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Speaker 1: What is up? Everybody? Welcome you to a Friday edition

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Speaker 1: of Texans All Access from the Monday Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: I am John Harris, I on a longside, my partner,

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Speaker 1: my boss, my friend, my pal, the voice of Texans,

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Speaker 1: Mark Vannier. Mark, how are you. It's weekend time, Johnny, weekend.

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Speaker 1: I mean a lot of people have checked out early today.

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Speaker 1: It appears so there it is Memorial Day weekend. A

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Speaker 1: lot of people working all weekend. Though I always want to,

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Speaker 1: you know, not to get off track right away, but

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Speaker 1: I always want to say hats off, shout out to

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Speaker 1: everyone working over the weekend. I've worked many weekends in

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Speaker 1: my life, especially younger, you know, and so this is

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Speaker 1: what you do, and it's great to look. It's great

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Speaker 1: to have employment. That's a beautiful thing as well, No

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Speaker 1: doubt you want to hear my Memorial Day Monday story

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Speaker 1: from a couple of years ago, A couple of years Oh,

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Speaker 1: is that the flood? No? I can't. I don't think

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Speaker 1: a Memorial Day storm. That's all we could name it,

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Speaker 1: because it didn't my story, my story. No, I know

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Speaker 1: what I was talking about. Yeah, that feels like brought

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Speaker 1: that to my so two years ago, I was in

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Speaker 1: here and I said I would do the I would

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Speaker 1: do the show. I was just throwing things together and

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Speaker 1: so I'd come up here and I figure it'll take me, no,

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Speaker 1: it'll take me to no time at all. I'm here

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Speaker 1: putting together recording it just so it's ready to go.

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Speaker 1: And so I'm in the studio and I walk out

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Speaker 1: to go get a water, like I've got two segments done.

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Speaker 1: I got one to go. It's like, okay, clear my

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Speaker 1: head for the last one. So I start to go

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Speaker 1: down the hallway, down the service level towards the cafeteria,

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Speaker 1: and as I do, quiet as a church mouse, just nothing,

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, I hear a door fly

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Speaker 1: open and I'm like, that's the weight room and out

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Speaker 1: of the Sports Performance Center, full sweat, hoodie on, just

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Speaker 1: drenched from head to toe. Shawn Watson two years ago,

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Speaker 1: quarterback DeShawn Watson doing his thing, and I look at him,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, Sean, when you what are you doing? Goes hey, man,

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Speaker 1: I gotta get to work in I was like the Sean.

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Speaker 1: I didn't say this, but I was like, you're you're

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Speaker 1: a millionaire. Now you have money, you have a four

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Speaker 1: day weekend. Well what are you doing? Right? And I

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Speaker 1: basically said, I mean, you know, it's weekend, man, it's

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Speaker 1: the holiday weekend. You gotta get up and go. And

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Speaker 1: you're just look at me and just turn back and

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Speaker 1: just smiled and walk right back on the locker room.

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Speaker 1: And I remember thinking, this guy's gonna be a dude.

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Speaker 1: This guy's gonna be a dude. Nobody here and it's

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Speaker 1: just him. Remember that. And you know, I've seen Watt

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Speaker 1: here at certain that. We see a lot of the

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Speaker 1: guys here at certain times where you wouldn't expect necessarily,

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Speaker 1: but look, they gotta keep it going, you know. And

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Speaker 1: and if I was one of them, if I was

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Speaker 1: one of them, I'd feel like I can't just sit

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Speaker 1: of course they can, and they don't really. They know,

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Speaker 1: they got to get the work in. So good for him, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: good for him. Now in the game, it gains Philadelphia.

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Speaker 1: He hooked up with Vincent Smith at the end of

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Speaker 1: the game to put the textans ahead in that one,

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Speaker 1: and we will talk with Vincent Smith tonight. We also

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Speaker 1: with David Fletcher about what is going on in his

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Speaker 1: world and it's very pertinent within the college football world

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Speaker 1: and soccer roll. Did he name the big weekend yet?

