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Politico
17-07-2025
- Business
- Politico
Data centers are drawing heat in Sacramento
With help from Alex Nieves, Juliann Ventura and Corbin Hiar TECH ISSUES: Affordability is the name of the game these days, and California's data center boom is prompting Sacramento lawmakers to try to make sure ratepayers won't foot the bill. The legislative push comes as California, with the second-most data centers in the country, tries to woo the tech industry while balancing its energy and water demands with electric costs spiking and threatening to climb higher. One measure moving through the Assembly right now, Sen. Steve Padilla's SB 57, would require the California Public Utilities Commission to establish a special electricity rate for energy-intensive customers like data centers that power artificial intelligence in order to prevent cost shifts. The CPUC would also be directed to prioritize new grid connections for customers that have backup power systems and procure zero-carbon electricity. He's already amended the bill five times, most recently on Monday. It now would give the PUC until the end of next year to establish the tariff, rather than July 2026, and would change the goal from ensuring AI data center proliferation 'does not result in cost shifts to customers' to simply requiring the state to 'minimize' those shifts. CalChamber, Data Center Coalition, Pacific Gas & Electric and Silicon Valley Leadership Group all had previously expressed opposition to the bill. The Data Center Coalition, for one, isn't won over by the amendments. 'It's important for California to remain competitive,' said Dan Diorio, vice president of state policy at the Data Center Coalition, a trade group of data center owners and operators in North America, Europe and Japan that includes Google and Microsoft. 'We certainly have strong concerns about [this legislation] that could potentially harm California's competitiveness for continued data center development in a very competitive national landscape.' CalChamber largely echoed those concerns in a letter earlier this month, arguing that the bill 'adds prescriptive new mandates and introduces project-level uncertainty that undermines California's ability to attract large-load operations such as data centers, advanced manufacturing, and other high-voltage, large load projects essential to economic and climate progress.' Padilla, though, cast his effort as a way to protect consumers from Big Tech's AI expansion and shield them from potential stranded assets. His bill is one of just several this session, including Assemblymember Diane Papan's AB 93 and Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan's AB 222, that aim to regulate the energy and water usage of data centers and where those costs land. 'It's about equity and cost,' he said. 'The goal here is to be careful that in a time when people are already constrained around affordability, whether it's housing or medical costs or just the cost of living in general, that we're not unduly and too rapidly shifting costs to folks based on having huge load demand consumers like data centers to suddenly come on and pull energy from the grid, creating scarcity that drives costs up for people.' One thing tech and lawmakers seem to agree on for now: They don't need more exemptions from the California Environmental Quality Act to cover data center construction, like those we've seen gain steam for housing development and advanced manufacturing in recent weeks. 'It is cumbersome to develop in California. There's some built-in barriers there, and it's part of the reason why you see the industry expand into other states, and I think there's a lot of questions about how or can the data center industry continue to develop in California,' Diorio said. But, he said, 'we have not proposed a data center-specific exemption' to CEQA. — JW Did someone forward you this newsletter? Sign up here! REGIONS RISE: Gov. Gavin Newsom and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas are throwing their support behind getting grid regionalization done this year. The two leaders committed Wednesday to reaching a deal on efforts to establish a California-led regional energy market to trade electricity more efficiently across state lines. 'This is our best shot at lowering energy costs, now the legislature must take action this year and deliver for the people of California,' Newsom said in a statement. Rivas, whose chamber the bill currently sits in, echoed Newsom's message, saying in a statement that 'there is an urgent opportunity now — this year — to lower energy costs for California families and businesses.' Their pledge comes two days after Sen. Josh Becker pulled SB 540, his regionalization proposal, from a hearing this week, after its original backers announced their opposition Friday over amended language that would create an oversight council with the power to withdraw energy providers from the market, a provision they argue would dissuade other states from joining a regional market. The issue has taken on more urgency recently amid concerns that energy providers in states like Colorado, New Mexico and Idaho could join a regional energy market based in Arkansas, instead of a California-led market. — AN POOLING GAS MONEY: Gas-price