Awful Announcing
"I was terrible at being a brother, terrible at being a son, terrible at being a father, terrible at being a boyfriend. I was terrible at all of those, but I was a d*mn good football player."
"He’s provided the New York Jets with a list of demands. We’re full blown hostage situation at this point."
"And finally I kicked the last one right and Jimmy—just comes up to me and he says, ‘Let me see that'—he grabs it and just like—50 feet into a pond. So it was like, 'Well, there goes my putter.'"
"Brother vs. brother is a narrative for the ages, and we brought it to a t-shirt, and fans can’t get enough."
"These guys played at the top level and talk about the game the way they do, and I get to ask them questions? I don't take that lightly. It's a privilege; I'm grateful for that, and I enjoy the hell out of it."
"WSE has the reach and resources to be able to have a major impact on the footballing community, especially with its global audience of young fans."
The primary crossover here will be Jenkins & Jonez are Outta Pocket, featuring talent from The Volume's The Jenkins & Jonez Podcast and Wave Sports + Entertainment's Outta Pocket. This will include live Twitter Spaces at halftimes and live YouTube reaction shows after games, with those shows then being repurposed as podcasts.
The next big WSE talent push is in basketball, with several figures signed for their "Buckets" channel.
"If you're making TikTok content, it's not a matter of if you go viral, it's when you go viral. It just embraces creative people and doesn't care about where you're from, what you look like."
"We had at least hypothesized that talent is a way to develop that deeper relationship with that audience, putting a face to the brand to really make it feel like there is a voice and a personality that is behind the page, and helping separate ourselves from the ocean of football information that gets shared online."
"When a media company builds native studio capabilities to create its own original programming, you know they have crossed the threshold into a certain level of success."
