one of the great college
football uniforms of that day, no question about it.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Number three the Sonic arc.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Everybody knows that the classic Sonic with the arc of
sonics across the front, the green and the green pants
or green shorts. Number four, we're going Mariners og nineteen
seventy seven. You got the the yellow or they excuse me,
the blue piping on the sleeves as well as on
the collar line, says Mariners across the front with the
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white jersey and the trident for the m that's our
four seed.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Jackson went with the Sounders pitch black.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Now I barely remember this jersey, But tell us again
why you chose that, Jackson.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Well.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
A few years ago, Major League Soccer held a league wide,
nationwide vote of the greatest jersey in the entire league's history,
and this won that. It's widely considered the best Sounder
jersey of all time, and it's the best jersey in
league history, as voted on by America, So.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
By America that is the five seed. The sixth seed
the Kracking Away. We decided we all like the cracking
Aways better than the kracking Holmes. So we're going with
the Kraken, clean white jersey with the blue s on
the front.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
That's the sixth seed.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Our seventh seed is the Washington State Cougars kind of
snowball Era Drew bled Zoe Era says, Washington State across
the front with the script cougars on the silver helmets.
And then the Storm Rebel Blacks. I decided instead to
go with the classic Storm uniform. I went with the
Rebel Blacks, kind of like Jackson do with the Sounders.
This is just my favorite Storm jersey of all time,
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that twenty twenty one to twenty twenty three black Storm
Rebel jerseys. All right, we're going one versus eight. We're
gonna rattle through this the number one seed, the Seahawks
against the Storm Rebel Blacks.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Hugh will start with you, my friend.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Well, I really haven't seen the Storm level Blacks. I
think that when and we're talking uniform right, because originally
it was jersey, but we're but where we've expanded it
to uniform.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
We've expanded to uniform. I think, I mean jersey.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I think the jersey is seventy five percent of a
uniform at least, so, but you know, so that's that's
the emphasis.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
But yes, uniform.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah, I would say that if you go back the
first of all, the color blue. There's so many shades,
right like, we got Carolina blue, we got col Baal blue,
we got Royal blue, what have you whatever, whatever, the
Seahawks shade of blue was in there with the white
and the way it it complemented the silver pants, the
silver helmets. I think it's a deserving one seed. I
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don't even have to check the rebel blacks my boat,
just throw in the I don't think this is not
a complicated question.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Jackson, how about you.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I love black jerseys, if that wasn't clear already, I
think they're so clean. But yeah, I mean, there's a
reason why there was such a clamoring for the Seahawks
to bring back the Royal brute blues.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
They're the one seed for a reason.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yep, I agree with you. Let's move on now.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
In that side of the bracket, the four five before
the Mariners OG nineteen seventies, jersey against the Sounders Pitch Black.
I'll start, and you know, I was not even really
familiar with the Sounders pitch Black. I do agree it
looks really cool. But that Mariner's jersey classic. I'm glad
they're bringing back a little bit of that style. I'm
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glad they brought back the Trident. I think it's classic.
We'll go with the Mariners.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Hugh Well, I looked it up on the internet, and
I think the logo the Seattle Sounders logo with the
space eedle. I like that logo, but it the jersey
and yes I picked up the wrong picture. Does it
not say Xbox across the front? Yeah, that was the
sponsor at the time.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yes it does.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Okay, that's just a hard out to me od R
like like that will never win any contest. That won't
win a contest against a j V high school football jersey. No,
and oh no, no jersey that has advertising bigger than
the logo. Come on, this is jack you torch me?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
So will you agree with that? At least when you
make it a pay.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Xbox is no longer a Sounders partner, so screw Xbox.
Uh No, I mean, like, listen, it's it's the it's
the best. It's the best jersey for my money, that's
ever been done because of how clean it is.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
It's so simplistic and it's so basic.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
And they change the logo to just have the outline
of the logo so that you don't have the funny business.
You just have the green of the logo involved with
the green shorts and the green socks. It worked so
freaking well on the field, not to mention they won.
They were the best team in the league over the
regular season and the thing. So obviously my votes for
the Sounders. It's the best jersey in league history, as
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voted on by America.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
So that's my vote. All right, Well, you be the
tallest guy in Hong Kong. How can hang on?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You got?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
You got an advertising banner in the middle of the jerseys.
Every team does you.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Every single team has advertising in the front of the jersey.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
And that's a problem. Well, they need the money.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
All right, So Mariners move on two to one.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Jackson sticks with his guns and goes with the pitch
black uniforms for the five seed, but the four seed
moves on. So far it's chocky, all right, Huskies and
Cougars the Husky Classic uniforms of Hugh Breed, Love Mellon
and the Don James era against the Drew bled Zoe
Cougar uniforms.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Jackson, let's start with you.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
This isn't even a matchup. This is a joke.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Like this is this this is what's called when like
a sixteen seed sometimes makes the tournament and like they
have to play the playing game and and maybe they
get through, but they're like a team that maybe won
their conference tournament, but was like ten games below five
hundred in the regular season and they just went on
an amazing run. But they're like by far, like the
worst team to ever make the NCAA tournament. And then
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they have to go up against your North Carolina duke
one seed that lost like one game all year. That's
this that it's it's it's so far not even a matchup.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
It's it's it's obvious.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I'll be the second.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I think I know what he was gonna vote for,
so I'll be I'll be the second one. I I
will give a lot of credit though. I think there
are two really awesome Cougar uniforms and this is one
of them. Wow, And I think the one with the
uh kind of that medium to dark gray that they
still wear at times, with the medium to dark gray helmet,
with the with the Cougar logo on.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I think that's really think.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Dick blink, if your if your wife has a gun
to your head saying this right.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
I'm.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I'm giving credit where credit peow. And yet and yet
it pales in comparison. Now, believe me, we have had
Husky uniforms in the last twenty five years that have
not been as good as Cougar uniforms, but.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
This is not one of them. This is one of
the cooler.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
The classic late eighties, early nineties Husky uniforms I think
are and I'm trying to take the bias out because
i can tell you if some of my uniforms look terrible,
the Huskies, the Huskies uniforms in the early twenty tens
were the late the late aughts were freaking awful with
the cream colored pants.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
They were awful.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
So it's not I mean, I can I think I
can delineate between awesome Husky uniforms and terrible Husky uniforms.
The purple helmets terrible. So there have been some terrible
Husky uniforms over the last twenty five years. But this
is the goat. There's no question about that. The Huskies
move on, Hugh, I would imagine you would concur in me.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Well, yeah, I mean I will give the coops a nod.
They have great logo. That's where everything stops. Yeah, in
the comparison, you know, if you look at all the
schools and all the professional sports, there's no other team
that's purple and gold. He said, what, man, what about
the Lakers and LSU. No, no, no, no, that's purple and
yellow yellow. That yellow is not gold. You know, just
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like Baylor is green and gold and Oregon is green
and yellow, the Packers are green and yellow. So if
we distinguished yellow from gold, despite what some may label it,
purple and gold, is literally no other major sports team
does purple and gold. So you got that component you
mentioned it, the richness of the gold, the thick stripes
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and the pants. I was a fan of that component
of it. And then yea, and just this may be
interested to Don James first year was nineteen seventy five.
I'll hurry on this. The Cowboys were a prominent team.
He got the captains together and he says, look my vision,
I want the Husky uniforms look exactly like the Dallas Cowboys.
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Where the cowboys have blue, we have purple. Where the
cowboys have silver in their pants, we have gold.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Right.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
You know, the stripes if you look at the stripes
of the cowboys in the mid seventies on the socks,
on the side of the jersey, it's all a Dallas Cowboys,
you know. And then the helmets where they're silver and
a star, you got gold and a W with the
stripes down the middle. It was modeled after the cowboys,
and you know, the modeling was perfect.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I'm looking at it right now. You're exactly right.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
That is all.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Looking at Roger Staubuch right now, those are those are
the absolute Husky uniforms.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
There's no question about that. That is crazy. I never
knew that. That's a great anecdote.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
You all right, the three Seed, all the Sonics, the
Clean Sonic arc nineteen seventy eight to nineteen ninety four,
and then they went to the freaking looney tune bin
after that and decided to do whatever that was in
the mid nineties, and unfortunately are some of our best
teams of all time had to wear that god forsaken
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mid to late nineties uniform after having these classic ones
against the crack and away jerseys. They're the only ones
we've had the whites with the Columbia the I'm not
even sure what blue it is, I should know that,
but the light blue s across the front.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Uh, you want to start with this one? Sonics are cracking?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Well, I would ask one question, is this about strictly
the the artistry of and the and the design component
the fashion, if you will, or is there a component
of this that what the memories that it in general?
Speaker 4 (11:33):
I think it's just fashion, right, Yeah, I think what
what looks what looks the best?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Now I would say that the logo, but since we
already did the logo contest, I would go a little
bit lighter on what the logo looks like and.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
More actually exactly, I like the banner. I think that
was a unique. I thought. I think the font the
typeface was boring, like almost hideously boring for the Sonics,
even though I have wonderful memories of being a fan
at the time I slept on the street to go
to get tickets for the finals. I would say, if
we're just talking artistry and there's no connection to it.
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I think the crack and sweater slam dunks on the
Sonic jersey that's hard for me to say. Again, strictly
on a design standpoint, it's cracking for me.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I'm gonna let Jackson be the deciding vote on this
because I'm gonna go with the Sonics, and yes, maybe
nostalgia plays a part.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I do like the cracking jerseys.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I mean, if I'm if I'm going scale of one
to ten on both of these jerseys, I mean I'm
going like nine point three against nine point one. I
mean I think they are both fantastic. I do like
the simplistic nature of the Sonics. Sometimes simple looks good.
Sometimes simple looks terrible, but sometimes simple looks good. And
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these Sonic jerseys are simple. But I think they do.
And maybe you can call them board. Some would call
it simple attractive, others would call simple boring. I think
it's simple attractive. What do you think, Jackson?
Speaker 4 (13:01):
I think it's simple boring and I think you nailed
It's just the font of the Sonics is very I
wish we had done the og the script of the
cursive Sonics across the front with one of the on
the s that goes under the whole thing. I absolutely
loved those jersey. I have a Ray Allen retro of
that in my closet. I don't even own one of these,
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and you guys know I have over one hundred jerseys.
I don't own one of those Sonic ones, not because
I can't find it. Simply Seattle has a ton I
just don't like it. I don't like the artistry of it.
And the krack and logo is so good and the
cracking were brilliant. They said, you know what, our logo
is so damn good, We're just gonna just paste it
right on the front of the damn thing. And it
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was so accurately done, because that white one with a contrasting.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Logo, it's so clean.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
The dark pants and when you throw in even I
would just I know it's cheating, but the goaltender helmet,
like you throw that in there, and those always have
great designs, like, yeah, I'm going I'm going to sick
seed cracking on this one.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
All right?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
The cracking get it? How far did the cracking logo
go in our logo contest?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Do you remember Jackson?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
That's a good question.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
It definitely got out of definitely got out of the
first Yeah, I know it did that.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Definitely got out of the first round.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
All right, we've reached our final four and we have
one upset, at least one seating upset.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
But we do have the one versus.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
The four OG Seahawks blue versus OG Mariner's white. All
start on this one and with just a slight lean
and I think maybe the helmet takes it over the top,
which unfortunately the Mariners can't really compete with. Yes, they
have a batting helmet, but it's not nearly as cool
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as the Seahawks football helmet. I'm going with the Seahawks, Jackson.
