Speaker 1: Welcome to the Greatest, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Greatest. I
Speaker 1: am Megan Gaily, joined by my co host and husband
Speaker 1: Um and Quarantine Hero Um c J Tol. I don't know, Hi,
Speaker 1: c J. How are you doing good? For some reason?
Speaker 1: And this is a tradition. I just feel like you're
Speaker 1: sarcastic when you say quarantine Hero. I wasn't being sarcastic
Speaker 1: at all. Oh my gosh, did you shave? I did shave. Oh,
Speaker 1: I just looked at your face. Listen, my I like
Speaker 1: to not shower or do anything in the morning so
Speaker 1: I can get right to work, and then I work
Speaker 1: out whenever I can, and then I shave and I
Speaker 1: shower at three pm. I mean, I don't mean to
Speaker 1: give away your secrets, but I don't think right to
Speaker 1: work is an hour and a half of TikTok videos
Speaker 1: in the morning. That's work. And I feel like our
Speaker 1: guest would agree. Okay, Wow, I guess I'm outnumbered here
Speaker 1: joining us today. I'm so so so, heited. We met
Speaker 1: working at the NFL on the Checkdown together. If you
Speaker 1: are a fan or have seen even if you don't
Speaker 1: like it, you may not. It may be because of
Speaker 1: me and not her. Um for me, Well, I was
Speaker 1: going to bring up the Bubble Machine. Oh, I thought
Speaker 1: you sorry. I thought you're gonna say, don't like the checkdown.
Speaker 1: No you're not. No, no, you were gone. You made
Speaker 1: it and then we perfected it and then we both left.
Speaker 1: You know. Um, So our guests say, producer of the
Speaker 1: Bubble Machine does all of the incredible graphics, fun little
Speaker 1: Oh look, Megan's lost your mind, all those great things.
Speaker 1: And the founder of Pink Deer please welcome Heather Pink.
Speaker 1: Thank you, guys, Thank you for having me. It was
Speaker 1: way too nice of an introduction, are you kidding? That's
Speaker 1: what we like, That's what we like to give people. Um. Now, Heather,
Speaker 1: how long were you at the NFL? Almost eight years?
Speaker 1: It felt like a decade, truly felt like a decade,
Speaker 1: but it Yeah, it was almost eight years. I produced
Speaker 1: the show NFL Fantasy Live that was on NFL network
Speaker 1: still is. I produced that for a couple of years
Speaker 1: before I started to dabble in social and at the time,
Speaker 1: no one was controlling the NFL Fantasy handles and there
Speaker 1: was one person working in social there. And I asked
Speaker 1: my boss to help out, and she said, as long
Speaker 1: as you can do it on top of producing, I
Speaker 1: don't really care UM, and that kind of started the
Speaker 1: train that is this, I guess. I mean there's a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff in between the Yeah. Yeah, because so
Speaker 1: you were the producer on the checkdown and then left
Speaker 1: to create Pink Deer tell us, I know some of
Speaker 1: the clients you work with, UM, and if you signed
Speaker 1: any nd as, you don't have to break them. But
Speaker 1: you do do really cool stuff with athletes and you're
Speaker 1: still very much in the sports world since leaving the NFL.
Speaker 1: I actually just signed a new comedian too. Yeah, some
Speaker 1: loser and that's a that's an A list A list.
Speaker 1: He's he's really great to work with. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: we started the company trying to take like all the
Speaker 1: lessons we learned from the NFL, which actually, like we
Speaker 1: learned even though it's from football, it could spread beyond
Speaker 1: every single genre or industry. You know. We when we started,
Speaker 1: we had fitness clients and this and that, but what
Speaker 1: we really wanted to do is work with influencers on
Speaker 1: their content strategy, UM their strategy, helping to sort of
Speaker 1: bridge what they're doing with brands because oftentimes brands have
Speaker 1: this like old or like stoic version of how campaigns
Speaker 1: should be. But also work with corporate clients or small
Speaker 1: businesses get up to speed, or individuals like CEOs, and
Speaker 1: from a corporate standpoint, we help you there on board
Speaker 1: teams or sort of bridge the gap between the upper
Speaker 1: management and also the social media managers. But oftentimes we
Speaker 1: always find ourselves in sports some rhyme or reason. But
Speaker 1: we've been um lucky to not have to be sports. No, yeah,
Speaker 1: we I feel like me and you can nerd out
Speaker 1: on it. But now it feels like what was a
Speaker 1: few years ago when people were like social that's sort
Speaker 1: of like supplemental marketing or you know, kind of like
Speaker 1: if you want it's like a bone. It was like
Speaker 1: a bonus way to to market yourself or get yourself
Speaker 1: out there. And now I mean social media is the norm,
Speaker 1: and that's you know, people aren't waiting for them to
Speaker 1: appear on TV or anything. It's just like we have
Speaker 1: access to these celebrities and athletes and and everyone brands
Speaker 1: at all times, and so now you know they call
Speaker 1: on people like like yourself to like, hey, what what
Speaker 1: do I look like? On every place? I mean, let's
Speaker 1: let's make that clear. And you too, well, I mean,
Speaker 1: I am just I'm a baby in this. You've been
Speaker 1: doing this, and I'm like and now I'm like the
Speaker 1: things that Megan has asked you, I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm writing this down for my company. Um, but but yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a really it's awesome that you also have, like,
Speaker 1: you know, the TV producing skill set and then now
Speaker 1: social because yeah, there's so many things you pull from
Speaker 1: that that you're now doing for social that I think,
Speaker 1: you know, this is really the future the stuff that
Speaker 1: that we do. Yeah, you know, I never knew that
Speaker 1: producing TV or something like fantasy football a couple of
Speaker 1: times a week. I never knew how invaluable that would
Speaker 1: be to me in social media. And I didn't realize
Speaker 1: it then when I started working more into it, and
Speaker 1: I would meet people that, oh, I you know, I'm
Speaker 1: a social media manager, like, oh, how do you create
Speaker 1: the content? Like, oh, well, I get handed, I get
Speaker 1: handed from the marketing department. I'm like, that's not like
Speaker 1: my mind blew. And like, when I started working in
Speaker 1: social more and more, I realized that, like, what the
Speaker 1: assets that me and my business partner have is something
Speaker 1: that like not a lot of people have. They don't
Speaker 1: know how to create content and then know how to
Speaker 1: execute it. And creating the content is the battle, you know,
Speaker 1: And I never knew that. And I mean it's truly
Speaker 1: because of the NFL producing and grinding and learning actually
Speaker 1: what is good content. But granted that does not always
Speaker 1: translate to social like knowing what the differences is super important. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, on another well, we'll do another podcast. But
Speaker 1: I I you know, and I said, that's awesome that
Speaker 1: you did TV and then social. I really hate a
Speaker 1: trend that I hate so much. And I tell a
Speaker 1: lot of people, co workers and whatever when a TV
Speaker 1: person is hired as a higher up or person leadership
Speaker 1: position that has never touched social because they think, like, oh,
Speaker 1: TV is so premium that they're gonna like this is
Speaker 1: easy for them, And it's just it's infuriating, and I
Speaker 1: think it's a huge issue in our field. But you
Speaker 1: from the sounds of it, and obviously from you know,
Speaker 1: working with Meg, and I can tell like you knew
Speaker 1: about that transition. You knew what to pick and choose
Speaker 1: from your old world into the new world. You know.
Speaker 1: I was the one. I won't name drop anybody, but
Speaker 1: let's say on the show like NFL Total Access and
Speaker 1: it's um what they were called. They're primitive stages of
Speaker 1: social media, which granted we're not primitive stages of social media.
Speaker 1: They're like, let's just throw it to social Let's just
Speaker 1: throw it up on social and see how this works.
Speaker 1: Like who's telling you this, Like, let's just throw it
Speaker 1: up there. I'm like, and you want to just throw
Speaker 1: you know, like stuff against the wall and see if
Speaker 1: it breaks? Like I'm confused, Like what do you think
Speaker 1: is going to happen? So, you know, and there's still
Speaker 1: is a huge misconception of that, but oftentimes I was
Speaker 1: the one being like, do you actually know what that
Speaker 1: means in that building? You know? And and oftentimes it
Speaker 1: leads you to other opportunities like I got, but oftentimes
Speaker 1: you get, you know, butt heads. Well I don't, I
Speaker 1: don't care. We need to put it up there. I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you can see how it fails. But I was infuriated
Speaker 1: by the same exact thing c J that still infuriates me.
