El Huddle: Super Bowl LVIII Recap!

Published Feb 14, 2024, 2:06 AM

Will Selva and MJ Acosta-Ruiz are back for another episode of El Huddle!

Super Bowl LVIII has concluded and the Kansas City Chiefs are back to back champions!

First, we hear from Will on his thoughts following his beloved 49ers Super Bowl defeat. And MJ shares what she's been up to during her week in Vegas for the Super Bowl.

Finally, we hear from MJ about her time at NFL Honors, dancing with Victor Cruz and she shares a funny wardrobe story.

Huddle is a production of the NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio.

I can't painful jest, sorry, well painful.

Too soon, it's too fresh.

It's too fresh, It's too soon.

And yet we have another episode of the l Huddle podcast where we amplify and highlight all those great Latino voices that make the NFL, the entertainment world and beyond.

Go was good, Familia.

This is the podcast Will Selve alongside my Rmana, my Prima Rui, who's been racking up some serious frequent flyer miles, who went from the Pro Bowl games yeah again, the hotel points as well to the super Bowl.

It has been a whirlwind for you.

Yeah, I don't even know.

I didn't realize we were halfway through February. It was January the last time I was in here, and when I left my house, it's been it's.

Been a lot. Yeah, not gonna lie to you. I'm shocked I have a voice today.

Yeah.

I spoke to no one ye Monday, yes, yesterday, to the super Bowl.

But man, what a ride.

Yeah, we're so.

We're so much.

Seventh super Bowl too, right.

Yeah, if I'm counting right.

Minnesota was the very first one, like I've covered them, but I've never before that wasn't able to attend the actual game. So it's a tremendous, tremendous blessing to say that I've been to that many, like that's that's.

That's great, crazy ride.

I've been to two.

Yeah, super Bowl forty and forty one. So the one in Detroit when big storyline was Jerome.

Bettis and then for the stadium was.

Well, that was no, that was like so at Ford Field that was that was all good. That was like like practically brand new. Yeah, and then the other one was obviously the Super Bowl that Peyton Manning won with the Colts.

Nice and Devin Hester.

Who just conducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which is crazy. And of course Prince playing the credible Connor and I remember pouring Rain. He's out there and he's singing Purple Rain, and we were there in our media sets.

And just saying, wow, this is amazing.

And this guy is going to get electrocuted playing the electric guitar.

Not him, not him, not him, not even.

Phased by it.

So either way, glad he had a chance to experience the Super Bowl.

How did you think Las Vegas was as a host.

Look, if it's one thing Vegas knows how to do as host a party. Okay, an eight day party for us? You know what I think it was. It was our buddy Steve Travino who who said it, like, you can't go to a Latino party because it's like four in the morning and it's still going. That's what it felt like in Vegas except for eight Day Street, and we weren't even out on these streets like that, well, like really weren't. It's just like the week is so long, there's so much to do. You have six, seven, eight events in a day, plus work, and you don't want to miss anything.

And it's like such a reunion of.

Everybody in media all together, all of the players and just folks across the landscape or there. There's celebrities we saw, I saw our buddies.

And at the promos. I'll talk about that party later.

That was a party, a dinner, but it turned into a party because all the Latinos that were there, it's it's just awesome, Like, you know, you're not going to really sleep.

And I'm getting too.

Old for that.

All I know is that I get this text message from.

From your buddy Al Madrigal, who took a self that was.

With the aforementioned dinner that I was.

Talking about that was Saturday night, right.

Yes, And it wasn't a dinner. It was literally called Lasna And it's all put together for Latinos in media and entertainment and sports to just come together. And Cristo Fernandez, and and and Lex who's part of Neon sixteen.

He's huge in the music space.

The three of us, alongside Marisa Solis, who of course is the NFL League office, we were all hosting the evening.

I was just supposed to be going attending.

They're like, by the way, you're not hosting, and I was like, cool, cool, cool, cool cool cool sound great.

So was Al hosting this thing or I was at.

I was attending, he was sitting right across your.

Room, or was he being cool? He was?

He was the best.

