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Okay, we got a lot to get into. Of course, I know short week, huh? It's already Wednesday. I'm going to be sharing with you a new top six list, taking a look at the top six NFL teams for 2025. Because we are about twenty-four hours away.
from the start of another NFL season. That top six list coming your way in two hours. A matter of fact, to give us a preview. On the upcoming season.
Next hour, we're going to be joined by Andrew Beaton from the Wall Street Journal. We got more to get into. We got Lou Holtz. Can you I I guess you can be that old and still be angry. Lou Holt is still throwing darts at the Ohio State University.
We got Jerry Jones on Just good morning, America just kind of backing up his own decision to trade Micah. He's gonna be on an apology tour, I guess, for the next several months. Maybe years if he lasts that long. Roger Goodow talking about Taylor Swift. Maybe performing at the halftime show.
Possibly. And then it was crazy news earlier today. The Clippers? or out here committing NBA Fraud? What a shock, right?
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I'm ready to go. I cannot believe that we are 26 hours away. From the National Football League season kicking off. It feels like yesterday we were watching the Super Bowl between the Eagles and the Chiefs, and once again, the summer just flew right by. Yeah, I remember watching that horrific event.
Patrick Mahomes out here runnin' for his life. Philadelphia Eagles winning the Super Bowl even though they don't want to talk about it any more. And then you you're a hundred percent correct that ugly Sunday afternoon, that ugly Sunday evening, And here we are on the eve. of another season. It's gonna be fun.
The Philadelphia Eagles will raise the banner. Their players won't be hanging out for it. and then the Dallas Cowboys. He had prepared yourselves for Another 24 hours, 48 hours, forever. A more criticism levied towards Jerry Jones.
We're going to hear what Jerry Jones had to say on Good Morning America this morning. Didn't think he'd be on GMA. Kinda breaking down Michael Parsons trade. But every time he opens up his mouth, nonsense comes out. Uh, not not surprising.
That's just the Jerry Jones way. Another NFL season. Damn it. Andrew Beaton joining us, as I told you, from the Wall Street Journal Next Hour. And then I'm giving you the top six NFL teams.
For 2025, I'm going to give you the top six teams that I think have the best shot, the best chances, the best odds of going on and hoisting the Vince Lombardi trophy in calendar year 2026.
So, we got a lot to get into. Let's get into the Clippers, okay? Let's get them out the way. You know, we got NFL season tomorrow. We're going to get to some football in a sec, but I'd be remiss not to just tell you what I saw this morning, what a lot of you maybe heard or saw, that this is almost slapstick.
that the Clippers are allegedly have tried to figure out a way to pay Kawhi Leonard without paying him On the Clippers' Salary Cap Books, and people listening to the sound of my voice. This is not foreign. to a lot of people. There's people listening to me right now. and get paid under the table.
Get a little suntin' under the side, Get a little tip. Doesn't get taxed. I don't know anything about this stuff. I just hear about these things. If people make money in different ways.
We know Kawhi Leonard he makes his money. From the clippers, right? This man just signed a contract, extension four years, one hundred seventy six million dollars. Damn it, he signed it while he was hurt. He's been with this team since he won a championship following his Raptors tenure one season in twenty nineteen.
The problem for Kawhi Leonard is, we know that he has been injured. Damn it, all it feels like all the time. He blew out his ACL He's tearing a knee He can't run He can't jump Two-time finals MVP. Multiple time All Star. He's just always hurt.
Okay. And so it's been reported. that Kawhi Leonard got an additional twenty eight million dollars quote unquote under the table From a tree company, a marketing company, that in the contract, he didn't have to do. anything for. And the person who owns the company was Steve Ballmer?
Wait a minute. Kawhi London had a company. Steve Barmer, his boss, had a company. This company, by the way, no longer exists or went bankrupt. And they put $50 million into the company.