Speaker 1: C J loves to watch things fail on the Internet
Speaker 1: that he know, not that I'm saying things that you
Speaker 1: were like, this is going to fail, and then when
Speaker 1: it does fail, he's like, look, I mean I get
Speaker 1: a little petty. For sure, I'm not the smartest personal world.
Speaker 1: But it's just you know, we social again. Social media
Speaker 1: is not new. It's like the new normal, I guess
Speaker 1: with a lot of people are coming to terms with
Speaker 1: it or like figuring it out. But like, there are
Speaker 1: some classic mistakes that are just so obvious that are
Speaker 1: still being done in a in a lot of these things,
Speaker 1: um like me like, and sometimes it just truly doesn't
Speaker 1: matter when when huge corporations or channels or networks do
Speaker 1: make those mistakes, because you know, these companies are always
Speaker 1: gonna They've been in prominence for so long. So anyways,
Speaker 1: that that's very nerdy talk for Oh I loved it.
Speaker 1: Um okay, So the super Bowl is set Bucks shuffer.
Speaker 1: If you would have told me Bucks chiefs at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the year, I would have gone, you know, like,
Speaker 1: I mean the season, I just it wouldn't have moved me.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't move me now. I mean when we
Speaker 1: when we were doing the Bubble Machine, you made a
Speaker 1: comment about how very grumbly about the Colts making the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, I mean, and they like to be fair.
Speaker 1: They got pretty close. Thank you, thank you C J C. See,
Speaker 1: you were like dogging them, but yet at the same
Speaker 1: time you still like believed in them. That's what you
Speaker 1: have to Like you had just the like dis Dane
Speaker 1: of reality. You're like, well, they're like to wash and
Speaker 1: to do they still we left to the Jaguars and
Speaker 1: the opening game, and they did turn out to be
Speaker 1: the worst team. Um, and so yeah, that's that's a
Speaker 1: tough that's swallowing a bullet. Well, it did end up
Speaker 1: kind of sucking our seating for the playoffs, So we
Speaker 1: learned that you shouldn't do that. I guess that's what
Speaker 1: we learned. Um. Okay, I'm just happy to not watch
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers in the Super Bowl the Bears. Okay, I
Speaker 1: was trying to pick fights with Bears fans all day yesterday.
Speaker 1: Y'all are so mad at Aaron Rodgers, when who you
Speaker 1: really need to be mad at is your own organization.
Speaker 1: First of all, you don't need to tell me this.
Speaker 1: I am the biggest Pace hater on the pollet Like honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm like the least loyal Bears man, only in the
Speaker 1: sense that I just want them to clean house. Let's
Speaker 1: just call like Sway the clean get rid of Naggy.
Speaker 1: I have no faith, no loyalty in it. Like I
Speaker 1: have no problem dogging on that team because they deserve it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think you want to get rid of
Speaker 1: everybody but the defense. I like Nick Foles. I have
Speaker 1: no problem with Nick Foles. I thought that if we
Speaker 1: actually had Nick Foles in that playoff game against the Eagles,
Speaker 1: we would have won. Like they just it's really the coaching,
Speaker 1: Like the head coach is a moron. I mean, you
Speaker 1: stick anybody else in there and they'll do a better job.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of NFL head coaches that are morons.
Speaker 1: And that is something that we really need to know.
Speaker 1: I mean, because I get mad at cults. Fans are
Speaker 1: always like fire Frank Reich, and I'm like, you don't
Speaker 1: know who else is out there, and like it's not good,
Speaker 1: So let the options. It's not Bill Cower coming out
Speaker 1: of retirement, Like that's not what's gonna happen. And some
Speaker 1: of these markets need to get it through their brains
Speaker 1: that like you're not going to get a premier coaching
Speaker 1: candidate that's sound and like, yes, you can. You know,
Speaker 1: the the conversation is obviously happening about like how are
Speaker 1: there not more black head coaches and how are there
Speaker 1: not more black head coaches even just being interviewed for
Speaker 1: those positions. And it's like because a lot of these
Speaker 1: people are promoted within and once they have the job,
Speaker 1: they keep the job because someone else they know is
Speaker 1: bad at their job and they're like, hey, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna fire you at being a bad special teams coordinator.
Speaker 1: And so then when it comes around when that special
Speaker 1: teams coordinator is the head coup, Like, it's just a
Speaker 1: cycle of eadiness that feeds itself. But I have to
Speaker 1: argue that one of the best coaches I think that's
Speaker 1: ever coached is Mike Tomlin, you know, And like, I
Speaker 1: don't know what your feelings are about Mike Tomlin, but
Speaker 1: if he wasn't a head coach, I would be thrilled.
Speaker 1: I think Tony Dungee is an incredible coach. I think
Speaker 1: um Jim Calledwell is a great coach. I was wait,
Speaker 1: I was just talking about Tony Dungee the other day
Speaker 1: and I was thinking about you because we're I was
Speaker 1: watching the other game. This is totally off topic watching
Speaker 1: the game the other week. And I used to love
Speaker 1: at the NFL watching that pre Sunday night football game
Speaker 1: with Tony Dungee and who is the other day Harrison
Speaker 1: the Okay, they've been working together for how many years?
Speaker 1: And they have zero chemistry. It is like watching dry
Speaker 1: when they talk, and it was borderline hilarious, Like, dude,
Speaker 1: you've been working with the same guy for literally five years.
Speaker 1: How is there no chemistry? And they both have chemistry
Speaker 1: with Tariko though, you know, like one of my friends
Speaker 1: was watching with one of my friends I was watching
Speaker 1: with you was like, oh, this guy is awful. I
Speaker 1: was like, well, he's one of the best. Like he
Speaker 1: does just loves Jesus a lot. He just he loves
Speaker 1: Jesus and that's his thing. From a programming standpoint, though,
Speaker 1: isn't the Sunday night pregame classically when everyone takes their
Speaker 1: break from watching football day, goes on a walk, picks
Speaker 1: up dinner, and then it's just like I feel like
Speaker 1: you tune in midway into the first coordinator, Like that's
Speaker 1: when you're locked in. So it almost seems strategic that
Speaker 1: the worst duo pregame duo isn't that it's the best
Speaker 1: game of the week, you know, So it's some of
Speaker 1: the choices this season that was not the game. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's definitely better than Monday Night. Okay. I bring all
Speaker 1: of this up because our topic today is greatest super
Speaker 1: Bowl and I'd like to get a tally of how
Speaker 1: many super Bowls have been attended within the US three
Speaker 1: he there, how many super Bowls did you go to? Five? Five?
Speaker 1: C J you have been to one and I have
Speaker 1: been to two games three like cities um so too
Speaker 1: for me. So we have a total of eight super
Speaker 1: Bowls between the three of US. I feel like we
Speaker 1: are a very accomplished and studied people to be talking
Speaker 1: about this particular topic. Yeah, I felt better about this
Speaker 1: than playoff games because at the NFL we were like
Speaker 1: chained to our desk, like every single game except for
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, which you still had to work. There
Speaker 1: was only one game, one Super Bowl, um that I
Speaker 1: did not have to work, of the five I went to,
Speaker 1: which was the best one in my opinion, because of course,
Speaker 1: you know, but yeah, there there were some things like
Speaker 1: when we were texting about it, that I realized, So
Speaker 1: every time you go to a super Bowl. Um, when
Speaker 1: you're like at the NFL. Afterwards, you get to go
Speaker 1: to a convention center and eat and then you watch
Speaker 1: the game over again if you want to stay or whatever.
Speaker 1: And whoever I brought, we would watch the halftime performance
Speaker 1: and oftentimes a lot of this stuff that you know
Speaker 1: you see at a game you don't like, you don't
Speaker 1: see it the game, but you see it on camera.
Speaker 1: And that happened so much so now the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: is notoriously a bad game because it's you know, it's
Speaker 1: usually it's very overhyped. Um, there's yeah, I guess we
Speaker 1: do do it to ourselves. It's teams that don't necessarily
Speaker 1: have any rivalry whatsoever. Like part of what made that
Speaker 1: Brown Steelers game so fun this year, it was like
Speaker 1: their divisional rivals they've already played twice, they hate each other,
Speaker 1: like truly. One player on one team almost murdered another
Speaker 1: player on another team last year. So like there is
Speaker 1: true like hatred, their um true rivalry, and with these
Speaker 1: NFC a f C matchups, there's not that. Also, the
Speaker 1: fans that are at the games at the Super Bowls
Speaker 1: are not die hard fans. It's like Canadian businessmen and
Speaker 1: than me, and then like whoever and Patriots fans that
Speaker 1: can afford the tickets basically like, oh gosh, we would
Speaker 1: like meet people at super there, like this is my tent,
Speaker 1: super Us, Like, fuck you, you shouldn't get to come.