discussions are also still in flux, with authors of the Senate's sweeping gas affordability bill, SB 237, pulling it from Wednesday's Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee hearing ahead of what will likely be a flurry of dealmaking. A comprehensive package could emerge when lawmakers return from their summer recess in mid-August, according to sources in the Capitol whom POLITICO granted anonymity to discuss changing plans — but SB 237 itself won't be heard ahead of Friday's deadline for bills to clear policy committees. Rivas and Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire said in a joint statement Wednesday that they would 'continue working diligently together to deliver energy and climate legislation that lowers costs for consumers, and get it to the Governor by the end of this legislative session in September.' The bill's most notable proposal would move the state away from its unique gasoline blend, which is only produced by California refineries and can lead to shortages and price spikes when facilities go offline. Earlier language that would have also capped the price of low-carbon fuel standard credits was removed after widespread opposition. Newsom and lawmakers also plan to act on California Energy Commission Vice Chair Siva Gunda's recommendations for stabilizing gas prices, including pausing a proposed cap on oil refinery profits and bolstering in-state oil production. Newsom told reporters earlier this month that he's looking to 'move very quickly on some of those recommendations.' 'There's an imperative to move on this,' Newsom said. — AN START BUILDING: Clean energy groups are ramping up pressure on lawmakers and state officials to build solar and wind projects fast in response to Republicans' move to unwind Biden-era tax credits. Five major industry groups, including American Clean Power – California, the Large-scale Solar Association and California Wind Energy Association, said in a Wednesday letter to Newsom, Rivas and McGuire that dozens of utility-scale projects are at 'serious risk of delay or cancellation' after Trump signed a budget bill that requires energy projects to start construction by July 4, 2026, or begin service by the end of 2027 to qualify for federal subsidies. The letter calls on the California Public Utilities Commission to launch a solicitation process to procure more energy, a tool the state has used in the past — most recently during the 2021 shortage — that forces energy providers to approve new projects faster. The groups are also pushing for a clean energy exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act — a concept floated by Senate Budget Chair Scott Wiener — and the passage of AB 1156, a bill that would make it easier for farmers to convert agricultural land to renewable energy production. — AN AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION: Attorney General Rob Bonta is taking on the Trump administration again, this time for shuttering a longstanding disaster prevention program. Bonta joined 19 other AGs in a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the administration's shuttering of a FEMA grant program that funds disaster preparation and mitigation. 'In the name of cutting waste, fraud, and abuse, President Trump and his lackeys have once again jeopardized public safety with their indiscriminate slashing of pre-disaster mitigation funding,' he said in a statement. California is one of the largest beneficiaries of FEMA's Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, which has awarded over $5 billion in grants since 2020. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, alleges that the Trump administration violated congressional guidance to prioritize mitigation efforts and defied government spending authority by refusing to reallocate funds dedicated to BRIC on other programs. The complaint also says the defendants 'lack the authority' to shut down the program because the leaders were not 'lawfully appointed' to run FEMA. — JV WISH LIST: Exiled Biden-era Department of Energy officials have developed a playbook for advancing carbon capture that includes a nod to California's policies. The more than 30 proposals, included in a new report by the University of Pennsylvania's Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, include ideas that are likely to go nowhere under the Trump administration, like strengthening EPA's power plant air pollution regulations. But some concepts, like supporting additional CO2 pipelines and storage wells, could win bipartisan support in Washington and state capitals, Corbin Hiar writes for POLITICO's E&E News. The wish list also highlights existing policies in California that could be a template for other states, like its implementation of declining carbon-intensity targets for transportation fuel and its 2045 net-zero emissions target. — JV — Trump's cuts to the National Weather Service are hitting its California offices particularly hard as the state faces another potentially devastating fire season. — If it seems like your allergies are getting worse, it could be because climate change is making the fungal spore season longer. — An industrial Southern California city pledged to reduce a legacy of pollution, but its consideration of a new biofuel transfer depot is spurring controversy.
