Shahid Khan

Yeah, I think, uh, you know, I just keep calling the, the situation with the Cardinals and their rebuild as Project 2028, because they're clearly focused on the year after whatever happens next year, right? So they're build- they're lining up their whole roster that way, uh, to try to get the franchise back on track, and they're rightfully overlooking next year, because everybody anticipates some sort of work stoppage initiated by the owners.

The question that baseball's grappling with is how do you operate with- in a, in a realm where s- the franchise revenues are so different, where there's such a gap between the major markets and the lesser markets? And on top of that, you've got, again, and we talk about billionaire owners and private equity guys with all the money in the world come in and, and do what they've done with the Dodgers as an example, right? So, um, now-

Nobody's going broke during this thing where literally 40 years ago Bud Selig's rubbing his nickels together in Milwaukee trying to figure it out, right? Like, literally, right? I mean, there really-

Yeah

... were owners who were not supremely wealthy.

I mean, Jacobs was in receivership here.

Like, and, you know, so, like, I would-- but this time around they think that's the knockout punch, right? Rubenstein and Arrighetti never lost a fight in their life, these guys, right? They get into these, these battles with the, the m- the, the workers, right? Literally, right?

Well, the thing is that, you know, you d- you don't have to lose money now unless you're just stupid.

It's true.

They literally have a home game every year in London, right? Is that correct? Yeah, Shad Khan loves it.

It's crazy.

I have my NFL notes here that I wanted to go over with you.

It's not like they play in like a big market.

Like say if it was like the, they if they played in Orlando, I feel like they'd be getting more talk about it, because it's Jacksonville, everyone's just like, "Oh, it's just Jacksonville." Although, I do love how Shad Khan dressed in literally like team-issued sweatpants and a tucked in white dress shirt, and I'm like, only a guy worth stupid amount of money can pull that look off.

Can just do that, yep.

Yep.

The Jacksonville Jaguars played a bunch of games in Wembley Stadium.

Who owns the Jacksonville Jaguars, but Tony Khan's dad, Shad Khan.

Just throwing it out there just to give you a little information on how AEW was able to leverage that NFL relationship into a big-time pro wrestling relationship and have a Wembley Stadium show basically not every year, but almost every year as far as doing All In in London, England.

Very interesting talking point.

Every single week after a Jaguars game, so most of them are Sundays, so coming on Monday, but you know, there's a couple prime time games, we got to come in the next day.

We're gonna sit here and discuss what James Gladstone and Shad Khan should pool together to pay Parker Washington.

[laughs] Pool together.

Right? And if it's a-

Who's the other one? What, that's the other duck that's like, like this.

Oh, gotcha.

And, and I kind of edited in where it's Shad Khan.

I like it.

And to your question about immigrants, There's a disproportionate share of immigrants among these sort of rags to riches entrepreneurial success stories.

So one of the really inspiring stories we tell in the book, Shahid Khan was an immigrant from Pakistan.

He was at University of Illinois as an engineer, then worked kind of manufacturing car bumpers, was kind of annoyed with the owner, started his own business to compete building these car bumpers.

The owner sued him.

[laughs]

Shad Khan can afford a replica.

So, uh, you know.

All right by you?