Donnybrook
February 8, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 6 | 27m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
Charlie Brennan debates with Wendy Wiese, Bill McClellan, Alvin Reid, and Ray Hartmann.
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February 8, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 6 | 27m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
Charlie Brennan debates with Wendy Wiese, Bill McClellan, Alvin Reid, and Ray Hartmann.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> "DONNYBROOK" IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THOMAS PATTERSON FOUNDATION AND THE MEMBERS OF NINE PBS.
>> THANKS SO MUCH FOR JOINING US ON THIS "DONNYBROOK".
LAST "DONNYBROOK" BEFORE VALENTINE'S THERE'S A LOT OF LOV THIS TABLE.
LET'S MEET THOSE PANELISTS STARTING WITH WENDY WIESE, KTRS, AND BILL MCCLELLAN FROM THE ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH.
RAY HARTMANN FROM SUBSTACK, FOUNDER OF THE RIVERFRONT TIMES AND FROM THE ST. LOUIS AMERICAN ALVIN REID .D ABOVE THE MA YOU WILL SEE ARTWORK.
WE WANT TO THANK M BRADLEY, LOCAL ARTIST WHO SUPPLIED THAT.
THERE IT IS, B IT'S PART OF OUR ROTATING ARTWORK HERE ON "DONNYBROOK".
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LET'S THIS WEEK IT WAS ANNOUNCED THAT THE PORTAL SEEKING COMMENT ON THE MONEY THAT THE REGION GOT FROM THE N.F.L.
LAWSUIT AND THE CITY HAS ABOUT $269 MILLION, THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN, MEGAN GREEN WANTED TO KNOW WHAT THE HOI PALOY TO DO WITH THE MONEY.
12,000 PEOPLE VOTED.
WATER MAINS CAME OUT NO.
1, REVISING THE INFRASTRUCTURE TO SLOW DOWN AND LITTLE SAFER, AND THE THIRD MOST POPULAR REQUEST FOR THAT MONEY WAS TO INCREASE EMPLOYEE SALARIES.
>> IT'S ALL GOOD IDEAS.
I DON'T THINK THE PORTAL HAS ANY MEANING WHATSOEVER.
IT'S NOT S 12,000 PEOPLE WHO MAY OR MAY NOT BE FROM ST. LOUIS, WHO MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE VOTED MULTIPLE TIMES.
THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEIR IDEAS ARE BAD.
WHAT'S INTER CITY LEADE TO DO WHAT THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE FIRST PLACE IS BE LEADERS.
TALKING TO THEIR CONSTITUENTS, OF COURSE, FIND OUT WHAT TO DO.
IT'S BEEN TWO YEARS, HAVEN'T SPENT A PENNY OF IT.
I THINK IT'S KIND OF A SAD TAIL AND IT'S THE SAME AS ST. LOUIS COUNTY.
NEED TO WAIT.
>> THE >> PEOPLE WHO NEED IT THE MOST MADE FUN OF IT.
>> I WOULD THINK THE RE THE PORTAL SHOW IT PROBABLY WAS CITY RESIDENTS VOTING FOR IT, BECAUSE IT'S MAGICAL STUFF LIKE THE WATER MAIN AND A LOT OF CITY EMPLOYEES MUST HAVE VOTED, BECAUSE I DON'T THINK RAISING THE CITY EMPLOYE BE SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE FROM AUSTRALIA.
>> IT ALSO -- IF I LIVE IN CITY, I'M SURPRISED PUBLIC SAFETY WASN'T A LITTLE HIGHER.
>> IT WASN'T GIVEN AS AN OPTI >> OKAY.
PATTERNS.
LIKE YOU SAID, THAT TRAFFIC PATTERN THING, THAT NEEDS DONE.
PUBLIC SAFETY ENVELOP THAT IS PROBABLY GOING TO TAKE T OF THIS MONEY.
I STILL PREDICT THAT.
