00:00You know, one thing that I've also noticed that for me, I didn't really know who Lionel Messi was.
00:07I know the name.
00:09I knew who he was.
00:10But what this World Cup has done has exposed me and maybe I would say other Americans into seeing who
00:17really are the biggest athletes in the world.
00:20You could put Messi any place on the planet, parachute him in, and people would know who he is.
00:27And it just made me think I couldn't do that to Tom Brady.
00:30So I think the Americans being good too, David, it's also exposed us.
00:37This guy never does interviews.
00:39This guy's not a publicity hound.
00:41But yet there he is, the most popular guy on the planet, over 500 million people on his Instagram accounts.
00:48It's really exposing Americans to maybe outside of our parameters a little bit and outside of our borders to see
00:56what really is going on.
00:58I think this has been a real cultural thing for our country.
01:01We're learning about other – I've never heard of some of the stars on France.
01:05I know who Cristiano Ronaldo is.
01:08I know all these guys.
01:09But hasn't it exposed Americans more to maybe outside of our borders on really who the biggest athletes in the
01:15world are?
01:16A million percent in it at the perfect time because we are, you know, celebrating our 250th anniversary.
01:22But in the grand scheme of things, that's nothing.
01:24I mean, the countries on the other side of the pond have been there thousands of years.
01:27So we're small and we're in our own little world with a sport like American football that's been around since,
01:33oh, what?
01:34You know, the first Super Bowl was 1960s, 66, 67, NBA that goes back to the 40s.
01:40Major League Baseball goes back further.
01:42But soccer's been here forever.
01:44And this is the world sport.
01:46We always joke, oh, whatever.
01:48Nobody likes soccer.
01:49It's over there.
01:49It doesn't make any sense.
01:50It literally legitimately is the world sport.
01:53And you're right.
01:54I have a nine-year-old daughter who literally doesn't like sports.
01:58Her only exposure to sports is that daddy's never around because he's working in sports.
02:01Knows who Lionel Messi is.
02:03Knows who Cristiano Ronaldo is.
02:05She knows which one she thinks is cuter.
02:07They know who that is.
02:08But if you were to go to, I don't know, Israel, does everybody know who Tom Brady is?
02:14I'm not sure you can say that because we're in our own little world.
02:17It has opened America up to other things.
02:20And on the flip side, you're seeing Europeans and Africans and Asians come over to our country free refills.
02:28Gas stations that are the size of Costco and things that they've never seen before.
02:33Land that doesn't stop because it goes on for 3,000 miles.
02:37Things that they've never seen where I've been over there.
02:40You have nowhere you can park your car.
02:42You have to pay to use the bathroom.
02:43Like there's no air conditioning.
02:44It's a different world over here.
02:47They're experiencing that, which is phenomenal.
02:49And we are seeing things like, seriously, before the World Cup started, did you know where DR Congo was?
02:56No.
02:57Nobody had any idea where DR Congo was.
02:59Now we do.
02:59We know where it is.
03:00Everyone knows where Cape Verde is.
03:03You know what I really loved is that I had a person over on my social media account, and that
03:08person goes, man, I don't need my passport to go from New York to New Jersey.
03:13I mean, I think the things that we take, you know, for granted, you know, many people that are over
03:18here enjoying themselves, and this has been just an absolutely insane event.
03:22Now, I do have one complaint, and believe this or not, David, I sent an email to Roger Goodell.
03:27You know, some of the stadiums that I'm watching, and I'm looking at the grass that's on the field, and
03:35I'm looking at what these guys are playing on, and what it's required that FIBA has for their athletes.
03:40You see so few knee injuries and ankle injuries in a sport where people get stepped on.
03:46We saw the red card the other night against a U.S. player.
03:49I mean, how come the NFL owners don't do this for the players that are their biggest assets?
03:57Their priorities are not what they should be, and listen, I can give you a list of a thousand things
04:02that FIFA does wrong, but the one thing they get right is demanding that this World Cup is played on
04:08natural grass.
04:09I'm with you.
04:10I'm from Miami.
04:11I've always been exposed to natural grass.
04:13There's no reason why we shouldn't have natural grass in every single stadium, even the ones in the south.
04:17Like, you tell me why Las Vegas doesn't have grass and why Los Angeles doesn't have grass.
04:21And I've been to those stadiums, and, you know, I know they can do it because, you know, for the
04:25Super Bowl, they roll it out and roll it in.
04:27But college, Las Vegas, they play it on turf.
04:30The Rams, the Chargers, they play it on turf.
04:33If Green Bay, the frozen tundra, as we call it, can play on natural grass, why can't we have it
04:38in Baltimore?
04:39Why can't we have it in those locations?
04:41And I know it comes down to money.
04:42It's always money, money, money.
04:44But every single one of us is paying money to watch that sport on television.
04:48That money is getting funneled right to the owners.
04:50You know, if I'm a New York Giants fan, and every time I go to the stadium, one of my
04:56best players gets injured because of the crap field at MetLife,
04:59and then you turn around, and they're hosting the World Cup final, literally hosting the world's biggest event on natural
05:06grass.
05:07Yet that grass is not staying in that stadium, and that's a travesty, if you ask me.
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