1 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 1: Here's the snap looking fist the ball, diving for the 2 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:09,920 Speaker 1: pilot that he's got it. Brazzle tasle tuch about the 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: Houstas and the Texans go in front. There is no 4 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: off season for your Houston Texans. Game day. He's every day. 5 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: We had a lot of energy and we brought a 6 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:26,279 Speaker 1: lot of spark for this organization. Five nights a week. 7 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 1: The hits keep on coming out and the Texas say 8 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 1: they have it and they do no. It's Texans all excess. 9 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 1: Hello Texans, and welcome to the program that gets you 10 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:44,239 Speaker 1: involved deeply with your Houston Texans. Mark Vandermer with you, 11 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:46,160 Speaker 1: and tonight we've got a good one with John McClain 12 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 1: for the Houston Chronicle joining us first, and John Harris 13 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 1: steps in and we have a lot to get to 14 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:53,520 Speaker 1: this evening. I know we have a lot to talk 15 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: about around the world as it pertains to sports and 16 00:00:57,440 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 1: sports involvement in what is going on around the world, 17 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: but I do want to get back to football as 18 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 1: well tonight, because that's why you're here right Well, the 19 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 1: general is here, John McClain for the Histor Chronicle. John, 20 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 1: how's it going for you, my friend? It's going great 21 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: for me, Mark, how are you doing well? Doing very well? 22 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:15,959 Speaker 1: I mean, I can't complain. I mean there's a lot 23 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 1: of going on on our planet right now, nationally and abroad, 24 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: and we're all trying to get through and get back 25 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 1: to whatever normal can be. In a better normal, absolutely, 26 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: but your take your thoughts on what's been happening in 27 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 1: our city and around well around the country really the 28 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:36,759 Speaker 1: last week to ten days, two weeks really and sports 29 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 1: and the Houston Texans involvement in all of that, and 30 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 1: as a result of it, I thought this week before 31 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:48,520 Speaker 1: the ZAM call with Michael Thomas, Bill O'Brien came on 32 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 1: and said the most powerful passionate since sir, from the 33 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: heart thing I've ever seen him say, saying he's gotten 34 00:01:55,520 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 1: universal approval locally nationally and that's good. J. J. Watt 35 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 1: was one of the first players to speak out about it, 36 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: about the Floyd's killing in Minneapolis, and I thought he 37 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: was great. And then O'Brien just blew me away. And 38 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:16,639 Speaker 1: Cal McNair had a video he put out last night 39 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 1: is and I said, as I said on six ten 40 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: earlier today, the fact that Cal went on a video 41 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,640 Speaker 1: and did it when most other owners are just putting 42 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: out statements, and the fact that he did that instead 43 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: of just putting out a statement, I thought old fans, 44 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 1: Texans fans are able to appreciate the fact that he 45 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 1: did that. I think it's good that the Texans are 46 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 1: doing it. And what I believe now is because you 47 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 1: had so many people speaking out, owners, general managers, coaches, 48 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 1: because this is an election year, and I would imagine 49 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 1: we are going to have the most tumultuous football season 50 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 1: we have had in the history of the NFL. Tumultuous 51 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: meaning players disagreeing about certain well. I just think there'll 52 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:04,200 Speaker 1: be protest, There'll be protests every game. I think it'll 53 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:09,920 Speaker 1: be multiple protests, multiple players, African Americans, White, Hispanic, of 54 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: all races. I think that the Republican National Convention will 55 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: be like nineteen sixty eight, the Democratic Convention. I wrote 56 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: about that this week, a column about when I was 57 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: a sophomore in high school in Waco and everything that 58 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 1: happened in nineteen sixty eight, from Martin Luther King and 59 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 1: Bobby Kennedy being killed, to the Melie Masker to people 60 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: been shot protesting all over the country, the Vietnam War, 61 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 1: civil rights movement, gender equality and my most enduring memory 62 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: is of Tommy Smith and John Carlis at the nineteen 63 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: sixty eight Olympics in Mexico City on the metal stand. 64 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: They want to go to the bronze and they've got 65 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: their arm in the air, and a lot of people 66 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 1: just vilified them, said it was black power when it 67 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 1: was about racial injustice, the same thing we're seeing people 68 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: protest today. And they had their medals stripped from them. 69 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 1: They were treated terribly. And but that's that of all 70 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 1: the things that came out of nineteen sounds like the 71 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 1: General dropped off, which has happened before, by the way, 72 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 1: I think what happens is when his phone rings, all 73 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 1: the power in the house shuts down. So when the 74 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: General's phone rings, the entire McLean estate just completely deep power. 75 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 1: Something like that. I think it's an Internet thing. I 76 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 1: think when his phone rings, and and just so you know, 77 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 1: we're all in our homes, we're live, this is live radio. 78 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: I just love this. When did this happen? This happened when? Oh? 79 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 1: I think it was the big story of Brandon Cook 80 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:01,119 Speaker 1: siding with the Houston Texas I'm back, Oh, you're back, 81 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:05,279 Speaker 1: all right, I'm back mcclana stay back online. I apologize. 82 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 1: I kee's okay kidding to put the do not disturb 83 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 1: thing on. And so I'm hoping we can as sports 84 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:16,600 Speaker 1: and sports will help us have something as an outlet 85 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 1: as we all want it. And looks like the NBA 86 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 1: is gonna come back, Baseball still haggling in NFL says 87 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:25,719 Speaker 1: it still wants to play. And so I hope we're 88 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: able to do all that. Yes, me too. You know, 89 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 1: you bring up the late sixties, the Democratic National Convention 90 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:36,280 Speaker 1: in Chicago and sixty eight, what happened at the Olympics, 91 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:38,599 Speaker 1: all of it, and there was so much more, I 92 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,799 Speaker 1: mean related to the Vietnam War, civil rights everything John 93 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 1: this time that we're going through now in history. And 94 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 1: I like talking to people who you know, look, I 95 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:48,479 Speaker 1: was alive, but I was a little tiny kid then. 96 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:52,159 Speaker 1: But people who have lived through it, what do you 97 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: think in comparison as far as the intensity of it. 98 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 1: I know social media makes everything different, but that was 99 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 1: a pretty to us time. When you look at the 100 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:05,839 Speaker 1: mid to late sixties leading into the early seventies gas crisis, 101 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:08,839 Speaker 1: I mean I remember my parents saying, oh the exit 102 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:10,840 Speaker 1: at the corner. It was really an sso at the time, 103 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 1: at the corner of Main and Elm, they've got gas, quick, 104 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:17,600 Speaker 1: bring the car because gas stations were running out of gas. 105 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 1: There were long lines. It was other stuff as well. 106 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: Your take on the comparison, First of all, what I 107 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:29,480 Speaker 1: say differently now. Back then mostly it was black or white, 108 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:33,839 Speaker 1: and now you see it's black and white, and a 109 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:36,920 Speaker 1: lot of things we've been we've been seeing and hearing, 110 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 1: and a lot of the people protesting and marching like 111 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 1: you see all races in there. And my first three 112 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:47,719 Speaker 1: years of high school and the barrass to say it 113 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 1: took me four but the first three years or sixty eight, 114 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:53,839 Speaker 1: sixty nine and seventy seventy was the Kent State massacre 115 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 