WEBVTT - 10-25-25 Sports Talk with Chick Ludwig 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.760 Seven point fifty seven in the Queen City of Cincinnati, 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:11.640 chick Ludwigs seven hundred WLW. This is Sports Talk. Joe 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:14.640 Waddell is tonight's producer. We're going all the way to 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:18.680 nine o'clock tonight, and congratulations are in order for the 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:23.560 University of Cincinnati Bearcats. They defeated the Baylor Bears today 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:27.920 forty one to twenty at Nippert Stadium on homecoming and 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:34.159 Hall of Fame weekend. It's UC's seventh consecutive victory, pushing 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:37.479 their record to seven and one overall and five and 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:42.919 oh in the Big Twelve, and it also allows them 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:47.800 to remain atop the Big Twelve conference standings with the 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:51.840 BYU Cougars, who scored a come from behind forty one 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:56.080 to twenty seven victory at Iowa State. But don't be 0:00:56.200 --> 0:01:00.639 deceived by the lopsided final score today at Nippert, there 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:05.000 were signs pointing to a nail biting ending is Baylor 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:08.840 stormed back from a twenty four to nothing deficit to 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:12.759 pour within twenty seven to twenty early in the fourth quarter, 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:17.800 but when the Bearcats desperately needed a big scoring drive 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:21.200 the most to swing the momentum, back in their favor. 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:25.640 They got it with a twelve play, seventy five yard 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:31.000 march that quarterback Brendan Soresby finished with a twenty three 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:35.040 yard touchdown run. And on that drive that chewed up 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:38.720 seven minutes twenty one seconds, u Se converted a third 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.480 and nine pass to Noah Jennings for a first down. 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:46.600 Evan Pryor ran for twelve yards. Tywee Walker converted a 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:50.520 first down on a brutal fourth and one yard run, 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:53.280 and then Soresby worked his magic. 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:56.200 His TD gave you see a. 0:01:56.200 --> 0:02:01.640 Thirty four to twenty lead, and then baylors Cole Wilson 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.400 fumbled the ensuing kickoff and a helmet to ball hit 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:09.120 by Tayden Barnes that Jakwan Sanks recovered. Three plays later, 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:12.799 Soresby rifled an eight yard TD passed to Isaiah Johnson 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:18.320 and the Bearcats win forty one to twenty. Hey, I've 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:21.200 got my coffee, I've got my computer. All I need 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:23.920 is you at five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand, 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:26.800 one eight hundred, the Big one when we come back. 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:31.560 Jimmy Knippert's half brothers going to join us. Alfred Knippert 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:35.600 from Nashville Tennessee. When we return. This is Chick Ludwig 0:02:35.680 --> 0:03:20.760 Sports Talk on seven hundred WLW Jesse eight oh eight 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:25.240 in the Queens City of Cincinnati. Chick Lodwig, seven hundred WLW. 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:29.440 This is Sports Talk. Joe Waddelle is tonight's producer. We 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:32.000 are going all the way to nine o'clock when Donna 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:36.360 d takes over these airwaves. Well, congratulations to the University 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:40.960 of Cincinnati Bearcats forty one to twenty winners today over 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.440 Baylor at Knippert Stadium. And we all know that Knippert 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:48.200 Stadium is named after the immortal Jimmy Nippert, the most 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:52.560 beloved player in UC history, who died on Christmas morning 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:57.880 nineteen twenty three after sustaining a spike wound injury against 0:03:57.920 --> 0:03:59.920 Miami in the final game of that sea. 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:01.960 Joining us now. 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:07.640 Is Jimmy Knippert's half brother, attorney Alfred Nippert in Nashville. Alfred, 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.000 you were watching today, what'd you think? 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:15.240 Absolutely? Well, that was Thank you very much Jack for 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:18.480 the introduction. But oh, I tell you those Bearricats are 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:22.480 an exciting team. And if if there was ever a 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:28.440 clinic on why not to go for two point conversions? Yeah, 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:34.200 this game was the absolute comb up. Here's an excellent 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:38.880 team Baylor. The only time they got the Clint conversion 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:44.159 was when the Bearcats kept giving him extra chances to 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:48.360 make it. Yes, out of what what was it they 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:49.560 because I think there was one other? 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:54.320 Uh, they missed it twice? Yeah, oh yeah, flags everywhere 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:57.760 that kept one. Yeah, kept creeping closer to the goal line. 