Kawhi Leonard got twenty eight of it. and he reportedly had to do nothing to get the money. This sounds like circumventing the NBA's Salary Cap. Which is a big no-no. Can you imagine if the Kansas City Chiefs said, You know what, we want to give Patrick Mahomes another.
You know, fifty million dollars. Let's set up another company on the side outside of the Chiefs where he can get paid. You can't do this. And the man who found this out. is Pablo Torre.
who all of a sudden now has unearthed some of the biggest stories and some of the scandalous ones in sports.
Okay, like uh Jordan Hudson's situation with Bill Belichick. Pablo Torre was all over that. And right now, earlier this morning when he dropped his podcast, Pablo Torre finds out You don't want him finding out anything. He pretty much said the clippers. They got a big old scam here potentially with Kawhi.
Listen to this. NBA executives were suspicious of how Steve Ballmer's clippers landed the most valuable free agent on the market, Kawhi Leonard. That the NBA did not find that Balmer got Kawhi by sweetening their offer, but also that in March 2025, this celebrity-endorsed, multi-billion-dollar, allegedly fraudulent tree brokerage. named Aspiration, which promises to clear your conscience and your omissions. They file for bankruptcy.
And this is where the clue is. And what I noticed is what David is noticing right now, which is that on that list of creditors, up near the top, above the Boston Red Sox, is an LLC that Aspiration owes $7 million. And that LLC's name, David, is what? KL2 Aspire LLC. And what does it list there under manager or member name?
Kwa Let or But the grand total number of times that I found Kawhi Leonard ever publicly referencing aspiration, zero times Kawhi Leonard mentioned aspiration. No what? You twenty eight million dollars? Did you ever Nico, did you ever see an advertisement for uh you know Kawhi doing tree stuff? No, I did not.
Did he sell a pencil? Did he clear a tree? Did he pick up some litter from a local park? Nothing? Not that I know of.
Wow. Pablo Torre continues on and he's just like, well Yeah. The clippers say to at least to Pablo Torre. Like there's there's there's nothing going on here.
Now we know damn well there's going to be a full investigation as to what took place. And somebody had to shout outs to two short, somebody had to blow the whistle.
Somebody had to say there's some funny business going on over here. This isn't the first time something like this potentially has happened in NBA history. You might recall. Joe Smith, Getting a new contract with the Minnesota Timberwolves, they tried to circumvent. The cap.
the Minnesota Timber Wolves in nineteen ninety nine. They were fined $3.5 million. Joe Smith's contract was thrown out the window, and the The owner at the time he had to just sell, by the way, to A-Rod and his buddy, uh Glenn Taylor was suspended. Kevin McHale. Shoutouts to a legend.
He was the GM at the time. He had to take a leave of absence. And ultimately, the Timberwolves at the time. had five first round picks. forfeit it.
The NBA eventually was nice enough to just go, you know, let's return two of the picks, that is a massive punishment. If you want to scale things up. I don't know for 2025, for inflation. I'm sure the fine If this is true with the Clippers, Is going to be more than $3.5 million. I'm sure for Steve Ballmer, who happens to be one of the wealthiest guys on planet earth.
and net worth in excess of one hundred billion dollars, I'm sure that the fine may be somewhere closer to ten to twenty That's just my guess. Damn it, we may have the richest owner, one of the richest owners in sports. Suspended from the team? And then how about this? Clippers ain't got no damn draft pick.
What draft picks do they have? The Clippers woke up one day and said, We want Kawhi Leonard and we want Paul George, who's no longer there. And what do they have in return? Nothing.
So I have no idea how they're going to punish them potentially when it comes to the draft pick situation. But I'll tell you this. This is funny business In the NBA. And for a team that was taken over by Steve Ballmer. Put into a new arena.
He built a new arena with that fancy wall and the lights, and he brought in the injured stars and the guys that are never healthy. This is almost just a punch to the gut. If you're a fan of the Clippers. It's the same old, same old. Granted, this is not a Donald Sterling situation, thank God.
