1 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 1: Recket, Recket. Come here. Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode 2 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:18,960 Speaker 1: of The Tailgate, brought to you by Ticketmaster. I'm your 3 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 1: host Siam Andson, sitting across from me as a guy 4 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 1: who criticizes my intro every week with his little smirk. 5 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. The co host, Chad Daniels, Hello, everybody, 6 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 1: listen to me. I'm not in the mood. 7 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:33,839 Speaker 2: I know you're not. 8 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 1: Oh, I know, I'm not in the mood. 9 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:36,879 Speaker 2: Nobody is. 10 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:39,479 Speaker 1: As a Viking fan, I'm not in the mood. And 11 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: it's not just that we lost to the Bears last 12 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:47,639 Speaker 1: week the way we did. It's that that happened. And 13 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:53,239 Speaker 1: now it's Packer week, and I know you have a 14 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: lot of relationships with Packer fans. I don't know what's happening, 15 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: but the amount of trash talk early and often from 16 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:09,400 Speaker 1: Packer fans is hitting me at a aggressive level. 17 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 2: Sure, I'm just gonna throw this out there. 18 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 3: I believe that the Packers and the Eagles should get 19 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 3: all their primetime games taken for the next seven years 20 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 3: because that was the worst game of football I've ever seen. 21 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: By the way, you know how everyone's like right now 22 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 1: when the team's not doing as well as say they 23 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 1: were last year. It's interesting what happens to the fan base, 24 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:31,759 Speaker 1: right Some people get really negative and really really critical. 25 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:35,960 Speaker 1: Some people get really really defensive and really really homery. 26 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 1: You know. It's kind of like, Oh, I don't know 27 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 1: the American political system, and there's no gray area whatsoever, 28 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 1: right there is. We exist in it, but the gray 29 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: area doesn't get discussed. And the only thing I will 30 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 1: say about some of the I've heard some people who 31 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 1: are very positive and homery, who are really upset. And 32 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 1: I had one friend go like, I'm embarrassed. He was like, 33 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 1: I'm embarrassed by how dramatically we're reacting to some struggle. 34 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 1: And I go, let me tell you a little bit 35 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: about reacting to struggle in a fan base. A friend 36 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 1: of the program, Blake Wexler, lifelong Eagles die hard, sent 37 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: me this. There is an Instagram account right now whose 38 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:27,640 Speaker 1: sole purpose is comparing a coach, an assistant coach on 39 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 1: the Eagles to Saddam Hussein. That's what's happening interesting over 40 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 1: in Eagle Land, where they're a Super Bowl favorite. So 41 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 1: I actually think we're doing okay. 42 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:39,799 Speaker 2: Yeah. 43 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:41,799 Speaker 3: I wonder if the person that started that account is 44 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 3: the same guy that ate the cop horse crap after 45 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 3: they won the Super Bowl. 46 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: That's the only way I could have done that to 47 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: his brain to make him do that. 48 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 2: Somebody's got worms. 49 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: But here's the thing, man, Like, I am a little 50 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 1: riled up because I've been getting just and I'm not 51 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 1: in the mood to engage. This isn't a fun year, 52 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: this or like or moment for Packer Week for me, 53 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:08,680 Speaker 1: so like I want to win, I still dislike them, 54 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 1: and I shouldn't say it's not fun. It's like I 55 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 1: don't really have the ammo to go back, right, you know, 56 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 1: you can't quite go back as hard. So what I've 57 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:17,920 Speaker 1: been doing, and I want you to tell me what 58 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 1: you think about this, I'm not engaging at all. I'm 59 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 1: only I'm not trash talking bast silent treatment. 60 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, silent treatment, No. 61 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: Not quite all they trash talk me. If any of 62 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 1: the Packer fans trash talk me, I just send them 63 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 1: back a fact about their state that I think is absurd, 64 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 1: and then I do no matter what they say after that, 65 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 1: then they get silent treatment. 