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:02.080 Yes, they tried it one, then they tried it again 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:05.000 and the second time, wasn't there a flag? And yeah, 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.560 and that one in their second attempt and they didn't 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:10.360 make it. So that's three attempts they didn't make it. 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:14.159 Then they tried a fourth time and a fifth time, 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:17.919 so one out of six they make it. Yes's the 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:21.839 odds of getting a two point conversion. Had they gone 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:24.400 for the single kick each time, they would have had 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:26.880 twenty one points instead of twenty. 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.479 Right, because it was it became twenty four to six, 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:33.040 then twenty seven to twelve, and uh yeah, those were 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.920 those were critical. Hey, just kick the extra point you're 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.760 within twenty four to seven and twenty seven to thirteen. Yeah, 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.680 instead of keep you know, keeping your team behind the 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:44.560 eight ball there, Alfred. 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.360 Yeah, I mean, I mean when they were twenty one 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:50.000 twenty seven. They were within a such down. 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:54.159 Oh yes, yes, And I wrote down the drives here. Yeah, 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:56.960 it was twenty four to nothing, you see. And then 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:01.680 eleven place seventy five yards before the half ended, then 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:05.440 nine play seventy nine yards in the third quarter, then 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.640 a twelve play seventy four yard drive to make it 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:09.960 twenty seven to twenty. 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:12.360 And I'm sitting here. I wasn't sitting. 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:16.440 I was up pacing around this seven hundred WLW studio wondering, 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:19.680 is you see coin to lose this game with a 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:21.080 twenty four to zing lead. 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:23.679 But some great things happened down. 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:28.760 The stretch, well you know, And again it shows that 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:32.880 the need for playing fundamental sound football and don't make 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.480 the mistakes that move the sticks for the other team. 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:39.360 Taylor made a mistake at the very beginning of the game, 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:41.960 and I think it set the tone where they kept 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:45.800 a drive alive with the pass interfairance correct and that 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:48.719 allowed you see, to start getting ahead and to start 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:52.200 having the long term momentum in their favor. That that 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.200 was probably the most critical call of the whole game. 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.000 And it got pretty sure that yeah, it. 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:01.800 Got There were a whole series of calls that went 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.520 against you see, but by then the game was already 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:06.320 rolling against Baylor. 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:07.680 Yeah. 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:11.880 Well, there were well two pass interference against Matthew McDoom, 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:16.040 at least two or three against the Ormani Arnold. So 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:20.320 a cornerback has to get his head turned around. If 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:23.200 he's got his hands on the receiver and his back turned, 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:24.400 you're going to get a flag. 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.880 Yeah. I mean, even if it's not affecting the play, 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:33.320 the balls unctchable, they've they've got to throw the flag, 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:35.680 which is what happened in that one in the end zone. 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:37.360 Absolutely right. 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.720 But when UCEE needed when it was twenty seven to twenty, 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:43.680 when they needed that drive, it came through in a 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:48.720 huge third and nine passed from Brendan Sorosby to Noah 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:53.520 Jennings and then Tywe Walker fourth and one, just grinding 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:57.080 out those short yardages and then of course Soresby with 0:07:57.080 --> 0:08:00.160 the twenty three yard scoring run that allowed us all 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:02.480 to breathe with six thirteen to go. 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:09.680 Absolutely in that fourth down play, when you look at 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:13.240 it again, it was because he was on top of 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.760 the Baylor player. Had he been on the ground, that'd 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:17.480 have been stopped. But he was on top of a 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:18.200 Baylor player. 