WEBVTT - 3_24 Mick Shots _ Dallas Cowboys 2025.mp3 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:05.920 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:07.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:10.720 Cowboys. 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:17.800 This is Mick Shots screaming live on Dallascowboys dot Com 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:22.120 and the official Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:34.040 Everson Wolves, and Mickey Spagnola. 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:34.720 And it's time for another week of fun on mix Shots, 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:37.400 or another hour of fun this week mix Shots Here 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:43.400 inside the SWBC podcast studio, Bill Jones, Everson Walls, and 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:47.640 Mickey Spagnola. The star of the show wearing his cowboy 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:51.680 blue with a big ol' star on his left chest. 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.000 And there's football players on the football field. 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:57.680 There are well, there was a tour workouts. There was 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:00.240 a tour going by, and so I couldn't stand there 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:02.200 and watch and see what playing. It looks like a 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:03.400 ragtag group. 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:06.960 Actually, well you guys. 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:11.800 No, no, not the tour. Good people are good people, 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:14.679 My people. Now, the guys out there, they just all 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:16.720 kind of nobody had on anything. 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.520 Blue, you know what I mean, So you'll look like cowboy. 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:20.800 You'll appreciate this. 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:25.479 So watching the rehab group, which in the morning, as 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:31.560 we've seen Sam Williams and that John the tight End, 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:35.080 Steven Stephens Stephens always. 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:35.800 I always forget. 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.520 I want to say Phillipsodan Stephens. 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:42.800 Yes, brother or brother half brother? 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:44.000 Uh. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:48.440 Out there watching the workout was Charles Haley. 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:50.840 Okay, so Charles. 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.400 Here first thing in the morning, keeping an eye on 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:53.280 Sam Williams. 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:56.280 He's going to work out in the workout in. 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:58.320 No, he's standing there. 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.720 His workout in was last week when I said the 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:07.360 apocalypse is upon us. He had two grandchildren he was watching. 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:11.200 They couldn't have been more than two three years old, 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:14.560 and he's chasing them around on the field and he. 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:19.239 Kind of picks, you know, kind of like what he 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:19.679 used to do. 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:29.160 Yeah, truly too. I said, all the world's ready to 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:31.720 end as somebody's trust in him with grandkids. 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:33.440 He's granddad. 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.400 But anyway, so there was football people out there. 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:39.560 All right, very good man. It's a beautiful day, beautiful week. 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:41.120 How's your bracket doing. 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:42.480 I didn't do one. 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:44.640 He didn't do one. I did one. And it's actually 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.880 doing better with this transfer portal and nil stuff. There 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:49.680 aren't as many upsets as what. 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:50.520 They're well they're having. 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:53.440 It has got all the power forward teams that are 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:54.120 in the sweet Sea. 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.639 There's been one and it's too soon to talk about it. Okay, 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:01.520 what I said, there's been one upset and I said its. 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:08.400 Missouri, Missouri, Colorado State. Drake Drake, Oh, Drake, coach just 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:10.440 got a new job. He's now the Iowa coach. 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.200 He got Thank you, he got the job. 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:14.000 Thank you. 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:15.120 Yeah. 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:18.280 I always said to show me, I'll show you, I'll 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:19.320 take care of Missouri. 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:22.399 And now he's so he just moved right down the road. 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:26.000 That's right, Yep, yep. All right. So there's plenty to 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:30.600 get to, yes, and but off the top, let's pay 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:35.800 tribute to one of the great sports broadcasters of our 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:40.560 era who passed away at the age of ninety nine yesterday, 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:44.120 the great Bill Mercer, who was the Cowboys, the voice 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:47.600 of the Cowboys back in the late sixties and early seventies. 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:52.120 He was actually the original radio voice of the Texas 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:56.800 Rangers baseball team too, in nineteen seventy two. Some of 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:00.000 you may remember him as being the voice of World 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:05.400 Class Wrestling Saturday Night Wrestling on Channel eleven, and he's 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:09.640 probably best remembered for that. And then University of North Texas. 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:13.320 There have been so many sports broadcasters who come out 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:17.120 of that school and it's basically the Bill Mercer school 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:18.960 of sports broadcasting. 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:20.920 And he did a heck of a job. 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:27.760 And I didn't realize before the Cowboys JFK, JFK and 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:32.599 the Dallas Texans. Okay, Douglas had a cut from him 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:37.800 selling tickets. It was a promo radio promo for the Dallas. 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:40.760 Texans, the American Football League, Dallas Texans. 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:43.599 But he also has and I think Chris has it, 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:48.919 probably ready to go, a play by play cut from 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:54.000 the Cowboys Super Bowl victory against Miami Dolphins back in 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.200 would have been January of seventy two. 