Once you go second, we'll let you maybe be the
deciding voter, or maybe you'll be.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Called pollovers with numbers on the front when baseball jerseys
are pollovers with numbers on the front, And you want
the best part about this is is not only the trident,
which is amazing, it's also the that they the artwork
on this where the Mariners and the number is in.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Blue with a yellow outline.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
In eighty one they added an extra blue to the outline,
which was which was bad. This is simple it's perfect.
The pullover element with no buttons is so clean. I
love that they have the logo on the shoulder. I've
always loved that. I'm going, I'm going Mariners. Mariners is
gonna be tough to beat in this whole thing.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Okay, you you get the deciding votes Seahawks blue or
the Trident Mariner's white.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Well you got me on the the the pullover because
to me that there's only one team that gets to
do that, and it's the Oakland A's via blue and
Reggie Jackson. But so I like that that that the trident,
the logo was mixed in, you know, becomes the m
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But I think that when you know, and it was
just Jerseys, I might ponder this, but when you're talking
about the entire uniform, and by the way, blue and
green very rare. I think Minnesota Timberrls. But you know,
at the time when it came out, I don't know
that there was a sports team that was you know,
just you know, blue and then your accent color is green.
Good golf, you know, to represent the colors of the Northwest,
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that the sound and the trees and what have you.
So I think there was something that you know on
the silver the snow coming off of the mountains, I
don't know to me, and the logo back to Ford
with the Seahawk. To me, that that's that's in the
argument for some of the best NFL uniforms of the
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last fifty years. I'm not saying it would it would
win it, but it deserves a seat at the table.
So yeah, I'm going o G Shawks, all.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Right, love it, love it. We got some great ones.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I tell you this, this city has done uniforms well.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
The semi final here before you break, Let's let's do that.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, all right, let's do the other semi final Huskies,
the seventies and eighties era Huskies and into the early
nineties against not the Sonics, they got upset by the
sixth seed the Kraken away sweater.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I'm gonna start with this.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
As as much as I like the cracking and I
think I said it was like a nine point three.
I mean, the Huskies are if there's a if there's
a ten, uh, the Huskies are damn close to a ten.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I'm going with you, dub Hugh, what do you think?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Yeah, I don't have much to add to that. I
I think that when the the Purple jerseys got wet,
I can speak for a lot of players that we
felt like, okay, deep like a bruise, that that there
was just an extra intactor, the greatest gold ever put
on on pants, you know, and and and and I'll
argue that with Notre Dame as well. Uh so so
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love uh just about everything about that jersey, about that
that uniform on some Yeah, it's a clean sweep.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
It's it's it's the Huskies, and as Hugh pointed out
with the Seahawks, it's the combination of the whole thing.
And you get those colors from the helmet all the
way down to the pants that mesh just so well together.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
It's the dogs, all right.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I think, do we do the final now?
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Or now?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
We'll come back.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
We'll come back and do the final. We'll get Joe.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Hugh's got a run, but he's gonna give us his
vote when we come back as well.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
We're gonna get he's got he's got to take off.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
But five twenty three on ninety three point three kJ RFM,
we've got our championship match and it's two football teams,
the number one.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
And number two.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
So we we seeded them right, the number one and
number two seed go to the finals. Seahawks og jerseys
against the Huskies eighties and early nineties. Look, we'll do
that next on ninety three point three KJRFM.
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Speaker 1 (18:48):
FM, Having fun on a Friday in the summer. We
haven't done nearly as many of these brackets as I
have liked to, but we've had a lot going on.
It's been a busy, busy summer, more busy than you
in the sports world with the with the Mariners, constant
weirdness on a daily basis, the Sonics news, the World Cup.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Well, Dick, and you're forgetting number one thing of all
that is Sati just doesn't like brackets.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Well, that's true, he doesn't, but he's we've done We've
done plenty in the past when he's been there. He
likes brackets. When he gets to pick what's.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
With the Yeah, that's a very good point.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
When he gets his way. He likes the bracket. So, uh,
we've gotten down to the championship.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
And you know a lot of times the number one
doesn't take on the number two seeds in the championship
game of our bracket contest.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
This it does.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
So we've got Hugh. Heugh, We got Hugh back with us.
He's on the phone right, so he goes. Hugh had
a prior engagement, but he is sticking with us for
the championship match. He wouldn't abandon us right before the
championship match. The one seed the Seahawks home nineteen eighty
three to two thousand and one jerseys, those beautiful blues
with the silver helmets and the silver pan against the
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Hugh breedlove Millon purple jerseys with the gold pants and
the purple helmet with the with the excuse me, the
gold helmet with the purple w the see the Washington
Huskies seventies, eighties and into the early nineties. That is
the two seed, and we will start with Hugh breedlove Millon.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Pick your winner.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Hugh.
Speaker 8 (20:23):
Well, first of all, I would have been content to
let my prior comments. Rest but you wrestled me back
on the phone.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
So here I am well, finished.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
The game started, finished the game you start right exactly.
Speaker 8 (20:38):
So well, let me first say this about purple and gold.
It was the cover the color of regal royalty because
to extract the die from to create a purple garment
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was so labor intensive that whether it was the little
flower or even snails that they extracted it from, it
took ten thousand to one to get that little bit
of purple dye. So that was that was the color
of royalty. On the other hand, Crimson was simple. It
was Crimson was basically a rag.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
All right, you're wondering why we had you back on here.
This is exactly why we had you back on that.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
That needs to be noted. So purple and gold is
the color of royalty. I would say that, you know,
it's because I played in that uniform. It obviously is
number one on a personal level. But if I try
and separate myself and I just say, okay, I never played.
I'm just looking at them top to bottom, I would
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give the nod purple and gold, even over the wonderful
color colors of the Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
The one.
Speaker 8 (21:57):
The one itty bitty thing that I would critique is
this in college football, We've got a lot of helmets
that have a letter on them. Just Arizona's got an A,
Wisconsin's got a W, Washington's got a W, Missouri's got
an M. We can be you know, Florida used to
have just an F. I think if there's one thing,
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maybe a tad less than a ten in the Seahawk
uniform or the Husky uniform, it's said, it's just you
got a letter. It's a beautiful letter that the design
is wonderful, but it's a letter. And so I think
I'm gonna I'm gonna go against convention here. I'm gonna
say in a narrow narrowly because of that fact. I'm
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gonna go with the Seahawks. Because because because the brilliant
color combination, the and the fact that the Seahawk logo
I think is superior to any just mere lets. I
think if you just throw your letter on there, it's
a little bit of a I don't know. I think
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I think there's opportunities to be more creative, Like the
UW with the the Husky dog in it. That logo
used to be a prominent but it wasn't on the helmet.
If you had the UW with the husky dog over,
then I would say, okay, now we're we got a
logo that's that's that's rivaling anybody's and that would tip
it over. But there is I'm gonna I'm gonna submit
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the Seahawks for that reason.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
All right, all right, well I'll go next. I'll let
Jackson be the decider. And the reason I'm trying to
I was trying to discern the reason that I'm going
in the direction I'm going. And I think the reason
I'm going the direction I'm going is because I've looked
at what has come since and what has come since
with the Seattle Seahawks. I think are is a very
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very good uniform. I did not particularly like the blueberries.
My least favorite Seahawks uniform of all time is when
Matt Hasselbeck is basically wearing the same color on his
hell helmet and his jersey and his pants, and it's
that kind of weird whatever blue that was. And now
they've cleaned it up and the jersey in the last
ten or fifteen years has been much much better. But
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the gap between the jersey that they originally had, the
uniform they originally had, and the uniform they had now.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
It's not that great. It's just not that great. I
like them. I like them both.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Meanwhile, the Huskies, I don't know what the hell they
decided to do after they got rid of these literally
perfect uniforms for twenty five years.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
They went all sorts of cream.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
They went to white helmets at the time, they went
to black helmets at the time, they went to black
black jerseys. They did all sorts of just weird stuff
when they'd already created perfection. And now at least they've
come back to a jersey that is mostly like that.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
It will never be the same.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Adidas will never make that same type of dirt jersey
that they had back then, but it's back to close
that is as perfect as any jersey I think we
have ever had in the Pacific Northwest. I am going
with the University of Washington uniform. What do you think, Jackson?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
So I generally agree with everything that both of you
have said. My vote will be decided by the answer
to this question. And Hugh, you played in the Huskies jerseys, Dick,
you might know why. And if there's a good answer,
then that will decide my vote. So the answer here
for one of you will decide my vote. Why is
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the shade of gold on the pants for the Huskies
so different from the shade of gold on the helmet?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Do either of you know or have an answer for that?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Well, it wasn't back then as much as it is now, right,
I mean, back then it was about as close as
you could get it.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
It's pretty it's pretty different.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (25:51):
I think you go back to if we're talking about
the Warren Moon era uniforms and that that rich gold.
I think it has to do with one is your
spray painting a helmet, uh And that's one medium, and
the other is you you have fabric. And I think
that uh uh, similar to if you look at the
Dallas Cowboys from back then, they almost take like a
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green if you googled right now Cowboys pants green, you know,
like keel green. It has to do with how it
shows up on TV. That was an issue back then.
They've maintained that as they've advanced in garments. I'm not
an expert in all this, but I think that there
was a It was tricky to get the Husky gold pants.
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They almost looked a little olive, if I could say,
that's a goldish olive. But from a disc that was
closed up from a distant it looked ideal. On television,
it looked ideal. But I just say, I think it
has to do with how you match colors. When you
have one one one being spray painted on a helmet
and another, you know, the thread of a garment. That's
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good as I can give you.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Yeah, you got seriously, that was well done.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
It's not good enough, though, And it's because at the
end of the day, I think it's it's the uniformity
of the silver pants to the silver helmet. And if
you know, if the pants were a little bit darker,
if they were if they didn't match the helmet, that
would send me in the direction of the Huskies. But
because it matches so nicely, and then you know, you
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have the I have the picture up here for our
graphic of Kenny Easley. He has the white armband, the
white socks that matches with the white numbers. The uniformity
of that. I'm going with the one seed Seahawks to
win it all. It is extremely close, though, just by
a hair. And if the Huskies, if that shade of gold.
If either the helmet of the pants was closer to
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the other, it would be Huskies. But it's just too
far away.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Well, I have seen poles that have ranked the Seahawks
jersey or Seahawks uniform as the greatest in NFL history.
I have seen people around the country vote that being
the number one greatest uniform, and it was universally celebrated,
not just here in Seattle, universally celebrated around the country
when they decided to bring that puppy back.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
So well done. The number one seed goes on. Hugh.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
We appreciate it, man, Thanks for spending some extra time
with us.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I love it.