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Speaker 1: I keep on wanting a name for that, name for it.

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Speaker 1: I want like the greatest weekend of football history of Houston. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's already named that. Yeah. But the bowl game, the

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Speaker 1: date and time has been announced, so we will have

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Speaker 1: that for you later show. But just some listeners know

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Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. It's week two for the Texans.

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Speaker 1: But it's Friday night, right, it's uh in Washington State,

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Speaker 1: right Saturday night, it's the University of Texas and Rice

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Speaker 1: and then the Texans and the Jags the next day,

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Speaker 1: you got a triple header here. Well, day to day

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Speaker 1: today at NRG Stadium is gonna be very cool. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be very cool. Mark, I thought about this. I

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Speaker 1: the top one hundred or to the NFL's one hundred. Um.

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Speaker 1: This this celebration that we're having this year. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: seven eight years ago, NFL Network put together a show

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Speaker 1: called the NFL's Greatest Players, the Top one hundred greatest

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Speaker 1: thinking where he started winning Super Bowls again? Right? How

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Speaker 1: I would imagine because the number one player overall was

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Speaker 1: Jerry Rice. That's that's what's voted on. They had a

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Speaker 1: committee of people that did it, and the show was

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Speaker 1: incredible as always, and it led to the NFL's Top

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Speaker 1: it every year. I don't know if they're going to

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Speaker 1: go back and do it again, do the NFL's Top

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Speaker 1: one hundred players. But I got to thinking, which current

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Speaker 1: name is Mark vandermir Which current players are going in?

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Speaker 1: recently retired that we hated facing Peyton Manning. Well he's

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Speaker 1: not that recently retired. Who's the most recently retired all

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Speaker 1: time great at his position? Who gave us hell every

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Speaker 1: time we saw him. I'm drawing a blank right now?

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Speaker 1: Why are you drawing a blank on Rob Gronkowski? Oh? Oh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I would recently retired realty. I was thinking

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Speaker 1: is Gronkowski gonna make the all time NFL? Okay, it's

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Speaker 1: a committee of one Mark Randomir, you're ready, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: tell you if he's in or not. You tell me

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Speaker 1: here's the thing. He's top five. And I don't mean

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Speaker 1: talking about baseball, Johnny, what would you say that? You know,

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Speaker 1: You really do. So I look at the quarterbacks so differently.

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Speaker 1: players ever. Well, yes he is right, because he's a

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Speaker 1: quarterback and he's the best quarterback who ever played the

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Speaker 1: game period. There's no debate, by the way, Aaron Rodgers, No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: care if he has more talent. I care about the results.

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Speaker 1: Brady's the all time greatest quarterback in the history of

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Speaker 1: the league. Is he the best player? Though, Johnny. That's

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Speaker 1: the thing, is he the best player of all time

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Speaker 1: in this league. The top three. The top three is

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Speaker 1: voted on by the NFL back and back. In twenty eleven,

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Speaker 1: Lawrence Taylor was three, Jim Brown was two, Jerry Rice

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Speaker 1: it feels like with the success that Brady's had in

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Speaker 1: really interesting, I know, exactly, but he was so good. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so here's another one. Okay, Drew Brees did not make

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Speaker 1: give me that. Joe Namath was out one hundred, Fran

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Speaker 1: Here's the other day, Johnny. The game is so different.

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Speaker 1: beyond twenty yards, it was like a miracle. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: still think Brady and Breeze no doubters. Okay, let's get

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Speaker 1: he's in. He's no, he is, He's a three time

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Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year. He's He's absolutely incredible. Still

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Speaker 1: will never forget the really amazing years of two thy, twelve, fourteen, fifteen.

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Speaker 1: he's absolutely amazing. Okay, So here's a tricky one, and

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Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, because my favorite player of all time is guilt.