And then he's like, and I don't know why we talked about a bajillion times on this podcast, yes, and it didn't click for until he's like, well, my buddy, will I was.

Like, oh my god, yes, of course.

Mind you. I have to remind you guys, this was nowa day seven in Vegas, so I barely I barely.

Knew what day it was.

Is a forty eight hour thing, you know, Mike.

Max thirty six.

So everybody hits.

It hard right when they get there.

Then they feel bad the pool when they ramp it back up again, and then you're righty Well.

First of all, it was ford in the forties.

Yeah, that's crazy, high thirties raining for half the week.

Yeah, not what I think.

Somebody text me at some point in the week and said, I hope you're not melting in the Vegas sun. I would love to melt right now.

Yeah.

For two minutes, I was.

Because it's the desert, right, because the desert has extreame heat or extreme.

Cold exactly freezing cold.

But it was really, it was such a crick It was such a kick to get that text.

Was like, yes, he's like we got to take a picture of like immediately, you know.

It was then crazy.

So then I got the next day, so Sunday, Super Bowl Sunday, I get another text from him, and he took a selfie.

With my brother that was there.

Yes, two of my brothers were there, and and Al took a photo with one of them and it's like, you know, well that's yeah, Al's the best. So happy for his success and what he's done. We do need to get him on the podcast.

It feels like we failed in that aspect.

Yeah no, but I fail.

I mean part of it is like it's like asking him, Okay, so now he's gotta gotta do it. Hopefully he'll want to come on and talk football, but something tells me he may not.

He may not want to do it right away. He's space, he's gonna need.

His some healing.

Yeah, I know.

Our buddy, my buddy Ben.

Yeah, upset, Yeah.

He was.

He was crying.

He was like, I just want to see them when one it's like they have a one one and he was feeling so good about it. We were at a Super Bowl party. Majority were rooting for the forty nine ers.

Yeah.

Even had a quick cornhole tournament and it was funny because he was going up against my wife Chen, just the two of them is like, everybody's paired up, and he throws it up real high. He turns around and he points to her like this. It goes right in the hole.

Didn't even know and everybody's like, oh, okay, okay. So Ben was feeling himself going he yeah, he was feeling.

Good, and then just you fast forward a few hours later crying and was not happy, and I felt bad for him. I mean, that was that was very, very rough.

You know.

It's one of those things we covered the sport and we obviously remain impartial.

But the whole reason why we got into this because we were fans, of course, and there's a human element.

We've had friends of the Pod, you know, be involved, like like Kittle and Federico, you know, I mean like we've had people on and it just just to see them control that game for a majority of the time. But then it was death by paper cuts with so many mistakes and them that are never little things, no, well they get amplified right in this kind of atmosphere.

And then the muffed punt as well, and then the the blown.

Blocking assignment when Chris Jones goes through and that's third and four, and then they decide to kick the field goal and overtime. There's ambiguity about the overtime rules. Then abandoning the run where it seemed like they were gashing the Chiefs.

You can hear Tony Romo say it over and over again. Get it back to McCaffrey. Stick to the run. That's what works.

And I don't know he.

Was saying, oh, Jim, I would get into McCaffrey.

I don't know what such about. I like him in the booth.

I just predicted the plays.

I think, I don't know.

I enjoy, you know, but I away though he was, Yes, he was saying, what was correct to give the ball to your star playmaker in a in a sea of stars, right, no question.

So I think that was just hard to watch.

And then to see that they were blitzing more and to blitz somebody like Patrick mahomes the shark.

Phase him whatsoever. Quite frankly, it does the opposite.

It's Patrick Mahons.

It only emboldened some more to get creative, to go to his guys to do what he's got to do. It's tough, especially when you going back to the mistakes, the errors, the small things you cannot we all know, and this is proof proof of concept. You can't give the chiefs a centimeter nothing, a blade of grass. They're going to exploit it and they're going to make sure that they get the dub. And it was it was, it was tough to watch because all other things considered, the Niners went out there, man, and they played their hearts out. We knew it was going to to be physical. We knew it was going to be a really gritty game. I was talking to the guys at opening night. I was able to co host the opening night ceremonies with our Scott Hansen sit the Skulls, who, by the way, all our Raiders fans Sibly is the in game host for the Raiders throughout the year, so that was her home stage.

