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Speaker 2: We'll stop by in about twenty minutes from now. Scott
Speaker 2: Van Pelt SportsCenter anchor, Monday Night Countdown host, golf host.
Speaker 2: He's there on the call for ESPN's coverage of the
Speaker 2: PGA Championship Round two starting at noon Eastern Van Pas
Speaker 2: Good to talk to you. What's the atmosphere like there
Speaker 2: outside of Philadelphia.
Speaker 3: Well, I please, if I may, from my heart, happy
Speaker 3: birthday to you. My only gift is my presence. I
Speaker 3: don't know that that's much of a president, but thank
Speaker 3: you and happy birthday from Philly. It is carnage out here, man.
Speaker 3: I am shocked. It is so much more difficult than
Speaker 3: we thought it would be. It's much windier than I
Speaker 3: think anyone projected. The whole locations are tough. Guys are
Speaker 3: backing up great. Then it's the sports fans in the
Speaker 3: Philadelphia area are phenomenal. They're coming out and I think
Speaker 3: throughout the weekend it'll only get more crowded and more voluminists.
Speaker 3: But right now it is a struggle for the best
Speaker 3: in the world.
Speaker 2: Give me your dream match up on Sunday. What would
Speaker 2: you hope to see?
Speaker 3: I mean, when Scotty's in the mix, I think he's
Speaker 3: the He's the the yardstick at the moment, and anyone
Speaker 3: that from that zip code. I mean, it's hard to
Speaker 3: stay rory now, just because he's so far out of it.
Speaker 3: After yesterday, although if he shoots a couple under, he's
Speaker 3: still in the mix. But I mean, look, Scotty Rory
Speaker 3: would be fun just because we've really never seen it
Speaker 3: dan at this point. And that's the thing about golf,
Speaker 3: you know, for years we tried to manufacture, Man, how
Speaker 3: cool would it be of Tiger and Phil? Well, there's
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty six guys out here and there's
Speaker 3: four days of your life and it's all got a funnel, correctly,
Speaker 3: But Scotty against any world class player would be fun
Speaker 3: just because Scotty's been so consistently brilliant.
Speaker 2: Do you think or what has to happen for us
Speaker 2: to root for Scotty to see his greatness the way
Speaker 2: we did Tiger?
Speaker 3: Totally different people, right, I mean, it's it's not Lebron
Speaker 3: and Jordan because those are different eras, and I guess look,
Speaker 3: Tiger and Scotty are different areas as well. But Tiger
Speaker 3: made people feel and there was another electricity to him.
Speaker 3: There is a completely different feeling with Scotty. He's not emotionless,
Speaker 3: but he doesn't outwardly show it a lot. And so
Speaker 3: I think that the respect for Scotty's greatness. I don't
Speaker 3: know how you could withhold it at this point, but
Speaker 3: I don't know that he plays in a way that
Speaker 3: moves people to feel passionately about man. I can't wait
Speaker 3: to watch it. I thought Paul McGinley of The Golf
Speaker 3: Channel did an awesome job last night of describing Scotty's
Speaker 3: first round about the technical brilliance of it. Well, he
Speaker 3: shot sixty seven, and he just thought his way around
Speaker 3: the golf course.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: Tiger felt like he forever had that one shot right
Speaker 3: Dan that would just make you jump up out of
Speaker 3: your seat, And I guess Sheffler doesn't do that quite
Speaker 3: as much. But I would just say that really comparing
Speaker 3: anyone to Tiger is kind of a fool's errand because
Speaker 3: he's singular, you know, he's the only one of him
Speaker 3: that were likely to ever see in our life.
Speaker 2: Scheffler is like Pete Sampras in tennis.
Speaker 3: Perfectly said, you know, perfectly said, and and you know
Speaker 3: Pete was an all time great. But I mean, did
Speaker 3: he move people in the same way that maybe a
Speaker 3: Federer did. Probably not.
Speaker 2: I think Deshambo if he had Scheffler's success and was
Speaker 2: playing on tour Scheffler moves the needle or Deshambo moves
Speaker 2: the needle. From the standpoint of you're like, oh wow,
Speaker 2: and he's got personality attached to that as well. I
Speaker 2: just don't know if we're going to see that anytime,
Speaker 2: certainly not seeing it this weekend there. But like his
Speaker 2: future on the PGA tour is what in your opinion for.
Speaker 3: De Shambo, I don't know. I mean, the suggestion that
Speaker 3: he could go be a YouTube player and then just
Speaker 3: show up and play in the majors, I mean, I
Speaker 3: don't That's just not a realistic thought. You have to
Speaker 3: you have to be competitive, competitively sharp to come out
Speaker 3: here and play the hardest courses in the world against
Speaker 3: the best player the world. And you know your reference
Speaker 3: to Shambeau. We saw I think the height of his
Speaker 3: popularity when he won at Pinehurst and that was an
Speaker 3: immensely popular victory and he hit a shot of a
Speaker 3: lifetime to beat Rory there, and you know that that
Speaker 3: to me was sort of his peak moment of power.
