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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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In the best of the Red Wings on 97.1 The Ticket this week, The Valenti Show, Karsch & Anderson & Costa & Jansen with Heather break down some pre-season comments made by Steve Yzerman
Mike and Rico kick off this week's Best Of Valenti with a complaint about the officiating problem in the NFL. Plus, they talk about Tom Brady's conflict of interest as an NFL owner and broadcaster, more frustrating comments from Steve Yzerman, and much more!
Costa & Jansen are joined by Ross Tucker to preview Lions-Ravens. Plus, Karsch & Anderson wonder if the Lions' offense is going to be okay and Valenti explains why he'd rather have Baker Mayfield as Lions QB instead of Jared Goff.
The Tigers are collapsing before our very eyes. How did they get here? And can they fix it?? The season hangs in the balance.
Mike and Rico got this Football Friday show going with a question about MSU/Michigan football and the Lions, and which of these teams has the most to prove this weekend. The guys were joined by TJ Lang in the second hour to get his opinion on the inaugural topic of the day before they previewed Lions-Ravens on Monday night and did "The Picks". Then, they finished out the show revisiting their conversation on MSU/Michigan.
The guys started today's show asking which of the Lions + Michigan & MSU football have the most to prove this weekend. Then, they did the Prop Bet Casino to round out the hour.
TJ Lang joined the guys in the second hour in his weekly Friday spot to answer Valenti's question of the day, preview Lions-Ravens, and do The Picks.
Mike and Rico began a packed third hour with "Who Said It?" Then, they took more of your Lions/MSU/Michigan calls before they had a discussion about the status of Marcus Davenport and their frustrations with his lack of availability.
Mike and Rico began the final hour revisiting their conversations earlier about Michigan and Michigan State football. They took some more of your calls and read your ticket texts ahead of Tigers baseball.
The guys hear from more of the people, this time in response to the two topics they've posed in the final hour.
The guys offer their opinions on whether they think Michigan will beat Nebraska tomorrow.
Valenti and Rico wonder about the status of Marcus Davenport and if he's set to miss an extended period of time with a chest injury.
Mike and Rico take a few more of your calls in response to the question they posed earlier.
The guys + TJ give their picks for this weekend in football.
Mike asks TJ Lang his critical question this week.
The guys and TJ discuss some potential injury absences for the Lions this Monday night.
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TJ offers his two cents on which of the Lions and Michigan/MSU football has the most to prove this week.
The guys give their picks for this week's Prop Bet Casino.
The people chime in on today's topic 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