Nice.

She walked us through everything. She's amazing. It was awesome, like and I remember talking to the guys there. I saw Fred from Afar because he was at a podium of course, so we're roving around sort of also trying to pull guys to go up on the jumbo jumbo tron, just like all the other members of the media from all over the world there. So it's a really interesting night. And I saw Fred from Afar. He was at a podium and he just sort of like, hey, what's up in mind. I was talking to our girl Sydney, who by the way, is thirty seven weeks pregnant.

She yes, she is almost.

Baby Warner is almost here. Okay, in a few weeks, God willing, he will.

Do they know if it's going to be oh wow, another in this world.

You wonder if it's going to.

Be a jah.

They haven't said the name yet.

Yeah, we'll have to talk to her about it. But I was like, wellma's Chuck, are you doing all right? Haven't been able to talk to her since. I was like, I need to give him a minute. I need to give him a minute because I can't imagine what's going through his mind.

But I remember watching him that night come in all business, and that's the night where they could.

Really let loose a little bit more, be a little bit more chill, right, because they haven't really gotten into the prep and the hardcore stuff of the week yet. It's supposed to be the real celebratory night for both of the teams to come together. And he was just stoneface. I mean not with us obviously, but like you could just tell. And when you saw him on the sideline Super Bowl Sunday. He was there for that last Super.

Bowl that they lost against the Chiefs in Miami, right, And so I.

Think of those guys and it's rough. But then on the other side of stuff. I was talking to the Chiefs players as well. Nicole Hartman, who came off the stage immediately remembered me and was like, yeah, let's go, let's chat. And he's another younger guy in the in the NFL. You has, yes, you has been able to go to so many Super Bowls now with the Chiefs, So it's been really interesting just to see that trajectory and then for Nicole to get the game winner in overtime like his arc as well, because he went through some struggles last season. Yeah too, Remember he got really emotional missing a play and things like that on the sideline.

So it's it's it's always really for us.

It's so different because you start to build this rapport from guys from all around the league, so you start to root for them and for their happiness and for their successes.

So it's I'm happy.

For the guys on the Chiefs who one, and then I'm heartbroken for our guys on the Niners at loss, and then the fan bases as well.

It's it gets tougher and tough for every year, you know it does.

And now Shanahan is getting that reputation right that he can't win when they are up ten points.

Yeah, because this isn't just about his trajectory on the Niners.

Yeah.

Yeah, and last one also yeah, and that's when he was the oppensive coordinator. But he has his fingerprints on everything with this organization, so you wonder what they are going to do. It feels like there is going to be some sort of change, maybe on his coaching staff.

Yeah, I think that's I don't know what that's.

Going to be.

I don't know if it's going to be on the defensive side of things.

It just seemed like.

With Steve Wilkes there he was coming into a situation where the philosophies and schemes were in place, and it's different than when you go to a new place and you're installing your system, and it just seemed to never quite get going the way that they expected it to, where he was up in the up in the booth and then he decided to be out on the field and.

Then they had the three game losing streak.

So I'm not saying that change is going to happen on the defensive side. It just feels like something has to happen here. And it's just like with Shanahan. He it's not the end of the world, because there are Hall of Fame coaches Don Coriel or the Chargers when it was with San Diego and Marv Levy four straight Super Bowls. With the Bills, they never won it. But something needs to change. And what that change is, I'm not sure. I don't know if it's just his.

Late game planning again, like like a big.

We were talking about him jumping in to change the call when he didn't like the look that he was getting from the defense.

Yes, which was an interesting moment. Yes, and that's calling the time out.

Yeah, I mean that's what what gives me, that just vibe or or just feeling right.

I mean, we know how much the organization and the Yorks love Shanahan and moreover, the Shanahan Lynch combination, and I mean the players that they have brought in and how they have rebuilt this team and what they have established there.

But until you really get.

Over the hump and you bring home another party, the history books sort of eradicated that. Yeah.

