It’s also not all that easy to get jazzed up for every match. The heavyweight clashes between massive teams, with fans going crazy? Well, the energy is there for those. But the matches that kick off late into the night, when Times Square is not as lively? They are trickier.
“I’m just trying my hardest to stay on. As you can see, my voice is already gone,” Akoto said.
And even then, goal reactions are a massive part of the whole deal. That is, in fact, where the content is made.
“If there’s a goal, we try to go out there, try to hype up the crowd and stuff like that. If it’s just a match where everybody is passing back and forth to each other, it is kind of hard. You just try to keep the energy up as much as you can,” Akoto said.
Of course, in a sense, this is nothing new. These two got here by being soccer fanatics. Franklin and Akoto both admit that their sleep schedules are regularly disrupted by the cadence of global soccer.
“You get used to waking up, watching the match, taking a little cat nap, then Arsenal comes on at 9. You kind of move on throughout your day from there and make the most of it,” Franklin said.
There’s life to consider, too. They have built sleep schedules and workouts around this thing. Filming, editing and posting social content also takes time. They may be getting paid a lot of money to watch football, but the responsibility is still very much apparent.
