hello welcome to the backstory with goldstein i'm sure i have three amazing and wonderful guests today they come from the world of sports and the world community building and i'd like to introduce you to them on my left is reverend ed q and indeed he is the chaplain of the team the football team called the jersey lights and he have a lot to share with you today mark graves who is a wide receiver i'm told this is a football term but you can't tell but why do receiver with the football team and t his right is jake grundy who is the head football coach with the jersey flights and that's what we're going to talk about a new jersey flight ok gentleman what's it all about well thank you very much family phone football at an affordable price and with that we're looking to give back to the community we want to have a lot of social impact in this community by you know helping out with kids camps have an affordable tickets bring in charities to the game because we believe sports as a whole can really give back in and engage in and bring forth what's great in the community and that's what we're looking to do here and we're looking to bring on our quality football players such as this guy got to my left here should margrave's wide receiver who played at the university of rockers and he's just one of those players i know i was excited about playing in this area and giving back to to his state of new jersey and then we got revenue q and he's done a heck of a job for us and engaging some of our great local charities and a lot of different things in the communities definitely the churches and everything like that and i know as we go about that as well ok wonderful if you want to add anything to that reverend well basically here to keep the players out of trouble  are going to be role models here in mercer county hopefully that most of the members will be living in the city of trenton or mercer county and they're going to be role models for the youngsters and one of the good things about this arena football over the n f l is when games are over in the n f l teams and players usually run straight into the locker room but here with jerseys the like they're going to be on the field for at least forty game like you said at that again the kids come down in a family come down and you get a chance to not be just them just be a fan in them and them to be in the audience and you just be a player but you actually have an opportunity to be a part of one organization and family  family friendly so deftly fun and i enjoy enjoy it every time i'm out there i made some friends along the way plenty plenty plenty of friends put in when you guys have mentioned all three of you have mentioned role models and i think that's a critical factor here you're you're interested not only in sports but also in community building and people don't understand what is community building and what important ingredient issues show it's role model so can you give us some examples there is there is no doubt you know one of the biggest things that i always take from it is being a role model is is what we do kids camps and different things of that nature us being able to actually be out there with those kids and shown that we care you know i think that's being a role model that is the shown in that you care show that you're going to be there for them you know explain to them why you do what you do you know explain to them how being a good person saying please and thank you and all that kind of stuff because i know you know especially as me being a role model myself my brother has taught me this you go sometimes his kids doesn't want to listen to mom and dad where they to now so who is the next best person and he calls uncle jake because they know it takes a football coach and they listen to me because they sometimes they listen to their coaches and  professional athletes in there and they look at you in it and they mimic what you do so if we're setting the proper example and teaching them right from wrong especially at the youngest possible age and i think that's what it means you are talking about all time especially in our kids camps when i remember back in jacksonville is just being able to to show them the right way to do it and then also china hard work and sports is fun and that's a gauge kids you know hit with with sports a lot of our and also to me for most proper health you know here out in the community they're out there you know as much as you know has fun playing a video game on a rainy day when the sun shines out i want to i want the guys out there playing running around the kids get healthy and and that's what you see a lot of you know a lot of people promoting our days you know making sure they get their thirty minutes exercise and there's no better way than playing a little what you do and it being what you do being relatable that's the reason why we're able to to reach out to these kids and in a have a good response with us because we're relatable to them while because we're in their atmosphere of football a sport is what they love to do is what their m chaplain of the team one of the things that before me is to getting the players to think things through all the way through on the field as well as off the field you're being watched after the games are being played you know during the course of the week you know people are seeing you youngsters are looking up to you so you know think things through and as the team as they come into the community i want them the also be mentors to these youngsters to get them to think things through a community and role modeling the other part of it is this newest part of the well you're trying to build that as well can you explain something about what you're trying to do there in the first you know i would like to thank our for our field naming partner prime point jersey flat i'm going to say probably because they then coming on board as one of our stable partners basically allows the trenton area to know that there's other people and businesses behind us right now and a lot of those big businesses we want to let him know that we're here to put something on th field that train in the mercer county area and all of new jersey can be