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Speaker 1: Two of them, Gail Sayers and Lance Alworth. Gail Sayers

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Speaker 1: played maybe four years fully help is he in? The

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Speaker 1: top one? Was the top one? The old timers really

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Speaker 1: But do you put him in the top one hundred? Now,

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Speaker 1: got away from the magatric and see what happened. What

421
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Speaker 1: do you remember specifically about the catch you made in Philadelphia?

422
00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:18,280
Speaker 1: What do you remember the most? I remember us talking

423
00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:20,240
Speaker 1: before we even got on the field for that drive.

424
00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:23,639
Speaker 1: You know, he asked me what side I feel more

425
00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:25,919
Speaker 1: comfortable on, which I think I'd be able to make

426
00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:28,040
Speaker 1: the play easier. And that's him being a general of

427
00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:29,680
Speaker 1: the offense. You know, he came and talk to me

428
00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:32,520
Speaker 1: and spoke to me, and that was the first time

429
00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:34,280
Speaker 1: I was on the left and he looked my way,

430
00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:36,479
Speaker 1: so I was opening through a purft ball. It's interesting,

431
00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:38,879
Speaker 1: you said, because what he said to us was he

432
00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:41,000
Speaker 1: talked to you and said, look, if we get this

433
00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:44,080
Speaker 1: particular look, I'm coming to you. What does that mean

434
00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:46,879
Speaker 1: to hear that from him in that game? Such a

435
00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,159
Speaker 1: huge game for him to say I'm coming to you,

436
00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:51,840
Speaker 1: be ready? What was that like? Hearing that? Like I said,

437
00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:53,920
Speaker 1: it's a confidence booster. I'm like, okay, he trust me

438
00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:55,639
Speaker 1: to make the play. I haven't had a lot of

439
00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:58,040
Speaker 1: plays this season. I haven't started a lot this season,

440
00:21:58,080 --> 00:21:59,880
Speaker 1: and he's trust me to make the play. So moving

441
00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:03,199
Speaker 1: for it. I don't know it grows. So what has

442
00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:05,280
Speaker 1: it been like your whole life trying to correct people

443
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Speaker 1: with the spelling of your first name. I tell them

444
00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,160
Speaker 1: to talk to my mom on that one. My mom

445
00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,520
Speaker 1: always said people are will never, you know, forget it,

446
00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:16,280
Speaker 1: and they'll say see my name and be like okay,

447
00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:19,560
Speaker 1: and and never forget it. V y c I n

448
00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:23,040
Speaker 1: t v y n ci. Oh yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah,

449
00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:26,000
Speaker 1: even but I don't have my readers on I'm sorry,

450
00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:32,159
Speaker 1: screwed up. We got Smith right though, when I don't know,

451
00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:33,880
Speaker 1: did you over the off seas, did you get home,

452
00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:35,760
Speaker 1: did you get back to Limestone? And when you go

453
00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:39,159
Speaker 1: back to Limestone or how how do people treat you

454
00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,240
Speaker 1: when they see you on campus? So you now, oh,

455
00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:43,320
Speaker 1: Vincent Smith or is it just hey manc it like

456
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:45,320
Speaker 1: they've known you along? What's it like when you go back.

457
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:47,359
Speaker 1: It's a little bit of both. I was a pretty

458
00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,520
Speaker 1: quiet person on campus, got out, didn't do much, and

459
00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:52,800
Speaker 1: now it's a little bit like, you know, all the

460
00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:54,840
Speaker 1: young guys freshman coming out the team to look at

461
00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:58,400
Speaker 1: me like, um, something really special, and all my teammates

462
00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:00,760
Speaker 1: I played well, you know, I'm just the boys kicking

463
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:02,840
Speaker 1: it with them saying guy. So it's a little bit

464
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:06,560
Speaker 1: of both. But for the love definitely all right. So

465
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,359
Speaker 1: you're in your young twenties and last year a lot

466
00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,880
Speaker 1: of guys started talking about the food here, the changes