1: in which National Gardment fired on a crowd of students, 116 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 1: killed four, wounded nine. And that's like every day it 117 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 1: was a different protest violence. Media got beat up then 118 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:08,039 Speaker 1: like they got beat up now. The difference was we 119 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: watched Walter Crinkite on the nightly news CBS, and we 120 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 1: read the newspapers and we listened to radio. We didn't 121 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 1: have social media and instant analysis by everybody, so that 122 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: makes it so much more real. I have a column 123 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 1: Sunday with Warren Moon. I've been writing about Warren and 124 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 1: racism since his first year hear nineteen eighty four, So 125 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 1: I call him. His kids are here as grandkids are here. 126 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: Two of his daughters were part of the march, the 127 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 1: sixty thousand people, and he was talking about how proud 128 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 1: he was of them, and I asked him, why is 129 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 1: it so many people are speaking out now in his opinions, 130 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 1: like I think so many others because what happened to 131 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 1: George Floyd happened right before our very highs. He said, 132 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 1: these are things African Americans have been experiencing for years, 133 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: but right there everybody says almost like a slow motion execution, 134 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: and people see it and they're like, oh my god. 135 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 1: And that's why they're speaking out. Of course, that's the 136 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 1: more who the more to do, the better. And as 137 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: he pointed out, if you want to really do more 138 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: than speak out, vote vote. That's the thing. And we'll 139 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:23,080 Speaker 1: be voting in November. I just can't it's so hard 140 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 1: to imagine what's coming in the fall. Well, I'm glad 141 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 1: you brought up voting, because look, we're governed by laws, 142 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:34,320 Speaker 1: and not that all laws are obeyed or followed. But 143 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: laws are obviously important, and the lawmakers are the politicians, right, 144 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,320 Speaker 1: The politicians are the ones who who start these things off. 145 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 1: And you want to change those guys or solidify what 146 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:48,960 Speaker 1: you already like, you go ahead and go to the 147 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: polls and get it done. And you're right, the turnout 148 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 1: is going to be incredible and we'll see how that 149 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:56,680 Speaker 1: goes down. And like, we don't talk about those things 150 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:00,320 Speaker 1: much during this program, but it's all coming into it. John, 151 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:02,720 Speaker 1: you mentioned the league and the amount of protests and 152 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 1: things like that. I just feel like, look, I'm not 153 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 1: saying it's gonna be one harmonious experience all the way through, 154 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 1: but with what everyone's seeing and experiencing right now, maybe 155 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 1: it's experiencing is not the right word. But I just 156 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:19,320 Speaker 1: feel this sense of unity around the league. And I 157 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:20,959 Speaker 1: know you have Drew Brees and you have some other 158 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: things going on here where where people disagree or whatever, 159 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 1: or you know, you see these these things flare up, 160 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 1: but it just feels like more people are on the 161 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:34,640 Speaker 1: same page around the league relative to the issues that 162 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:38,320 Speaker 1: are coming into play right now in the last two weeks, 163 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:39,719 Speaker 1: and I know they've been going on longer than that, 164 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:41,600 Speaker 1: But I'm saying that, you know, I coming to the 165 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 1: to the big light that we see them right now. 166 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 1: Isn't it amazing that Tom Smith and John Carlos were 167 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 1: protesting in nineteen sixty eight, the same things are protesting today. 168 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,840 Speaker 1: You know that you wonder, you know what can be done, 169 00:09:57,880 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 1: and a lot of that does that to do with 170 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 1: changing the law by who you vote for. And I 171 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 1: think the league is united, and I think once the 172 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 1: players are able to get back together and talk in person, 173 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 1: not just on texting or on the selle or on 174 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 1: their own zooms, and they can get together, they'll be 175 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:20,560 Speaker 1: even more together and passionate about it. And you know 176 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,960 Speaker 1: they're they're letting people slowly come back to the facility, 177 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:27,440 Speaker 1: and every little baby step is progress, you know, that's 178 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:29,679 Speaker 1: the thing. But until the players are over there and 179 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 1: get to work out and take what they've learned on 180 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 1: Zoom from their coaches onto the field and get that 181 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:38,199 Speaker 1: on field instruction, that all the positivity is going to 182 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 1: be little baby steps. Yeah. Well, I agree though, like 183 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: once everybody gets together, it's going to make it a 184 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:46,080 Speaker 1: whole up. Yeah, but you know, Mark the all season 185 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 1: programs about to be over players got vacations, they got plans, 186 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 1: you know, all of a sudden, they're not going to 187 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: tell them in three weeks. Oh, by the way, you 188 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 1: can go back. No, they're off. So this would have 189 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:00,839 Speaker 1: been is what week would have been the ndatory mini 190 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: camp for everybody, and that signals the end of the 191 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 1: off season program. And so is it two weeks next week? 192 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:10,440 Speaker 1: It's either next week or the week after, so from 193 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:13,200 Speaker 1: that weeks from now. So from that point on, they're 194 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 1: off the training camp whenever training camp will be. And 195 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:19,680 Speaker 1: there's a lot of people think that they need they're 196 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:22,319 Speaker 1: going to ask the Players Association because this is in 197 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:26,720 Speaker 1: the CBA, about what they can do and when if 198 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 1: they'll come in earlier for a conditioning and go on 199 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:34,600 Speaker 1: the field before they actually begin training camp. They've already 200 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 1: got a few days to get limbered up anyway with 201 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 1: those shells, and they can't wear pads anytime but in 202 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 1: the off season. But they're limited to what they can do. 203 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:47,640 Speaker 1: So maybe they'll get them to come in a week 204 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:50,680 Speaker 1: early just to go out there together and go through 205 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 1: the normal things they do every day. And that I'm 206 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:57,240 Speaker 1: wondering when we're going to have conflict between the owners 207 00:11:57,679 --> 00:12:02,560 Speaker 1: and the players Association over money like Major League Baseball, 208 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:06,400 Speaker 1: and also time to come back, because I think the 209 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 1: players are going to have to come back at least 210 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 1: a week early to get in condition better condition physically. Well, 211 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:15,839 Speaker 1: I feel like I need to summon Seth Paine, who 212 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 1: declared himself the unofficial COVID Minister of Houston or something 213 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:22,520 Speaker 1: like that. Based on when we saw the march for 214 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 1: George Floyd and all that represents the other day, it's 215 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:29,720 Speaker 1: sixty thousand plus downtown. I thought, well, if three weeks 216 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:32,440 Speaker 1: from now we don't have a huge spike, we're good, 217 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 1: right as far as all those protests and marches going 218 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:39,040 Speaker 1: around around the country. And I was so proud of 219 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:42,720 Speaker 1: Houston to have what was estimated a crowd of sixty 220 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 1: thousand going down the street from Discovering Green to City 221 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 1: Hall and the helicopter shots on the news. I was 222 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:53,720 Speaker 1: so proud of everybody there. But man, it scared me 223 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 1: to death. A lot of people were not wearing masks. 