Speaker 8 (28:19):
Good to be with you, guys.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Shammered down sounds good. That's Hugh Millen. We'll be back
right after this. Jackson.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
We have a flow Balligan situation at the Open Championship.
I'll explain that coming up next on ninety three point
three KJRFM.
Speaker 7 (28:35):
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Speaker 1 (28:51):
Before we get Jackson's World Cup preview, I just want
to let you know we got it. Kind of have
a flow balligan situation at the Open Championship, Jackson, what's up. Well,
there's a player that has been given a two shot
penalty for involuntarily improving his lie when he was stuck
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in like waist high rough oo over on the right.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Side of the faaraway.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Okay, Now what's interesting about this is who it is
and where he is in the leaderboard. This person right
now is only three shots back of the lead and
was given the two shot penalty, so would be only
one shot back of the lead with tuesdays to play
if he hadn't been given the penalty.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
The second part of it is who it is.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
It's Bryce and d Chambeau, who is already a controversial figure.
He is probably the greatest definition of you either love
him or hate him guy in the entire sport, and
a lot of questions have been brought up on social
media as Okay, if this was Rory or Gotti that
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did the exact same thing, would he be getting the
two stroke penalty which is exactly what they said about
Floe Ballagan. Remember if it was messy, would he be
getting the penalty? And guess who else? Bryson d Shamba's
friends with Donald Trump. I don't think Trump's gonna make them.
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I don't think Trump's gonna make the call. But I
think there's there's a lot of parallels there. And originally
it was thought that Bryson was going to quit and
not play the weekend, that he was going to protest
and pull his name out. He has since cooler heads
have prevailed and he has decided. He just announced on Twitter.
He says, I disagree with the ruling, but onto the weekend,
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here we go. So it'll be interesting to see a
lot of people either rooting very much for Bryson or
very much against Bryson Djambo in the Open championship. But
allows a little bit more fun to watch over the weekend.
We'll have a lot of fun watching that. Over the weekend,
we'll have a lot of fun watching Spain and Argentina
Tomorrow excuse me, Sunday at noon. Correct, Yes, a pregame
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in eleven thirty myself Danny Jackson, Brad Evans, which is perfect.
I have a tea time at seven thirty in the
morning with my son. It's gonna be getting over right
about twelve o'clock. I'll be able to make my way
back and watch it. So basically, the question I have
for you on this is which type of Argentina team
should we believe that we have. Should we believe that
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we have a team of destiny that just simply can't
lose down the stretch.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
It's the ninety five Mariners. It's refused to lose.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
It doesn't matter how many runs we're down by, doesn't
matter how many goals we're we're down by, We're gonna
get the win in the end. Or is it a
team that just simply has been outplayed for more minutes
and far more minutes in this tournament, then they've outplayed
their opponent and they're gonna get beat Dick.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
That's the great question, because Argentina has at a lot
of times, especially in those first seventy five against England,
they haven't been great.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
They've been good, but they haven't.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Been the Argentina of twenty twenty two that rolled their
way to the championship. Meanwhile, it's a Spain team that's
gonna want to keep the ball off of their feed.
Is gonna want to keep Argentina running and chasing the ball.
So can Spain find a goal or is it just
gonna go zero zero late and then Argentina and Messi
are eventually gonna find their winner like they have. What
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you just outlined is the great question, like the intangible
of teams that find ways to win versus the control
of Spain, who have just controlled game after game. Even
the France game was just full control for Spain. Can
that control and defense and midfield win out once more
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against the greatest ever?
Speaker 6 (32:45):
Do it? All?
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Right?
Speaker 2 (32:47):
So what's gonna happen? Give us your prediction?
Speaker 4 (32:50):
This is This is the tough thing because part of
it also is the weather.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
So I'm not sure if everybody knows.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
New York right now is covered in from the fires
up in Canada, and that is going to I think
have an actual tangible effect on this game. Spain is
gonna have that sixty percent possession, Argentine is gonna have
to run more, They're gonna have to chase the ball
more in smokey conditions in New York.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
That's gonna matter.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
And after you know, sixty minutes seventy minutes of running
if breathing in smoke filled air, Argentine is not gonna
have the gas that they would say in a Dallas
or in Atlanta climate controlled dome stadiums. I think Spain
get this two to one in extra time. Argentina will
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at some point find a goal. But at if this
goes one hundred and twenty minutes, I just don't see
a scenario where Argentina isn't overly gassed at the end
of it from just chasing the ball, and Spain their
control game will win out in the end and their
their best midfield in the world. I've been saying it
they might pick to win before the tournament started.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
So I gotta just I gotta s Are you a.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Proponent of the third place game we'll hear tomorrow on
kJ R or not?
Speaker 4 (34:05):
I mean, yeah, I we'll have the call, Andrews will
have pregame at one thirty. I mean, it's it's England,
it's France. That's that's worth something, right.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Maybe it's like it's like a Duke North Carolina third
place game in the NC Double A tournament.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
I mean, the players, the players don't really care. I
don't think that much. But but but still for the
fact that it's England France.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
It'll be fun cause they used to have that in
the tournament, you know that way back in the day,
there was a third place game in the NC DOUBLEA
tournament at the final four. So they used to have
it back when I was a little right for me,
We've got we've got a special guest who's actually kind
of becoming a friend of the show. Congressman Adam Smith
is going to join us again to talk about what's
going on in the House in the Senate with this
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Protect College Sports Act. We'll we'll ask them about the
Sonics return, We'll ask them about if An on Cosla,
the new ownership of the Seattle Seahawks, all of his
takes coming up next on ninety three point three KJFM.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
All right, moving on to the six o'clock hour.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Been looking forward to this conversation all day as we
visit with now, I guess we can call him a
friend of the show when he's a multiple time guest
on our show. Congressman Adam Smith joining us again. How
are you, Congressman.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
I am doing outstanding. It's great to be back with you.
I'm honored to have the opportunity.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Ah, we appreciate it very much.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
And the reason we wanted to get you back on
to a lot of different reasons, but primarily this Protect
College Sports Act, which continues to just morph into something different,
seemingly almost on a weekly or even daily basis, Like
language that existed before this week seem to indicate that
teams could not move. But see what it sounds like,
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Cantwell and Cruise this week have backed off that provision.
What's your current understanding of what this bill says right
now about expansion within the power for and expansion from
the group of six potentially into the power for.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
Well, you're right, it is a moving target. But the
thing to really understand about this bill, you know, we
started with the Score Act, and the Score Act was
basically an anti trust exemption with a few limited parameters.
But the bill that Cruising can't well put together. It
is incredibly detailed. If you looked at it. It gives
the anti trust exemption, but then it gets into transfers
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and even you know, prohibiting coaches from you know, leaving
from one team and coaching another team the next. It
prohibits you know, conferences from growing. As you mentioned, it
gets into some pretty specific parameters around nil. So it
is much more detailed and much more specific in terms
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of what it lays out. And they're getting pushback. I mean,
obviously the biggest pushback they're getting right now is from
the large conferences because this bill places some restrictions on them,
so to get around that, they're negotiating. They also continue
to get pushed back from some of the unions because
it doesn't explicitly allow athletes to potentially become employees. So
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they're they're trying to well, this is politics, but the
bill out try to figure out how to get the votes,
and they're negotiating and trying to figure out how to
get the votes and get the product that they want.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
So with the majority leader and the Speaker of the
House being from SEC country, if this is seen as
an anti big conference, anti SEC type bill, how does
it get through the House. What type of what type
of adjustments need to be made to get through the House.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
Yeah, no, it's going to struggle. Well, look at it's
a difficult issue just in general, because you know, we've
got a lot of other things going on in Congress
right now, and getting members to focus on. This is hard.
And then I don't know if you've noticed, but Congress
has really struggled here recently to pass anything, to pass
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some of the basic bills we've had because it's deeply divided,
big differences, so it's an up bill battle. But look,
I mean Senator Cantwell is one of the more skilled
legislators I've ever worked with. Though she seems fairly determined,
so she's going to keep pushing and try to work
around those those roadblocks.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
What aspects of it do you like and what would
you like to see changed personally?
Speaker 6 (38:12):
Well, see, here's here's the thing that I wrestle with.
You know. As we've discussed before, I'm a huge sports fan,
particularly a college football fan, college basketball, you know. And
I'm old school, which is to say i'm old you know,
and I remember the days when players stayed at the
same school, you know, and you could get to know them.
So all I'm very I'm fine with the nil stuff.
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I think players should be compensated. But everybody moving around
constantly I think is you know, undermines the experience, certainly
for a sports fan, but I think also for the university.
And remember they are supposed to be college athletes connected
to the university, And as we discussed last time, yes,
the athletes generate a lot of the revenue, but also
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the connection to the university generates a lot of the revenue.
If they weren't plan for the University of Washington, if
they were just like you know, minor league football, you know,
they wouldn't be getting the same level. So I want
to keep the the you know, the university as part
of it. And then I have a real concern about
the big conferences crushing everybody else. I think what's happened
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at Washington State is absolutely tragic that they were driven
out of the big conferences, and you know, they're trying
to consolidate all the power in the SEC and the
Big Ten. So I would support restrictions on that. Now.
Whether or not we could get the votes over the
SEC and the Big Ten's power, I don't know, but
that's what I would support. But the other part of
it is, is it really Congress's role to tell college
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sports how they should govern themselves. I wrestled with that
as well. You know, I mean it is still working.
College sports is still cool, still enjoy it. It's got
a lot of challenges, but it's Congress really the best
place to say, here's how we're going to fix it.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Congressman Aden Smith joins us, just to be clear, and
then we'll move on to another topic. This bill would,
if it were to pass, it would supersede any lawsuits
in judicial branch involvement, right, So you would we would
hopefully not see any more of these constant lawsuits that
we're seeing in college sports.
Speaker 6 (40:09):
It would supersede most of them. I don't want to
be so bold as to say it would supersede all
of them, but it would substantially reduce that litigation.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Yes, okay, okay, Moving on to soccer, Adam Smith is
joining US.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Congressman.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Boy, this country has shined, this city has shined in
the last three weeks with the World Cup. I mean,
do you think it expedites the return to the United
States and expedites the return to Seattle maybe quicker than
the what thirty two years it took the last time.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (40:43):
No, I think there's no question the United States and
America showed that, you know, we can host this tournament,
we can host it very well. I think having all
three countries do it was kind of cool. It's inesting
Mexico and Canada involved, so we could do that again,
or the US could do it. But yeah, I don't
think anyone would argue that it's been a huge success.
Certainly it's getting a lot of viewership, a lot of
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people involved and engaged. So yeah, I could come back
in Seattle. I think did a spectacular job as well.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
And Seattle's role in all this, I mean, they had
to really struggle to get be one of the cities selected,
and I almost feel like now, I mean, we've had
some national pundits, some very popular names in sports television
say call Seattle that the soccer capital of North America,
and did we get to a place where Seattle.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Really doesn't even have to struggle to get it next time?
Speaker 1 (41:34):
That not only will they get one automatically next time,
they might get a quarterfinal semifinal next next time.
