* "Sparty" Mike Sterner, avid MSU and Detroit Lions Fan

Episode Transcript

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(00:48):
my producer Boston Rob. Rob. We have our next guest
on the line. Looks like I do, Yes, we do.
I have a couple of text from you, says, got
Mike ready, Got Mike ready. See when get one more
Mike this hour and you can have the same text
three times. I want to welcome in sparty. Mike Sterner
just back from Cincinnati and headed city too.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Mike, say that again, Jack, Sorry, just.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Back from Cincinnati, and you're also headed to Kansas City, right.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
Yes, yes, I am. That will be Sunday morning.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
And you're headed to LA later in the year, right.

Speaker 5 (01:31):
La, Philadelphia, Washington.

Speaker 6 (01:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Rob. Do you know anyone who sees as many big
sporting events in as many places and doesn't get paid
to do it? I know people it's their job who
don't want to travel as much as SPARTI Mike Sterner,
But what was your take yesterday and what you saw
of the Lions? We just had Mike Pearson on and

(01:58):
he said he didn't think it was a best effort.

Speaker 6 (02:02):
Yeah, you know, I didn't think it was their best
game either. I thought their offense was lackluster at points
and and left some things to be desired. But they're
such a good team that even when they're not at
their best, they're really good, and so I think that's
a good problem to have. I thought there were some
good moments for the defense. I'm coming away impressed by

(02:26):
Jack Campbell more and more every time he plays. He's
such a great signal caller for for that defense.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
I got a really big laugh when.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Kirby Joseph essentially stole an interception away from carry on
Arnold yesterday.

Speaker 6 (02:42):
He just wants to catch the ball, and so I
think that this team is the feelings. Obviously they can
win the Super Bowl and it's a really good team.
Injuries are a little bit of a concern with the
with the cornerbacks now as Terry on Arnold sounds like
it's going to be out for a while now.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, maybe Kirby Joseph should have let him have that
interception because he's not going to get his hands on
one for quite a while now.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
It looks like unfortunately.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, I thought Sam Laporta played a great game yesterday,
his best of the year. And I love the David
Montgomery treatment. You could tell that Dan Campbell knew it
was a homecoming. They knew about Montgomery's sister Kiki and
the accident and are getting there. It was Montgomery's first

(03:34):
time back there in ten years. I don't know if
you've had a chance to see the piece yet from
Tom Ornaldy, but talked about growing up there in abject
poverty and really not having a place to stay. I
don't say they were vagrants, but they didn't have food frequently,

(03:55):
and they didn't have heat where they were to take
a bath or to cleanse themselves. They would take turns
boiling water on the stove and that was what they
did in terms of hygiene. So, David Montgomery, you talk
about grit, and if that is the motto for this team,

(04:16):
I don't know anyone whose life has had more grit
than David Montgomery to get where he is now.

Speaker 5 (04:22):
Yeah, Jack, it's truly incredible.

Speaker 6 (04:24):
And I think when you hear stories like that, for me,
it just reminds me that these athletes are people too,
and a lot of them have overcome a ton to
get to where they are now. And so to hear
something like that, you already respect them as a football player,
but you respect them even more as a football player,
but then even more than you respect them as a
football player as a human being, and it's awesome.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Well, we know that you're going to be headed to
Kansas City, but before that, you've got some other things
to see, including the Detroit Tigers. And you'll be there tomorrow, right.

Speaker 6 (05:00):
I will not be there tomorrow because it's during the
work time. So I did just buy I did buy
tickets for the game three potential alcs for the Wednesday
of that week. I go but that's my hope right now,
if I know that my one avenue to be able

(05:22):
to attend a game in the series will be I know,
if the.

Speaker 5 (05:25):
Blue Jays sweep the Yankees.

Speaker 6 (05:28):
The word is that they'll flex the Tigers Game four
to the late later window, and then I would probably
go at that point for the Game four. Now that
we know that there will for sure be a Game
four in Detroit, do.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
You think this is going to go back to a
Game five in Seattle?

Speaker 4 (05:48):
You know, I think it's heading that way.

