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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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Valenti and Rico spent the entire show previewing Cowboys-Lions and talking about how Detroit wins tonight. TJ Lang joined them in the second hour before the guys took your calls for the remainder of the show.
Mike and Rico began the show with their preview of Lions-Cowboys and why Detroit would win the game. Then, Rico gives his top 14 NFL teams of the week.
TJ Lang joined the guys in the second hour to add to their ongoing Cowboys-Lions preview.
Mike and Rico wrapped up today's show with their final thoughts ahead of the Lions' must-win game against the Cowboys tonight.
Mike and Rico continue their Lions talk into the final hour.
The guys + TJ Lang take your calls on Cowboys-Lions
Valenti, Rico, and TJ keep the Lions-Cowboys talk rolling.
TJ Lang joins the guys to preview Cowboys-Lions.
Rico gives his top 14 teams in the NFL this week.
The people chime in on Cowboys-Lions tonight.
The guys discuss why the Lions will win tonight if they do, in fact, win.
The guys wonder how the Lions will win tonight if they indeed beat the Cowboys.
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Valenti and Rico kicked off the show with a conversation about Pat Fitzgerald and what reasonable expectations would look like for the MSU football program going forward. They shifted over to an interesting question involving Brad Holmes, Scott Harris, and Sherrone Moore before covering a multitude of topics in the third hour, including the Lions-Cowboys injury report. They put a bow on today's show revisiting the Holmes/Harris/Moore topic.
The guys opened the show with a conversation on what we need to see from Michigan State under Pat Fitzgerald and what realistic expectations for the program are. Then, they talked about a CFB tier list on an In Football Today to wrap the hour. \
The guys opened and wrapped hour 2 asking if the honeymoon with Brad Holmes, Scott Harris, and/or Sherrone Moore has ended.
Valenti and Rico started the third hour with a normal CFB Blitz. Then, they reacted to the Lions-Cowboys injury report before everything went off the rails and they ended up spending the rest of the hour having a discussion about specific aspects of the Rocky movies.
The guys wrapped up the show with their final thoughts and your final calls before Wojo & Riger joined them in cross-talk.
Valenti and Rico return to the topic that they kicked off the show with.
The guys have a discussion about the Rocky movies.
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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