It is! The JR Sport Brief Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you to everybody tuned in and locked in all over North America. I hope you're safe. I hope you're well. I hope you're great.
I just hope you're having a tremendous Thursday. This is where I'm going to be for the next four hours. This is when the show gets started every weekday at 6 p.m Eastern, 3 Pacific. I'm in Atlanta, Georgia. Super producer and host, Ryan Hickey.
He's in New York City. Man, what a lot. We got a lot to talk about. We're on the eve of the start of the college football playoff. Former Ohio State Buckeye. Former linebacker in the NFL.
Former champion. Bobby Carpenter is going to come through and join us in two hours. The New York Jets are making a mess of themselves. What a day they've been.
What a day it's been for them. The owner is apparently an idiot. His teenager might be possibly running the team. Owners cursing out players in a locker room. They're utilizing video games to analyze players.
It's just, it's just wild in Florham Park, New Jersey. Got an update on the Kansas City Chiefs. Not only is Patrick Mahomes apparently going to play, it looks like they're going to get Hollywood Brown back.
Man hasn't played a snap this season. Russell Wilson says he wants to stay in Pittsburgh. Hopefully win some Super Bowls. It's Thursday. We got a Thursday night football game between the Broncos and the Chargers. That'll be fun on Amazon.
If I can actually watch it, trying to tune into Amazon sometimes in the office is rather difficult. NFL is saying we're going to switch up the Pro Bowl a little bit. NBA says our All-Star game sucks.
We're going to switch it up. Sammy Sosa says sorry to the Cubs, their fans, the ownership. It's just a lot. And even this is a wild story. We'll get into this later.
Dennis Rodman is apologizing to his daughter. It's just, it's that time of year folks. People's emotions get the best of them. All the dirt comes out. Families are ripped apart.
Families come together. It's that time of year. It's the holidays. I don't know what the hell I say after that. Hickey, do I say bah humbug or that's bad?
Don't do that, right? No, let's just say that we as a team slash radio family are not getting pulled apart during this holiday season. Yeah, we're not. You didn't curse at me today. I didn't curse at you. Yeah, long-winded guy show just started.
I need two minutes in. You're right. You're right. But nobody said to somebody, you suck.
Nobody had to write an apology. This is what happens with the New York Jets though, right? Unbelievable.
You know what the good news is? We, I guess, could run a team if we wanted to. It's not that different.
Not that hard. Why? Because I can play. I can't play Madden, so I guess I can't, right? Well, I guess, yeah, your qualifications now are out if Woody Johnson ever sells. I cannot run the Jets because I do not know how to play Madden. Oh, my God.
What is that? Who says that? Is that a joke? No, I just I'm that's what I'm sure what Johnson thinks. We don't know Madden ratings. You can't play Madden.
You don't know ball. That's I mean, how about this? And by the way, everybody out there, you can always tune in on the free Odyssey app, your local affiliate Sirius XM 158 and a smart speaker.
Ask it to play the Infinity Sports Network. If you want to call up, you can eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. If you're unfamiliar with the New York Jets and the tragedy that they are, we're going to dive a little bit deeper right now. Hickey, as I as I look at the Internet, someone tweeted me. I don't even know what the hell this guy's talking about, but he's obviously amused, amused. His name is Joe Judge's Burner account. He says, J.R., I'm still laughing from your rant the other night and the Jets are still at it. Do you remember? Did I say something this week about the Jets? We talked about them.
We talked this week about Aaron Rodgers. Oh, the ayahuasca. Yeah. Maybe that's what it was.
Oh, Hickey, wait until I watched the first two episodes. You did. I did. Yeah. Yeah.
It's everything I ever thought about the man. We'll talk about it. It's kind of crazy when the New York Jets biggest story of today really doesn't involve Aaron Rodgers and his documentary. I know he's happy about that.
It's kind of been pushed to the back burner earlier this morning. Diana Rossini in The New York Times, The Athletic, they published an article, a piece about the New York Jets and their culture within the building. We know on the football field, the New York Jets are a joke. The New York Jets are pathetic.
