That's the two weeks the 49ers face off against the
Chiefs in Super Bowl
58. The president of the San Francisco 49ers,
Al Guido, is actually with me here in the studio.
Welcome to the show, Al.
Good to see you. Thank you for having me on.
Let me suggest there's a certain problem that you might
have.
Your current quarterback, Brock Brock Purdy,
right? He lives with a roommate to save on rent.
He makes about seven 870,000 bucks a year.
Patrick Mahomes, QB for the Chiefs.
He makes 57,000,000. If you your team wins,
you're going to have to pay your man,
your quarterback, a ton of new money,
aren't you? Yeah, it's a great story.
I mean, Brock's already being the last pick in the
NFL draft.
I know they call it Mr.
Irrelevant, and now he's very relevant.
Of course, he's been a a wonderful story for us
on the field,
but we got a ton of good storylines going into
this game.
I mean, Christian McCaffrey and his father playing with Mike
Shanahan and Kyle Shannon being our coach.
We played this team in 2019 in the Super Bowl.
We came out on the losing end,
but we had a lead late into the game.
But this is going to vote for the 49ers.
You know, it's a great question.
I mean, the players get paid a playoff share as
part of their collective bargaining agreement and then we certainly
can sell tickets.
But the the majority of the revenue goes to the
NFL and then it gets distributed down to the 32
teams as part of our revenue sharing.
So technically, we don't necessarily make a lot of money
on this game.
Now there's no question it it helps on our demand
side in our own market with future season tickets,
corporate sponsorships, media, etcetera. It does a lot for us.
Is there a bonus here for the team and for
individual and the players?
There is if you win there is.
Yep. There's a there's a bonus for the team and
players.
I I don't want to get into it.
This is a financial program.
It is. It is calculated for every single player.
But there's a there's a good bonus for those guys
to go get.
What do you think of Taylor Swift?
Oh, I think it's fantastic.
I mean you want her to if you wanted to
go.
Yeah we should all lean into this.
It's a great listen. It is a great story.
Starts everything. We have our a wife on our team.
Kristen use check actually made her jacket,
so he's the fullback on our team,
the jacket she wore to one of their games.
Now she's an NFL licensed apparel designer.
And so this is just a great story as I
listen,
as a father of three girls that had Taylor Swift
twice in Levi Stadium this year,
she did $33 million in economic impact within two days.
This is great for all of us.
It's also good for the image,
isn't it? I mean very wholesome singer and performer and
entertainer.
Somewhat different from somebody else that you could
got to get into if you want to.
And honestly, I think the game is great.
Las Vegas is a great storyline.
You add everything else into it.
My guess it'll be the most watched television program this
year,
96 out of 100 of the most watched television programs
were NFL football games.
This past Sunday we did
58 million people that tuned into our game is against
the Detroit Lions.
So if we're doing 58 million,
get ready for hundreds of millions that are going to
be tuning in This week was your mood ring?
Was the only ring acting up?
As I told you, my stress level was high
at halftime. We had a
24/7 deficit and my aura ring was giving me alerts
around my heart rate.
Ted Ted Riggs is from San Francisco.
Yeah, I don't have a a mood ring,
but I brought my lucky hat for you.
My lucky Niners hat. Go ahead.
My my question for you is I think where's the
future for Niners or the NFL?
Is the growth global? Is it international?
It it is absolutely global.
You know, we locked up our media deals a few
years ago and there's been a lot discussed about that,
whether it's the streaming deal that we did this year
on Peacock for a playoff game or Amazon Prime on
Thursday night.
But international is definitely the next frontier,
and we expanded the amount of games that we're going
to play.
Next year, we're going to play in a game in
Brazil.
The previous year we did Germany.
The 49ers are the one of the first teams to
ever play a game internationally.
They've now opened up markets so that technically the San
Francisco 49ers can sell our rights and marks in the
UK and Mexico,
which I think is a great frontier.
And then lastly, it's great now that flag football is
a sport,
it's an Olympic sport, It's going to be played in
LA 2028 and now it's being sanctioned as a varsity
sport for females,
which is fantastic. But you do realize that Premier League
soccer from England is invading your territory here in the
United States and taking some ratings away from the NFL.
You do. You accept that?
Not only do I realize it and accept
the San Francisco 49ers are the owners of these united
and we're not in the Premier League,
we understand that right now we're striving to get back
there.
We're I think we're you know right now third in
the table.
But yes, we understand it and appreciate it and respect
it.
Best of luck in the Super Bowl.
Taylor, thanks very much for being with us for the
always appreciate it.