Speaker 1: Why don't you, like those are our friends, why don't
Speaker 1: you let less fortunate Patriots fans come. It's just the
Speaker 1: same Patriots fans coming over and over again. I did. Oh.
Speaker 1: I always was a little bitter about and granted I
Speaker 1: was only there once, but also just hearing from our
Speaker 1: my friends and former co workers that the people who
Speaker 1: and they worked hard all season but for some reason
Speaker 1: don't work real time or in game, and then they're
Speaker 1: just like hanging out in the press box and really
Speaker 1: enjoying that moment like they were there for the week
Speaker 1: just to like kind of like, you know, cross tea
Speaker 1: dot eyes, what the job. Let's just say that's why
Speaker 1: you're there. I don't want to wear a suit and
Speaker 1: do and cram into my row and just clip from
Speaker 1: clip pro highlights and stuff. That was a little I
Speaker 1: was like, well, maybe this could have been better at
Speaker 1: the hotel and then I'll go there, but yeah, still great,
Speaker 1: um okay, so we're breaking down ratest super Bowl of
Speaker 1: all time when I when it's my turn, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you the limitations I put on my choices. But Heather,
Speaker 1: as our guest, we would love for you to kick
Speaker 1: it off with your number three pick number three. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is gonna sound crazy, Megan, don't hate me for
Speaker 1: never um. Okay, So secretly, I am actually also a
Speaker 1: Titans fan because I grew up watching Eddie George kick
Speaker 1: every team's ass. And then I don't know if I
Speaker 1: can say that in the Big ten. I've said I
Speaker 1: ten times. I hate Ohio States so much like every
Speaker 1: other person in the Midwest, but I just she went
Speaker 1: to something. You have I Illinois. You by um Illinois,
Speaker 1: And if anyone comes at me, I swear to God
Speaker 1: I'm a produced friend. We've come, I know, but everyone's
Speaker 1: like you have. I can't. I can't. It gets me
Speaker 1: too rolka um. So my number three is actually Super
Speaker 1: Bowl thirty four between the Rams that Titans, and it
Speaker 1: was Okay, it's it's part because it was word of
Speaker 1: when I fell in love with football, but also because
Speaker 1: like I think, I mean, I think it's one of
Speaker 1: the best Super Bowls of all time. And I don't
Speaker 1: love Kurt Warner, like he was just like to me,
Speaker 1: but I thought that Titans offense defense, Like the defense
Speaker 1: was so much fun to watch. It was nasty, but
Speaker 1: like not like Domickinson nasty, but like you know, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go. I mean literally, Kurt Warner got his ass beat.
Speaker 1: Like play after play. Do you go and watch the highlights,
Speaker 1: you'll literally see him like every play in the first half,
Speaker 1: he just gets his ass feat and then everyone kind
Speaker 1: of remembers at the very end to remind people that
Speaker 1: basically the game is tied and towards the end, Kurt warners,
Speaker 1: you know, throws a touchdown, Titans have to drive towards
Speaker 1: the end, and then there's the famous stretch. I mean,
Speaker 1: for me, it doesn't get every time I go to
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, like people ask me, like, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's Tampa Bay versus Chiefs. I just root for a
Speaker 1: good game every time, like that is all I want.
Speaker 1: Like I do not want to watch another Rams Patriot
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I would rather watch paint and dry and
Speaker 1: sit and drink by myself for three hours. But that's
Speaker 1: the worst that Rams Patriot one because we all knew
Speaker 1: exactly what was gonna happen, and then it happened, and
Speaker 1: it felt like it was worse than we all expected. Well,
Speaker 1: and also we all live in l A, and no
Speaker 1: one in l A cared and so it was so
Speaker 1: it was like, you guys, that was the super Bowl
Speaker 1: that I was at professionally, and then didn't go to
Speaker 1: the game and I flew home. I'm sorry, it's okay.
Speaker 1: I flew home Sunday morning. They just didn't send me
Speaker 1: if you were happy to be I flew on Sunday morning,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I'm glad I did not need
Speaker 1: to stay an extra day be annoyed by every I mean,
Speaker 1: this is going to sound very Champagne. Problems traveling to
Speaker 1: and from the super Bowl can be complicated and get
Speaker 1: stuck there. It's it's millions of people compaging onto one
Speaker 1: city that maybe can't handle it. So this is okay,
Speaker 1: this is where the super Bowl stories come. I'll say, oh,
Speaker 1: I love. My first super Bowl was in New York.
Speaker 1: It was the New York Super Bowl with um Seahawks Broncos,
Speaker 1: and I was so I was working. I had to
Speaker 1: like work the whole game because I wasn't full time
Speaker 1: and so because I was working. I got on like
Speaker 1: the NFL buses, and I literally, like they say, like,
Speaker 1: get the funk out of there as soon as the
Speaker 1: game's over with. So I got out literally the busses
Speaker 1: next to the exit. But everyone that you know was
Speaker 1: there all week, the executives blah blah blah. You know,
Speaker 1: if you're in New York, the game was out in Jersey.
Speaker 1: So everyone piled into the train and I was seeing
Speaker 1: pictures from my friends of it being all to wall
Speaker 1: and then on top of that, it it literally I
Speaker 1: think it's snow ten inches within hours of the game.
Speaker 1: They've done hours, so everyone not only stuck in New
Speaker 1: York and or like everyone was like three hour delay
Speaker 1: all day, Like it is nasty. That's a difficult stadium
Speaker 1: to get to and from when it's not the Super Bowl. Um, okay,
Speaker 1: so Heather, your your number three pick was actually my
Speaker 1: number two picks, so I do have some info. The
Speaker 1: final score ended up being twenty three sixteen with the
Speaker 1: Rams winning. The Rams were up sixteen nothing at one
Speaker 1: point and the Titans came back at that time. It
Speaker 1: was the largest Super Bowl deficit to like overcome, even
Speaker 1: though they didn't end up winning, and the performers. Faith
Speaker 1: Hill performed the national anthem and then the half to
Speaker 1: I Love faith Till Anytime You Tim McGraw, Faith Hill,
Speaker 1: Let's yeah. The halftime show was Phil Collins, Christina Aguilera,
Speaker 1: Enrique Glass, Tony Braxton, Edward James almost almost what's his name? Almost? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was. I don't know if this is a Phil Collins,
Speaker 1: This is the wild Phil Collins, Christina Aguilera, and and
Speaker 1: regulates just Tony brows and but it's very James almost
Speaker 1: as sounds like a joke. It's like when we went
Speaker 1: to see that Impressions show in Vegas and it was Elvi.
Speaker 1: It was Michael Jackson, Elvis and Marilyn Monroe and then
Speaker 1: Janice chopping. How is Janice Joplin here? Um? So that's
Speaker 1: the vibe. But yeah, this was a great It was
Speaker 1: also similar to you, Heather. It was like the first
Speaker 1: Super Bowl as a kid that I wasn't just like
Speaker 1: at my parents friends party, Like I was into the game.
Speaker 1: I mean I was playing at the time, but I
Speaker 1: like cared about it. And I remember my one detail
Speaker 1: from it was that they kept talking about Kirk Warners
Speaker 1: like he worked in a grocery store, like, and that's
Speaker 1: what I love. And you know, people joke about like
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl bingo card, what the announcers talking about.
Speaker 1: I feel like that was brought up fifty times. Um,
Speaker 1: this guy used to work in a grocery store and
Speaker 1: then they continue to do that through his career and
Speaker 1: it's like, no, he's been a quarterback for a while,
Speaker 1: but um, but yeah, that was that's my memory. Steve
Speaker 1: McNair rest in peace truly. Uh. The has been called
Speaker 1: one yard shore the tackle it's referenced in Castaway. Um
Speaker 1: if you remember at the very end, Yeah, he's been
Speaker 1: gone so long and she's like, we have a football
Speaker 1: team and they almost won the Super Bowl. Like that's
Speaker 1: how long. Um. These tidbits are fire. Well the I
Speaker 1: just remember the Castaway one from my dumb little dome.