But I I guess for Billy Crystal, And the five other Clippers fans, the guys who helped populate the wall and give away the tickets. This is wild. You're not supposed to. figure out a way to pay your players under the table. You're not supposed to pay Kawhi Leonard a reportedly $28 million for doing absolutely nothing, and it's coming from the owner.
Wh who thought this was a smart idea? Allegedly, of course. Who thought that this was a good idea? Who thought that this. would not get out.
How the hell did it even get out? Apparently somebody told Pablo Torre There's something that you need to investigate. Listen to this What I started doing was reaching out to dozens A former Aspiration employees. A grand total of seven of them ultimately agreed to interviews, which is also how I have exclusively obtained the signed and executed document. In consideration of the rights and benefits granted to company hereunder, the company will pay KL Two, which is Kawhi, twenty eight million dollars in cash.
during the term of this agreement. I love it. I love stories like this, because these are the type of things where I go Are people really this stupid? And I go, Yeah, they are. There's always going to be somebody who's trying to get over or under on somebody, even if you're a billionaire.
Come on, one of my favorite stories of all time The Jacksonville Jaguars were being robbed, by one of their own guys in the finance department. Nobody else in the finance department woke up and said, one of our employees is stealing, I don't know, $10, $20, $30 million. from right underneath our nose. Hilarious the situation with Shoheiotani not hilarious, but Shohail Tanny making so much damn money. not even realized he's getting robbed by the guy he thought was his own friend.
Now I'm not telling you people robbing people is funny. But the stories are just absolutely Ridiculous. The Los Angeles Clippers You know, we can talk about SMU, we can go back to the eighties and we can think about some of these punishments that that teams have received in college and think about the USC's look, the Clippers as an organization, as a franchise. They've already been hit with the death penalty by just existing. And if this happens to be true, Whatever comes after this.
Yeah. That there's going to be a major massive death penalty to the organization. For all five of the Clippers fans, let's just uh Put it that way. It's the J.R. Sport Brief Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network.
We got so much more to get into that doesn't involve robbing or stealing. paying professional athletes allegedly thirty million dollars under the table. I told you it's Wednesday. Top six list. I'm going to tell you the top six NFL teams for 2025.
Next hour, to give us a preview for the NFL season that is now about 24 hours away, we'll be joined by Andrew Beaton from the World Street Journal. We had a lot of angry pitchers in Major League Baseball last night. We got a lot of angry coaches. Why is Lou Holtz angry? You would think that he'd be a happy old man, but it seems that he is still mad at the Ohio State University.
Davo, Sweeney, and Brian Kelly, they're mad, but they're active coaches, I guess they should be mad.
So we got a lot to get into. 888-710-4ISN is the number. That's 888-710-4ISN. When we come back, Yeah, NBA might be mad. A lot of people in the NBA might be mad at this potential Kawhi getting paid under the table situation.
Maybe his uncle had something to do with it. But when we come back, we'll talk about these other angry people. Why is 88? Or 100-year-old or 200-year-old. Why is old man Lou Holt angry?
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Possibly circumventing the salary cap, or at least the Clippers doing so by paying him through an outside company. This was brought to light by Pablo Torre, longtime ESPN reporter, now working independently. And apparently, he also says that he might be looking into Jalen Brunson and the New York Knicks.
So, Pablo Torre is out for it. And I don't know, maybe one day one of these places will get him a job. And who needs to get him a job? He apparently he's making a lot of money and garnering a lot of attention by working independently.
So let's see what he has next and let's see how this evolves, because there will be a massive punishment ahead For the clippers, if all of this or any of this Stands to be true. You can bet your behan. There are a lot of NBA teams who are employing accountants and capologists that you try to get from under the cap. and then you got some guy, maybe the Clippers that are handing out brown paper bags to their stars, you you can bet a lot of NBA teams would not be happy with that. A lot of NBA owners would not be happy with that.
