Ben Gilbert

At that

Boggs stopped and turned on his heels, heading back into the committee room.

Well, we could always call off the vote while you... Rizal took two giant strides after Boggs turned around him gently and said, it's a deal, Congressman.

You'll get your franchise.

Amazing.

So it's like, how many presidents and how many congressmen and how many... The NFL requires this perfect storm of...

post-war America, technology, the growth of television, all these innovations, all this flywheel, and also the repetitive cooperation of the U.S.

government.

Totally.

And you mentioned before during the Johnny Unitas game, the greatest game ever played, that that drew 40 million people.

And that was much earlier in the TVification of America.

It wasn't really the NFL that we know.

There's all these other teams.

There's all these other markets.

So if we can sort of tailor make a game for national television as this entertainment event, it can be much, much more significant.

Not only that.

They thought they both had a championship game, but it turns out they both had a semifinal.

This ended up actually having a 79% share of American TV, whatever Nielsen measures.

So it's the share of all the TVs that are turned on at this point because it was on two networks.

Incredible.