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.800 Correct tracks in. 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.360 A tight end on the right side, Thomas Garrison of 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:04.000 the backfield. 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:05.360 All words of them. 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:08.719 Both tight ends are enough. Garrison right, Thomas left, second 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:11.039 to go a three yard line saw back looks to 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:14.120 this left, check to the right at the three. Bet 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.280 you out of Thomas. Dwayne up inside of the five 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.400 with the rake Thomas. 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:22.599 He made a great move on ton of Connie, fired 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.479 in to the blackfield. Think bring Wayne Thomas left one 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:28.960 side of it, lancedalwarth It looks like the true fatty 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.120 and he goes lathy off the field, lapping. 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:31.640 His hands together. 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:34.360 Three The Cowboys and wracked them. 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:37.200 Up down to sixteen to three dry for extra point 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:41.839 by Clark. It's up, but it's cut Nollas seventeen Miami three. 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:44.760 All right, that's when Tom Lander was in a good move. 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:47.680 Wow you think, Yeah, he was never in a good 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:49.200 mood after the great. 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:53.040 Names on that bought a Connie Nick Wanna. Connie started 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:55.560 with Billy Truex was the tidy end for the cowboy 0:05:55.680 --> 0:06:01.040 Allworth Glance Awworth. Dwayne. He did say Dwayne to Dwayne. Yeah, 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:04.880 it was on her first name, base Wayne, Dwayne. He 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:06.560 was the only guy in the building that was on 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:07.120 her first name. 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:15.120 Base Teammates that that cut sounds like somebody talking about 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:16.640 Babe Ruth hitting a home run. 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:18.040 You know that old voice. 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:23.280 Yeah, the quick, the quick, Yeah. The boys Yeah, and 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.320 all of them like this as if they were Ye. 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:27.680 They were in the choir. 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:30.640 Like Lindsay Nelson at the night. Some of them for 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.400 cutting Lord Johnny Moss out of the twenty five yard line, 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:35.520 one of the Mos out of the fifteen yard line, 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:39.640 Johnny Mousso into the ends, one touchdown out of my may. 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:44.599 So that's that Oklahoma accent Muskegee Muscogee, Oklahoma. 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:46.960 Muscog Yeah, and Okie from Muscogee. 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:50.400 He's in the Muscogee High School Athletics Hall of Fame. 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.479 All right, so he was a ballplayer too. I guess, well, 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:54.120 you know what. 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.600 And I also read I didn't realize this. He during 0:06:57.680 --> 0:06:58.520 World War Two. 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:00.720 He was. 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:09.760 In service for three years on a ship and one 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.800 of those PT votes too during the whole too. 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:18.120 So he was born in nineteen twenty six. My mom 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:22.160 was born in moschool was from Muscoogee, Oklahoma too, really 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.240 about that same era. Not surprised. 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.480 It was something about Oklahoma was was going to grab 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:31.880 him again. He's going to grab us again with something 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:32.280 about this. 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:35.480 My dad from Okema, Oklahoma, just down the road from 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.160 Troy Yeigman's hometown of Henrietta, Oklahoma. 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:40.920 Ninety nine years. 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:44.040 Ninety nine years old. And I actually you remember listening, 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.880 Oh yeah, And I was going to mention first that 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:49.920 I actually it was just a couple of years ago, 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:56.640 maybe during COVID. Exchanged some emails with Bill Mercer. I 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:58.640 know what it was. I was trying to track down 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:03.480 he did. He He was the Ranger's voice on when 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:07.560 David Clyde made his debut and in nineteen seventy three. 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:09.840 So this is just a couple of years ago, and 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.880 I was trying to track down from a guy who 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.840 was mentored by Bill Mercer, Mike Kapps, who was a 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:20.880 longtime radio voice of the Round Rock Express anyway, and 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:22.760 so he got me in touch with Bill Mercer and 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.840 we exchanged emails. And what I was amazed about with 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:27.920 him was, I mean, at the time, he's ninety seven 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:31.760 years old, and he was sharp as attack, even just 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:35.360 with emails, you know, and that sort of thing. But 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:39.800 I answer your question, I remember as a kid in 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:44.720 nineteen seventy two first Rangers game ever was. It was 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:47.600 a week night game on the West Coast at Anaheim 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:51.520 against the California Angels, and Bill Mercer and Don Drysdale 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.640 were the announcers. Oh way, yep, And I remember it 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:56.840 was a school night and so I went to bed 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:01.520 with the transistor radio under my pillow basically and listening 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:02.480 to the Rangers. 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.040 Did you guys, did you listen to radio? 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.800 I did not listen to radio, but I was a 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:15.600 wrestling uh aficionado Fishonado and I was a major fan 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.840 of while who McDaniel. 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:23.360 Oklahoma sooner, while who McDaniel, Yeah, play football. This guy 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:28.280 and the Death Erics. Bill Mercer was very close with 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:29.160 Von Erics. 