Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Calls with Dean Blandino, a production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Hey what's up? Dean Blandino. Welcome to
Speaker 1: another episode of Good Calls again doing the zoom thing.
Speaker 1: Travis is in his backyard. I gotta see your backyard.
Speaker 1: I've been to your place, but I've never seen your backyard.
Speaker 1: Your backyard looks nice. Yeah, You're welcome to come over
Speaker 1: anytime once you know, you feel comfortable and I feel comfortable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm good with that. Come on over, You're fine, all right?
Speaker 1: Coming over? And Joe with the background, that's her most
Speaker 1: appear I missed the almost appeared Joe. I'm dreaming of
Speaker 1: better days. Let's let's get back there quite soon. Hopefully,
Speaker 1: hopefully we'll be back there soon. Let's get into let's
Speaker 1: get into some stuff that's going around obviously around the
Speaker 1: country with the NFL. Um practice facilities are starting open
Speaker 1: for small groups. What what what's going on there? Travis
Speaker 1: with just opening some of these facilities. Uh, And then
Speaker 1: I know we've got a couple of things. Troy Vincent,
Speaker 1: Senior vice president or executive vice president of Football Operations,
Speaker 1: talking about the NFL planning to play in front of
Speaker 1: full full stadiums until medical community tells us otherwise. That
Speaker 1: just feels like a stretch right now. It seems like
Speaker 1: a stretch. But as of what we're going through right now,
Speaker 1: you've got some teams Cowboys, Falcons, Texans, Cardinals, chiefs of
Speaker 1: colts all opening up their facilities. Um, not for players yet,
Speaker 1: for for team personnel. Um, they're opening up, getting things
Speaker 1: back going as normal. Um. Players who are going through
Speaker 1: rehab can be in the facilities right now. Um, But
Speaker 1: we're not going to see any players at the facilities
Speaker 1: starting to work out for a long ways away from
Speaker 1: that still, But I think things opening up is a
Speaker 1: step in the right direction. Not full stadiums yet, that's
Speaker 1: for sure. Yeah, that's the full stadiums just seems like
Speaker 1: it just seems like a stretch. You see some of
Speaker 1: the sports that are starting up in Obviously football is
Speaker 1: still a couple of months away, but it's getting closer.
Speaker 1: But the sports that are happening, it's, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: you're not seeing full stadiums obviously, you're seeing social distancing
Speaker 1: and guidelines in place and and no crowds and and
Speaker 1: things like that. So I think what I think, maybe
Speaker 1: what's behind that though it's just you know, an optimistic
Speaker 1: point of view, like you know, we have to prepare,
Speaker 1: is if they're going to be full stadiums. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: Is that what he meant by you think? And I
Speaker 1: appreciate the optimism and and again the medical community, it's
Speaker 1: gonna come down to public health and safety. It's it's
Speaker 1: going to and I think you just write there, we're
Speaker 1: gonna air on the side of caution. We've been doing
Speaker 1: that throughout this whole this whole deal, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we're still It was interesting, you know, going to place
Speaker 1: over the weekend, and we'll talk a little bit more
Speaker 1: about that later, but being in Arizona over the weekend,
Speaker 1: it's feels like a different world in Arizona right out
Speaker 1: and compared to California, going into a going into a
Speaker 1: like a mini mart at a gas station, and you
Speaker 1: wouldn't have thought anything was different prior to you know,
Speaker 1: it was like pre Corona environment. Don't have the flexi
Speaker 1: glass up. But other than that, it's pretty normal, pretty
Speaker 1: big normal with that. No, there was no Plexi glass. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the AMPM Plexi glass. No. When I when I went
Speaker 1: into that, I went into the minimart at the gas station.
Speaker 1: There was no the other one right there. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the guy behind the counter, yeah, people in front of
Speaker 1: me like it was not it was. It was as
Speaker 1: if Corona had not happened. And it's an interesting dynamic
Speaker 1: there because you're right on the border of Arizona and California.
Speaker 1: So you crossed one street and everyone's wearing masks there
Speaker 1: and you go to the other side of the street
Speaker 1: and it's just free for all. It's pretty wild. It's
Speaker 1: definitely different. And obviously each state has its own guidelines,
Speaker 1: and I think, you know, here in California. Then I
Speaker 1: get back to California and I, you know, I go
Speaker 1: to right Aid and I got my mask on and
Speaker 1: I'm in there and practicing the whole social distancing thing.
Speaker 1: And uh so again still always away. But I just
Speaker 1: I can't envision Week one, you know, September, that Thursday
Speaker 1: night there being a packed house. I just I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't envision that happening. But I do think we're
Speaker 1: gonna play, and I do think we'll have well left
Speaker 1: football on time. At least. NFL football colleges are going
Speaker 1: to be, like I said, a bigger challenge with getting
Speaker 1: because you gotta get kids back on campus. You gotta
Speaker 1: get them reacclimated. And then and then you have to
Speaker 1: uh you know, then you have to get them get
Speaker 1: them going. Uh they call it acclimatization. I guess is
Speaker 1: the is the term. Reclimatization is the term that they're using.
Speaker 1: So you know, really they're really utilizing this pandemic to
Speaker 1: really create some really big words. I appreciate that. Oh
Speaker 1: this there's a whole vocabulary there is we have created,
Speaker 1: Like I now, I don't think and I think we're
Speaker 1: always gonna see part of this you're seeing. I mean
Speaker 1: I watched an Amazon commercial and the guy they were
Speaker 1: talking to, the Amazon delivery guy, and you know, kudos
Speaker 1: to those people, not just essential workers and everybody else
Speaker 1: delivery people, garbage people, everybody, sanitation workers. But the whole
Speaker 1: commercial is just him with a mask and and and
Speaker 1: it's just you know, you stop at McDonald's and or
Speaker 1: you go to a drive through and they've got masks
Speaker 1: and gloves and and it is. It has definitely created
Speaker 1: a different and different environment, um with what's going on. Well,
Speaker 1: part of me, even like you know, years down the road,
Speaker 1: if they're still wearing masks and gloves at restaurants like,
Speaker 1: let's find they're handling food. It's probably safer and better. Anyways. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem if if, if the new
Speaker 1: normal is I gotta put on a mask when I
Speaker 1: go to the grocery store. Okay, I'm fine, Like I can.
Speaker 1: I can deal with that. That's not a big deal.
Speaker 1: I don't think if you told me I had to
Speaker 1: wear a mask in a restaurant and sit down and
Speaker 1: have a meal with friends or family and wear a
Speaker 1: mask and then and they, you know, shoot my food. Whatever,
Speaker 1: I won't go to restaurants. I'm just it's it's not
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go to a bar wearing a mask. Um,
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna go to a bar or a place
Speaker 1: you know, to to wear a mask, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: rob the place. Like it's not, don't you know. I
Speaker 1: don't know why. I don't know how you guys feel,
Speaker 1: but I'm not going to a restaurant with a mask.
Speaker 1: So you told me I can't go without a mask,
Speaker 1: I'm just not gonna go. I'm not gonna be I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna be an ass. And like these people that
Speaker 1: you see in these viral videos where They've never been
Speaker 1: told no before in their life, and they can't imagine
Speaker 1: somebody telling them not to sit in that boots because
Speaker 1: of social distancing. Deal with it, abide by the guidelines.
Speaker 1: But if the guideline is wearing mask in a restaurant,
Speaker 1: I'm not going. Yeah, I'm probably not gonna go. I'm
Speaker 1: all from take out at this point with a toddler,
Speaker 1: I don't want to go anywhere near a restaurant. Bellow
Speaker 1: Girl thrones food everywhere. It's just uncomfortable. Imagine getting a
Speaker 1: table for ten people. You know you're right, and you
Speaker 1: in your eight kids, like, I don't know where do
Speaker 1: you go? Who got in first? That were so? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Troy Vincent spoke to Peter King a couple of interesting quotes,
Speaker 1: a couple of on a couple of fronts. Travis, what
Speaker 1: was that all about? Yeah? The first one during a
Speaker 1: conference call to talk to Tom, Peter King said, the
Speaker 1: rooming world changes. Um sounded like he said, the facts
Speaker 1: are broken. We have a you know the facts star,
Speaker 1: we have a broken system. But um, he says, do
Speaker 1: I take it personal? Yes? I do. It's my responsibility
Speaker 1: as a professional athlete, as a man of color, as
Speaker 1: someone who bleeds the National Football League leads football. It's
Speaker 1: part of our responsibility to continue what we believe is
Speaker 1: right for our game. I'm one of the team members
Speaker 1: in this relay race. So he's clearly, clearly upset about it.