224 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:02,200 Speaker 1: A lot of them were Shaun Watson, Andre Johnson. But 225 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:05,840 Speaker 1: it's scary because you're right, with these protests all over 226 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:08,440 Speaker 1: the country, if in a month they don't have this 227 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:11,400 Speaker 1: big outbreak, they're gonna say, well, why can't we put 228 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 1: people in the stands. Something that struck me today is 229 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:19,640 Speaker 1: fifty Alabama football players got together on an informal basis, 230 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:23,079 Speaker 1: which they're allowed to do, and five of them tested positive. 231 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 1: So that's scary to think that five young people tested positive. 232 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 1: Now they wonder where else if they've been who where 233 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:34,840 Speaker 1: did they get it? And that if you start thinking 234 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 1: if there were one hundred players, which there are, and 235 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 1: that was ten, you know that's too many. But they 236 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:42,760 Speaker 1: know they're going to test positive. Kids, what do they 237 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:47,199 Speaker 1: do after they do test positive? Right, you're gonna have 238 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 1: some positive tests and you're gonna have to be able 239 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 1: to live with it. For lack of a better way 240 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:53,960 Speaker 1: of putting it, let me ask something, Yeah, let me 241 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:58,839 Speaker 1: ask you something. Okay, first game at Kansas City, all 242 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:01,800 Speaker 1: of a sudden you start in a sore throat, and 243 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:04,280 Speaker 1: then you get a fever, and all of a sudden 244 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 1: you're on your back and you can't travel. Who does 245 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:11,560 Speaker 1: the play by play? Oh gosh, that's such a tricky question. 246 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: So I don't know, but I want right you're you guys, 247 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 1: So it's not just worrying about the quarterback and the 248 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 1: players and coaches and everybody else associated with the team. 249 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 1: But there's people in your department. You got so many 250 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 1: people there that work on Houston Texans dot com and 251 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 1: do a tremendous job, but you are irreplaceable. Well, that's 252 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:43,920 Speaker 1: very sweet of you to say that. Have you ever 253 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:50,520 Speaker 1: missed anything? No, never missed a game ever. No. Well, 254 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 1: you know, Johnny and I were talking about this last 255 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:53,920 Speaker 1: night when I had to go down to the Ring 256 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:58,320 Speaker 1: of Honor ceremony for mister McNair last year. You know, 257 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: I go down at the half to come back now 258 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:03,120 Speaker 1: for Andre Johnson. I didn't miss anything because it just 259 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 1: timed out perfectly. Somebody took a knee at the end 260 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 1: of the half and killed the clock and I was 261 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 1: able to get to the elevator and get down for 262 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 1: mister McNair's Ring of Honor ceremony. I went out. I 263 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 1: thought we're good, but I think that I thought the 264 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 1: Texans might take a knee or just hand off and 265 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 1: that would be it. But they ran a couple of 266 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 1: plays that I think Andrey and john called them, Uh, 267 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 1: just a couple of plays, a couple of throwaway plays. Well, 268 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 1: I'm not trying, but I'm you know, everybody has to 269 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 1: beware when they come back. Nobody you don't. Honestly, for us, 270 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 1: we have numerous options. I mean, our producer, Robert Hensley 271 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:41,400 Speaker 1: is a play by play guy. I mean, he's done 272 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 1: it for Rice University, He's done it for a few 273 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 1: different things, and he could handle it. He could stand in. 274 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 1: He's a good broadcaster and a terrific guy to have 275 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 1: in the booth with us. And look, I mean, I've 276 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 1: thought of all the different scenarios. John, you know, are 277 00:15:57,080 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 1: we gonna be able to fly with the team like 278 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: we usually do? Maybe not. I don't know. I haven't 279 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 1: heard anything official. I'm not gonna push it right now 280 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 1: because they have bigger fish to fry, But eventually we'll 281 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 1: have to make some decisions on that and we'll look, 282 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:09,680 Speaker 1: I'll get there anyway I can, as long as they 283 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 1: let me in the building. That's my other concern. Are 284 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:13,880 Speaker 1: they gonna let you know, this is obviously woe is 285 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 1: me stuff, But are they gonna let me go on 286 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:19,240 Speaker 1: the road into a radio booth and call the action 287 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 1: from there? Or are we going to be doing it 288 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 1: from a monitor at NRG Stadium when they're on the 289 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 1: road because I told you I think you should be 290 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 1: in the stands like you were at Wembley. And here's 291 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 1: another thing. What if there's so few flights right now 292 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 1: Andre trying to get from say an ESPN game, he 293 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 1: has no trouble getting to your games. But if there 294 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 1: are fewer flights, how much trouble is that going to 295 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 1: be for him to maybe make make some of the games. 296 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 1: And now you got Johnny Harris rooting for that to happen, 297 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 1: so he could fill it on a cup. I'm just 298 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:47,200 Speaker 1: kidding he could. But then who's going to take his 299 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 1: place on the field? Yeah, I know, well, well maybe 300 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:51,880 Speaker 1: he We'll put you down things you have to consider. 301 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 1: I'm sure he's wondering, and I am too. Will they 302 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 1: allow extra people on the field and buy extra I 303 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:01,520 Speaker 1: mean sideline reporters for local radio broadcasts and things, So 304 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:04,720 Speaker 1: that's a good point. I'm guessing no. And I acquired 305 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 1: about all of it, and they have nothing to say yet. 306 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:09,439 Speaker 1: The NFL is not provided yet as far as I 307 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:12,320 Speaker 1: know guidelines they will, but I think they're going to 308 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:14,359 Speaker 1: leave it up to the individual teams. But when it 309 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 1: comes to the sidelines and be involved with the players 310 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:20,720 Speaker 1: and being around the players. That's gonna be something I 311 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 1: think that the league's gonna take care of. Ye John, 312 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:26,160 Speaker 1: what do you have going out to the Chronicle. I'm 313 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:29,359 Speaker 1: doing this column Sunday on Warren Moon, and he was 314 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 1: better talking to me about the current climate in the 315 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:37,920 Speaker 1: US and his family, his fears, George Floyd's family then 316 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 1: anytime he's been since. I've been talking to him since 317 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four. So I hope people will check it out. 318 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:47,240 Speaker 1: And I got my mailbag going tomorrow and they've got 319 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:49,720 Speaker 1: a lot of interesting comments in there. Mark, thank you 320 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:53,160 Speaker 1: very much. As always, I appreciate it and stay safe. 321 00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 1: All right. Question for your mailbag, by the way, special teams, 322 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:57,800 Speaker 1: how do you think it's going to be this year? 323 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 1: We'll talk to John Harris about that next. Among other things, 324 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:03,320 Speaker 1: John McClain said, I could do the game from the stands. 325 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:08,800 Speaker 1: Has that ever happened before? Find out next. You know, 326 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 1: that's just a little tiny little teas here. 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Oh 410 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 1: my god, I'm gonna love you, General. I mean, if 411 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:58,359 Speaker 1: you make us depressed, Yeah, I know, I love the General. 412 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,239 Speaker 1: I shouldn't shouldn't say it that way, but I love 413 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:03,359 Speaker 1: the General. But he he's gonna have me like in 414 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 1: Lamarck calling a game. I mean, you know, before long, 415 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 1: Oh my god, I just you know, just give me 416 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 1: down on the sidelines. I got an idea. Okay, you 417 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,399 Speaker 1: saw what the what what Booker had right when he 418 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:20,720 Speaker 1: was on the side. Right, Yes, I'm gonna get you. 419 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:24,399 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get you a popemobile. Remember when the Pope 420 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:27,439 Speaker 1: I think this was job Paul. When he traveled, I 421 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 1: think was was it South America? Maybe the United States? 