467
00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:14,480
Speaker 1: with the diet and everything. How has it been for

468
00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:17,080
Speaker 1: you as a young man. Have you changed that already

469
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,640
Speaker 1: because a lot of guys talk about changing their diet

470
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,000
Speaker 1: dramatically when they get into the league four or five,

471
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:26,760
Speaker 1: six years. What have you done. It has changed dramatically. Um. Lad,

472
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,200
Speaker 1: you know he does a great job, Jacob. They're always honest,

473
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:33,560
Speaker 1: So having my diet be correct right now is I

474
00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:35,520
Speaker 1: don't have to think twice about it. They're always honest,

475
00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:38,879
Speaker 1: and that's been easier transition than I thought it would be.

476
00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:41,040
Speaker 1: I just I just need to learn how to cook

477
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:44,399
Speaker 1: on my home and do that. But other than that,

478
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:45,879
Speaker 1: it's I had to state them. They take great care

479
00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:47,840
Speaker 1: of us. Get the to go box, fill it up

480
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,000
Speaker 1: and just go home. Yeah, that's the best way to

481
00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:52,920
Speaker 1: what the interns do here. Yeah, exactly, that's a smart

482
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,240
Speaker 1: thing to do. I mean, at that point, that's what

483
00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:57,439
Speaker 1: every adult male coming out of college has to learn

484
00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,280
Speaker 1: how to do. I mean, turning stove on, turn a

485
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:02,119
Speaker 1: stove off, make sure you do all those things you

486
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:04,600
Speaker 1: gotta do. But do you feel like you feel it

487
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:07,159
Speaker 1: in your body? You feel a change because of the

488
00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 1: sports performance stuff that you guys go through. Do you

489
00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 1: feel that, like, Man, I've been eating better and I'm

490
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,879
Speaker 1: feeling the impact of that. Is the best my body's

491
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:19,240
Speaker 1: felt all of my years playing football. I don't have

492
00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,440
Speaker 1: any eggs of pains. I don't. I don't. I don't

493
00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:23,840
Speaker 1: feel bad at all. This is the best my buddies

494
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 1: feel in my life. All right, Vincent, thanks a lot

495
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:28,000
Speaker 1: for joining us, Good luck, Thank you all. I told

496
00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:33,199
Speaker 1: the story before after that catch against Philadelphia, Vince had

497
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:34,639
Speaker 1: to go on a kickoff team. When he came down

498
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 1: a kickoff team, Remember the Texans made the tackle, I

499
00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 1: like ten fifteen yard line. The guys came off the sideline,

500
00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:43,040
Speaker 1: just jack and the sideline at that point, within the

501
00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:45,560
Speaker 1: last five minutes of an NFL game, especially in Philadelphia,

502
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:50,080
Speaker 1: is jam packed with people, and so as the guys

503
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:52,040
Speaker 1: that come off the sideline, they're kind of making their way.

504
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 1: And as I turn around, I see Vincent and I

505
00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,720
Speaker 1: just give him the biggest hug ever. And I'm like,

506
00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:00,600
Speaker 1: that was so freaking awesome. And I just saw in

507
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 1: his eyes he was so happy. I just wish that

508
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 1: could have been the game winning catch. We'd remember it

509
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,680
Speaker 1: even more if it was. But just that particular moment,

510
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,840
Speaker 1: the joy that he had from Limestone College the year

511
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,800
Speaker 1: before to make a net catch against the defending champs

512
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, and does Sean have the confidence

513
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,240
Speaker 1: in him to make that catch? It was an incredible

514
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Speaker 1: moment and hopefully more of those coming up for Vincent Smith,

515
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 1: second year wide receiver out of Limestone College. Now we're

516
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Speaker 1: talking a little college football in the next segment with

517
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:34,040
Speaker 1: our buddy, General Manager LSSSE. That's Lone Star Sports and

518
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,359
Speaker 1: Entertainment David Fletcher talking about what's going on with the

519
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 1: Academy Sports and Outdoors Texas ball time date and also

520
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,320
Speaker 1: the Gold Cup coming up June twenty ninth. That's next

521
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Speaker 1: on Texans All Access. Welcome back to our Friday edition

522
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Speaker 1: of Texans All Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio.