Speaker 6 (41:43):
And those of us who live around here have known
this for a while. I mean the Sounders and I'm
forgetting now what year it was that they came back
in their second iteration now, but from the day they
showed up, man sold out crowds. Enthusiasm for soccer in
Seattle is about as great well I think it is
as great as it is anywhere in the country, and
we've all seen that, We've all known that, but now
the rest of the country, and for that matter, of
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the rest of the world has gotten to experience it.
So Yeah, I think I think there's going to be
a lot of enthusiasm to come back.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
Here, and we could have a women's final before much
much sooner than the men coming back, So we could
have it here again in just a few years.
Speaker 6 (42:17):
Absolutely, that would be terrific to basketball.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Congressman Adam Smith joining US Adam Silver said this week
that the expansion process is continuing. Multiple bidders are interested
in Seattle, even though there's only one being made public.
I've got a little bit of skepticism on that because
I think that the one ownership group that is public
here the Milinda French Gates Samantha Holloway group. I mean,
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it just seems so rock solid that it seems like
it's just a big fan blowing anybody any other potential
suitors away.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
How do you see that? What do you know about
that situation?
Speaker 6 (42:56):
Yes, I don't have much more to add to what
you just said. That certainly seems to be the case.
That that is the group that seems well organized, ready
to take it. I don't know if there's you know,
if Adam Silba wants to make sure he maintains some leverage,
you know, so it doesn't just give it to them.
I don't know what the purpose behind that comment would be.
But yeah, I think you're right. I think the ownership
group that we all know about is the one that
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isn't just in the lead. But I don't see anybody.
I don't see anybody visible in second place at this point.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
And then we've got a terrible, really situation going down
south of us in Portland, A big picture.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
What is your what's your take?
Speaker 1 (43:33):
When you know owners buy these teams, they come in
like Tom Dundon has with the with the Portland Trailblazers,
knowing that there's an arena issue. I think it was
a little bit different situation with Clayton Bennett because think
Clayton Bennett came in here and with the express intent
of moving the Sonics. I don't necessarily think that's Tom
Dundon's situation, but he's buying this team. It's a community asset.
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The MODA Center is a community asset down there. In
Portland and he and he wants money for it. Where
are you on just this funding of these arenas that
seems like public funding was a lot more plentiful thirty
forty years ago than it's becoming now.
Speaker 6 (44:15):
It is really hard to justify public funding given how
much the money has exploded. And I'm going to get
the numbers slightly wrong, but you probably remember what Paul
Allen paid for the Seahawks. I want to say it
was less than two hundred million dollars. Am I am?
I right about that?
Speaker 8 (44:32):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (44:32):
I think I do know that it's fifty x this
this sale was fifty x what Paul Allen paid for, right.
Speaker 4 (44:40):
You know?
Speaker 6 (44:40):
And the same is true. I mean Balmer paid two
billion for the Clippers, so you know, the ownership and
then the salaries for the athletes have continued to explode.
So at the same time you're seeing all of that,
you also have the reality and not not to dive,
you know, into into my world of politics and public policies.
The the economy has concentrated the wealth in the hands
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of a few people, where a lot of people are
struggling to pay the bills, they're struggling to Reford housing.
You know, they're struggling to pay for the education for
their kids, you know, to get to get healthcare, for
gas and energy, and we're going to take public dollars
that could go to help them with that and put
it towards a sports stadium. And don't misunderstand that. You know,
I was an enthusiastic supporter of both stadiums back in
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the mid nineties here because I love sports A and B.
I know what sports does for our community. It's not
just the personal thing. I mean, guys, you saw it
with the World Cup. You see it. You saw it
with the Seahawks when they went on their run, when
when the Mariners went on their run last year. It
brings a community together. It's one of the things that
makes for a strong community. I don't doubt that. But
the question is who should pay for that? Could should
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the average taxpayer be paying for that when you know
billionaires are making so much money off the clubs. I
don't think so. So that puts Portland in a tough spot.
If their particular owner decides to play that game and
said that he's not going to pay for it, he's
going to try to force the taxpayers in Portland, Oregon
to pay for it. So yeah, I'd be worried about
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where that comes out, given where the politics are at
and given where the new ownership down in Portland is at.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
Not something we have to worry about here with our
basketball arena, it's perfectly ready to go for the NBA.
Are you Are you still as optimistic as you were
the last time we talked to you about the Sonics
coming back in twenty eight twenty nine.
Speaker 6 (46:27):
I mean, I am. You know, it's sort of one
of those things. It's like, you know, I don't know.
I'm one of those sports fans that when your team's
up ahead, let's just go ahead and finish it. Let's
just get it done. Okay, let's let's make it. You know,
even during the Super Bowl when the Patriots you know,
got those that drive late and who's he that, I
was like, are you kidding me? We're dominating this game.
This should be over, you know, And that's what I
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want Adam Silver to say. They're coming, let's go, let's
find the contract, let's do it. I'm still, you know,
very intimacy that's going to happen, but let's just go
ahead and get it done. Stop you know, with all
the playing around, I think everyone knows what's gonna happen.
Let's make it happen.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
Final few minutes with the Congressman Adam Smith graciously donating
his time with us here on ninety three point.
Speaker 2 (47:10):
Three kJ RFM.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
How well, if at all, do you know Venode Coast
Low or at least have a cross paths with maybe
people that know Venode Coastlow for the last ten to
twenty years.
Speaker 3 (47:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (47:23):
I got a loose connection to some of the people
who owned the forty nine ers friend back in DC,
But I don't know him well. I think that's the
way we're all. I mean, even if you know him,
you don't know what it's going to mean for the Seahawks.
I mean, that's the one note of optimism I would say.
You know, when when Paul Allen died and Jody Allen
took over, I think there were a lot of a
lot of concern It's like, you know, is she going
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to be as committed upon it? And you know she
put together we won a Super Bowl, Okay, so you
know he certainly knows sports. I mean, it worries me
that he's been a San Francisco forty nine Ers fan.
But I would think once you own the team, don't
you loyalty just automatically get enthusiastics for the new team.
But we don't know. It's the bottom line. Even if
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you know the guy as a businessman, I don't think
you have any idea what type of you know, majority
sports owner he's going to turn out to be.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
I think, are you paying nine point six billion dollars
for a team, You're probably going to be pretty invested
in that team.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
I would just that would be me. I don't know
about you.
Speaker 6 (48:21):
That would be me, would I would hope?
Speaker 1 (48:25):
So, yeah, what what should be the number one priority?
What do you think will be the number one party?
Because because certainly fixing the football team is not a priority.
Speaker 6 (48:36):
Well, I think you know the number one priority is
getting the chain of command well understood, you know, because
you know, as you know, across all sports owners, some
owners they don't do much. Other owners are in the
middle of it twenty four to seven. And I think
the number one thing is to say, look, McDonald, Schneider,
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they know what they're doing. Okay, let's just make it clear.
I'm going to let those guys run things. We're going
to keep them. We're gonna let them keep doing it,
and there's not going to be a lot of interference.
So that's Number one. It's just, you know, what is
the new sort of chain of command? It's the wrong
way to put it because obviously the owner is at
the top. But what is going to be the division
of responsibilities and how much trust and faith is that
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owner going to place and is GM and head coach?
And I think everyone agree should would agree they should
place a lot of faith in their GM and head coach,
and that's what we hope they'll wind up doing.
Speaker 1 (49:30):
I would imagine over the next five or ten years,
one of the priorities is going to be to upgrade
this football stadium that I'm sitting right in the shadow
of right now, Loomenfield, and bring it up to twenty
thirty's standards, because right now it's a beautiful stadium for
two thousand, not a beautiful stadium for twenty thirty. And
also there's that thought that maybe Seattle could be a
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super Bowl city. There's been some cold weather super Bowls. Heck,
the Seahawks played in a cold weather super Bowl at
the Meadowlands in New York, and that stadium is not
as good as this one is right now. So you
know with indian Indianapolis obviously indoors, but still a cold
weather super Bowl weak Minneapolis, you got Nashville coming up
as well.
Speaker 2 (50:12):
Is that something that you.
Speaker 1 (50:14):
Think would be possible or even worth a while for
this city to try to give it get a super Bowl?
Speaker 6 (50:22):
Well, it'd be a lot to absorb. I'm not I
have to do more analysis to figure out whether that's
worth while, but I think it's distinctly possible. I think
you remember about the weather in Seattle. Is you know,
you do a Super Bowl in New York. I mean
you could come into you know, ten degrees and two
feet of snow. It doesn't happen very often, but it
doesn't happen here. I mean in the winter, buy and large,
you can be cold. We don't get those like you know,
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ice Bowl like temperature. So so it could be done.
And then yeah, the stadium, I mean, it's so funny.
I've been go to the Army Navy game most years,
so I've been to a fair number of different NFL
stadiums now and they're all great, but they just keep
getting you know, like you got so far you got
Allegiant down in Vegas. You get these unbelievable stadiums. I mean,
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I think you know, Movement is a pretty darn good
football stadium. They just keep blowing it out and making
it more more and more. So, Yeah, if you're going
to get to the super Bowl level at this point,
you'd probably have to do that.
Speaker 1 (51:17):
Congressman Adam Smith. Before we let you go, you can
weigh in on the bracket contest that we just had
in the last hour. It was we were trying to
determine the greatest uniform in Pacific Northwest sports history, and
we got down to our actually our number one seed
and our number two seed actually played each other for
the championship.
Speaker 2 (51:37):
And I want to let you weigh in.
Speaker 1 (51:39):
Our number one seed was the you know, you don't
have to look up what the your mind will tell
you what these two uniforms look like. Our number one
seed was the original Seattle Seahawks uniforms, which they have
since brought back for occasional games. And our number two
seed was the Don James Arrow Washington Huskies purple uniforms,
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the Purple Dog Got Together or the Blue Seahawks.
Speaker 6 (52:04):
I gotta go Don James Youreskies Man has so many
great memories of that. As a loyal Husky, I think
that that was that would be the best uniform in
my mind.
Speaker 1 (52:12):
God they were, so that's what I voted for. I
got outvoted, though Jackson and Hugh Millen out voted me.
They picked They picked the Seahawks, but I voted for
the Dogs. Hey, Adam, we really appreciate it. Thanks for
joining us. You've done it a couple of times now,
and best of luck the rest of the year, and
hopefully next time we have you on we'll have a
basketball team to talk about.
