David Rosenthal

I mean, to me, that's one of the huge lessons from IPL is the more culturally relevant you can make your sport and your league, the better it's going to be for...

everything, including and especially meteorites.

Yeah, I mean, that feels like one of the last, if not the last remaining big needle moving piece for the NFL.

You know, if you look at the NBA, if you look at MLB, if you look at Formula One, if you look at IPL, the fact that so many of the stars came from other countries and bring that fan base along with them is huge.

And that has never happened in the NFL.

And the Pro Bowl has been flag football for the last several years, right?

Yep.

Well, speaking of lower levels of football...

We made a big deal early in the episode about the origins of American football and being intertwined with this elite rite of passage American collegiate experience.

The NCAA is an absolute mess right now.

Seriously.

The reality is right now, I think it's all still too messy and in flux to definitively say what the impact of all this will be on the NFL.

But to me, it's just sort of like the final formal nail in the coffin that football in America is the NFL these days in a way that when the NFL was starting, football in America was the collegiate experience.

That's interesting.

So it's now like come full circle and fully flipped that like the legitimate football league,

is the NFL and the Wild West illegitimate who knows what's going on is the NCAA.

Yeah, our teams can be more analytically confident in the draft choices that they're making as a result of this.

That said, it's all still too chaotic right now to tell.

Yeah, it's funny.

We spent the whole original episode and now this whole update section talking about all the business drivers of the NFL and all the trends and all the things that are going on that theoretically should increase the value of the league and its teams.