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Crowder riles up Solana by declaring soccer a boring sport.
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00:00There's just an extraordinary amount of stuff going on.
00:02Did you watch any World Cup over the weekend, Crowder?
00:06Any Conor McGregor?
00:08Anything in the realm of what happened?
00:11I watched a Conor McGregor.
00:13I guess he tore his ACL.
00:14He kept falling down.
00:16It was embarrassing.
00:18It was definitely embarrassing.
00:20It was...
00:21Like, just know when it's time to tap out, fellas.
00:25Know when it's time to tap out.
00:26Well, I agree with that.
00:29But it's...
00:31So much easier said than done.
00:33Right?
00:34I mean, you can know when it's time to tap out.
00:37And then someone says,
00:38Well, also, I'll give you $20 million if you want to give it a shot.
00:42Okay, I'll go fight again for $20 million.
00:45And there's just...
00:47There's this insatiable appetite for this stuff.
00:50And we can complain about it all we want.
00:52Like, tonight, the Home Run Derby is on Netflix.
00:55There's going to be a lot of complaints.
00:57Why has it got to be on Netflix?
00:59It's got another...
01:00Now there's another paywall that I got to go through.
01:03Aren't they trying to showcase the league and the hitters and whatever?
01:06We're going to complain about it.
01:08But Netflix is going to do just fine.
01:10MLB is going to make a ton of money because they sold the rights to Netflix.
01:14Like, so I'm not necessarily certain that the appetite for this stuff...
01:21It's a 3-0-fair.
01:23Dolly.
01:23Dolly.
01:24Dolly.
01:24God bless.
01:25Dolly.
01:28Dolly.
01:29Thank you, Jimmy.
01:30You're welcome.
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01:37out as family.
01:38Netflix killed all the NFL games, like, in a good way.
01:42Like, the broadcast of all those NFL games were phenomenal.
01:46The actual camera work by them was great.
01:50Like, the views and I think the studio shows were great.
01:55I mean, it's just annoying that you have to have a subscription.
01:57But honestly, like, everybody I know has Netflix, right?
02:00Doesn't everybody have Netflix?
02:02I was going to say it before we had 3-0-5 alarm.
02:05Like, I understand the structure, but I understand the business side, too.
02:12And it works.
02:13That's why NFL is selling to these guys, Hawk.
02:15That's why they're doing what they do.
02:18It works.
02:19They're getting money.
02:20Everybody's getting money.
02:21NFL is getting more money.
02:23Salary caps are going up.
02:24It works.
02:25That's what I'm saying.
02:26Like, we can complain about Conor McGregor, but I would guarantee,
02:32that's one of the most tuned in.
02:34Now, again, it was going up against Argentina, Switzerland,
02:36overtime in the World Cup, but I would suggest to you
02:41that there was probably record number of people tuned in
02:46to Paramount Plus for Conor McGregor.
02:49I mean, that arena was filled to the brim.
02:53Out of us four, how many people watched it?
02:57I did.
02:58Because I did.
02:59I didn't.
03:01Jimmy, did you?
03:02Let's see if there was any rating.
03:03I didn't.
03:05I don't know, man.
03:07I feel like nowadays, you can just tune in to the fight five seconds
03:13after it's over because the clip is going to be on Twitter.
03:15Well, you can do that with anything.
03:17You can do that with the World Cup.
03:19I mean, you can watch anything five minutes after it happened nowadays.
03:23I wasn't watching Argentina, but I was watching McGregor.
03:26Well, that's crazy.
03:29On it, like, I'm not even joking.
03:32Like, as a sports fan, to not watch the defending champions in extra time
03:37trying to get back to the semifinal with the greatest player ever,
03:39you chose, instead of watching that, which ended, by the way,
03:44with one of the greatest goals in recent memory in soccer,
03:47you chose to watch a guy who's 10 years past his prime,
03:50who lasted 62 seconds in the ring before his knee turned,
03:55and he was done for it.