Speaker 3: And you could do that, be an influencer, be a
Speaker 3: YouTube player, and I'm sure you could monetize that and
Speaker 3: make a pile, but ultimately you you make your bones
Speaker 3: in this game and your legend in this game being
Speaker 3: a major championship player. And you know, he got off
Speaker 3: to a horrific start, didn't play well with the Masters,
Speaker 3: and missed the cut there with a with a triple
Speaker 3: on the last on Fridays. So you know, I think
Speaker 3: for your popularity to continue to ascend, or at least
Speaker 3: maintain its place, you need to be part of the
Speaker 3: weekend story in the biggest tournaments of the year.
Speaker 2: I also wonder and watching the coverage yesterday with these greens,
Speaker 2: that there are fast greens and then there are greens
Speaker 2: that are punishing, and these are you know, we've played Augusta,
Speaker 2: and yes, those are challenging greens. They're nothing like some
Speaker 2: of these other courses around the world. If they really
Speaker 2: want to dress it up and say you're going to
Speaker 2: be three under and win, Augusta doesn't want the Masters,
Speaker 2: doesn't want three under. They want birdies and eagles and roars.
Speaker 2: This the US Open, like they want to humbley a
Speaker 2: little bit here.
Speaker 3: Yes, but I'm shocked, I mean legitimately shocked, because for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Speaker 3: I wander around out here with these you know, the
Speaker 3: best in the world, which is it's so much fun,
Speaker 3: right you get to see them and how they're going
Speaker 3: to play this golf course. And they had driver wedge
Speaker 3: into these greens and I thought, yeah, the greens are
Speaker 3: really really challenging, and they could put the whole locations
Speaker 3: in spots that would make it very difficult. But I
Speaker 3: thought low was was in the offing, and so did
Speaker 3: everybody else. All the players, all the folks you talk
Speaker 3: to on the range are like, yeah, this is mid
Speaker 3: teens or you know, literally like fifteen under is going
Speaker 3: to win. Well is blown. And they have put the
Speaker 3: whole location through two days in some spots that are
Speaker 3: incredibly difficult. So it feels more like, Look, the weather
Speaker 3: feels like the Open Championship, the leaderboard looks like a
Speaker 3: US Open, and normally in the PGA you see him
Speaker 3: go low. Now the weather could change, it could get warmer,
Speaker 3: and they could give him some more accessible whole locations,
Speaker 3: and I would think the PGA of America would because
Speaker 3: I don't think they want to see, you know, the
Speaker 3: best in the world that are really not able to
Speaker 3: hit shots that are rewarded. That's I don't know who
Speaker 3: wants to see that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I always get that when somebody says, boy, I like
Speaker 2: to see them struggle like we do, and I go,
Speaker 2: I don't like watching you play, So why would I
Speaker 2: want to see the great golfers play like that?
Speaker 3: Right? And the thing about that, Dan, you know the
Speaker 3: six or the ten or the eighteen handicapper that wants
Speaker 3: to sit down, pop a beer on the couch. And
Speaker 3: I want to see Scottie Scheffler shoot seventy eight. Buddy,
Speaker 3: if you played out here, you'd shoot one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 3: I promise you.
Speaker 2: Thanks for making some time. I know that you guys
Speaker 2: are going to start at noon Eastern. Thank you again, Scotty,
Speaker 2: have a good weekend.
Speaker 3: Sincerely, man, happy birthday. Can continue success in everything. You're
Speaker 3: an inspiration. I mean you've been in inspiration for years.
Speaker 3: If you'll let me say something kind to you, I
Speaker 3: just appreciate your friendship and your kindness all these years, Dan,
Speaker 3: you're the best.
Speaker 2: All those years I was trying to pry you away
Speaker 2: from the Golf channel, I kept saying, Scotty, you're wasting
Speaker 2: your talents there. Come on and you go, I got
Speaker 2: a great gig here, and you did. But we're grateful
Speaker 2: that you did come to the Mothership, my man. Thank
Speaker 2: you all right, buddy at Scott van Pelt, he's on
Speaker 2: the call for the Mothership the PGA Championship Round two
Speaker 2: beginning at noon Eastern. Yeah, I would. I was trying
Speaker 2: to recruit him. I was trying to recruit him. He
Speaker 2: was like, I got a great deal, man, good gig.
Speaker 2: I'm in Orlando, I'm covering golf. Get a tan, don't shovel.
Speaker 2: So I said, yeah, you're right about all that, but man,
Speaker 2: we'd love to have you. Yes.
Speaker 6: I remember when you set it up for Van Pelt
Speaker 6: to come up for a tryout or a test show,
Speaker 6: and you said to somebody I don't know, don't let
Speaker 6: him out of the building.
Speaker 2: I know back then, I was recruiting for the Mothership.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh, now this is a birthday gift. Here.
Speaker 2: Pandora joins us from Nevada. Hi, Panandora, Hi dam happy birthday.
Speaker 2: Well thank you. Do you have a present for me?
Speaker 4: I just wanted to sing you happy birthday.
Speaker 2: That's a present that's far more than Dylan and Paulie
Speaker 2: gave me.
Speaker 5: Here we go, Oh, happy birthday too, and it's me
Speaker 5: try day to who hasn't data than.
Speaker 2: Jenny, Happy.
Speaker 4: Day, Joe and many.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Pandora, thank you. See now that's a gift.
Speaker 2: She didn't have to buy me anything. She just had
Speaker 2: to give me something from the heart. That's all Dylan.
Speaker 7: So just singing happy birthday counts.
Speaker 2: I could do that. No, No, you already missed your opportunity.