The New York Jets are just they're sad sack. They got rid of their coach. They got rid of their GM. They demoted the offensive coordinator. The the the owner admitted and this is this is the crazy part. There were a lot of things in the article that we're getting ready to go through that the New York Jets or their spokesperson decided to admit were were correct.
It was confirmed that earlier this season in a meeting that Woody Johnson, the owner of the New York Jets, basically said, hey, how about we bench Aaron Rodgers? The spokesperson said that that was said in jest. OK, sure, fine. Just say let's see. I'll say it and see what everybody's reaction is.
OK, fine. Man, we got a story. That Mike White, who used to play for the New York Jets, he played in a game with broken ribs. The New York Jets lost the game. They were eliminated officially from the postseason and that the owner, Woody Johnson, went into the locker room after he threw his helmet. Mike White, broken ribs, still played, threw his helmet on the ground, went and took a shower. And Woody Johnson allegedly said, excuse me, not allegedly, he did say it because it was confirmed you should throw your helmet because you bleep and suck. It was confirmed that he apologized to Mike White.
Oh, yeah, by the way, that doesn't get into what Hickey and I just mentioned. There are reports that his son, his teenage son, has input in roster decisions, that his son is, you know, telling him things like, maybe we shouldn't bring Jerry Judy to the team, even though Joe Douglas had a trade for him because his Madden, his video game rating as a player wasn't high enough. That websites, that blogs didn't have the correct, you know, analysis of a player.
They didn't think highly of him, so they didn't do the deal. So people on the Internet and people who evaluate video games have a better idea about the talent that the New York Jets should acquire because, you know, a 17-year-old researched it and told his dad, hey, this is what I saw on the Internet, Dad, you should believe this. Don't believe him.
This is pathetic. You know what? And we'll get to Aaron Rodgers later on in the show. This is what he deserves. For all the jokes about Aaron Rodgers, he runs the team. He doesn't. This guy's in the Twilight Zone. He's in the best place for him.
He really is. This is kind of crazy. Earlier today, Diana Rossini, she was on the Dan LeBertard show and she talked about some of these interesting examples that illustrate how inept the New York Jets are. The story about Mike White really bothered me. So if you recall, Mike White was a bit of a New York hero there when he took over as the starter and tried to get the Jets in the playoffs.
He ultimately wasn't able to do it. And he's playing with broken ribs. I know we talked about toughness a few minutes ago and he was out there just battling through all of this. And the story goes, he came in the locker room and he went into the shower. And right before he went to locker room, you know, he's throwing his helmet because he's upset, obviously. And and Woody Johnson yells out into the locker room in front of his teammates. Yeah, you should throw your helmet. You suck. The Jets told me through a spokesperson that they later apologized.
But that just tells you about the treatment of players. Yeah. Oh, my God.
How you tell the guys out there playing with broken ribs and you tell him he sucks. Oh, my God. And the New York Jets admit this through the spokesperson that he said it. Oh, but he apologized.
That makes it oh so much better. Oh, my God. Hickey, that's like if I was here for a week and everybody knew I had laryngitis and every day I lost my voice more and more and more. And then I finally said, all right, guys, I got to take Friday off.
And then Ryan and Dave look at me and they go, hey, J.R., you know what? You suck. Could you imagine? No, but I'm just laughing at that thought, like that's unbelievable.
Yeah, you suck. Can Mike White, can Mike White, can he call H.R.? He can't, right? He couldn't he couldn't call the H.R. Well, he could call H.R. He could try to file a complaint. I don't know if that complaint will go through or he'll like the outcome, but he technically could try.
He's like, hey, I got broken ribs and I went to work broken ribs and my owner said that I suck. Oh, I don't I don't want to put this guy in like Daniel Snyder territory. Daniel Snyder probably living on a yacht somewhere right now.
Now, he hasn't reached Daniel Snyder Heights yet. This man was suing old people for not affording their tickets. He was treating cheerleaders like they were pieces of meat.
