Leeds United investor Larry Nance Jr explains how his Elland Road investment journey began with 49ers Enterprises and why the club 'feels like home'.
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00:00um so like i said i've been i've been passionate about this sport for as long as i can remember
00:11so i yeah i've always just watched it been a fan of played the video games all every consuming
00:16every bit that i possibly could um and then a little later into my nba career when you know i
00:23signed uh you know i signed some contracts that meant i'd stay around for a while and i meant i
00:28i've got a career here um i started looking into getting involved i didn't know what that meant
00:33um whether it was hey i'd love to watch some film and maybe scout some kid in you know in you know
00:43it's just learn in any way i could and so i started you know dabbling in like in in that world just
00:50trying to get my name out there and and um another another co-investor and a good friend of mine tj
00:56mcconnell actually is the one that that kind of turned my attention to uh to lead specifically um
01:03and once he did it was i took a visit me and my wife took a visit and it was just like like i'm
01:11from cleveland again like come from a blue collar you know working town like it's it's very we are
01:17we are passionate cleveland sports is all we have in cleveland so the browns the guardians the brown like
01:24the calves like that's just who we are that's what we do we go to the games we talk about it
01:28and after visiting leaves being at a game and then just like walking back meandering back up
01:34into town center with everybody after the game it's just kind of like this is home this feels like
01:40these are my kind of people like this is very for you know for midwestern working class like
01:45and and uh i don't know just it it was a fit right away
01:51you