Politico
18-06-2025
- Business
- Politico
Tech-savvy California is still figuring out data centers
SACRAMENTO, California — For a state that considers itself a leader in both tech and climate, California is falling behind in both building data centers and putting guardrails around their environmental impacts. Democrats in Sacramento are taking cues from lawmakers in Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia as they explore special electricity rates for data centers aimed at controlling costs for other customers. They're also weighing new energy reporting standards to better understand the supercomputers' impacts on California's electric grid. Those proposals come as electric utilities are embracing data centers as a potential business savior that promises to increase electrical demand several fold after an era of energy efficiency. 'This trend is absolutely real for us,' Pacific Gas and Electric CEO Patti Poppe said during the utility's most recent quarterly earnings call in April. 'This will be so beneficial for our customers.' The handful of bills this year are a reaction to PG&E's November 2024 application to energy regulators for a special tariff for all the new data centers it anticipates connecting to its grid in Northern California — enough to require the power of roughly 6.5 million new homes in the next ten years and four times the output of its Diablo Canyon nuclear plant. Tentatively planned projects would add an additional 1.5 million homes worth of power. 'It's a big change, and not expected,' said Hunter Stern, assistant business manager with IBEW 1245, which represents PG&E electrical workers. 'For years, California's goal was to reduce emissions through efficiency and load growth was an indication that emissions would be going up, and we've changed that.' But for ratepayer and environmental advocates, it could go either way: Data centers could, if managed properly, bring down the per-customer grid costs that have been dominating the political conversation for months — or they could leave ratepayers with costly stranded assets and even outpace the growth of renewable energy on the grid. Another concern is pollution from data center power sources. The NAACP announced Tuesday it intends to sue Elon Musk's xAI over public health risks posed by 35 unpermitted natural gas turbines it says are polluting minority communities in Memphis, Tennessee. 'Will [data centers] use clean generation and battery storage?' Matt Freedman, a staff attorney at The Utility Reform Network, asked at a Senate hearing in April. 'The requirements established by the Legislature will largely determine what type of on-site generation is used by these data centers.' Enter state Sen. Steve Padilla and Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan. Both Democratic lawmakers are carrying bills designed to protect ratepayers from cost spikes as data centers come online. Padilla's SB 57 would direct the California Public Utilities Commission to set a special tariff for all power customers with at least 50 megawatts of load, while Bauer-Kahan's AB 222 broadly requires commissioners to minimize ratepayer cost-shifting that might stem from an uptick in data centers joining the grid. Each contains added sustainability components. Padilla's measure would allow the CPUC to set zero-carbon procurement targets for data centers. Bauer-Kahan's plan targets transparency by requiring data center operators to report how much energy is used to power AI models and assigns the California Energy Commission to track supercomputer energy consumption trends. Tech players like the Data Center Coalition and the business-aligned Silicon Valley Leadership Group have balked at the bills, arguing Padilla's special tariffs are ill-defined and that Bauer-Kahan's measure will force companies to reveal trade secrets. 'We're all kind of left to throw up our hands and kind of speculate as to what the economic impact of all of this may be,' said Peter Leroe-Munoz, Silicon Valley Leadership Group's general counsel. 'It could have a very real chilling effect on the development of needed data centers here in California.' But Bauer-Kahan thinks the real issue is cost. 'They won't say it out loud because you can't say we should be shifting these to ratepayers,' she said. 'It's a ridiculous thing to say.' Yet if lawmakers don't find a way forward soon, they risk losing the advanced infrastructure fueling Silicon Valley's artificial intelligence boom to other states while simultaneously failing to align in-state data centers with California's ambitious climate goals. 'Data centers are the can of spinach for the AI Popeye,' Leroe-Munoz said. 'Clearly, we're putting ourselves at a competitive disadvantage by making it more difficult [to build] while other states are actively working to make themselves more attractive.' Like this content? Consider signing up for POLITICO's California Climate newsletter.