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:21.640 Well, Alfred Knippert is joining us here in Alfred, you 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:27.040 were at Knippert Stadium a year ago celebrating the one 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:30.920 hundredth anniversary of this incredible venue. It's called the Wrigley 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:36.560 Field of college Football. It seats forty twenty four. Every 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:41.440 seat was taken today. What's it like for somebody who 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:44.560 has never been to Nippert for a game like this today? 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:45.800 What's that atmosphere like? 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:54.760 There are very few stadiums that are old enough to 0:08:54.920 --> 0:09:01.640 capture that feel of a century ago, and Knippert Stadium, 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:05.960 although it's had some evolutions, it still has that feel 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:12.360 of when the game was a classic, but before it 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:16.959 was hyped up so much, before there was television where 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:22.360 games were uh transmitted to other city by telegraph and 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:27.440 reconstructed by by announcers and other cities. It was. It 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:31.000 was an amazing thing. The announcer didn't announce live, he 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:36.040 actually tapped out the message on a on a telegraph 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:39.840 key and another announcer another city, recreated from the telegraph. 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:43.960 That's right, creating it, making making it sound as interesting 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:45.720 and as exciting as possible. 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:52.160 Yes, and Knippert Stadium dates from that era and and 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.560 you do get that feel when you come in you 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.640 see all the fancy buildings, and then you realize when 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:01.839 you see the printwork, this has been here a while, 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:06.959 This has got some history. This is important, and it 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:11.480 has a tradition, and you don't have that tradition in 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:16.040 most ballparks anymore. They've all been torn down or they're 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:21.360 stadiums or ballparks or arenas. There aren't many left from 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:25.520 one hundred years. So it's an amazing experience. It was 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:31.720 certainly an amazing overwhelmed. I keep using the word amazing. 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:36.079 It was. It was odd aspiring to be down there 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.679 on the field and hear the roar of that crowd. 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:43.400 There are very few stadiums or facilities in general that 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:48.000 can generate the kind of noise that Niffert. 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:52.760 Us with just forty plus thousand spectators. And listening to 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:56.520 the Scott Saderfield Show, when the players come in on 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.560 that show and they talk about just how cool it 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.880 is and how exciting it is to play in that venue. 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:10.079 Well, I'm glad they enjoyed. I've enjoyed being a peripheral 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:13.400 part of it for for the decades that I lived in. 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:21.000 Cincinnati and Alfred Wow, great family history of course, and 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:24.440 I know Cincinnati is very important to your uh, to 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:28.640 your heritage. Your other half brother Lewis owned the Reds 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:30.840 at a very critical time in history. 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:35.240 Well, he owned He was the key player in the 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:38.040 Reds and and the Bengals. He owned a piece of 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:44.480 the Bengals as well, because when city like Cincinnati was 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.800 on the verge of losing it's too franchise, well losing 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:52.920 its Red franchise and not getting a pro football franchise, 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:58.480 and a group of very civic minded citizens, my brother 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:04.440 was included, came together and saved the Reds from going away. 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:08.280 Because at that time, you couldn't read a scorecard or 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.640 a box score listed a paper without a ram McNally 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:15.600 in your hand to see where's this team? Okay, you're saying, 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:18.640 it's the analytics? What what what city is it in? Is 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:24.320 it in Philadelphia? Is it in Kansas City? Is an Oakland? 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:25.960 Yeah? 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.040 Which city is it? Grabbed me a ram McNelly and I'll. 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:29.920 Tell you, uh. 