Speaker 1: And and and you know, Troy, you worked with him really closely. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've known Troy for a long time and you know,
Speaker 1: consider him a good friend. And this is I know,
Speaker 1: he he really cares about this. You look at his
Speaker 1: you know, having played in the league. You know, was
Speaker 1: was the head of the NFL p A at one
Speaker 1: point than than an executive with the league first and
Speaker 1: player engagement and and now with football operations and uh
Speaker 1: and this is and being African American, this is a
Speaker 1: big deal for him and for him to say the
Speaker 1: system is broken, obviously, no one has been closer to
Speaker 1: it than him. And you have to look at the
Speaker 1: numbers and look at look at the minority coaching hires
Speaker 1: or front office hires in in in the history of
Speaker 1: the NFL. And you don't, you know, you have it's
Speaker 1: it is broken. And so what is the solution? I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the solution is. That's why they're
Speaker 1: trying different things and trying to have conversations. Draft compensation,
Speaker 1: you know, that was something they talked about if you
Speaker 1: hire a minority head coach and do you know you
Speaker 1: move up draft picks, that becomes a competitive thing. And
Speaker 1: also that got a lot of backlash, you know, you
Speaker 1: know African American coaches and and former coaches. Marvel Lewis
Speaker 1: came out and said that that was you know that
Speaker 1: that wasn't something that that he would have been in
Speaker 1: favor of. So it is broken. What what are the solutions?
Speaker 1: You know, more minority owners, but that's not how many
Speaker 1: people have the money in their bank account to buy
Speaker 1: an NFL to maybe had a Rod and j Lo.
Speaker 1: They tried to buy the Mets recently and that that
Speaker 1: fell through because they didn't have the money. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: this is it's an exclusive group right of people that
Speaker 1: can afford NFL franchises, and NFL franchises continue to where
Speaker 1: there isn't and and I don't think there's an NFL
Speaker 1: franchise um that is value less than a billion dollars.
Speaker 1: If there is, it's just under a billion dollars. And
Speaker 1: when you talk about the franchises like the Cowboys that
Speaker 1: are what five billion something ridiculous and so so again
Speaker 1: very exclusive group. UM, it is a it's it's not
Speaker 1: a h. There are not a lot of minority owners
Speaker 1: across all of sports. And so what you know, how
Speaker 1: do you fix that? UM? People talk about litigation. You know,
Speaker 1: do do you do you have to sue? UM? This
Speaker 1: is you know, that is the courts, right, that's the
Speaker 1: great utilizer in this country at times. And it's not
Speaker 1: it's just not an easy topic. I I I don't
Speaker 1: know what the answer is. I think it's just more networking.
Speaker 1: It's more you know, continuing the conversation and uh, and
Speaker 1: just trying to get you know, trying to get opportunities
Speaker 1: for minority coaches and if it's fellowships, if it's internships,
Speaker 1: if it's things like that that can help them get
Speaker 1: to a point. Because right now, when you look at
Speaker 1: the head coaches in the NFL, the majority I think it,
Speaker 1: UM have come from the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: So you've you've either been a quarterbacks coach or you've
Speaker 1: been an offensive coordinator. UM. So that and when you
Speaker 1: look at those positions currently now in the league, there's
Speaker 1: very few people of color in those positions and and
Speaker 1: so that's a problem. Right, So we're not doing anything
Speaker 1: to create a sustainable pipeline. Um if those positions are
Speaker 1: cotinue to be filled by white coaches and uh, and
Speaker 1: again I think that's where I think that's where Troy
Speaker 1: is coming from. My question. Those meetings are all private,
Speaker 1: and why do you believe that those discussions were made public?
Speaker 1: And why is this information out there? Like who does
Speaker 1: this benefit? Oh, well, that that that gets leaked, that
Speaker 1: that gets leaked, it's someone you know, and it it's
Speaker 1: just when when that when that type of stuff gets leaked,
Speaker 1: if somebody wants to put pressure on on the membership,
Speaker 1: on the ownership, and and so that somebody internally that
Speaker 1: is leading that information the NFL has you know, you
Speaker 1: create relationships with people in the media, people you trust
Speaker 1: and uh, and sometimes it's a benefit that there can
Speaker 1: be a benefit to leaking information if you have people
Speaker 1: that you trust in the media. So that stuff gets leaked.
Speaker 1: There's stuff that gets leaked out of that office all
Speaker 1: the time. And it's just it's just part of doing business, right,
Speaker 1: what else? And but then kind of switching gears again,
Speaker 1: Troy talked to Peter King about p I review that was.
Speaker 1: There was some really interesting comments there. Yeah, we talked
Speaker 1: about last week. Hal, you know, it's not coming back.
Speaker 1: It's a one and done type of rule. You said
Speaker 1: it all along, you said this is going to be
Speaker 1: the Duke rule as you called it, um as in
Speaker 1: basketball players going one and done. Nice, nice analogy. Thank
Speaker 1: you for explaining in tr that was yours though I
Speaker 1: wanted to know, but I appreciate you explaining it at
Speaker 1: this point. Yes. Anyway, So so he talked about the
Speaker 1: p I rule and he said, we failed. I'm first
Speaker 1: in line. I shared that with league officials. I failed.
Speaker 1: As the leader of that department. I failed. So a
Speaker 1: lot of fails. So look the bottom line hashtag fail
Speaker 1: is there we allowed to say and we said this.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you could go back before the season and
Speaker 1: we talked about it. Right, what what was the problem.
Speaker 1: The problem was creating a rule for one play and
Speaker 1: pushing it through at the league meeting. When when the
Speaker 1: coaches at the league meeting part of the two thousand
Speaker 1: nineteen season, the coaches were thirty two oh for a
Speaker 1: sky judge concept. Right, the competition committee meets, the coaches
Speaker 1: meet on Monday, um you know, or actually they meet
Speaker 1: on Sunday night, they decide thirty two oh there there
Speaker 1: for a sky Judge concept. Then Monday, the Competition Committee
Speaker 1: gets together and they end up with a p I proposal.
Speaker 1: And and so now we're we're now we're playing catch up,
Speaker 1: and we're trying to figure out all the unintended consequences
Speaker 1: of creating that role. And we got to see it
Speaker 1: play out in prime time every week, and the ups
Speaker 1: and downs and the changing standards, and it was just
Speaker 1: never applied consistently. And it's a subjective call. And so
Speaker 1: you start with something that's subjective, that's gonna be hard
Speaker 1: to be consistent, and then you're all over the place
Speaker 1: during the during the season. Yeah, of course it was
Speaker 1: a failure. And uh and this this isn't you know,
Speaker 1: I don't want this to be an I told you so.
Speaker 1: But the bottom line is we've always the competition. To me,
Speaker 1: that's why you crawl before you run, you know. To
Speaker 1: change it took years before the NFL implemented a two
Speaker 1: point try. It took years before the NFL move they
Speaker 1: tried from the two to the fifteen for the kid.
Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't happen, you know, overnight and that
Speaker 1: rule happened. You know, there was a lot of impetus
Speaker 1: and a lot of push leading up to that league meeting,
Speaker 1: but it happened overnight. Why do you think they didn't
Speaker 1: do any kind of trials with it like they do
Speaker 1: with everything else and the priests And here's the deal, okay,
Speaker 1: And this will be a perfect segue to the next
Speaker 1: thing we're gonna talk about. They went into that lead
Speaker 1: meeting from a pr perspective saying, we have to do something.
Speaker 1: We have to win the press conference in March. And
Speaker 1: when you're trying to win a press conference in March,
Speaker 1: that's not the best strategy to success in September, October, November, December,
Speaker 1: and January. Okay, they're trying to win. And that's what
Speaker 1: I worry a little bit about. We talk about the
Speaker 1: rules changes coming up, right, your favorite rule proposal? Right,
Speaker 1: the on site alternative now is starting to get some life.
Speaker 1: It's starting to get back into the news. Right. You
Speaker 1: keep texting, You're like, oh, the onsite Alternatives back, it's
Speaker 1: back here it is, you know, it's so right? Why
Speaker 1: is it back? Okay, let's think about what's happening in
Speaker 1: the NFL right now. Okay, you've got p I review
Speaker 1: dies of brutal and ugly death after one year. Okay,
Speaker 1: you've got a minority coaching system, hiring system that is broken.