Speaker 6 (52:31):
That would be very exciting. Thanks, because always players talking
All right, let's roll in the five o'clock. I've been
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waiting for this hour all day long, been waiting to
when's the.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Last Tibody had to bracket Jackson? Probably a month, month.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
And a half ago, month and a half.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Yeah, you know why, because we'd have this little thing
called the World Company's been taking up our time for
much of the last month. But it is bracket time,
and this is a fun This is one we've been
wanting to do for a while. The greatest jersey slash
uniform in local sports history, and we're going to jump
right into it. The one versus the ash. We list
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all of them ahead.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Of time, and we should note only each team only
gets one representative. So correct now multiple Seahawks, one team,
one jersey unislash uniform for one team.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
And if you.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Out there don't like the one that we chose, tough,
because we talked about it yesterday and you had a
chance to text in your opportunity to volley in, it's
too late now.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Number one overall.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Seed, the og Seahawks home uniform, the blue with the
silver pants nineteen eight to two thousand and one. That
is the one seed. The number two seed, the classic
Husky football Don James era, purple gold helmet, gold pants
with the stripe. I can see Hugh Millen dropping back
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to pass right now in that uniform.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
My god, I mean make a tackle.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, I mean that was one of the great college
football uniforms of that day, no question about it.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Number three the Sonic arc.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Everybody knows that the classic Sonic with the arc of
sonics across the front, the green and the green pants
or green shorts. Number four, we're going Mariners og nineteen
seventy seven. You got the the yellow or they excuse me,
the blue piping on the sleeves as well as on
the collar line, says Mariners across the front with the
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white jersey and the trident for the m that's our
four seed.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Jackson went with the Sounders pitch black.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Now I barely remember this jersey, But tell us again
why you chose that, Jackson.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Well.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
A few years ago, Major League Soccer held a league wide,
nationwide vote of the greatest jersey in the entire league's history,
and this won that. It's widely considered the best Sounder
jersey of all time, and it's the best jersey in
league history, as voted on by America, So.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
By America that is the five seed. The sixth seed
the Kracking Away. We decided we all like the cracking
Aways better than the kracking Holmes. So we're going with
the Kraken, clean white jersey with the blue s on
the front.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
That's the sixth seed.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Our seventh seed is the Washington State Cougars kind of
snowball Era Drew bled Zoe Era says, Washington State across
the front with the script cougars on the silver helmets.
And then the Storm Rebel Blacks. I decided instead to
go with the classic Storm uniform. I went with the
Rebel Blacks, kind of like Jackson do with the Sounders.
This is just my favorite Storm jersey of all time,
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that twenty twenty one to twenty twenty three black Storm
Rebel jerseys. All right, we're going one versus eight. We're
gonna rattle through this the number one seed, the Seahawks
against the Storm Rebel Blacks.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Hugh will start with you, my friend.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Well, I really haven't seen the Storm level Blacks. I
think that when and we're talking uniform right, because originally
it was jersey, but we're but where we've expanded it
to uniform.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
We've expanded to uniform. I think, I mean jersey.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I think the jersey is seventy five percent of a
uniform at least, so, but you know, so that's that's
the emphasis.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
But yes, uniform.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah, I would say that if you go back the
first of all, the color blue. There's so many shades,
right like, we got Carolina blue, we got col Baal blue,
we got Royal blue, what have you whatever, whatever, the
Seahawks shade of blue was in there with the white
and the way it it complemented the silver pants, the
silver helmets. I think it's a deserving one seed. I
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don't even have to check the rebel blacks my boat,
just throw in the I don't think this is not
a complicated question.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Jackson, how about you.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I love black jerseys, if that wasn't clear already, I
think they're so clean. But yeah, I mean, there's a
reason why there was such a clamoring for the Seahawks
to bring back the Royal brute blues.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
They're the one seed for a reason.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yep, I agree with you. Let's move on now.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
In that side of the bracket, the four five before
the Mariners OG nineteen seventies, jersey against the Sounders Pitch Black.
I'll start, and you know, I was not even really
familiar with the Sounders pitch Black. I do agree it
looks really cool. But that Mariner's jersey classic. I'm glad
they're bringing back a little bit of that style. I'm
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glad they brought back the Trident. I think it's classic.
We'll go with the Mariners.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Hugh Well, I looked it up on the internet, and
I think the logo the Seattle Sounders logo with the
space eedle. I like that logo, but it the jersey
and yes I picked up the wrong picture. Does it
not say Xbox across the front? Yeah, that was the
sponsor at the time.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yes it does.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Okay, that's just a hard out to me od R
like like that will never win any contest. That won't
win a contest against a j V high school football jersey. No,
and oh no, no jersey that has advertising bigger than
the logo. Come on, this is jack you torch me?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
So will you agree with that? At least when you
make it a pay.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Xbox is no longer a Sounders partner, so screw Xbox.
Uh No, I mean, like, listen, it's it's the it's
the best. It's the best jersey for my money, that's
ever been done because of how clean it is.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
It's so simplistic and it's so basic.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
And they change the logo to just have the outline
of the logo so that you don't have the funny business.
You just have the green of the logo involved with
the green shorts and the green socks. It worked so
freaking well on the field, not to mention they won.
They were the best team in the league over the
regular season and the thing. So obviously my votes for
the Sounders. It's the best jersey in league history, as
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voted on by America.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
So that's my vote. All right, Well, you be the
tallest guy in Hong Kong. How can hang on?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You got?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
You got an advertising banner in the middle of the jerseys.
Every team does you.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Every single team has advertising in the front of the jersey.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
And that's a problem. Well, they need the money.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
All right, So Mariners move on two to one.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Jackson sticks with his guns and goes with the pitch
black uniforms for the five seed, but the four seed
moves on. So far it's chocky, all right, Huskies and
Cougars the Husky Classic uniforms of Hugh Breed, Love Mellon
and the Don James era against the Drew bled Zoe
Cougar uniforms.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Jackson, let's start with you.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
This isn't even a matchup. This is a joke.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Like this is this this is what's called when like
a sixteen seed sometimes makes the tournament and like they
have to play the playing game and and maybe they
get through, but they're like a team that maybe won
their conference tournament, but was like ten games below five
hundred in the regular season and they just went on
an amazing run. But they're like by far, like the
worst team to ever make the NCAA tournament. And then
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they have to go up against your North Carolina duke
one seed that lost like one game all year. That's
this that it's it's it's so far not even a matchup.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
It's it's it's obvious.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I'll be the second.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I think I know what he was gonna vote for,
so I'll be I'll be the second one. I I
will give a lot of credit though. I think there
are two really awesome Cougar uniforms and this is one
of them. Wow, And I think the one with the
uh kind of that medium to dark gray that they
still wear at times, with the medium to dark gray helmet,
with the with the Cougar logo on.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I think that's really think.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Dick blink, if your if your wife has a gun
to your head saying this right.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
I'm.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I'm giving credit where credit peow. And yet and yet
it pales in comparison. Now, believe me, we have had
Husky uniforms in the last twenty five years that have
not been as good as Cougar uniforms, but.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
This is not one of them. This is one of
the cooler.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
The classic late eighties, early nineties Husky uniforms I think
are and I'm trying to take the bias out because
i can tell you if some of my uniforms look terrible,
the Huskies, the Huskies uniforms in the early twenty tens
were the late the late aughts were freaking awful with
the cream colored pants.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
They were awful.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
So it's not I mean, I can I think I
can delineate between awesome Husky uniforms and terrible Husky uniforms.
The purple helmets terrible. So there have been some terrible
Husky uniforms over the last twenty five years. But this
is the goat. There's no question about that. The Huskies
move on, Hugh, I would imagine you would concur in me.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Well, yeah, I mean I will give the coops a nod.
They have great logo. That's where everything stops. Yeah, in
the comparison, you know, if you look at all the
schools and all the professional sports, there's no other team
that's purple and gold. He said, what, man, what about
the Lakers and LSU. No, no, no, no, that's purple and
yellow yellow. That yellow is not gold. You know, just
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like Baylor is green and gold and Oregon is green
and yellow, the Packers are green and yellow. So if
we distinguished yellow from gold, despite what some may label it,
purple and gold, is literally no other major sports team
does purple and gold. So you got that component you
mentioned it, the richness of the gold, the thick stripes
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and the pants. I was a fan of that component
of it. And then yea, and just this may be
interested to Don James first year was nineteen seventy five.
I'll hurry on this. The Cowboys were a prominent team.
He got the captains together and he says, look my vision,
I want the Husky uniforms look exactly like the Dallas Cowboys.
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Where the cowboys have blue, we have purple. Where the
cowboys have silver in their pants, we have gold.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Right.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
You know, the stripes if you look at the stripes
of the cowboys in the mid seventies on the socks,
on the side of the jersey, it's all a Dallas Cowboys,
you know. And then the helmets where they're silver and
a star, you got gold and a W with the
stripes down the middle. It was modeled after the cowboys,
and you know, the modeling was perfect.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I'm looking at it right now. You're exactly right.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
That is all.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Looking at Roger Staubuch right now, those are those are
the absolute Husky uniforms.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
There's no question about that. That is crazy. I never
knew that. That's a great anecdote.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
You all right, the three Seed, all the Sonics, the
Clean Sonic arc nineteen seventy eight to nineteen ninety four,
and then they went to the freaking looney tune bin
after that and decided to do whatever that was in
the mid nineties, and unfortunately are some of our best
teams of all time had to wear that god forsaken
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mid to late nineties uniform after having these classic ones
against the crack and away jerseys. They're the only ones
we've had the whites with the Columbia the I'm not
even sure what blue it is, I should know that,
but the light blue s across the front.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Uh, you want to start with this one? Sonics are cracking?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Well, I would ask one question, is this about strictly
the the artistry of and the and the design component
the fashion, if you will, or is there a component
of this that what the memories that it in general?
Speaker 4 (11:33):
I think it's just fashion, right, Yeah, I think what
what looks what looks the best?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Now I would say that the logo, but since we
already did the logo contest, I would go a little
bit lighter on what the logo looks like and.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
More actually exactly, I like the banner. I think that
was a unique. I thought. I think the font the
typeface was boring, like almost hideously boring for the Sonics,
even though I have wonderful memories of being a fan
at the time I slept on the street to go
to get tickets for the finals. I would say, if
we're just talking artistry and there's no connection to it.
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I think the crack and sweater slam dunks on the
Sonic jersey that's hard for me to say. Again, strictly
on a design standpoint, it's cracking for me.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I'm gonna let Jackson be the deciding vote on this
because I'm gonna go with the Sonics, and yes, maybe
nostalgia plays a part.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I do like the cracking jerseys.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I mean, if I'm if I'm going scale of one
to ten on both of these jerseys, I mean I'm
going like nine point three against nine point one. I
mean I think they are both fantastic. I do like
the simplistic nature of the Sonics. Sometimes simple looks good.
Sometimes simple looks terrible, but sometimes simple looks good. And
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these Sonic jerseys are simple. But I think they do.
And maybe you can call them board. Some would call
it simple attractive, others would call simple boring. I think
it's simple attractive. What do you think, Jackson?
Speaker 4 (13:01):
I think it's simple boring and I think you nailed
It's just the font of the Sonics is very I
wish we had done the og the script of the
cursive Sonics across the front with one of the on
the s that goes under the whole thing. I absolutely
loved those jersey. I have a Ray Allen retro of
that in my closet. I don't even own one of these,
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and you guys know I have over one hundred jerseys.
I don't own one of those Sonic ones, not because
I can't find it. Simply Seattle has a ton I
just don't like it. I don't like the artistry of it.
