00:00I love that caller because he was so pragmatic and thoughtful
00:03about how really shook he was by watching the Bears in his building
00:08absolutely take over, humiliate the Falcons on and off the field.
00:13And I don't think it's a signature seminal moment
00:16because I think there have been a lot of those,
00:17but I think it is indicative of the work that Matt Ryan has to do
00:22to build back faith.
00:23You know, it's not like Cubs fans don't show up at Truist,
00:28and it's not like Red Sox fans or Yankee fans or whatever,
00:32but it's not the disparity.
00:35I know we're in a transplant town.
00:36The Bears come to town every six years.
00:39If you're from Chicago, Illinois, or anywhere in that Midwest area
00:42and the Bears are in town, you're going to the game.
00:44They come every six years.
00:46That's a really big city.
00:48That's tens of thousands of people that live here from there, right?
00:52And the same thing happens with New York's here every six years.
00:56I'm talking about the Jets, Patriots here every six years, Ravens here every six.
01:00So, you know, we're transplants.
01:02We didn't get from $1.5 million to $7.5 million since I've been here
01:06because, you know, all these natives, all these locals keep having,
01:12I don't know, multiple babies or something.
01:14Like, we owned radio stations in St. Louis.
01:17Nobody moves to St. Louis because they're fairly miserable people,
01:21I can tell you, having run a business there.
01:22They don't want outsiders, they're completely provincial, they're closed-minded,
01:27dare I say, they're not very open-minded in diversity or anything else,
01:32and that city's population has gone down for 50 straight years, okay?
01:36So, I promise you in St. Louis, they're not getting that many Bears fans.
01:42Okay, we're a completely different thriving economy and a thriving city,
01:46and it's a different deal.
01:47So, it sucks, but you've got to win more games, like Sandra says.
01:52It's not that complicated.
01:53It's winning will make a difference because you want to be in the building
01:56as a Falcon fan.
01:57I love that all the Chicago people live here.
02:00Why wouldn't they?
02:00It's a wonderful place to be.
02:02But they're not going to dominate inside of our stadium if the Falcons are winning.
02:07Yeah, we went to the NFC Championship game.
02:10Aaron Rodgers was playing for a team, I think, called Green Bay,
02:12and it was 90% Falcon fans, 95% Falcon fans.
02:17And we won and went to the Super Bowl, and we closed the Georgia Dome.
02:21Why?
02:21We had the MVP at quarterback.
02:23His name was Matt Ryan.
02:25We had Julio Jones.
02:27We had Devontae Freeman.
02:30We had, what's his name, our pass rusher that should have won the Super Bowl.
02:34Oh, gosh.
02:35Played everywhere, Bo.
02:38So, the veteran, we tried to re-sign him the next year, pass rusher.
02:43No, but Grady was a big part of it with his sacks, three sacks in the Super Bowl.
02:46You're not thinking of John Abraham.
02:47I'll give it to us a note.
02:48John Abraham was on that team.
02:49John Abraham was on another team.
02:51He was on the Mike Smith teams.
02:53So, anyway, that's part of what we're talking about.
02:55We were going to talk about college football, right?
02:57You got full phone lines.
02:58Take the calls.
02:59You sure?
03:00I don't want to see us in a bad place.
03:02No, no, no.
03:02We're not going to be a Joe Buck and Troy.
03:04We're going to be just fine.
03:05All right.
03:05We will get together.
03:07Let's get DK and Stone Mountain.
03:09You're on Sports Radio 92.9 The Game.
03:11Go ahead.
03:12Hey, good morning, State.
03:13Good morning, Sandy.
03:14I hope you're all feeling great today.
03:15The pass rusher you were thinking about was Dwight Freedon, by the way.
03:19I knew you.
03:21You should host a show.
03:22You should host a radio show.
03:23I'm feeling for me.
03:25Man, it sucks to see so many opposing fans in our stadium.
03:30Even on TV, when they cut on the broadcast at 1 o'clock, you see all the empty seats.
03:34And it's very disappointing.
03:35But honestly, I think our problem, different cities, is different problems in different cities.
03:40But Atlanta, I think it's directly tied to not having a legit franchise quarterback.
03:46When we had Michael Vick in the building, packed out the Georgia Dome every weekend, like you said, 90%
03:52Falcons fans.
03:53Even Matt Ryan.
03:54Matt Ryan, we packed out the Georgia Dome.
03:56I was at both of those Seattle Seahawks games and the Packers game when we closed out the Georgia Dome.
04:01And like you said, 95% Falcons fans.
04:03And think about this, Snake and Sandy.
04:05Let me ask you this.
04:06If you take, let's say, if you take Josh Allen and drop him in the Atlanta Falcons quarterback room,
04:13don't you think Falcons fans would pack out that stadium every Sunday to watch that guy play quarterback as explosive
04:19and as exciting he is?
04:20Yes, because we'd be in the playoffs multiple years.
04:24We would be in the playoffs.
04:28But tied into getting into the playoffs.
04:31Because most of these playoff teams, you're not going to get in the playoffs if you don't have a legit
04:34quarterback.
04:34Our last five quarterbacks, in no particular order, were Desmond Ritter, Kirk Cousins, Marcus Mariota, Michael Panics, Cooper Rush started
04:47this year.
04:48I mean, like, that's not – and by the way, have you watched what the heck Kirk Cousins is doing
04:53in Vegas?
04:54Have you watched him play at all, DK?
04:55We're in the NFL in passing.
04:56And you know what?
04:57He's healthy now.
04:58He's healthy now and he looks good.
05:00That's exactly right.
05:01And he's with an offensive coordinator who is a badass, who knows his strengths, and he plays with them.