Speaker 1: So you need a positive you need something. You need
Speaker 1: to win. You need something to say, hey, look we're
Speaker 1: being innovative. We're going in and we're gonna make this exciting.
Speaker 1: The on side kick is becoming increasingly hard to execute. Um,
Speaker 1: we need another opportunity for teams to come back create
Speaker 1: exciting finishes. And so again, we're trying to get a win.
Speaker 1: It's no longer March because of Corona. Now we're trying
Speaker 1: to get a win in May. And I just in
Speaker 1: I worry about the the unintended consequences of of This
Speaker 1: is a proposal that Philadelphia put forth, and I and
Speaker 1: I and I know that coaching staff. Well, I know
Speaker 1: the people involved in this proposal, and I've worked with them,
Speaker 1: and I've seen the language, and I've looked at the language,
Speaker 1: and I've gave I've given them recommendations. But the bottom
Speaker 1: line is, now, when you start to think about okay,
Speaker 1: fourth and fifteen from the right, then okay, what happens
Speaker 1: with the clock? What happens if there's a foul, does
Speaker 1: the offense get to replay that down and try it again?
Speaker 1: Or is it a one and done? What happens if
Speaker 1: there was a penalty on the on the touchdown that
Speaker 1: that the team wants to take on the kickoff? Does
Speaker 1: now fourth and fifteen from the twenty five? Does that
Speaker 1: penalty move you up or move you back? Does that
Speaker 1: make it a fourth and longer? Right? Think about this?
Speaker 1: Think I thought about that, right, you know, it's all
Speaker 1: of these things. Does the clock run because on a kickoff,
Speaker 1: the clock doesn't run until the ball is legally touched.
Speaker 1: So on this play, are you going to run the
Speaker 1: clock and then if they get a first down you
Speaker 1: keep the clock running. We'll think about at the end
Speaker 1: of the game. If I've got three seconds, Okay, I've
Speaker 1: I just I just scored the go ahead touchdown with
Speaker 1: three seconds on the on the clock. Now I take
Speaker 1: my onside alternative rather than risk the kickoff, I take
Speaker 1: my onside alternative. I get the snap, I roll out
Speaker 1: to my right and throw the ball aside as I
Speaker 1: can out of bounds and run the three seconds off
Speaker 1: the clock. So now it creates you create that opportunity
Speaker 1: there there's so many things that go into this that
Speaker 1: you have to vet out, and you have to continue
Speaker 1: to vet out. Now I'm not saying this is this
Speaker 1: is an overnight deal because last year Lebron Goes proposed
Speaker 1: something like this, and so you just you just have
Speaker 1: to continue to think about these potential you know, all
Speaker 1: the potential what if before you you vote something in
Speaker 1: and what I worry about about this because it's unique
Speaker 1: because of Corona. Right, You're gonna have a league meeting
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have votes taking place with one person
Speaker 1: from every club, and you're not going to have the
Speaker 1: same conversation. You're not gonna have the same dialogue that
Speaker 1: you have in a normal league meeting, all right, because
Speaker 1: in a normal league meeting, you have two members from
Speaker 1: each club during those those voting sessions, and they're typically
Speaker 1: somebody from ownership and the head coach for the most
Speaker 1: part when it's a football deal. And you'll get and
Speaker 1: I've been in the I've been in that room, and
Speaker 1: I've sat there in the front of the room and
Speaker 1: I've watched it all play out, and they'll rich McKay
Speaker 1: that the head of the competition committee will explain the
Speaker 1: rule proposal. UM I, as the head of officiating, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about some different things that that we felt were
Speaker 1: relevant and then that would be open up for discussion.
Speaker 1: And you know, Mike Tomlin could get up and speak,
Speaker 1: or or John Harbor could get up or speak, or
Speaker 1: Steven Jones could get up and speak. That's not gonna
Speaker 1: happen on this call, right, this is gonna be for
Speaker 1: the most part, it's either going to be the actual
Speaker 1: owner or the team president and they're not going to
Speaker 1: have that discussion. The head coach is the one that's
Speaker 1: the well you know that's gonna understand it the most.
Speaker 1: And uh, and so I just worry about that that
Speaker 1: we could end up with a rule change, UM and
Speaker 1: and again be dealing with the unintended consequences going forward
Speaker 1: because we need something positive because pr review and mine
Speaker 1: already hiring are are what they are. And you think,
Speaker 1: do you think they'll skip that trial again and instead
Speaker 1: of trying it in the preseason going straight in, we're
Speaker 1: doing this rule for a you know, this this vote,
Speaker 1: the onsete alternative. I would I would hope they put
Speaker 1: it in for one year. You know, they put it
Speaker 1: up for a vote for one year and then uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and it'll you know, my gut tells me, Look,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I know there was some momentum coming in.
Speaker 1: I know the league office. There's people at the League
Speaker 1: office that want this to pass. So when that's the case,
Speaker 1: you usually get some legs. Um My gut tells me,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think it's gonna get twenty four,
Speaker 1: but it could be closed. Remember you need twenty four
Speaker 1: yes votes out of thirty two to pass. So well,
Speaker 1: let me throw a Adam, and I want credit for
Speaker 1: it if it happens. And it's gonna sound ridiculous, but
Speaker 1: if you really think about it's a great idea implemented
Speaker 1: in E gaming because those kids find every way to
Speaker 1: manipulate anything in those games. If there's a way to
Speaker 1: manipulate the clock or a flag or whatever, they'll find
Speaker 1: it out. So let's work with Madden. Let's work with
Speaker 1: e A and work with Madden to implement these things
Speaker 1: and then we can see all the unintended consequences play
Speaker 1: out on Madden. I can't tell you're being face you're serious,
Speaker 1: because I'm dead serious. Like it would work because now
Speaker 1: in the with the E sports, the games count like
Speaker 1: it matters. People are betting thousands of dollars on this stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I'm all for it. Let's go, let's do it.
Speaker 1: That can be the training ground. Um, I think we
Speaker 1: should try player safety rules in Madden. Then let's see.
Speaker 1: You know what what player safety we don't. We don't
Speaker 1: want those we don't want those shops to be unnecessary risk.
Speaker 1: We wanted, remember from virtual concussions in virtual a c
Speaker 1: l s. So I agree. My favorite my favorite video
Speaker 1: game injury was was it was NHL three. I think
Speaker 1: I think they might have taken the blood out in
Speaker 1: ninety four, but ninety three when you could hit the
Speaker 1: guy and then he'd fall on the ground and the
Speaker 1: blood would just pool on the ice. Remember they did
Speaker 1: Swingers Swingers, Yeah, yeah, that was that the insane that
Speaker 1: That was a great scene in Swingers too, He's like,
Speaker 1: look at look at little little weights. I believed here
Speaker 1: for super fandom of ninety nine. So let's let's move
Speaker 1: on to some on the rule proposals. Yeah, so here
Speaker 1: here's one. Look, they're always right, we gotta get a
Speaker 1: player's safety rule change in this is this is probably
Speaker 1: the least impactful players safety rule change in a hundred years.
Speaker 1: This this is they're giving the kick returner defensive the
Speaker 1: last pandemic. Sorry, right, yeah, exactly so So yeah, during
Speaker 1: the Spanish flu, the forward pass was was outlooked. But
Speaker 1: so they're giving a kick returner. So I'm a punt returner, right,
Speaker 1: and the rules said that I was protected under the
Speaker 1: defensive player rule. I couldn't be forcibly contact in the
Speaker 1: head or neck area, and you couldn't lower your head
Speaker 1: and initiate forcible contact with the helmet to any part
Speaker 1: of my body. I was protected until I actually caught
Speaker 1: the ball. A receiver who's trying to catch a pass
Speaker 1: is protected until they catch the ball and have the
Speaker 1: ball long enough to protect themselves. So it's a little
Speaker 1: bit longer. So we're basically making the receiver the protection
Speaker 1: the receiver gets and giving that extending that to the
Speaker 1: kick returner. Well guess what. That's how it's been officiated
Speaker 1: for as long as I can remember, Right, for as
Speaker 1: long as I can remember. If a kick returner caught
Speaker 1: the ball with two feet and then got blasted in
Speaker 1: the hair neck area, we had three flags down, all right,
Speaker 1: because that was a hit on a on a defenseless player.
Speaker 1: So we're just making how the rule has been applied.