I JUST THINK THAT MAYBE PEOPLE WHO DO THESE STUDIES IN THESE POLLS COULD TELL YOU YOU ARE GOING ABOUT THIS MANY RESPONSES TO IT.
I THOUGHT THERE WOULD BE A TON MORE.
>> I THINK THEY KNEW IN CITY HALL IT WILL GET BETWEEN 12 AND 15,000, AND THUS WE ARE GOING TO DO WHAT WE ARE GOING ANYWAY.
YOU CAN'T BE THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN AND ARE GOING TO SOLICIT YOUR INPUT AND THEN IGNORE IT.
>> AND JONES MADE THE POINT THAT WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE CITY'S SEWER SYSTEM AND THE PIPES AND THE WATER AND TH THING, THAT'S A HUMONGOUS PRICE TAG.
BE A MEASURE ON TH FOR THE SEWER SIDE.
THESE WATER MAINS, THAT WO FOR, YOU KNOW, WATER FLOWING INTO YOUR KITCHEN SINK, THAT SORT OF THING, SO IT'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.
TH THIS MONEY.
SOMETHING THAT'S BUT YOU REALLY NEED.
>> I AGREE I WAS SAYING TO BILL'S THEY VOTED DISPROPORTIONATELY, AND I'M NOT SAYING EVERYBODY, BUT IF THEY VOTED DISPROPORTIONATELY, THE AVERAGE CITY RESIDENT COME CONCERNED ABOUT CITY SALARY'S COMING UP WHEN IT MAY NOT BE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CITY RESIDENT.
THE DAY LEADERS HAVE TO LEAD, WHETHER THEY ARE GOVERNMENT LEADERS OR BUSINESS WHATEVER, AND THEY ARE GOING HAVE TO MAKE THEY WOULD HAVE MADE TWO YEARS AGO.
THE PORTAL IS NOT GOOD FOR ANYTHING.
>&g GIVE THE MON BILL MCCLELLAN I WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT PAUL MCKEY.
A LOT OF STORIES ABOUT PAUL MCKEY.
TIME BECAUSE HE WASN'T MAINTAINING THE PROPERTY AND THE LOCAL PROPERTY NEARBY WAS GOING DOWN IN VALUE.
AND CLEAR IT OF LITTER AND THAT KIND OF STUFF.
MOST RECENTLY A JUDGE ORDE HIM TO FIX UP HIS PROPERTY AT ABC TOGETHER ON PAGE BECAUSE IT WAS SO DERELICT.
NOW TH TO TAKE HIS PROPERTY BY EMINENT DOMAIN.
DISPATCH, AND SHOWING THAT THE GROCERY STORE THAT HE ESTABLISHED FIVE NORTH ST. LOUIS IN A FOOD DESERT WHERE THERE'S NO OTHER GROCERY STORES HAS SEEMINGLY GONE OUT OF BUSINESS.
FRONT COUNTER FOR SOME REASON, DARRELL PIGGY AND JOHN CROSS.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT.
BUT HE HAS O BETWEEN A AN URGENT CARE AND A HOSPITAL, 17 BEDS.
WHAT >> I GENERALLY OPPOSE EMINENT DOMAIN.
AND SAY IT'S A PERSONAL THING.
I DON'T THINK PAUL MCKEY HAS BEEN A GOOD THING FOR TH AND I QUESTIONED HIS FROM THE BEGINNING.
I THINK THAT IF TH THAT THEY HAVE TO USE I A EMINENT DOMAIN TO GET THE PROPERTY ON THE NGA FROM PAUL MCKEY WHO IS HOPING TO SOMEHOW MAKE A BUNDLE OFF THIS NOW, I FAVOR USING EMINENT DOMAIN AGAINST PAUL MCKEY.
OF THE CHANCE WHEN THIS WHOLE THING BEGAN.
A SHOT BECAUSE HE'S BASICALLY TRYING TO DO SOMETHING ON THE CITY'S NORTH SIDE, GAVE HIM THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT.