03:56Well, I would say this, and again, I'm not trying to argue the McGregor fight
04:01because the results are what the results are,
04:04but I'm not necessarily certain you're just aware enough of UFC.
04:0810 years past his prime, like, he's only 37,
04:11so his prime wasn't just 27.
04:13It's not like this is Mike Tyson at 58.
04:17He happens to be an entertainer, which I have loved the World Cup,
04:24but the UFC walkouts beat the soccer walkouts
04:29with the little kids being dragged behind everybody
04:32and the big flags on the field.
04:35I mean, come on.
04:35I mean, let's call it what it is.
04:37If you're looking to be entertained by sports on Saturday night,
04:40I will also tell you, I watched Switzerland-Argentina on my phone.
04:45Like, I watched the DirecTV app on my phone,
04:47but my TV was on Conor McGregor, and also Conor McGregor.
04:53That's it.
04:53That's the main event.
04:54That's the last one.
04:56World Cup, you still have to get to the championship match.
04:59Now, if it was McGregor-Halloway,
05:02and it was the actual World Cup final,
05:05and it was going into extra time,
05:08I'd have went World Cup.
05:11And, Solana, like, I think this year is when America got in.
05:16You let me know if I'm wrong.
05:17This year, America got into soccer because it's on our soil.
05:21We don't care about soccer over here.
05:24That's fine.
05:25But, like, I wasn't trying to turn this into a World Cup versus McGregor thing.
05:30But, Hawk, the reality is McGregor hasn't won a fight in UFC since 2020, right?
05:37That fight he won in 2020.
05:39Well, that was his last fight.
05:41No.
05:42He fought in 2021.
05:45He fought in 2021 against Dustin Poirier,
05:47and then they did it again, and he got knocked out.
05:50That was the one where he had the knee or the foot or whatever.
05:52Right, in the first round.
05:55So, before that fight, though, he hadn't won a fight since 2016 against Eddie Alvarez.
06:02Like, think about that.
06:03He's won two fights since 2016, including the one in 2016,
06:08and one of them was against Donald Cerrone that he got him in the first 40 seconds.
06:13That fight was, you know, highly criticized as well for just being, like, a whatever fight.
06:19Well, again, as I said at the beginning of the show,
06:21I wasn't watching for Conor McGregor to win.
06:24I was watching for Conor McGregor to get his ass kicked.
06:28And, I mean, he really could have.
06:31Like, Holloway showed mercy on him because he knew something was wrong with his knee
06:35from the first kick.
06:36But for entertainment spectacle,
06:41UFC puts on a greater entertainment spectacle
06:46than a quarterfinal or a semifinal does in soccer.
06:50I mean, again, spectacle and for a name, Conor McGregor.
06:55It's one of the biggest names in UFC.
06:59You can have the best teams in the world, like you're saying,
07:02defending World Cup champion Solana.
07:04It's sooner or later a soccer match is going to break out,
07:07and they're going to score three goals.
07:12We're not entertained by that.
07:15I mean, that's fine.
07:16Like, you guys cannot be entertained by it,
07:18but the results speak for themselves, like Conor McGregor.
07:20I'm entertained by it.
07:21I am.
07:21I've watched more soccer than ever before.
07:23That's why I'm trying to do the mid-court,
07:26the half-court rule in soccer.
07:28I'm not entertained by these guys kicking the ball.
07:31But I'm completely entertained,
07:33and I think the more soccer I get exposed to,
07:37the more I get entertained by it,
07:38and I've loved this World Cup.
07:40I'm just telling you, I don't think that I'm in the minority
07:43for flipping away on Saturday night and watching UFC with Conor McGregor.
07:48I think the way that sometimes you hear us poo-poo soccer,
07:53you're kind of doing the UFC,
07:54which is phenomenally successful and popular as well.
07:58It is.
07:59No, it is extremely popular.
08:00It's never been my thing, but you guys know that.
08:03Like, I've been very upfront about that.
08:05It's never been my thing.
