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The Valenti Show with Rico is Detroit’s must-listen daily sports show — where strong opinions meet smart analysis. Hosted by Mike Valenti and Rico Beard, The Valenti Show brings unfiltered takes on the biggest national stories and dives deep into all-things-Detroit sports: the Lions, Tigers, Pistons, Red Wings, Michigan and Michigan State. Whether it's NFL drama, playoff stakes or college football storylines, Valenti and Rico tell it like it is — no fluff, no fan service, just real talk. Catch The Valenti Show with Rico live Monday through Friday 2pm - 6pm EST on 97.1 The Ticket (WXYT). Full episodes, individual hours and show highlights drop daily wherever you get your podcasts.
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On today's edition of the show, Mike and Rico began with their thoughts on some of the new rules for the UFL and which of them they'd like the NFL to adopt. They took this topic up until the second hour, where they had a conversation on how bad the Red Wings have been in March, how confident they are in them turning this around, and Valenti's trade target for Steve Yzerman. The guys spent the third and final hours discussing a multitude of topics, one of them being the unaffordability crisis in sports, partially driven by Fanatics.
The guys asked which of the 4 new UFL rules they'd like the NFL to adopt the most. Then, Valenti had some potential players on the trade block and the teams most likely to make a move for each.
Kenny provided an absurd stat of how many games the Red Wings have won in March over the last few years. They gave their belief levels in Detroit to turn things around before Valenti offered a trade target for Steve Yzerman.
Mike and Rico discussed some big rumors in the NFL this week. Then, they were astounded by both the price and delivery date of WBC jerseys and chastized Fanatics for being the cause of this, which extends across all sports.
Mike and Rico spent the final hour with a reset of their main topics today.
Mike and Rico return to the Red Wings talk + continue to air out their frustrations about how expensive the sports experience has gotten.
Valenti shares the abhorrent price of Team USA WBC jerseys and explains how Fanatics has garnered so much negative attention.
The guys react to the latest NFL rumors.
Valenti and Rico go to the phone lines on the idea for the Red Wings to trade for Auston Matthews.
Mike wonders if Maple Leafs C Auston Matthews could get dealt to the Red Wings because of backlash from fans over his White House visit.
The guys + Kenny discuss their expectations for the Red Wings the rest of the season.
Mike and Rico have a conversation about an absurd headline involving a DP World Tour Pro.
Valenti has a list of 15 NFL players who could be traded and the list of teams they might be dealt. The guys try to guess which teams are the favorites for each player.
Mike and Rico take your calls and read a couple of texts on their UFL/NFL rules topic.
The guys go over 4 of the new rules in the UFL, picking 1 they'd like implemented in the NFL.
Valenti and Rico got today's show started with their disgust in both the Thunder for benching most of their players tonight and the NBA for allowing this to happen regularly. They shifted this frustration towards the Lions in the second hour, where they had a conversation about what they feel is an overwhelmingly high amount of loyalty to their current players. The guys stuck with this topic before resetting everything at the top of the final hour.
The guys started the show in an irate manner, reacting to the final Thunder injury report ahead of their game tonight against the Pistons. They questioned how this is possible and what the larger issues around the NBA are in relation to this. Then, they did a CFB Blitz to round out the hour.
Mike and Rico spent the second hour highlighting the Lions' head-scratching mentality when it comes to changing things up organizationally in order to maximize their chances to win.
Kenny joined at the top of the third hour to share some of the biggest storylines across the NFL. Then, they reset the Lions' topic from the hour before and took more of your calls on it.
Valenti and Rico wrapped up the show revisiting their 2 main topics of the day.
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Ricos takes are dumb
Skip made millions out of being a troll
Rico, love the podcast. However, what is with the Exorcist-type music that plays about every two or three minutes? Very weird.
Evan's audio sounds great.
I like this pod. I do have to ask though ... did Always Aggravated kick it when Sully left?
I felt this in my soul. We moved in to our new house three months ago. DIY all over the place. The last three months have been a cocktail of sweat, swearing and self-sabotage.
I came here to listen about the Andre Drummond trade not about the shity ass Spartans
This is exactly how I feel. I kept wondering yesterday if I was a psycho for not crying over this like my friends. Good to know I'm not alone.
Now last week's remarks on UM vs Army. 🙏🏻
So are we just done podcasting daily segments or what.
My Florida State fan wife scheduled our wedding on Ohio State's bye week in '14 (I'm from central Ohio, as was my whole side of the wedding) because she didn't want everyone watching their phones. One of my groomsmen is a UM fan so that was one of many setbacks for him that season. We went to school in Indiana so our IU friends were there, but not even they cared about Hoosier football. The one downside was missing the 61-58 Baylor-TCU game. It was a good year. Wife in October, title in January.
have you been paying attention at all? I'm going to answer that for you. No. not even a lil bit.
Definitely aren't Columbus. Columbus didn't have a terrible recession 😂
This is just a Michigan hate segment