Speaker 1: We're making the rule book basically be in ligne with that,
Speaker 1: so so not a significant change, but we'll create that
Speaker 1: player's safety. We're adding the player's safety. Still, we can
Speaker 1: get the onside alternative and we can get the kick
Speaker 1: returner added to defenseless. We've got some positives that we
Speaker 1: can then we can put together, put that press release out,
Speaker 1: and we can win that press conference. So you know,
Speaker 1: because look, sky Judge isn't happening, right, that's not gonna
Speaker 1: be You might get a preseason experiment. There's two types, right,
Speaker 1: booth umpire um senior technical technical advisor to the referee,
Speaker 1: the star um will probably have a preseason experiment. But
Speaker 1: guess what, when the game's count and there's a big
Speaker 1: past inference call missed or there's something else that a
Speaker 1: sky judge or a star or a booth umpire could
Speaker 1: help fix, the rules are gonna say that, no, that's
Speaker 1: not allowed, and and and so again we're going into
Speaker 1: the season two thousand and eighteen style, and we all
Speaker 1: know what happened in two thousand eighteen in the NFC
Speaker 1: Championship game. We ended up with pr review. It's like
Speaker 1: we're going full circle. And sometimes I worry that that,
Speaker 1: you know, we sit there and we said we failed,
Speaker 1: we felt we failed, and then we do the same
Speaker 1: ship and somebody's got to step up and figure it out.
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't know, it's not me, but whatever,
Speaker 1: UM get a little fired up there. So Travis got
Speaker 1: excited about Jason Whitlock. Now is I didn't see it, Travis,
Speaker 1: and I guess this was this on Speak for yourself
Speaker 1: talk about and Travis was like, oh my god, in
Speaker 1: it Travis voice that whenever Travis sends me a text message,
Speaker 1: I do the guy am I, Oh my god, this
Speaker 1: is so cool. Jason Whitlock had a had a rule proposal,
Speaker 1: you know that would be so Travis, explain what Jason's
Speaker 1: idea was, or what you believe Jason was Jason's ide Yeah,
Speaker 1: So what I thought Jason's idea was inside two minutes,
Speaker 1: if the offense didn't gain a yard, the clock would stop.
Speaker 1: Then you know, this would I mean that victory O'Neil
Speaker 1: downs would essentially be uh no, you you couldn't run
Speaker 1: out the clock with it. And then you said you
Speaker 1: shot it down and I think it's a shooting it down.
Speaker 1: Shooting it down. Okay, yeah, so it wasn't. But that's
Speaker 1: but that's that was the Arena League for how many
Speaker 1: years the Arena League was in existence. So it's not
Speaker 1: you're not you know, you're not. It's it's not slight spread.
Speaker 1: It's just it's most of these most of these rules
Speaker 1: have been tried in all these other leagues and then
Speaker 1: the league's disappeared. People like me who didn't watch the
Speaker 1: Arena Football League, I'm sorry, you know, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't remember that. But but you who is the rules guru.
Speaker 1: That's why I come to you. These things give us
Speaker 1: stuff to talk about. But I'm glad that they're having
Speaker 1: the discussion and they're thinking of things to to kind
Speaker 1: of fix. You know, that was something we talked about
Speaker 1: at the XFL. We went through, um we ultimately landed
Speaker 1: on the five second hold on place, you know, inside
Speaker 1: of two minutes, But we talked about that, you know,
Speaker 1: the Arena League where you had to you know, if
Speaker 1: you don't gain yardage, the clock is going to stop,
Speaker 1: and so it incentivizes teams to attempt to gain yardage.
Speaker 1: It eliminates the kneel down altogether, because there's just there's
Speaker 1: no there's no benefit to it. Um And and clock
Speaker 1: rules are interesting. You you you want to the whole
Speaker 1: goal When you look at clock rules, right, it's too
Speaker 1: conserve plays in the critical juncture of the game. Because
Speaker 1: if you can conserve plays, then you get you give
Speaker 1: the offense that's behind the opportunity more plays, needs more
Speaker 1: opportunities to come back, and more opportunities to come back
Speaker 1: means closer games, more exciting finishes, and that's what that's
Speaker 1: what we would want. And so that's why I look
Speaker 1: the onside alternative. I'm not opposed to the concept. I
Speaker 1: just think it's gimmicky. Um, I think it comes with
Speaker 1: a whole host of problems. And look, this isn't when
Speaker 1: you talk about players safety, nobody knows, nobody that there's
Speaker 1: no They have not vetted out all the data, the
Speaker 1: injury data to say that a fourth and fifteen play
Speaker 1: is more is more safe than an onside kick. Nobody knows.
Speaker 1: So it's just you can't sit there and say this
Speaker 1: is a player's safety change and and look at the
Speaker 1: onside kick. The chances there. Look when you when your
Speaker 1: teams behind and they're lining up for an onside kick.
Speaker 1: Are you not? Do you not get excited? Does that?
Speaker 1: Is that not a play that that excites you? Hey?
Speaker 1: I know it's it's like it's like Joe back in
Speaker 1: the day when he saw the girl that was way
Speaker 1: out of his league, and you see Joe like go
Speaker 1: like go for it, like go up to her. We
Speaker 1: knew the chance was was minor, very little excited, but
Speaker 1: we're excited for him, right, We're excited. He's got a
Speaker 1: less less than ten percent chance to make this happen,
Speaker 1: but we're excited. And then when the ten percent hits,
Speaker 1: it's the it's the greatest thing ever, Like it's it's amazing.
Speaker 1: But you know that's that's just me that that's just
Speaker 1: just how I think. It's like going to Vegas and
Speaker 1: think you're gonna win at the casino or something. Right,
Speaker 1: Just stick with teams analogy. Thanks exactly. Well, I was
Speaker 1: just trying to say to the next segment, where about Vegas, Vegas,
Speaker 1: Vegas helping him back up? Yes, there you go, we'll
Speaker 1: do that after break all right, next on Good Calls, Vegas, Vegas, Travis,
Speaker 1: we'll talk to us all about since city. What's coming
Speaker 1: up next. All right, we're back on good calls. Before
Speaker 1: the break, Travis was all excited. He was telling us
Speaker 1: about Vegas and Vegas is open up. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you know this about Travis, but he like he
Speaker 1: goes to Vegas like once every I don't know, six
Speaker 1: years goes. But when he goes, it's like balls out,
Speaker 1: like there's no stopping him. So we we started nicknaming
Speaker 1: him Travis Vegas Travels. Okay, VT, so VT, tell us
Speaker 1: what's happening with Vegas. Some of that's true. Some of
Speaker 1: that's from a past life about Vegas. Have think the
Speaker 1: last time I arrow was with my wife, we sayed
Speaker 1: at the South Point. You guys probably never even heard
Speaker 1: of that. It's a family establishment only anyway anyway, travels
Speaker 1: like remember remember my trip to Vegas. Honey at the
Speaker 1: south Point and the buffet, how those those they had
Speaker 1: acoustic music. But the at the pool it was so nice,
Speaker 1: dollar beers, it was lovely. The Jimmy Buffett Band, the
Speaker 1: Tribute band. Oh my honey, we gotta go back. That
Speaker 1: sounds nice. It sounds really ten You're anniversary, We'll go back.
Speaker 1: Joe is over there, get throwing up Rhino and alright, alright,
Speaker 1: so what is Vegas? And then let's get to the match. Anyways,
Speaker 1: boxing is are going to resume in June. They've they've
Speaker 1: set some dates for June nine, but no fans, No fans. Yeah,
Speaker 1: five fights at the MGM, No fans. So they're they're
Speaker 1: taking the h the same approach as the UFC, moving
Speaker 1: forward getting So does that mean the UFC, the UFC
Speaker 1: can't be far behind back in Vegas? I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: sure they like, um, you know, having the control right there,
Speaker 1: have been having it in Orlando, but god, I would
Speaker 1: hope they'd want to get back to Vegas as soon
Speaker 1: as possible. Yeah, you think so. I mean that the
Speaker 1: fights were fine in Florida at this point. It's like
Speaker 1: if no fans can jackson that's right, not Orlando, Jacksonville. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if if no fans can be there, what what difference
Speaker 1: does it make? Yeah? I guess you're right. Um, But Okay,
Speaker 1: the match, the Brady Michelson Manning Woods match, I watched.