66 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 2: I love it. 67 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 1: So for example, somebody said some really negative things to me, 68 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 1: some heavy duty trash talk, and all I wrote back 69 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 1: was Wisconsin once had two local towns argue over who 70 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 1: would get a thirty foot tall fiberglass badger statue so enjoy. 71 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 1: A Milwaukee resident legally changed his name to Count Justinian 72 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 1: de mort wore a cape daily, slept in a coffin 73 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 1: shaped bed, and petitioned the mayor to declare his birthday 74 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 1: vampire Appreciation Day. And I'd still rather hang with him 75 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 1: than talk football with you. That's the sort of stuff 76 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 1: that I'm sending back. 77 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:24,719 Speaker 2: That's smart. 78 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:29,280 Speaker 1: Wisconsin currently has seventeen hundred and sixty bridges that need 79 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:32,839 Speaker 1: to be repaired, and I assume that's because your fans 80 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 1: keep walking on them. That is the sort of stuff. 81 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:39,880 Speaker 1: It's It could be a heavy foot joke. I'm not 82 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 1: gonna let you paint it the way you wanted to 83 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,159 Speaker 1: paint it. That's an interpret it however you want it. 84 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: But that is how I am just I'm just taking 85 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:52,159 Speaker 1: shots at Wisconsin culture in response to the football trash 86 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 1: talk I'm receiving. 87 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:55,480 Speaker 2: Well, that's a smart way to do it. I mean, 88 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 2: there are a lot of those. 89 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:58,599 Speaker 3: I've been to Wisconsin several times, so have you to 90 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 3: perform live stand up co and you know that's. 91 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 1: Actually the origin of our friendship. I don't know. I 92 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: don't know how many people know that our friendship not 93 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 1: the birth birth, but I think the growth of our flourishing. 94 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 2: When it flourished. 95 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:15,599 Speaker 1: You want to tell it, you want to tell the people. 96 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 3: Well, we were in Appleton, Wisconsin, which is just south 97 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 3: of Green Bay, and we were working at the Skyline 98 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 3: Comedy Cafe and year, what year do. 99 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:28,400 Speaker 1: We think this is? Back in twenty was the far 100 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:30,719 Speaker 1: of year? What year was far two thousand and nine? 101 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 2: Okay, so we're there. 102 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 3: And we're doing We used to do this decathlon thing 103 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:40,160 Speaker 3: where we would do ten events that were somewhat athletic, right, 104 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 3: it was like wiffleball, home. 105 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:44,480 Speaker 2: Run, derby point contest. 106 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, just stuff like that that wasn't the actual game game, 107 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 3: but it was derivative of it. So we would do 108 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:53,119 Speaker 3: that and then on the and then we were playing 109 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 3: cribbage at the club for I think it was the 110 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:57,719 Speaker 3: tenth event. 111 00:05:58,360 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 2: And then it's. 112 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:04,160 Speaker 1: Funny how the athleticism started with the athletics and whittled 113 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 1: down to let's play cards and move toothpicks. 114 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 2: Well towards towards the end, of the week. 115 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:12,159 Speaker 3: You don't have access, right, you can't like quick run 116 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 3: to the r YMCA in between sets. But what you 117 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 3: can do is right before a set is you can 118 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:23,679 Speaker 3: put on a Vikings Brett Favre jersey like you did. 119 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 3: And then I heard you get introduced, and then I 120 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 3: heard just thick booing without you having said anything. 121 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:35,279 Speaker 1: Now, it was right before the first game that Brett 122 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: fav played the Packers as a Viking. It was the 123 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:41,920 Speaker 1: Saturday night before that was going to happen, I think, 124 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: on a Monday. 125 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 2: And the people were I'm gonna go with less than. 126 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 3: Pleased, yeah, And so that's when I thought to myself, like, yeah, 127 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 3: I think that he and I have a pretty similar brain. 128 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:57,159 Speaker 1: The way I know we have similar brain is because 129 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:00,279 Speaker 1: you might not remember this. So I went up on stage. Cliff, 130 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 1: who ran the club, pulled the lights up because and 131 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 1: I quote he was pretty sure somebody was going to 132 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:09,280 Speaker 1: throw a glass at me because I was doing the 133 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 1: Hulk Hogan like bump up up, like hand to the 134 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 1: ear motion over and over. And then you ran to 135 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 1: the booth and as I was going up, played the 136 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 1: Monday night football theme music. That's the one thing that 137 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 1: I remember, and here we are years later with the 138 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 1: team letting us be involved, which. 