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.800 But I mean I was, you know, young enough to 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:33.960 where you know, the dad was still in good shape. 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:37.360 And did you watch it on Saturday nights? Yes, I 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:37.800 did too. 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:41.559 That was my grandmother. She died at one hundred and 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.200 four years old. But she would sit there and she 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:46.480 would press her hair at night. You know, we had 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.080 the women had the hot comb and they would she 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.800 would just sit there and just she was fall asleep 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:56.000 watching wrestling, and me and my my cousin, who was 0:09:56.320 --> 0:10:00.800 you know, her grandson, we would you just go at 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.080 it all the time in that room while she's over 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.959 there watching wrestling. She fall asleep watching wrestling. And then 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:08.400 we would be in acting. We're acting what we just 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:12.200 saw on TV. So we're wrestling on the floor, and 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:13.839 then she would get mad at us. 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:16.640 She would hit us with something. 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:18.439 I don't know what she would hit us with, but 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:23.840 hit us with another hot and you guys stopped doing 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:28.439 on it. So every Saturday night man grandmother's house watching. 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:34.040 Bill Mercer at the North Side Coliseum in Mortatory, mos too. 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.520 But the one, the one that was on TV was 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.720 at the North side Colisee or that's where I fell 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:44.160 in love with Killer Kowalski. Remember that dominal claw killer 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:48.480 Colonel Coler. It was a spoiler, know that Van Eric 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:49.800 had the iron cloth? 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.840 No, no, no, it was the spoiler was the mask. 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:55.000 He had the mask, and. 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.400 They always tried to take off the mask and would 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:58.439 just get right there. 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:04.000 Yeah, wa got love it scars. There was now the 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:05.239 one that wore mask. 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:09.920 And uh yeah, so we should have a special guest 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:13.760 here that we should knows quite a bit about Bill Mercer. 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:21.720 If Chris has online, yeah, you said next segment, next second, 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.199 all right, second segment, So I called. 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:25.440 Him the second thing we do. 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.000 Okay, he just felt. 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.160 All right, we'll take He just felt left out of 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:31.760 the conversation. 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:32.240 That's all. 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:32.880 We didn't talk. 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:35.199 Do you want to take an early break, then let's 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:37.199 do that. 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We'll be joined by George Dunham and 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.920 we'll talk about the legacy of Bill Mercer, one of 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:58.440 the early Cowboys play by play men and a mentor 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:02.680 to so many in the sports broadcasting community in North Texas. 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:09.320 In the meantime, Cowboys have a couple of gaping holes 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:14.000 on their roster. As we reached sort of the end 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:17.440 of free agency. It's not over yet, obviously, guys can 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:20.880 be signed at a moment's notice. We're through the first wave. 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.560 We might be through the second wave already by now 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:28.960 and there, with the exception of Will Greer, there's not 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:33.680 a backup quarterback on this team and a second wide 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:37.080 receiver is another what I would say is a gaping hole. 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:42.000 Yes, because the New Orleans Saints just signed Brandon Cook's 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:43.920 Cooks two year deals. 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:49.640 Where he started at the first round draft pick. It 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:55.040 started his career. That was the news on Friday. So 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.760 it's going to be word to stay stay here. Yep, 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:01.600 he wanted to stay. Yeah, but. 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:06.160 Up to thirteen million. I don't think the Cowboys were 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:06.720 going there. 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:07.520 Man. 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:14.400 Unfortunately, what is he thirty thirty one, thirty. 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:18.560 One something in that range? Yep, so fourteen. He was 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:20.760 a young guy from the end of the league in 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:21.760 twenty fourteen. 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:26.640 Three years, one year with the Patriots, two years with 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:31.280 the Rams, three years with the Texans, and then so 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:32.240 two years. 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.080 What did they get with the Calviny it was two 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:36.320 years up to thirteen million. I don't know what. I 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.080 haven't seen what the he has seen the guarantee. 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:43.760 But and this last year, remember he he only played 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:44.480 in eight games. 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:48.480 He uh half a season with like twenty six catches. 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:52.520 That's because they worked in the death off season twenty 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:54.800 six they worked in the death in training camp. 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:57.520 No, what happened was he did that deal. 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:05.160 He was getting those blood platelet injections in his knee, 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:09.879 and it was after the fourth game against the Giants, and. 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:13.920 He messed up his knee in training camp. He did 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:19.080 because he was getting his ass worked off spags. Yeah, 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.960 I'm telling you, no, CD, that's all came from training camp. 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:24.240 Let's just call it like it was. 