523
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:54,639
Speaker 1: I am John Harris Footbilano's salary reporter, joined now by

524
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Speaker 1: my good friend, the Grand Poobah of LSC. It's by

525
00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:00,719
Speaker 1: man David Fletcher. Flets how you doing, buddy, Johnny, It's

526
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:02,399
Speaker 1: been too long? How are you? I know, man, you

527
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:05,400
Speaker 1: know it definitely has been. First of all, it's let's

528
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,120
Speaker 1: handle some of our business on the arrow fast SEC

529
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,360
Speaker 1: Media days, Big twelve media Days. You're gonna hit both.

530
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 1: I'm not this year. I am gonna be. Let's see,

531
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,320
Speaker 1: you know, both of those end up being the same

532
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 1: week that we have a little little match here in Houston,

533
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 1: Real Madrid and Byron Munich, So so you're gonna be

534
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 1: a little busy. We're gonna be a little busy. Are

535
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,480
Speaker 1: you sending me instead? You know what, Johnny, I like

536
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 1: where your head is. I think we got to figure

537
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,959
Speaker 1: that one out. And so a meeting off air on it. Yes,

538
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:38,119
Speaker 1: absolutely excited. I just thought about that with no no

539
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 1: Greenbrier trip, that sounds like you're gonna have to get

540
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 1: on the road again. But yeah, I'm well, I'm totally

541
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 1: fine with that. I would mind going. I'd love going

542
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,359
Speaker 1: to those media days. I know that for some people

543
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:50,240
Speaker 1: it's a ton of work, and it is work once

544
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 1: you get out there and getting interviews and all that,

545
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 1: But I just know there's something about being amongst the

546
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 1: college football prognosticators and cogniscent I love I just I

547
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,040
Speaker 1: love it, especially in Hoover. They they're back to houver

548
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,240
Speaker 1: this year for the SEC. I like that in Atlanta

549
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,440
Speaker 1: last year, although Atlanta would have been great because I

550
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,120
Speaker 1: could have gone to the College Football of Fame, which

551
00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:10,440
Speaker 1: I've never seen so, which is actually where they held

552
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: it last year, so I know it was it was

553
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:15,200
Speaker 1: really cool and but but Hoover's home, so and that

554
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 1: crowd the second day when Alabama comes. It's honestly, it's

555
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 1: like radio roads insane. Man, it's so wild. It is

556
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 1: so wild speaking at college football. And one of the

557
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 1: reasons that we wanted to sit down and chat there

558
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 1: was a little bit of news about the Academy Sports

559
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 1: and Outdoors Texas Bowl yesterday and it came with a

560
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 1: bunch of other news as well, But obviously that's the

561
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:44,439
Speaker 1: one that hits home. December twenty seventh at six forty

562
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:48,359
Speaker 1: five nine is at six forty five Eastern, So at

563
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 1: five forty five people are sitting down for dinner at

564
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:54,600
Speaker 1: home or in the building. Five forty five Academy Sports

565
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 1: and Outdoors Texas Bowl will kick off in twenty nineteen.

566
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Speaker 1: Fletch your thoughts. It's on the time, the date, what

567
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,520
Speaker 1: you like about it? Texas Bowl five forty five, Summer

568
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:07,160
Speaker 1: twenty seven. Where were like, there isn't a whole lot

569
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 1: to not like about it. So college football season's gonna

570
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:12,439
Speaker 1: end on a Friday night, lights as it should here

571
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 1: in Texas, Right here in Houston, We're incredibly exciting. You know,

572
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 1: this game has been in primetime for now a sixth

573
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: straight year. That window will be great from from an

574
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 1: audience perspective picking up the East coast. It'll be great