And the krack and logo is so good and the
cracking were brilliant. They said, you know what, our logo
is so damn good, We're just gonna just paste it
right on the front of the damn thing. And it
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was so accurately done, because that white one with a contrasting.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Logo, it's so clean.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
The dark pants and when you throw in even I
would just I know it's cheating, but the goaltender helmet,
like you throw that in there, and those always have
great designs, like, yeah, I'm going I'm going to sick
seed cracking on this one.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
All right?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
The cracking get it? How far did the cracking logo
go in our logo contest?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Do you remember Jackson?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
That's a good question.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
It definitely got out of definitely got out of the
first Yeah, I know it did that.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Definitely got out of the first round.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
All right, we've reached our final four and we have
one upset, at least one seating upset.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
But we do have the one versus.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
The four OG Seahawks blue versus OG Mariner's white. All
start on this one and with just a slight lean
and I think maybe the helmet takes it over the top,
which unfortunately the Mariners can't really compete with. Yes, they
have a batting helmet, but it's not nearly as cool
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as the Seahawks football helmet. I'm going with the Seahawks, Jackson.
Once you go second, we'll let you maybe be the
deciding voter, or maybe you'll be.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Called pollovers with numbers on the front when baseball jerseys
are pollovers with numbers on the front, And you want
the best part about this is is not only the trident,
which is amazing, it's also the that they the artwork
on this where the Mariners and the number is in.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Blue with a yellow outline.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
In eighty one they added an extra blue to the outline,
which was which was bad. This is simple it's perfect.
The pullover element with no buttons is so clean. I
love that they have the logo on the shoulder. I've
always loved that. I'm going, I'm going Mariners. Mariners is
gonna be tough to beat in this whole thing.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Okay, you you get the deciding votes Seahawks blue or
the Trident Mariner's white.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Well you got me on the the the pullover because
to me that there's only one team that gets to
do that, and it's the Oakland A's via blue and
Reggie Jackson. But so I like that that that the trident,
the logo was mixed in, you know, becomes the m
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But I think that when you know, and it was
just Jerseys, I might ponder this, but when you're talking
about the entire uniform, and by the way, blue and
green very rare. I think Minnesota Timberrls. But you know,
at the time when it came out, I don't know
that there was a sports team that was you know,
just you know, blue and then your accent color is green.
Good golf, you know, to represent the colors of the Northwest,
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that the sound and the trees and what have you.
So I think there was something that you know on
the silver the snow coming off of the mountains, I
don't know to me, and the logo back to Ford
with the Seahawk. To me, that that's that's in the
argument for some of the best NFL uniforms of the
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last fifty years. I'm not saying it would it would
win it, but it deserves a seat at the table.
So yeah, I'm going o G Shawks, all.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Right, love it, love it. We got some great ones.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I tell you this, this city has done uniforms well.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
The semi final here before you break, Let's let's do that.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, all right, let's do the other semi final Huskies,
the seventies and eighties era Huskies and into the early
nineties against not the Sonics, they got upset by the
sixth seed the Kraken away sweater.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I'm gonna start with this.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
As as much as I like the cracking and I
think I said it was like a nine point three.
I mean, the Huskies are if there's a if there's
a ten, uh, the Huskies are damn close to a ten.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I'm going with you, dub Hugh, what do you think?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Yeah, I don't have much to add to that. I
I think that when the the Purple jerseys got wet,
I can speak for a lot of players that we
felt like, okay, deep like a bruise, that that there
was just an extra intactor, the greatest gold ever put
on on pants, you know, and and and and I'll
argue that with Notre Dame as well. Uh so so
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love uh just about everything about that jersey, about that
that uniform on some Yeah, it's a clean sweep.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
It's it's it's the Huskies, and as Hugh pointed out
with the Seahawks, it's the combination of the whole thing.
And you get those colors from the helmet all the
way down to the pants that mesh just so well together.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
It's the dogs, all right.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I think, do we do the final now?
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Or now?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
We'll come back.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
We'll come back and do the final. We'll get Joe.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Hugh's got a run, but he's gonna give us his
vote when we come back as well.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
We're gonna get he's got he's got to take off.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
But five twenty three on ninety three point three kJ RFM,
we've got our championship match and it's two football teams,
the number one.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
And number two.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
So we we seeded them right, the number one and
number two seed go to the finals. Seahawks og jerseys
against the Huskies eighties and early nineties. Look, we'll do
that next on ninety three point three KJRFM.
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Speaker 1 (18:48):
FM, Having fun on a Friday in the summer. We
haven't done nearly as many of these brackets as I
have liked to, but we've had a lot going on.
It's been a busy, busy summer, more busy than you
in the sports world with the with the Mariners, constant
weirdness on a daily basis, the Sonics news, the World Cup.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Well, Dick, and you're forgetting number one thing of all
that is Sati just doesn't like brackets.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Well, that's true, he doesn't, but he's we've done We've
done plenty in the past when he's been there. He
likes brackets. When he gets to pick what's.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
With the Yeah, that's a very good point.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
When he gets his way. He likes the bracket. So, uh,
we've gotten down to the championship.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
And you know a lot of times the number one
doesn't take on the number two seeds in the championship
game of our bracket contest.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
This it does.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
So we've got Hugh. Heugh, We got Hugh back with us.
He's on the phone right, so he goes. Hugh had
a prior engagement, but he is sticking with us for
the championship match. He wouldn't abandon us right before the
championship match. The one seed the Seahawks home nineteen eighty
three to two thousand and one jerseys, those beautiful blues
with the silver helmets and the silver pan against the
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Hugh breedlove Millon purple jerseys with the gold pants and
the purple helmet with the with the excuse me, the
gold helmet with the purple w the see the Washington
Huskies seventies, eighties and into the early nineties. That is
the two seed, and we will start with Hugh breedlove Millon.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Pick your winner.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Hugh.
Speaker 8 (20:23):
Well, first of all, I would have been content to
let my prior comments. Rest but you wrestled me back
on the phone.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
So here I am well, finished.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
The game started, finished the game you start right exactly.
Speaker 8 (20:38):
So well, let me first say this about purple and gold.
It was the cover the color of regal royalty because
to extract the die from to create a purple garment
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was so labor intensive that whether it was the little
flower or even snails that they extracted it from, it
took ten thousand to one to get that little bit
of purple dye. So that was that was the color
of royalty. On the other hand, Crimson was simple. It
was Crimson was basically a rag.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
All right, you're wondering why we had you back on here.
This is exactly why we had you back on that.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
That needs to be noted. So purple and gold is
the color of royalty. I would say that, you know,
it's because I played in that uniform. It obviously is
number one on a personal level. But if I try
and separate myself and I just say, okay, I never played.
I'm just looking at them top to bottom, I would
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give the nod purple and gold, even over the wonderful
color colors of the Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
The one.
Speaker 8 (21:57):
The one itty bitty thing that I would critique is
this in college football, We've got a lot of helmets
that have a letter on them. Just Arizona's got an A,
Wisconsin's got a W, Washington's got a W, Missouri's got
an M. We can be you know, Florida used to
have just an F. I think if there's one thing,
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maybe a tad less than a ten in the Seahawk
uniform or the Husky uniform, it's said, it's just you
got a letter. It's a beautiful letter that the design
is wonderful, but it's a letter. And so I think
I'm gonna I'm gonna go against convention here. I'm gonna
say in a narrow narrowly because of that fact. I'm
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gonna go with the Seahawks. Because because because the brilliant
color combination, the and the fact that the Seahawk logo
I think is superior to any just mere lets. I
think if you just throw your letter on there, it's
a little bit of a I don't know. I think
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I think there's opportunities to be more creative, Like the
UW with the the Husky dog in it. That logo
used to be a prominent but it wasn't on the helmet.
If you had the UW with the husky dog over,
then I would say, okay, now we're we got a
logo that's that's that's rivaling anybody's and that would tip
it over. But there is I'm gonna I'm gonna submit
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the Seahawks for that reason.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
All right, all right, well I'll go next. I'll let
Jackson be the decider. And the reason I'm trying to
I was trying to discern the reason that I'm going
in the direction I'm going. And I think the reason
I'm going the direction I'm going is because I've looked
at what has come since and what has come since
with the Seattle Seahawks. I think are is a very
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very good uniform. I did not particularly like the blueberries.
My least favorite Seahawks uniform of all time is when
Matt Hasselbeck is basically wearing the same color on his
hell helmet and his jersey and his pants, and it's
that kind of weird whatever blue that was. And now
they've cleaned it up and the jersey in the last
ten or fifteen years has been much much better. But
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the gap between the jersey that they originally had, the
uniform they originally had, and the uniform they had now.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
It's not that great. It's just not that great. I
like them. I like them both.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Meanwhile, the Huskies, I don't know what the hell they
decided to do after they got rid of these literally
perfect uniforms for twenty five years.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
They went all sorts of cream.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
They went to white helmets at the time, they went
to black helmets at the time, they went to black
black jerseys. They did all sorts of just weird stuff
when they'd already created perfection. And now at least they've
come back to a jersey that is mostly like that.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
It will never be the same.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Adidas will never make that same type of dirt jersey
that they had back then, but it's back to close
that is as perfect as any jersey I think we
have ever had in the Pacific Northwest. I am going
with the University of Washington uniform. What do you think, Jackson?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
So I generally agree with everything that both of you
have said. My vote will be decided by the answer
to this question. And Hugh, you played in the Huskies jerseys, Dick,
you might know why. And if there's a good answer,
then that will decide my vote. So the answer here
for one of you will decide my vote. Why is
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the shade of gold on the pants for the Huskies
so different from the shade of gold on the helmet?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Do either of you know or have an answer for that?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Well, it wasn't back then as much as it is now, right,
I mean, back then it was about as close as
you could get it.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
It's pretty it's pretty different.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (25:51):
I think you go back to if we're talking about
the Warren Moon era uniforms and that that rich gold.
I think it has to do with one is your
spray painting a helmet, uh And that's one medium, and
the other is you you have fabric. And I think
that uh uh, similar to if you look at the
Dallas Cowboys from back then, they almost take like a
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green if you googled right now Cowboys pants green, you know,
like keel green. It has to do with how it
shows up on TV. That was an issue back then.
They've maintained that as they've advanced in garments. I'm not
an expert in all this, but I think that there
was a It was tricky to get the Husky gold pants.
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They almost looked a little olive, if I could say,
that's a goldish olive. But from a disc that was
closed up from a distant it looked ideal. On television,
it looked ideal. But I just say, I think it
has to do with how you match colors. When you
have one one one being spray painted on a helmet
and another, you know, the thread of a garment. That's
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good as I can give you.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Yeah, you got seriously, that was well done.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
It's not good enough, though, And it's because at the
end of the day, I think it's it's the uniformity
of the silver pants to the silver helmet. And if
you know, if the pants were a little bit darker,
if they were if they didn't match the helmet, that
would send me in the direction of the Huskies. But
because it matches so nicely, and then you know, you
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have the I have the picture up here for our
graphic of Kenny Easley. He has the white armband, the
white socks that matches with the white numbers. The uniformity
of that. I'm going with the one seed Seahawks to
win it all. It is extremely close, though, just by
a hair. And if the Huskies, if that shade of gold.
