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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 kicked off a packed New Year's Eve show with a conversation surrounding how little people care about Michigan's participation in the Citrus Bowl against Texas today. He took that topic until the second hour, where he presented a plan for Brad Holmes and the Lions to get back into Super Bowl contention this offseason. Mike talked about his Detroit sports resolutions in the third hour before wrapping the show with a recap of all of today's topics.
Mike started the show discussing the Michigan-Texas Citrus Bowl game and why the lack of interest is as palpable as it is right now. He talked to some of the people who shared his sentiments before Kenny joined to discuss some CFB New Year's resolutions.
Valenti spent the second hour offering a strategy for Brad Holmes this offseason to go all-in.
Mike gave some of his Detroit sports New Year's resolutions in the third hour.
Mike spent the final hour putting a bow on all of the issues he and Kenny tackled today.
Valenti opens the final hour returning to his Lions' offseason proposal topic from the second hour.
Mike takes your calls on your New Year's resolutions for Detroit sports.
Mike discusses his New Year's resolutions he'd like Detroit sports to adopt in 2026.
Evan joins Mike and Kenny to give their picks for this week/weekend in sports.
Valenti shares his idea for the Lions to get back to Super Bowl contention status.
Mike takes a few more of your CFB calls before he shifts gears to the Lions.
Kenny joins to discuss some CFB-related New Year's resolutions.
Valenti takes a few of your calls on the state of college football.
Mike opens the show lambasting the current state of college football and the insignificance of various bowl games not in the CFP.
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Valenti kicked off today's show with a conversation about Jared Goff, which stemmed from some supportive comments from Dan Campbell about his QB. He wondered if Goff is good enough to take the Lions to the Super Bowl and if we should be comfortable with him being the QB long-term. Mike pivoted briefly to give his two cents on Michigan's hiring of Kyle Whittingham before returning to the Goff talk to wrap today's show.
Mike opened the show reacting to some comments from Dan Campbell regarding the future of Jared Goff as the QB of the Lions. He shared his thoughts on whether Goff could lead Detroit to a Super Bowl before he and producer Corbin previewed each game of the CFP slate this week.
Valenti spent the second hour with more thoughts and calls on today's Jared Goff conversation.
Corbin joined Mike again to begin the third hour for an In Football Today before Valenti gave his first extended thoughts on Kyle Whittingham being hired as the next Michigan head football coach.
Mike wrapped up the show with his final thoughts and took your final calls on today's Jared Goff topic.
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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