They wouldn't be happy with Mr. Steve Ballmer. 888-710-4ISN. That's 888-710-4ISN. And speaking of happy.
You would think. If you were a successful Head coach, okay, if you are a successful analyst, if you are one of the more accomplished coaches that we've seen winning national championships, if you were all of this, and eighty eight years old, you think that you would just be sitting around being happy. I know I would. Maybe have a cigar. Maybe a drink.
whiskey or two I be counting my days trying to have the best of them, okay? But there's a guy who's 88 years old, he's he's not happy. He's still beefing. He's still fiery. His name is Lou Holtz.
You're the man who won two championships, two national championships, one with noted name, One with Arkansas? He is still Throwing darts, and I don't know. Maybe it's something going on with Ryan Day, but he got a beef. We know the college football season just got started. Ohio State went out there and they beat Texas 14-7, but even in the victory.
We got Lou Holtz back again like he did two years ago, basically saying Ohio State. Is soft, and if you go back to two years ago, he said that, and the next thing you know, Ohio State went out there and beat Notre Dame.
Okay, that was two years ago. Ryan Day was on television going, Where the hell is Lou Holtz at now? We got a young guy and an old guy going at it. A at least it's uh It's all verbal. Listen to what Lou Holtz had to say.
about the Ohio State University. This is what he told Outkick today. I don't think Ohio State's a great football team. I know the schedule is very, very good, but when you're at home, A year out gained by well over 100 yards. Um You just can't.
Look at it and say, okay, we're great. We won the game. Everybody, look, yeah, they are 1-0. And that's the objective they had going into that game. But they're not a great football team.
I would not be overwhelmed. about face in Ohio State. Oh, it's one. Game. It's one game.
I mean, we got everybody, even a guy who won two national championships, and I get it, television analyst and still sitting around doing interviews all these years later. We got an accomplished coach who's still doing this, and I don't think he's Well, I'm not going to say he doesn't believe what he's saying. I'm trying to understand what happened with with him And and and Ryan Day. Nico, why why they beefing? Why is Lou Holtz is eighty eight years old?
And he's still taking time out of his day to give him crap. I don't even understand why this started. Like, where does Lou Holtz... Where did this anger towards the Buckeyes come from?
Now, I myself am an Ohio State hater as well, so I. I don't think that he, like, you know, ever had a true rivalry with Ohio State. back when he was still coach in football. Separately, what the heck did Ohio State do to you? What did they do to you?
Well, I'm a Michigan fan, so. Oh, well, there you go. Say nothing else. Yeah. Well, you won the championship the year before, right?
You'd be happy with that. Oh, yeah, of course. I have no hard feelings towards Ohio State winning the national championship last year, especially knowing that Michigan was one of their two. Two losses. Can't forget that.
So, but you're not the guy putting the battery in Lou Holtz's back. That's not you. Correct.
Okay. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe he just bored. He's 88 years old, and I don't know too many 88-year-old guys who are sitting around doing interviews. And the things that are actually coming out of his interviews are are fire and venom.
And so I'm going to be real interested. In seeing what Ryan Day says or doesn't. He's probably somebody's gonna ask him about this at a press conference. Ryan Day is gonna stand there. He's just gonna go, I don't take stock into what he's saying right now.
Or he's going to be petty. And he's going to take about, I don't know, 90 seconds, two minutes to just go back at an 88-year-old man. Leave this one alone. Oh yeah, and who knows? It's early in the season.
Maybe, just maybe. We hear from Lew Holtz again. Later on in the season. Uh not now. Who knows?
Anyway, we got younger coaches getting into beefs, and it's still week one. Why is Dabo Sweeney? Talking crap. after losing To Brian Kelly. We saw that happen here over the weekend as well.
LSU beat Clemson on Saturday, seventeen to ten. Afterwards, Dabo Sweeney is saying that, oh, well, this both of us were pretty bad, and, you know, Brian Kelly has to feel away. I mean, heading into this matchup, back when he coached at Notre Dame, he had a 1-3 record. Versus Clemson. And so he wants to relish and appreciate this victory.
