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Speaker 4: Jeff Riddle. Hey, everyone. Jeff Risen here. Wanna wish everyone, first off, a happy Father's Day. Welcome to the DLP. It is Father's Day, Sunday, June 21, first day of summer. And this is, this will be, for those of you who have of my generation might remember, a very special episode, of the Daily DLP, and that is because this is my first Father's Day without my dad. My dad passed away New Year's New Year's Day morning, and, I've been wrestling with it for a couple days now about, you know, the fact that this is my first one where I am the oldest in my family and like my entire extended family on my dad's side. I'm the oldest male dad. That's kind of crazy to me. Wanted to focus just a little bit on the sports side of dad dom and my dad and just, you know, all the I think one of the things that resonates with me now is I think back to, when Frank Ragnow, the former Alliance Center, talked about losing his father unexpectedly. And by the way, my father's death was not unexpected. He had battled cancer for some time. He had a quite a litany of health problems. He was 80 years old. So it wasn't, it wasn't a shock, but it still sucks. But and and here and remembering other players when they talked about the influences that their dads have had on them. And my dad, look, I grew up on a farm. We were farmers. We did not have a lot of time or resources to pour into sports. But I do remember very vividly, my dad was a very proud Ohio State Buckeye graduate, class of 1968 in dairy science of all things. And he was much more of a college football fan than a fan of anything else, and that includes the NFL. And we had, Ohio State season tickets. From the time I was born, I was actually born in September during the season, and I went to my first game that November. I was six weeks old. That's that's that's the you know, we indoctrinate people early in Northeast Ohio, as I'm sure many people around Michigan do as well. And, one of the treats every year was I got to go to one or two games throughout my childhood. My dad kept those tickets all the way through my marriage. I was married in 1996. My thirtieth year anniversary is coming up very soon. And, he actually, paid for our rehearsal dinner by selling his season ticket seats for the Ohio State Notre Dame game. It was the first time that they had played in forever, and he wound up, selling the beach for, $3,500 a piece, which thirty years ago was a lot of money. Still is for that matter. But that was that was sort of his showing of, you know, this is what I'm sacrificing for you, and that's what dads often do.

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Speaker 4: I I remember he always made time on Saturdays, even when we were on the farm, if he could, to to watch Ohio State games. And I always watched with him. I learned so much, you know, just general football. So my dad, had a disability that, it prevented him from being able to participate actively in sports when he was young. He had a club foot. But he never let that get in the way of like going out and tossing the football around, tossing the baseball around. We actually have lacrosse sticks, like very old wooden ones that we used to throw back and forth. You know? So he he did what he could on it, but I I I think to now and I see, like, when I go to Lions Camp and you see Pene Sewell's kids running around, Alex Anseloni's kids running around, They they were awesome. It's always cool to see the families and everything like that and the sports side of dad dom. You know, the job that I'm in now and the way that I live now, I I get to see a ton of that. And it's very special, and it's very cool. And that's something that I wanted to just get out there on Father's Day, is that every little bit matters. Now, when I was in high school, I I played tennis, and my dad never saw a match. And that always bothered me, because he just didn't have time. And I like, I understood, but, that's one of the reasons why now as a sports dad, I try never to miss anything, as much as I can. I'm about to go on a trip with my daughter to Orlando. We're going down for her final time playing at the AAU Junior Nationals volleyball tournament. She's 17, like, junior high school going to be a senior. And, when you're a senior, you don't get to do this anymore. So I I I won't miss that for the world. I travel all over the place. That's one of the reasons why you get these at weird times from weird locations with weird hotel backgrounds. You know, my son, plays basketball for for Michigan Tech. I remember, god, going to all of his places and all the the college recruiting camps and all the tryouts for club ball and AAU. It's what we do as dads and what I'm proud to do as dad. And I was very blessed that my dad, who was not like somebody who was gonna get warm and fuzzy about it, made sure that he tried to make as many of my kids events as he could. And he never said it, but it didn't need to be said because he wouldn't have said it anyways. That's how dads from that generation were. It was his way of letting me know that he was sorry about it. And, you know, we all have different relationships with our dads if we're blessed enough to know them and spend a considerable amount of time with them, and I was. And those are the types of things that I want folks to remember. You know, I always love when I see, you know, sports dads. And most of my good friends now, my peer group is SportsDads. That's that's who I hang out. That's who I'm with most weekends throughout the year. And, they become an extended family. And, you know, a lot of them come and go out of your life, and you keep tabs on them for a while. And I wanna say to all of you guys who ancillarily know me, that's probably not even a word, but, happy Father's Day to all the dads from all the basketball teams that my son and daughter played on, all the volleyball teams that my son and daughter have played on, All their coaches, they've had some great ones, and a lot of dads spend a lot of time coaching. I know many of you who are watching. Coach your kids in Little League or coach your kids in Pee Wee football. It's very cool to me to see my DLP colleague, Russ Brown. His son is a high school football player who's getting gathering some college attention. And just to see Russ and hear him talk about the way his son is is going through everything, it's it's awesome. So appreciate that. Cherish it. If you're blessed enough to still have your dad with you, make sure that he knows that you love him. Make sure that you know that he knows that you're thinking about him and that you're grateful for everything that he's done for you. Doesn't all have to be rosy like my dad and I fought at times. That that's what we do. But on this day, remember the good times. And I salute you with coffee that my dad would never drink. One little quick story on that. My first ever Cleveland Browns game, I grew up by Cleveland, it was very, very cold. And my dad never drank coffee. That's that it's just not not gonna happen. He ordered a coffee and just held it with his hips, with his gloves. I didn't keep his hands warm. And just little stupid dad things like that, those are the sorts of things that you'll carry on and remember. And those are the things, like, if you're a dad, don't be afraid to do those sorts of things. It's fun, your kids will remember. I'm sure my kids have stories about stupid things that I've done or weird things, non sequitur things that I've done, and that's that's what it's all about. So happy Father's Day, everyone. Jeff Riston signing out. Be good to one another, everybody.