World's Biggest Hater - 7-20-26
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19 segmentsI'm going to tell you right now, I'm being the world's biggest hater, and I got no problem with being a big hater today. So just make that as clear as I possibly can. As for the World Cup, guys, we were talking about that with J-Town. He's right. He's right. But again, as a father of an eight-year-old and a soccer coach who texts the other coach that I usually coach soccer with and said, I hope you're paying attention to this because I don't know any of these rules as we're about to head into a bigger field and, you know, bigger goals and actual goalies and stuff like this. I was like, I mean, I hope you're paying attention because I'll tell you this. I can't understand this stuff at all. So it should be a lot of fun. Every sport I coach, I'm completely lost all the time. So it should be a lot of fun. But soccer has been enjoyable. The World Cup, 700 drones shot down. 700 drones. have been shot down during this World Cup. And I say shot down. Is that fair to say? I don't know if shot downs are the right wording to use, but have been grounded. Okay. And they've, they highlighted some of these partnerships and what's gone on there. 700 different drones. 700 drone takedowns, no significant criminal attacks. They likened to this, 78 Super Bowls. in 38 days. So they made the argument that these things were all massive. And they were. I mean, just think about this. You hold these games in these big stadiums. Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. I think it's Mercedes Stadium or whatever it's called there in Atlanta. You have all these huge arenas with huge attendance. People from all sorts of different countries coming into these things and they were able to make sure that they had none of these issues. Kash Patel said this. We're proud to report that thank God and thankfully for the men and women of the FBI and our partners. We had no significant criminal attacks during the World Cup. And just to put it in perspective, we had 6.5 million people attend the 78 matches across 11 venues. So they had a lot of stuff going on there. Also, when it comes to the cost, there seems to be maybe an attempt to suggest that maybe. This was not money well spent. But here's what I do know. I think I saw this. $9 billion. $9 billion in ticket sales. Now, you may say yourself, well, FIFA got rich. Okay, I mean, that part's true. It'll be interesting to see once the math is all done on this to see how much was actually made here and what the tax revenue looks like. There might be some people who poo poo the whole thing. That might very well be a possibility too, and there seems to be some question about this. One report from the Queen Chamber of Commerce, which is why I would.
Listen to them. I have just the Queens Chamber of Commerce. The ones to set it up. The economic benefit was not necessarily people who were going into the World Cup, but people just participating in the summer of New York, going to all five boroughs to celebrate and be out together. So they're saying we made a lot of money there. There are some people that are worried that the whole suggestion that we'll make a ton of money on this may not come to fruition. So this is how people should look at this. Stop bidding on it then. I mean, that's the issue. If it doesn't make money, like the Olympics have found itself. Sort of in a place where they're not making as much money as they thought the Olympics would make them. Now, I don't know what the reasoning for that is. Maybe it's because a lot of these things aren't really spectator sports. And yeah, you'll go and you'll watch like a swimming thing once a year or something. But soccer, you're packing out every single one of those venues. Look, you can't tell me this has not been a humongous economic win. I mean, look at it. Look at it. Anyone that knows anything about the economics of different events. knows that these stadiums already existed. Fan bases came in, spent a bunch of money on hotel rooms, a bunch of money on housing elsewhere, obviously, food, drink, all this stuff. And then it went on for 38 days. So you had a pro, it wasn't just a one-night thing. It wasn't one night you come in, it's over, everyone leaves town. like a Super Bowl or a WrestleMania or something. You had 38 different events here or 78 something different events where you packed out the stadiums and you did all of this. So I don't think there's any. issue here that you're where you're going to be able to say this was like an economic bust okay and not say these things aren't very expensive to put on and things like that but you didn't have to use slave labor to build the stuff the stadiums already existed you just put on these venues so I think the whole like did we make any money off it I think we're going to find that yes indeed we did make a lot of money off of it and I think we also made America look really damn good here So I think that's a net positive for this as well. We should be happy about that. Stay tuned. It's the Dale Jackson Show. The United States Soccer Federation presents the U.S. Soccer Podcast. I'm your host, Megan Klingerberg. One thing I promised you is an all-access pass that you wouldn't get on any other show. And we found out that whoever comes on scores a goal. Burhope, Freeman, trustee. U.S. soccer podcast magic is real people. We still got plenty of coverage all throughout this World Cup. Okay, let's get into it. The U.S. Soccer podcast. Presented by Henko. Follow and listen on your favorite play.
platform. The United States Soccer Federation presents the U.S. Soccer Podcast. I'm your host, Megan Klingerberg. One thing I promised you is an all-access pass that you wouldn't get on any other show. And we found out that whoever comes on scores a goal. Burholfe. Freeman. Trusty. U.S. Soccer podcast magic is real people. We still got plenty of coverage all throughout this World Cup. Okay, let's get into it. The U.S. Soccer podcast. Presented by Henko. Follow and listen on your favorite. Platform.