Speaker 6 (05:51):
I hope it doesn't because I think, you know, going
back to Seattle and a winner take all is probably
not good.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
Even though scoobl will probably be pitching. For sure. He's
lost to the Seattle three times now this year.

Speaker 6 (06:04):
They've kind of solved them a little bit, right.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
He didn't get the loss last night, but your point
is well taken. He did give up the two home runs,
two solo homers, and yeah, I still pitched really well.
But you know, if your team's only going to score
two runs and we've had a pair of three to
two outcomes with different winners, what impresses you about Seattle, Mike?

Speaker 6 (06:29):
I think that they just hit the home run ball,
so timely and so well, and I mean.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
There's there's they got.

Speaker 6 (06:37):
They got some really talented players on their team, and
it's it's, you know, not one of those huge market
teams that you usually do well. I mean, you heard
yesterday the broadcast, they talked multiple times this is be
their first time watching a home playoff win in a
quarter century. Like you kind of get almost like lions
vibes from hearing stuff like that. So you can't help

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what respect a fan base that seemed that And so
it's cool to see a city like that, and they made.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
Some big moves at the deadline.

Speaker 6 (07:07):
And you know, I'm not rooting for them, obviously, because
I want the Tigers to win, but I you know,
it's not like we're playing the Yankees and I want
nothing to do with them seeing them.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
Go to a World Series. If it came.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
To that, if the Mariners beat the Tigers, would you
be rooting for Seattle to go all the way or
because they beat Detroit, would you want them to lose?

Speaker 6 (07:31):
I don't I get bitter about teams beating my teams
when I already hate those teams in the first place.
Like I said, I don't really hate them. It's probably
be Seattle Toronto, which I mean, I take Seattle Toronto away.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
I'll see us over a Yankees Red Sox.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
They'll see us any day of the week.

Speaker 6 (07:48):
And I wouldn't really necessarily pick.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
One of those teams oh the other, but I wouldn't
be upset with either of.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
Those teams at that point. I'd probably be.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
Rooting for that team to beat the Dodgers because I
just don't like seeing repeat champions that are not my
favorite team.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
Mike, you know how many teams there are in Major
League Baseball?

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Thirty yep.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
And do you know how many of them have appeared
in a World Series?

Speaker 3 (08:18):
I don't know the answer to that.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
Actually the answer is twenty nine. Do you know which
team has never been to the World Series?

Speaker 5 (08:26):
Is it Seattle?

Speaker 1 (08:27):
It is the Seattle Marriers, the only major league team
that has never been to a World Series. And they
had one hundred and sixteen win season. One hundred and
sixteen win That means that they won nineteen more games
than the Tigers did this year and did not make
it to the World Series. Pretty incredible.

Speaker 6 (08:49):
Yeah, it's crazy, especially with the franchise that's had, like
arguably the greatest titter of all time if he would
have played his entire career in the MLB with like
each zero.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
So yeah, you look at some of the star power.
I mean, Ken Griffy Chim one of the best players
in baseball history. Each Row is the all time hits
king if you count what he did in Japan, Randy Johnson.
I mean, they have had some tremendous players over there.

(09:23):
You know, Edgar Martinez is a Hall of Fame guy.
So it's amazing that they have never gotten over the hump.
But I don't know, maybe maybe this is the year.
I think the Mariners fans if they got to a
Game five and they lost on a blue pit to
the Tigers, they couldn't get some of those fans out

(09:46):
of the stadium.

Speaker 4 (09:48):
No, that would that would be very hard. That would
be very hard.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah. What about Michigan State? Will you be at Spartan
Stadium Saturday for homecoming?

Speaker 4 (10:00):
And I'll be at Spartan Stadium. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (10:02):
I was encouraged a little bit by their performance against
Nebraska that I thought the defense got a lot of pressure,
which was much improved, But I was also disappointed. At
the same time. You and I talked offline, but the
special teams really let the team down. And as you said,
like they've been the strength of the team. So it's
a matter of like having all three units put the

(10:23):
put one game together at this point, and you got
to figure.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
It out as a coaching staff. Like ultimately, this is
on the coaching staff to figure.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
That out, Mike. They talk about complementary football, and that
usually means that the offense picks up the defense or
the special teams comes through with the big play. In
this case, the last couple of weeks, they've had one
unit that has let the team down, and it was

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the defense out in the LA Coliseum when we were there,
and this week it was the defense that acquitted itself
very well, holding Nebraska to less than three hundred yards
and this high powered passing game that everyone was talking
about with Dylan Royola, you know, as good as any
in the country, and they didn't get two hundred yards

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passing and there were five sacks. Mischief stated only had
six sacks for the entire season, and they got five
of them in Lincoln.

Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yeah, it was it was.

Speaker 6 (11:24):
I got to give Joe Rossi a lot of credit
for making some adjustments and some guys making some big plays,
but man, just really frustrating. And I know the win
played a factor and packing the special teams, but Nebraska
had to face that too, and so to see, you know, really,
if the special team's wonders don't happen, I think.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
MSU probably wins that game.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
And that's gonna.

Speaker 6 (11:46):
Really eat at the eat at the coaching staff, and
it should and I hope it motivates them.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
So what do you make of this game?

Speaker 4 (11:54):
Now?

Speaker 1 (11:54):
With UCLA coming in talk about giant killers. They were
twenty four and a half point underdogs and the first
team since nineteen eighty five to be winless at this
point of the year and beat a top ten team.
What do you think we're going to say? It's partn Stadium.

Speaker 5 (12:16):
It's going to be interesting.

Speaker 6 (12:17):
I think I always thought UCLA was better than their
record indicated. I mean, they got a super talented athlete
at quarterback. I think it'll be super interesting. But Spartan
should still win this game. I mean, UCLA's going to
travel across the country. I still think that they're a
better team. This reminds me a lot of the twenty

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eighteen Perdue game, where MSU was playing a per new
team that just upset Ohio State with Tyler Trent cancer
survivor the big story, and where everyone kind of was
wondering the same thing, Well, MS, you should win this game,
is perdue going to have the momentum.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
MS.

Speaker 6 (12:59):
You did end up winning that game with Rocky Lombardi
at quarterback. But I think that this is a very
similar situation where I think that I don't think that
it's going to carry over to Spartan Stadium. I think
the better, more talented team is going to win in
Spartan Stadium. But I think it hope at least wakes
MSU up and says if they were going to be
compoison at all, you.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
Got to take these guys seriously.

Speaker 6 (13:23):
Rob.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
I would describe Mike as not a glass half full guy,
a glass way full guy, and optimistic. More often than not,
I would say, if you lose Mike Sterner, you've really
got problems. But talking to a lot of fans right now,
Mike who are becoming apathetic about Michigan State football and

(13:50):
this staff, and with every loss for Boston College, that
win loses some luster. They just don't think this team
team can get out of its own way. Whether it's leadership,
whether it's the talent level, and people now are starting
to look at hey, how long till basketball starts, how

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long till hockey starts. It is not cheap, it's not
inexpensive to support a college football team and program. How
important isn't for Michigan State and Jonathan Smith to get
a win Saturday.

Speaker 6 (14:26):
I think it's of the utmost important. I haven't lost
the staff. I believe they needed to get this entire
year for me to give them a fairy valuation. But
I think I will will lose a little bit of
patience if they lose a game like this, because this
is one of the games that you look at on
the schedule and you just have to win, and.

Speaker 4 (14:46):
So I can see that more. But I also think at.

Speaker 6 (14:50):
The same token, if they find a way to get
a big win, fans are fickle, they'll come right back.
If this coaching staff finds a way to beat Michigan
at the end of October, fans will be buying into
the staff pretty quickly, And so I think that's what
they gotta do.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
They gotta find a way to get a couple of
big wins and string them together.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Mike I talked to a guy who I had had
this conversation with before the season, and I wasn't buying
what he said then, But he had Michigan State winning
the first three games, then losing the two road games,
and then beating UCLA to be four and two at
the midpoint and not winning another game the rest of

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the way. Could you see that happening.

Speaker 6 (15:40):
I don't think that's gonna happen. I don't think. I
really don't think that's gonna happen. So now I can't
see it happening. I've heard that sentiment.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
Do you think they're going to be an underdog in
all six of those games?