139 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 2: That's right, and our friendship barely hanging on. 140 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 1: Jay the producer just said that people threw pool balls 141 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 1: on the field at players during that game. During the 142 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:45,119 Speaker 1: Lambeau game when Farv went back there for the first 143 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:50,680 Speaker 1: time and had signs comparing Farv to Fredo from The Godfather, So. 144 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 2: I knew it was you. I knew it was you. 145 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 1: I didn't get the pool balls, but you could. You know, 146 00:07:58,120 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 1: you could feel that that would probably be the react 147 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 1: in that room night, because I believe Appleton is where 148 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 1: the opposing team stay. So Appleton, they're not just pack Evans. 149 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 1: I think they feel like they're really a part of it. 150 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, because I went to a Vike's Packer game Lambeau 151 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 3: and Brett Farv was still a quarterback Dante Culpeppers for US. 152 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 3: Dante Culpepper was getting murdered. I'm saying, straight up murdered, 153 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:29,560 Speaker 3: and Brett Favre would get touched on the shoulder. It 154 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 3: would be like you wouldn't even know if he was 155 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:35,000 Speaker 3: down playing touch football and they'd throw a flag. 156 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 2: So I start freaking out. 157 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:41,079 Speaker 3: I'm screaming down the field and the section around me right, 158 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 3: just a couple rows started chanting all before I know it, 159 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:50,719 Speaker 3: within the minute, the entire stadium. Here's the crazy thing 160 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:54,199 Speaker 3: about this stadium is they don't have to know, they 161 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 3: don't have to have witnessed what happened. They just know 162 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:01,560 Speaker 3: if somebody sends out the back signal, we have to 163 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:02,200 Speaker 3: join in. 164 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 2: And so this entire stadium was chanting that. 165 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 3: And then we were at the bar afterwards back in Appleton, 166 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:12,440 Speaker 3: because we were staying at the same hotel that the 167 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 3: Vikes are staying at, and we're at the bar right 168 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:20,319 Speaker 3: next door, and then this Packer fan comes in. He goes, oh, man, somebody, 169 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 3: somebody from Minnesota really got it tonight because everybody was chanting. 170 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 3: And my buddy goes, he's right here, this guy. And 171 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:29,560 Speaker 3: I really didn't even do anything to deserve it other 172 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 3: than yelling. Because remember when Farv and even even Rogers 173 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:34,560 Speaker 3: that that whole thing. 174 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:37,960 Speaker 2: The Packers got a lot of calls. They were the chiefs. Yeah, 175 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 2: they were the chiefs of the early two thousands, so 176 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 2: it was tough. 177 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:47,319 Speaker 1: Can I ask you a question about Lambeau please, because begrudgingly, 178 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 1: I think we can both admit such a cool place. 179 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:50,920 Speaker 2: It's great. 180 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:53,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, are you when was the last time you were 181 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:55,960 Speaker 1: at a game in Lambeau? Was it that one you 182 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 1: got boot at or have you been to one since. 183 00:09:58,000 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 2: I went to one since? 184 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:03,560 Speaker 3: So my uncle, who my great uncle, He had the 185 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 3: high school rushing record in Green Bay, I think into 186 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:11,199 Speaker 3: the nineties and this is my great uncle, and so 187 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:15,560 Speaker 3: when he was little, he used to sneak in to 188 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 3: practice under a fence all him and his friends could watch. 189 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 3: And it was just this really cool experience to get 190 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 3: to bring him to a Packer game. And it was 191 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 3: the game that Adrian Peterson ran wild on them, so 192 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:34,319 Speaker 3: it was really really fun to see. But I've got 193 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 3: to bring him into the little museum, the Packer Hall 194 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:41,680 Speaker 3: of Fame, and he started crying and I was like, oh, 195 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:44,920 Speaker 3: this dude was tough. So it was a really interesting 196 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 3: fun moment. So the juxtaposition of having that chant happen 197 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 3: at one game with my buddies and then getting to 198 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 3: watch this guy like really have a great time was 199 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 3: very fun. 200 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 1: I think that's a great place to take to break. 