575
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,159
Speaker 1: for our fans here in town because you'll get out

576
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 1: here starting a holiday weekend or really just kind of

577
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 1: the middle of a holiday week and UM and get

578
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: to come out here and tailgate early all day long,

579
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 1: have a great experience and watch one of the best

580
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 1: college football games in the country. Big twelve takes on

581
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: the SEC for the sixth time you mentioned it. The

582
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 1: Academy Sports and Outdoors Texas Bowl will be a primetime game,

583
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 1: early primetime game out here at NRG Stadium, and we

584
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 1: couldn't be more thrilled about this. You know. We We've

585
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: got an opportunity to be one of the last games

586
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 1: before the semi final kicks on Saturday. The primetime window

587
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 1: is gonna be huge for college football fans that want

588
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: to consume as much good football action as they can UM,

589
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 1: and we will no doubt have a good one. You

590
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 1: and I were talking off air, I mean just looking

591
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 1: at the matchups and the games that we've had as

592
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 1: of late. UM, the Academy Sports Outdoors Texas Bowl has

593
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 1: absolutely been over the last five years one of the

594
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 1: most exciting games UM and had some big time matchups

595
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:25,800
Speaker 1: in it. So with some big time talent. You know,

596
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 1: you're talking about five top ten picks, a lot of

597
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 1: first rounders, number one overall pick in Miles Garrett and

598
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 1: uh the MVP Pat Mahomes all have played in this

599
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: game just in the last five years. So it's UM,

600
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 1: you know, it's gonna be a great experience and it's

601
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 1: a great family environment too. UM tickets UM will be

602
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 1: going on sale later in the fall, but UM certainly

603
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 1: want to get you at Academy Texas Bowl dot com

604
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 1: to get on that priority list now or or if

605
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 1: you were smart, if you were smart and you're you're

606
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: you're a long time season ticket member. UM. That renewal

607
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 1: renewal window ends next week, so your opportunity to get

608
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 1: back in and catch what will be the fourteenth edition

609
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 1: of one of the biggest college football games in the country. Flush.

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Speaker 1: Do you like that five forty five time slot as

611
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: opposed to the eight fifteen almost even I'm trying to

612
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:13,760
Speaker 1: remember last year it was a little bit later and

613
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 1: it was later at night. Yeah, do you like the

614
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Speaker 1: Do you like the five forty five time slot? You're

615
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 1: still be hind the pinch Stripe Bowl. I don't know

616
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Speaker 1: how that happens. You're something you're always be on a

617
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 1: pinch stripe bowl though, I mean it is. They've had

618
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 1: some good games too in the pinch Stripe Bowl before.

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Speaker 1: I mean, whether it's a you know, weather game with

620
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Speaker 1: some snow, or they've had a game that's gone down

621
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Speaker 1: in the final seconds or going an overtime, like iowan

622
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:35,720
Speaker 1: Boston College did it two years ago. Do you like

623
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Speaker 1: that five forty five slot? No, I love it. I mean,

624
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,640
Speaker 1: like I said, from the outset, you know, early prime time,

625
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 1: so you get in there. Uh you can get in

626
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 1: here and get your tailgating in all afternoon. Um, we're

627
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 1: gonna have fantastic um activities out here around that tailgating. Uh.

628
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Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna do the big time live music

629
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Speaker 1: working on our act right now, and I'm very excited

630
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: about um who we're targeting. And uh, you're gonna have

631
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: the great food. You're gonna have the great carback on tap,

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00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 1: you know, and uh so you know we're gonna we're

633
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: gonna have a great experience out here. The spirit walks,

634
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 1: the pageantry, uh that this, the cheerleaders, the bands, I mean,

635
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be a great atmosphere out here at

636
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 1: NRG Stadium, and um, the early time frame will will

637
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 1: allow it to I think even be even more family friendly.