AND DUDE, YOU TRIED.
YOU FAILED.
BUT YOU AS FAR AS THE HOSPITAL IS CONCERNED, THE PROBLEM I NAME OF THE HOSPIT ASSOCIATION FEELS LIKE THE NAME WAS USURPED.
THEY DON'T WANT THE NA HOSPITAL, AND WHY THEY ARE SO BELLIGERENT OF GIVING UP THAT NAME, I HAVE I DON'T IDEA WHY.
IT'S NOT ABOUT THE HOSPITAL ITSELF.
GROCERY STORE THAT HAD NO GROCERIES IN IT.
>> GET YOUR LAW DEGREE.
>> I JUST UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE SAYING ABOUT PAUL MCKEY, I CANNOT FAULT THE MAN FOR OPENING UP A MEDICAL EMERGENCY FACILITY ON -- IN AN AREA THAT IS SO WOEFULLY UNDERSERVED.
THE NAME, I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY -- I MEAN, SOMEBODY HAS GOT TO GIVE.
IT MCKEY ON THE NAME IF HE WANTS TO MAKE AN IMPACT.
THE CLINIC SOUNDS LIKE IT'S PROPERLY OUTFITTED, LIKE WE HAVE ALREADY SAVED A LIFE THERE OR MORE.
AND MEET IN THE MIDDLE, BECAUSE IT'S TOO IMPORTANT TO GE DOWN IN A NAME, EVEN THOUGH IT'S AN IMPORTANT NAME.
>> I W PERSON THAT ACCORDING TO A TEXT I OBTAINED THAT THE FIRST PERSON WAS SAVED, THAT LIFE WAS SAVED.
TO ME, PARTICULARLY FOR PROGRESSIVES AND PEOPLE TALKING THE TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, RACIAL, YOU KNOW, JUSTICE AND SYSTEMIC RACISM AND ALL OF THIS, ALL THIS STUFF, BUT FOR SOME REASON ALL THE TALK, WHEN YOU ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT INDIVIDUALS ACTUALLY HAVING THEIR LIVES SAVED, YOU KNOW, SUDDENLY THAT'S NOT AS BIG A PRIORITY IN FAIRNESS AS EMINENT DOMAIN OR THE NAME I'M NOT GOING TO ARGUE.
I HAVE NO POSITI OF THE HOSPITAL.
I JUST DON I DON'T BELIEVE THEY HAVE STANDING.
IT'S NOT JUST ONE PERSON.
I'M SURE THEY ARE SEEING A LOT OF PATIENTS.
NO ONE H >> NOBODY SAID CLOSE THIS HOSPITAL.
YOU ARE SAYING THAT PAUL MCKEY SHOULD GET TO BE DERELICT.
>> I DID NOT SAY THAT.
IN FACT, I SAID IN MY COLUMN AND SAID MANY TIMES ON THE SHOW OVER THE YEARS HE'S GOT TO TA OF HIS PROPERTIES.
I'M LESS SYMPATHETIC WITH THE POLITICIANS WHO THEMSELVES AND JACOB BROCKER DOCUMENTING OUTRAGEOUS AMOUNTS OF CITY PROPERTY THAT HAVE PROBLEM MCKEY DOES.
IT HAS A BECAUSE THE PROBLEM IS THE GUY -- HE'S RESPONSIBLE.
I DON'T THINK ANYBODY SERIOUSLY THAT WHATE RIGHT OR WRONG, WE WOULDN' THE NGA, WHICH IS A BIG DEAL IN NORTH ST. LOUIS.
>> IT WAS COINCIDENTAL.
>> IT WAS NOT COINCIDENT >> HE TAKES CREDIT OF THAT NOW.
>> HE WAS NOT PERSONALLY ADVOCATING FOR IT.
>> EVERYBODY PERSONALLY AD >> MY BIGG >> HE DOESN'T HAVE A GREAT TRACK RECORD.