proud of and when that happens and we get these businesses behind us is going to help us because with that business i we launched a follow on c three which called jersey fly community and we applaud a lot of businesses because they do a lot of great things in the community and everything they do but we also want to reach out to them if they're not interested directly in you know advertising that they do ticket pledges for us because what we want to do is we want to bring as many kids to our games as possible  that our games we look to try to partner with hospitals and different things to do health screenings just fun activities for the kids before they gain and just just basically make it a all day event where we're not just coming in playing a football game and leaving a you said we want to be entrenched in that community and you brought it up to me kind of talking before the show can't do from afar you know what it means over there all day long and they can see us there from start to finish that means something to them they know we're just not a stopgap you know on  a saturday we're looking to be there twelve months out of the year and be a part of that that that uprise we're at downtown tritons can really be exciting place to be on the weekends and i know right it can touch on as he's driving around talking about us and a lot of different places in the community yes and that's you know a good point to mention you know getting into the community we'd like to get everyone involved and it's just not for the poor it's for the huge here in mercer county and throughout the state of new jersey you know he you know to media ninety states in mercer county was built on diversity and so we're looking forward just said that first group of youngsters as well as adults you know attending the games and businesses supporting us and you know making this whole community a great community there's no doubt if you're interested in you're watching the show and you're excited about being with us you know please go to jersey flight football dot com and you can e mail me on the head football coach will get in touch with the right people and it would be exciting you know to talk to anybody who's interested in working with the team i didn't raise this question we had coffee together in a diner for a couple of hours so we had a lot to talk about but i didn't bring it up what about females i mean generally we don't think of them as football players are they going to be part of yes actually i'm one of our owners keener we says the first female owner of a professional football franchise of any sort in any sort of rational sward there is and we're excited to have her on board and you know we always think about that she's also one of the second female firefighter playing field so i want to give her credit for and a lot of times believe it or not they say the smiling faces and the excitement that they provide during the games and and the work that they put in to make the halftime show an event because when you come to a football game we want it to be but we're not playing there's a stop an action we want to more action and that's really a lot of times where you know we've done a great job at other arenas we've been a part of where you see you know you know a lot even some hail to as well female tumblers and dancers and cheerleaders and they just add since so much excitement  flair and they love being a part of the game and we love them being a part of the game because as you know the fans they just want they want action to win soon as they get the building to the soon as they leave and that's what we're looking to provide with them so yes any time we can have have that quality  dance team with us i know keenan will be excited to have that and she's has many ideas about it going forward so it will be exciting for us ok well as a woman who's been a national coordinator of women's movement i appreciate that what is it that young people need that we're not giving them today that you're trying to give them that's as a great question and you know what i honestly believe is in some areas and especially in some you know urban areas there's not really a great platform to go out and play sport there's not there's not they don't hand it might not have the equipment and i mean they might not have the enough you know people in that area going out to the community and then there's also some areas that they just don't know really what football they don't know there's not enough people that are have the experience that a guy like show more has or i have to go help them build those programs so now if we can we can have them come out to us let us know about it be a part of what we're doing in the community to help them and one of our goals  games and we can have eight teams teaching them football getting them active in the community because sometimes you know if there's not as a boys and girls club in your community or anything like that they're all you do is stay inside you know i mean we do we need those we need to have an opportunity in some areas where they might not have an opportunity to get in and out and about and show them what we have to offer and you know sometimes it's it's you know silly because there is great programs and people just don't know about it so we want to do is you know using that platform from our talked about because we're in that world we're in that football culture we're in that that world that we can you know try to really pull them you know out into the community and off and off the couch and healthy and playing football and learning and and getting all those weeks great things so that's really what we really want to try to help do in the community in the sort of big back for that i would because i work with kids myself on off the field and on the phil and the biggest thing with me that i see that is missing with these kids nowadays is think the concept of creativity and confidence so that's one thing i taught instill in them in on thing like again because we're relatable when we play this game and they see it as a as a role model when more so it is an example  because we can show how it's done how would you take your flaws of it in failures of it