Speaker 1: I didn't watching the beginning. I forgot it was on
Speaker 1: actually I was with the kids. And then I watched
Speaker 1: the last I guess like the last four or five holes. Um,
Speaker 1: it was fine. I guess I missed all like the
Speaker 1: funny stuff because the last four or five holes they
Speaker 1: were just playing golf like they were. I like the
Speaker 1: pace they were going quickly draining. Um, you know, I
Speaker 1: thought it was like I thought it was well produced.
Speaker 1: Um it was interesting. I like Charles Barkley, you know,
Speaker 1: being on it though Justin Thomas was interesting as the
Speaker 1: on you know, the basically on the Corse reporter, uh,
Speaker 1: and just the interaction. But I mean it was fine.
Speaker 1: And I'm not a golf fan and it was fine.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it. And you know, they were hitting good
Speaker 1: shots like Peyton and Brady didn't. I know, I guess
Speaker 1: Brady kind of stunk it up early on. But yeah,
Speaker 1: but I guess you know, when it counted, they were
Speaker 1: they were fine, like they're they're good golfers, like they're
Speaker 1: you know, I don't. I don't golf, so I don't know,
Speaker 1: but they were. It was fine. I didn't you know,
Speaker 1: it wasn't the greatest thing, but I like people are,
Speaker 1: you know today, I feel like any any live sports
Speaker 1: um is like you remember the Eddie Murphy Remember the
Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy bit. When I think it was raw when
Speaker 1: he talked about he talked about not having like you're
Speaker 1: not having set for a while, and then it's the
Speaker 1: best sex you've ever had. And he's like if somebody
Speaker 1: throws you, He's like, if you stop and then somebody
Speaker 1: throw you a cracker, you know, like, god, damn, that's
Speaker 1: the best tack I've had. In fact, that's how we
Speaker 1: are with live sports right now. Right it's like everything is,
Speaker 1: oh my god, remember the Nicholson Brady Love Live whatever.
Speaker 1: That's why I think this last dance actually sucked and
Speaker 1: people just like it because of what's going on right now.
Speaker 1: We put that on the bed last week. The fall
Speaker 1: out though, with the last dance fall out, think about it,
Speaker 1: think about what's been happening. Pip Scottie Pippen his pissed.
Speaker 1: Horace Grant is pissed. He Scotty Barrell is pissed. All
Speaker 1: these Craig Hodges, all these former Bulls are pissed because
Speaker 1: how this this put They showed Jordan in this light.
Speaker 1: They said that oh he was so you know, he
Speaker 1: was driving like he would put these guys in their place,
Speaker 1: and these guys are like, no, people would go back
Speaker 1: at him. But they didn't show any of that stuff,
Speaker 1: the pizza getting, you know, food poison, and they're saying
Speaker 1: that's not real. You know, like this whole thing, like
Speaker 1: stop Lebron. Lebron is better than Jordan's. That's what it's
Speaker 1: driven me towards. Jordan said, everyone's gonna think he was
Speaker 1: an asshole after watching the documentary. I think only his
Speaker 1: former teammates think he's an asshole. I don't think anything
Speaker 1: differently of him, Like, yeah, it's just again, it is
Speaker 1: what it is. But you know, speaking of basketball, though,
Speaker 1: I'm just happy to report that one of my favorites,
Speaker 1: and Joe and I talked about it the week, and
Speaker 1: Patrick Ewing is out of the hospital. He did have
Speaker 1: he did have corona. He's out of the hospital. He's
Speaker 1: recovering and so hopefully, you know, everybody but special special
Speaker 1: recovery prayers to Patrick Ewing. That guy was. I still
Speaker 1: feel bad that he couldn't. Oh, they just just win one.
Speaker 1: If they win one, if if starts doesn't go to
Speaker 1: for for whatever it was in two for seventeen against
Speaker 1: the Rockets, and yeah, alright, alright, we come get back
Speaker 1: with us, get back with us. You were in a
Speaker 1: good place. Come on, Okay, what what else is going on?
Speaker 1: MLB update, Travis, Let's get let's go through the majors
Speaker 1: other than other than football will be you have the
Speaker 1: facilities are starting open up for individual workouts. So that's
Speaker 1: that's the step in the right direction. You could have
Speaker 1: all these guys back in their facilities by early June.
Speaker 1: But that's still gonna come down to that. That that's
Speaker 1: I think is still gonna be the biggest fight in
Speaker 1: terms of the revenue share, right. I think that's still
Speaker 1: the biggest hurdle obviously the health stuff. But players want
Speaker 1: their full salaries that they were guaranteed, and owners won
Speaker 1: half of the revenue, so there they have a ways
Speaker 1: to go. I feel like but the I didn't. I
Speaker 1: did see. It wasn't interesting. I saw one report. Look
Speaker 1: that you could get players if players say I don't
Speaker 1: feel comfortable and I don't play the league's they won't
Speaker 1: stop them, at least baseball won't stop them, but they're
Speaker 1: not gonna get paid. So could you imagine like Mike
Speaker 1: Trout sitting out because he doesn't feel comfortable and then
Speaker 1: not getting paid but the Angels continue to play like
Speaker 1: that would be insane? Like that, would you just have
Speaker 1: like minor league players come up and players I don't
Speaker 1: you have you have to feel the roster. I don't know,
Speaker 1: you have such a huge impact on the sports gaming world.
Speaker 1: Two Like that would just be enormous. It would be yeah,
Speaker 1: because then you think, yeah, it would it would be
Speaker 1: pretty instanct. It's betters would lose it. Betters would lose
Speaker 1: it if they're taking the season total overs or hey
Speaker 1: I got this team to win that. I mean, it
Speaker 1: would just that's kind of unintended consequences team you when
Speaker 1: you bet you take those risks, right, I mean injuries
Speaker 1: always happened with those types of things too, but we
Speaker 1: all kind of get that. But this you take, you
Speaker 1: take the season over, and then Mike, if you take
Speaker 1: the season ohe from the Angels and Mike Trout blows
Speaker 1: an a C l in in in the third week
Speaker 1: of the season, guess what that's that's we we know
Speaker 1: that as betters. But if Mike trusts, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't want to play because I'm scared I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: it flew COVID night team flew, that would really be
Speaker 1: that would that would really upset me. The thing that's
Speaker 1: great is if you bring up these minor leagu guys
Speaker 1: who maybe never got a chance because they're sitting behind
Speaker 1: Mike Trout and they're never gonna get a chance to play.
Speaker 1: Those guys are gonna come out through something that here's
Speaker 1: the Travis. Travis, that the motivational speaker. That that Jim Nelson,
Speaker 1: who's sitting who's sitting in the Angels minor league waiting
Speaker 1: minor league organization, who's been sitting behind Mike Trout, who
Speaker 1: will continue to sit behind Mike Trout until Mike Trout retires.
Speaker 1: Um is now going to get his chance and he's
Speaker 1: going to be all world. He's gonna get traded. That
Speaker 1: he's gonna get traded to another team. You think about
Speaker 1: if Drew Bledsoe would have never got hurt. We couldn't
Speaker 1: have not been watching Tom Brady. Guess who Guess who
Speaker 1: was at the game as the replay official when Drew
Speaker 1: Bledsoe did get hurt. Who was that be? This guy?
Speaker 1: The start of the Brady the start of the Brady
Speaker 1: error was right in line with the start of the
Speaker 1: Blandino error. Look what we both accomplished. Congratulations, I'm in Arizona.
Speaker 1: With Joe on Sunday and Brady making millions of dollars
Speaker 1: playing golf with Tiger Woods. I don't think when they
Speaker 1: donated every it made, you actually won that day. What's
Speaker 1: that you actually won that day? On that day? Kids
Speaker 1: have a great time on the water, fantastic. I have
Speaker 1: good days. I can't complain. I've had a good I've
Speaker 1: had a good run. I'm happy. All right, let's go NHL.
Speaker 1: I like this they actually approved something. Yeah, last week
Speaker 1: they approved on let's see here on their sorry I
Speaker 1: lost my spot here. Last week they approved the NFL
Speaker 1: or so the NHL conference bad. You're reading comprehension problems, Travis.
Speaker 1: Is there something you're not telling us? Because sometimes sometimes
Speaker 1: I think, here's what I think. Sometimes I think you
Speaker 1: were a special needs child and you worked your way
Speaker 1: up to That's why, that's why he's such a positive guy.