Forget all the back and forth about the real Death Valley. Is it in Baton Rouge? Is it in Clemson? Forget all of that. Brian Kelly's like, I won.
And this guy is trying to shortchange me. L listen to what Dab O'Sweeney had to say. That is a physical group. is a very smart quarterback. And that is a back.
So they're gonna be a problem. And they got some explosive dudes, and it was a hell of a game. Is a hell of a game. Down the last play. Right out of the gate.
It's like getting the final exam day one of class. They made a 65, we made a 58. Neither one of us were great. Oh. That's one way to put it.
That's one way to put it. Nico, that that was kind of my approach when I was in college though. I I looked at the entire syllabus. I deci well, not this not quite exactly. I looked at how the uh the class work was gonna add up.
and I decided what grade that I was going to get to pass just to move on. Oh, absolutely. I was the kid that always went to the professor like two weeks before the semester ended. And I was like, I know I haven't been doing good, but is there any extra credit I could do now to catch up after not doing any work for most of the semester? Wait, you had a plan laid out that I'm not going to do the work, but then you wanted to do extra work at the end?
It sounds like a bad plan to me. Yeah, I was a very big procrastinator back in my college days, so I would tend to. put it all off towards the end of the end of the year. Yeah. Well, I I did I just didn't do the work.
And I was a dummy.
Well, I wasn't a dummy. I was smart enough. Nico, did I tell you this story? I had a professor get mad at me one time? I listened.
I remember this. There's a professor who got mad at me listening over the air, and it was a joke, and he was just mad at me anyway, which is fine. I said A professor came up to me one day in class. and asked me, Hey, mister Jackson, why why didn't you complete the coursework? and I told the professor I said, listen, It's because I calculated what my grade would be already and I didn't think that I needed to do this classwork in order to get a passing grade, right?
So the professor Basically, said, Okay, now you got to do extra work. To your point, fine, okay? I wasn't going to. argue with the person that was going to give me my grade. The joke that I made on air telling this story is: what I should have said is, hey, I'm paying to go to school here.
What you need to do is understand that I write your paycheck.
Okay? And I'm just doing the work that I need to do to graduate. and I kinda said that in just over the airwaves, And Nico, I had a professor. Write me a book in response. on email.
I don't want to stir the pot once again and get this going, but I don't think what you said was wrong at all. It's a very true statement. Damn, uh oh. You're going to get the email. By the way, I didn't read past one sentence.
I saw the subject line. And it's and then you know you could read a preview of the email before you open it? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just like, hey, I didn't appreciate it. Hey, I like your show.
I'm a professor, but I didn't appreciate what you. And I just was like, I'm not opening this. You got better things to do. Hey, I'm not going to sit here and read a professor's book to me about how I. insulted professors by saying that I'm Paying your salary, which I am, you know, so.
Hey, well, Nico, next time you go back to school and you tell that to somebody, okay? I'll let you know how it goes. I'm going to put that on a t-shirt one day. I need a student to do that. Walk into class on the first day.
Put the shirt on that says I pay your salary. Give me an A. That's a good shirt, isn't it? Yeah, my cousin actually is my younger cousin goes to the University of Miami. I might give him a call tomorrow and say, Let's see how this works.
Give it a shot. Yeah. I pay your salary. Give me in A. Like, who's paying a fail?
Who's who's doing that? Who's doing that? Nobody. Anyway. Welcome to my academic studies.
Outside of that, I told you about Dabo with his little comments here about school and we know we basically both failed on the first day.
Well, Brian Kelly basically said, We whooped your ass in the second half of the game. Get out of here with your stupid scoring system. We dominated him in the second half.