08:05But my point wasn't necessarily to poo-poo UFC.
08:10I was just poo-pooing the idea of a guy
08:12that everybody was happy to see back in the ring
08:15for whatever purpose, right?
08:17Whether you wanted to see him get his ass knocked out,
08:19whether you were a fan of his,
08:20you wanted to see him have some sort of comeback story.
08:23And clearly, dude was just not ready to be back in the ring,
08:26or maybe he doesn't belong back in the ring.
08:28So I'm playing the result here,
08:30which is a very fair, very easy thing for me to do.
08:32I keep saying, like, I'll keep doing that.
08:34It just happened to me with Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano.
08:38It had just happened to me a couple months earlier.
08:40Gina Carano didn't look like she was in shape enough
08:44to work a drive-through shift at Burger King.
08:47Like, that's how bad that was, and I did it again.
08:53What's more entertaining, a UFC fight or a soccer match?
09:01I mean, like, Crowder, I don't know what you want me to do.
09:04You want me to sell you?
09:04No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
09:05Let's not talk circles.
09:07I want to answer, what's more entertaining,
09:09a UFC fight or a soccer match?
09:11I just want to be clear here.
09:13You're asking me, what's more entertaining,
09:16a UFC fight, one UFC fight,
09:18or, which is what we were comparing it to,
09:22Argentina, the defending champions,
09:24with a chance to get back to the semifinal.
09:26I don't know all of this context and all.
09:29What is more entertaining, a UFC fight or a soccer match?
09:34I'm taking a World Cup soccer match over a UFC fight
09:38any day of the week.
09:39It's kicked the ball to each other.
09:41That's fine.
09:42If at this point, genuinely, if at this point,
09:44this just isn't your thing, it's not your thing,
09:46like, there's no problem in that.
09:48But the reality is the games have been phenomenal.
09:51Norway versus England in Miami was an awesome game.
09:54Argentina versus Switzerland was an unbelievable game.
09:57It's been an unbelievable World Cup.
10:00Which is why, like, if it's just not your thing,
10:02then I totally get it.
10:03But to sit here, but no, not you, Hawk.
10:05I'm saying Crowder.
10:06But to sit here and pretend like these games have been boring,
10:09like you're just losing yourself.
10:11Norway, England.
10:12Norway, England, 2-1.
10:14Norway, Brazil, 2-1.
10:16Norway, Cota de Velo, 2-1.
10:19It's boring for 70 minutes of 90.
10:24Because you think it's boring if there's not 30 goals.
10:28But I will tell you, we do this weird thing with soccer scoring
10:31because one is the same as seven in football.
10:35Like, when something's 21-7 in football, that's three scores to one.
10:40It's three to one.
10:41Like, we just give it this point of seven, and we go,
10:45oh, it's a high-scoring game.
10:47But it's the same number.
10:47That's why I was implementing the half-court rule,
10:52because they kicked the ball into the scoring zone.
10:55But you're not getting the half-court rule.
10:56And then they kicked the ball back to their own god-stern goalie,
11:02and it doesn't make any sense.
11:04It's boring.
11:05But soccer doesn't need to be fixed.
11:06It's the most popular sport in the world.
11:08It just doesn't need to be fixed.
11:10And it's fine, but it just doesn't need to be fixed.
11:13And it's so infuriating to hear that.
11:16Like, you want to say, hey, I'm not entertained by soccer.
11:18It's not my thing.
11:19Fine.
11:20We've done this for eight years that have been on the show.
11:22I've tried to get you guys into soccer and Crowder for whatever reason.
11:25You don't like it.
11:26That's fine.
11:26You don't have to watch it.
11:27But your take being it's boring because the scoring is low is so damn dumb.
11:34When you're the guy in the NFL who is constantly saying, oh, I love a 6-3 game.
11:40Oh, I love a 9-6 game.
11:42And that's what you're getting in these games.
11:45It's an art form.
11:46It's an art for Paraguay to have France only score one goal.
