WEBVTT - Hour 3 – Bob Nightengale, Andy Staples 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:03.559 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:04.760 Sports Radio. 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:08.480 Final Hour on this Friday, and we've somehow managed to 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:13.880 limp towards the finish line. No Fritzy, no Polly, no problem. 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:17.160 It's a meat Friday at that and we have reverse 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:22.919 seared Jimmy Tura Ribbis and something called funeral potatoes. And 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:26.040 I guess Tyler was trying to be funny. He said, Hey, 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:30.040 we'll have funeral potatoes as the Oakland A's say goodbye 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:34.040 to Oakland. They're a cheesy potato casserole. We'll talk to 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:37.040 the great baseball writer Bob Nightingale here in a moment 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:40.160 he was there. Tailgate Moonshine. You still have a chance 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:43.880 to get the moonshine. 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The A's are done in Oakland 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:29.160 and after a two year stop in Sacramento, will end 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:31.560 up in Las Vegas, which is where we bring in 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:36.000 Bob Nightingale, USA Today Baseball columnist. How did we get 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:40.280 to this point, Bob, where Oakland is losing their A's 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:41.520 to Las Vegas? 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:43.560 What's been going on. 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:44.480 About twenty years? 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:44.720 Dan? 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.680 I mean they've been running a new ballpark since two 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.760 thousand and five. Resident John Fisher bought the team with 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:54.040 Lou Wolf and they wanted to go to San Jose. 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:59.640 The Giants blocked them, tried five different places, nothing, nothing worked. 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.440 Follow these surrendered and say, you know what we're done. 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.440 We're going to Las Vegas. So it's too bad. I 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:08.079 meant the crowd they got yesterday, the crowd they got 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:11.240 this past homestand and that if that was going on 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.680 all along, they never left. 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:16.520 What kind of stadium are they going to move into 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:19.680 in Vegas? In a couple of years, you'll be read. 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:23.000 Talked about one you know, uh, you know glass let's 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:26.680 you know, let's let's see clamorous everything you want. But 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:28.840 you know, next three years, I mean Sacramento in the 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.320 Marrior League Ballpark, so it'd be a little tough to 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:34.359 attract some pre agents in that place. But Vegas, we'll 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.520 see how it works. I still have my doubts. Uh, 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:40.079 you know, in Phoenix where I live, it's a fifth 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:43.120 largest in the country, and they have they struggle to 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:46.040 make it work. I don't know Vega's going to fly 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:48.080 in the Vegas in the summertime and want to go 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:48.960 to a baseball game. 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.080 Yeah, that's what I was wondering about. I think if 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:53.560 you made it a more of an intimate stadium like 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:57.760 thirty five thousand had a retractable roof there. But I 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:00.720 don't know what the baseball climate is going to be. Well, 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:04.320 I should say the baseball fan climate is going to 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:09.239 be for a team that Oakland, you know, didn't really support, 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.720 and now Vegas is going to be diehard Oakland A's fans. 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.080 I don't see either. I mean the Raiders it works 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:19.560 of course because playing you know, nine home games, but 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:23.440 to play eighty one. I don't know, I don't see it. 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:26.880 I mean the diehard A's fans, some will follow them 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:29.240 up to Sacramento, know about hour and a half, two 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:32.200 hour drive, but they're not going to fall into Las Vegas. 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:35.560 And you know, even guys like Bryce Harper or Las 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:37.920 Vegas native said, I don't think it's going to work. 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:41.320 Expansion team will work, but not somebody else's rejects. 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:44.800 Yeah, that's what I'm just wondering about that that you have. 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.840 This is it two years in Sacramento or three years? 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:51.920 A minimum of three, so three for sure, and the 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:55.000 dam's not ready. It could be four, but yeah, minimum 0:03:55.000 --> 0:04:00.520 three years. What role did the commissioner play in this happening? 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:05.440 It really kind of started under buds ceiling. Remember when 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:09.040 they gave the team to John Fish and Lou Wolf. 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:12.880 Lou Wolf was Bud's arattorney brother at University of Wisconsin, 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.280 and so he's supposed to get some kind of favor Nemverer. 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:19.479 Now that area San Jose and all that used to 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.800 belong to the A's they gave it to the Giants, saying, 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:24.200 you know what, we don't want you to move to 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:27.839 Tampa Bay. Here we'll help you out here, and giants 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:31.360 never give it back. So they foll along, Okay, we'll 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.919 be allowed to move to Fremont, San Jose something like that. 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.080 So the giants have been very complicit this whole thing. 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:42.000 Now they got the entire northern California to themselves. Nothing's 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:43.040 gonna be a gold mine. 