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:34.520 And and they saved that the team for Cincinnati. And 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:40.520 when he sold the Reds, unlike many owners who are 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:43.760 just pocketed book the money and moved on, he and 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:47.120 his wife Louise, took some money and put it into 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:52.000 a trust for the city of Cincinnati. And sometimes you'll 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.160 you'll see when there are events on Fountain Square that 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.800 the funds come from the L and L Trust, that's 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:02.760 Lewis and Louis trust that they set up. And they 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:06.240 didn't do it to wave their wave the flag or 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:08.640 beat their chest and say how good am I. Most 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.719 people are unaware of what that is and and and that, 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:16.200 and that came from what he saw with the family 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:22.360 putting the money up to honor his brother with Hifford Stadium, 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:27.640 to UH take care of people generally with the Elizabeth 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.160 Gamble Deek and his home Association which is now known 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:35.199 as christ Hospital. UH and many other had the Professta Hospital, 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:39.760 but as the base had had a doorway which had 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:43.800 the name Nippered overt honoring UH his grandfather and my 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:47.720 grandfather on my father's side of the Reverend Ludig Knippert, 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:52.920 who had saved German Methodism in in in Switzerland and 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:56.640 and part of Germany. So he had seen the family 0:13:56.720 --> 0:14:03.040 do service for others, and that was why I think 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.000 he continued forward in terms of trying to pay to 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:08.640 the Reds and bringing a pro football to Sin today. 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:12.280 And speaking of that, Alfred Knippert, the half brother of 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:16.960 both Lewis and Jimmy Nippert. When the Bengals were born, 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:21.200 I know that they wanted to get into the NFL. 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:27.240 And my understanding is that Pete Roselle, the commissioner, said, Hey, 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:31.440 join the AFL for two years. We're going to merge 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:36.760 in nineteen seventy and we'll have a AFC in an 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:41.120 NFC and we'll have the Bengals in the National Football 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:44.880 League at that point. So is that your understanding to yeah, 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:50.360 wait two years and yeah, and then and then they 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:55.080 needed three teams. They needed three teams from the NFL 0:14:55.240 --> 0:15:01.840 to join the AFC, and yeah, Baltimore, Cleveland and Pittsburgh 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:03.720 joined the AFC, thank goodness. 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:06.240 And they got. 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:09.280 Rewarded handsomely for it, either two or three million dollars 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:10.840 to join the a f C, and I know the 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:11.560 fans were. 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:12.560 Just up in arms. 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.760 Yeah, which was a lot of money for teams at 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:20.120 that time. And now it's all fungible. It doesn't make 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.400 any difference which side of the file you're on. 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:28.720 Absolutely, and Alfred, it's always interesting and just a joy 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.480 to talk to you with all the history in that 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:33.480 in that brain of yours. 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.560 Well, it's a delight to be on your program, and 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:41.320 it's a it's a it's wonderful that you share your knowledge, 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:44.520 experience and insights with all the people who are fortunate 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.600 enough to be within the radius of your broadcast, because 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:51.960 there aren't many broadcasters that have the range of knowledge 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.800 and experience that you do, not only in the in 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:59.160 the professional leagues, which you do with the Reds and Bengals, 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:02.600 bute with college sports, and and I know that you 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:11.320 referee for many, many or youth programs, And what would 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:16.560 you give back because whatever they pay restaurant around the 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:21.880 field on Saturday night or Sunday morning early and whatever 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:25.200 weather is out there is certainly not enough. Uh. 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:27.080 Well, I appreciate that. 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.800 It's done because of the love of the games, the 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:35.560 love of the sport, and the opportunity to see young 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.160 people have an opportunity to do something with their lives. 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:42.920 And what you give back. People don't say enough about that. 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:46.480 And certainly you would never blow your own hor which 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.640 is the same story of my brother. 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:54.000 He would never blow his Alfred Nippert Live from Nashville, Tennessee, 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:57.480 can't thank you enough for joining us tonight. Great stuff, Alfred, 0:16:57.640 --> 0:16:59.720 and we will be in touch all the best of 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:00.040 you and. 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:03.160 Can't thank you all right your tuser by way. 