And then in his peers, you know like they you know, like they've been able to close it out and so this is this is kind of the vexing problem.

There's a missing there's a missing link there and they got to figure it out.

He's like a sea better yeah, but great with the x's and no's, but there and that's the that's the part that he needs to eliminate.

So over on the Chiefs though, wow, we have to give credit where credit is due, because I remember in overtime the moment that they got the ball, I was like, well, my friends.

It's over.

It's a rap.

That's it. That is a wrap.

And the Chiefs have done it once again, even with all the drama and Kelsey getting mad at Andy Reid and all of that stuff, they have cemented themselves as what is a dynasty like? And poise now because I think year after year and we talked about missing links Over on the Niner side, there's just something there that hasn't quite come together in totality the way they needed to close it out. But the Chiefs have been able to make things happen even with turnover, even with big name stars leaving year after year. So credit to Andy Reid, credit to the incredible players that are on there, even the young guys who really step it up.

Do you think that they'd be able to repeat this thing.

I think it's certainly possible. Yeah, And I do think that he can win seven Super Bowls. I do because this was the year where they seemed the most quote unquote vulner a back right, because the offense wasn't as dynamic as we've seen in other years. Kelsey was largely ancient for most of the season. And to see what Andy Reid has done with that offense. And yet Patrick Mahomes he can run the ball and you see like how dangerous he is when he does decide to run. He doesn't do it a lot, but boy, when he does it, he's intentional and he just makes things just miserable for opposing defenses. So what we are seeing is greatness to to the to the Shanahan side of it, kind of just going back to it in the forty nine ers, you can say, you know, listen, you were beaten by Patrick Mahomes twice. Who is being compared to Tom It's not right, So like it's just some random guy like, you know, no offense to like a Trent Dilfer who won the Super Bowl for the.

Ravens, or you know what I mean.

Brad Johnson of the Box this.

This is a legit future Hall of Famer and he's not even thirty yet. Yeah, so, uh no, what Camp City has done is is incredibly impressive. And I do think that, you know, everybody else is unnotice if they haven't been already. You know, are you gotta step up, Josh Allen, you gotta step up too.

You gotta step up? You know.

Now are our m v P which we will talk about honors in a minute.

Yeah, yeah, Well when do we want to touch upon? Shall we take a break?

Yeah?

So why don't we Why don't we reset a little bit more of the Lhaddle podcast. By the way, my mom was saying about Patrick Mahomes, I'll come with it, but Patrick Holmes, Mommy, Yeah, my mom's said either way, more of the podcast. We'll get into the NFL honors and all that good stuff. And something that I did as well that I don't think you're aware of it, that's on the other side, Hope.

Think that was one of the great moments you saw that Chintz of pocket.

Yeah, straight to.

The end zone.

I mean I thought that if if things were going the forty nine ers way and they had one, I thought that Juan Jennings.

Was okay, go jas.

I don't think they would have given him.

But you don't take on the game.

Maybe you know he's pretty impactful, very extremely Yeah, you listen. And Christian maccafery when he was running the ball, he was impactful. He was at NFL Honors where you were, which, by the way, so.

I was watching you and Colleen, both of you.

Besides being incredibly talented and knowing the two of you, you guys look stunning.

Thank you, absolutely gorgeous, both of you.

Can I tell you a really funny story about Colleen and I.

Honors.

I'm glad you thought we looked great, Thank you, Thank you so much, because we almost ended up looking like twins. Oh why because we pulled dress the ex at same dress, the black.

Dress that Colleen was rad you're saying, so there.

Were two of them or there was one and you both were gred.

No, No, we each bought the same dress and our girl, Cynthia Freelan was the one who saved our butts.

Okay, so were you wearing something from Cynthia Freeland No.

No, we found out. It was enough time.

We found out on Championship Sunday when the lines were. I called Cynthia for a wellness track to make sure she was okay watching her team, and she was like, okay, just distract me for a minute.

It was halftime.