Speaker 1: There is a podcast. I'll look it up so I
Speaker 1: can tell you guys, the Steve McNair podcast. That is
Speaker 1: a phenomen It is so good and it is they
Speaker 1: need to reopen the case. He I am a firm
Speaker 1: believer that he was not murdered by his mistress. Um,
Speaker 1: I think something else was happening. There's Nash's former Nashville. Um,
Speaker 1: p D that believes that Steve McNair's family does not
Speaker 1: believe he was killed by the shadus reopen up they
Speaker 1: like when they first had the case, I think they
Speaker 1: closed it with I mean that podcast I remember saying
Speaker 1: they closed the case within like seventy two hours, which
Speaker 1: is like record for like any murder, but for Steve
Speaker 1: McNair's like, m okay, let's just mask the shadiness even more. Yeah. So, um,
Speaker 1: he's very much missed. I think he would be such
Speaker 1: an incredible voice in leader for today's players and everything.
Speaker 1: I think he would just be important to hear from.
Speaker 1: In terms of black quarterbacks in the Super Bowl, Donovan
Speaker 1: mcnably before I don't know. I mean this was two thousands,
Speaker 1: This is before that, This was before, this was before
Speaker 1: right before vic to right yeahh so yeah, I have
Speaker 1: to do some checking, but yeah, it seems like maybe
Speaker 1: one of the earlier black quarterbacks in Super Bowl. I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: Steve McNair's a legend. Yeah, pretty boring game until the second.
Speaker 1: That's what it always feels like. And that's why we
Speaker 1: should ban our friends saying this is over. I mean,
Speaker 1: all the ones we're probably gonna mention it's not over.
Speaker 1: Just wait. So you get to my number two Super
Speaker 1: Bowl pick um Hall of famers from that game for
Speaker 1: the Rams, Isaac, Bruce Marshall, Falk, Orlando Pace, and Kurt Warner.
Speaker 1: For the Titans, Mike and George Munchuk and Bruce Matthews.
Speaker 1: It says current future Hall of Famers. They don't have
Speaker 1: George's in there. But I find that surprising. I find it,
Speaker 1: I guess maybe not Steve McNair um. Okay, so obviously
Speaker 1: an incredible first pick by Heather. It was on CJ
Speaker 1: and my list as well. CJ, you want me to go, there,
Speaker 1: you go, and there's going to be per per usual,
Speaker 1: but it's I was I'm physically not going to be
Speaker 1: able to pick one where it's the Patriots winning. So
Speaker 1: I have no Patriot Victoria's Super Bowls. It's just I'm
Speaker 1: I'm not the reward Listen. I make the rules of
Speaker 1: what the greatest is. It's our podcast, and they make
Speaker 1: me fucking furious and sad. So they're not on my list.
Speaker 1: And then I know there's ones from like back in
Speaker 1: the Joe Nameth and and it's just like I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know the context fully, so I did do
Speaker 1: relatively recent ones. But I understand that Terry Bradshaw is amazing.
Speaker 1: I understand all these things, but I didn't see it,
Speaker 1: so it's hard for me to like no. So with
Speaker 1: all that said, my number three is super Bowl fifty
Speaker 1: two and that is Eagles Patriots. That was the one
Speaker 1: I got to go to because CJ was working. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Nick Foles, just a lot of amazing storylines. We
Speaker 1: have a backup quarterback. The Eagles were such a long shot.
Speaker 1: It felt like like going into that game, it was
Speaker 1: like they're happy to be here. Like that was the
Speaker 1: vibe in Minneapolis. And I'd also like to be on
Speaker 1: record of saying, Minneapolis, so many lovely people, fun food you.
Speaker 1: I hope you never host a Super Bowl again. It's
Speaker 1: so fucking cold. It's snowed every It was just it's
Speaker 1: too cold. Okay, it's not okay with enough with the
Speaker 1: cold weather cities. And know Indianapolis had one, but I
Speaker 1: don't consider a super super cold. It was warm. The
Speaker 1: Indianapolis hosted one. That's the possibility. Minnesota in February should
Speaker 1: not host an event. And that's just common sound kissing
Speaker 1: me off. I walked out of the like direct TV
Speaker 1: party and like Jayla was performing the night before the
Speaker 1: super Bowl and it was like negative six outside. My dad,
Speaker 1: who came with me, keeping me up from where I was,
Speaker 1: He's like, man, it's fucking cold outside. And literally my
Speaker 1: thighs actually took an hour to thought out, Oh gosh,
Speaker 1: oh it's it was freezing and it's your dad's from Chicago.
Speaker 1: It's not even like he flew into Miami, like that's
Speaker 1: how we all fell to um but a lovely job. Nonetheless, Well,
Speaker 1: I will say the one upside about that Super Bowl
Speaker 1: one it's the only one I've ever been to. But
Speaker 1: I love a good mall, and this is the biggest mall.
Speaker 1: Yeah for on Yeah, I mean it's the biggest, the
Speaker 1: Mall of America. I liked having to go there, to
Speaker 1: shuttle there every every day. No, not downtown. It's like, no,
Speaker 1: the Mall of America isn't a suburb. No, thank you.
Speaker 1: I don't need to be in a suburb for the
Speaker 1: super Bowl. Let's bullshit. Um, you know, give me some
Speaker 1: It's like when the Real Housewives are poor, It's like
Speaker 1: this is not what I want, Okay, I want like
Speaker 1: some prestige happening. Uh so I had this one as
Speaker 1: my number three. I was on it. It was great.
Speaker 1: It was a very entertaining game, like high scoring. The
Speaker 1: final score ended up being forty three. That's very high
Speaker 1: for a Super Bowl. Take the under honestly if you're betting.
Speaker 1: And there were fun storylines. There was a trick play.
Speaker 1: Brady had a failed Hail Mary at the end, like
Speaker 1: it came down to the last second and that so
Speaker 1: rarely happens. And in the stadium there was just absolute joy,
Speaker 1: like you were a Patriots fan or you were everyone else,
Speaker 1: and everyone else was rooting for the Eagles, and so
Speaker 1: there was energy in there. Like my dad was wearing
Speaker 1: a Colt jersey, dying for the Eagles, you know, like honestly,
Speaker 1: like going so over the stop for them. So it's
Speaker 1: like that's how everybody felt like. There was a woman
Speaker 1: from Orange is the New Black City in front of
Speaker 1: us in Giant Scare. She's rooting for the Eagles. That's
Speaker 1: a division rival, Like we just all wanted to see
Speaker 1: something different and then we got it. And and the
Speaker 1: Nick Foles very very Cinderella story. It had like a
Speaker 1: March madness vibe to it almost and um yeah, I
Speaker 1: just I think it was a very entertaining game, and
Speaker 1: I feel like people at home watching it agree the
Speaker 1: only thing that sucked the air out of the stadium
Speaker 1: was just in timber legs half yes, yes, wow. So
Speaker 1: I never revisited it and and yeah, I felt like
Speaker 1: it was bad in person, but I was like it
Speaker 1: was bad. But the national anthem was pink, and I
Speaker 1: mean she killed it. Of course she murdered it. So
Speaker 1: I forgot this in the first one we were discussing,
Speaker 1: which was the year two thousand. Cost for a thirty
Speaker 1: second commercial and that Super Bowl was one point nine million.
Speaker 1: I'll go back to it cost for a thirty second
Speaker 1: commercial in five million, So there you go. That's that's
Speaker 1: inflation there. And um yeah, Minnesota, thank you, and I
Speaker 1: will never be back in the winter. Speaking of the cost,
Speaker 1: I can't remember. I think it's a beer company who
Speaker 1: is forgoing making like an entertaining commercial. It's Budweiser. You know,
Speaker 1: I've seen I've seen lots of jokes about how the
Speaker 1: Bucks and the Chiefs we've kind of you know, they
Speaker 1: know about Budweiser at this point, but they're doing it
Speaker 1: to vaccine awareness, which I'm interested in seeing what that is.
Speaker 1: But that that's cool and nice on the surface. We'll
Speaker 1: see what it turns out to be. The estimated is
Speaker 1: doing it. That'd be interesting. Estimated viewership for eighteen Super
Speaker 1: Bowl was a hundred and three point four million in people.