638
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 1: Um which um, which we love to be able to

639
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 1: do that. Ain't fifteen kick well awesome? You know. One,

640
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: it's late on the East Coast. Two, Um, it's late

641
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 1: for the kids who are home for breaks. Now mom

642
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 1: and dad have no excuse. Get out here. You can

643
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: get him in bed by ten o'clock and you get

644
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: to see one of the best games in the country.

645
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 1: Should be a lot of fun. Yeah, And I mean

646
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:38,479
Speaker 1: if you're doing the math, it is a Friday night,

647
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 1: but it's holiday week so Holliday weekend, so that that

648
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I think one other thing about the timing.

649
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 1: I know, people, why do you care about what time

650
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: the game is? Well, you try and do in college footballs,

651
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 1: create habits, and you know during college football weekend, eleven

652
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 1: o'clocks when it kicks off. And I mean, if you're

653
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,479
Speaker 1: if you're a little sicker like me, you know exactly

654
00:31:57,560 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 1: when game day is kicking off, so you can catch

655
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: you a little bit of that. But you know, eleven

656
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: o'clock be in front of you, be in front of

657
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: your television, so you can catch that then in a

658
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: two thirty game. But what college football has done, I

659
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 1: think it's ABCSPN that's done this their evening game. They're

660
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 1: gonna kick off at seven thirty Eastern, six thirty Central.

661
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 1: They've moved that up an hour. So I think just

662
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: that time frame of hole six thirties a little bit early,

663
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 1: relatively speaking, compared to what we've had in the past

664
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: for a big college football game. Well, now as we

665
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 1: went up to six thirty, Now the kickoff might be

666
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 1: six forty five, but you're kind of in that window

667
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:32,240
Speaker 1: of when people are used to seeing college football games.

668
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 1: So hey, six o'clock, six thirty, people are gonna turn

669
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:37,479
Speaker 1: oh yeah, Texas balls on, you know, gonna check it out.

670
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 1: And like you said, the amount of talent that's been here,

671
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 1: and I still I contend that twenty the twenty fifteen

672
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 1: season when LSU Texas Tech was in here and you

673
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 1: had kek Qt and jackiem Grant catching passes from Patrick

674
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 1: Mahomes against Jamal Adams, Davin Gotschaw arting key with Leonard

675
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 1: Fournett running the rock on the other side, DJ Shark

676
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 1: running reverses on the other side. May have been as

677
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 1: much NFL talent as I saw any ball game that year. Yeah,

678
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 1: I mean I go about It's like it was incredible.

679
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: You remember that game. I mean, while while the final

680
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: score was not indicative of what would be labeled as

681
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 1: a great game, late late third quarter going into the fourth,

682
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes driving in the red zone, uh, with an

683
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 1: opportunity to take the lead, throws a tip pass interception

684
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 1: and then LSU just s team rolls out with Leonard

685
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 1: Fournette had five touchdowns over two hundred and forty seven yards.

686
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:28,880
Speaker 1: It was it was a huge night for him. Um,

687
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: but but certainly one that was full, like many of

688
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: these games have been, with a lot of talent. And

689
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: you and I were talking again offline just uh in

690
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: getting ready to visit here. I mean, you look at

691
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: the last couple of games too. Um, you know there's

692
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: some players on that Missouri team, even though they lost

693
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: to Texas, big time talent that over the next couple

694
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 1: of years are gonna add to that first round list

695
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 1: that that Baylor Vanderbilt game. A couple of really solid

696
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 1: players that were in this year's draft second third rounders

697
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: UNA gonna make impacts on NFL teams with the matchup

698
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 1: that we have big twelve sec. You know, you're gonna

699
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 1: have talent that's that's got some kind of local connection

700
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:08,360
Speaker 1: to it, but you're also gonna get the best of

701
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 1: the best, and that's what this game will have to offer.