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:47.360 But could the commissioner see, I know he wants new 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.800 business and everybody wants to be in Vegas, but I 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.720 just I think the relocation fee didn't he waive that? 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:58.320 So that to me, you know, he was ready to 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.800 put them in the hov lane and send him to Vegas. 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.760 He was, you're right. I mean what he did was saying, 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.360 you know what, I'm tired of it. We've given Oakland 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:10.320 twenty years to figure this out. They haven't figured out. 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:12.560 I'm done with it. Wherever you guys want to go, 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:16.400 go ahead, and uh, you know, Vegas stepped up. They're 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:18.440 gonna give them about three hundred and fifty million dollars 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.880 in public funding, and uh yeah, I mean everybody blames 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:25.479 John Fisher, but you know, like Dave Stewart said, Ricky 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:28.760 Henderson said, blames to go all around. Like the age 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:30.720 is the first team to leave that place, just the 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:33.000 last team, last team to leave, you know, with the 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.680 Warriors and Raiders volting before them. 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.680 Have you run out of ways to describe Sho Tani? 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:41.080 I have. 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:43.960 I mean, it's unbelievable, you know. I think I do 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.200 think some people will get carried away. The fifty to 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:49.640 fifties very cool, but with the new rules that was 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:52.440 you know, chilling bases and you know the pickoff throws 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:56.600 me Ricky Henderson probately stole two hundred bases, but unbelievable year. 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:00.160 But I do think Dan, after what we've seen, how 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.159 long is this guy going to pitch? He'll pitch next year, 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.839 how much longer? I think he loves hitting. I think 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:08.760 he only pitches because he knows he can do it. 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:13.200 I don't see him pitching, you know, much longer than 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.880 a couple of years. I think hitting is just you know, 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:16.640 too valuable. 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:18.640 Yeah, because he's not going to put up these numbers 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:19.480 if he was pitching. 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:21.960 And no, he's sort of not going to run the 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:24.919 bases like this, even if Dave Roberts said, you're not 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:27.800 going to sacrifice your body and do all that, but 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:31.280 you still have to pitch every five days, so yeah, 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.920 we may never see this offen some season again by 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:35.839 him until he stops pitching. 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.280 Good to talk to you, Bob, Thanks for joining us, pleasant, 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:43.320 Thank you. That's Bob Nightingale USA Today Baseball columnists. There. 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.039 We get some phone calls in here coming up. We'll 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.880 talk some college football as well. And H Kelly in Kansas, 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:52.680 Hi Kel, what's on your mind? 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:58.120 IDP and Dannett one and Dannette two. How are you 0:06:58.120 --> 0:06:58.760 guys just morning? 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:03.039 Everything's great? Yes it is, Yeah, I got it. 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:06.960 I have a question for the Giants fans. I noticed 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.400 the stadium was pretty full last night, and I just 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.360 wondered if they thought this was one of the few 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:13.400 games that they would win this season. 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:21.360 I don't know if it was a I'd like to 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:24.520 know the percentage of Cowboy fans to Giants fans last night, 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:28.720 because Cowboy fans they travel, and I'm gonna I don't 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:30.880 think it was fifty to fifty, but I'd say the 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:34.160 Cowboys were well represented. They were five and a half 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:39.720 point underdogs at home. I think they're still trying to 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:43.680 figure out who they are. I love Malik Neighbors, but 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:48.280 like Daniel Jones, is the over underpassing yards was two 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:50.720 hundred and one, so it's not like there was going 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.360 to be this offensive explosion. I think they thought it 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:57.240 was going to be low scoring and Dallas needed to 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.560 have a clean game, which they did. They end up 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:01.000 winning by five points. 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:04.320 Yes, Mark the Cowboys fans or the Cowboys, they're one 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.119 of the few teams where, no matter where they play, 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.480 it's never a true road game because you're always here 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:14.360 cheers for them. It's maybe them, the forty nine Ers, Raiders, Steelers. 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:16.120 I'm trying to think of maybe a couple other like 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:19.200 National Packers, a couple of national teams like and I 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:22.360 think the Chiefs are becoming that now because they've been 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:24.960 good for so long, where in twenty years they'll be 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:26.680 the Cowboys, they'll be the forty nine Ers. 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:27.840 As far as the fan base. 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:28.760 I don't you know. 