05:07But to your point, I almost want to bring up Bijan because let me tell you something.
05:12When the executives of the NFL are sitting around picking games and the Falcons and Bijan and Stake had talked
05:17about it, he is must-see TV.
05:20And now he's not being used right.
05:23I don't think he's touching the ball enough.
05:25That's another subject for another day.
05:27But he is that dynamic guy.
05:29But still, quarterback rules.
05:30Good call.
05:31Yeah, great.
05:31I agree.
05:32I agree with everything you said.
05:33Sean and Molina, you're on Sports Radio 92.
05:36Hey, good morning, Stake and Sandra.
05:39Love the show, man.
05:40But listen, you guys are going back all the way to the days of the big 7-9-0.
05:44But look, here's talking about the Falcons and being a dad, a father of five children, two of us who
05:49still live at home.
05:50When I pull up any ticket platform and go to buy tickets to these games, Stake, I can't afford it.
05:56I mean, I got an 11-year-old son who thinks he's a spokesperson for local boy outfitters and trying
06:02to feed, you know, trying to dress him and get him to the football.
06:05I mean, $200 and $300 a ticket.
06:07Stake, a family plus $1,000 to get in.
06:10You're 100%.
06:10Well said.
06:12You're 100%.
06:12I don't know why it costs so much.
06:15And, you know, and one other thing, I'll let you guys talk, but I want to speak on college football
06:19officiating.
06:20And across the board, yes, I'm an Alabama fan, roll tide.
06:24But I'm going to tell you, Florida State, that holding call against Florida State was a bogus BS.
06:29Yes, the non-calls in the BYU game, the second left on the clock, officiating in general across college football
06:36state, when are they going to be accountable?
06:39You know, Drew talks about this all the time.
06:41You have everybody else accountable, but how often are the referees accountable?
06:45Virtually zero.
06:46You know when they're accountable?
06:47When they say F you to a player.
06:49That's the most accountable we've seen referees, right?
06:51Yeah.
06:52What was that, two weeks ago in the Arizona game when a referee told them to F off?
06:56As for the cost, you couldn't be more accurate.
06:59Mike Bell laid it out.
07:00Do you know how expensive parking is down there now?
07:03We're not a public transportation town.
07:06Do you understand in most of those cities, you hop on a train?
07:11When I went to the U.S. Open or when you go to the Met or on a, like, you're
07:15on a train for $3 to get to where you're trying to go, right?
07:21The sports in Boston, you're on the MBTA.
07:24Now, Fox Broad's different, but in general, you would never in a million years drive.
07:30Like, people paying $80 to park, $50 to park, hundreds of dollars.
07:35Do you know how expensive it is to go out to eat, to pay for your kid's sports?
07:40You want to pay for your kid to play in that?
07:42What is it?
07:44$325 for travel ball this year.
07:46$500.
07:47$800.
07:48I'm just talking about the initial fee before travel.
07:51The transplant, though, part of it also ties in.
07:55When you talk about the transplant factor and the college football footprint that is the southeast.
07:59So, if you're taking your Saturday and going to an Auburn, a Tallahassee, a pickofschool.com,
08:05and those tickets and the stay overnight steak, you know, to a two-night hotel room,
08:09and then Sundays come up, and you're sacrificing a ticket, you're sacrificing the Falcons ticket.
08:15It was 72 and sunny.
08:18You're right.
08:18Your team is two and three.
08:20You're right.
08:20You're going to jump online.
08:22You're going to spend $600 just to get in the building, right?
08:27And you're going to watch you down 31-7.
08:30You're leaving, okay?
08:32Because you're like, I'm annoyed.
08:33I'm leaving.
08:34It's 3-15.
08:34I'm going to get home and salvage the rest of my day.
08:38How does that build a fan base?
08:40Yeah.
08:40The Braves, you go to a Braves game, you got the battery, you got a winning team,
08:46you finished 25 games over 500.
08:48Again, you won a World Series three years ago.
08:51The tickets are $25.
08:53Sophie goes every time she's here for a get-in price of $10 and bounces around to the bars.
09:00I'm so proud of her.
09:02And, like, it's night and day.
09:05Girl, Dad.
09:05It's night and day.
09:06I totally agree.
09:08Everything all y'all are saying are right.
09:10And, again, if the Falcons just started winning, we would be like, well, we're going to shift
09:15them up.
09:15And even then, it's expensive, but you're right.
09:16I know, but I'm going to tie it back to good for the Falcons and they're worth a billion
09:20dollars.
09:21That's annoying me.
09:22$10 billion.
09:22Good for you.
09:23They're worth $10 billion.
09:23Good for you.
09:24You're selling $2 hot dogs.
09:25Good for you.
09:26I know.
09:26No, it's just this dichotomy.
09:28I get it.
09:29Yeah, I know.
09:29It's this dichotomy of this incredibly successful franchise from a business perspective that, what does that
09:36mean?
09:36Matt Ryan, he's going to talk about the game.
09:40He's going to say there was a game.
09:42Just like Arthur Blank.
09:43Remember what he said when he took over the team?
09:45What do you want us to do?
09:47What do you want us to do?
09:48Warwick Dunn said to him, please get people to show up.
09:51In the building.
09:52Please.
09:53And he put $10 seats at the top, top level.
09:56Remember that?
09:57$10 seats in the Georgia Dome to watch the Falcons.
10:00Let's start to fill up the building.
10:01I think Matt Ryan and they're all going to say, what do we do in the next three to five
10:06years to make sure the Chicago Bears game of mid-October, 2026 doesn't happen again?
10:14We're going to say it again.
10:14We're going to say this to invite players who lost our contract.
10:14Let's wait until the door穿 down.
10:14No.