Speaker 1: That's a lot. That's a lot of people. Um. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's my number three pick CJ. You go ahead,
Speaker 1: all right. Well, I gotta admit my super Bowl history
Speaker 1: is pretty bad, so I feel like there will be
Speaker 1: some overlaps, so I do apologize in advance if I
Speaker 1: pick some that you guys have chosen. So my number
Speaker 1: three is gonna be Super Bowl forty two Giants Patriots
Speaker 1: the first one, just because yeah, Patriots going into into
Speaker 1: that last game undefeated again people, this is the Tree
Speaker 1: catch number three. This is my number three. Um, And yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it was. It's more just on a personal
Speaker 1: stance of I wasn't paying attention to that much like
Speaker 1: it was. I came in, like to the playoffs, that's
Speaker 1: when I started watching, and and then the narrative was
Speaker 1: Patriots got this, they were comparing with the Dolphins or whatever.
Speaker 1: And Eli too, I think had a lot of criticism
Speaker 1: not as good as his brother, and yeah, they were.
Speaker 1: They were complete underdogs. I think they were ten and
Speaker 1: six going to the game and they had to win
Speaker 1: like six games in a row to and and actually
Speaker 1: the Giants and Patriots played Week sixteen, I guess it
Speaker 1: was Week seventeen. They played the final regular season game
Speaker 1: and the Giants party in Coughlin, played all the starters
Speaker 1: and they narrowly lost. But you have to imagine now
Speaker 1: looking back, it's like, oh, they for sure learned some
Speaker 1: things going in. Yeah, everyone was saying like, oh, like
Speaker 1: when Brady was facing Breeze, like, oh, you know, breezes
Speaker 1: to and No, I'm like, that doesn't mean ship in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, like you know, like if anything, that makes
Speaker 1: me think that Brady's for sure going to win, if
Speaker 1: you're gonna keep talking about it, I was. I was
Speaker 1: debating about this because I went back and forth between
Speaker 1: both Giants Patriots super Bowls, just because I actually liked
Speaker 1: the other one a little bit more. But then I
Speaker 1: was like the Tyreek catch like something that's super iconic.
Speaker 1: But I just always felt like you no matter who,
Speaker 1: like Odell Beckham Jr. Was the best wide receiver Eli
Speaker 1: Manning had ever had every single other wide receiver, including
Speaker 1: every single one that was in both Super Bowls. Jim Os,
Speaker 1: They're just Plexico, and yet he still made it work. Plexico.
Speaker 1: I have anybody that yes, very soft spot for Plexico. Listen,
Speaker 1: if you shoot yourself in your own leg, we feel bad.
Speaker 1: I have fan I have if you shoot yourself in
Speaker 1: your own leg and then you go on celebrity wife swap,
Speaker 1: I'm a fan for life. You can see why we're
Speaker 1: attracted to certain players is because of their post reality
Speaker 1: show careers. I mean speak of this upcoming super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Every time Chasing Pierre Paul does anything. I'm like how
Speaker 1: he blew his hand off with a firework, and I
Speaker 1: think he only end he didn't blow his hand off
Speaker 1: it he ended up like sort of mangling some fingers,
Speaker 1: but a true success story to just from fire to
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. I think JPP was in the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl against Brady the second time they played. Yes as
Speaker 1: a giant. Okay, I feel like I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: want to go into great depths on your third pick
Speaker 1: because I know that it will be coming up later.
Speaker 1: But thank you for submitting your pick. What are you talking? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, that's that's what you're doing now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about it right now because
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about it later. Oh okay, I
Speaker 1: thought you were just like, thank you for I thought
Speaker 1: you were just like thanking me for doing homework. No,
Speaker 1: I think you did a great job. I just don't
Speaker 1: want to go into great detail or else I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have nothing else to talk for sure. Okay, so let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break and then we'll be right back. Okay,
Speaker 1: and we are back. What he's really freaking laughing at it?
Speaker 1: I think happy was that interesting. I just didn't know
Speaker 1: if we were like thanking each other for each other's picks,
Speaker 1: like very formally after Okay, Well, I mean different, like
Speaker 1: we're like forty five deep on this thing, and that
Speaker 1: was new and it was it was fun. Listen, baby.
Speaker 1: Part of what keeps Love cranking is doing new stuff
Speaker 1: fresh podcast techniques. Yeah, that's how we keep it fresh
Speaker 1: in the bedroom. We keep it fresh on the podcast. Um, okay,
Speaker 1: how they give us your number two pick. I don't
Speaker 1: know if this is controversial. I think partially it is.
Speaker 1: And I struggled with this. One was Super Bowl fifty
Speaker 1: one Patriots first Falcons like, I'm so sorry Falcons fans.
Speaker 1: I know. I think mostly because I went with my
Speaker 1: sister and it was one of my favorite Super Bowls
Speaker 1: and we watched Lady Gaga, but before Lady Gaga Ga,
Speaker 1: I was just like, hey, should we just leave after
Speaker 1: Lady Gaga is done? And because the Patriots were down
Speaker 1: so much, it was not the on paper, not a
Speaker 1: good game, no, like, oh lord, I mean if you're
Speaker 1: a Patriots fan, for sure. I mean, and also greatest comeback,
Speaker 1: greatest Super Bowl comeback, and I believe it is that
Speaker 1: it is that, like you know, but my my sister
Speaker 1: said that, I said, Tom Brady is never going to
Speaker 1: be done, like he is going to make it to
Speaker 1: the last second, which is exactly what he did. I
Speaker 1: think in this game, Julio Owns and Edelman had ridiculous
Speaker 1: catches like the bonkers, like and I think that's what
Speaker 1: I love about some of these games, like some of
Speaker 1: the best of the best is that you've seen catches
Speaker 1: that you truly don't you've never seen before, Like there
Speaker 1: are like a once in a season type of catches,
Speaker 1: and we saw that in this game. This was number
Speaker 1: one for me and I'm gonna say this to you,
Speaker 1: go just about patriot cause we do a lot of
Speaker 1: Patriots hate, and we do a lot of Tom Brady hating.
Speaker 1: But like again, like last night rarely solidifies it for me.
Speaker 1: One of the greatest athletes like and as a huge
Speaker 1: in this room, see a lot of Jordan things, but
Speaker 1: like if he wins it, uh, like I won't. I
Speaker 1: won't debate people if they say Tom Brady is better
Speaker 1: than Michael Jordan's it's it's really it's like seven super
Speaker 1: Bowls with ten visits, and in this game, especially like
Speaker 1: just the when people talk about like talent skill, like
Speaker 1: clock utilization every single second. I mean, sure he needs
Speaker 1: to be like credit taken away for for wasting a
Speaker 1: lot of quarters, but like that was the most masterful
Speaker 1: thing I've ever seen that come back, and a lot
Speaker 1: of I think the analysis after was like how did
Speaker 1: the Falcons let this happen? There's that image of Arthur
Speaker 1: blank like down on the sideline celebrating, so some some
Speaker 1: blame does go on. I mean there was a collapse.
Speaker 1: They had a collapse in the Super Bowl, which is
Speaker 1: almost unforgivable. Dwit Freey was on that team, so it's
Speaker 1: like it's sad. Um. Sorry, but no, why why I
Speaker 1: hate that game is because it was it felt very
Speaker 1: representative of the election to me. For for like, whether
Speaker 1: that makes sense or not, I just was like, oh,
Speaker 1: Hillary is the favorite, she's gonna win. The matchup is clear.
Speaker 1: And then you know, you watch it fall apart and
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, okay, that didn't happen. And then we
Speaker 1: see the Falcons beating this like known Trump supporter, and
Speaker 1: it felt good. And so then when it started to
Speaker 1: fall apart, a lot of election night memories came flooding back.
Speaker 1: I also was watching that Super Bowl at the same
Speaker 1: place I watched the sten election results come in, and
Speaker 1: I told this couple who has now since broken up, sadly,
Speaker 1: I told them, I will never come to your house
Speaker 1: ever again. I hate it here and I would burn
Speaker 1: it to the ground if I could. No, I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't argue with that. Um, A little bit seems personal,
Speaker 1: but not. I agree. It was a little bit like
Speaker 1: and this is what makes Tom Brady so good is
Speaker 1: that I think he does embrace the villain role. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just as like I was as a sportsman. I'm
Speaker 1: happy that I got to witness that, even though I
Speaker 1: was rooting for the Falcons. I'm happy God to witness
Speaker 1: in person. I'm happy for you too. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't hate it because here's the thing is. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know you guys are Lakers fans. I'm not a
Speaker 1: huge Lebron fan pers only, but also a lifelong Charago
Speaker 1: Bulls fan. A Charago Bulls fan that is really a
Speaker 1: Struggle Bulls fan. Will understand my disdain for him, but
Speaker 1: I respect how amazing he is. And for Tom, I
Speaker 1: don't like him, I don't like necessarily dislike him. First
Speaker 1: of all, kudos to him for getting Giselle as a wife,
Speaker 1: like I mean, anyone that like. But the fact that
Speaker 1: he was able to come in this season on a
Speaker 1: new team convinced Gronk to to stop doing reality TV
Speaker 1: show like that mass singer and come back to playing football.