She's like, what are you wearing? Honors. I described to her the dress and she like goes pale and I was like, what's wrong and she's like, I'm pretty sure that's the same dress Colleen bought. And I was like, we're adding calling to this this call right now, Call Colleen. Colleen doesn't answer me. She calls me later and she's like, you're kidding, You're joking, mind you. This is now Sunday before Pro Bowl starts. I'm leaving Wednesday, so that gives me two and a half days to find Again, you.

Have to do because you have to do the pre plan.

We had brought this dress back in December, right like duh, but like, what are the freaking odds?

So the plan was, okay, we'll each go effort.

Whoever finds an alternate first, like, we'll just let the other one know, right, So we're both scrambling. Thankfully, I like sent out the bat signal Attilie Indigo was the dress I ended up wearing. Shout out to them tremendous. One of our stylists helped us out and I was able to get the dress within a day, Wow, within a day. But yeah, if not, like we might just have leaned into it like this is not the official and spread carpet.

Oh have we not known? I think?

God, we're all friends and of course all we talked, but it was also a reminder to all of us, like we need to communicate better about these things. And of course Colleen and I were paired together on the red carpet, so it's not like, oh I was on this side, like we were the tag team that we were racking.

You knew there would be like a split screen will laugh somewhere else.

So hard like we put it.

Thank god, we're like vast Sea's essentially here. But yeah, just for low key, it almost had happened, like had we just shown up like the same freaking dress?

So how was it?

The behind the scenes of that, it was awesome.

This was the first time both Colleen and I had worked the NFL Honors red carpet show here for the network, so I had worked fun fact, the early years of my career started off in entertainment as well.

So I've covered a ton of red carpets before.

Colleen had never and I was like, girl, if anybody's gonna be fine, it's you.

Like, don't you worry.

Well, if you've done.

Inside training camp, you can do a red car but like, this is a non issue.

So we just had so much fun.

And our position on the red carpet was the very last one before you entered the theater.

We're literally at the theater doors, so everyone had.

To go to pass behind front of There's like no.

Choice, there's no choice.

So even if like we weren't interviewing someone, we got to see everyone through.

All of the celebrities. Ali Reisman, a big old medalist, came up. She's like, oh my god, I love your dress. I was like, I love you, Ali Reisman, Gymnasts USA.

Let's go unbelievable Easter Ray, who by the way, I met earlier in the week. So much happened, you guys, So much happened this week. She looked incredible. I mean there was just folks like floating around, running around, and all of our media friends of course too. We were really excited to see and all of the players. By the way, Michael Parsons was in chunklate.

You guys saw that, yes, and right again? So what was his reason?

He said, comfort first, okay, sat comfort first. His feet were hurting.

He's done a one different.

Cats a lot because.

He just seems to embraced who and.

What he is unapologetically his own style and flair.

And I love it.

You know what I've noticed about Michael too.

Almost every time that I've seen him off the field, he's eating a snack.

He's always got a snack.

What does he normally eat?

Last year at Radio Row he was eating I think cheetos or something. So I was like, you got a.

Little almost smoots right there. Great. He's like, oh my bad.

But he's very but he's very down to earth, like he's.

Very like I was hungry, Like I get that I.

Have snacks in my purse at every turn, whether it's got the so whatever.

And he's pretty tall guy.

Yeah, and so like in knowing like you're you were taller than Colleen?

I am taller. Yes, many people are.

She's any baby, Yeah, a little polly pocket. Love her so much, our little figure skater. You guys knew she was a figure skater, right, yes, yes, So that was honors. Then earlier in the week, myself and Cam Jordan, our buddy Cam Cam's Great Uh interviewed Reba McIntyre and Andre Day and Post Malone and it was such a cool experience ahead of them, you know, hitting the field for pregame performances. What a great group, what a I mean last year with Chris Tapleton and SHIRLEYE Ralph and Babyface was epic and like it's just every year we just get really cool people on the stage. But like Riba walked in and I was like, do I Curtsey, Like I don't supposed to.

It's like royalty right correct.

It took everything in me and I won't sing it because I don't know if we have the rights to this Randy from her from her theme, so I'm trying to save you. It took everything and me not to sing the song. But she could not have been kinder. She wo and I noticed, like the little things in folks, because this is how I conduct myself and I know you do the same thing.