Politico
18-06-2025
- Business
- Politico
Enviros, utilities and tech bros walk into a data center
With help from Eric He, Blake Jones and Annie Snider ASK CHATGPT: For a state that considers itself a leader in both tech and climate, California is falling behind in both building data centers and putting guardrails around their environmental impacts. Democrats in Sacramento are taking cues from lawmakers in Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia as they explore special electricity rates for data centers aimed at controlling costs for other customers. They're also weighing new energy reporting standards to better understand the supercomputers' impacts on California's electric grid. Those proposals come as electric utilities are embracing data centers as a potential business savior that promises to increase electrical demand several fold after an era of energy efficiency. 'This trend is absolutely real for us,' Pacific Gas and Electric CEO Patti Poppe said during the utility's most recent quarterly earnings call in April. 'This will be so beneficial for our customers.' The handful of bills this year are a reaction to PG&E's November 2024 application to energy regulators for a special tariff for all the new data centers it anticipates connecting to its grid in Northern California — enough to require the power of roughly 6.5 million new homes in the next 10 years and four times the output of its Diablo Canyon nuclear plant. Tentatively planned projects would add an additional 1.5 million homes worth of power. 'It's a big change, and not expected,' said Hunter Stern, assistant business manager with IBEW 1245, which represents PG&E electrical workers. 'For years, California's goal was to reduce emissions through efficiency and load growth was an indication that emissions would be going up, and we've changed that.' But for ratepayer and environmental advocates, it could go either way: Data centers could, if managed properly, bring down the per-customer grid costs that have been dominating the political conversation for months — or they could leave ratepayers with costly stranded assets and even outpace the growth of renewable energy on the grid. Another concern is pollution from data center power sources. The NAACP announced Tuesday it intends to sue Elon Musk's xAI over public health risks posed by 35 unpermitted natural gas turbines it says are polluting minority communities in Memphis, Tennessee. 'Will [data centers] use clean generation and battery storage?' Matt Freedman, a staff attorney at The Utility Reform Network, asked at a Senate hearing in April. 'The requirements established by the Legislature will largely determine what type of on-site generation is used by these data centers.' Enter state Sen. Steve Padilla and Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan. Both Democratic lawmakers are carrying bills designed to protect ratepayers from cost spikes as data centers come online. Padilla's SB 57 would direct the California Public Utilities Commission to set a special tariff for all power customers with at least 50 megawatts of load, while Bauer-Kahan's AB 222 broadly requires commissioners to minimize ratepayer cost-shifting that might stem from an uptick in data centers joining the grid. Each contains added sustainability components. Padilla's measure would allow the CPUC to set zero-carbon procurement targets for data centers. Bauer-Kahan's plan targets transparency by requiring data center operators to report how much energy is used to power AI models and assigns the California Energy Commission to track supercomputer energy consumption trends. Tech players like the Data Center Coalition and the business-aligned Silicon Valley Leadership Group have balked at the bills, arguing Padilla's special tariffs are ill-defined and that Bauer-Kahan's measure will force companies to reveal trade secrets. 'We're all kind of left to throw up our hands and kind of speculate as to what the economic impact of all of this may be,' said Peter Leroe-Munoz, Silicon Valley Leadership Group's general counsel. 'It could have a very real chilling effect on the development of needed data centers here in California.' But Bauer-Kahan thinks the real issue is cost. 'They won't say it out loud because you can't say we should be shifting these to ratepayers,' she said. 'It's a ridiculous thing to say.' Yet if lawmakers don't find a way forward soon, they risk losing the advanced infrastructure fueling Silicon Valley's artificial intelligence boom to other states while simultaneously failing to align in-state data centers with California's ambitious climate goals. 'Data centers are the can of spinach for the AI Popeye,' Leroe-Munoz said. 