>> 15 EMERGENCY BEDS AND THREE OVERNIGHT BEDS.
>> LET'S SEE HOW T BECAUSE THE GROCERY STORE WAS THE SAME THING.
THIS WAS IN A FOOD DESERT.
>> IT'S TERRIBLE.
I REALIZE THAT.
>> HOW CAN IT BE THAT GROCERY STORES HAVE BEEN PUT UP IN OUR AREA IN THE FOOD DESERT BETWEEN FIELDS AND NOW GREEN LEAF AND THEY HAVE GONE OUT OF BUSINESS HOW CAN THAT POSSIBLY BE?
>> I WILL TELL YOU.
AS SOMEBODY THAT EXPERIENCED HIS SHARE OF FAILURE, THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT HAVEN'T FAILED ARE THE ONES WHO HAVEN ANYTHING.
FOOD DESERT GO OUT OF BUSINESS THAT WAS SUBSIDIZED BY THE GOVERNMENT?
FROM THE GOVERNMENT.
> >> I'M REALLY GLAD.
MAYBE EVERYBODY CAN GO TO THE SCHNUCKS.
FOR TRYING TO DO A GROCERY STORE -- I WANT TO SAY ONE THING.
I DON'T >> THIS IS NOT ONE OF THOSE DON'T LET THE PERFECT BE THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD.
>> I WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT FORMER STATE SENATOR MAR MCDOWELL THAT THROUGH HER HEAD IN THE RACE.
COUNTY PROSECUTOR ALREADY A CANDIDATE.
SO WHO'S HELPED AND WHO'S HURT BY THE ENTRANCE INTO THIS CONTEST BY THE FORMER SENATOR?
>> I CAN'T FIGURE IT OUT.
I DON'T THINK ANYBODY REALLY CAN.
BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T HEARD FROM HER FOR A WHILE AFTER HER FALLING OUT WITH RITA DAYS AND $77,000 PAYMENT FROM THE COUNTY, IS THAT SHE SAID WESLEY BELL IS A REPUBLICAN PLANT.
SHE SAID THAT CO THIS IS THE WOMAN WHO CALLED -- THIS IS MARIA CHAPEL CALLED FOR THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HAD SO MANY SCANDALOUS HEADLINES IN THE HOUSE THEN SENATE THEN HOUSE.
AND IS CREATE CONTROVERSY.
THAT'S KIND OF IRONIC THAT'S ALL SHE'S DONE.
>> I'M THINKIN TAKING AWAY FROM CORI BU IF YOU WOULD CONFUSE THE WOMEN, I DON'T KNOW WHO SHE IS.
>> I DON'T EITHER.
WE LIVE IN THE GOLDEN AGE OF CONSPIRACY THEORY.
WHENEVER SOMETHI HAPPENS, PEOPLE TH HER IN THE RACE?
WHAT'S THE MATH?
ANOTHER THING, I DON'T HAVE A THEORY ON IT.
I DON'T THINK AT THE END OF TH DAY HER CANDIDACY WILL BE MUCH OF A FACTOR.
NO DISRESPECT, BUT I DON'T THINK AT THE END OF THE DAY GOING TO GET THAT MANY IT'S VERY POSSIBLE THAT SHE'S GOING TO GET EQUAL AMOUNTS FROM THE TWO OF THEM.
>> YENL I THINK IF YOGENERALLY I THINK IF YOU HAVE AN INCUMBENT, THE MORE CHALLENGERS, THE BETTER IT IS FOR THE IN I'M NOT SURE EXACTLY, BUT I WOULD SAY THAT IT WOULD HELP.
>> ORDINARILY I WOULD BELIEVE THAT BUSH IS IN DANGER OF LOSING HER SEAT IS BECAUSE OF THE STATEMENTS ON OCTOBER 6th -- SEVENTH.
THAT'S WHY I KIND OF DON'T GET A FEEL.