Speaker 1: You overcame, but every once in a while you slip
Speaker 1: back because you're like you're squinting, You're like getting real
Speaker 1: close to the screen. Like even when we were doing
Speaker 1: the readings, we were doing the auditions, it was like
Speaker 1: you're acting wasn't great, but you're reading was awful. Like
Speaker 1: what I can't see very well. I need to get
Speaker 1: glasses and it's a problem. There you go. Alright, So
Speaker 1: so NHL right approved to twenty four team conference based
Speaker 1: playoff format. The future negotiations are gonna come on teams. Uh,
Speaker 1: they're now open the facilities to small groups right in
Speaker 1: early June. June max is six players, that's that's right.
Speaker 1: And this twenty four team formats kind of cool because
Speaker 1: it gives the four um leaders in each each division
Speaker 1: to buy and then it'll be a sixteen game or
Speaker 1: sixteen team playoff with five teams are seriously five Yes,
Speaker 1: it's weird. We gotta get this is I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: like some remedial reading, you know classes. We're gonna we're
Speaker 1: gonna start I don't know what before when you put
Speaker 1: your inn kids to bed and your wife kiss your
Speaker 1: wife tonight, then you're not gonna do a zoom and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read to you, okay, and we're gonna go through.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start it like a you know, Lucas in
Speaker 1: third grade. He's like, you know, it's like an H
Speaker 1: or they do letters now, So we'll start you on
Speaker 1: like an H and then we'll work our way up.
Speaker 1: I might need to start earlier than that, all right,
Speaker 1: And then what the heck is going on with the NBA?
Speaker 1: Are we gonna see NBA basketball? It's hard to say.
Speaker 1: It's hard to say. The NBA dumb forever. I can't
Speaker 1: imagine they're gonna be done. No, there's there's no official update,
Speaker 1: but they may have, Like there's a report saying there
Speaker 1: could be a sixteen see playoff format, which which would
Speaker 1: be cool because then they would get rid of the
Speaker 1: the the conferences and they were just factoring the one
Speaker 1: through sixteen throughout the entire NBA. He was the struggle
Speaker 1: just to get that out. It was here, have you
Speaker 1: been drinking? Have he had a glass of wine today?
Speaker 1: He told me already? Did you like either that? Or you?
Speaker 1: Are you having a stroke? Should we should we call
Speaker 1: nine one one? I I would laugh with you guys,
Speaker 1: but I'm not sure what's going on. I think he
Speaker 1: I think you're indep he Okay, sob a no official,
Speaker 1: no official update, but they've been talking about sixteen. You know,
Speaker 1: I heard that Michael Jordan was going to bring the
Speaker 1: league back. He was gonna suit up so that the
Speaker 1: rest of the league would come back. Into there you go.
Speaker 1: We wanted was more Jordan's that's that's I'm um, I'm
Speaker 1: with Karl Malone on this. When I saw I saw
Speaker 1: an interview with Karl Malone, you know, he declined to
Speaker 1: be a part of the Last Dance and then somebody
Speaker 1: was interviewing him and they were like, um, when you
Speaker 1: when you hear the words Michael Jordan, what do you
Speaker 1: think of? And he's like, Michael Jordan's what, Like what enough? Jordan? Like,
Speaker 1: you know, like I don't think I'm not special? And
Speaker 1: I'm like, damn right, carl One. Thing that was interesting
Speaker 1: about that show. I know we're passing now, but Carl
Speaker 1: Malone was huge. He was a giant nude. When you
Speaker 1: watch him in that show and kind of compare every whales,
Speaker 1: he was a monster. Carl Malone was a beast. Look,
Speaker 1: the bottom line is Michael Jordan dominated in an era.
Speaker 1: If he would have been if he would have been
Speaker 1: one hour earlier, he would not have dominated. Bottom line
Speaker 1: a Right, Look, they lost, they got swept by the
Speaker 1: Celtics two years in a row. Right, they lost three
Speaker 1: out of four to the Pistons. They never beat the
Speaker 1: showtime Lakers. End the story move on. All right, um,
Speaker 1: college football SEC. Are we gonna see you know, are
Speaker 1: we gonna see SEC and and and Big Ten and
Speaker 1: these big conferences UM playing football without uh you know,
Speaker 1: some of these smaller conferences having the ability to get
Speaker 1: back and get back on campus. You know, I know what, Travis.
Speaker 1: The SEC is resuming voluntary student athletes sometime in June
Speaker 1: and eight is what they've approved at this point. So
Speaker 1: you could see it. Yeah, I mean I think I
Speaker 1: think certainly, depending on the states, I think activities might resume.
Speaker 1: I just don't. I can't envision college football coming back piecemeal.
Speaker 1: I just don't. I don't see that. I can see
Speaker 1: certain universities maybe if if certain universities are not having
Speaker 1: UM kids on campus and they can't play, But I
Speaker 1: can't see you know, a whole conference UM not being
Speaker 1: able to play football and college football, you know, continuing
Speaker 1: that way. So we'll see and then and then very importantly,
Speaker 1: the the CPBL or or Chinese Professional Baseball League. Your
Speaker 1: your rocket tud monkeys lost two in a row, Travis. Maybe,
Speaker 1: like my reading skills, that's slipping, you know, like they
Speaker 1: they're they're falling apart. Maybe you know, they're still they
Speaker 1: still got they still got a four game lead in
Speaker 1: the win column. But losing two in a row, you know,
Speaker 1: that's I think. I think it's time to panic. I
Speaker 1: think the Rockett Monkeys might be might be in trouble
Speaker 1: to fall from grace and nobody wanted to see, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. Maybe I'm not sure how
Speaker 1: many I didn't think much about CPBL until Corona. But
Speaker 1: how many games do they play? And how how many
Speaker 1: they have left? Do you know? Do I need to
Speaker 1: go back to my power point from three weeks ago?
Speaker 1: I can't remember. My reading comprehension is no good. It's
Speaker 1: I think it's like an eight game season. Um. God,
Speaker 1: that could be that. That that's just from membery. I
Speaker 1: don't have it up. Um. And then, lastly, before we
Speaker 1: take a break, Nationals reveal their World Series rings. Did
Speaker 1: you see did you see the design? Let me read it? Well,
Speaker 1: I saw the story, so I pulled up what I
Speaker 1: believe is the ring. Okay, so do you want to
Speaker 1: describe it? Travils? So you're feeling okay, I'm not really
Speaker 1: I'm not really the uh oh wow, oh now I'm
Speaker 1: looking at it. It's got baby shark on the inside.
Speaker 1: What's that okay? So here here you go that that's
Speaker 1: what that's okay. So you have thank you, so so
Speaker 1: you have this is this is the details of the ring.
Speaker 1: So it has the cursive w logo. Logo has thirty rubies,
Speaker 1: which represents the thirty runs that they scored in their
Speaker 1: four World Series game victories over the asterisk. Okay, that's cool. Cool.
Speaker 1: Surrounding the Nationals logo is a ring of thirty two sapphires,
Speaker 1: which is some total of the team's two thousand, nineteen
Speaker 1: walk off wins, shutout wins, longest winning streak, and postseason rounds. Okay,
Speaker 1: alright cool. Additional hundred eight diamonds symbolizing the team's a
Speaker 1: hundred and five regular season and postseason wins, plus one
Speaker 1: for the World Series championship and two more in a
Speaker 1: nod to the franchise's history, the exposed and the previous
Speaker 1: version of the Washington Nationals Okay great, There are twelve
Speaker 1: rouviees on each end, the team's total number of postseason wins. Great.
Speaker 1: The ring also depicts some of Washington, DC's most iconic landmarks,
Speaker 1: with the Roman numerals M m VT placed within the
Speaker 1: Capitol Building to represent the year two thousand six that
Speaker 1: the Learner family purchased the franchise. Awesome words Fight Finished
Speaker 1: or feature prominently in diamonds, which was something um that
Speaker 1: they had. The kind of a team motto stay in
Speaker 1: the fight um appearing along the ring palm is the
Speaker 1: team's mantra, go one go one zero every day. But
Speaker 1: the interior of the ring includes a symbol of a
Speaker 1: shark holding the Commissioner's Trophy and honor of outfielder Gerardo
Speaker 1: pires walk up song, Baby Shark? What the flump is
Speaker 1: that baby? Not a lot of stuff going on in
Speaker 1: those rings? Baby shark? I know, give it homage, just
Speaker 1: something with the expose you couldn't do. The baby shark
Speaker 1: is part of your your ring, but at least they
Speaker 1: put it on the inside of the rings so you
Speaker 1: don't have to look at it. Um. But it's the
Speaker 1: baby that's bad. Like that that song so annoying. I
Speaker 1: will not will not let my daughter listen to it.