'Clearly, we're putting ourselves at a competitive disadvantage by making it more difficult [to build] while other states are actively working to make themselves more attractive.' — CvK, TK Did someone forward you this newsletter? Sign up here! STILL GOT SOME JUICE?: State Sen. Ben Allen's latest bid to require recycling of electric vehicle batteries advanced this afternoon, but he said 'intense conversation' with the Newsom administration lies ahead after the governor vetoed a similar bill last year. Gov. Gavin Newsom in his 2024 veto message bemoaned the administrative burden that would be placed on the Department of Toxic Substances Control — which would have been charged with regulating battery repurposing and recycling. Newsom suggested that Allen consider using a producer responsibility organization, in which battery-makers would take on more of the work, instead. For now, Allen's SB 615 looks much the same as last year's version, forgoing the PRO model and requiring the DTSC to set rules for how batteries are repurposed, refurbished and eventually recycled at the end of their useful life. 'We're still a little stuck on how to … read the most we can' out of the producer responsibility organization portion of Newsom's message, Allen — the author of another producer responsibility law for plastic packaging that Newsom delayed enforcement of in March — told the Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee today. 'It's funny, because their folks have not been as positive about producer responsibility organizations in other contexts,' he said. Nevertheless, Allen said he was 'feeling good' about negotiations with the administration so far as his bill cleared the Assembly committee. It now heads to the lower house's natural resources panel. — BJ 'LIVES AT RISK': Seven California prisons have halted work on how to protect prisoners from extreme heat after U.S. EPA canceled an Inflation Reduction Act grant last month, Ariel Wittenberg reports for POLITICO'S E&E News. The nonprofit Land Together's $1.7 million grant was intended to last three years and benefit more than 90,000 incarcerated people in the state. The group's executive director is warning that the cancellation could prove deadly. 'The cancellation of Land Together's EPA grant puts lives at risk,' Andrew Winn, the group's executive director, wrote in an email to the affected communities. 'Incarcerated people have very little agency over most aspects of their lives, including their exposure to harmful and even potentially lethal conditions.' Prisons are exempt from state rules that went into effect last year requiring employers to provide cooling areas and other alleviating measures at certain temperatures, leaving many of those employed in prisons — including incarcerated workers — without air conditioning. Many of California's prisons are located in the desert, and 60 percent of respondents in a 2023 survey of more than 2,000 incarcerated people by the Ella Baker Center of Human Rights said they had no access to air-conditioned rooms during extremely hot days. — EH AND THE WINNER IS…: After months of speculation, President Donald Trump has finally named his pick for Bureau of Reclamation commissioner: longtime Arizona water manager Theodore 'Ted' Cooke. The Arizonan's selection suggests that the high-stakes negotiations over the Colorado River — which supplies 40 million people across seven states, including one out of every two Californians, as well as 5.5 million acres of irrigated agriculture — may trump the president's fascination with California's intramural water wars. The seven states that share the West's most important river have been divided for more than a year over how to rein in use along the drought-stricken waterway. The current battle lines pit the Lower Basin states of California, Arizona and Nevada against the Upper Basin states of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming. Cooke's selection appears to be a win for the Lower Basin states — but those battle lines could get redrawn at any time. Cooke's pick also indicates that the administration is carefully attuned to the political salience of Arizona in those negotiations. The state, which is the most closely divided politically, is the most vulnerable to cuts under the century-old legal system governing the river. Its legislature must also approve any new deal to govern the drought-stricken waterway. — AS JUMPING RIGHT IN: The environmental law nonprofit Earthjustice has tapped Los Angeles-based attorney Adrian Martinez as the new head of its Right to Zero campaign aimed at increasing electrification. Martinez previously was a deputy managing attorney for the group's California office where he worked on air pollution cases. He replaces the retiring Paul Cort, who oversaw the campaign's launch, at a time when the Trump administration is threatening to repeal clean air regulations. 'There's never been a more pressing time for cities and states to step up to the plate and protect their health, their air quality, and their future,' Martinez said in a statement. — EH — Offshore wind opponents are targeting a federal grant to upgrade a Humboldt County port for turbine construction. — Tesla plans to shut down production of two of its models the week of July Fourth, and investors look skittish. — San Clemente is shipping in sand — and considering more creative methods — to slow shoreline erosion.
