Tommy Vietor

We have a bus in the style of John Madden, a big orange bus.

We're driving it across country.

Can't tell if this is the greatest idea we've ever had or the worst.

We'll find out.

Starting in L.A., we're going up to Seattle.

Coming back to L.A., we're doing...

And then going across the country through Texas to Atlanta, we're going to be doing college game days before the biggest game, starting with the United States.

We're going to be on Santa Monica Pier on that first US game on the 12th with Rob Mack.

And then we're going up to Seattle where we've got...

John Green, the greatest novelist, I think everyone would agree.

Old Skittles, your man, the greatest seahawk of all time.

He's going to be joining us more and then back to LA and then we're going across.

And I will say, as we go across...

um this is a wild time tommy um many sports fans in america will be turned on to football for the first time um america loves a circus they love an excuse to daytime drink they love you know mass desire to cut work which is approved for 39 days um

But I will say, seeing these fans, and there will be thousands of fans coming in.

There have been travel bans.

There are some teams who have no fans able to get visas because of the modern reality they've been caught up in.

um in that issue so like haiti iran senegal ivory coast but there are thousands and thousands of fans coming and this moment for 39 days for the world to shine a spotlight on not just la san francisco seattle but you know cities like houston which are you know about to be um beloved and when the world finds lemon pepper wet

in Atlanta when there's 20,000 Argentinians running around Kansas City tasting Arthur Bryant's slaps and going, oh my God, we've been doing barbecue all wrong all this time.

That to me is a hope how America can be a winner for 39 days, showing a face of ourselves, which is meaningful and warm and welcoming and filled with a kind of joy I once saw from afar from Liverpool.