If either the helmet of the pants was closer to
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the other, it would be Huskies. But it's just too
far away.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Well, I have seen poles that have ranked the Seahawks
jersey or Seahawks uniform as the greatest in NFL history.
I have seen people around the country vote that being
the number one greatest uniform, and it was universally celebrated,
not just here in Seattle, universally celebrated around the country
when they decided to bring that puppy back.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
So well done. The number one seed goes on. Hugh.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
We appreciate it, man, Thanks for spending some extra time
with us.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I love it.
Speaker 8 (28:19):
Good to be with you, guys.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Shammered down sounds good. That's Hugh Millen. We'll be back
right after this. Jackson.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
We have a flow Balligan situation at the Open Championship.
I'll explain that coming up next on ninety three point
three KJRFM.
Speaker 7 (28:35):
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Speaker 1 (28:51):
Before we get Jackson's World Cup preview, I just want
to let you know we got it. Kind of have
a flow balligan situation at the Open Championship, Jackson, what's up. Well,
there's a player that has been given a two shot
penalty for involuntarily improving his lie when he was stuck
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in like waist high rough oo over on the right.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Side of the faaraway.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Okay, Now what's interesting about this is who it is
and where he is in the leaderboard. This person right
now is only three shots back of the lead and
was given the two shot penalty, so would be only
one shot back of the lead with tuesdays to play
if he hadn't been given the penalty.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
The second part of it is who it is.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
It's Bryce and d Chambeau, who is already a controversial figure.
He is probably the greatest definition of you either love
him or hate him guy in the entire sport, and
a lot of questions have been brought up on social
media as Okay, if this was Rory or Gotti that
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did the exact same thing, would he be getting the
two stroke penalty which is exactly what they said about
Floe Ballagan. Remember if it was messy, would he be
getting the penalty? And guess who else? Bryson d Shamba's
friends with Donald Trump. I don't think Trump's gonna make them.
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I don't think Trump's gonna make the call. But I
think there's there's a lot of parallels there. And originally
it was thought that Bryson was going to quit and
not play the weekend, that he was going to protest
and pull his name out. He has since cooler heads
have prevailed and he has decided. He just announced on Twitter.
He says, I disagree with the ruling, but onto the weekend,
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here we go. So it'll be interesting to see a
lot of people either rooting very much for Bryson or
very much against Bryson Djambo in the Open championship. But
allows a little bit more fun to watch over the weekend.
We'll have a lot of fun watching that. Over the weekend,
we'll have a lot of fun watching Spain and Argentina
Tomorrow excuse me, Sunday at noon. Correct, Yes, a pregame
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in eleven thirty myself Danny Jackson, Brad Evans, which is perfect.
I have a tea time at seven thirty in the
morning with my son. It's gonna be getting over right
about twelve o'clock. I'll be able to make my way
back and watch it. So basically, the question I have
for you on this is which type of Argentina team
should we believe that we have. Should we believe that
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we have a team of destiny that just simply can't
lose down the stretch.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
It's the ninety five Mariners. It's refused to lose.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
It doesn't matter how many runs we're down by, doesn't
matter how many goals we're we're down by, We're gonna
get the win in the end. Or is it a
team that just simply has been outplayed for more minutes
and far more minutes in this tournament, then they've outplayed
their opponent and they're gonna get beat Dick.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
That's the great question, because Argentina has at a lot
of times, especially in those first seventy five against England,
they haven't been great.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
They've been good, but they haven't.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Been the Argentina of twenty twenty two that rolled their
way to the championship. Meanwhile, it's a Spain team that's
gonna want to keep the ball off of their feed.
Is gonna want to keep Argentina running and chasing the ball.
So can Spain find a goal or is it just
gonna go zero zero late and then Argentina and Messi
are eventually gonna find their winner like they have. What
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you just outlined is the great question, like the intangible
of teams that find ways to win versus the control
of Spain, who have just controlled game after game. Even
the France game was just full control for Spain. Can
that control and defense and midfield win out once more
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against the greatest ever?
Speaker 6 (32:45):
Do it? All?
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Right?
Speaker 2 (32:47):
So what's gonna happen? Give us your prediction?
Speaker 4 (32:50):
This is This is the tough thing because part of
it also is the weather.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
So I'm not sure if everybody knows.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
New York right now is covered in from the fires
up in Canada, and that is going to I think
have an actual tangible effect on this game. Spain is
gonna have that sixty percent possession, Argentine is gonna have
to run more, They're gonna have to chase the ball
more in smokey conditions in New York.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
That's gonna matter.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
And after you know, sixty minutes seventy minutes of running
if breathing in smoke filled air, Argentine is not gonna
have the gas that they would say in a Dallas
or in Atlanta climate controlled dome stadiums. I think Spain
get this two to one in extra time. Argentina will
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at some point find a goal. But at if this
goes one hundred and twenty minutes, I just don't see
a scenario where Argentina isn't overly gassed at the end
of it from just chasing the ball, and Spain their
control game will win out in the end and their
their best midfield in the world. I've been saying it
they might pick to win before the tournament started.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
So I gotta just I gotta s Are you a.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Proponent of the third place game we'll hear tomorrow on
kJ R or not?
Speaker 4 (34:05):
I mean, yeah, I we'll have the call, Andrews will
have pregame at one thirty. I mean, it's it's England,
it's France. That's that's worth something, right.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Maybe it's like it's like a Duke North Carolina third
place game in the NC Double A tournament.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
I mean, the players, the players don't really care. I
don't think that much. But but but still for the
fact that it's England France.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
It'll be fun cause they used to have that in
the tournament, you know that way back in the day,
there was a third place game in the NC DOUBLEA
tournament at the final four. So they used to have
it back when I was a little right for me,
We've got we've got a special guest who's actually kind
of becoming a friend of the show. Congressman Adam Smith
is going to join us again to talk about what's
going on in the House in the Senate with this
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Protect College Sports Act. We'll we'll ask them about the
Sonics return, We'll ask them about if An on Cosla,
the new ownership of the Seattle Seahawks, all of his
takes coming up next on ninety three point three KJFM.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
All right, moving on to the six o'clock hour.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Been looking forward to this conversation all day as we
visit with now, I guess we can call him a
friend of the show when he's a multiple time guest
on our show. Congressman Adam Smith joining us again. How
are you, Congressman.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
I am doing outstanding. It's great to be back with you.
I'm honored to have the opportunity.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Ah, we appreciate it very much.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
And the reason we wanted to get you back on
to a lot of different reasons, but primarily this Protect
College Sports Act, which continues to just morph into something different,
seemingly almost on a weekly or even daily basis, Like
language that existed before this week seem to indicate that
teams could not move. But see what it sounds like,
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Cantwell and Cruise this week have backed off that provision.
What's your current understanding of what this bill says right
now about expansion within the power for and expansion from
the group of six potentially into the power for.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
Well, you're right, it is a moving target. But the
thing to really understand about this bill, you know, we
started with the Score Act, and the Score Act was
basically an anti trust exemption with a few limited parameters.
But the bill that Cruising can't well put together. It
is incredibly detailed. If you looked at it. It gives
the anti trust exemption, but then it gets into transfers
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and even you know, prohibiting coaches from you know, leaving
from one team and coaching another team the next. It
prohibits you know, conferences from growing. As you mentioned, it
gets into some pretty specific parameters around nil. So it
is much more detailed and much more specific in terms
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of what it lays out. And they're getting pushback. I mean,
obviously the biggest pushback they're getting right now is from
the large conferences because this bill places some restrictions on them,
so to get around that, they're negotiating. They also continue
to get pushed back from some of the unions because
it doesn't explicitly allow athletes to potentially become employees. So
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they're they're trying to well, this is politics, but the
bill out try to figure out how to get the votes,
and they're negotiating and trying to figure out how to
get the votes and get the product that they want.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
So with the majority leader and the Speaker of the
House being from SEC country, if this is seen as
an anti big conference, anti SEC type bill, how does
it get through the House. What type of what type
of adjustments need to be made to get through the House.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
Yeah, no, it's going to struggle. Well, look at it's
a difficult issue just in general, because you know, we've
got a lot of other things going on in Congress
right now, and getting members to focus on. This is hard.
And then I don't know if you've noticed, but Congress
has really struggled here recently to pass anything, to pass
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some of the basic bills we've had because it's deeply divided,
big differences, so it's an up bill battle. But look,
I mean Senator Cantwell is one of the more skilled
legislators I've ever worked with. Though she seems fairly determined,
so she's going to keep pushing and try to work
around those those roadblocks.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
What aspects of it do you like and what would
you like to see changed personally?
Speaker 6 (38:12):
Well, see, here's here's the thing that I wrestle with.
You know. As we've discussed before, I'm a huge sports fan,
particularly a college football fan, college basketball, you know. And
I'm old school, which is to say i'm old you know,
and I remember the days when players stayed at the
same school, you know, and you could get to know them.
So all I'm very I'm fine with the nil stuff.
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I think players should be compensated. But everybody moving around
constantly I think is you know, undermines the experience, certainly
for a sports fan, but I think also for the university.
And remember they are supposed to be college athletes connected
to the university, And as we discussed last time, yes,
the athletes generate a lot of the revenue, but also
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the connection to the university generates a lot of the revenue.
If they weren't plan for the University of Washington, if
they were just like you know, minor league football, you know,
they wouldn't be getting the same level. So I want
to keep the the you know, the university as part
of it. And then I have a real concern about
the big conferences crushing everybody else. I think what's happened
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at Washington State is absolutely tragic that they were driven
out of the big conferences, and you know, they're trying
to consolidate all the power in the SEC and the
Big Ten. So I would support restrictions on that. Now.
Whether or not we could get the votes over the
SEC and the Big Ten's power, I don't know, but
that's what I would support. But the other part of
it is, is it really Congress's role to tell college
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sports how they should govern themselves. I wrestled with that
as well. You know, I mean it is still working.
College sports is still cool, still enjoy it. It's got
a lot of challenges, but it's Congress really the best
place to say, here's how we're going to fix it.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Congressman Aden Smith joins us, just to be clear, and
then we'll move on to another topic. This bill would,
if it were to pass, it would supersede any lawsuits
in judicial branch involvement, right, So you would we would
hopefully not see any more of these constant lawsuits that
we're seeing in college sports.
Speaker 6 (40:09):
It would supersede most of them. I don't want to
be so bold as to say it would supersede all
of them, but it would substantially reduce that litigation.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Yes, okay, okay, Moving on to soccer, Adam Smith is
joining US.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Congressman.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Boy, this country has shined, this city has shined in
the last three weeks with the World Cup. I mean,
do you think it expedites the return to the United
States and expedites the return to Seattle maybe quicker than
the what thirty two years it took the last time.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (40:43):
No, I think there's no question the United States and
America showed that, you know, we can host this tournament,
we can host it very well. I think having all
three countries do it was kind of cool. It's inesting
Mexico and Canada involved, so we could do that again,
or the US could do it. But yeah, I don't
think anyone would argue that it's been a huge success.