FINALLY DOES DO A CONFERENCE, WHERE ARE YOU ON THE BALANCE OF THINGS?
SIDES.
IN THIS ELECTION.
WE WILL KNOW.
JUSTICE INVESTIGATION, DOESN'T HELP >> I THINK CORI BUSH HAS A PRETTY GOOD BASE.
>> I DON'T KNO HAS A BASE LIKE CORI BUSH DOES.
I WILL SAY MY FIRST THOUGHT ABOUT MARIA I NADELL SHE HAD A FAMILY MEMBER THAT WAS A VICTIM OF A CRIME AND DIDN'T WAY SHE WAS PROSECUTED.
SO I THINK SHE'S IN IT TO DEFEAT HIM.
>> COULD JUST BE AMBITIOUS, WEAK INCUMBENT.
>> ALVIN REI ABOUT WEBSTER UNIVERSI WEBSTER UNIVERSITY AS WE KNOW HAD FINANCIAL PROBLEMS.
THEY ARE HEMORRHAGING CASH.
IT WAS REPORTED THAT SOME OF THE RESTRICTED FUNDS THAT HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO THE UNIVERSITY BY GENEROUS DONORS ARE NOW BY THE UNIVERSITY BEING TURNED INTO UNRESTRICTED FUNDS SO THEY CAN USE THE MONE IT'S ALSO BEEN REVEALED THAT ABOUT 5 YEARS AFTER ONE OF THEIR EMPLOYEES STOLE $375,000 FROM THE SCHOOL, SOMEONE ELSE, UNNAMED SO FAR, HAS MISAPPROPRIATED 1.
1.9 MILLION DOLLARS.
GROVES?
&g HOW DO YOU MISS THAT MUCH MO NOBODY SAW THAT ON ANY BUDGET SHEET OR WHATEVER.
I'M NOT COMPARING IT TO THE PO DEER THAT WAS STRUCK.
AS DRIVING DOWN HERE I NOTED ON THE PARKING GARAGE THAT FACES 44, IT HAS THREE BIG NEW GIANT FLAGS FLYING OUT THERE.
BOY, WHAT A TIME T BEGAN GIGANTIC FLAGS THERE.
I THINK I'M MORE CONCERNED WITH THE THEFT, EMBEZZLEMENT THAN I AM GOING INTO THE KITTY TO TRY TO MAKE THE BUDGET WORK.
HARD PRESSED TO SAY IT'S OKAY TOUCH UP THIS MONEY THAT YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE GETTING INT AT THE SAME TIME ABOUT $2 MILLION OR 1.8 MILLION IS OUT THERE IN THE ETHER LAND.
THEY HAVE TO TIGHTEN THE SHIP.
THEY DID HAVE A STORY THAT THEY ARE REVIEWING PEOPLE'S SALAR AND POSITIONS AND EXISTING PRESIDENT IS RETIRING.
YOU KNOW, THEY CAN WRITE THE SHIP.
>> 2017 THERE WAS ANOTHER INSTANCE OF EMBEZZLEMENT OR AS SOMEBODY WHO WAS PLACED ON PROBATION, BUT WOULDN'T YOU THINK THAT AFTER SOMETHING LIKE THAT THAT YOU WOULD HAVE SAFEGUARDS IN PLACE INSTEAD OF GIVING OUT RAISES, MAKING YOUR LEADERSHIP AMONG THE HIGHEST PAID IN THE REGION?
I MEAN, THAT JUST DOESN'T LOOK GOOD.
SAME BOARD THAT GAVE THESE RAISES TO THE BIG BOSSES WHILE THE STUDENT POPULATION PLUMMETED, THE BOARD IS STILL THE BOARD.
>&g THIS, IS THAT'S REALLY A GOOD SCRIPT.