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:07.080 Hey, I put the coffee on and I've got my coffee. 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:10.520 I've got my computer. All I need is you. That's 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:13.919 open up the phone lines. You see Bearcats Hall of 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.960 Fame weekend, big victory today over Baylor. 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:24.359 Gosh, we're good enough to dream about Dallas and possibly 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.920 a national championship. Am I crazy? 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.359 Five one three, seven, four nine, seven thousand, one, eight 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:34.760 hundred the big One. Chick Ludwig Sports Talk seven hundred 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:43.000 WLW twenty eight minutes after the eight o'clock hour. This 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:47.040 is Chick Ludwig Sports Talk seven hundred w welw in. 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:52.040 What an incredible weekend we have here in Cincinnati sports 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.000 and for me selfishly, it all started on Friday night 0:17:56.119 --> 0:18:02.080 when number one ranked Elder, my alma mater, defeated Michigan 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:05.879 based day le Salle High School thirty five to seven. 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:10.320 And it was the Elder Panthers four hundredth victory in 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:15.760 the Pit Elder Stadium, and it marked Elder's ten and 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:20.000 oh season, the fourth time the program has gone ten 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:24.080 and oh nineteen fifty four, nineteen eighty nine, ninety one, 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:28.520 and this year twenty twenty five. In congratulations to Doug 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:33.320 Ramsey twenty nine plus years heading this program, and he's 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:36.800 never had an undefeated ten and oh regular season until 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:40.760 this year. And then you see goes out and defeats 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:45.280 Baylor today at Knippert Stadium forty one to twenty in 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:47.760 a game that was really closer than that final score, 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:51.159 because you see blew out to a twenty four to 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:55.600 zer in lead and Baylor pulled within twenty seven to 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:58.480 twenty early in the fourth quarter. You see got the 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:01.840 drive and the touchdown at Need with six thirteen to go, 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:06.040 and then caused the fumble, recovered the fumble, and then 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:11.440 Brendan Soresby threw another touchdown pass for the forty one 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:16.880 to twenty victory. And tomorrow at pay Corpse Stadium, it's 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:20.000 the Ring of Honor game against the New York Jets 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:26.320 one o'clock, featuring inductees Dave Lapham and Leapin' Lamar Parrish. 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:30.440 And then on Monday, FC Cincinnati hosts the Columbus Crew 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:34.560 at six forty five at TQL Stadium in the MLS 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:38.600 Cup Playoffs, Round one, best of three series. Does it 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:42.520 get any better than this unless the Reds would be 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:46.080 in the World Series. Hey at Sports Talk with your 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:48.800 host Chick Ludwig. The numbers to dial five one, three, 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:52.440 seven four, nine, seven thousand, one, eight hundred the Big. 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:55.400 One on seven hundred WLW. 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:02.119 Eight thirty seven in the city of Cincinnati. Chick Ludwig, 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:05.959 Welcome back to Sports Talk. We're going till nine o'clock 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:09.480 tonight and then Donna d takes you all the way 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:10.600 till midnight tonight. 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:13.280 Just saw Donna in the uh. 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:18.040 Outside the newsroom here and she's all excited about tonight's show, 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:20.119 and so am I. I will be listening on my 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:23.679 way back to the Miamisburg war Room. Well, we're talking 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:27.240 U see football here and we're gonna mention the the 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:29.000 Ring of Honor. I want to talk a little bit 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:33.480 about Dave Lapham and leaping Lamar Paris here in a minute. 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:35.360 But first let's go out to the phones. 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:40.399 Richard is in Dayton, Dick, Dick, what's going on tonight? 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:44.480 Well, you know you have to say something though, after 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:48.479 that week ago on Thursday, what a victory that was, 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:52.320 Chick I'm telling you great victory, you know. 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:56.800 Yes, and what oh yeah, we're talking Bengals here. Yeah, 0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:59.120 I just had a little uh yeah, oh it was. 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:02.280 It was huge. And now the toast of the town 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:05.159 is Joe Flacco. Can they keep it going? Here's what 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:09.239 worries me, Dick, because I'm a worrier the Bengals. The 0:21:09.280 --> 0:21:14.000 Bengals play to their competition, to the level of their competition. 