422 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 1: Maybe everywhere he went He had a popemobile. Yeah, he did. 423 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,520 Speaker 1: After somebody had an attempt on his life. We need 424 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:38,120 Speaker 1: a Harris popemobile on the sideline. So you're in your 425 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 1: own glass case. You're in a glass case of ocean, 426 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:44,560 Speaker 1: and you're just going up and down the sideline. And yeah, 427 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:47,679 Speaker 1: here's pretty much what it's pretty much what it is. 428 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 1: It's pretty much what it is. Subscribes our state of 429 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 1: mind during a game, like oh my gosh, I can't 430 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 1: take the tension. All right? So well, he did you 431 00:24:57,840 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 1: hear McLean say that I should call the game from 432 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 1: the stand say that at the very end I heard 433 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 1: I heard that, and I was like, wait a second. 434 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 1: I couldn't tell if he was talking to you or me. 435 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 1: I was like, wait a second, Um, have you ever 436 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:14,440 Speaker 1: to do it? Now? I listen. If you've called high 437 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,719 Speaker 1: school games at some point in your career, you probably 438 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,680 Speaker 1: have done them from the stands. Absolutely. I can tell 439 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:24,560 Speaker 1: you Mark, I can tell you, uh Southland Conference games. 440 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 1: There was one in particular, I did one. Not no, no, 441 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:33,720 Speaker 1: it wasn't quite the stands. But Butch Alsendor who was 442 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 1: just a sweetheart of a man. Oh he and I 443 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 1: did mcney State against Lamar and where was it was 444 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:47,200 Speaker 1: at Lamar. Now Lamar's got this. It's nice press box. 445 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,480 Speaker 1: It is very nice. Oh that's right. They renovated the 446 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:53,439 Speaker 1: whole thing, right. They had a new didn't they have 447 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,400 Speaker 1: new digs when they brought back football? I think so. 448 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,200 Speaker 1: I don't recall, but the press box was nice. I 449 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 1: was down there doing kind of my pregame work and 450 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:03,280 Speaker 1: working from there, and I was like, well, where are 451 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:06,479 Speaker 1: we and they're like, oh, you don't have a spot 452 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:09,200 Speaker 1: in the press box. I was like, oh, okay, where 453 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:12,600 Speaker 1: are we. Then they're like, oh, you're on top. I 454 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,400 Speaker 1: was like on top of the press box and they're 455 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:19,440 Speaker 1: like yeah, yeah, Mark. There were thirty five mile hour 456 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:26,000 Speaker 1: wins and it was about thirty eight degrees. Oh oh, Mark, 457 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:30,119 Speaker 1: I mean Butch. Butch had his notes like in a 458 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,159 Speaker 1: he had him in a folder. But he got him 459 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:35,720 Speaker 1: out so we could start doing pregame and a gusta 460 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:39,679 Speaker 1: wind came through and just sent everything everywhere. Mark. We 461 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 1: had duct tape and coke bottles and whatever had any 462 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:47,000 Speaker 1: weight to it holding all of our copies down, like 463 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:49,200 Speaker 1: for everything. And I just told Butch during a break, 464 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 1: I'm like, look, put it all in your stuff. I'll 465 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:54,120 Speaker 1: just go off of what I see and what's going on. 466 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 1: You know, I'll just keep my notes away. You just 467 00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:59,040 Speaker 1: take out all the space everything I know. And and 468 00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:00,760 Speaker 1: so we called again like that, and Mark, I'm tough. 469 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:04,199 Speaker 1: First of all, it was freezing, but it was we 470 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,000 Speaker 1: we had so we do the game and the game's 471 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,320 Speaker 1: over and then eleven Sports, who was calling again, They're like, hey, 472 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 1: we want you guys to do like a two and 473 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:17,560 Speaker 1: a half minute recap from up there, and Butch goes, m, 474 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 1: thank you guys, but no, and that was it. It. 475 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:23,320 Speaker 1: We're done, We're out of here. I mean it was 476 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:24,639 Speaker 1: I mean, it was very nice about it, but it 477 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,600 Speaker 1: was like, do you understand what we have been doing 478 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:28,840 Speaker 1: to go through this game? And the game was like 479 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:30,560 Speaker 1: ten to seven. It's one of those games where had 480 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,520 Speaker 1: there been a field goal attempt from forty yards I 481 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:35,199 Speaker 1: want to say, there's a field goal attempt at one 482 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,040 Speaker 1: point that got near the goal post and just went 483 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:41,200 Speaker 1: up and then down, which is one of the famous 484 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 1: old miss Mississipitate egg Bowl field goals, field goal attempts. 485 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:46,960 Speaker 1: It was a twenty five yard kicked straight in the 486 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,000 Speaker 1: way and it literally is going through the uprights and 487 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,399 Speaker 1: the wind catches it and takes it straight up in 488 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,960 Speaker 1: the air and brings it right back down and it's missed. 489 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,159 Speaker 1: And I think there was one in that game that 490 00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,240 Speaker 1: was like that, So yeah, that was that was one 491 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:02,560 Speaker 1: of mine. Call. It wasn't quite from the stands, but 492 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,199 Speaker 1: it was pretty darn close, Johnny. The first game I 493 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:10,040 Speaker 1: ever did was Foxborough High School. Yes, that Foxborough, the 494 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 1: Foxborough High School. Gosh, what was their name? Is it 495 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,520 Speaker 1: the Warriors? I don't know, but anyway, the Foxborough High 496 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:18,800 Speaker 1: School team against Westfield, Mass And I was in the stands. 497 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:20,879 Speaker 1: That was the first game I ever did, and I 498 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,879 Speaker 1: was doing color and I knew nothing about these teams. 499 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:27,199 Speaker 1: I was terribly prepared. It was awful. But that was 500 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:29,439 Speaker 1: the That was the night. That was the night I 501 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 1: fell in love with sports broadcasting because at the half, 502 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:33,600 Speaker 1: I said, this is what I'm gonna do with my life, 503 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,359 Speaker 1: and the guy do him play by play? Johnny. He 504 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,480 Speaker 1: had something wrong and I you know, it was it 505 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,720 Speaker 1: was sad because he had something wrong with his leg 506 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:45,240 Speaker 1: and he walked with a cane, right, yeah, like always. Anyway, 507 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,160 Speaker 1: we're doing a game a few weeks later, so I joined. 508 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:49,880 Speaker 1: I was on the crew after that night. I guess 509 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,480 Speaker 1: I did a decent enough job. And we were doing 510 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:55,239 Speaker 1: a game once high in the stands and he had 511 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 1: to go to the bathroom at the half, and the 512 00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 1: high school half is long. You get the bands and 513 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:02,240 Speaker 1: it's like longer than the NFL. He was. I could 514 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 1: see him walking back through the end zone with his cane, 515 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:07,720 Speaker 1: which is you know, I'm not making fun of him, 516 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:11,720 Speaker 1: but I at all. But I was like, take your time. 517 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,040 Speaker 1: Because the third quarter began, and he was the play 518 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:17,000 Speaker 1: by play a game third quarter began, he wasn't up there. 519 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:18,800 Speaker 1: I was like, I'm doing the play by play. I 520 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:20,680 Speaker 1: got to do a big chunk of play by play. 521 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,560 Speaker 1: And I was like, oh my gosh, as he's walking back. 522 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,959 Speaker 1: As he's walking back, and I was like, safety first, 523 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,959 Speaker 1: take your time, don't rush up here. You know, I 524 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:32,840 Speaker 1: was thinking I was rooting for that in my mind. 525 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,280 Speaker 1: But anyway, and I got to do my first play 526 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,760 Speaker 1: by play later. But Johnny, I actually and I joke 527 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,960 Speaker 1: about this in a way, but I use this story 528 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:45,120 Speaker 1: you've heard it because it it shows you know people, Look, 529 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,400 Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm blessed, I'm in the NFL. I 530 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 1: love it. It's the best thing ever. My one of 531 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,040 Speaker 1: my first ever games, we literally did the game in 532 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:56,840 Speaker 1: a car on a hill overlooking the field, like literally 533 00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 1: broadcast from you know, through the windshield. Very nice, climate 534 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,320 Speaker 1: controlled situation. Actually, when you think about it, Look, I 535 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:05,320 Speaker 1: would do that this year if I had to, if 536 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:06,800 Speaker 1: that was the only way I could be in the building. 