So he's either a really good grader for giving himself a 58 or he's a really hard grader on us or he didn't see the second half, which that might be the case. He might not have wanted to see the second half. Ooh, okay. All right. I don't know if we gonna get any more of this this year.
They do play again next season. down in Baton Rouge, okay, so these two guys can get into their little uh They're back and forth on final exams, and that's going to be to open up the season next year. And so, don't believe anything between Dabbo and Brian Kelly is done. Dabos just being a sore loser. It's like, okay, Brian Kelly beat you, but he's you beaten him.
all these other times. You were three and one against him. He he gets another one against you. and now you want to have a fit. Just just grown ass men being cry babies.
Particularly dab old sweeney. Get get over yourself. and then we got Lou Holtz to day. eighty eight years old. I'll give him a pass.
for bein' eighty eight. He ain't got nothin' better to do than still crap on, Ryan Day. And let's see if he decides to. You know, open up his mouth in response? Or is he gonna wait?
you know, to get on television and where's Lou Holtz again? I guess we'll find out two years later. 80-year-old guy ain't got nothing better to do. It's the JR Sport Brief Show here with you, coast to coast, on the Infinity Sports Network. 888-710-4ISN is the number.
That's 888-710-4ISN. Speaking of. crazy old guys that say anything. Separately, who wants to wake up in the morning and see Jerry Jones on Good Morning America? I think the answer is nobody.
But that's where Jerry Jones was. He was on Good Morning America, giving America a scary morning.
Okay? And if you're a Dallas Cowboys fan, he's been scaring you for a while now. Jerry Jones continued in giving an explanation as to why he traded Micah Parsons. Is he just going to say something different every time? It appears so.
And then we had another guy make an appearance this morning. Roger Goodell, he was on NBC and he's talking about Taylor Swift. Who let the old guys out the building to promote the NFL? We'll get into this on the other side of the break. The JR Sport Re Show on the Infiniti Sports Network.
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Oh, you already know what that's about. Oh, that's about the Dallas Cowboys. I think there's a lot of Dallas Cowboy fans who have stopped saying things like It's goin' be our year. That you don't hear that. They just traded Michael Parsons.
And I don't think they're gonna go completely. Enter the toilet. But they're going to suffer.
Okay, the offense is still going to put up points. They got George Pickens. Things are going to be different. In Dallas. And right before we went to break, we talked about uh All people saying crazy things, at least Lou Holtz.
eighty eight years old. Still out here. taken shots, At the Ohio State. University. Nico, you said you'd had nothing to do with it, right?
Uh yes, that there was That is exactly what I said. I'm fine with whatever Lou Holtz wants to say negatively about the Buckeyes.
Okay. Oh, what we got new terrible news here. What is this? We'll get to this NBA All-Star game switching to Round Robin. What are we doing here?
Anyway, we'll get to that in a minute. There's just ridiculous things happening all over the place. Whoa.
Well we'll talk about that at the top of the hour, the NBA. Gonna switch things up again for the All-Star game. We'll get to that. But just a finish shot. when an old guy's saying wild things.
Of course, Jerry Jones, Just says wild things all the time. We know he starts a new season to morrow, Dallas Cowboys in uh Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Take on the world champion Eagles with an old Micah Parsons. And so, of course. Jerry Jones is on a media tour.
Of course, one of the most powerful guys, if not the most powerful and influential owner in all of American sports. He's helping to promote the game to morrow. And so here we have Jerry Jones, on Good Morning America, Taking time to once again it very poorly, I might add. Explain and defend Why he traded Micah Parsons. To the Green Bay Packers, listen to this.
We have two kinds of capital or currency in the NFL. One of them is draft picks. The other is the financial because every team is limited to the same amount of resources to spend. And having said that, MICA enabled us to have four, possibly as many as six players for the future. That's a good trade when you need numbers.
That is some of the dumbest math I've ever heard in my life. He's thinking that we can sign additional players. With the money that we would have paid Micah, And then we also have draft capital back. And oh yeah, sure, we got Kenny Clark to play defensive tackle, but there's no guarantee that any of those players will be good. There's no guarantee that any of those guys will make an impact.