Speaker 2: She gave me that gift like you can't give me
Speaker 2: a humidor like Todd did. You can't give me a
Speaker 2: T shirt like Marmon did. Book of Maine Golf Course
Speaker 2: and the Book of Maine Golf Courses at Todd gave
Speaker 2: me the paperback. I couldn't spring for the hardcover Todd.
Speaker 2: I couldn't find the hardcover. Scott in Oregon, Hi Scott,
Speaker 2: what's on your mind today?
Speaker 8: Hey?
Speaker 5: What up?
Speaker 4: VP? First time? Long time?
Speaker 2: Five ten nice? Hey?
Speaker 4: Just wanted to give you a birthday shout out, and
Speaker 4: also too, it is my birthday. That's one of the
Speaker 4: things ever since I've joined the show, it's been one
Speaker 4: of my claims of fame with my buddy Cameron Henshaw,
Speaker 4: so shout out to him. Three years ago. My wife, actually,
Speaker 4: I told her all I want for my birthday is
Speaker 4: to call into the DP show. She has no knowledge
Speaker 4: of the show really whatsoever except for having it in
Speaker 4: the background, and I had a feeling what you might do.
Speaker 4: But she was on hold in her class. She's a teacher,
Speaker 4: and you ended up hanging up on her because you're like, hey, hey, hey, Jessica, Hey,
Speaker 4: today is all about me. And then it was click
Speaker 4: and it was the funniest. It was the funniest thing ever.
Speaker 4: And I still have that episode saved. So anyways, happy birthday.
Speaker 4: And I don't know if you want to share a
Speaker 4: rectech grill with me for my birthday since we share.
Speaker 2: It, but no, I'm giving away a rectech grill coming
Speaker 2: up here, Scott. But thank you for the phone call.
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Speaker 6: DP?
Speaker 9: You know, I got to give you the biggest birthday
Speaker 9: shout out. Thank you for everything you do. Brother. Also
Speaker 9: to another shout out to the DAN next. So I
Speaker 9: got a good question for you for your birthday. We've
Speaker 9: been talking a lot of basketball, a lot of football.
Speaker 9: Is there amount rushmore for baseball?
Speaker 2: Not recently that I've brought up on the show. I
Speaker 2: think it's tricky with the steroids. I think it's tricky
Speaker 2: where you put bonds in there? Can you put bonds
Speaker 2: in there? Feels like you might leave out a generation
Speaker 2: of players, you know, trying to sift through and say, yeah,
Speaker 2: he was clean, he wasn't he was clean and then
Speaker 2: he wasn't. Yeah, Pauline, let's say you went with Babe Ruth.
Speaker 6: That's obvious. Jackie Robinson impact obvious. Then you're down to two,
Speaker 6: and I think that's the hard two to fill. Ted
Speaker 6: Williams and Joe Demaju and Willie Mays and Hank Aaron Well.
Speaker 2: Ted Williams is the greatest hitter of all time when
Speaker 2: you factor in three years in his prime he was
Speaker 2: at war and he was a fighter pilot. He wasn't,
Speaker 2: you know, going laundry or mail room or meet and greets.
Speaker 2: These were three prime years. I think he had five
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty one home runs. Let's say you just go,
Speaker 2: we're going to attach thirty five home runs and put
Speaker 2: it on his total easily. He was, and he wasn't fast.
Speaker 2: He was just I think the greatest hitter now. Pete
Speaker 2: Rose has the hits Ted Williams had. He had, he
Speaker 2: had average, and we took away three of his years
Speaker 2: he was in service.
Speaker 10: Yes, Mark, That's the crazy thing about baseball is that
Speaker 10: Ted Williams is regarded as the greatest hitter ever, but
Speaker 10: he doesn't have any World Series titles. And that's not
Speaker 10: important where you're talking about the greatest baseball players ever.
Speaker 10: We don't know how many World Series Baby Ruth has
Speaker 10: no bonds. Whoever, Well, we know bonds because he didn't
Speaker 10: win any. But no one's holding that against him.
Speaker 2: No, No, they pulled the steroids against him. Correct, But fascinating,
Speaker 2: fascinating player when you look at what he was to
Speaker 2: what he became because he was like a whippet. He
Speaker 2: looked like he was one hundred and fifty pounds, but
Speaker 2: he was stealing bases, you know, all around great player, Yeah, PAULI.
Speaker 6: If you look at the baseball Mount Rushmore, the likely candidates,
Speaker 6: it's almost all guys before nineteen seventy five for various reasons.
Speaker 6: Shohil Tani has a chance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think if he has four or five more
Speaker 2: of these kind of years. Aaron Judge, if he has
Speaker 2: four of these kind of years, maybe you gotta win though, Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 10: Aaron Judge needs to win World Series and be on
Speaker 10: the Mount rushmore of the Yankees. Yes, because when you're
Speaker 10: playing for the Yankees, world series matter. We just talked
Speaker 10: about World Series not mattering, but if if you play
Speaker 10: for the Yankees, that matters.
Speaker 2: No, that's a great point of all the franchises. If
Speaker 2: you're playing for the Yankees, I want to know how
Speaker 2: many championships you have, yesh, Dylan, But I.
Speaker 7: Feel like in the same van with the Yankees, it's
Speaker 7: like they're so rooted in their Yankee history. It's like
Speaker 7: Aaron Judge could do a lot and no, he's not
Speaker 7: gonna pass like Mickey Mantle and the Yankees.