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:17.480 They raised their level against Pittsburgh. 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:22.560 Now now they play the zero to seven New York Jets, 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:26.679 and they better put their foot on the Jets' throat 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:29.680 early and take them out of this game and get 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:34.119 back to four and four and then with the arrow 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:36.240 pointing upward the remainder of the season. 0:21:37.400 --> 0:21:40.800 Yes, and you know another thing, congratulations. I got to 0:21:40.840 --> 0:21:43.479 meet him at Barley korn Is about ten years ago. 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:47.119 I talked to him, and Dave Lapham deserves he's a 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:48.520 pretty good color announcer. 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:50.720 You know, Hey, he's a legend. 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:54.960 He's a legend that's been involved with the and affiliated 0:21:55.000 --> 0:21:57.920 with the Bengals as a player in broadcaster for fifty 0:21:58.080 --> 0:22:00.440 plus years. 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:01.400 Lap lap is the best. 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:05.120 And congratulations to the Bearcats, buddy. How about that huge? 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:05.440 Yeah? 0:22:05.480 --> 0:22:09.480 Forty one to twenty over Baylor, and you know, you 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:14.400 think about the Big Twelve and they're tied here atop 0:22:14.520 --> 0:22:18.639 the conference standings with BYU. They're on a collision course 0:22:19.119 --> 0:22:24.320 to meet later this season and hopefully ESPN game Day 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:25.200 will be in town. 0:22:26.040 --> 0:22:27.639 Would that be unreal? Again? 0:22:28.000 --> 0:22:31.320 Yeah, I wanted to tell you something too. Every Tuesday, 0:22:32.280 --> 0:22:34.360 I play in a little group. It's called the Star 0:22:34.520 --> 0:22:37.800 City Dollshmers, okay in the direction, and we played down 0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:41.159 by the tring track there and I always enjoy it 0:22:41.280 --> 0:22:43.760 going in and we play a couple hours and she 0:22:43.880 --> 0:22:48.159 wants to book me. It's for some concerts, so you know, 0:22:48.640 --> 0:22:49.920 maybe I'll see you down there. 0:22:49.960 --> 0:22:54.040 This sometimes all fantastic, Dick, And that sounds great, man, Hey, 0:22:54.119 --> 0:22:56.080 appreciate you as always. 0:22:56.600 --> 0:22:58.200 Okay, have a good day, all. 0:22:58.160 --> 0:23:01.040 Right, fantastic. Well, there's all kinds of ways to win 0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:02.440 a football game. 0:23:02.920 --> 0:23:03.200 Okay. 0:23:03.200 --> 0:23:06.800 When I think of Brandon Soresby, Brendan Sorosby of the 0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:10.080 University of Cincinnati, I think of that arm, But how 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:15.120 about his legs and how about the running game? Being 0:23:15.240 --> 0:23:22.680 the best friend of a quarterback. Brendan Soresby only threw 0:23:23.240 --> 0:23:29.280 twenty one passes today, thirteen of twenty one for a 0:23:29.400 --> 0:23:33.320 one hundred and eleven yards, but two of them were 0:23:33.320 --> 0:23:37.880 for touchdowns and UC erupted for two hundred and sixty 0:23:38.040 --> 0:23:42.320 seven rushing yards on forty nine carries for a five 0:23:42.440 --> 0:23:52.440 point four yard average. How fantastic is that? And Brendan 0:23:52.440 --> 0:23:55.880 Soresby played a huge role in that running game. Two 0:23:57.680 --> 0:24:01.640 and I also and they give credit to the special 0:24:01.720 --> 0:24:10.800 teams of UC, especially Steven Russknack the kicker. He hasn't 0:24:10.880 --> 0:24:14.280 missed an extra point or a field goal this year. 0:24:15.280 --> 0:24:18.600 He's perfect on the season, eleven field goals and all 0:24:18.640 --> 0:24:21.480 of his extra points. And there was really only one 0:24:21.600 --> 0:24:26.800 bummer today, the only unfortunate aspect of today's forty one 0:24:26.840 --> 0:24:32.440 to twenty victory over the Baylor Bears. The Bearcats were 0:24:32.520 --> 0:24:36.600 thirty three for thirty three, scoring touchdowns and field goals 0:24:36.600 --> 0:24:41.400 in the red zone. Every trip inside the red zone 0:24:41.560 --> 0:24:46.960 they scored until the final drive when they got the 0:24:47.040 --> 0:24:51.160 ball back Chance Williams, a third string running back who 0:24:51.200 --> 0:24:55.800 got some action today. Evan Pryor got banged up a 0:24:55.840 --> 0:24:58.360 little bit, had to go into the blue tent and 0:24:59.160 --> 0:25:03.200 ty Wee Walk, Oh my goodness, what a warrior that 0:25:03.280 --> 0:25:07.760 guy is. So to give chance Williams some reps, he 0:25:07.880 --> 0:25:12.439 runs for seven yards to the Baylor seventeen you know 0:25:12.480 --> 0:25:15.359 in the final in the final minute, and then Brendan 0:25:15.440 --> 0:25:18.560 Soresby took a knee for a two yard loss. So 0:25:18.720 --> 0:25:21.720 the ball's on the seventeen yard line inside the red 0:25:21.800 --> 0:25:26.680 zone when the clock runs out. So it was the 0:25:26.800 --> 0:25:29.760 first trip all season inside the red zone where they 0:25:29.800 --> 0:25:35.320 didn't score. But nevertheless, just an awesome performance today by UC, 0:25:35.640 --> 0:25:39.520 especially when they needed it because Baylor was coming back. 0:25:39.600 --> 0:25:44.120 Don't be deceived by the lopsided score forty one to twenty. 0:25:45.160 --> 0:25:49.680 Baylor got within twenty seven to twenty at the thirteen 0:25:49.880 --> 0:25:54.400 thirty four mark of the fourth quarter, and UC faced 0:25:54.520 --> 0:25:58.280 a third and nine on there if they punt and 0:25:58.320 --> 0:26:02.560 give the ball back to Sawyer Robertson, who threw two 0:26:02.600 --> 0:26:06.960 touchdowns in this game for Baylor. Man they couldn't stop 0:26:07.040 --> 0:26:11.960 him on three long drives after UC built a twenty 0:26:11.960 --> 0:26:18.119 four to nothing lead, But Noah Jennings comes through, hooking 0:26:18.240 --> 0:26:24.800 up on a pass from Brendan Sorosby. Tywee Walker gets 0:26:24.840 --> 0:26:27.720 a first down on a fourth and one at Baylor's 0:26:27.800 --> 0:26:32.600 twenty seven, and then a twenty three yard touchdown run 0:26:32.640 --> 0:26:38.359 by Soresby gave the Bearcats breathing room with a thirty 0:26:38.359 --> 0:26:42.439 four to twenty lead at the six thirteen mark, and 0:26:42.480 --> 0:26:45.800 then a forced fumble on the ensuing kickoff and a 0:26:45.800 --> 0:26:49.080