And he was a disgusting, you know, fill in the blank. I don't know if Woody Johnson has reached those levels yet, but an owner in the locker room telling him a player that he sucks. Man, it was also reported that, man, even a few weeks ago, the New York Jets had one victory, one of their four victories, and that they wanted to give the game ball to Jeff Ulbrich, who is the interim head coach, and that before Aaron Rodgers could give him the ball that the teenage son interrupted in the locker room.
They said the teenage son is in the locker room with his friends, both male and female. Hickey, do you understand why now I like the Jets, but I enjoy when they fail because this is they deserve it. They do. And I feel bad for you. I feel bad for Jets fans everywhere because you are held prisoner by a buffoon, essentially.
And until he's gone, until the day he actually sells, kind of like the commanders, there's no reason, no matter who they hire, GM, head coach, bring in a quarterback. That's just examples right there. There's no reason to believe anything will actually get fixed. Like, I feel bad. I really do. Oh, you should. Not for me, though. It's comedy to me. It's like clown show.
The fish rots from the head. And maybe, just maybe, possibly, unlikely, but maybe, maybe with all of these stories that came out today, maybe things will change with the New York Jets. I doubt it. Things are going to get worse before they get better. You have no idea of Aaron Rodgers status as a quarterback, whether he wants to stay or come back. They have no coach.
They have no GM. You're going to have players who are looking at these stories and go, why the hell do I want to play for the Jets? It's already that.
It's already that way. New York Jets haven't been to the postseason in 14 years. This is the longest streak in North American professional sports right now, this minute.
Fourteen years. The New York Jets are going to have a generation of fans who grow up, I guess. They ain't going to know what the playoffs are. You know, if you're, if you're in high school and you're a Jets fan, you, you never seen them in the playoffs. You don't remember if you're a middle schooler, you know, why the hell are you rooting for the Jets?
Because somebody in your family passed it on. That's how I got suckered in because I've seen them go to a couple of AFC championships. Damn it. The New York Jets. They ain't been to a Superbowl since 68, 69. Come on now. It is 2024. The Jets trying to be the next lions.
No disrespect. The lines are good now. Damn.
This is miserable. And then I told you about talent. Forget trying to bring in free agents. How in the hell do you even keep the guys that you have right now? Garrett Wilson, a product of the Ohio State University.
We'll talk about them later on. Shout outs to Bobby Carpenter. Garrett Wilson is one of the best wide outs in the league. He had one of the best catches of the year.
One handed lean behind you. This, he has 933 yards receiving good for 12th in the league. He has six touchdowns. He's eighth in receptions with 84.
He's one of the best. This man was drafted in 2022. The New York Jets can hold on to him, you know, all these contract options and what have you until 2026. But he's due for a contract extension. You know, after three seasons, the man is going to want to get paid. Wide receivers are getting 30 and 35 million dollars a year. He ain't going to necessarily be the highest paid, but he wants that bump.
And so while the New York Jets are being a circus act, while they're being in the papers, while they're being just ripped to shreds because they're teenagers, the son, the owner's son is given advice using video games. Garrett Wilson was in the locker room today. And he was asked, because there's so many rumors now, does he want to stay? Will he want to trade off of this disaster? Garrett Wilson, he just wants to know, or they want to ask him, do you even want to be here?
Do you want a contract extension? Uh, I don't know, man. I just figured, I just do whatever, you know, whatever, go about my day. However, uh, keep my feet out, you know, and if they do, that would be a blessing. That'd be awesome.
I love the Jets. Um, you know, at the end of the day, they were the ones that believed in me. So yeah, you know, but, um, but yeah, I can't be worrying about all that.
Just go and finish these three games the right way. But I don't know, man, I can't be looking into all that right now, you know? Well, that doesn't, that don't sound all that enthusiastic. There's no reason for optimism.