Speaker 6 (15:52):
I think they end up being favored in at Ford Field.
I think Maryland's kind of got a little bit of
a buffer with how they hand Wisconsin, and I think
people are giving them.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
A little bit more credit.

Speaker 6 (16:03):
But then they had the collapse against Washington on Saturday,
so I think they're going to end up being favored
in that game. I wouldn't be surprised if they end
up being favored against Minnesota. Minnesota is starting to lose
favor pretty quickly that loss at Cal and then they
got destroyed by Ohio State on Saturday, so I could
see them being favored in that game.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Will you be at that game in Minnesota?

Speaker 6 (16:28):
That's what I'm playing in right now.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
I'm just working on the travel right now.

Speaker 6 (16:32):
So the MSU plays at Minnesota and then the Lions
actually played the Vikings in at Ford Field, So I'm
mostly just looking at a flight from dtw and back Saturday,
then back in the Sunday.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
So let me get this straight. You were at the Coliseum.
I know that because we watched some football there that after.
You are not in Lincoln, so can't hold you responsible
for that. You will be at Indiana.

Speaker 6 (17:09):
I'm I'm I'm on the fence, but I'm thinking I
want to go there. Actually, part of my consision process
has been coming to partially like maybe the Tigers will
be in in Toronto for ALCS on the Sunday and
the Lions don't play until Monday night.

Speaker 4 (17:28):
And that would be like Game six of the ALCS.
So that's part of my decision making, but I don't
know yet.

Speaker 6 (17:35):
I'm not totally sure I want to go to Indiana though,
because it's such an easy trip. So I'm thinking so
it's more of like getting somebody to go with me
because I don't want to go on that one myself
because it's a drive.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
So how many combined Michigan State and Detroit Lions games
do you expect to see this year?

Speaker 6 (17:55):
Oh, you're making me actually calculated. So if we calculate
the Lions, that'll be all the home games plus all
the road games minus one because I didn't go to Baltimore.
That's sixteen games, and then MSU that's seven homes sixteen
Lions games. And then MSU that's seven home games if
you include the ford Field game, and then I already

(18:18):
went to the Coliseum, and I'm thinking that probably two
more road games, So that's ten games there, So turn
twenty six. I guess if you do the math, plus
whatever number of playoff games the Lions go to, because
I will block my schedule for any playoff game they
play in.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
And in Michigan State did get the six wins and
made a bowl game, you'd probably find a way there, right.

Speaker 5 (18:45):
Yes, I have attended.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
That every MSU Bowl game since they've been in Rose Bowl.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Okay, so the Lions could play let's say they play
three postseason games, they make a run throughout and go
the distance and Michigan State makes a ball game. That's
four more tack down to the twenty six. Hey, Rob,
Mike could see thirty thirty Michigan State and Detroit Lions

(19:16):
games this season.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
I believe that need them to see some hockey.

Speaker 6 (19:20):
Games that I Rob, I am not a huge hockey
fan actually, and so honestly, and I'll be honest with you,
and I'm not upset about it because if I was
a huge hockey fan, that I'd be running in a
lot of predicaments. One I'd have to figure out, like
how am I going to go to the hockey games too?
So it more comes down to like Spartan basketball, and

(19:42):
like I do have to sacrifice a couple of Spartan
basketball games. Actually, the one I'm probably going to sacrifice
this year that's notable is the home Arkansas game because
me and my fiancee is actually going on the trip
with me to Washington when the Lions play the Commanders
out there, and the basketball schedule didn't come out and

(20:04):
we had booked like a four day trip and it
went back and board of them, Mike, should I shorten
this trip? And I'm like, now, like most of the
days of this trip other than the Lions game are
going to.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
Be for her and whatever she wants to do.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, you know, the most amazing part of this crazy
life you lead, Rob when you think about Mike Sterner,
it isn't the twenty six Lions in Michigan State games
or possibility of thirty counting postseason. It's the fact that
he is engaged and he has found someone to share

(20:38):
this with him or at least tolerate it. And not
only is he employed, he's a physician. I would be
very curious hospitals around the country if there are any
doctors who have anything similar to you. Do you know
of any who are that passionate?