You had an impact player in a Hall of Famer, and you just went out there and dumped him for. Who knows what? Kenny Clark and guys that might get drafted in the 25th spot. This is. It's just sad.
This is that if you gotta go out and explain yourself, Every single day And you have to come up with different reasoning every single time. You just come across as. It's crazy. You come across like you got a screw loose. And that that's like exactly where Jerry Jones is.
And so they're getting ready to do all of this tomorrow, big game. And damn it, what? before the game, Jerry Jones is gonna explain it again. And if the Eagles go out there and wax them, I still can't believe I'm talking about an NFL game tomorrow, thank you God, but if the Eagles wax them, Okay, Jerry Jones is going to say the same thing. If the Cowboys go out there and upset the Eagles to start off the season, Jerry Jones is going to say the same thing.
He's going to be a broken record. He might as well be out here saying, Trust the process. Please tell me and I know it's a different sport. How has the process worked out for the Philadelphia Seventy Sixers? It hasn't.
There needs to be a show, just like kids say the darndest things. Get those kids in front of a microphone Turn on the lights. Ask them some crazy questions and get some crazy answers. We need a We need a uh uh older guys say the dandest things, okay? Let's get Lou Holtz and Jerry Jones on their own show.
Nico, would you would you watch that show? I don't think I would, uh, find much interest in that, no. Yeah, yeah.
Somebody would watch it, maybe they would. over and over and over again. Oh what a what a whirl Anyway. Jerry Jones wasn't the only well, I can't call him old, he's older You know, sixty, it's not old, if you ask me. Uh but We had another guy, Roger Goodell.
Roger Goodell got to be in his sixties, not old. I wouldn't say. But he was doing additional promotion himself. Roger Goodell is the Commissioner of the League. And if you're going to have Jerry Jones.
On GMA, Good Morning America, what a face. You gotta have Roger Goodell on the opposite show. Roger Goodell was on the Today show. And he actually had some uh some words about Half time For this upcoming season.
Well, the Super Bowl at least. I know people thinking about that already. Listen to what Roger Goodell had to say about not just the Super Bowl halftime show. But the possibility that Taylor Swift is out there performing? Really?
We would always love to have Taylor play. She is a special, special talent, and obviously. She would be welcome at any time. Is it in the works? I can't tell you anything about that.
Is it a maybe? It's a maybe.
Okay. Okay. We'll take a maybe. It's a maybe.
At what point can we expect the decision to be announced? I'm waiting on my friend Jay-Z to be able to do that.
Okay. Okay, good. But you're t you're a swifty. I'm definitely a swifty. Of course you are.
Ah, here we are. Here we are. Let the conspiracy Theories Begin. Travis Kelsey, Taylor Swift, they get engaged. I believe wholeheartedly that this might be well, every year I guess at this point, this is a final year of his contract.
I think Mr. Kelsey is going to be calling it a quit. What type of send off would it be? For Travis Kelsey to be in yet another Super Bowl with the Kansas City Chiefs. And to have his fiancee can't he call her girlfriend no more.
Can't do that, that's disrespectful, right? His fiancee. Out there performing at the Super Bowl. Super Bowl in twenty twenty six in uh Santa Clara. Home of the forty niners.
What type of send off would that be? I know there's a lot of people who like to sit around and talk about scripts and how the NFL is scripting all of this, and the Chiefs do this. it's all in the script and wouldn't that be something they want to write? Huh. And and have we not debunked the fact that That that that this is The scripts are fake.
Like, come on. If the NFL was gonna script everything... Wouldn't wouldn't the New York Giants and maybe the LA Rams be in the Super Bowl every year? Why would we have the Kansas City Chiefs lose? Why would the NFL be be so invested into the the Chiefs over everything?