Well, she came in and the first people she went.

Through was to the crew and introduced herself to the crew and shook everybody's hand like she's just classy. She's just a class act. Every one hundred day could not have been sweeter and more gorgeous. And post Malone is a sweetheart.

So I was going to ask you, so, how was she?

Like so so nice?

It seems like he's very unassuming, is that?

And like he's like a southern gentleman, Like he was like, yes, ma'am, so nice to me. I was one yes ma'am away from being like all right, now that's enough with the mama, all right?

Not that all.

I mean he's done like he's like coversion, he's done country. You can do anything genre, So I mean that that guy's top notch. And and he also has done a collaboration with Taylor Swift to like on her new album that's going to be coming.

Out everywhere and rightfully so, And like one thing we noticed is like, wow, he's really tall. He's very tall, Yeah, because he and Cam Jordan were chopping up. He's not as tall as Cam because is gigantic, but he's he's up there so like six one six too.

He's such like a big teddy bear.

Best talking to him and meeting him when we had a Super Bowl show here.

You know, he's our fellow podcast coworker the NFL.

Yeah, and he's always been, you know, friend of NFL network and during football and he.

Says, well that we need to cross promo because he's he hosted by himself and he gets really lonely, and I said, whenever.

Do it say a lot. Let's teach in some Spanish too.

He's in you know, you know, he's spent most of the summer with his family in Spain so that the kids could learn a little bit of space.

Yeah, let's let's make this happen here. Let us make this happen people.

One of the other highlights where and you probably saw them on the red carpet to the Latino Youth Honorees and they.

Are tremendous kids.

I got to host a executive session with them and they we brought in folks from the NFL League office just to show them different pathways. But one young man is on his way waiting for his acceptance letter from MIT amazing. His back up school is Stanford, Like, are you kidding me with this? And the young ladies are they're all most of them play either tackle or flag football and they're just such an impressive group of kids. I was like, look, I'm your theena. So when you guys are running like Fortune five hundred companies, like when you're like the next commissioner of the league, Like, don't forget about me, I just want an interview.

Hire me as a consultant. It's fine, We're here to help.

Combo.

It's a package.

But they were phenomenal, phenomenal And this is like a weird fun fact. But along with flag breakdancing is now also in the Olympics for LA twenty eight.

I don't even know if I knew that.

I don't know if anyone is familiar, like my breakdancing hip hop heads might know a man by the name of Crazy Legs who's from New York. He's Puerto Rican. He one of like the biggest names in breakdancing.

Did he start breakdancing?

No, I didn' start, but he was like one of like the big names that came out of like the break dancing movement and all of that stuff.

So he was there supporting the kids. He works a lot with the Hispanic Heritage Fund, so it was really cool. It gave me a lot of hope for the next generation.

I know, but are they gen z if you're seventeen, now are you gen Z?

Or is that the next whatever?

I think they have to be the next.

It has to be the next iteration of whatever. Yeah whatever twenty years or they might be at the cusp of whatever. We give gen Z a lot of craps sometimes, but man, they're really really That's.

Great And it was very fun seeing Diana there Florida Zoo Oh yes.

Podcast and you know that she was doing TV work for Unibcio.

Yeah, she was so she crushed it.

Yeah, she was at Lassana and we had to kept telling her go to bed, yeah, because she had to be. Her call time was six diurn in the morning.

It's amazing she don't want to leave. How her life is transformed. Ye.

And she's become this role model.

And I was with her at Pro Bowl too, so she's another one that did like Pro Bowl to Super Bowl.

Was the whole game, worked the game.

Yeah, she's crushing and I'm so proud of her, so happy for her. And I'd be remissive to say if not to mention a rock star from the forty nine ers team, someone most of you don't see but is absolutely on the field the entire game Serena Soriano. Yeah, is their senior producer and cinematographer out there. I got this great shot of her when I was rewatching the game at home, like right before the coin toss. She's out there with her big old camera just like front and center, right next to the lead referee, and I was like, look at.

Our girl, go embrace the grind.

And she's doing the.