Speaker 1: And like the Buccaneers were kind of like an okay team,
Speaker 1: Like they had really good talent on defense, a little
Speaker 1: bit here and there. It's so rare two for a
Speaker 1: first year sort of team like that to bring it
Speaker 1: all together and to make it as far as he did.
Speaker 1: Like c J, I second that because I think that
Speaker 1: what he did this year solidifies it a little bit,
Speaker 1: even more so than some of the years past for him. Like,
Speaker 1: even if he doesn't win, I think that he did
Speaker 1: this season is enough. He's the got. I just don't like,
Speaker 1: can I can I survey you guys, because I mean
Speaker 1: everyone's always like, yeah, Brady over Jordan or whatever. But
Speaker 1: that's like not the debate in my head or the
Speaker 1: question like to me. I mean everyone's like, you know,
Speaker 1: in terms of was it Belichick system or is Tom
Speaker 1: Brady that good to either of you guys? Does this
Speaker 1: answer that question at all? Or was it completely team effort?
Speaker 1: Both times? And like Bruce arians is a great coach.
Speaker 1: I think I saw people being like, well, this discredits Bellichick.
Speaker 1: It's like, I don't think that at all. I think
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick is Again I don't like him, but I
Speaker 1: think he's an incredible coach, and I think he actually
Speaker 1: is a football genius. And I mean that because he
Speaker 1: can look at the rules and go, how do I
Speaker 1: play within those rules without breaking them? And that is
Speaker 1: a unique mind. I think it was both of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you know, you can only set up a
Speaker 1: system for success. Then I think that it really took
Speaker 1: both of them to, you know, to to be as legendary.
Speaker 1: I think that just Tom Brady's magic is different. You know,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady can can make a James White be a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl m v P. Like in what world do
Speaker 1: we look like? At that time when that happened, I
Speaker 1: was like, what the fuck is happening? Yeah, like Brady
Speaker 1: did all the work or you know, And I thought
Speaker 1: that was the NFL's way of saying, fuck you, you're
Speaker 1: not getting the MVP Brady, because it was mostly Brady
Speaker 1: that did the work. I think it was two passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns and a running touchdown for James White, I can't remember,
Speaker 1: but like the fact that he can make that guy
Speaker 1: a super Bowl MVP because Brady did that, Like that
Speaker 1: to me, Belichick awesome, coach, revolutionary, and both of both
Speaker 1: people revolutionary. I just think that Brady's magic is different
Speaker 1: because he just can make normal people look amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that and that's a Jordan quality as well to
Speaker 1: every great player quality. Iggy with the Warriors at one
Speaker 1: year Finals MVP. It's like, you know, that was that team.
Speaker 1: But I think I do think Belichick can take a
Speaker 1: loser and make them good too, Like I think he
Speaker 1: has that they both have whatever that like this year
Speaker 1: special stuff is. Well, that's true. That's what happens when
Speaker 1: you have Cam Newton as a quarterback. So you need
Speaker 1: to give him a break. I love I love Cam.
Speaker 1: We love Cam over here. Okay, so my my number
Speaker 1: one of my number two have already been discussed, so
Speaker 1: I have decided to pick a different number two, if
Speaker 1: that's okay with everybody. And I think you're going to
Speaker 1: find it shocking that this was not originally on my
Speaker 1: list and this is Super Bowl. What's x l I
Speaker 1: it was a cold So why is this not number one? Megan?
Speaker 1: Shame because it's truly it's it's not number one because
Speaker 1: it wasn't a great game, like it was horrible. It was.
Speaker 1: It was horrible ring rain Um started that. Okay, well
Speaker 1: that's a matter of perspective. Um. Yeah, it started off
Speaker 1: with a like kick off return for a touchdown, And
Speaker 1: I guess maybe that that's the most exciting thing that
Speaker 1: it almost happened. And then and it also set up
Speaker 1: like oh ship, the cults are in trouble, and then
Speaker 1: they won, So I guess there was like a little
Speaker 1: bait and switch that happened, first black coach to win
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl and was going against love Smith. It
Speaker 1: was the first time a black coach had been in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. And we have two of them and
Speaker 1: they were very good friends. And I think that that
Speaker 1: that was extremely moving and beautiful to see first super Bowl,
Speaker 1: that Peyton one, first one that he went to. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot of Hall of famers in that game,
Speaker 1: not a lot from the Bears side, but a lot
Speaker 1: from the cult side. When it's all said and done,
Speaker 1: and I'm very happy they won, and it goes down
Speaker 1: as one of the greatest and most drunk days of
Speaker 1: my life. I was thrown out of it was also
Speaker 1: one of the drunkest days of my life. And how
Speaker 1: horrible the Bears played. I mean, but here's the thing is,
Speaker 1: that's like we got that far with Rex Grossman, like
Speaker 1: vombit grows okay, like you know, I mean, it just
Speaker 1: can serve like how good a defense can really get you,
Speaker 1: but also a defense only a defense can only get
Speaker 1: you so far. So Reggie Wayne was open on a
Speaker 1: fifty three yard touchdown reception, and so the Bears defense
Speaker 1: is incredible, has always been incredible, but something at the
Speaker 1: bears covers the cover to scheme, like the cultures had
Speaker 1: too many weapons for that too, totally shut them down.
Speaker 1: I mean they were like, to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: I think Peyton Manning could like ask that Dominic Rhodes
Speaker 1: with the m v P Dominic Rhodes. Yeah, I mean yeah.
Speaker 1: All three super Bowls that Peyton Manning's has been in,
Speaker 1: he's played like ass Like I think he's been in
Speaker 1: FO two of the Broncoses, two with the Colts, I'm
Speaker 1: not no, I think yeah, he lost one with the
Speaker 1: Broncos and one one thet Yeah, he was seeing the
Speaker 1: Broncos because that was the one that Seahawks West and
Speaker 1: it was bad. That was That's actually probably the worst
Speaker 1: super Bowl I've ever seen. Uh no, Rams Rams Patriots
Speaker 1: as the worst super Bowl I've ever seen. That is second.
Speaker 1: But also it was my that was my first super Bowl,
Speaker 1: so like as horrible. And I was in the press
Speaker 1: box right above the end zone where they safetied Peyton Manning,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, this is great. And I
Speaker 1: just met Hugh Jackman, who are a huge fan of
Speaker 1: so I was like on cloud nine. Yeah, and like
Speaker 1: everyone's like, oh, that super Bowl is kind of shitty.
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I don't like care. I went
Speaker 1: and I got to like hang out with Hugh Jackman
Speaker 1: and Jennifer Gardner like I'm I'm chilling. I don't care
Speaker 1: like you're like and Peyton Manning lost. So like I was, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a bad one though. I was. I was
Speaker 1: bartending and the bar empty, like people were like, we're good.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's bad for a bar to empty out
Speaker 1: on the Super Bowl Sunday. Oh boy, um okay, CJ,
Speaker 1: what's your number two? Um? Well, fun fact that Bears
Speaker 1: Colts Super Bowl was when I was visiting Chicago and
Speaker 1: deciding whether I wanted to move there or not, and
Speaker 1: I did. It was for and then yeah, so my
Speaker 1: number two was said as well, which has gonna happen
Speaker 1: on this stuff. So I mean, again I admitted, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I just don't have the great memory for
Speaker 1: a lot of Superls. The two fifteen one, it was,
Speaker 1: I mean, Roman numerals are yeah x l I X,
Speaker 1: so this would have been it was it was Seahawks Patriots.
Speaker 1: And this is just because the legendary again it came
Speaker 1: down to the last play. Yeah it was. It should
Speaker 1: have ran it. Um, they should have handed off to Marshawn,
Speaker 1: and as was my number one. Okay, nice, okay, because
Speaker 1: I was just picking it based on this play because
Speaker 1: I actually was very very high in a hotel room
Speaker 1: in Denver and I slept. I fell asleep from eating
Speaker 1: too much and woke up in my hotel room for
Speaker 1: this last play and it was like, yo, yeah, they're
Speaker 1: about to win it. Hand it off to Marshawn and
Speaker 1: then they threw it and who intercepted it? Malcolm Butler.