If I'm listening to that, he's like, uh, yeah, yo, uh, yeah. I love the jets, but I am not worried about that right now. Let me tell you something. I say this all the time. When it comes to professional athletes, most times they want to get paid first.
Give me me my money. I think at this stage of his career, his young career, I don't think Garrett Wilson cares if the New York jets are giving him a check while the Rams are giving him a check while the saints are giving him a check. He wants that first big payday and he could figure out a championship blade. Of course everybody wants to win, but if you didn't know the New York jets were a disaster, you could have asked Bill Belichick, the man who 24, 25 years ago was supposed to follow in the footsteps of Bill Parcells and Bill Belichick said, no, thanks. I'm not working for this guy. Who the hell is this guy?
I'm not working for this guy. It's like Bill Belichick made the right damn decision. The New York jets have been pathetic and Jerry Judy, the guy who was crap for the Broncos and now he's having a career year for the Browns of all teams.
I guess they got no choice when you're behind it. All you got to do is throw the ball. Jerry Judy is fifth in receiving yards, 1052. This man has had a resurgence. He's basically been a bust since coming out of Alabama.
He's still only 25 years old. Joe Douglas before he was fired reportedly had a deal to acquire Jerry Judy from the Browns just to give Aaron Rogers another weapon to work with. Obviously, this is prior to the acquisition of Devontae Adams, who's probably also like, I can't wait to get the hell up on out of here.
Wild stuff. When you hear rumors or not rumors and you get reports that the owner said, nah, don't bring them here. Well, why? Well, this is rating on Madden said he's not good. Jerry Judy was joking about this on social media today. He blamed Chad Ocho Cinco Johnson, who by the way is a Madden player adjuster. This is where we're at.
And this is what the New York jets have to answer to. And Jerry Judy, even today in the locker room, minded his own business. Do you think that this really happened, Jerry? What do you think? To be honest, I don't believe that. I think that's a fake news for real. Why would somebody look at Madden rating? Be real. I don't think that's real, but you know, it's funny. Wow.
Why would somebody look at a Madden rating? Look, could this be false? Yeah, it could be. Of course. Could somebody be trying to smear the jets?
Yes, of course. But there was a, there was a line in there ultimately that Joe Douglas, before he was canned as the general manager of the New York jets, he says, I am having to answer to a teenager. What do you say after that? You know, I haven't been to a jets game in a few years, but if you go into the parking lot, the fans, when they tailgate, they serve a thing called jet fuel. I don't know what's in it.
I had a sip of it. I'm glad I only had a sip, but jet fuel will put you on your ass. Apparently Woody Johnson has been in the parking lot and he's been having a lot of this jet fuel because he needs to back up and get the hell up on out the way. The New York jets are cooked. When you have a teenager providing influence or even allowed that close to, why is he allowed in the locker room?
Why can't he help deliver a post game? What, like, what world do we live in it? You're the owner, hire some people to do their jobs and get the hell up on out the way. Especially if you're a dumb ass. There's all these owners think they're the, you know what, they got a lot of money. They can run around and do what they want.
What do you do? Well, y'all are stupid. He's stupid. Jerry Jones is kind of out there. I just, sometimes you gotta be smart enough to move. Unfortunately for Woody Johnson and Q-tip family and bandaid Johnson and Johnson, this, this is just another rich guy with a lot of money.
It was apparently he got a big old ego and it's pretty stupid to how the world works. I don't think the jets will invite me back to any games, but there you have it. And you know what? Good. I hope Aaron Rogers leaves. I hope Garrett Wilson leaves. I hope Devante Adams leaves. I hope they rip everything to shreds. I hope everybody wants to leave.
And then I hope he says, I'm going to sell the team. If jet fans should be so lucky. What a trash place that is. Pitiful. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.
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I'll tell you who it is on the other side. We got so much to get into college football, playoff Thursday night football. I'm just getting warmed up. It's the JR sport ratio coast to coast. The infinity sports network. You are listening to the JR sport brief. It is the JR sport ratio here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.
