Clay Travis Show: Miami/Notre Dame, Tennessee HANDLES Kentucky, LSU/Bama, & Gay National Anthem

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Welcome in Clay Travis Show Friday edition, just hopping off Fox News. So a little bit late today. Congratulations, Stephen Miller, new White House Chief of Staff, major breaking news as Friday is playing out, continued fallout from the midterm shellacking on Tuesday that Republicans took. Also, Susie Wiles, she did an amazing job running the Trump 2024 campaign, and has done a great job, in my opinion, first couple of years of Trump 2.0, kept things calm. Stephen, as a friend, I think he will do a fantastic job. He's been on, we had them look it up, Clay and Buck 20 times over the years, one of our most regular guests. I think he's a wartime Chief of Staff, and this means President Trump is doubling down on immigration and crime. Two of the best things that he has accomplished, the border completely secure crime at an all-time low, such that those weren't even election issues in 2026 He did such a good job of solving the issues that they weren't even a topic. Okay, we got a bunch of things to dive into here. Let's start with the college football picks. We spent a bunch of time on this yesterday. I'll flash them up on the screen. Blood Bank Guarantee, Tennessee is going to cover the six and a half against Kentucky. I think Tennessee will win 31 to 10 That is my prediction. I love it. Blood Bank Guarantee, seven and two on the year. We're trying to take it to eight and two. It has been very good so far. Let's see if we can continue the run. You can see all my college football picks. We got a college football parlay that is up. And then we also, you just kind of run through all these, William. We also have the NFL picks. We won easily last night.

Maybe the easiest gambling win ever. Jags were a 10 point favorite.

We said, look, the Ravens are a disaster. That line should have been much higher. Easy win there. We got a hard rock NFL parlay over 52 and a half. The Lions minus seven over 40, over 52 and a half in Cincinnati, Atlanta. Lions minus seven over 41 and a half in Arizona, Seattle. Bears minus six. And I've got a Sunday night football parlay for you guys. DeAndre Swift, any time touchdown. Bears minus six and the under. That is for Sunday night football in that game. All of this you can find at the Hard Rock Bet app. In fact, if you go into the Hard Rock Bet app, you bet $5, you'll get $500. You will see my picture along with my favorite sports gambling picks for the day. Go to hardrock.bet slash clay. Bet $5, you get $500 in no sweat bets for new users. You can play in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee, and Virginia. If you're going to be in any of those states during the course of Thanksgiving or Christmas, go to hardrock.bet slash clay and you can get hooked up. Maybe you're going to Universal Studios, maybe you're going to Disney World, maybe you're going to the beach with your family. It's important to know the only legal sports book in all of Florida is Hard Rock Bet. And you can get hooked up at hardrock.bet slash clay. Okay, I want to give a positive new story here. Coming out of the election, ballot measures in Colorado, Washington, Arizona and Nebraska to prohibit boys from being able to compete in girl sports past everywhere. Overwhelmingly, Red State, Blue State, Purple State, everybody disagrees with boys being able to compete in girl sports, even Blue State voters. And congratulations, Colorado, passing this bill. And let me just point this out. I think this is important.

People have come after Sophie Cunningham since she said back in July that men don't believe in girl sports, men don't belong in girl sports, and that boys don't belong in girl sports, and men don't belong in women's sports, however you want to classify it.

What she said is actually the overwhelming majority opinion.

What she said is not controversial. I don't have any problem with controversial opinions. I have lots of opinions every day. Some of them get labeled controversial. That's how the marketplace of ideas works. What I have an issue with is dishonest treatment of opinions. The controversial opinion is actually that boys should be able to play in girl sports, men should be able to play in women's sports. If you want to argue for that, that's fine. I disagree with you, but that's the controversial opinion. Trying to label Sophie Cunningham as controversial is about trying to label her as unacceptable to play in the WNBA or be an outspoken proponent for basic common sense in women's athletics. They're attacking her, not because any of her opinions are actually controversial, but because in reality, the overwhelming majority of the American public agrees with her, and they don't want others to follow her. They're trying to make an example out of her by trying to tar and feather her. I appreciate the fact that Colorado and Washington have both stepped up and said, no, we are not going to allow this. This has gone viral. I think it's accurate to call this the gayest national anthem I've ever seen. This is from, not surprisingly, a Golden State Warrior game. A guy singing the national anthem before the game decided he was going to pull out a gay pride flag and begin to wave it during the national anthem. Here is Nat. You can see him on the side of the screen here, singing the national anthem, and he decides that he's going to, from inside of his jacket, pull out the gay pride flag and decide that he is going to wave it while he's singing the national anthem. Now, this is Golden State. This is San Francisco, and there was a reaction from some of the players who began to laugh, and I think he had a comment back at some of the players associated with this. All right, here's the deal, I don't care about the gay thing at all, right? I don't think most people do. I don't think you should make political statements while you're singing the national anthem. So I don't think you should pull out a Trump 2024 flag, or a Kamala 2024 flag, or any other prop while you are singing the national anthem. I think that the whole purpose of the national anthem is to unify everyone about how amazing America is, and celebrate all the great freedoms that we have, while performing before the game begins. I actually have more respect for people who say, well, we shouldn't even play the national anthem before sporting events because it's a sporting event, and why do we need to have any sort of patriotism associated with it? Then I do people who decide that they need to make statements of a political nature during the national anthem.