537 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,560 Speaker 1: Like if I have to park my Hunday from Ron 538 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:13,080 Speaker 1: Carter Hunday in the end zone at Arrowhead Stadium, it'd 539 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:15,320 Speaker 1: be like the old day. It's like Super seventy Sports 540 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:20,320 Speaker 1: where you see the vehicles. But is that Three Rivers Stadium? Yes, yeah, 541 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,200 Speaker 1: them in the end zone, Like yes, look this is 542 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:27,080 Speaker 1: my Santa Fe and touchdown, okay, And I'll be on 543 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:30,480 Speaker 1: the other end. I'll be I'll be like in you know, 544 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,720 Speaker 1: my glass case of emotion. I'll see you. I'll see 545 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,240 Speaker 1: you guys in the car and I'll be down on 546 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:40,000 Speaker 1: the other end, and uh, we'll communicate that way. By 547 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:44,360 Speaker 1: the way, the Foxboro High School mascot is the Warriors. 548 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:46,840 Speaker 1: At least that's what it says here. I think I 549 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:51,040 Speaker 1: said the Warriors. The Warriors, Yeah, the Warriors. Their helmet 550 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:54,720 Speaker 1: looks like the Redskins, but there there does. Um yeah, 551 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,560 Speaker 1: well boy, I don't know if h Yeah, the fox 552 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:01,520 Speaker 1: Foxboro High School, this is such, this is this is 553 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,800 Speaker 1: so Foxborough in Massachusetts. Foxborough High School is in the 554 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:10,240 Speaker 1: Hackamock League. Oh yeah, so Hackamock League. Yeah they have yeah, 555 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:14,400 Speaker 1: King Philip Norwood, a bunch of other schools. So, um, 556 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:16,240 Speaker 1: you know, Bill O'Brian would be all over this conversation. 557 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,200 Speaker 1: You'd be like, oh, yeah, the Hackamock League. And the 558 00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,360 Speaker 1: radio station I worked at was just two miles from 559 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,479 Speaker 1: the stadium, you know, which was the old stadium at 560 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:27,720 Speaker 1: the time. Yeah, so you know, working there and uh 561 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,720 Speaker 1: and doing games was that was the first taste of broadcasting. 562 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:32,920 Speaker 1: But I wasn't really working there. I was just doing 563 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:34,959 Speaker 1: a show on the weekends and doing some games and 564 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,640 Speaker 1: then I started my career in Pennsylvania. Anyway. I brought 565 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,200 Speaker 1: that up because you know, here we are in COVID 566 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,040 Speaker 1: times and we don't know what the deal is going 567 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,560 Speaker 1: to be. Did I see a report today? Oh you 568 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,120 Speaker 1: said to me, what about baseball? Is that official? That 569 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:50,200 Speaker 1: they'll be calling it off monitors elsewhere. Yeah, it sounds 570 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:54,920 Speaker 1: like it. Uh it says TB and Radio Major League Baseball, Um, 571 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,960 Speaker 1: they're gonna be for road games for road games now. 572 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 1: And I didn't read further. I just saw that headline 573 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:05,320 Speaker 1: and I just was like Mark, I mean, I immediately 574 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,680 Speaker 1: sent it to you and then just went into like 575 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:11,720 Speaker 1: thirty minutes of just a horrible, horrible mood, and I figured, 576 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:13,320 Speaker 1: you know what, this is probably the best time to 577 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:14,920 Speaker 1: go for my run because I'm already in a bad 578 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,360 Speaker 1: mood anyways. Yeah, so let me just go for a 579 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:19,160 Speaker 1: runners to get it all out at once. And then 580 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 1: I just I just thought it just you know, one 581 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,640 Speaker 1: of the there's you know, I know, people will that 582 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:27,520 Speaker 1: that aren't in our business will listen to us and go, 583 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:29,880 Speaker 1: this is a big deal, and he's caught off a monitor. 584 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:33,600 Speaker 1: I know. For me, I see so much down on 585 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:35,400 Speaker 1: the down on the sidelines, and there's a lot that 586 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,480 Speaker 1: I don't even get a chance to even tell you guys. 587 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:40,640 Speaker 1: I mean sometimes I say it for observations, and sometimes 588 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:42,760 Speaker 1: I don't even get it in there because you know, 589 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:45,160 Speaker 1: there's some there's some sensitive stuff in there or something 590 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:46,760 Speaker 1: you know that I saw that happened that I don't 591 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,440 Speaker 1: want to write about it whatever, But there's so much 592 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:53,760 Speaker 1: that you can see why while you're there. But in 593 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,640 Speaker 1: this time, and this is kind of where I started 594 00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,040 Speaker 1: kind of not feeling great about it, but I kind 595 00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,120 Speaker 1: of turned the corner a little bit. I was like, 596 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,560 Speaker 1: just just like you said, you know what, man, We're 597 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:08,160 Speaker 1: lucky to do what we do. Yeah, and if this 598 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:10,200 Speaker 1: is a year where we've got to do things a 599 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:13,080 Speaker 1: different way, you kind of grin and Barrett, I hope 600 00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:15,239 Speaker 1: it doesn't come to that, and I hope at some 601 00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:18,040 Speaker 1: point that oh, yeah, yeah, we're gonna we're gonna do 602 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:21,000 Speaker 1: what we've what we've always done. Yeah, there're gonna be 603 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:23,600 Speaker 1: these changes, but yeah, we're gonna do in that way, 604 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,480 Speaker 1: We're gonna do what we've always done. But I mean, 605 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,480 Speaker 1: who's who's to say? I mean, we're still what two 606 00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:33,760 Speaker 1: months away from the first preseason game, yep, making it 607 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:35,720 Speaker 1: what less than what I mean, with less than one 608 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:38,440 Speaker 1: hundred days, But you're talking through you know, three plus 609 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,280 Speaker 1: months from you're going to Kansas City, and who knows 610 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,560 Speaker 1: in that time what's gonna change, what's not gonna change? 611 00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:46,800 Speaker 1: And over the course of a season. And we've mentioned 612 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:50,040 Speaker 1: as many times that Sucker is a marathon, not a sprint. 613 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,800 Speaker 1: And who knows after Hey, you know what, you know, 614 00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:56,160 Speaker 1: four or five, six weeks in, Hey, you know, we've 615 00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,240 Speaker 1: decided to do this because things are opening up, things 616 00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:02,240 Speaker 1: that have happened here. Who knows. So m it was 617 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:04,080 Speaker 1: rough to see and I hated it from Major League Baseball, 618 00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:06,719 Speaker 1: But then again, man, you know, if major League Baseball 619 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:09,680 Speaker 1: is getting back on the field, Mark, we have no idea. 620 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,360 Speaker 1: Sounds like a bad look for them right now, Johnny, 621 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:13,920 Speaker 1: it's such a bad look. And look, I don't want 622 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,240 Speaker 1: to get into other people's business, and it's their business, 623 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:19,399 Speaker 1: and you know it's it's millionaires and billionaires, and it's 624 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,759 Speaker 1: always in sports when you have these labor disputes, and 625 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:24,040 Speaker 1: that's what this is. This is a labor dispute right now. 626 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:27,120 Speaker 1: It's the labor of players having to play or you know, 627 00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:30,000 Speaker 1: they want to play, but what they're gonna get compensated 628 00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:33,160 Speaker 1: for however many games? And I get it because it's 629 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:36,720 Speaker 1: it's kind it's an inexact sort of thing where losing 630 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,080 Speaker 1: x amount of revenue, Baseball says, uh, and they are 631 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,120 Speaker 1: I mean if they don't have home fans. My gosh, 632 00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:45,000 Speaker 1: you're losing a ton of money, but you still get 633 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:47,719 Speaker 1: some sponsorship. You can recoup some of that because there 634 00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:50,200 Speaker 1: will be many eyeballs on these screens. You're gonna have 635 00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:52,880 Speaker 1: a second screen experience. That's something we're working on right 636 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,399 Speaker 1: now on the side, to have a second screen experience 637 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:59,080 Speaker 1: to you know, to flesh out some you know, would 638 