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.920 It's weird because if you talk to Cowboy fans, it's 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:36.000 because their dad, maybe their dad's dad, they were Cowboy 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:39.320 fans and it's handed down, and so you become a 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.640 Cowboy fan whether you wanted to or not. It's like 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:45.440 your dad rooted for the Cowboys and you're maybe his 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:47.840 dad rooted for the Cowboys. If you go back to 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:51.360 even the sixties with the Cowboys and then you have 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:55.200 the seventies. Once you start winning, that's when you develop 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:58.120 that fan base. Like the Steelers, how much of their 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:01.040 fan base around the country is based off of what 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:04.480 happened with the Steele Curtain, what happened with Chuck Mean, 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:08.880 Joe Green, Terry Bradshaw, franco Lynn Swan, John Stall were 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:13.040 the Niners with Now I go back to John Brody, 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.920 but they weren't you winning a super Bowl back then? 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:20.040 But then you get Montana, you have Steve Young, you 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:23.880 win super Bowls. Now you have that fan base the Packers. 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:26.520 The Packers go back to you know, Vince with the 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:29.520 first couple of Super Bowls that they won and Bart 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.360 Starr and you could name all of those players, name 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:36.360 the offensive lineman there. I mean, they became household names. 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:40.719 Therefore you take that with you. So if that's back 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:44.600 in the sixties late sixties, they became the first dynasty 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:48.199 in modern football because they won the first two Super Bowls. Now, 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.880 prior to that, the Cleveland Browns were the dominating team. 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:54.600 But you start to win super Bowls now it became different. 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.680 And the Green Bay Packers winning those first two Super Bowls, 0:09:57.679 --> 0:09:59.320 beating the Chiefs and the Raiders. 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.040 Yes, Marv, and all of those teams had maybe two 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.560 or three different errors where they were great. Like the 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:07.640 Cowboys in the nineties. I have a bunch of friends 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.040 same age as me, forty. They love the Cowboys because 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:11.959 of what they did in the nineties and so on 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:12.600 and so forth. 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.160 Well, that's sometimes all you need is a little bit 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:20.520 of a refresher course of hey, we won. Now, you know, 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.200 we can move on from what happened in the seventies. Now, 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:28.440 you know, Doomsday Defense or Roger Stambacher. Now we won, 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.560 and they lived off They've lived off the fumes of 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:35.680 those Super Bowls for thirty years. And so you're you 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:39.840 have an entire generation that hasn't won anything with Dallas. 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:44.200 But Dad will tell them, hey, you know what, back 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:47.160 in our day, we won three super Bowls. Now the 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:51.560 Steelers win a Super Bowl occasionally, which they've done. Packers 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.880 win a Super Bowl occasionally, which they've done. You know, 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:56.679 the Niners getting to a Super Bowl. 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:57.040 You know. 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:00.120 So that's all those are those fan bases that they 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:06.360 stay engaged because they have a long history. Let's see 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.520 Riley in Nebraska. Hi, Riley, what's on your mind? 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:10.520 Hey man? 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:11.080 How're we going? 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:11.440 Great? 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:16.960 Riley Good was wondering what your favorite Adam Stanley movie was? 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:21.960 And also, uh, with today's. 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.440 Football world, do you think it's easier for teams like 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.000 Dallas to sign a receiver or a running back? And 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.640 if they did, do you think CD Lamb would become 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:31.040 like Christian McCaffrey. 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.600 I don't think with his build they're going to put 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.640 him back there you're gonna I'm not gonna spend that 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:39.280 kind of money on a guy who's going to get 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:42.920 tackled a lot. I want CD to be in space 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.640 where he can kind of control when he gets hit, 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.040 how he gets hit. I don't And he wouldn't be 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:53.360 a Christian McCaffrey. He'd be a debo type of hybrid player. 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:56.920 I don't know who they're going to get for running back. 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:01.520 I mean, you're gonna pick pick up somebody. Who are 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:02.240 you going to pick up? 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:04.280 Who's going to be this year's Joe Flacco? 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:04.960 Yeah? 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.000 But I don't know if you can just go out 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:08.840 there and go, we're going to pick up that running 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:13.760 back you got Zeke, you brought him in for a year. 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.280 I thought it was a mistake. I thought it was 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:19.640 a mistake to even re sign him. But Jerry is 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:25.400 weirdly loyal, sometimes to a fault. But yeah, are you 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.720 going to get another receiver? I get, I don't know. 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:30.720 I don't know who's out there not combing the waiver 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:34.640 wires here, but I will. I'll do that for this audience. 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:37.880 Justin in Virginia, Hi, Justin, what's on your mind today? 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:39.640 Well, good morning. 