Speaker 2: You know, well, Luke Garrett, I mean the Yankees just
Speaker 2: have I mean they built their own park out there,
Speaker 2: a park within a park, just so they can honor
Speaker 2: all their great players. Anything else, Dylan.
Speaker 7: Uh, I was actually gonna say something about Ted Williams.
Speaker 7: I mean he had a season where he at four
Speaker 7: oh six and he.
Speaker 2: Didn't sit out, he played the doubleheader. Yeah, he could
Speaker 2: have sat down the second half the second game in
Speaker 2: the doubleheader to Dipple four hundred yes, and he said, no,
Speaker 2: I'm playing Teddy ballgame. Yes he was, Uh, all right,
Speaker 2: let me take a break. Rich Eisen said, to join
Speaker 2: us here in the man cave. Take a break back after.
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Speaker 2: What a day, It's a Meet Friday. It's my birthday.
Speaker 2: I can feel the love from the Danettes. They all
Speaker 2: got me nice gifts. Paulie and Dylan came through with
Speaker 2: an autograph picture. You're welcome, a handmade card man, Do
Speaker 2: I feel special? And then Rich Eisen's here he is
Speaker 2: of course NFL Game Day Morning and the Rich Eisen
Speaker 2: Show on the Mothership. And now you have this was
Speaker 2: Sports Center limited podcast series that you're doing interviews with
Speaker 2: Sports Center anchors including me. That's right later today, later today.
Speaker 2: What exactly is the platform here? What do we just reminiscing?
Speaker 2: That's it?
Speaker 12: You and I have done this before, Yes we have,
Speaker 12: and it's just gonna it's a fun series that it's
Speaker 12: mostly in the can, but you're the missing piece. Wait,
Speaker 12: how many of these interviews have you done? I've done
Speaker 12: five already, Okay, and you are You're the lead. You're
Speaker 12: the one who's We're coming out of the shoot on
Speaker 12: June fifth on Disney Plus and the ESPN app and
Speaker 12: my YouTube channel and wherever you get your podcasts, because
Speaker 12: you could watch it and listen to it, okay, And
Speaker 12: you know, I mean the nostalgia of when we did
Speaker 12: what we did, you know, or you were doing before
Speaker 12: I even arrived, you know, with Ko and Berman and
Speaker 12: you know Bob Lee and Robin and Charlie. I mean,
Speaker 12: I can go down the whole lane here? Who are
Speaker 12: the other anchors that you've in. I interviewed Chris Berman
Speaker 12: at the Super Bowl and Chris Fowler then stopped off
Speaker 12: in my LA show studio after coming back from the
Speaker 12: Australian Open, so I interviewed him there, Mike Greenberg in
Speaker 12: New York, and then just this past week I interviewed
Speaker 12: Linda Cone and Kilby, Lord.
Speaker 2: Kilby, Oh, Craig Kilbourne, Craig Gill, killer.
Speaker 12: Killer, he told some, he told some, He spun some
Speaker 12: yards Dan, including I'm just but it's just fun, like
Speaker 12: I provide the memories that I have. Obviously, you know,
Speaker 12: you and I go way back, and you know and
Speaker 12: how I first arrived there and and some fun stories
Speaker 12: about that. And Craig got he He and I overlapped
Speaker 12: by about three months, and I'll never forget. He took
Speaker 12: me to dinner Yesked because we were doing a two
Speaker 12: am sports center. He said, Spark, do you want to
Speaker 12: go to dinner? And I'm like sure. We hopped in
Speaker 12: his car and he took me through the Kenny Rogers
Speaker 12: Rolling Roaster Drive three yea in Southington. Beautiful downtown Southington
Speaker 12: connect That wasn't Plainville. That was South it was Southington,
Speaker 12: and I'll never forget him. After we ordered our chicken,
Speaker 12: he turns to me and he proceeds to tell me
Speaker 12: that he's got another job offer and should he take it?
Speaker 12: And I'm like, again, I'm twenty six. I just showed
Speaker 12: up from Redding, California. This might have been like my
Speaker 12: tenth sports center I ever did. I'm like, why is
Speaker 12: he even asking me this? And he described the Daily
Speaker 12: Show to me and I'm like, sounds great. Man, like,
Speaker 12: let's go do it if that's what make you happy. Honestly,
Speaker 12: I didn't know him from Adam, so to recount that
Speaker 12: story with him now you know about thirty years later,
Speaker 12: not about it is thirty years later. That's what the
Speaker 12: show's all about.
Speaker 2: You know. Have you reached out to Keith Oberman?
Speaker 12: I have, indeed, and I try to interview him when
Speaker 12: I was in New York recently, but schedules just didn't align.
Speaker 12: But he'll he's up for doing it.
Speaker 2: Who else?
Speaker 12: But that's this is just for the first season. I'm
Speaker 12: just doing six just to get this ball rolling. But
Speaker 12: I told you this, and this is you know, no surprise.
Speaker 12: I mean, you're the only person I'd want to be
Speaker 12: the first guest of this because of what you've meant
Speaker 12: to me and what you did mean to me back then,
Speaker 12: what you mean to so many people, and you know,
Speaker 12: and I appreciate.