Few latinas out they're doing cinematography for the NFL and just crushing it behind the scenes, so all of the content if you're if you're a Niners fan, she plays a huge role in what you see and a huge role in really focusing and lifting up the Latino fan base too.

So she was at last Ana too. She got invited, as she should because she's.

Crushing except me.

I there.

We were actually talking about this Al and I that we have to start a petition for.

Twenty twenty five, oh for me to go to the Super Bowl in New Orleans.

Yeah.

Yeah, we're calling it the Will Selva Initiative working title.

But is it gonna be like a GoFundMe page or not a go.

Just a petition because we can get you there.

We got you there, We got you just to make sure that you are present because this is just unacceptable at this point.

Well, I would love to be there obviously, and to hear all your experiences. So cool, so proud of you. You look good out there, just in your element. Interviewing players obviously tell you the Pro Bowl games too, So that brings us, I think to.

And your is what.

Is you can't let Latinos get together too often because this is what happens.

Okay, here we go.

We love this. Uh okay, but Victor said, is we'll be here all day one hundred percent?

Can't confirm.

At first, I didn't know if it was just he just knew the two step in the end zone, Victor cruise, you have.

To know more.

Absolutely, signature rushed it.

I was very excited that. I love that for us.

Colleen was like, uh, you're teaching me immediately, So she's in She's all in it.

But yeah, it was a party. It was a party, it was a reunion.

The producers were all in from the Red Carpet Show, Jeremy and and MOSSI said, what let's go.

He's down.

I knew Victor wasn't gonna say no either. No, So on one of the highlights.

Of my week for sure, for sure, for sure.

So my bunto is this.

So you know those Disney commercials of you just won the Super Bowl.

What are you going to do?

Oh?

Yes, I'm going to Disney World, going to Disneyland. Well, they had never done the commercial in Spanish, so I had a chance to do the first commercial in Spanish.

What I voiced?

Yeah, that's here, thank you, thank you, everybody appreciate that. So it aired in Uh, it's airing in Mexico and it's airing on all the Spanish channels in the US.

That's a massive wow.

Yeah.

I still can't believe it either. It is an incredible honor. Just this kid, Nico Roguan kid in San Francisco. So you would be able to do that, Like I remember watching it. I mean it's been going on for thirty seven years on the English side, but they've never done it on the Spanish side, So this is the first year that they did it. And I just remember when they reached out. I honestly thought like it was like a fishing scamming.

I was so I was like block.

And so uh because it was the thing. It's like how did they how did this come about.

Or whatever, and so they reached out.

Yeah, but but they they reached out and I was just amazed and did it. And I remember before I did the recording, they said, hey, not to put any pressure on you, but this is historic because you're the first one to do it, and so hopefully I'll get a chance to do it for as long as Mark Champion, who does it on the English side.

It just was an amazing experience.

They can just use that just under that check.

Yeah, well, I mean.

That's all, Well, that is incredible.

You kept that close to the beast too, because I have no idea you'd we can't really.

Yeah, but it's also too it's it's like it's tough. It's like everybody's like you got to throw it out They gotta throw it out there. It's like, you know, I just like always sometimes feel a little weird if I do or I don't, and it's like it's like this, this is like a big.

Thing and it's for our community. It's incredible.

So so I just felt like, gosh, hopefully that's like another kind of like a trail blazing thing that I'll be able to So.

That's a big boom man. Wow, yeah, I love it.

Thank you everybody, Thank you?

All right, and now we turned the page to the Combine.

Yeah, just when you guys thought we were going to get a break, no, correct, Hell no, you've been following along.

The season doesn't.

End, No, no, because listen, we've got free agency, crow days, we gott Combine, we got the draft, and who knows what's going to happen with the Bears and the first overall pick's field. They supposedly want a haul for that pick, so as a as they should.

Yeah, so there's gonna be some drama around that.

Someone will pay it.

Yeah, And like the Commanders now have Cliff Kingsbury is the OC, so who are they gonna pick? And then the Patriots and those teams have a lot of cap space. Yep, new coaches. It's it's exciting. So there's plenty plenty more.

At I love that, all right, my friends.

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