That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Hickey. I told you the gentleman Joe judges burner account. He found humor in some of the jets commentary from earlier this week. He said he was specifically referring to when I said to the New York jets, stop announcing all the damn general manager interviews and just, you know, just, just interview people in one day, hire somebody, you know? Oh yeah. You didn't like the announcement. That's right.
If we interviewed this candidate and that candidate that's right. It's dumb. I get it. Sports is different.
That is different. Could you imagine if you went for a job interview somewhere Hickey, and then you did the interview and then when you were walking out, they had like a video up, you know, lobbies have videos and screens now. And then there's just a board with your face on it. Hey, we just interviewed Ryan Hickey. Like w what are we doing here for what?
What if you don't get the job? Like what do you, what makes no sense, man? Imagine they did that for dating, dating Jr. Just went on a date with Melissa.
Where would they put it at? Oh, like on social media, social media, you put on Instagram. I just went out with Melissa. Oh my God. You know, does that, does the, I don't know.
Second date pending. Does that exist on like tender or something like that? Great question.
If you match with someone, well, I've never done this stuff, I've never done this stuff, but if you match with somebody on tender, like is, I get it. It's social media. I would assume you just don't, Hey, you click and now you'll message each other. I would assume that you can provide like updates, right?
No. Do you just go from dating and now you put a, maybe I'm going too far. Like one day, maybe you get married. Do you just put that on your tender? I'm now married. I'm off the market.
Like how does it start? I think you just delete the app at that point. Well, for the ones that want to stay loyal, I think you delete the app and say, okay, I'm good.
I don't need this anymore. Wouldn't that be, yeah, that is hilarious. They just, you finish a date with somebody on tender and you just post it. Imagine that stats to like your swipe in like left to right and goes like, Jenny, 14 first dates, only one second date. Oh, okay.
You know what I mean? I'm going to skip past this one here. Why don't they game a father app? Why don't they do that? I think they should. Let's get some stats here.
Let's get numbers. That seems genius. I mean, they always make jokes about like a car fax with people, right? You heard that joke before, right?
No, I'm not. We should have car fax with people? I like the idea. For like dating? I like, I think this is, I think this should be the app that maybe you, this could be the billion dollar idea. Okay. Hickey, I'm gonna write this one down.
This, I mean, this actually has no disrespect. I liked canned air and box there. I think it has potential on market. We can do that on the side, right?
This may be though the main generator. Okay. Then we, then we come up with like an interesting calendar as well. A couple of days ago, some, some type of calendar or something.
I don't count. What are you talking to somebody else about? Like something like calendar with all the good ideas I talked to you about on the air. I don't remember calendar.
Like you're talking like a calendar with pictures. I don't know. Maybe it's okay. I'll delete that off my notes. Okay.
Delete. We need a good app name. I don't know, have, I don't have that yet, but I think the stats is really something that we could really, you know, that probably exists, probably exists somewhere, right? We have to just do like advanced analytics. Like it's baseball number of drinks before it's Well, excuse me. They're saying like, just include stats. Like these are the stats.
People want to know number of drinks. Oh my God. I'm just saying, you know, we don't want that type of app.
We don't want no legal issues. No, no, no. I'm just, I just think people should maybe know what they're going in for before, you know, they're like unblind, the blind date.
I liked the first part of what you said. You know, Susie has been on, you know, 51st. That's a lot. If Susie, if Susie has been on 50 dates, do you really want to be 51 or you, you just going, ah, no thanks. You don't even need to look at the second date, right? Yeah. You don't even need to.
But if it's like this person has been on 13 dates and they've only been on three, you know, second dates, I don't know. That's useful information. I should, I should download this app with a fake, what do you call it? When you're anonymous, what do you call that? A fake profile. I'm going to create a fake profile. No, but then I'm a catfish, right?
That's okay. That's what you're looking for. No, I want to research. Like I want to go, what, what do you do when you sign up and then what happens?