Speaker 2: You doing it. The older I get, the better I
Speaker 2: was though, Rich, is that what it is? I think so,
Speaker 2: because you know when you're doing it. When we did
Speaker 2: Sports Center, yeah, you're just trying to survive because it's
Speaker 2: really really competitive. And I told people that. I tell
Speaker 2: people that it was cutthroat. Oh yeah, like it wasn't. Hey,
Speaker 2: we're we're rooting for you. You had people who were circling,
Speaker 2: you know, the Sports Center set, waiting for somebody to
Speaker 2: keel over so they could sit in the chair.
Speaker 12: Well, and this is something that I plan on talking
Speaker 12: with you later. I mean, when when Ko left and
Speaker 12: your seat was open, it was on. I mean it
Speaker 12: was way on for everybody wanted that seat next to
Speaker 12: you in.
Speaker 2: The worst way, at least I know I did. And
Speaker 2: that was a bad time. It's a bad time for
Speaker 2: me because I didn't want to pick Keith's successor. I
Speaker 2: wanted management to do it because I wanted them to
Speaker 2: be on the hook for that person to sit in
Speaker 2: Keith's chair, which that's you know, almost irreplaceable, you know,
Speaker 2: trying to get somebody to sit in there. And so
Speaker 2: I turned it around to management. I said, tell me
Speaker 2: who you want to watch at night? And I mean,
Speaker 2: I had my thoughts, but I was worried. Were we
Speaker 2: going to try to recreate Keith and Dan? And I
Speaker 2: didn't want to do that because it wasn't fair whoever
Speaker 2: sat there. And then I thought, well, Linda Cone could
Speaker 2: sit in and then there won't be any comparison. And
Speaker 2: then they came back to me. I'm on a scouting
Speaker 2: trip with my son. I have no contact with anybody.
Speaker 2: They say they're going to make the decision over the
Speaker 2: next two days, and all of a sudden, I go
Speaker 2: to a convenience store to get a six pack of
Speaker 2: beer because I couldn't survive the scouting trip without having
Speaker 2: even though they frowned upon that you could lose a
Speaker 2: merit badge or something like that. And I see my phone.
Speaker 2: It's got a message and it says we're gonna go
Speaker 2: with Kenny Maine. And I called my boss and I said,
Speaker 2: I got your message, okay, And that was it.
Speaker 12: Well, because we all assumed that you would be giving
Speaker 12: two cents and and that had to be you know,
Speaker 12: I had to be tough for you. But I mean, again,
Speaker 12: this is the sort of stuff that this, this show,
Speaker 12: This Was Sports Center, is all about. Like diving into
Speaker 12: this behind the scenes. Sure, no, I can to the airport.
Speaker 12: Can we just clip and save? But yeah, like and
Speaker 12: and I think fans can't get enough of it, you know,
Speaker 12: and when you came back and did your show with
Speaker 12: with with Keith, you know a few years ago when
Speaker 12: you did your show with Kilbourne, because we here and
Speaker 12: I talked about that, that was the last time he
Speaker 12: did Sports Center.
Speaker 2: Fans can think it enough of it, Dan, They really can't.
Speaker 12: I mean I did it twice in the last year,
Speaker 12: and the reaction that I got was overwhelming and obviously
Speaker 12: humbling and awesome.
Speaker 2: It's just a different time. And that's why I'm just
Speaker 2: diving straight into the nostalgia. He's rich Izon joining us
Speaker 2: here in the man Cave and the podcast This Was
Speaker 2: Sports Center taking off. This is Sports Center campaign June
Speaker 2: fifth on Disney Plus ESPN, the Rich Iisen Show as
Speaker 2: well the schedule release. Yes, sir, when did it become.
Speaker 12: When we were starting NFL Network, and we're like, what
Speaker 12: are we going to do in between games being played?
Speaker 12: And you know, and how are we going to follow
Speaker 12: through on the branding that we put out there. The
Speaker 12: very first NFL Network Super Bowl commercial was in two
Speaker 12: thousand and four after we launched in three in the
Speaker 12: middle of the Patriots and Panthers Super Bowl, Jake Dilone
Speaker 12: versus Tom Brady and it was right was that Jane
Speaker 12: Jackson Sir, which mean and And this commercial was amazing
Speaker 12: because they we got the rights to UH Tomorrow from
Speaker 12: Annie and we had Jerry Jones and Bill Parcells and
Speaker 12: Warren Sapp and uh Terrell Owens and all the stars
Speaker 12: of the day singing tomorrow because the day after the
Speaker 12: Super Bowl is when NFL Network you should still tune
Speaker 12: in because everybody's O and O, all thirty two teams
Speaker 12: are active and we're going to be all over it.
Speaker 12: That was the branding of the commercial and I'll never
Speaker 12: forget it. I found a TV in the in the
Speaker 12: stadium in a in a suite I snuck in so
Speaker 12: I could see. The commercial was very big for me
Speaker 12: and everybody that worked there. And then UH it was
Speaker 12: in the commercial pod right after halftime. Nobody saw it.
Speaker 12: Not a soul saw the commercial. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 12: it was the most rewound TiVo moment in the history
Speaker 12: of that DVR. So nobody saw the commercial. But we
Speaker 12: had to come We had to follow through on it, though, Dan.