and be capitalizing on it so that's how you build confidence you prepare harder you prepare hard and these kids don't want to have a clear understanding of preparation man and it still is a different level of confidence that these kids are missing and them being able to come down to the field and taught to us before now that a game a c is performed on a game you see the whole entire process rather than just the end result you just see you see more than just a television show you see actually experience enjoy the experience with this so and also the creativity man these kids are like east coast they're not going out there and actually preparing properly they're just going through what they see little fifteen second clips on for quickly but not to get in coast up on how to do it well you know you get to see this play and in it to ask questions after the game will also you do this why did you do that so now you understand they understand our mindset of creativity so creativity and compass is the biggest thing these kids miss and i believe in it but in january going to start yes so our training camp will probably kick off or around the end of february and then we'll go in to march in the season will kick off right there in april and the end of march early april and we'll go all the way to august we're really excited right now we stretch all the way through the east coast and we hang a little hang a little hook and then we actually end in mexico which we're on the international team in mexico which is a real neat you know trip for us when we have to go down there and then backs up to goes to corpus christi th albany georgia jacksonville florida although we have to columbus georgia then up to do north carolina then up to lehigh valley then back to us and we're in the process right now of adding a few other markets we're open to land a few teams up near maine and one in massachusetts and so we're really excited about an opportunity and and you're near old stomping grounds in new york city we're trying to get one a little near long island of hope and that does happen in the near future so they're doing some construction they're working out some some things there so this league is right now it is starting to build and we're excited to be a part of that building growth i think it's really i always think my personal self it's great to be some from the ground up be a part of what it stands for and what it was being built and that's what we're trying to do here in jersey where you know we started the nonprofit trying to show people that we're here in the community and that's what we're really excited to be a part of your t v show and we really appreciate it and really appreciate you know our sponsors like prom point and  different things like that being a part of what we're trying to do here so if someone wanted to can contact get in touch with you just so they go to jersey flight football dot com and they can go on there right now and they'll have the links for all the football coaches my e mail address is right on there you can e mail me i can get you in touch with everybody who needs you need to talk to specially comes the tickets on there we sell tickets on there right now watch kegel comes out the end of november but right now we can take the positive so if you want to make a deposit and just hold hold your tickets that's fine and once we get your deposit in this schedule that will call you back and you'll be on the first call back listen you can first seeds are your choice so that's why we're really excited about taking the positive we actually have an open tryout coming up here which is very important for all the surrounding mercer county new jersey to philadelphia people can mean more sound new jersey and this open tryout gives guys that might not be on my radar and i don't get film from maybe maybe play one year college football than in training and plan and shape want to play football they can come to an open trial more sound new jersey it's on our website and then come tryout tomorrow be there evaluate some talent i'll be there evaluate talent off as a coordinator read came to the last open trial and we're trying to do is we're trying to find those local town guys that want to play football and be able to give back to their community but happen to live here that i might not know about and believe it or not over the years of these open trials we have signed some tremendous talent in some of these leagues that i've been from and just because we just didn't know about him and a guy just you know decided they want to come out and slice it gets really excited about that and you know in jacksonville kind of one of the reasons that led us to a championship down to jacksonville i got this ring on there and say this i got good so we got an opportunity to win it a readable down there and you know this is the reason why is because we're out in our community trying to discover the best talent that's down there and that's what we did in jacksonville and you know one  years after that i was able to land this guy and you know show martell tell me about your experience playing your first ever in a football game coming out with the fireworks going to touchdown in jacksonville and and what we're trying to build here in the jersey number ones are there's a interests is also with the players will also be what are you going to do after football what do you think after your meaningful well and it's the same way with the youth you know everyone's not going to play a ring of football everyone's not going to go into the l what are you going to do it's about education you know about jobs the type of job you can have so i'll be working with the players on setting up you know what you're going to do after arena football you know working with down or from the bottom up so the example they gave was coffee pot where do you use a percolator comes from the bottom up what do you use a drip coffee coming from the top down and we decided at the time it was from the bottom up so actually community building starts at the community yeah and that's where you want to be and that's where you choose to be so that's your country production to your community and i can only