&g >> IT'S KIND OF -- IT'S SA BECAUSE WE HAVE A NUMBER OF COLLEGES IN THE AREA T STRUGGLING IN DIFFERENT WAYS, AND IT'S SAD THAT THIS ONE THAT PROBABLY WOULD HAVE BEEN JUST FINE HAS BEEN DEALING WITH THIS IMAGELY EMBEZZLEMENT.
I DON'T KNOW ABO THINK WE ALL KNOW PEOPLE HAVE DONE ADJUNCT FACULTY ADS THERE.
DO ONE SEVERAL YEARS, AND I THINK PROBABLY THE SHIP SAILED.
NO.
PEOPLE WERE GETTING AN LIKE THA IT'S JUST SAD THAT THIS IS GOING ON.
WHENEVER IT WAS STOLE $375,000, JUDGE HENRY AUTRY GAVE HER PROBATION, HAD TO WRITE A 65 PAGE JOURNAL.
>> MAYBE IT SENT A SAYING YOU CAN TAKE THIS MONEY.
>> THE VAULT IS OPEN.
>> YOU KNOW SO HE MUST HAVE HAD SOME REASON SOD THAT.
> HER OWN LAWYERS ASKED FOR.
>> WOW.
65 PAGE JOURNAL.
MAYBE SHE WANTED TO WRITE MORE.
>> IT WAS SHOR YOUR SUBSTACK.
>> BILL MCCLELLAN.
THAT INSTITUTED A CHECK-OUT POLICY.
LINE, IN OTHER WORDS, YOU CHECK YOURSELF OUT, SELF CHECK, CAN ONLY HAVE 10 ITEMS OR LESS AND ACCORDING TO THE RIVERFRONT TIMES AND OTHER SOURCE CAUSED LONG LINES FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO CHECK OUT WITH HUM BEINGS.
WHAT'S YOUR THOUGHT?
>> I'M ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO LIKES TO GO THROUGH THE LINE.
I LIKE TO TALK TO THE CH AND THE BAG PERSON.
I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM.
I THINK SCHNUCKS OUGHT TO HIRE A FEW MORE CHECKERS SO THE LINES AREN'T SO LONG.
I REME LANE HAD ITS OWN LINE.
YOU WOULD STAND THERE, AND YOUR LINE ALWAYS SEEMED TO GO SLOWER.
SO I THOUGHT THAT THEIR NEW PLAN WHERE IT'S ONE BIG LINE IS JUST A HUGE IMPROVEMENT.
I'M A FAN OF SCH >> I STILL WAIT FOR PEOPLE TO COME OUT AND PUT GAS IN MY AND CLEAN THE WINDSHIELD AND THAT KIND OF THING.
I'M WITH YOU.
I DON'T I DON'T LIKE IT.
>> IF YOU ARE IN A HURRY, SURE, BUT NO.
>> I'M SORRY.
NO, I'M SOMEWHAT IN THE MIDDLE IN THAT I HAVE ALWAYS HAD, I THINK, AND IT'S PURELY OUT LAZINESS, AND I THINK IT WAS BASICALLY A 10-ITEM LIMIT.
IT'S JUST BECAUSE I'M TOO LAZY TO DO MORE THAN 10 ITEMS.
I PREFER TO DO THAT.
WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT THOUGHT THIS IS TERRIBLE.
THEY ARE PEOPLE.
I THOUGHT WE AND I'M WITH YOU.
I THIN IS TERRIFIC WHERE YOU HAVE ONE CUE.
IT DOESN'T BOTHER ME AT ALL INASMUCH I'M TOO LAZY TO DO MORE THAN 10 ITEMS.
>> DISTRACTED US FROM PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS, SO THAT'S A GOOD THING.
>> ALL OF THROUGH THE LINE, WANTING TO SEE HOW MANY SCHNUCKS POINTS I HAVE, OR DOLLARS, AND NO.
2, NICE YOUNG LADY WHO WORKS AT THE KIRKWOOD SCHNUCKS TELLS ME WHAT WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT ON THE SHOW.
THOUGHTS.
CONTACT.
ITEMS AND USED TO HAVE 20.