Speaker 12: We had to start coming up with things that we
Speaker 12: had to cover, and one of the first things we
Speaker 12: came up with was what if we eventized the schedule
Speaker 12: being released, Like what if we're celebrating paperwork.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, which is basically what it is.
Speaker 2: And the same thing with the draft, that is it.
Speaker 12: I mean like you could do the NFL Draft like
Speaker 12: your fantasy league and do it in two hours and
Speaker 12: be done with it.
Speaker 2: But it's a show.
Speaker 12: And now it's something massive where it's like the super
Speaker 12: Bowl for every team's social media group and they've been
Speaker 12: better out of them and great at it that these
Speaker 12: are these are fun videos to watch and now it's
Speaker 12: a big thing. And now you know, the NFL times
Speaker 12: it with their ten different partners and all the upfronts
Speaker 12: and everybody announces a game here, in a game there,
Speaker 12: and I think it just it just gives the NFL
Speaker 12: a big splash in the middle of may right now.
Speaker 2: Is there such a thing as too much football? I
Speaker 2: don't think so, do you? I think we will. I
Speaker 2: think we're inching closer to are you going to watch
Speaker 2: all the games? Well?
Speaker 12: I think you're You're asking a lot of people when
Speaker 12: you know, Thanksgiving is one thing. Hey, we're all sitting around,
Speaker 12: we don't want to talk to each other. Let's watch
Speaker 12: a game. Or you've spoken to each other enough, Let's
Speaker 12: watch a game. And there's three of them. Now it's
Speaker 12: a Wednesday and a Friday with the three in the middle.
Speaker 12: If I'm the NBA, I'm like, you're looking at that
Speaker 12: Christmas Day triple header?
Speaker 2: Oh? They just those and the NFL.
Speaker 12: You could see the NFL is deciding to just keep
Speaker 12: on raising the ante on.
Speaker 2: The holiday special. Yeah.
Speaker 12: I mean the Thanksgiving games used to be, you know,
Speaker 12: two games, and it didn't matter who the Lions or
Speaker 12: the Cowboys were playing. Now, you know, last year they
Speaker 12: put the Chiefs in Dallas. Fifty seven million viewers for
Speaker 12: that one, and the NFL is like, all right, let's
Speaker 12: let's see if they you know, this year last year
Speaker 12: can hold this year's beer. And they decide to put
Speaker 12: the Eagles in Dallas after the Bears and the Lions,
Speaker 12: before the Chiefs and the Bills, and that's after the
Speaker 12: Rams and the Packers kick it off on a Wednesday,
Speaker 12: and the Steelers and the Broncos have at it on
Speaker 12: a Friday. So that's asking a lot of people to
Speaker 12: watch all five.
Speaker 2: Well, I think we're doing a disservice to Sunday afternoon schedules,
Speaker 2: Like I worry about that where we're kind of kicking
Speaker 2: games to the curb, you know, like Sunday at one
Speaker 2: and Sunday at four thirty. Sunday night is still going
Speaker 2: to be special with NBC.
Speaker 12: Okay, So you're lighting a candle for Scott Hansen, is
Speaker 12: that what you're saying?
Speaker 2: Right? Yeah, Scott, he's got one game, has one game.
Speaker 2: It's a red game. It's a red game. It's not
Speaker 2: even a zone anymore.
Speaker 12: All right, Well, they're on the twenty three yard line
Speaker 12: and it's for sure.
Speaker 2: What happens to the NFL network?
Speaker 12: Oh what do you mean now? Well, the games are now,
Speaker 12: they're still on NFL Network. There's seven of them, five International,
Speaker 12: two others.
Speaker 2: Nothing changes though with the marriage.
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 12: I have been told Sunday game day morning that I'm
Speaker 12: hosting is the same, and so is the combine.
Speaker 2: In the draft.
Speaker 12: We're gonna We're still gonna have the combine. We're gonna
Speaker 12: have the draft the rest of it. I mean, we
Speaker 12: didn't have a schedule release show for the first time
Speaker 12: in years. I don't I don't know if that's an
Speaker 12: indication other than just you know.
Speaker 2: But do you want to be introduced as ESPN's Richison
Speaker 2: or the NFL Networks rich Ion. How about you know
Speaker 2: your your good friend here on your birthday?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 2: I know, but I have to say I don't know
Speaker 2: NFL Networks Richison, who also works for the Mother show, The.
Speaker 12: Rich Isison Shows, Richisen. Just still because you could say
Speaker 12: my name twice in the same sentence. Okay, product placement there,
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, it's all about the branding. But no, it
Speaker 12: doesn't matter to me. But it's pretty wild to me.
Speaker 2: It's fuey. I'll tell this story to you.
Speaker 12: Uh when I went back and I did Sports Center
Speaker 12: in Bristol, or did I tell you this one?
Speaker 2: I called you the Today whatever.
Speaker 12: I'll tell it here because you know, twenty three years ago,
Speaker 12: I got handed a cardboard box.
Speaker 2: And I was remains, Yes, sir, I was escorted.
Speaker 12: Man, I went in and then I was escorted, and
Speaker 12: then Pete mcconvall and Gus Ramsey.
Speaker 2: You know you're was I there when you got escorted?
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 12: Twenty three years ago, but I was there and they
Speaker 12: helped me clear out my apartment after I got escorted.