USA Today
11-06-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Nick Sirianni gifts Nolan Smith's fan club with its new mantra
Nick Sirianni gifts Nolan Smith's fan club with its new mantra An ever-growing Nolan Smith fan club should gain new fans after listening to Nick Sirianni. Eagles HC gives Nolan Smith his seal of approval! — Geoffrey A Knox 'GQ' (@GQ_4_Eva) June 10, 2025 If Nick Sirianni weren't a great NFL coach, it wouldn't matter much. With his personality, it's hard to see success eluding him. Seriously, he could have done just about anything he wanted to. Leadership conferences... Sales... Motivation and public speaking... Comedy... Fortunately, he found his way to the Philadelphia Eagles. The jokes are long gone, or at least they should be. Philadelphia has been on a tear since he talked to us and his team about flowers. He's led the Birds to Super Bowls. He's won one of them, and had the Kansas City Chiefs groundsman not greased the playing surface in SB 57, we're probably talking about him being 2-0 on the big stage. Who cares about the 'CEO head coach' thing? Doggone it, he's a CEO head coach. His coaches work hard for him. His players love him and will run through a wall for him. That's all that matters. Don't look now. All of a sudden, it's year five of his reign in Philadelphia. Nick Sirianni offers elite praise to Nolan Smith. The 2025-26 Eagles enter the coming campaign as the reigning and defending Super Bowl champions. OTAs and mandatory minicamp have come and gone. Philadelphia saw perfect attendance by the roster for practice at the latter. Coach spoke to the Philadelphia media right before the session began. Nolan Smith's name came up towards the end of it, and as he always does, Nick offered high praise for one of his guys. Expect Nolan's fan club to swell and add a few members after this one. 'He's always ready to strike. I love Nolan Smith. He is a tough dude.' That's quite the endorsement and classic Sirianni. That sounds like a rallying cry, something that should be placed on a T-shirt. And, some of you wonder why this guy's players would and have run through a wall for him... Nolan has battled injuries during both his collegiate and pro careers. Most recently, he tore his triceps during the big game. That led to questions about his recovery time and status for the coming season. Fear not. He's been given the seal of approval. He says he's ready to go, and even though it seems erroneous to call him an under-the-radar player. Platforms outside of Philadelphia are naming him as a potential secret weapon. It sounds like Coach agrees. "We have great people in this building, and you know it takes everybody. We have great doctors. We have great strength staff, a training staff that helps me know that when he's ready to go, he's ready to go." Who wouldn't want to play for this guy? He's a teacher and the ultimate hype man. He's like Flavor Flav in a visor, but Flav never won a Super Bowl, and he certainly doesn't have a coaching tree. Nick has a unique way of seeing the game, a unique way of leading, and the Birds have another Vince Lombardi Trophy to place on the shelf because of that.
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Nick Sirianni gifts Nolan Smith's fan club with its new mantra
If Nick Sirianni weren't a great NFL coach, it wouldn't matter much. With his personality, it's hard to see success eluding him. Seriously, he could have done just about anything he wanted to. Leadership conferences... Sales... Motivation and public speaking... Comedy... Fortunately, he found his way to the Philadelphia Eagles. The jokes are long gone, or at least they should be. Philadelphia has been on a tear since he talked to us and his team about flowers. He's led the Birds to Super Bowls. He's won one of them, and had the Kansas City Chiefs groundsman not greased the playing surface in SB 57, we're probably talking about him being 2-0 on the big stage. Advertisement Who cares about the 'CEO head coach' thing? Doggone it, he's a CEO head coach. His coaches work hard for him. His players love him and will run through a wall for him. That's all that matters. Don't look now. All of a sudden, it's year five of his reign in Philadelphia. Nick Sirianni offers elite praise to Nolan Smith. The 2025-26 Eagles enter the coming campaign as the reigning and defending Super Bowl champions. OTAs and mandatory minicamp have come and gone. Philadelphia saw perfect attendance by the roster for practice at the latter. Coach spoke to the Philadelphia media right before the session began. Nolan Smith's name came up towards the end of it, and as he always does, Nick offered high praise for one of his guys. Expect Nolan's fan club to swell and add a few members after this one. 'He's always ready to strike. I love Nolan Smith. He is a tough dude.' That's quite the endorsement and classic Sirianni. That sounds like a rallying cry, something that should be placed on a T-shirt. And, some of you wonder why this guy's players would and have run through a wall for him... Advertisement Nolan has battled injuries during both his collegiate and pro careers. Most recently, he tore his triceps during the big game. That led to questions about his recovery time and status for the coming season. Fear not. He's been given the seal of approval. He says he's ready to go, and even though it seems erroneous to call him an under-the-radar player. Platforms outside of Philadelphia are naming him as a potential secret weapon. It sounds like Coach agrees. "We have great people in this building, and you know it takes everybody. We have great doctors. We have great strength staff, a training staff that helps me know that when he's ready to go, he's ready to go." Who wouldn't want to play for this guy? He's a teacher and the ultimate hype man. He's like Flavor Flav in a visor, but Flav never won a Super Bowl, and he certainly doesn't have a coaching tree. Nick has a unique way of seeing the game, a unique way of leading, and the Birds have another Vince Lombardi Trophy to place on the shelf because of that. This article originally appeared on Eagles Wire: Nick Sirianni gifts Nolan Smith's fan club with its new mantra