THEY HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE CHECKING PEOPLE OUT, BUT IF THEY DON'T, IT'S GOING TO CAUSE A LONGER LINE.
AND THE LINE IS 17 PEOPLE DEEP, I'M GOING THROUGH SELF CHECK.
>> I HAD A SIMILAR EXPERIENCE WITH SCHNUCKS, BUT PEOPLE COME UP TO ME AND TELL ME WHAT I SHOULDN'T TALK ABOUT.
IT'S A SIMILAR T >> I THINK THE FOLKS AT MO VE THAT GROCERY VERY QUICKLY.
>> THEY DO.
>> COSTCO HAS GOT ITS OW SELF CHECK.
>> ALVIN R LONG-TIME DALLAS COWBOYS FAN.
WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN BOB COST AAMERICA'S TEAM BELONGS TO THE KANSAS CITY CHIEFS.
>> BACK IN THE BATC THEY DIDN'T NAME THEM AMERICA'S TEAMS.
EVERYBODY WHO HATES THE COWBOYS, THEY DID NOT NAME THEMSELVES AMERICA'S TEAM.
AMERICA'S TEAM.
TH THEY ARE EXCITING.
RIGHT NOW THEY ARE AMERICA TEAM.
AMERICA'S TEAM IF THEY WIN THE SUPER BOWL.
>> ARE THEY >> THEY ARE.
SPEAKING DEARBORN AND OTHERS, GO OUT ON A SATURDAY AFTERNOON, OR EVENING, EVERYBODY IS GETTING READY FOR THE CHIEFS GAME, BUT I THOUGHT THAT WOULD HAPPEN HERE.
>> I'M SORT OF AN ADOPTED CHEESE HEAD, LIKED THE PACKERS AND LIKED THE FACT THAT IT WAS MUNICIPALLY OWNED.
I ACTUALLY KIND OF DID.
BUT I'M A CHIEFS FAN, TOO, NOW, AND I DON'T KNOW WHY BECAUSE OTHER CITIES OPPOSE US.
I THINK THE MAIN THING -- I THINK MAYBE TO ME PATRICK MAHOMES IS SO MAGNETIC AND SUCH A SUPERSTAR, I THINK BOB IS RIGHT THAT IT IS RIGHT NOW.
>> THE PEOPLE IN TUCSON NEVER ADOPTED THE ARIZONA CARDINALS BECAUSE THEY SAID THAT'S PHOENIX'S TEAM, AND I FEEL THAT SAME WAY.
I'M A ST. LOUISAN AND TH KANSAS CITY THING.
>> ESPECIALLY AFTER THE THE CHIEFS VOTED FRANCHISE TO LA.
I'M NOT >> WE SHOULD BE CONCERNED WITH THE FACT THAT OUR OWNER MOVED THE TEAM.
>> HE MOVE OWNERS VOTED TO ALLOW THEM TO MOVE IT.
>> BECAUSE I'M OVER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STATE ALLOT, ESPECIALLY DURING FOOTBALL SEASON, THEY HAD RED FRIDA KANSAS CITY, AND WHEN YOU ARE THERE, I WRO THAT MAKES ME MISS THE RAMS.
I DON'T RIS THE RAMS VER MISS THE RA GET INTO SUPER BOWL TIME.
THAT MAK WHEN YOU GO ANYPLACE IN THAT REGION AND PEOPLE WEARING RED AND EXCITED FOR THE FOOTBALL TEAM, I THINK MAN, WE SHOULD HAVE DONE MORE.
>> ON THAT WHAT THE VIEWERS HAD TO SAY ABOUT LAST WEEK'S PROGRA EVER SINCE THE WATER MAIN BREAK THIS PAST SUMMER, HERE IN DOG TOWN WE HAVE HAD TERRIBLE WA PRESSURE.
WATER OFFICIALS, AND MOST OF US ARE AT OUR FROM ERIC OF ST. LOUIS.
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