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So in my headphones, I have, are you ready for some football? I was listening to that too. Yes. Dude, it gets you so pumped up. It totally does. I feel like I grew up on the Fox Sports theme.
It always makes me think of Thanksgiving.
It makes me think of, I think it was a Jock Jams tape that I bought, or maybe it was like a knockoff Jock Jams produced by Fox Sports. But I definitely had that theme song on a sports pump up tape.
Oh my God, Jock Jams. That needs to make a comeback.
Who got the truth? Welcome to Season 12, Episode 1 of Acquired, the podcast about great technology companies and the stories and playbooks behind them.
I'm Ben Gilbert, and I am the co-founder and managing director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.
And I'm David Rosenthal, and I am an angel investor based in San Francisco.
And we are your hosts. Today's episode is on the NFL. Football is America's favorite sport, by far. In fact, football is more than three times as popular as the next highest sport, basketball. The Super Bowl is watched by over 100 million viewers every year in approximately two-thirds of American households.
My favorite Super Bowl stat is that it's the weekend with the fewest weddings planned of the year. It is the NFL's world, and Americans are just living in it. Especially the TV networks, which have been reduced from pillars of our nation in their heyday to largely distribution channels for the NFL today, plus some other lesser programming sprinkled in.
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