201 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 1: We will be right back with more to Gate after this. 202 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: As the official ticket marketplace of the Minnesota Vikings and 203 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 1: the NFL. Ticketmasters the safest and most convenient marketplace to 204 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: score fully verified Viking tickets. So get those touchdown celebrations 205 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:16,359 Speaker 1: ready and score your tickets today at ticketmaster dot com 206 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 1: slash Vikings. 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But I 216 00:11:57,280 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 1: think some younger fans think, like Lambeau is this for 217 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 1: ever iconic and it's not. They had split their games 218 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 1: with Milwaukee before ninety five, and in ninety five they 219 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 1: go full lambeau Field. From that point on, they go 220 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 1: on an absurd twenty five because it coincides with the 221 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:20,040 Speaker 1: rise of farb they go on a twenty five consecutive 222 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 1: regular home season win streak. I think it's the second 223 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 1: largest in NFL history. I think the Dolphins had like 224 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:34,960 Speaker 1: twenty seven. And that streak ends ladies and gentlemen. With 225 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:40,320 Speaker 1: the Randy Moss game boo yeah, ninety five to the 226 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 1: Randy Moss game September seventeenth of ninety five to October 227 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:46,320 Speaker 1: fifth of ninety eight, they did not lose a home game, 228 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:50,960 Speaker 1: and then the winter thing still persisted. They were twelve 229 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 1: and zero all time in home playoff games. And then 230 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 1: do you remember when Vic shattered that. You remember when 231 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 1: he came in and that two thousand and three playoff game, 232 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 1: he was like twenty two years old and just throttled 233 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 1: them in a way where everybody went, what that's not right? 234 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:09,719 Speaker 2: Right, You're up like. 235 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 1: Twenty four zero. So I don't know if home field 236 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 1: advantage has changed for the entire league, if people are 237 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:20,440 Speaker 1: more prepared for weather and the elements, if just the 238 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,679 Speaker 1: technology and advancements of being an NFL team have changed that. 239 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 1: But we I do remember a time where it's like 240 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 1: go to Green Bay lose. Yeah, for sure, it's very 241 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,439 Speaker 1: nice that that is not that way. Anymore. 242 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, because it used to be well, you know, it 243 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:38,320 Speaker 3: would get so cold so early. And that's what I 244 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 3: love about that stadium is it's a lot of bleachers 245 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 3: and so you are smushed together. It's you are surviving 246 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 3: because of a stranger's body heat. 247 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 2: It's it's perfect. 248 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 1: I do. 249 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:51,840 Speaker 3: I really like that stadium, but I really like to 250 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 3: watch them lose in that stadium New York Giants. 251 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 1: I'd like to watch them lose. I think if they 252 00:13:56,559 --> 00:14:00,720 Speaker 1: do lose, normally we do game previews, but I wanna 253 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:03,319 Speaker 1: can we do a player spotlight as a dude I've 254 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:05,960 Speaker 1: been talking about all year and I can't stop talking 255 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 1: about him, and I don't think even though other people 256 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:11,079 Speaker 1: are talking about him, the credit is anywhere near where 257 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 1: it should be. And I think it really clicked last 258 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 1: game Bears game, Tom Brady said, Brian Flores told them 259 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 1: that Jalen Redman has been our best defensive lineman. I 260 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:27,800 Speaker 1: totally agree, and I think this guy is not only 261 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 1: doing that right now, but like, if you're looking for hope, 262 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:36,560 Speaker 1: if you're looking for enthusiasm, he's a place to put 263 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 1: a ton of it because not only is he like 264 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 1: this unique story, but I didn't understand this. So he 265 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 1: grew up in a place called Midwest City, Oklahoma, which 266 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 1: is the funniest name. It's like being from town. Yeah, 267 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 1: I'm from town, Illinois. 268 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 2: Hey, we need a name for our city? Well, where 269 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 2: is it? 270 00:14:56,360 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 1: Pretty south near Texas? All a Midwest city? Brother, Midwest City, Okahomer. 