Like, do you just swipe in and talk to the person or are there legitimate, legitimate details where you could get data and find out? That's what I want to know. Because then Hickey, once you get the data, then we could sell it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Money making money. Yeah. And everybody wants to, you know, you know what?
So, I mean, everybody wants to give up the information to us to do it. Yeah. I like this. I love this. Yeah. I think there's actually a real potential here. We got to research it.
Have you ever been on one of these dating things? Not since college. And that was like seven years ago.
So I think they've really, really, really updated since that. And what we do is, I'm trying to think of all types of things. We could put, we do like, what is that?
One, two, three, and me. We could do that in there too. I don't know. See, now we get like the 2%, you know, whatever, European, 59%, South American, like we get the exact lineage. Yeah.
I like it. I guess the more info, the better. Knowledge is power. And once we get social security numbers, then we're good. I totally agree.
Credit score as well. Put it in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Got enough to shut it up for.
It was sold to the banks and the insurance company. Oh yeah. Johnny's got a score of 300. Okay. Well, don't give him a loan. See you later. Stay away from Johnny.
He's bad with his money. Oh yeah. This is good stuff. And we'll take advantage.
Hey, speaking of money, this is awful. And you know, God blessed the guy who called last night. And if you want to call, you can 855-212-4227. Hey, if you got a, if you use Tinder, call us 855-212-4227. And I need to know how Tinder works. Please call up. I know you use Tinder.
Call me 855-212-4227. But look, a guy called last night from Alabama. I think it was Jake. Hickey, was it JK? His name was, I think. Rick? I think it was maybe Rick from Alabama. No disrespect to everybody in Alabama. Y'all are close to me.
I don't need no problems. He basically said Alabama looks pathetic. He said that Alabama is out here asking for NIL money. Alabama, which if you're asking me, it's nice to see some new blood and a championship.
I know they expanded it. They didn't get in. Alabama went nine and three.
This was Kalen DeBoer's first year. They lost to Oklahoma at the end, pretty much put a stake in their hopes of making the playoff. Now they're losing guys to the transfer portal. One of their best defensive linemen is going to go play for Dion at Colorado. This is, this is bad. This is not what you get at Alabama. But this is also the reason why Nick Saban said, I'm getting a hell of one out of here. And now we've gone a step further because their athletic director, Greg Byrne, went on social media and he basically implored the fans at Alabama to give money, to donate money to their NIL fund so they could start being competitive with other teams.
This is what he wrote on X. He said, although we have been competitive from an NIL standpoint, our competition has us in their sights and they are actively trying to surge ahead with name, image and likeness. You've heard examples of other teams using promises of million dollar paydays to lure away our players or convince them not to come to Alabama. It's time for the Bama Nation to fight back.
Well, you fight back. Man, this dude probably making more money than 90%, 95%, 99% of the people who he's asking for money. Just tell the donors to do it. Why you got to ask the Alabama fans? They're already contributing enough money. They're buying tickets. They're buying merchandise. I mean, dammit, even here in Georgia, a lot of bulldog stuff.
But every now and then I go, okay, there's an Alabama fan. Go back. You know, there's people spending their money already.
Why are you asking for more? This is sad. Welcome to the new world. Alabama, welcome to reality. Y'all aren't just going to run around and trounce on everybody. Dumb elephants.
Y'all not going to elephants stomp everybody for the next bunch of years. Good. I'm here for some parody. And you want some money? Ask somebody with money to come and put the money in. Asking the people for the money.
Pathetic. This was a report on CBS 42 out in Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Birmingham. And the fans are just like, the hell you asking me for money for? University of Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne is asking fans to fight back against NIL initiatives targeting Crimson Tide players. He's calling on them to subscribe to the app, Yay Alabama. It's a way to support student athletes, but this comes with a mix of opinions from fans.
CBS 42's Sidney Spencer has the story. Looks that it has come to that, but I feel like it is an essential and it's a necessity now, you know, to rally up the fans. Have millions of dollars that they could donate to these players and to ask fans for money on top of it.