Speaker 6 (21:01):
I don't, but I wouldn't be surprised because our type
of people are just crazy. You have to be to
go through medical school. You have to like just be
on a different level. So if they're not as crazy
as me in sports, there's definitely some out there that
are as crazy as me and other elements of life,

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and so it's I think that's part of the why
I am the way I am is because I had
to be, so I don't know, it's almost like the
gunner and me didn't gun for like being a surgeon
and more gunned for everything in life. I mean, I
came out pretty well in medicine, but like I want
to go to a sporting events and stuff, and you

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can't really be a surgeon and go to as many
sporting events as I do.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Do you know the story of Giles Pelerine?

Speaker 4 (21:54):
You know that I do now.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
Giles Pelerine is the Spartan Mike Sterner of the West Coast.
And I actually had him on my show back about
well it wasn't when we were doing this show, I
should say I actually had him on while I was
guest hosting, going back several years, several decades, and I

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did a couple stories on him. One when Michigan State
and USC played in the Rose Bowl January first, nineteen
eighty eight, and then I met him a couple of
years later out at the John Hancock Bowl in El Paso,
and Mikey went to seven hundred and ninety seven seven
consecutive USC football games. Now, to show you how impressive

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that is, they were only playing ten and eleven games
a year, so this was over seventy four years. He
didn't miss a game until he died at age ninety one.
And the most amazing part of this was he hated
to fly, and so if USC was playing, say at

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Notre Dame, he would take the train or a bus
to these games across country. Streak began when he was
a USC student. He was a freshman back in nineteen
twenty five, and he attended USC games in fifty different cities.

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I remember him telling me that, including including the time
that he checked himself out of the hospital and went
to this is a USC UCLA game and then checked
himself back into the hospital.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
Wow, that's incredible.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yeah, so you know when we were out at USC,
because there's actually a plaque out there, we should have
gone to see that. And yeah, if you just mentioned
and if you're out in California you mentioned the super fan,
they'll know exactly who you're talking about. And at age ninety,

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you know, he's ninety one when he died. But the
season when he was ninety years old, he's traveling around
the country to every USC game. Nearly eight hundred. Didn't
quite make eight hundred inner row.

Speaker 4 (24:18):
So that's awesome.

Speaker 6 (24:20):
If I could live to ninety, first of all, that'd
be huge. But if I could be doing that while
on ninety then that'd be something.

Speaker 4 (24:27):
But I do think there's something.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
About living a life like I do that might give.

Speaker 6 (24:32):
Me some long devity because I think people that have
this kind of drive and their brain's constantly working to
do stuff do a little bit better.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yeah, well, I was going to ask you about that
because as a physician you are at McLaren of Lancing, right, Yes, yeah,
So do you believe there's anything to that that it's
use it or lose it And if you don't stay active,
and if you don't keep your mind o occupied, you're

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more likely to check out earlier.

Speaker 6 (25:05):
I think there's one hundred percent a lot to that, Jack,
I think there's a lot to that drive, and I
mean there's a lot about the psychiatric and psychological help
that goes into it, and I think we're learning more
and more about how important that is for our overall health.
But that's why I.

Speaker 4 (25:22):
Think it helps. I mean, certainly, having.

Speaker 6 (25:25):
A good diet and exercising well and those types of
things are going to add some years to your life
as well, but if your mental health isn't there, it
impacts your entire body. So I do think it is
something that's on my side for sure.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
And if you are a fan of a team that
never wins, does the angst and the agony that you
suffer take time away? Does it subtract years from your life?

Speaker 6 (25:51):
As somebody who's been through some pretty bad seasons, Jack,
So it's been some of my more depressing years now.

Speaker 4 (25:57):
I've had life happen in those.

Speaker 6 (25:58):
Years too, But I definitely think there's probably something to it.

Speaker 5 (26:02):
But there's also like I've learned.

Speaker 6 (26:06):
To let go, Like I have like a like an
eight hour rule for losing games, Like I dwell on
it for eight hours, and then my positivity.