Speaker 12: So I had a cardboard box. And when I went
Speaker 12: back this time, I wore my show gear. I wore
Speaker 12: a Rich Eisen Show like pullover. And I did that
Speaker 12: on purpose because I'm like.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 12: I'm gonna wear my show gear because I'm a partner
Speaker 12: of ESPN. I'm not just an employee. I'm a partner,
Speaker 12: Damn straight, Okay, and I'm a partner. I'm gonna walk through.
Speaker 2: That same door with my show gear that I walked
Speaker 2: out of with my cardboard box. I was escorted out.
Speaker 12: And not only could I not find that place when
Speaker 12: I first got there, because it's a totally different spot.
Speaker 2: I finally found it and it's now a brick wall.
Speaker 12: So I'm like, Okay, I'm so glad I spent all
Speaker 12: that energy on that, but it's just totally changed.
Speaker 2: It's totally changed.
Speaker 12: But it's wild that, you know, I have an ESPN
Speaker 12: ID now and I am an ESPN employee again working
Speaker 12: for the spot that I left to go start. It's
Speaker 12: you can't make it up, you know, it's wild.
Speaker 2: When I went back after ten years and I was
Speaker 2: on with Van Pelt and I showed up at the
Speaker 2: security desk with PAULI yeah, and I didn't want to
Speaker 2: go back. I still had bad feelings there and some
Speaker 2: things that happened behind the scenes. But Scott said, hey, look,
Speaker 2: I'm launching this show. Will you please come on. I
Speaker 2: said yes, I'll do it for you. I get there
Speaker 2: at the security desk and the guy goes, uh, I
Speaker 2: d please. I said, I I helped build this place,
Speaker 2: and then he goes, I still need an so he
Speaker 2: gave me a Hello my name is Dan. So he
Speaker 2: gave me a name tag, which I wore on the
Speaker 2: show with Van Pelt. I'm like, all right, and then
Speaker 2: I remember the producer Mike McQuaid goes, hey, can you
Speaker 2: take that off? I go no, no q, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: wear this. I you know, they don't. This guy didn't care,
Speaker 2: didn't know, didn't matter.
Speaker 6: Yes, Pauli and Rich On the way out, Dan lit
Speaker 6: up the tires and did a patch.
Speaker 2: Are you serious? Yeah, I had my truck boy, and
Speaker 2: then I'm like, all right for you and I burned
Speaker 2: my burned. Yeah.
Speaker 12: It's so funny because when I did the Sports Center
Speaker 12: a few weeks ago, I showed up early and they
Speaker 12: added they have this terrific team there for special pieces
Speaker 12: and features involving Sports Center, and we shot a you
Speaker 12: know of this was Sports Center kind of mock up
Speaker 12: old school commercial based on my return and one of
Speaker 12: the segments or parts of the piece was I walk
Speaker 12: up and my card doesn't work. And so the guy
Speaker 12: we had this guy in New York accident who was
Speaker 12: really working behind the security desk screen, can I see
Speaker 12: some ID? And I held up a picture of me
Speaker 12: and Stuart from like thirty years ago, and the guy goes, really,
Speaker 12: that's the sort of thing you're talking about, Like, you know,
Speaker 12: I've been here, you know, like you did with Keith
Speaker 12: and all of the colleagues you had in the day,
Speaker 12: created something incredibly special, man that it still resonates today.
Speaker 12: It's part of your fan base as you sit in
Speaker 12: that chair, and it's all so part of the reason why,
Speaker 12: you know, Van Pelt says, I want you to please
Speaker 12: comm and why I'm physically here and appreciate your doing
Speaker 12: this on your birthday because you know you deserve it.
Speaker 2: I know you don't like people talking about you, but
Speaker 2: it's the truth, man, right you the man? Well take
Speaker 2: a break. It's a meet Friday if you want to
Speaker 2: join us out.
Speaker 12: I have already seen what's going down out there, and
Speaker 12: I would be offended if you asked me to leave,
Speaker 12: all right.
Speaker 2: To be honest, You'll be able to see this episode
Speaker 2: June fifth on Disney Plus ESPN The Rich Eisen Show
Speaker 2: YouTube channel wherever you get your podcast. Rich Eisen of
Speaker 2: NFL Network, ESPN, ESPN, NFL Slash take a break back
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Speaker 2: FSR to listen live. A lot of fun today, A
Speaker 2: lot of fun. My thanks to Rich Eisen who came in.
Speaker 2: Also Scott van Pell who joined us from the PGA Championship,
Speaker 2: and Albert Breer Monday Morning Quarterback. Also you as well.
Speaker 2: Thank you last call for phone calls any other surprises here.
Speaker 6: Paul Dan right on cue I'd like to call the
Speaker 6: big German to come in. Oh, Eric Jones, Okay, the
Speaker 6: big German I think is on ce ready to roll
Speaker 6: in air.
Speaker 2: Eric Jones and me.
Speaker 6: Ah A lovely, lovely cake.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I got a birthday cake. It says have
Speaker 2: happy happy birthday, DP. I like to smash Todd with
Speaker 2: this your day. I would. It's dense that that is
Speaker 2: a heavy, heavy cake. Thank you, thank you. I guess
Speaker 2: we have a meet Friday hang out, have a couple
Speaker 2: of beers, and then I'm gonna sit down do an
Speaker 2: interview with the Rich Eisen for ESPN. Yes, Dylan, did
Speaker 2: you think you'd be getting two kinds of cake today? Dan, Well,
Speaker 2: one's a meat cake and I've never seen that before.