271 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 1: So he didn't play varsity football his first two years 272 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 1: of high school. He was just a basketball player. And 273 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 1: I know there's like basketball players in college who went 274 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 1: on to play football in the pros, and I guess 275 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:19,080 Speaker 1: maybe some of them never played high school football. But 276 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 1: the first time this dude ever touched a football he 277 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 1: was a junior in high school. First year high school, 278 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 1: eighty two tackles, fourteen sacks. They played nine games in 279 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 1: high school. Dude, his senior year, listen to this second 280 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 1: year ever playing football. His senior year starts. He's only 281 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,840 Speaker 1: been in the sport for a year. Eighty seven tackles, 282 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 1: thirty four for a loss, nineteen and a half sacks, 283 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 1: and he becomes the number sixteenth nationally ranked player. Wow. 284 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:55,960 Speaker 2: Now I have some stats here too. 285 00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 3: From his high school sophomore year, basketball scored one hundred 286 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 3: and sixty four points eighteen dunks, one shattered backboard, fourteen tackles, 287 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 3: and that's why they asked him to move to football. 288 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 1: Dude, think about going from never touching a football to 289 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:23,400 Speaker 1: the sixteenth ranked prospect in a sport that everybody desperately 290 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 1: wishes they were a prospect in in two years. Like 291 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 1: that's I think they should take the Jalen Redmond story 292 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 1: and show it to you know, when a bunch of 293 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 1: eighth graders are going to play basketball or football for 294 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 1: the first time, they should set everybody down and go, 295 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to talk about Jalen Redmond 296 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 1: and they should tell all this and then they go. 297 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 1: So when you get mad at your coach for not 298 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 1: playing your son correctly, which by the way, he's just 299 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:53,120 Speaker 1: a dad and he's volunteering, when you do that, I 300 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 1: want you to ask yourself, yes, could my kids start 301 00:16:56,880 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 1: playing football at sixteen and be a nationally ranked recruit 302 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:04,080 Speaker 1: by eighteen? And if your answer is no, maybe take 303 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:08,119 Speaker 1: a breath, change your tone, and refocus. 304 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:14,320 Speaker 3: Because this high school was in Oklahoma, so many dads 305 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 3: had to be screaming about this basketball player turned football 306 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 3: player starting to get all these things. And then after 307 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 3: one game. This is my impersonation of so many dads 308 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:28,679 Speaker 3: in Oklahoma. 309 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:30,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. 310 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:36,560 Speaker 1: He so he goes to college, he ends up having 311 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:40,919 Speaker 1: a medical issue in college, he doesn't get drafted, right 312 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:44,200 Speaker 1: despite his combine. It's like he has the second best 313 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 1: forty yard dash time among interior defensive linemen's second best 314 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:50,920 Speaker 1: ten yard split, and the best broad jump and vertical jump. 315 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:53,679 Speaker 1: Like he's an off the charts athlete and he's still Oh, 316 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:56,760 Speaker 1: by the way, only been playing football significantly less than 317 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:01,159 Speaker 1: a decade, So he's undrafted, signs with the Panthers, plays 318 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:03,720 Speaker 1: in the XFL. Everybody knows this part of the story. 319 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:06,160 Speaker 1: But man, what's he gonna look like in two years? 320 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:08,520 Speaker 1: I don't think he's at his ceiling? Are you? Are 321 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 1: you all of a sudden going what have we found 322 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:14,400 Speaker 1: ourselves here? And with the way I think Donovan Jackson 323 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:17,000 Speaker 1: is playing on the offensive line, the whole talk in 324 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:19,119 Speaker 1: the offseason was we've got to fix the trenches, right, 325 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 1: we got to fix the interior trenches. And they went 326 00:18:21,119 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 1: and got a couple of big name free agents on 327 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 1: both sides, and then I think the Donovan Jackson draft pick, 328 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 1: even though it was a number one pick and this 329 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:32,560 Speaker 1: Jalen Redmond thing which happened the year before. They kind 330 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:34,880 Speaker 1: of flew under the radar, and right now if you're 331 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:38,080 Speaker 1: looking at the future of those interiors, I feel really 332 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 1: good about it because I