Speaker 4 (26:15):
Moves to We're going to win the next game.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
So all right, the greatest win that you have seen
with your own eyes while you're there, and the most
depression you have ever had at a game.

Speaker 6 (26:32):
The greatest game is easily the twenty fourteen Rose Bowl
because I took a Greyhound bus to go to that
game with my friend's right, So that one will never
be matched.

Speaker 5 (26:43):
Biggest depression.

Speaker 4 (26:44):
Man, I'm gonna that's a hard question. I don't know.
There's been some hard ones.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
Were you out at Levi Stadium when the Lions lost
to the forty nine ers?

Speaker 6 (26:58):
I was, But I'm thinking about if I can think
of an MSU, that one's definitely top three at minimum.
But yeah, I was at that game. They were playing,
they were playing, they had journey, They're playing and singing
about born and raising South Detroit at halftime, and the
vibes were all there for the Lions fans and then

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we lost, and man, oh man.

Speaker 4 (27:23):
The only thing I could.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
Think after that game is I knew the Lions.

Speaker 6 (27:26):
The Lions were going to play in San Francisco the
next year because they both were the top in their
division in the NFC. And so my only thought, because
my brain doesn't work like I'm going to dwell on
the negativity, it was I will be in San Francisco
next year when the Lions went and it did happen,
thankfully that piece.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
You had to go back to the scene of the crime.

Speaker 6 (27:48):
Right, yes, And I felt really good about it.

Speaker 5 (27:51):
And so I'm trying to think of MSU ones.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
I don't know the.

Speaker 5 (27:58):
I think the I think just the.

Speaker 6 (28:02):
Final four game that I've been to have been hard
as well. Twenty nineteen Final four was really hard because
I thought we.

Speaker 4 (28:11):
Were going to win it all.

Speaker 6 (28:12):
I mean, one of my bucket was things is to
see Tom Izzo win a national championship in person. I
was alive when he won his first national championship, but
I was five years old, so I don't remember much
about it. But that was really hard blaking twenty nineteen
Final four because I thought we were going to win
it all and we just didn't play well against Texas Tech,
and they played really well that day night.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
Mike, this is maybe not a fair question because some
people are of different means than others and they have
more resources at their disposal, But have you ever thought
of how much you would pay for a ticket to
watch Tom Izzo's team win the national championship.

Speaker 6 (28:55):
I have not directly thought about that, but it would
be probably thankfully less than what I would drop on
Alliance Super Bowl, just by the nature of what those
games are. So in terms of like the expectations of
what I would have to pay, I think that's what.

Speaker 4 (29:13):
You're more asking me.

Speaker 6 (29:14):
Like, I don't think there's really a price you can
put on it, because I would do it. I would
be more like, I'll figure it out later, So I'll
take whatever price you're asking.

Speaker 4 (29:24):
Me to pay, and then I'll figure it out later.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yeah. Yeah, I was talking to someone who said that
that's this ultimate bucket list item. And he's close to
eighty years old now, and he you know, the Lions
get to the Super Bowl, he will be there. And
I said, well, you know what if you can't get
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a way to get in the stadium. And if it's
the last thing he ever does.

Speaker 4 (29:52):
He'll be there for that.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
So it may be the last thing he ever does.

Speaker 6 (29:55):
Who knows, Jack, he needs to talk to me because
I have all the c it's about having a hotel.

Speaker 5 (30:02):
I booked a hotel for.

Speaker 6 (30:04):
At Santa Clara Levi Stadium literally the day of the
Super Bowl last year in preparation for the Lions making
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Speaker 1 (30:15):
Wow, unbelievable. Mike, thanks so much. I hope to see
you this week. I know you'll probably be out at
One North on Wednesday, right.

Speaker 6 (30:26):
That's what my thought is right now, unless like something
changes with the Tiger's time, but that's where I'll be.

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Hey, Rob in the Jonathan Smith Show and the various
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Mike at the mike with the answer to that. Mike,
I'll let you get back. Are you off work now
or you have more patience?

Speaker 5 (31:03):
No, I'm done for the day.

Speaker 6 (31:05):
As Rob called me, actually is when I was pulling
in home, So perfect timing.

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