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:26.440 And then he tried to do the injecting. 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.840 Reason that Kyrie got hurt, right, got carried the. 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:33.000 Loads, he tried to do the injection, and he ended 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:37.840 up with an infection, and then the knee really never 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:41.760 came around to the point where he was brandan Cook's, 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:46.280 which was a shame. He was a good guy in 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:46.640 the lock. 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:49.160 He was having a hell of a training camp as well. 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:52.359 Yeah, remember I was saying just what a player he was. 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:56.120 Because I remember talking to Dac about it, and Dak 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:59.000 pointed out that, you know, he got off to a 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.800 slow start the year before he goes, But when you're 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:06.040 throwing the ball to CD and you know everything we're doing, 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.520 he didn't get much of an opportunity. Plus he got 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:14.919 there late. I think he missed most of the off season. 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:18.520 So but yeah, he goes. Now you can see what 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:22.640 he can do with no CD there, and then unfortunately 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:24.360 the net thing cropped. 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:27.760 Up and the great influence on those young receivers in 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:30.080 the Cowboys locker room. I mean, you look at the 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:34.640 at the receivers the Cowboys have, and obviously behind CD, 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:40.440 who turns twenty six April eighth, by the way, Cavante, 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:45.480 Cavante turns twenty nine in August. But beyond that, and 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:48.480 of course Cavante's just three years into the league now. 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:52.840 Jayleen Tolbert going into his free agent year, by the way, 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:55.680 by the way, contract year, he just turned twenty six. 0:18:56.359 --> 0:19:00.119 Jalen Brooks turns twenty five, and May Ryan Illinois an 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:03.600 older player coming into the league, is a rookie last year. 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:08.320 He actually is twenty five years old. Jonathan Mingo turned 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:13.399 twenty four last week. And then Paris Campbell was signed 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:17.680 the veteran at the veteran minimum and he's twenty seven 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:21.359 years old in the second round. Hasn't done much at 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:22.560 all in the league so far. 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:26.200 Yeah, he didn't get much of an opportunity in Philadelphia. 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:28.720 All right, that's an ugly list right then, And so 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:31.440 that's that's what I'm saying. That's a gaping hole behind 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:35.800 there is a NFL draft, Okay, drafts a draft, but 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:38.320 I think they need a veteran guy. And that is 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:40.840 an ugly list right there. I think there's a Tyler 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:43.000 Lockett that needs to come into that locker. 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:45.159 Was a couple of veterans. They're ready to go. 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:49.040 Yeah, all right. We now are joined by a very 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:56.840 special guest. Do you believe in the mean green George? Yeah, 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:01.960 George Dunham from sports Radio. Well it was thirteen ten. 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:05.600 Now what's the what is it now? Ninety six point seven. 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:09.000 Ninety six seven? Yeah, you can say the ticket. Okay, 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:11.159 whatever you want to call us, we'll answered it. Just 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:11.880 about anything. 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:15.080 From the ticket, George. You got Bill Jones, You've got 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:19.040 Everson Walls, and you've got Mickey Spagnola. How are you doing? 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:21.399 Gosh, I never thought i'd have a day where I 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:22.840 got to talk to Everson Walls. 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:23.760 That was going on. 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:28.840 How you doing? But how number twenty four? Absolutely? Yeah, 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:30.280 I'm doing great. 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:33.399 By the way, almost all of my family went to 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:36.960 North Texas, So is that right? You were in good company, 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:39.680 from my oldest sisters to my youngest niece. 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:42.840 By the way, that's awesome, awesome. But here's the big 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:47.600 news last night. North Texas advanced right in it. They're 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:51.119 into the quarterfinals, going up to still Wat Oklahoma to 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:55.960 face Oklahoma State on Tuesday night. Tomorrow night'll be packed. 0:20:56.480 --> 0:20:58.360 He's coming from North Texas and Oklahoma. 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:00.400 Well, no one, no one from still Water be there. 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:06.280 But yeah, they need to rename the tournament the North 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:07.320 Texas Invitational. 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:07.800 That's right. 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:10.680 Tournament's right. 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:13.080 They won the one at all with Grant McCaslin, who's 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:15.960 now the Texas Tech coach, as the Red Raiders into 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:19.640 the Sweet sixteen facing coach cal In Arkansas on Thursday. 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:22.520 But George, the reason we've got you here is to 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:25.680 reminisce a little bit about a guy who is very 0:21:26.240 --> 0:21:29.280 important in your life and of course as a former 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:33.280 Cowboys radio voice going back to the late sixties and 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:37.359 early seventies, a great impact on so many sports broadcasters 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:40.720 and came out of the University of North Texas or 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:44.600 going back in the day, North Texas State University, the 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:48.480 great Bill Mercer. Let's let's talk about Bill Mercer and 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:49.840 his impact on you. 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:56.080 Well, yeah, I found out yesterday. I guess Dave Barnett, 0:21:56.160 --> 0:22:00.119 who's now the voice of the Mean Green contact to 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:04.119 me and told me the news, and you know, it 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:08.399