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:45.280 I just wanted to answer scenes poll of Cowboys playoffs 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:50.439 chance winning Super Bowl chances. I'm loll no, and Marvin's 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.800 absolutely right. I'm forty years old. I jumped on the 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:57.600 bandwagon when I was eight during the ninety two season. Yeah, 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.520 and unfortunately have stayed on ever since. I know Jerry's 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:06.959 not totally to blame, but under his stewardship as both 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:11.480 owner and unfortunately GM, they haven't proved anything to me 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:16.840 that they're gonna reach even the NFC championship anytime soon. 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:21.040 And honestly, I don't think still get there until after 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:24.480 he's gone, and maybe his oldest son will do better. 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.680 All right, thank you? Justin Justin sounded break down. 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:30.120 Should we do a wellness check on him? 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:34.280 I mean I guess by comparison, we have Shae and 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.480 Irving and we haven't even heard from Shaye today. Maybe 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.320 that's good that we don't hear from Shaye today considering 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:41.559 the way he sounded on Monday. 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:42.880 That was. 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:46.440 One of my favorite things though, is that even after 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:47.520 a win, he sounds terrible. 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:51.480 What do you mean, it's terrible as if. 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:50.839 She still won. 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:57.040 But he can't change like that. He's stuck with this. 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:01.360 He grew up a Cowboy fan because we always say, oh, 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:04.439 it just change, you know, go ahead, pick a new team. 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:09.439 And then he's he's imprisoned by this. He can't yeh can't. 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:13.000 And imagine watching those games. Every he knows his season 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.520 is going to end poorly. He does, he doesn't know how, 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.720 but he knows it's going to end in a bad way. 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:23.080 You make the playoffs. If you make the playoffs, you 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.680 lose a home game in the playoffs. Just imagine that 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:30.480 impending doom. It's you're watching a movie and you know 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.760 it's not going to end well for somebody, but you 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:36.440 got to watch the movie. That's what it's been like 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.920 for Cowboy fans. You're reading a book, you know that 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:43.280 it doesn't end well. Because you've read this book before. 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.040 It's like watching Titanic. Oh, what what's gonna happen? Yeah, 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:46.320 we know. 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:52.240 I don't know if it's exactly the Titanic, but it 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:56.920 doesn't end well, it's just it'll it'll end differently, but 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:00.520 still it'll be a bad, bad day for and Irvin 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.640 Alex in Utah. Hi, Alex, what's on your mind today? 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:05.800 As it going? 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:06.080 Dan? 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:07.760 Good to talk to you guys. 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.480 So I guess yeah, maybe just quickly weigh in on 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.080 the funeral potatoes. Now, I don't know if this story 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:17.840 is true, maybe it's just apocryphal, but my dad's fifth 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:23.280 generation Utah, and according to him, originally they were called 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:28.840 party potatoes, but over years of them being constantly served 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:33.280 at funerals, they became funeral potatoes. So I again, I 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:34.520 don't know if that's true, but. 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:35.280 That's what I've heard. 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:38.960 And then just to kind of touch on the Thursday 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:41.920 night football, you kind of mentioned it, what kind of 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.760 a bummer the Thursday night games have been. And I 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:46.800 was looking at the schedule for the rest of the season, 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:48.560 and it looks like we've got a lot of division 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:52.760 rivalry games, and so I'm trying to get excited about it, 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:55.520 but I just I've been burned too many times by 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:58.280 Thursday Night games, and so I'm just wondering maybe Thursday's 0:15:58.320 --> 0:15:59.720 just a curse day for football. 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:03.240 Well, okay, Amazon spent a lot of money, and if 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:05.040 you spend a lot of money, then all of a sudden, 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:06.800 the NFL goes, all right, we're going to give you 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:10.600 some good games. ESPN spend even more money to get 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:13.440 a better schedule for Monday Night Football, and then they 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:15.600 went out and improved the booth by bringing in Joe 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:19.080 and Troy. That's what the NFL wants. I mean, the 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:23.000 NFL gave Sunday Night Football the best schedule because you 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:27.440 had Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth. That's it. They knew 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:30.000 that that was going to be the best presentation of 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:33.680 all the football games, Sunday Night Football, and it has 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:38.520 been for decades now. Thursday Night Amazon, you're spending big money. 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:40.280 You want to keep them happy, you give them a 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.600 better schedule. My point is, it doesn't matter who's playing. 