Speaker 2: Chef Greg rectech dot com. Who damn, that's a that's
Speaker 2: a masterpiece what he created there. You're not supposed to
Speaker 2: bring your food out here, Dylan. You're not supposed to
Speaker 2: eat it when you're on the show.
Speaker 7: I'm looking at it. Yeah, it is. This is quite
Speaker 7: the assembly of things here. It's basically a slice, so
Speaker 7: he cut me a piece. It's a slice of pizza
Speaker 7: with brisket wrapped in pursudo with pulled pork wrapped in
Speaker 7: pursuda with mashed potatoes with a chicken leg and burn
Speaker 7: ends on top.
Speaker 6: Yes, Bully, I got a topic for you I've been
Speaker 6: thinking about today.
Speaker 3: If I told you.
Speaker 6: When you were twenty two working in Dayton FMDJ, trying
Speaker 6: to get a job in sports, that you turned seventy
Speaker 6: on national TV and radio, still doing what you love,
Speaker 6: you would have said what.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I would have, I've thought that
Speaker 2: I could hang around that long. But I got great
Speaker 2: advice when I first started, and it's advice I give
Speaker 2: students at my broadcasting school. Have a long shelf life,
Speaker 2: don't be gimmicky, make sure you do it, you do
Speaker 2: it the right way, because then you're always employable. If
Speaker 2: you get to the point where you do a shtick,
Speaker 2: then people get tired of that and your shelf life
Speaker 2: is greatly diminished. But I had somebody, a mentor, who said,
Speaker 2: do it the right way, you'll always have a job.
Speaker 2: Hasn't always been hot take or anything crazy. It's more
Speaker 2: of just I want to be consistent. Now it's open
Speaker 2: to interpretation. Consistently great, consistently good, But that's always the goal.
Speaker 2: And you know I've been fortunate to be around great people.
Speaker 2: I think that above everything else, when you surround yourself
Speaker 2: with great people, it's it's hard not to get better.
Speaker 2: And I think that I've been fortunate to be able
Speaker 2: to do that. Enough talk about me, but thank you
Speaker 2: again for today and the opportunity to do this because you're,
Speaker 2: you know, part of the reason why I want to
Speaker 2: continue to do this for the next two years. And
Speaker 2: then I'll get tired of you, and then that's when
Speaker 2: I have to retire in two years. Todd, You're not
Speaker 2: gonna get tired of us. No, I'm already talking.
Speaker 6: I think.
Speaker 2: I just say that, but deep down, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of way did I What did I say to you today?
Speaker 2: Would you rather if I said I didn't like you,
Speaker 2: but you were funnier, or I said that I loved
Speaker 2: you and you are like you are right now, not
Speaker 2: fun And I chose being funnier and maybe you like Yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe someday that'll happen, Todd. I think we'll get there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: who knows when. Eventually we'll work towards it. As I
Speaker 2: always say, I often say I love you, I don't
Speaker 2: always like you. That's fair, that's very well said. Uh,
Speaker 2: that's very accurate. I guess I want to thank Rectech
Speaker 2: again for giving away the Rectech grill on my birthday.
Speaker 2: Or Tim in Washington, Good morning, Tim, What do you
Speaker 2: have for me?
Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 2: Dan?
Speaker 8: How are you happy birthday?
Speaker 2: Thank you? Dan.
Speaker 8: You're talking about Normandy earlier and hiring a historian. Follow
Speaker 8: back on that, if I may. My girlfriend's grandfather died
Speaker 8: in Strasbourg two days before the war ended. We went
Speaker 8: back there for the seventy fifth anniversary and hired a
Speaker 8: historian and did the Omaha Beach and he got the
Speaker 8: morning letters from her, his true her from her grandfather's troop,
Speaker 8: and he took us trekking through where his troop trek
Speaker 8: through during the war. And the one final note is
Speaker 8: you talked about the cemeteries and the American Cemetery, all
Speaker 8: the crosses. You could look down any angle and it
Speaker 8: was perfectly straight and up on a hill, and the
Speaker 8: son and all that. And then you went to the
Speaker 8: German cemetery.
Speaker 2: And it was Yeah, the stone that they used is
Speaker 2: dark in the German cemetery World War two? Todd, would
Speaker 2: you learn today? Staying with that theme, the best birthday
Speaker 2: gift you may have ever received? Was from your wife
Speaker 2: that trip to Normandy with a local toy guy, Dylan.
Speaker 2: Did you learn anything?
Speaker 13: Todd got you the paperback edition of The Guide to
Speaker 13: Me and God didn't have a hardcover version. Marvin, you
Speaker 13: recruited Van Pelt the ESPN. Happy birthday, buddy, Thank you,
Speaker 13: buddy Todd. What did I learn today?
Speaker 2: SVP? Agree with your Scotti cheherds like the Pete Sampras
Speaker 2: of golf. Not a lot of personality to go with
Speaker 2: the greatness. Again, thank you, Thank you to the audience.
Speaker 2: Get this opportunity to continue to do something I truly love.
Speaker 2: And the dan Nets and the back room guys as well,
Speaker 2: have yourself a great weekend, a safe weekend, and we
Speaker 2: look forward to talking to you on Monday.