Speaker 1: Malcolm butl and that for me, working in memes and sports,
Speaker 1: this was like pre NBA Twitter what it is today.
Speaker 1: This was like the Warriors blew a three one lea,
Speaker 1: like it was always handed off to mars Shawn. Malcolm
Speaker 1: Butler inter said, like this was like sports Twitter at
Speaker 1: its peak back then. Um. And so that that's why
Speaker 1: I will say it's one of my favorite Super Bowl memories. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I chose it as my number one. I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: there's personal reasons, but for me, I felt like, you know,
Speaker 1: any game that comes down to the last play and
Speaker 1: and I I just loved the games where it comes
Speaker 1: down to that play and it's so controversial, so like
Speaker 1: you just want to keep talking about it. You're like,
Speaker 1: what the funk was he thinking? Why was it Marshall?
Speaker 1: You know? And like, as I was watching the highlights
Speaker 1: last night, and one of the highlights literally in the
Speaker 1: beginning of the highlight was Marshawn eating skittles, and I
Speaker 1: just I, you know, Marshawn what will go down in
Speaker 1: history as one of the coolest players to ever play football.
Speaker 1: But I thought that Seahawks team, I felt like, for me,
Speaker 1: if I had one of these days, you guys don't
Speaker 1: have to do a podcast of like truly greatest like
Speaker 1: football teams of the nineties of the two thousands, that
Speaker 1: to me was one of the greatest teams to like
Speaker 1: full greatest teams to ever play football. I felt like
Speaker 1: that was one of them, and they blew it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think that's why it's not one of my
Speaker 1: favorites is because it was like so heartbreaking and I
Speaker 1: like wanted Marshawn to like override the play, you know,
Speaker 1: like just so much. Like even yesterday, I'm like, why
Speaker 1: can't Aaron Rodgers just tell you know and be like, no, bitch,
Speaker 1: We're not doing that. Someone asked someone as like we
Speaker 1: were talking about on this call. I got on today
Speaker 1: and there I got in and they were talking about
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, and um, I was like, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: people are gonna be talking about that. Like but and personally,
Speaker 1: I felt like he always just ran the team, Like
Speaker 1: why don't you just run up and say I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not kicking it on fourth and down, like like
Speaker 1: fourth down, this is this is it. You can't give
Speaker 1: the ball back to Brady with two minutes left. But
Speaker 1: I would say that, Um, I know, you guys already
Speaker 1: had greatest half time performances, but I felt like Katy
Speaker 1: Perry's halftime performance in the Super Bowl was the greatest
Speaker 1: next to Beyonce's with Desny's child. Um, I walked into
Speaker 1: the game. This was the one super Bowl I didn't
Speaker 1: have to work. So my dad and I go into
Speaker 1: the tailgate and we got shammammerd and I managed to
Speaker 1: sneak a beer or two into the game and I'm
Speaker 1: in like my nice suit, which was hysterical, and um,
Speaker 1: I don't even remember part of the first half because
Speaker 1: I was so drunk. And also one of my friends,
Speaker 1: um Adam Rank he had actually had the seat next
Speaker 1: to me too, So it was just like a party.
Speaker 1: And then when Katy Perry come on, so it was
Speaker 1: controversial when you were there that it was like super
Speaker 1: foggy and all that stuff. Like I walked outside in
Speaker 1: Phoenix that day anything, so everyone's like, oh, the thing
Speaker 1: isn't going to open up. And apparently Katy Perry's halftime
Speaker 1: performance was going to involve it. And then as soon
Speaker 1: as she sank firework, no one, no one knew that
Speaker 1: it had moved, and everyone looked up. It was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god. And it was just that to me
Speaker 1: was part of the like craziness of it. And so
Speaker 1: when we're on that final drive of that game, and
Speaker 1: I think it was was a curse. Who had that catch?
Speaker 1: The crazy clown catch or whatever? Seahawks are driving right,
Speaker 1: it's the final class couple plays of the game and
Speaker 1: there's this crazy catch that's it's tipped, it's this and that,
Speaker 1: and it gets them in position. And basically between that
Speaker 1: play and the play at the very end in the stadium,
Speaker 1: no one knew who won. Literally no one knew who
Speaker 1: one like we were. I was like, do you guys
Speaker 1: know what happened? Everyone's like no, no, no, Like I
Speaker 1: wasn't at the side with the jumbo tron, so no
Speaker 1: one knew because because the phone was that bad. No,
Speaker 1: because it's like because it happened so quickly. It happened
Speaker 1: so quickly, and then all of a sudden, it's just like, wait,
Speaker 1: who won? And then I'll we see like the and
Speaker 1: Bettie pop out. I was like, oh, I think that's blue.
Speaker 1: I had that experience with Paul George breaking his leg
Speaker 1: and I don't know, and I don't know if this
Speaker 1: is the stadium like a stadium thing, but cellphone reception
Speaker 1: was bad and when it took everyone walking out to
Speaker 1: the parking lot for it to pop up on their phone.
Speaker 1: But I sort of know that feeling, and that's like, again,
Speaker 1: the kind of the con of being there is you
Speaker 1: don't get those replays. You don't get like, yeah, you
Speaker 1: kind of just like everyone's left shark. Shark is a
Speaker 1: cultural touchstone. And I had a thousand people text me
Speaker 1: and I walked out of the stadium and my saidsters like, oh,
Speaker 1: left Shark. I'm like, what the fund No one knew
Speaker 1: left Shark in the stadium because you needed, like you
Speaker 1: needed the shot of the left shark just totally going rogue.
Speaker 1: I love Left Shark, and this is why I stopped
Speaker 1: going to the All Star Games, because I go for
Speaker 1: All Star weekend and then I started coming back one.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of times your birthday, but because I
Speaker 1: like watching the game, and you can't really watch the
Speaker 1: games when you're in those press boxes. But I'm still
Speaker 1: very grateful that we've we've gotten to go to so
Speaker 1: much stuff like that. Okay, let's take one last break
Speaker 1: and then we'll be back with our number one picks. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're back. Sorry, it's gotten a little. This is great.
Speaker 1: I feel like we're sharing kind of like what it's
Speaker 1: like to be at these places. Yeah, I hope this
Speaker 1: is relatable content, guys. So now we will go around
Speaker 1: and do our number one. I don't have a number one.
Speaker 1: You don't, okay, So and we're running along, so let's
Speaker 1: just skip mine. Okay, Well, my number one is the
Speaker 1: catch like the David Tyree Giants over the Patriots, and yeah,
Speaker 1: that game was. The Patriots going into it were already
Speaker 1: deemed the greatest team of all time. They were trying
Speaker 1: to match the seventy two Dolphins. Um the Giants one
Speaker 1: road games in Tampa Dallas and Green Bay to be there,
Speaker 1: they had to go on the road for the entirety
Speaker 1: of the playoffs. It was the first time an NFC
Speaker 1: team had ever done that. And it was like, the
Speaker 1: Patriots are winning. I mean, it's not that different than
Speaker 1: that Eagles one that I brought up earlier. It's like,
Speaker 1: the Patriots are in it. The Patriots are winning, especially
Speaker 1: against this wild card Giants team that was very, very
Speaker 1: unproven at that point. It wasn't even just Eli Manning
Speaker 1: wasn't as good as his brothers. He wasn't as good
Speaker 1: as the rest of his draft class. Philip Rivers had
Speaker 1: better SATs than him. Like, yeah, he that that two
Speaker 1: thousand four packed class. He just hadn't really proven himself
Speaker 1: in any way. I don't really think he has since.
Speaker 1: That's what's interesting. I mean, he's maybe the worst quarterback
Speaker 1: to win two super Bowls. Maybe I'm putting something, don't
Speaker 1: you know, really good? I think he was really good
Speaker 1: for just to short him on a time and then
Speaker 1: his expiration date just expired, but no one knew about it,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought he was very like, you don't
Speaker 1: win a super Bowl with a bad quarterback. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but I thought he was really good, but just for
Speaker 1: that really short amount of time, and then they just
Speaker 1: made him play quarterback just for namesake. This was another
Speaker 1: game that was not good until not even the second
Speaker 1: half the fourth quarter. There were twenty one points scored
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, the Giants scoring fourteen of them,
Speaker 1: and so it was pretty much a snooze until then.