Why would the refs be getting paid off by the Chiefs? I mean, this is. This is just 2025. Terrible Internet jokes People coming up with conspiracy theories. But you know what?
Why not let let Taylor Swift perform? Switch it up a little bit. went from Kendrick Lamar Throw her out there. I know shake it off and maybe one other song. Let America watch Taylor Swift.
I don't think it's going to turn anybody off from the game. I'm very interested to see if she's going to be in the stands On Friday. When the Chiefs opened up their season, against the charges, and let's be real. I I mean I I'm not no uh Pop culture aficionado. I think I have a good idea.
on a lot of big things that are going on. But in reality I say to myself, Who else is there to perform? We had Beyonce, Rihanna did it, Kendrick Lamar did it. They had Usher the year before. We've seen The Who.
Who is out here? worthy of performing at the Super Bowl, Now hasn't done so already. I can't think of a name. Do we really need to go from Kendrick Lamar to Jay-Z? I'd love to see Jay-Z there.
In order to make a difference, those fifteen minutes of Jay-Z is Kind of a waste of time, if you ask me. I know so much of his music. It just put Taylor Swift out there. Eight eight eight seven ten four I S N. That's eight eight eight seven ten four I S N.
I I don't know. Who am I fooling? I can't think of any pop culture. I don't know. Hmm.
Nico, is uh is Dua Leaper? Popular enough to do the Super Bowl. Um, I mean, I'm sure if if her if the Dua Lipa fans were listening right now, they'd be screaming yes. I myself do not follow her enough to know. I know Sizza is pretty big, but I think she's just with Kendrick.
She was with Kendrick last year, right?
So you can't do that. Yeah, I'm stumped with ya here. There's there's no well, I don't want to say there's nobody because then I'm gonna get people cursing and yelling at me. Because at the same time, and here we go again. Yeah, I don't know.
Put jelly roll out there. People like jelly roll, right? I know Justin Bieber just released a new album a couple of months ago. You think they would oh, you know what? Yeah, I guess.
He's never performed at the Super Bowl. Not that I remember. He must have missed the mark. 'Cause Justin Bieber, I guess, at one point he was too young and too poppy, maybe. But he was one of the most popular artists on earth, too, or maybe still is.
I think all the I don't want to say drugs and stuff. He's an adult now, but uh Yeah, put Jo if you ha if you could have Usher at the Super Bowl, You can go ahead and put a Justin Bieber out there. Make it happen. Worst comes to worst, just throw Taylor Swift out there. People will pay attention.
The name of the game is money. The NFL wants to make money. Everybody wants to take eyeballs and turn them into advertising dollars. I I I think on a global scale For an NFL that is trying to go international, Just put Taylor Swift. on the damn half time show and keep it moving.
As simple as that. And if Travis Kelsey is in the locker room, you know, while she's playing and he's getting ready to go out of here and quit, Uh So be it. Yeah, we we'll see what happens. He can't figure this one out. Fast enough, I don't.
Don't know any of these damn artists. I got to think hard about this. It's the JR Sport Brief Show here with you, Coast to Coast on the Infiniti Sports Network. 888-710-4ISN. That's 888-710-4ISN.
four I S N. And we got so much more to get into. How about this? In about, I don't know, thirty minutes or so, we're going to preview the upcoming NFL season with Andrew Beaton from The Wall Street Journal. That'll be a lot of fun.
In about an hour from now, it's going to be time for a new top six list. I'm going to tell you about the top six NFL teams in 2025 and then. When we come back on the other side of the break, Roger Goodell. didn't just sit around talking about the halftime show. Roger Goodell also had some thoughts and maybe a potential response.
About an NFL expansion to eighteen games, and the Union certainly had a response to that as well. And then the NBA is still trying to figure out this dumb All-Star game. I'm going to tell you what the NBA is thinking on the other side of the break. We got a lot to do. It's the JR Sport Reshow Coast to Coast on the Infinity Sports Network.
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