00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:02,279 Speaker 1: be game day hype things. Uh, if you were in 639 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:04,960 Speaker 1: the building, just in case. And look, as I say this, 640 00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:09,200 Speaker 1: these are all contingencies. These are just in case sort 641 00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:12,880 Speaker 1: of scenarios because honestly, and like I said with McLean, 642 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:17,560 Speaker 1: I've talked to the league. There's nothing official. There's they're 643 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,440 Speaker 1: not even floating anything out there. This is us coming 644 00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:23,840 Speaker 1: up with scenarios, um, you know. And they floated a 645 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,239 Speaker 1: couple of things about well, what if this happened, what 646 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,080 Speaker 1: if that happened. But the league wants to play games 647 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:31,799 Speaker 1: in front of seventy thousand fans. I mean, they want that, 648 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,200 Speaker 1: and I think, Johnny, honestly, this is my opinion, nobody 649 00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:37,960 Speaker 1: else is, and I'm sure it's shared, but you know, 650 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,440 Speaker 1: I kind of joked around with McClean like, like I mean, 651 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:42,239 Speaker 1: I was a very serious thing the other day with 652 00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:45,480 Speaker 1: George Floyd, but with the with the march. But if 653 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,680 Speaker 1: two three weeks go by here in Houston, you don't 654 00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:51,440 Speaker 1: have a big spike from that, then I'm thinking, well, 655 00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:54,600 Speaker 1: that's pretty good. I mean, that's that was a you know, 656 00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:57,720 Speaker 1: an inadvertent way to sort of test a big crowd 657 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:02,040 Speaker 1: and uh, you know, obviously unrelated to how important that 658 00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,719 Speaker 1: was for everybody there, but uh, but the COVID part 659 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:06,520 Speaker 1: of it is, if you don't get a big spike 660 00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:09,200 Speaker 1: out of that, that's huge. Yeah, it's just for our 661 00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:11,279 Speaker 1: city and maybe for the country if it works out 662 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,920 Speaker 1: that way, no doubt. I mean you're talking sixty thousand 663 00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,880 Speaker 1: people were down there, and well, sixty thousand people go 664 00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,000 Speaker 1: to a sports contest, you know, all that kind of stuff. 665 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,560 Speaker 1: But you know, the other one, I remember when I 666 00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,480 Speaker 1: when I saw it, I was just appaul. I think 667 00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,399 Speaker 1: it was Memorial Day weekend. I think it was Land 668 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:31,600 Speaker 1: of the Ozarks and there were being thousands of young 669 00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:34,960 Speaker 1: people there and I don't know what the exact number 670 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,520 Speaker 1: one Lake of the Ozark, Lake of the Ozarks and 671 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:42,279 Speaker 1: Land of the Lake. Yeah, Lake of the Ozarks, and 672 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:45,719 Speaker 1: they just just you know, panoramic video shot of all 673 00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:49,040 Speaker 1: these people and I'm just like, what are you doing? 674 00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:53,120 Speaker 1: And apparently they've had no test cases come out of 675 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,720 Speaker 1: you know, any any group that read one. I wanted 676 00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:00,560 Speaker 1: one positive? Yeah? One? Sorry? Um the yeah, I think 677 00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:02,439 Speaker 1: it was. I think you're right. I think it was one. 678 00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:04,239 Speaker 1: I thought I said numb, but it maybe it's a one. 679 00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,680 Speaker 1: But either way, one or none coming out of you know, 680 00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:10,120 Speaker 1: thousands of people. I mean, look in the grand scheme 681 00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,719 Speaker 1: of things, you know, one is it's a good number. 682 00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,000 Speaker 1: You'd like for it to be completely zero so people 683 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,160 Speaker 1: could feel, you know, really safe in every environment that 684 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:21,319 Speaker 1: they're going into. But for it to be such a 685 00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,840 Speaker 1: low number, regardless of its zero or one. When a 686 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:28,640 Speaker 1: group of people got together like okay, all right, are 687 00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:33,320 Speaker 1: we going to continue to move in this direction going forward? 688 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:36,799 Speaker 1: And keep it going this way? That's the thing, keep 689 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,480 Speaker 1: it going forward. And you know, you know, you saw 690 00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:43,200 Speaker 1: University versus Alabama. They got I think fifty or fifty 691 00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:45,880 Speaker 1: five kids back on campus players let suldn't call them 692 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:49,239 Speaker 1: kids student athletes back on campus and five of them 693 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:52,719 Speaker 1: tested positive, so they knew who was They isolated them 694 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,560 Speaker 1: or they're gonna be in isolation and everybody else goes 695 00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:57,560 Speaker 1: about yeah, you know, but it doesn't spread, and then 696 00:37:57,560 --> 00:37:59,520 Speaker 1: the rest can go about their their conditioning at this 697 00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:01,840 Speaker 1: point and hopefully you don't see if they continue to test, 698 00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:05,920 Speaker 1: and hopefully as they continue to test, guys and staff 699 00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,600 Speaker 1: members don't you know, test positive, that would be the 700 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:11,480 Speaker 1: opposite side of things that Oh my gosh, now it's 701 00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:15,080 Speaker 1: now it's you know, now it's spreading amongst the college 702 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:18,400 Speaker 1: football team. Oh my god, you know this, this is 703 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,160 Speaker 1: exactly what we cannot happen. Of course at being Alabama. 704 00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:24,400 Speaker 1: That has a huge ripple effect in the college football world. 705 00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:28,000 Speaker 1: Sure it does. And you think about campus, however, they're 706 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,239 Speaker 1: gonna set up campus if a campus opens. You know, 707 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:33,560 Speaker 1: these are student athletes. They're around a lot of people, 708 00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:36,520 Speaker 1: a lot more people than let's say, an NFL player 709 00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:39,600 Speaker 1: who can do his thing at the facility all day, 710 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,839 Speaker 1: right and then go home. And look, I don't know 711 00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:46,040 Speaker 1: if they can they can't mandate that they don't go out, 712 00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:48,359 Speaker 1: you know, don't go out to the clubs, but they 713 00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:52,959 Speaker 1: can strongly urge and suggest and encourage not to. And look, 714 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,440 Speaker 1: you're sort of in a semi quarantine. You're here and 715 00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,120 Speaker 1: you're home and that's it. You know. I don't know 716 00:38:58,160 --> 00:38:59,839 Speaker 1: if that plays or not. I don't know if they'll 717 00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:02,320 Speaker 1: tell all them that, but this is just a theory 718 00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:06,040 Speaker 1: or you know, feeling that an inkling, if you will, 719 00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:08,960 Speaker 1: that that would be the way to handle it. A 720 00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:11,160 Speaker 1: lot easier to do that with pros and college kids. 721 00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,920 Speaker 1: College kids are walking back across campus, going to their dorms, 722 00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:16,040 Speaker 1: they're going to the dining room, they're doing what they're doing, 723 00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:20,319 Speaker 1: and they're gonna be exposed a lot more potentially. So man, 724 00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:23,000 Speaker 1: we just we want to see it all play out. 725 00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:27,280 Speaker 1: Where we get football, we get full experience, the full 726 00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:34,080 Speaker 1: monty of football, crowds, bands, cheerleaders, the whole thing. Let's 727 00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,520 Speaker 1: see if it happens. Okay, Johnny, one more segment here, 728 00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:38,600 Speaker 1: and I want to get to some things about special teams. 729 00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:40,839 Speaker 1: I want to get something to some things that are 730 00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:43,520 Speaker 1: going around the league, going on around the league, So 731 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:47,480 Speaker 1: we'll continue here. Mark Vandamer and John Harris. It's Texans Radio. 732 00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,400 Speaker 1: For the most in depth coverage of your favorite team 733 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:59,560 Speaker 1: and players, check out Houston Texans dot com. This is 734 00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:04,839 Speaker 1: a story about doers. It's also about Houston teamwork and yeah, 735 00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:06,560 Speaker 1: I think they heard you the first time. 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Fear of missing out is a real thing. 813 00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:07,040 Speaker 1: Don't have FuMO when it comes to your favorite team. 814 00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:11,000 Speaker 1: Follow the Houston Texans on Twitter, Instagram and snap chet 815 00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:16,800 Speaker 1: Mark Vanderma and John Harris with you. And I was 816 00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:19,839 Speaker 1: just cruising through Pro Football Talk dot com and look, 817 00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:22,280 Speaker 1: I know that that gets eye rolls from some people. 