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:46.240 I still think it's difficult to play a game on 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:49.560 Sunday and play a game on Thursday, and ask somebody 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:51.680 to play a game a divisional game and you're on 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:56.920 the road. It's just the odds of having a good game, 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:59.040 clean game. How many flags were there? They were like 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:02.200 twelve in the first got to the point where I 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:06.359 laughed when there wasn't a flag. I'm like, what no 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:10.280 flag on the plane? Even Al Michaels is exasperated, and 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:15.520 I get it. It's tough watching that, but it's like 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:18.960 varying degrees of penalties where you go, I gotta call 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:22.360 that one, or can we just let that go? It's 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:25.840 in in the NBA, they'd let that go. That'd be like, Okay, 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:28.840 we're gonna let you play a little bit here. Watching 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:32.320 last night, it was just it was slowing down. A 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:35.600 guy was boring. It really was. It was boring. We'll 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:38.040 take a break here. Got some football coming up tonight, 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:42.800 by the way, Virginia Tech and Miami Washington and Rutgers 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:46.760 cam Wartime, Yeah, cam Ward coming out party, little Heisman 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:49.280 action there. Let me take a break back after this. 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:52.560 Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:55.960 the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio 0:17:56.080 --> 0:18:00.240 dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:06.160 listen live a meat Friday part of my responsibilities aside 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:09.800 from preparing meat Friday quality control, I went out and 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:15.880 tried the Chimmy Tourist Stakes. Oh boy, and awesome. Awesome. 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:19.600 I didn't try the funeral potatoes yet, they weren't done, 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:24.520 but those Chimmy Tourist Stakes awesome. Sunday night match up 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:27.720 between Josh Allen and the Bills, Lamar Jackson and the 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:31.600 Ravens Sunday at seven Eastern on NBC and Peacock More 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:35.080 phone calls coming up. Andy Staples, our good buddy, covers 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:39.800 college football for on three Sports. He has recently attended 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:44.840 the Miami Florida game Texas Michigan, Alabama Wisconsin. Andy joins 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:48.400 iss on the program for some reason. Now I'm excited 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:52.720 about Fresno State and UNLV. What do you think there? Andy? 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:56.840 I wonder how many people knew this game was happening, 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.040 knew what time it was happening to what channel it 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.320 was going to be on before you and these quarterback 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:04.280 decided to dip out in the middle of the week. 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:07.000 This week, as his three and oh team prepares for 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:10.479 its conference opener, Dan, It's one of the strangest things 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:12.800 I've ever seen. We kind of knew something like this 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:17.080 was going to happen eventually. Still when it came, is like, whoa, 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:18.680 what he's done? That's it? 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:23.439 Okay, But how did we get here? With a player 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:27.840 Leaves holy Cross, he says he's promised one hundred thousand 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:31.720 dollars by an assistant coach. There's no paper trail. You're 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:35.120 not supposed to entice a recruit with money if you're 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:37.679 on the coaching staff the collection. No you can now, 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:42.400 oh you can, okay. So he said that he didn't 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:47.000 entice him with money, So I like, how do you 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:49.920 prove any of this? You don't just press. 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:52.880 That's the craziest part. And so one of the things 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:55.280 when when all these nil deals blow up, When when 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:58.080 there's a bad NIL deal that blows up, you can 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:00.920 usually find blame on every side. You can usually find 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:04.159 a lot of stupidity everywhere. And in this particular case, 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:07.040 so if you have an assistant coach promising X dollars, 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:10.280 the family needs to understand. But more importantly, the agent 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:13.720 representing the family, who works for a big agency by 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.639 the way, needs to understand, well, the coach is not 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:18.840 exactly authorized to do that, because he's not the one 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:21.520 who'd be paying it. The collective is who's paying it. 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:24.960 So if that dollar figure is thrown out there, the 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:27.760 first call you should make is to the collective to say, hey, 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:31.760 is this money here? Is this accurate? Because because if 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:33.879 it is, we have a lot to talk about. But 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:37.440 they didn't do that. And like you heard the agent's 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:41.480 boss say, well, he wasn't allowed to sign a contract 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:46.080 with the collective before he enrolled. Okay, apparently the entire 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:49.560 agency missed the giant federal case earlier this year that 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:53.040 got the NIL rules scrapped, where yeah, you can sign 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:56.040 a contract with a collective before you enroll. So they 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:59.200 absolutely could have signed a contract. They didn't start negotiating 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:02.520 until August though. And what's interesting about this, though, is 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:06.879 given you and LV situation where they're three and zero, 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:10.280 they've beaten two Big twelve teams, they have Syracuse next week, 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:13.800 they could easily win the Mountain West and be a 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:17.160 playoff team if they do it. Did all this well, 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:20.159 if it's that important to you, you can come up 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:21.560 with the money. And in fact, I think there was 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:24.320 a casino owner who did pledge the money if they 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:29.480 needed to do it, and they decided not to, which 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:32.080