I mean, it's, it's a force to me. It's all a school to put the money in. Come on, school got money. Digging the endowment, raise tuition. You do it anyway.
They created an app to donate to the NIL fund. Excuse me. Give me money.
Give me money. This is, this is like pulling out the collection plate. Come on now. This is like going to church.
And before you even walk in the door, they got the collection plate in your face. What are you doing? I'm here for Jesus. Are you asking me for money now? Come on now.
This is pathetic. Alabama could do better. I would expect this from, Hickey, what's a university that would do this first? Oh, um, hmm. I'm trying to, who, who could we take a shot at? Who would do this?
Who's like low ruckers, ruckers? Oh my God. Oh my God. In Piscataway? Oh yeah.
A little hanging fruit, I know, but. That guy from Rutgers is going to call us up now. Oh, I forgot about him. He's going to, so that's fine. He'll be okay. He can be insulted.
Good for him. Well, Rutgers got mentioned, so that's something better than nothing, right? Yeah. We had the last time we mentioned Rutgers, they probably getting their asses whooped. So yeah, good. Get, get it. Alabama do better. Come on. You think you're the New York Jets? Like what is this? Next thing you know, they're going to, well, there's no high school video game to, uh, measure five star recruits.
So I guess they can't be that bad. This is just sick. They got enough money. Stop asking people for more money. Stop. When we come back from break speaking to ask him for money, Russell Wilson looks like he's going to want some money from the Steelers. And then apparently the owner of the Phoenix Suns, he is, uh, he's adjusting some of his food prices, trying to save sun's fan some money.
It also semi-pathetic. I will explain. You're listening to the JR sport brief. It's the JR sport reshow here with you close, not close to close. I'm talking about tender.
Now I'm talking about close to coast. How about that? All encompassing show.
Yeah. And what we hear for everything and everybody coast to coast on the infinity sports network. Now, right before we went to break, besides Tinder, we talked about the university of Alabama. Their athletic director is he's asking for money. He's telling the fans, donate to our NIL fund so we could pay the student athletes.
Okay. Until the student athletes to give me some money, like stop it. What am I getting out of it?
I'd rather keep money in my pocket than I got to pay for this now. And it isn't that kind of what being a fan is to a certain degree. You buy a Jersey, you buy a ticket, you support the team. You, you watch the team. Yeah. You're helping them make money.
And now you asking me for more stop. That's why it's ironic. Matt Ishbia, who at this point it hasn't even owned the Phoenix Suns for what?
Not even two years yet, probably going on two years now. If that this man put out an announcement earlier this week, couple of days ago, it's like, if you come to a Phoenix Suns game, you do not have to worry about spending $9 for a hot dog. You don't have to worry about spending $9 for a stupid box of popcorn. You don't have to spend $9 for some Dasani water.
You don't have to spend nine. I'm looking at this and I'm like, okay, now the prices, the premiums it's, it's affordable. Now $2 a piece. You want a fountain soda, $2. You want a hot dog, $2. You want a bottle of water, $2. And I'm saying to myself, how in the hell I get it. Everybody needs to make money when you're paying a bunch of dudes who don't play 50 plus million dollars a year. And you got to get that money from somewhere.
Right. But I'm saying, in what world have we allowed a hot hickey, a hot dog cost of nine bucks. What a bottle of hickey, a bottle. I know we going to sell air, but a bottle of water for not hickey. I will both starve and be parched before I pay $18 for a hot dog and some water. I will starve. I will be emaciated. I'm with you.
I've kind of done a silent protest of my own recently. I've just, we're like, yeah, if I'm going to go to a stadium, I'm going to drink and that's it. No eating. Cause the food kind of stinks. It's overpriced. And it's just like, like, what's the point I can get, like you said, food a lot cheaper, not better before or after I'm with you.
I would much rather starve and emaciate myself than pay what the prices now are. How did, how, how did we get here? Hickey, a hot dog. I'm looking at the prices. I was just, I think I've seen this enough over the past few days. I'm like, okay. A hot dog was nine bucks. A 16. Is that a 16 ounces is a regular bottle of water.