818 00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:25,960 Speaker 1: I still think it's a pretty good site to gather 819 00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:27,759 Speaker 1: some of the sports news that the day. I know 820 00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:31,800 Speaker 1: when you follow Florio on Twitter, it's a little interesting 821 00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:36,000 Speaker 1: at times. But Johnny, he tweeted out his anniversary the 822 00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:37,360 Speaker 1: other day. I just wanted to give him a shout 823 00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:41,200 Speaker 1: out because it was twenty years ago that he started 824 00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:45,800 Speaker 1: writing an article for free for the now defunct or 825 00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:48,399 Speaker 1: flipped over to Pro Football Talk site of NFL talk 826 00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:51,759 Speaker 1: dot com. And that's how he built his career out 827 00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:54,400 Speaker 1: of thin air. So I really respect that you know 828 00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:56,640 Speaker 1: that he did it that way. I don't always agree 829 00:45:56,640 --> 00:46:00,120 Speaker 1: with what he says, obviously, but that's pretty cool. It's 830 00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:02,799 Speaker 1: the Internet age, folks, and there's still are opportunities. I 831 00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:06,080 Speaker 1: know that millions upon millions I've lost their jobs with COVID, 832 00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:08,839 Speaker 1: but we live in an exciting time still where you 833 00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:12,280 Speaker 1: can make it in a way that might be similar 834 00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:15,120 Speaker 1: to that might because something completely different. But there are 835 00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:18,200 Speaker 1: opportunities out there, and some of them can be created 836 00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:21,440 Speaker 1: by yourself. Well, you you mentioned you just talked about 837 00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:25,120 Speaker 1: your experience, you know, calling games Foxborough High School, you know, 838 00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:28,360 Speaker 1: calling games from a car mine was kind of similar 839 00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:32,719 Speaker 1: to Florios in some sense that I happened to have 840 00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:35,520 Speaker 1: a good friend who was in radio and he was like, Hey, 841 00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:37,880 Speaker 1: come up one day and we'll talk radio. And so 842 00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:40,200 Speaker 1: I did, and so I did you know, I did 843 00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:42,919 Speaker 1: some college football stuff with him for like an hour 844 00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:47,520 Speaker 1: very radio station. Yeah, many many many years ago. And 845 00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:49,480 Speaker 1: then I got into accounting, and I was just like, 846 00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:51,440 Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I need to do something. And 847 00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:54,000 Speaker 1: so I literally would get so bored at work, and 848 00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:56,799 Speaker 1: I just started writing about college football. And it was 849 00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,040 Speaker 1: the two thousand and one season, a great season in 850 00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:02,000 Speaker 1: your recollection, because you were with Miami, and I just 851 00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:05,520 Speaker 1: started writing about college football, and I just because because 852 00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:07,520 Speaker 1: I hated accounting and I hated what I was doing, 853 00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:09,280 Speaker 1: and I was on a sign and so I was like, ah, 854 00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:11,920 Speaker 1: so I just started writing. And then I found out 855 00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:14,239 Speaker 1: about the psych called College Football News. I was like, man, 856 00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:16,239 Speaker 1: I could I think I could do that. I could 857 00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:18,600 Speaker 1: do that. It took me a year and a half 858 00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:22,640 Speaker 1: or more of sending him stuff that I was writing 859 00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:24,879 Speaker 1: and I was not. I didn't go to I did 860 00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:26,839 Speaker 1: not write for a living. I did not even take 861 00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:29,600 Speaker 1: an English class at Brown. I just wrote what I 862 00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:32,680 Speaker 1: wanted to write, that sounded good, and I went with it. 863 00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:36,279 Speaker 1: And after about a year and a half two years, 864 00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:38,520 Speaker 1: he finally emailed me back like wait, it's like, who 865 00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:41,240 Speaker 1: are you doing this for? And I was like, well, 866 00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:43,080 Speaker 1: you know, a year and a half ago when you 867 00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:44,759 Speaker 1: responded me, I told you, and then you never got 868 00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,120 Speaker 1: back to me. And so I just kept pounding and 869 00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:50,600 Speaker 1: pounding and pounding, and finally it got his attention and 870 00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:52,879 Speaker 1: I ended up writing for College Football News and things 871 00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:55,120 Speaker 1: started kind of building off for that till this point 872 00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:58,000 Speaker 1: today where I am here with you. Very cool and 873 00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:00,919 Speaker 1: we're very glad for that. Johnny. Now let me ask 874 00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:04,359 Speaker 1: you this special teams. We haven't talked much about this, 875 00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:06,920 Speaker 1: but I know one of the things we'd be looking at. 876 00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:08,720 Speaker 1: A couple of weeks ago, we did a show called 877 00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:11,400 Speaker 1: I forget what we called it, but it was the 878 00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:14,759 Speaker 1: topic was what we would have seen during OTA's that 879 00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:17,600 Speaker 1: day and what we would have been looking for. I 880 00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:19,640 Speaker 1: think one of the things we'd be looking for is 881 00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:22,560 Speaker 1: the special team's practice, which, look, I've been on the 882 00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:26,040 Speaker 1: record saying this, I love watching me some football practice 883 00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:29,120 Speaker 1: to get fired up for the season. But special team 884 00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:32,719 Speaker 1: stuff maybe you find it exciting, but to me, that's like, 885 00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:35,160 Speaker 1: you know, you know. The analogy I use is when 886 00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:38,280 Speaker 1: you go see a classic rock band and they're playing 887 00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:40,279 Speaker 1: all their old stuff and you love it, and then 888 00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:42,640 Speaker 1: they're like, now we'd like to play something from all 889 00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:45,520 Speaker 1: new album, and it's like time to hit the concession stand, right, 890 00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:47,799 Speaker 1: It's time to go to the restroom. I don't want 891 00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:49,520 Speaker 1: to hear anything from the new album on to hear 892 00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:53,399 Speaker 1: the classics special teams practice? Is that for me? When 893 00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:56,160 Speaker 1: I'm watching training camp stuff or OTAs like, ah, special 894 00:48:56,239 --> 00:48:58,480 Speaker 1: teams all right, Time to check my phone, go to 895 00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:00,640 Speaker 1: the restroom. I'll come back when they go back to 896 00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:04,440 Speaker 1: eleven on eleven. But one thing I'd be watching for 897 00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:09,160 Speaker 1: is who's in that return mix with DeAndre Carter, because look, 898 00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:11,400 Speaker 1: if Carter is on the team, and he is on 899 00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:14,120 Speaker 1: the team, he might end up being the guy. Probably will, 900 00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:16,440 Speaker 1: But there are some other options here. Who do you 901 00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:19,640 Speaker 1: think some of the other options are for returning kicks 902 00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:22,560 Speaker 1: and punts that are going to create competition, because you 903 00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:26,600 Speaker 1: know they love competition, no matter how entrenched you are, 904 00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:29,880 Speaker 1: they want to sort of push everybody. Well, I think, 905 00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:32,920 Speaker 1: but one that's always fascinating to me and I've always 906 00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:38,319 Speaker 1: been against it unless there just has not been a 907 00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:41,600 Speaker 1: way to get him the ball. That's Will. I remember 908 00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:44,080 Speaker 1: where he's a rookie and when he caught that punt 909 00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:47,000 Speaker 1: return against Tennessee and took off down the sideline, I'm like, whoa, 910 00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:49,799 Speaker 1: this dude can fly. I mean, we knew it, but 911 00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:52,600 Speaker 1: seeing him on a punt return doing it, but he 912 00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:55,120 Speaker 1: just became too valuable to put him back there. Then 913 00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:57,279 Speaker 1: obviously he had injury issues and you couldn't put him 914 00:49:57,320 --> 00:49:59,640 Speaker 1: back there, and so then Tyler Irvan go back there. 915 00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:01,600 Speaker 1: Then I got hurt that year, and so we're kind 916 00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:03,640 Speaker 1: of looking for a guy, and then you know, finally 917 00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:06,960 Speaker 1: DeAndre Carter came and you're like, when DeAndre Carter catches punts, 918 00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:10,000 Speaker 1: and I don't think too much about kickoffs market kickoff returns. 