Certainly it's getting a lot of viewership, a lot of
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people involved and engaged. So yeah, I could come back
in Seattle. I think did a spectacular job as well.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
And Seattle's role in all this, I mean, they had
to really struggle to get be one of the cities selected,
and I almost feel like now, I mean, we've had
some national pundits, some very popular names in sports television
say call Seattle that the soccer capital of North America,
and did we get to a place where Seattle.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Really doesn't even have to struggle to get it next time?
Speaker 1 (41:34):
That not only will they get one automatically next time,
they might get a quarterfinal semifinal next next time.
Speaker 6 (41:43):
And those of us who live around here have known
this for a while. I mean the Sounders and I'm
forgetting now what year it was that they came back
in their second iteration now, but from the day they
showed up, man sold out crowds. Enthusiasm for soccer in
Seattle is about as great well I think it is
as great as it is anywhere in the country, and
we've all seen that, We've all known that, but now
the rest of the country, and for that matter, of
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the rest of the world has gotten to experience it.
So Yeah, I think I think there's going to be
a lot of enthusiasm to come back.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
Here, and we could have a women's final before much
much sooner than the men coming back, So we could
have it here again in just a few years.
Speaker 6 (42:17):
Absolutely, that would be terrific to basketball.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Congressman Adam Smith joining US Adam Silver said this week
that the expansion process is continuing. Multiple bidders are interested
in Seattle, even though there's only one being made public.
I've got a little bit of skepticism on that because
I think that the one ownership group that is public
here the Milinda French Gates Samantha Holloway group. I mean,
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it just seems so rock solid that it seems like
it's just a big fan blowing anybody any other potential
suitors away.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
How do you see that? What do you know about
that situation?
Speaker 6 (42:56):
Yes, I don't have much more to add to what
you just said. That certainly seems to be the case.
That that is the group that seems well organized, ready
to take it. I don't know if there's you know,
if Adam Silba wants to make sure he maintains some leverage,
you know, so it doesn't just give it to them.
I don't know what the purpose behind that comment would be.
But yeah, I think you're right. I think the ownership
group that we all know about is the one that
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isn't just in the lead. But I don't see anybody.
I don't see anybody visible in second place at this point.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
And then we've got a terrible, really situation going down
south of us in Portland, A big picture.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
What is your what's your take?
Speaker 1 (43:33):
When you know owners buy these teams, they come in
like Tom Dundon has with the with the Portland Trailblazers,
knowing that there's an arena issue. I think it was
a little bit different situation with Clayton Bennett because think
Clayton Bennett came in here and with the express intent
of moving the Sonics. I don't necessarily think that's Tom
Dundon's situation, but he's buying this team. It's a community asset.
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The MODA Center is a community asset down there. In
Portland and he and he wants money for it. Where
are you on just this funding of these arenas that
seems like public funding was a lot more plentiful thirty
forty years ago than it's becoming now.
Speaker 6 (44:15):
It is really hard to justify public funding given how
much the money has exploded. And I'm going to get
the numbers slightly wrong, but you probably remember what Paul
Allen paid for the Seahawks. I want to say it
was less than two hundred million dollars. Am I am?
I right about that?
Speaker 8 (44:32):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (44:32):
I think I do know that it's fifty x this
this sale was fifty x what Paul Allen paid for, right.
Speaker 4 (44:40):
You know?
Speaker 6 (44:40):
And the same is true. I mean Balmer paid two
billion for the Clippers, so you know, the ownership and
then the salaries for the athletes have continued to explode.
So at the same time you're seeing all of that,
you also have the reality and not not to dive,
you know, into into my world of politics and public policies.
The the economy has concentrated the wealth in the hands
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of a few people, where a lot of people are
struggling to pay the bills, they're struggling to Reford housing.
You know, they're struggling to pay for the education for
their kids, you know, to get to get healthcare, for
gas and energy, and we're going to take public dollars
that could go to help them with that and put
it towards a sports stadium. And don't misunderstand that. You know,
I was an enthusiastic supporter of both stadiums back in
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the mid nineties here because I love sports A and B.
I know what sports does for our community. It's not
just the personal thing. I mean, guys, you saw it
with the World Cup. You see it. You saw it
with the Seahawks when they went on their run, when
when the Mariners went on their run last year. It
brings a community together. It's one of the things that
makes for a strong community. I don't doubt that. But
the question is who should pay for that? Could should
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the average taxpayer be paying for that when you know
billionaires are making so much money off the clubs. I
don't think so. So that puts Portland in a tough spot.
If their particular owner decides to play that game and
said that he's not going to pay for it, he's
going to try to force the taxpayers in Portland, Oregon
to pay for it. So yeah, I'd be worried about
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where that comes out, given where the politics are at
and given where the new ownership down in Portland is at.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
Not something we have to worry about here with our
basketball arena, it's perfectly ready to go for the NBA.
Are you Are you still as optimistic as you were
the last time we talked to you about the Sonics
coming back in twenty eight twenty nine.
Speaker 6 (46:27):
I mean, I am. You know, it's sort of one
of those things. It's like, you know, I don't know.
I'm one of those sports fans that when your team's
up ahead, let's just go ahead and finish it. Let's
just get it done. Okay, let's let's make it. You know,
even during the Super Bowl when the Patriots you know,
got those that drive late and who's he that, I
was like, are you kidding me? We're dominating this game.
This should be over, you know, And that's what I
(46:49):
want Adam Silver to say. They're coming, let's go, let's
find the contract, let's do it. I'm still, you know,
very intimacy that's going to happen, but let's just go
ahead and get it done. Stop you know, with all
the playing around, I think everyone knows what's gonna happen.
Let's make it happen.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
Final few minutes with the Congressman Adam Smith graciously donating
his time with us here on ninety three point.
Speaker 2 (47:10):
Three kJ RFM.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
How well, if at all, do you know Venode Coast
Low or at least have a cross paths with maybe
people that know Venode Coastlow for the last ten to
twenty years.
Speaker 3 (47:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (47:23):
I got a loose connection to some of the people
who owned the forty nine ers friend back in DC,
But I don't know him well. I think that's the
way we're all. I mean, even if you know him,
you don't know what it's going to mean for the Seahawks.
I mean, that's the one note of optimism I would say.
You know, when when Paul Allen died and Jody Allen
took over, I think there were a lot of a
lot of concern It's like, you know, is she going
(47:45):
to be as committed upon it? And you know she
put together we won a Super Bowl, Okay, so you
know he certainly knows sports. I mean, it worries me
that he's been a San Francisco forty nine Ers fan.
But I would think once you own the team, don't
you loyalty just automatically get enthusiastics for the new team.
But we don't know. It's the bottom line. Even if
(48:07):
you know the guy as a businessman, I don't think
you have any idea what type of you know, majority
sports owner he's going to turn out to be.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
I think, are you paying nine point six billion dollars
for a team, You're probably going to be pretty invested
in that team.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
I would just that would be me. I don't know
about you.
Speaker 6 (48:21):
That would be me, would I would hope?
Speaker 1 (48:25):
So, yeah, what what should be the number one priority?
What do you think will be the number one party?
Because because certainly fixing the football team is not a priority.
Speaker 6 (48:36):
Well, I think you know the number one priority is
getting the chain of command well understood, you know, because
you know, as you know, across all sports owners, some
owners they don't do much. Other owners are in the
middle of it twenty four to seven. And I think
the number one thing is to say, look, McDonald, Schneider,
(48:56):
they know what they're doing. Okay, let's just make it clear.
I'm going to let those guys run things. We're going
to keep them. We're gonna let them keep doing it,
and there's not going to be a lot of interference.
So that's Number one. It's just, you know, what is
the new sort of chain of command? It's the wrong
way to put it because obviously the owner is at
the top. But what is going to be the division
of responsibilities and how much trust and faith is that
(49:18):
owner going to place and is GM and head coach?
And I think everyone agree should would agree they should
place a lot of faith in their GM and head coach,
and that's what we hope they'll wind up doing.
Speaker 1 (49:30):
I would imagine over the next five or ten years,
one of the priorities is going to be to upgrade
this football stadium that I'm sitting right in the shadow
of right now, Loomenfield, and bring it up to twenty
thirty's standards, because right now it's a beautiful stadium for
two thousand, not a beautiful stadium for twenty thirty. And
also there's that thought that maybe Seattle could be a
(49:53):
super Bowl city. There's been some cold weather super Bowls. Heck,
the Seahawks played in a cold weather super Bowl at
the Meadowlands in New York, and that stadium is not
as good as this one is right now. So you
know with indian Indianapolis obviously indoors, but still a cold
weather super Bowl weak Minneapolis, you got Nashville coming up
as well.
Speaker 2 (50:12):
Is that something that you.
Speaker 1 (50:14):
Think would be possible or even worth a while for
this city to try to give it get a super Bowl?
Speaker 6 (50:22):
Well, it'd be a lot to absorb. I'm not I
have to do more analysis to figure out whether that's
worth while, but I think it's distinctly possible. I think
you remember about the weather in Seattle. Is you know,
you do a Super Bowl in New York. I mean
you could come into you know, ten degrees and two
feet of snow. It doesn't happen very often, but it
doesn't happen here. I mean in the winter, buy and large,
you can be cold. We don't get those like you know,
(50:43):
ice Bowl like temperature. So so it could be done.
And then yeah, the stadium, I mean, it's so funny.
I've been go to the Army Navy game most years,
so I've been to a fair number of different NFL
stadiums now and they're all great, but they just keep
getting you know, like you got so far you got
Allegiant down in Vegas. You get these unbelievable stadiums. I mean,
(51:04):
I think you know, Movement is a pretty darn good
football stadium. They just keep blowing it out and making
it more more and more. So, Yeah, if you're going
to get to the super Bowl level at this point,
you'd probably have to do that.
Speaker 1 (51:17):
Congressman Adam Smith. Before we let you go, you can
weigh in on the bracket contest that we just had
in the last hour. It was we were trying to
determine the greatest uniform in Pacific Northwest sports history, and
we got down to our actually our number one seed
and our number two seed actually played each other for
the championship.
Speaker 2 (51:37):
And I want to let you weigh in.
Speaker 1 (51:39):
Our number one seed was the you know, you don't
have to look up what the your mind will tell
you what these two uniforms look like. Our number one
seed was the original Seattle Seahawks uniforms, which they have
since brought back for occasional games. And our number two
seed was the Don James Arrow Washington Huskies purple uniforms,
(51:59):
the Purple Dog Got Together or the Blue Seahawks.
Speaker 6 (52:04):
I gotta go Don James Youreskies Man has so many
great memories of that. As a loyal Husky, I think
that that was that would be the best uniform in
my mind.
Speaker 1 (52:12):
God they were, so that's what I voted for. I
got outvoted, though Jackson and Hugh Millen out voted me.
They picked They picked the Seahawks, but I voted for
the Dogs. Hey, Adam, we really appreciate it. Thanks for
joining us. You've done it a couple of times now,
and best of luck the rest of the year, and
hopefully next time we have you on we'll have a
basketball team to talk about.
Speaker 6 (52:31):
That would be very exciting. Thanks, because always players talking
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