think both these guys have 333 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:44,480 Speaker 1: a chance to be incredible studs. We should move to 334 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 1: the game preview. We should do that part of the show, 335 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 1: because that is I could have just talked I could 336 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 1: have just talked Jalen Redmond the whole time, but we 337 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 1: do have to preview the game. That's an important part 338 00:18:55,880 --> 00:19:00,440 Speaker 1: of our job. Okay, let me give you two things 339 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:04,119 Speaker 1: to feel good about, and then let's do our prediction. Okay, Okay. 340 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:08,280 Speaker 1: Aaron Jones is returning to Lambeau. This is take two 341 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 1: for that journey last year. Pretty good Week four twenty 342 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:17,360 Speaker 1: two carries ninety three yards, four receptions forty six yards. 343 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:20,600 Speaker 1: He's done very well against the Packers on the whole, 344 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 1: with one hundred and forty total rushing yards seventy six 345 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 1: receiving yards. But in addition, our wide receivers have done 346 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:33,400 Speaker 1: exception really well. Jefferson and Addison combined for in Week 347 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:36,680 Speaker 1: four one hundred and fifty seven yards and two touchdowns. 348 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:41,200 Speaker 1: And then Jefferson, Addison and Naylor in week sixteen combine 349 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:44,879 Speaker 1: for two hundred and forty two yards and two touchdowns. 350 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:49,800 Speaker 1: So this is a This is a group of weapons 351 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:55,600 Speaker 1: that has had success against the Packers. And if for 352 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 1: no other reason that I have a bunch of unfinished 353 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:02,639 Speaker 1: trash talk chats in my phone right now, hm, I 354 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:06,080 Speaker 1: would love to see that continue. What do you got 355 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:07,040 Speaker 1: for prediction. 356 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:10,639 Speaker 2: Score is listen. I'm gonna tell you something. 357 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:13,119 Speaker 3: I got up at three point thirty in the morning 358 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 3: to fly home from Washington, DC to watch the same 359 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 3: mistakes being made over and over and never taking a 360 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:25,160 Speaker 3: chance to fix them. I'm going Viking six, Packers three. 361 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 3: I'm in a negative headspace right now. 362 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:29,720 Speaker 1: I also think the Packers are going to score three 363 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 1: Vikings one hundred and twenty seven. And I think this 364 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:38,239 Speaker 1: is a breakout week for my boy Jalen Redmond. I 365 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:40,800 Speaker 1: highlighted him on the show, and if that happens, I 366 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:43,280 Speaker 1: will convince myself that I played a role in it, 367 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 1: and then we might have to do a player segment 368 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 1: highlight thing on every show. Because I deal with obsessive 369 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:52,879 Speaker 1: compulsive disorder and I believe in a lot of silly stuff. 370 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:55,760 Speaker 1: I'm very superstitious those aren't the same thing. I just 371 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 1: happen to have both of them coexisting in my brain. 372 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 3: For my player prediction, I'm gonna go Aaron Jones gets 373 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:04,120 Speaker 3: a Lambeau Leap Purple. 374 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:08,200 Speaker 1: Edition, Purple e dicion. Let me give you a pitch 375 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:10,120 Speaker 1: because we're both in a little bit of a negative headspace. 376 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:10,400 Speaker 2: Okay. 377 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 1: I think if and when they allow us to keep 378 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:16,400 Speaker 1: doing this show next year, which I can't imagine why 379 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 1: anyone would, given who you and I are as like 380 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 1: people like the closer they let us, the more insane 381 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:29,440 Speaker 1: we become. But I think Chatty Daddy in CI recording 382 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 1: from Lambeau next year. Yeah, sure, we'll do it on 383 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:36,119 Speaker 1: the fan. Absolutely will help with the pregame show. How 384 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:38,679 Speaker 1: about you have the We're the you know how you 385 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:40,560 Speaker 1: wake up and you're like, what time's Colin Coward on? 386 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:42,480 Speaker 1: But there's that other show that's on in the morning 387 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 1: that keeps switching, like the breakfast Ball or whatever. Give 388 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:50,400 Speaker 1: us make us breakfast Ball to the pregame show. Put 389 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 1: Cy and Chatty Daddy out in Lambeau and let's just 390 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 1: see what comes back. 391 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:58,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, not Chad and Ci. We don't come back in 392 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:00,919 Speaker 3: body bags. Maybe that's going to do it for. 393 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 1: Us today on the tailgate, thank you guys for listening. 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