919 00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:11,960 Speaker 1: I know Mikole Hardman head at one against us, but 920 00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:16,360 Speaker 1: for the most part, kickoff it it was big. I 921 00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:19,920 Speaker 1: won't dispute that, but kickoff returns are just of course 922 00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:22,920 Speaker 1: we then kickoff returns. We're not good to us in 923 00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:28,680 Speaker 1: that game, ah Lee. But I remember, I remember when 924 00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:32,319 Speaker 1: DeAndre took over. I remember. The reason I remember this 925 00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:35,359 Speaker 1: distinctly is we were in a bye week and I 926 00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:37,759 Speaker 1: remember trying to get out of the building, like at 927 00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:39,960 Speaker 1: a decent hour, trying to just I'm gonna record a show. 928 00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:41,359 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get out of here while the three day 929 00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:43,239 Speaker 1: weekend or whatever because we're not playing a weekend. And 930 00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:45,800 Speaker 1: then all of a sudden it's I'm leaving the building 931 00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:49,520 Speaker 1: and I see we've gotten We've released tell Irvan and 932 00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:52,160 Speaker 1: we've picked up DeAndre Carter cleaned off waivers. I'm like, 933 00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:54,400 Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I gotta go back and record the show. 934 00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:56,880 Speaker 1: But but then when DeAndre stepped in as the returner. 935 00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:58,800 Speaker 1: The one thing I always felt about DeAndre as the 936 00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:02,560 Speaker 1: part returner is he's decisive. He catches the ball and 937 00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:05,000 Speaker 1: he goes. He doesn't sit back there and dance. He 938 00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:07,560 Speaker 1: didn't try and do you know like these uh you know, 939 00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:10,359 Speaker 1: fancy moves or anything. He gets it and goes north 940 00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:15,840 Speaker 1: and so boom gone. Now, if it's not him, I 941 00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:18,600 Speaker 1: think one option to think about, and this might be 942 00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:21,400 Speaker 1: one of the ways that he finds a way on 943 00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:24,720 Speaker 1: this team is Tyler Simmons, undrafted free agent from Georgia. 944 00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:26,799 Speaker 1: That was something that he did at Georgia. He did 945 00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:30,320 Speaker 1: do returns, but he was a phenomenal special teams player. 946 00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:32,920 Speaker 1: That's one of the reasons I think the Texans of 947 00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:34,719 Speaker 1: the fact that he you know, he plays receiver and 948 00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:38,640 Speaker 1: he does not have tremendous hands. I wouldn't. I wouldn't 949 00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:41,800 Speaker 1: and I didn't get truly excited about him as a receiver. 950 00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:46,120 Speaker 1: But as a special teams guy, he was incredible at Georgia, 951 00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:48,960 Speaker 1: and he did, if I remember correctly, he did run 952 00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:53,040 Speaker 1: I think punts back and had a couple of nice punts. 953 00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:56,839 Speaker 1: So I think he's gonna be in the mix from 954 00:51:56,880 --> 00:52:01,919 Speaker 1: a return standpoint. But after that, man, I don't Mark, 955 00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,000 Speaker 1: I don't know who else you you put back there 956 00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:08,200 Speaker 1: and feel and feel great about returning kicks I don't 957 00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:11,399 Speaker 1: think it's something that John Reid does, so I don't 958 00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:14,040 Speaker 1: think you put him back there. So I think you 959 00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:17,319 Speaker 1: put DeAndre Carter back there. I think during camp you'll 960 00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:20,880 Speaker 1: see Stevie Mitchell go back there. And I feel confident 961 00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:23,840 Speaker 1: with Stevie, Keiky is gonna obviously be part of that mix. 962 00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:26,919 Speaker 1: And I think Tyler Simmons, deander at the free agent 963 00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:29,319 Speaker 1: from Georgia, will be part of that mix. And I 964 00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:31,799 Speaker 1: think it's gonna go a long way. That battle is 965 00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:36,200 Speaker 1: gonna go all probably down to the final the final week. 966 00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:40,680 Speaker 1: But whoever, whoever, I mean, that's a way, that's a 967 00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:44,279 Speaker 1: way that with given the receiver situation particular. I don't 968 00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:47,120 Speaker 1: think I mentioned anybody else for another different position, but 969 00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:48,960 Speaker 1: that's a way you end up, Hey, you want to 970 00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:54,279 Speaker 1: force the Texans to keep five six receivers, that be 971 00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:57,279 Speaker 1: that six receiver. That's what DeAndre Carter has done. But 972 00:52:57,400 --> 00:52:59,520 Speaker 1: what's made him so valuable, as you know, is the 973 00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:03,360 Speaker 1: fact that okay, you will gets banged up at Tampa 974 00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:06,680 Speaker 1: Bay last year against Tampa last year and DeAndre has 975 00:53:06,719 --> 00:53:08,480 Speaker 1: got to go into game and he ends up making 976 00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:11,520 Speaker 1: a huge play because he knows the plays at every 977 00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:15,359 Speaker 1: single position. Yeah, that helps him. You've got to be 978 00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:17,120 Speaker 1: able to go out there and look, you don't have 979 00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:19,400 Speaker 1: to be a Pro Bowl receiver, but you got to 980 00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:21,120 Speaker 1: go out there and be able to make a big 981 00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:25,360 Speaker 1: player too in order to keep your job as the 982 00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:28,640 Speaker 1: return yard unless you're you know, Devin Hester or something. Yeah. 983 00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:31,719 Speaker 1: And by the way, for the casual fan, I mean 984 00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:35,879 Speaker 1: you football nerds know this, but when you know, Johnny said, 985 00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:38,680 Speaker 1: you got to be decisive it hit it. Yeah, if 986 00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:42,240 Speaker 1: you hit it and get ten yards, that's a big return. 987 00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:45,520 Speaker 1: It's a great return. And I'm thinking people are listening 988 00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:48,719 Speaker 1: to this saying ten yards Van Demer listen. The all 989 00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:53,480 Speaker 1: time highest punt return average. Okay, it's in the forties. 990 00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:55,120 Speaker 1: Let me get let me get to the modern era. 991 00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:59,720 Speaker 1: How about Tyreek Hill? All right, two hundred forty eight returns, 992 00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:02,760 Speaker 1: twelve point one yards per return. That is a huge 993 00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:06,319 Speaker 1: number in punt returns. Okay, let me scroll down here 994 00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:12,920 Speaker 1: Edelman eleven point three. That's his career average. Okay, some 995 00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:16,400 Speaker 1: of the other like these are some really good guys 996 00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:19,200 Speaker 1: here on this list. Okay, let me give you one. 997 00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:23,120 Speaker 1: I'm giving one modern times. Now he's retired, but you 998 00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:26,000 Speaker 1: saw him when he was a young buck with my 999 00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:30,560 Speaker 1: maybe maybe it was beyond you. I can't remember. Devin Hester, 1000 00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:34,120 Speaker 1: one of the greatest returners of all time. His punt 1001 00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:39,560 Speaker 1: return average eleven point seven. Yep, eleven point seven, which 1002 00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:42,879 Speaker 1: doesn't sound like much. It's only eleven point seven. It's 1003 00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:46,200 Speaker 1: unbelievably hard because you think about all the times you 1004 00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:49,040 Speaker 1: get like three yards, right, because then they just got you. 1005 00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:52,920 Speaker 1: You just can't get out of jail. The human joystick 1006 00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:59,280 Speaker 1: Dante Hall Houstonian ten point five yards per punt return. 1007 00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:02,200 Speaker 1: He's number for forty four all time. To get into 1008 00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:04,959 Speaker 1: the top fifty, you have to average ten point four. 1009 00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:08,160 Speaker 1: So if you're averaging over ten, you're in really good 1010 00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:10,759 Speaker 1: shape as a return man. Anyway, that's all the time 1011 00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:12,160 Speaker 1: we have on the show. I can't believe we talked 1012 00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:16,520 Speaker 1: punt return average, but it just comes up. We're esoteric program, Johnny, 1013 00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:18,880 Speaker 1: thanks so much for remaining here. Of course, Mark, tomorrow 1014 00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:21,960 Speaker 1: we'll finally hear from Titus Howard. We've had We've had 1015 00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:24,640 Speaker 1: a really good conversation with him in the bank here, 1016 00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:26,080 Speaker 1: but a lot of different things have come up, so 1017 00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:27,480 Speaker 1: I think tomorrow would be a good day to hear 1018 00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:30,239 Speaker 1: from him, and it's always good here to be a 1019 00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:32,520 Speaker 1: good day to hear about the Houston Texans. I'm gonna 1020 00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:34,879 Speaker 1: be on with Sean Pendergast and Seth Payne tomorrow from 1021 00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:38,839 Speaker 1: eight to nine eight m joining their program and ruining it, 1022 00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:42,040 Speaker 1: so that'll be fun and we'll be back tomorrow's six. 1023 00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:44,400 Speaker 1: Like I said, thank you very much Bridget for producing. 1024 00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:46,520 Speaker 1: Thank you John McClain for being on. 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