Ain't it like a regular bottle of water? 16. I don't know.
I guess so. Right. Like a Poland spring bottle. That's not 12, 12, 15, something like that. Like a soda or a beer is like 12, right? Usually like in a can or a bottle. I think, yeah, water bottles probably a little bit bigger. 16 sounds about right. Bro, 8.50 for water.
I think spitting on people is disrespectful, but that somebody deserves to be spat on for that. 8.50 for Dasani water. You want a 16 ounce fountain soda, just syrup and ice. 6.50. A bag of popcorn is $7. A bag of chips, chips, chips.
Half the bag is air. It's seven bucks. And now everything, he dropped everything now down to $2.
Oh my God. Everything is now two bucks. Like this is a discount. This is like the great old, this is in good for him. Good. This is nice.
The fans deserve it. Nobody needs to be paying $9 for a hot dog. If I'm paying, what's in the hot dog? What's in there, huh? What type of meat is it?
Where'd it come from? $9? How much is a pack of, Hickey, how much is a pack of hot dogs in the, in the grocery store? How much is that? Is it nine bucks?
I was going to say five, maybe. Buy 20 hot dogs for five bucks. And I got to go to watch Kevin Durant or Bradley Beal be hurt. And I got to pay nine bucks for a hot dog.
Now they bring it down to two. It's like the hustle they say during the holidays. Be wary people. This is the holiday season. Everybody screams, Oh my God, it's a big sale. It's a big sale. And they Jack the prices up for like one week. And then they drop them back down real fast.
They go big sale, big sale, just so everybody can buy a television set. I don't know. Maybe I need to lead the charge.
Matt ish be a good, haven't the New York Mets, they have affordable options, right? Don't they? Right. I don't like that. Um, I mean, I would say it's comparable to most. There's nothing where it's, I mean, you're still paying 1350 for a chicken tender basket.
That's fine. Oh my God. You can get a Chuck E cheese. That's the same, you know, dry ass crunchy chicken with no meat. It's more, it's more fried stuff than actual meat. It's dry.
Let me say it again. Dry. Dry. No seasoning. Yeah. Like chicken tenders and French fries.
Okay. Something to soak up the beer pick. You take a bite out of that chicken center. You go, Oh, where's the chicken? It's like all of this is, is the oil that they fried it in.
Like where's the actual meat at now? I, I will say here in Atlanta, uh, hawks have affordable options. Okay.
And I also know at Mercedes Benz with the Falcons, they have affordable options and I hope this is that this shouldn't be a new wave. Stop price gouging people. Stop.
Y'all are the billionaires. Why are you charging $9 for a hot dog? People should Hickey. People should drive by these stadiums and throw a hot dogs at the arenas.
Okay. They should pull up to the team facility wherever the owner has an office and they should just, they should just, uh, you know, throw hot dogs at the, no, not Adam. That's disrespectful. That's assault.
Could you imagine getting a hot dog thrown at you? Well, you could argue to salt to charge these prices and get away with it. You're correct. You are correct.
Yeah. The fans need to protest. If you are going to a stadium and you are paying $9 for a hot dog, don't write a letter, throw a hot dog. A lot of them send hot dogs to the office and be like, you need to lower the prices.
Send a box. Disrespectful. It's the JR sport re show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. It bring these damn prices down.
This makes no sense. When we come back, we're going to talk about some Thursday night football action. We got it between the Broncos and the chargers. Give you an update on the Kansas city chiefs. Speaking of prices, it looks like Russell Wilson wants to get paid again. This time by the Steelers. We've got Bobby carpenter coming up in about an hour and change to talk about the Ohio state university.
We'll take a look at the college football playoff. We got a lot to do, but if there's one thing that ticks me off, it's paying for water and $9 for a hot dog. What $9 for water? Are you? I'm angry. I'm a calm down. It's the JR sport re show the infinity sports network. Water should be free. Damn it.