Speaker 1: She does, she stopped asking for because I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: you're not listening to that's that's it's ridiculous. You won't
Speaker 1: have kids that read like I do. Let them listen
Speaker 1: to baby Shark. Yeah, hopefully you Hopefully your wife is
Speaker 1: the one teaching your kids, because I don't want a
Speaker 1: couple of you literally illiterate kids like you are. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go to Let's go to break. When we come down.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll talk the three second rule
Speaker 1: dead after the pandemic next on Good Calls. All right,
Speaker 1: we're back on Good Calls. Have a serious, serious supportant question.
Speaker 1: Um where this is a rules podcast. I'm a rules guy.
Speaker 1: I want to ask you, guys, after the pandemic, after
Speaker 1: everything that that's happened, when this is all said and done,
Speaker 1: is the three second rule over? Are you sure it's
Speaker 1: not the five second p I review? Is it dead?
Speaker 1: Isn't it the five second rule? Dem? You're talking about
Speaker 1: the one you drop you dropped food on the floor.
Speaker 1: It's some people say five. If you look at the
Speaker 1: Araban dictionary, it's three. I've used both. Let's just let's
Speaker 1: just call it the three second rules for purposes. I'm
Speaker 1: just making sure that you're the three seconds in the
Speaker 1: key that Patrick you want used to always no no no,
Speaker 1: no, no no, no no. We're not talking about that. Okay,
Speaker 1: But but is the concept dead not to me, not
Speaker 1: to mean certain in there's certain places if you drop something,
Speaker 1: you're not going to pick it up. But that that's
Speaker 1: the rule. Right. You can look at the rule book.
Speaker 1: The rule book is made up of sections, articles, and
Speaker 1: in each article you could have notes, you could have
Speaker 1: um exceptions. There's exceptions, right if if if you're at
Speaker 1: a gas station bathroom, right, the three second rule doesn't
Speaker 1: whatever hits the floor, it's all done, right, And if
Speaker 1: you do that in any public bathroom, you're disgusting and
Speaker 1: you probably I don't know, you probably shouldn't. I don't
Speaker 1: even know. I don't even know what what you should do,
Speaker 1: I shouldn't do. But a normal you know, you're at
Speaker 1: work or you're at home, and it hits the floor?
Speaker 1: Are is any are you not? Are you not adhering
Speaker 1: to the three second rule because of you're worried about
Speaker 1: now the germs that could cause. So I think what's
Speaker 1: going to happen is I think all of these rules
Speaker 1: are going to have this very strange path to becoming
Speaker 1: live again. Just for instance, we all we all hung
Speaker 1: out this weekend, a bunch of us, and I know
Speaker 1: you know before pre COVID, you see you know one
Speaker 1: of our friends. Hey, what's up? You give a hug? Now?
Speaker 1: People are like, I don't know really what to do?
Speaker 1: Are you cool with me hugging you? Are we doing
Speaker 1: the elbow bump? What are we doing? And I think
Speaker 1: that all those types of rules are going to kind
Speaker 1: of people are going to take or that the end
Speaker 1: of the Michaelson deal the match. Did you see them?
Speaker 1: They didn't know what to do. It was like it
Speaker 1: was like a fist bump elbow nobody knows what they're
Speaker 1: doing kind of thing. I just going for the hugs,
Speaker 1: growing deal. Just I'm fine, So I you know, giving
Speaker 1: you a big hug, Travis, I have it really, so
Speaker 1: as long as it's been as long as it's been
Speaker 1: two weeks since he hung out with Joe, he seems
Speaker 1: to Travis, Joe has his own role. So here's three
Speaker 1: second rules. Not dead, Travis. Here's a funny story from
Speaker 1: from the weekend. We were all sitting on the back
Speaker 1: of our buddies porch and he's got the Hey Google
Speaker 1: thing and somebody said, Hey Google, who was Dean Blandino?
Speaker 1: And it says Dean Blandino is the x XFL had
Speaker 1: of officiating. We said that was the first thing that
Speaker 1: came up, the first thing that came up. And then
Speaker 1: and then we were we all started laughing because it
Speaker 1: didn't say anything about the NFL, and then we redid it,
Speaker 1: and then it actually did say and the former that's
Speaker 1: the most recent thing that's happened to me, the the
Speaker 1: and the X head of officiating for the XFL. So UM,
Speaker 1: I was really podcast would have been cool, but Joe
Speaker 1: was Joe was shut down. Joe has Joe's like competitive guy, right.
Speaker 1: And there was these younger kids, these kids that are
Speaker 1: you know, in their twenties or even younger. One kid
Speaker 1: was going to Arizona State to play football in and Joe,
Speaker 1: you know, Joe thinks he could be in the NFL
Speaker 1: tight end if you were four inches taller. So Joe,
Speaker 1: of course um decided that he was gonna run some
Speaker 1: routes and and and he said this kid couldn't stop him.
Speaker 1: I didn't see it. I just heard about it. But
Speaker 1: Joe thinks it was clearly defensive holding or illegal contact
Speaker 1: and that's why he didn't catch the pass without question.
Speaker 1: And it was a terrible pass. Okay, So so Joe's
Speaker 1: like the diva receiver that because he didn't catch the pass.
Speaker 1: It was the quarterbacks fall and it was the officials.
Speaker 1: First of all, the past was nobody would have caught
Speaker 1: the past. Secondly, the dude shoved me down about eight
Speaker 1: yards downfield, like shove. This guy was, I was. He
Speaker 1: was so big, Travis. I was calling him fake rock.
Speaker 1: He was all tall and buff and still I was
Speaker 1: to get I went right past him and then he
Speaker 1: shoved me down. I don't like. I didn't see. There
Speaker 1: was a there was a controversy. Joe cheated. We what's
Speaker 1: the name of that game? Joe? Which game? The frisbee
Speaker 1: game the first beginning. I don't know the name of it.
Speaker 1: It's I think it does have a name, but I
Speaker 1: don't know. If you throw you throw a frisbee at
Speaker 1: a PBC, it's some Travis. You would love it because
Speaker 1: it's some super white people. Ship you get over that.
Speaker 1: I do. I do. I like the game. But Joe
Speaker 1: and and um, how did I cheat? This is you
Speaker 1: put too much water in the camp? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: you're really going there. So it's like two PVC pipes.
Speaker 1: You put home pipe in the in the water in
Speaker 1: the sand, and you put a beer can on top
Speaker 1: of the PBC pipe. You put some water in it
Speaker 1: so it could wind doesn't blow it over. And you're like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, fifteen feet apart apart, and you have
Speaker 1: two people on each team and of a frisbee and
Speaker 1: you played one and you throw that. You have to
Speaker 1: have a can in your hand, you know, any kind
Speaker 1: of beverage can um and you throw the frisbee and
Speaker 1: you have to knock the other teams can off into
Speaker 1: the water. You can hit the pipe or you can
Speaker 1: hit the can itself. The other team has to catch
Speaker 1: your frisbee if it doesn't hit the pipe. With the can,
Speaker 1: you can catch the can out of the air before
Speaker 1: it hits the water. And the way you score points
Speaker 1: is the team doesn't catch the frisbee. That's one. You
Speaker 1: hit the pipe and the can hits the water. That's two.
Speaker 1: You hit the can and it hits the water. That's three.
Speaker 1: And you played the twenty one sounds fun? You know
Speaker 1: it is fun. And who's in your team, Jail, I
Speaker 1: forget it was you. Yeah. So they they basically we
Speaker 1: beat them the first game and they were all upset,
Speaker 1: and then they beat us the first game and they
Speaker 1: were like they were beating everybody and they were the
Speaker 1: champs and blah blah blah. And then me and this
Speaker 1: guy Ed came in like I've played the game once
Speaker 1: in my life, and we came in and just dominated them,
Speaker 1: like beat them like bad, and so Joe is all upset.