Speaker 1: The Patriots were favored by twelve, which seems pretty wild.
Speaker 1: Halftime show was Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Cost of
Speaker 1: a thirty second commercial for this Super Bowl with two
Speaker 1: point seven million and at the time it has been
Speaker 1: broken since. At the time that was the most viewed
Speaker 1: super Bowl of all time with nineties seven point five
Speaker 1: million viewers. And the Super Bowl was in two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight. Um, my senior of college, was this right
Speaker 1: before the financial says probably, Um, so kind of feels
Speaker 1: like yeah, because it was the beginning of two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight. It really that Super Bowl. I like remember
Speaker 1: watching it in my like college apartment. Like, when I
Speaker 1: think back to two thousand and eight, that Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, that was a much simpler time. Um.
Speaker 1: We are generation had not experienced what we have experienced now,
Speaker 1: and we've we've seen too much in the last twelve years.
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, February of oh eight, that was nice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought that was for me. I couldn't decide between
Speaker 1: those two Patriots games. I actually rewatched longer highlights of
Speaker 1: the other Patriots Giants game, mostly because of the people
Speaker 1: that were in that one. Um. I was that was
Speaker 1: the that was the one in Indianapolis. Um, and that
Speaker 1: was an amazing game. It really Ron her I mean
Speaker 1: Ronet Hernandez, like the everything that happened to him. He
Speaker 1: was awesome when he playing and when you know, when
Speaker 1: he was locked in, you know, into the game, and
Speaker 1: I think who else was? I mean, there were so
Speaker 1: many people in that game. It was a fun It
Speaker 1: was a very very fun game. Madonna performed at the halftime.
Speaker 1: I think this one edges it out for me, just
Speaker 1: because it was like it felt truly David versus Goliath,
Speaker 1: Like it was like, oh, this is the best team ever,
Speaker 1: and this is like a team with a man with
Speaker 1: a red face who screams all the time. Like they
Speaker 1: just seemed kind of like we and we didn't know
Speaker 1: any of them, Like I still don't really even know
Speaker 1: David Tybrey, But that catch like that Catches just burned
Speaker 1: in my memory and them winning it felt like a
Speaker 1: true release. But you're right, that other game was equally,
Speaker 1: if not better. You know, it's hard to pick. I
Speaker 1: mean it's hard to pick the greatest, right, you know,
Speaker 1: you we only have fifty issues from But at the
Speaker 1: same time, like what is great? You know? For me?
Speaker 1: I want to close game at the end. I mean,
Speaker 1: of course I want a close game everything all time,
Speaker 1: going back and forth, back and forth, but you don't
Speaker 1: get to have that. But sometimes things like the catch
Speaker 1: outweigh it's just being a close game the entire time, right,
Speaker 1: Like what's great? Because like the honestly, like watching that
Speaker 1: Falcons Patriots game, I was like, okay, can someone else score?
Speaker 1: Like you just make it close, you know, and that's tough.
Speaker 1: But I think what was great was the comeback because
Speaker 1: that was never been done and that's what made it great.
Speaker 1: But like that game, That's why I was watching how
Speaker 1: it did that Patriots Giants game, Like, man, this was
Speaker 1: a really good game. Like maybe this one has to
Speaker 1: be up there. I don't know, Well, it's your point.
Speaker 1: Last year was really close, but it might be as
Speaker 1: memorable as the catch or you know a lot of
Speaker 1: these comebacks, but like that was a solid game, like
Speaker 1: from start to finish, and I hope yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: whatever my homes ends up doing, yeah, it just it
Speaker 1: just like in ways. Yeah, we're we're like trying to
Speaker 1: figure out what makes these the greatest, but like solid
Speaker 1: game last year, and I do all a game, no
Speaker 1: one remembers anything that happened outside of the Chiefs winning.
Speaker 1: We'll just do greatest solid games. Well, And I guess
Speaker 1: what we've learned too, is that that's the most you
Speaker 1: can hope for in a Super Bowl Like this is
Speaker 1: not the matchup that I wanted to see coming up.
Speaker 1: Will it be exciting to see the true like passing
Speaker 1: of the guard? Is that what the phrases passing? I
Speaker 1: don't know, you know, old versus young. What I remembered
Speaker 1: is the other super Bowl that Peyton was in was
Speaker 1: against the Panthers in Super Bowl fifty and that was
Speaker 1: one of the worst super Bowls ever. Well, was he
Speaker 1: a factor? Oh that's when like the it was just
Speaker 1: the Broncos defense that won it. Yes, yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: one he won with the Broncos. And you're like that
Speaker 1: was boring as hell? Remember I hope you guys did
Speaker 1: like a worse like I hope when you guys are
Speaker 1: watching this, you guys were evaluating the worst super Bowls
Speaker 1: of all time. I said they had to live through
Speaker 1: that one to a person, and even and I was
Speaker 1: so excited, like in the office, everyone's like, oh, cold
Speaker 1: Play is gonna do halftime and then they and everyone's like,
Speaker 1: really cold Play, and then they're like, just kidding, just kidding,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Beyonce too, and like cool Beyonce in person,
Speaker 1: because it was a horrible stadium. It was a horrible
Speaker 1: And then you're watching this crap game. I'm just like, oh,
Speaker 1: can we just this this? Like Bruno? What was the
Speaker 1: good Bruno? The Bruno one with good Bruno was in
Speaker 1: New York for Seahawks. Um, Seahawks Broncos. Okay, they're both
Speaker 1: good to me, but I'm always trying to decipher or
Speaker 1: distinguish the two. So I forgot this um second Giants
Speaker 1: Patriots game that we're talking about, the one that was Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: I said it was Madonna. It was also L M
Speaker 1: F A O M I A. Nicki Minaj and C.
Speaker 1: Low Green, And I guess I've forgotten. I remember l
Speaker 1: M f AO because I was like that, but everybody
Speaker 1: else I M I A. I didn't even realize m
Speaker 1: I I was there. I feel there was some consciou
Speaker 1: is he there about her performance? Maybe I don't know
Speaker 1: if like she had been like banned from the States
Speaker 1: at the time. But oh right, okay, that would um
Speaker 1: when he just got real, that would sadly make sense.
Speaker 1: I had what was your number one? Again? Remind my
Speaker 1: number one was Seahawks Patriots? Okay, super Bowl? Any any
Speaker 1: honorable mentions from you? Any games you feel like we missed? No,
Speaker 1: I both Patriots Giants. Um. I thought that was you know,
Speaker 1: goes down as the one of the greatest I think
Speaker 1: super Bowl rivalries of all time. But between that, um
Speaker 1: Egos Patriots, those were kind of my solid six and
Speaker 1: I didn't Honestly, I'd have to say this, after those
Speaker 1: super bowls that we talked about, excuse me. With the
Speaker 1: exception of the Bears, Colts ones, I don't really think
Speaker 1: that they're super bowls that are even close to those now,
Speaker 1: except for like these oldies that we feel we can't Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel bad we can't really speak to those. Well,
Speaker 1: there's I mean, I can tell you the number one
Speaker 1: on this NFL rankings, and I hate to sound like
Speaker 1: a loser. It's it's in black and white. And I
Speaker 1: was like, sir, I don't know this. Um so this
Speaker 1: is super Bowl eight. This is what they have as
Speaker 1: number one. Steelers thirty five, Cowboys thirty one. I just
Speaker 1: remember the party was that and yeah, it wasn't very
Speaker 1: good this super Bowl eight. So it had to be
Speaker 1: what nineteen six Bradshaw was m v P. There was
Speaker 1: a bad drop by Smith pass interference call, so there
Speaker 1: was some special teams fumble. So yeah, listen if you
Speaker 1: watched that our list, yeah, let us we said it.
Speaker 1: We said it super Bowl eight. Well, there was that
Speaker 1: Steelers one, right, that Steelers super Bowl. I think that's
Speaker 1: this one. Isn't the more recent one where Harrison James
Speaker 1: Harrison Hinds word, Yeah, two thousand five. That's that's definitely
Speaker 1: not going to be on my list. I definitely don't
Speaker 1: like rooting for Ben Roll this worker though, so I
Speaker 1: couldn't root for the Steelers if there was a gut
Speaker 1: into my head. I always want to go on the team,
Speaker 1: I mean team James Conner. Yea, um, okay, there where
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