11:50It's an art.
11:52What Norway was able to do for 90 minutes to keep England from scoring until finally they broke through was
11:58beautiful.
12:00Hockey has very little scoring as well.
12:02It's one of the most exciting sports on the planet.
12:05So you can't do it by the number of goals.
12:06Every single play could be a touchdown, right?
12:08Every time the ball is snapped, every 40 seconds, the ball is snapped.
12:12Right?
12:13It could be a touchdown.
12:14When you were on the field, yeah.
12:17When you have the ball by the goal, kick it backwards six times to the goalie and then kick it
12:24up, it's stupid.
12:27Okay.
12:28It's boring.
12:29It's not an enjoyable game to watch unless I did enjoy the game, what was it, England and somebody, Mexico
12:37plays a very aggressive game.
12:39I like aggressive games.
12:41I don't like people that just kick the ball around the backcourt, kick the ball around the backcourt for 20
12:47minutes.
12:47What are we doing?
12:49Let's go score.
12:50The goal is right there.
12:51It's guys sitting there with a green jersey on.
12:54Go kick the ball in his chest and see what happens.
12:57It happens.
12:57Okay.
12:58Yeah.
12:58It's the world's most popular sport by an unimaginable mile.
13:03Because they're boring people.
13:03They don't have nothing else to do.
13:05Right.
13:05Yeah.
13:06Everybody should watch American football.
13:08But I mean, I do find it funny, the scoring thing, because American football has an arbitrary seven attached to
13:14every goal.
13:15And if you did that in soccer, a three-nothing match, all of a sudden it's 21-nothing.
13:19And Americans are like, see, now I told you there's scoring involved.
13:23It's the same number of goals.
13:24Oh, it's so – it's just – it's not – it's not visually exciting.
13:31Because you don't like it.
13:32That's fine.
13:33You may not like it.
13:34But, I mean, I've been completely enthralled and excited by it for the entire world.
13:40They kick the ball to the goalie and then kick the ball back to them and then kick the ball
13:43to the wingman.
13:44The wingman kicked the ball back to them.
13:45I mean, that's like if you ever run the ball up the middle, why not throw a bomb on every
13:50play?
13:50It's kind of silly talk.
13:51No.
13:52At least we're trying to advance the ball.
13:55Try to score – you're saying try to score on every possession, but that's not what happens in the NFL.
14:00No.
14:01Try to advance the ball closer to the scoring zone.
14:05Yeah.
14:05And sometimes you have to go backwards to loosen up the defense so that you can advance it.
14:10Football never goes backwards because now you're second and 15.
14:15There's yards lost on players all the time.
14:16Now you're second and 15.
14:17And it's a disadvantage to be second and 15.
14:19Not only that, in football, you willingly give the ball away to the other team.
14:24Like in your argument, I could say, why don't they go for it on fourth down every single time?
14:28Why don't they go for it every single time?
14:30Why would they ever give the ball to the other team?
14:32Let's kick the ball back to our goalie and then we'll see what happens after that.
14:36It's goofy.
14:37It's not.
14:38Instead of giving the ball away because you don't have a pathway forward,
14:41instead of actively giving the ball away purposely, you play it safely back to then repurpose the attack.
14:47In football, they don't even do that.
14:49They just give it to the other team.
14:50Here, take it.
14:51Go ahead.
14:51Take it.
14:52No.
14:53They safely kick the ball towards their own goal.
14:57Safe.
14:59Yes.
15:01It's boring.
15:03That's fine.
15:03You don't have to watch it.
15:05I watch it.
15:06I enjoy Mexico's style of play.
15:10I don't enjoy a lot of country's style of play.
15:13Don't.
15:13Don't watch it.
15:15You don't like it?
15:16Don't watch it.
15:17Don't.
15:17I did not enjoy watching Uruguay.
15:20I'll tell you that.
15:21Uruguay is terrible.
15:22That was a terrible brand of soccer.
15:24No big deal.
15:24No big deal.
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