Speaker 1: And then we have the rematch and they won, but
Speaker 1: they cheated because they filled their can up with so
Speaker 1: much water that even if you hit the pipe, it
Speaker 1: wasn't falling. Sounds pretty sketchy. There's actually there that's a
Speaker 1: judgment call. There's not like an actual percentage of thechnic
Speaker 1: can be full. And by the way, you guys, we
Speaker 1: smoked you guys. It wouldn't even you could have put no. No,
Speaker 1: it was a good game. There was some high level
Speaker 1: stuff going on. It was a high level game. I
Speaker 1: will give you that. You you played that game, well,
Speaker 1: I'd love to know what it's called. I'll get the
Speaker 1: name for you. And I think we might maybe we
Speaker 1: should have Dean right, like an official rule book for
Speaker 1: that game. I think that that might not be a
Speaker 1: bad idea. Come up with a name and I write
Speaker 1: the rules. Do it. I want to play. And then
Speaker 1: I'm hearing about that game. I guarantee I'll beat both
Speaker 1: of you at it. Oh gosh, it is it is
Speaker 1: a game. I think Travis would He's like I said,
Speaker 1: it's a it's it's it's a white it's a very
Speaker 1: white game when Travis likes white people stuff. But but
Speaker 1: Travis wouldn't make it because you're in the sun and
Speaker 1: he would be sun burned fifteen minutes in the game
Speaker 1: with that. No, he definitely, I would have sunscreen or
Speaker 1: layers on. Travis would need to write, he would need
Speaker 1: the right the right gear, long sleeve, rash guard. Yes,
Speaker 1: see him he hit water, he'd be in a Yeah,
Speaker 1: he'd be in an exactly all right, So um as
Speaker 1: suits are in right now? Anything good you guys are watching?
Speaker 1: I watched that. I watched love Birds the other night
Speaker 1: on Netflix. It's a it's a new movie out that
Speaker 1: he was supposed to go to theaters, and I'm glad
Speaker 1: it didn't go to theaters because I would have been
Speaker 1: disappointed if I had to pay money for it. It
Speaker 1: was entertaining a bit. But who's in it? What's it's that?
Speaker 1: That dude from Don Blanket on the name Silicon Valley.
Speaker 1: The is he the Indian guy. Oh yeah, what's his name?
Speaker 1: He's in there, he's great. And then there's a there's
Speaker 1: a black comedian, she's in I can't remember her name.
Speaker 1: She was good too, But this is this Travis. I mean,
Speaker 1: you learn somebody's name. Why did you just you just
Speaker 1: nicked the you know, the Indian guy and then this
Speaker 1: black comedian and you know who's next is Asian chick?
Speaker 1: Like what, Travis? What are you doing? I can't remember
Speaker 1: their names that I'm sorry I could. Unbelievable. You know
Speaker 1: what I've been watching Dean is um It's detail on
Speaker 1: ESPN plus Kobe Bryant created it or whatever, and he
Speaker 1: started with basketball. They got Daniel Cormier and they're breaking
Speaker 1: down different fighters. Super interesting, really cool to watch if
Speaker 1: you're a fight fan, can you me? It's really smart?
Speaker 1: He obviously you know he's he does commentary. He did
Speaker 1: it when we when he was with us at Fox
Speaker 1: Sports and now ESPN and and does it um UFC
Speaker 1: fights and uh yeah, I'll check it out just in case.
Speaker 1: You know, Travis, Daniel Cormy is the big black dude
Speaker 1: that fights and beats people up. Just so you know,
Speaker 1: that's how Travis would be to know. I know it's
Speaker 1: Guy's I know it's guy. You're talking about Travis. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1: All right, um, let's let's go to brain of blend.
Speaker 1: You know, worst times to sneeze, worst times to sneeze? Now, okay, anytime? Now?
Speaker 1: Thought that was appropriate? Yeah? Appropriately? So I'm not thinking
Speaker 1: about that yet, sneezing, but think about Okay, so I
Speaker 1: was brushing my teeth and I sneeze. Does that ever
Speaker 1: happen to you? No? When you little time, it's it's horrible.
Speaker 1: You spray toothpaste all over the mirror. It's awful. So
Speaker 1: it got me thinking, like, what are some other times?
Speaker 1: What are some other bad times to sneeze? When you
Speaker 1: are first someone going in for first kiss, it's a
Speaker 1: good one. You're eating, like in the middle of a
Speaker 1: chew or a bite. What would be bad food to sneeze?
Speaker 1: Soup would be bad, you know, you know, would really
Speaker 1: be bad bad foods It seems to be um like
Speaker 1: sushi because you have rice and raw fish just file
Speaker 1: over the place, and possibly some sabbi and ginger depending
Speaker 1: on your style. That would be bad and the and
Speaker 1: the sabi would make you sneeze. What what else it
Speaker 1: would be another bad time to sneeze during I guess right.
Speaker 1: Number one answer? Is that going to be the thing?
Speaker 1: Now when everybody does get back and somebody's sneezes and
Speaker 1: you don't like people, you're gonna have to be so
Speaker 1: over the top when you cover like you're literally gonna
Speaker 1: have to have like throw up a swinge tream when
Speaker 1: you sneeze. Right, when you're around people and you sneeze,
Speaker 1: are you gonna feel comfortable and not doing going over
Speaker 1: the top? Imagine being in coach, in the middle of seat,
Speaker 1: in the middle seat after this and sneeze. How much
Speaker 1: you like this? That's the question? Is the middle seat dead?
Speaker 1: Forget about the five second one? Was the middle seat gone?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I can't see airlines
Speaker 1: giving up those seats. I look for a flight today,
Speaker 1: the regularly five hundred bucks. What's going on? I thought
Speaker 1: they're supposed to be cheap for a flight, Yeah, Costa Rica?
Speaker 1: Oh god? Yeah? Any other bad times to sneeze? Come on?
Speaker 1: How I think we're all thinking it? Yeah? He said, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he said during sex, which could bring us to our
Speaker 1: other story of that we had talked about this week.
Speaker 1: On text message about the sex dolls. Oh, I thought
Speaker 1: you were talking about the text message the other text
Speaker 1: message that we got that we read this weekend. I
Speaker 1: don't know what happened. They put blow up dolls in
Speaker 1: the stands of the Korean baseball game. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's crazy like And the reason they got in trouble
Speaker 1: for is because it's not a spot, it's not a
Speaker 1: sanctioned sponsor, so they were they were saying the name
Speaker 1: the names of the They had signs with the names
Speaker 1: of the dolls, So that's why they got in trouble.
Speaker 1: They probably would have got the names like like the company,
Speaker 1: you know, the company made the company who made them.
Speaker 1: This is Cinnamon up here, and this is Veronica and
Speaker 1: this is what so the company, So they like, I
Speaker 1: get it. Look, where are you going to get fake
Speaker 1: people where you can get a lot of fake people
Speaker 1: on short notice? Mm hmm right, it seems logical to me.
Speaker 1: Just just don't promote them, I guess I just don't
Speaker 1: promote them, don't put them. Did they put them in
Speaker 1: like weird poses or were they just like normal fans?
Speaker 1: They were just normal fans. I can understand if they
Speaker 1: had like you know, legs behind their back and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. You can get like manikins, but blow up
Speaker 1: dolls are probably cheaper. That's what I said. Where you
Speaker 1: gonna get cheap fake people on the quick blow up dolls? Boom.
Speaker 1: It was a great idea for a while, right. You know,
Speaker 1: you know there are people that have used blow up
Speaker 1: dolls and t U V H O V lane. You
Speaker 1: know that's happened. You know what I did, Well, I
Speaker 1: didn't use a blow doll, but I put a baby
Speaker 1: seat and then I took a like a you know,
Speaker 1: a child doll, put it in the car seat. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go speeding down. But now that I have a Tesla,
Speaker 1: I don't really need that need that anymore. I got
Speaker 1: the stickers. Wow, we haven't talked about the Tesla and
Speaker 1: so long I feel like the missing because Elon Musk
Speaker 1: like leaving, isn't he isn't he moving everything to exists
Speaker 1: or something Texas And there's one other um one other place.
Speaker 1: He's looking at two places. But I might actually might
Speaker 1: be selling the Tesla. So anybody out there wants a Tesla,
Speaker 1: it's some lucky there's some lucky person out there in
Speaker 1: the world. I'll give you. It's gonna get Joe Madrid's
Speaker 1: Tesla's Travis sells, Travis. I've been thinking about geting a car,
Speaker 1: and I'll put my range Rover tires on it. It's
Speaker 1: already got tired. Do it, bronze the asking price, whatever
Speaker 1: the payoff is, old man, Well we're got a deal.
Speaker 1: We got a deal off line. I'll broke with the
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