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Exploring Rams' New Training Facility and Community Impact
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7/26/2024
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They're making, here it is, I mean, you're looking at their little soccer stadium, everybody
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who's listening on radio.
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For those of us that are watching on video, there's this little soccer stadium, basketball
00:12
facility in the back, the luxury suites across the way, food and beverage for all their sponsors
00:16
and partners.
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And here was my radio set up yesterday afternoon.
00:19
You notice they don't even have goalposts on the field.
00:21
They got a, they got a wheel in the goalposts when they do field goal, you know?
00:25
So no kicks allowed.
00:27
But it was interesting because I, we were talking to their management.
00:30
We were trying to get an understanding of why they moved there.
00:33
When they were at UC Irvine, they would have to bus everybody to a hotel and back.
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And that took a lot of time.
00:39
And apparently in the collective bargaining agreement, you're only allowed to have the
00:42
players for 11 hours a day.
00:44
So they were screwing themselves up with an hour of travel back and forth from the team
00:48
hotel to the practices.
00:50
Now everybody's staying on campus.
00:51
They were able to get back that hour by keeping everybody close by.
00:54
So that was pretty cool.
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I mean, two hours, technically, if you count back and forth.
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Yeah.
01:00
I mean, I don't really know how the distance of the buses into the hotel and everything
01:04
else, but I'll tell you guys, I have some video.
01:07
Let me tell you something.
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Rams fans are crazy about Puka Nakua.
01:11
This guy hit the scene in year one, and this is right after practice.
01:15
He's he's 10 feet from the radio setup.
01:18
And this guy is trying to sign every autograph that he can sign.
01:21
And the fans are going Puka, Puka, Puka.
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They love this guy.
01:26
And that's why I was saying last year, I felt like the Rams did a better job last year of
01:31
getting more integrated into the community because they finally had like a homegrown
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first year face guy, you know, that everybody fell in love with.
01:41
So Puka Nakua was out there signing autographs.
01:44
It was a very good practice.
01:46
So what did we learn about Matthew Stafford's contract?
01:49
Is he now the top paid quarterback in the NFL?
01:51
You know, they're not really talking about it, which is amazing.
01:53
They are.
01:54
They keep things super quiet.
01:55
The Rams operate differently, you know, like you mean, like, for example, they don't even
02:02
send a team of like like Sean McVeigh never goes to the to the combine in Indianapolis.
02:08
Neither is their general manager.
02:09
Let's see.
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They just they just wouldn't normally don't have picks.
02:12
That is true.
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But they just operate differently.
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So I think Matthew Stafford's I think Matthew Stafford's agent operates differently because
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of that.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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