The Anthony Cumia Show - August 18, 2025


Is the NFL Just Bad at Business？ ｜ 08-17-25


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8 minutes

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131.48749

Word count

1,135

Sentence count

36

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Misogyny

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On this week's minicast, I talk about the latest in the NFL cheerleader scandal, and why I don't think it's as bad as it's being talked about. I also talk about why I think the NFL is a terrible company.

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00:01:10.620 I was just
00:01:11.740 chit-chatting a bit before
00:01:13.920 the actual start of the show
00:01:15.920 about the
00:01:16.480 cheerleader thing. The man
00:01:19.640 cheerleader thing.
00:01:21.080 and uh this it's one of those stories that just it it's perfect you know it's got legs people
00:01:29.800 like to talk about it's water cooler stuff and as i said it doesn't really have that much
00:01:35.200 importance over anyone's life like you know you go you go to that job i was just talking about
00:01:41.300 monday people will talk about it but it's not like oh my god we lost the o'reilly file we lost
00:01:48.900 the whole account because of the man cheerleader it doesn't really make a difference and it's
00:01:58.860 nothing really new i mean the media has been pumping stuff like this out for quite some time
00:02:05.920 it just gets our attention and i don't even think it's as nefarious as uh the distraction because
00:02:14.020 everyone talks about the distraction now every single thing that happens is apparently a
00:02:21.920 distraction for some bigger thing that we're supposed to be distracted from you know like
00:02:29.920 the Epstein thing um Russia Ukraine Israel Gaza Iran like those are the real things
00:02:43.020 and then they throw the distractions out and i believe there are certain distractions
00:02:49.360 that have been lobbed out to the general population but everything can't be a distraction
00:02:57.680 sometimes things just really happen and then i like talking to some people when when the
00:03:03.140 distraction is kind of important but not as important as the bigger stories and depending
00:03:09.120 on who you talk to it's either the story or the distraction so so sometimes a news story can be
00:03:17.080 both which is quite puzzling but it uh it does happen so i don't think this is a distraction i
00:03:24.620 think it's just terrible business on the part of the nfl uh there's people working there you know
00:03:31.120 when i found out that bud light woman not the the fake woman that uh started the whole kerfuffle
00:03:38.240 with bud light but the um the woman that was in charge of that uh campaign that ad campaign 0.96
00:03:44.940 uh that she got another job i was just how does that happen how does someone hire a woman that 0.95
00:03:55.640 lost billions of dollars and destroyed a a one of those products uh that just had been around for
00:04:07.940 so long so popular and you trashed it and then you just go yeah okay i'll get another job
00:04:16.040 it's it's astounding to me but uh yeah this is not really a big deal it's just one of those
00:04:25.920 things i uh i do feel bad for the fathers of the of the cheerleader guys you know and maybe
00:04:36.080 everything's great maybe the parents of the cheerleader guys are just so open and uh they
00:04:46.520 love their kid regardless or irregardless if he's a fanok irregardless uh they still love him and
00:04:55.940 and support him and that would be wonderful but you know when i was growing up in my day
00:05:02.620 A dad kind of wanted a son to be a reflection of himself, do better than he did.
00:05:10.400 And sports was a big thing.
00:05:13.060 Sports was a big thing for a father and son.
00:05:18.760 It's kind of what you did.
00:05:20.280 What else are you going to do?
00:05:21.920 Talk?
00:05:22.900 Talk about sensitive issues?
00:05:25.300 No, you go outside.
00:05:26.420 You throw the ball around.
00:05:27.420 you're on some kind of extracurricular activity at school baseball football basketball whatever
00:05:36.740 and you know dad's interested how do you do today if he went to the games he's very excited and
00:05:43.780 proud when you do something good so it's always been part of that father and son dynamic to have
00:05:51.400 some type of a sport thing and for that son to be just a little better than dad you know
00:05:58.020 and um I just think about you know the the cheerleader guy hi dad I just signed with the
00:06:10.320 Minnesota Vikings what son I knew it was just a phase I was telling your mother just the other
00:06:20.640 day i knew it was just a phase the vikings i'm gonna go over to bill's house next door i'm gonna
00:06:28.920 tell because his son he's crowing about his son he's only second string quarterback so
00:06:35.340 what's your position who who sit down dad i'm a cheerleader
00:06:44.700 got to be tough you know we all hear how how it's tough for somebody to come out to their parents
00:06:53.580 some of them are very uh like i said very liberal open honest hey whatever but you know
00:07:02.200 dad's sitting in the the lazy boy in the the middle of um middle of the living room
00:07:09.700 watching the ball game
00:07:11.600 and his son sitting on a lazy boy
00:07:15.060 in his room
00:07:16.140 it just
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