702
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 1: And this year I'm very excited it's gonna be in

703
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier window to showcase that to a

704
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 1: bigger audience across the country. That's gonna be big. But

705
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 1: you got stuff coming on. You just mentioned, uh the

706
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 1: big matchup tune Royal Berdrid and Bayern Munich. But June

707
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 1: twenty nine Gold Cup here at NRG Stadium, give us

708
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,359
Speaker 1: a little inform what we got going on, fletch Well,

709
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: I mean, the summer of soccer is about to kick

710
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 1: off in a big, big way and Gold Cup returns

711
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 1: to NRG for the first time since twenty eleven. So

712
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 1: we've had it in market every year since two thousand

713
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: and five and BBVA Compass Stadium has been a great host.

714
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,359
Speaker 1: And there'll be another fantastic matchup. I've heard that one's

715
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,320
Speaker 1: close to sell it out over there on the twenty

716
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,840
Speaker 1: first over at BBVA with Honduras and El Salvador and

717
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: a couple other great teams that will will create a

718
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 1: great double header atmosphere over here at NRG, We've got

719
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:03,359
Speaker 1: the quarterfinal and it's gonna be awesome. Mexico Costa Rica

720
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 1: are seated. Team's big announcement this past week from the

721
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 1: Mexican national team. Uh, they have announced their their preliminary

722
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 1: rosters and I'm very excited to see a lot of

723
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 1: the superstars that and they're young talent that are gonna

724
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 1: be out there. Um, of course, headline by by Chukey himself.

725
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 1: Ving Lozano, one of the best strikers in the world

726
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:24,319
Speaker 1: for those of you that watched the World Cup last year,

727
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 1: scored that incredible goal against Germany to give Mexico that

728
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,840
Speaker 1: that opening win. Um, and he's gonna be joined by

729
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:34,840
Speaker 1: some crowd favorites Jonathan Dos Santos and and uh Guardado,

730
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 1: guys that have been on that roster veteran. So it's

731
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: a it's a very very uh, very interesting time for

732
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 1: the Mexican national team. Guys like Chiecrito who have been

733
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:46,320
Speaker 1: the long standing um anchors of that team. You know,

734
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 1: they're they're they're getting up there in age and um,

735
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 1: you've got these young superstars that over the last three

736
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: years have really made a name for themselves, like chukey. UM,

737
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a lot of fun to see those

738
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 1: guys out here. UM gonna be a full house. That

739
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:00,799
Speaker 1: that that is definitely something if you're a soccer fan,

740
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 1: you do not want to miss. Gold Cup is our

741
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 1: is our regional championship. This matters. This is a big,

742
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: big deal for UM, the North and Central American region

743
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 1: and UH, you know Mexico is coming off of not

744
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: winning it in twenty seventeen. The US is our reigning champs,

745
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:19,959
Speaker 1: so UM, there's gonna be a lot of excitement around

746
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:23,720
Speaker 1: the country between the two matchups we have here in Houston,

747
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:27,279
Speaker 1: both doubleheaders. UM, you've got eight UM teams that will

748
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:30,320
Speaker 1: be represented UM, which is perfect for the most diverse

749
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 1: community in America and UM and UH all part of

750
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,879
Speaker 1: our lead up to what we hope is a World

751
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,879
Speaker 1: Cup and announcement at the end of twenty twenty. These

752
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,399
Speaker 1: games matter a lot. The tickets are hard to get

753
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 1: because this these are big time games, but we want

754
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:49,320
Speaker 1: to see as much the community out here UH celebrating soccer.

755
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 1: UH in what truly is a summer of soccer. Three

756
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: major events that we talked about already on this show too,

757
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 1: around Gold Cup in that Bayern and UM realit drid matchups,

758
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 1: so and we didn't even mention this. And Byron just

759
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: won a seventh, seventh straight budhis league title this past weekend.

760
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: So um, one of the best teams in the world,

761
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 1: really two of the best teams in the world, UM

762
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:14,359
Speaker 1: coming in July, but uh, they're they're gonna have an

763
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:16,839
Speaker 1: opportunity to have a really good lead in with these

764
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 1: matchups and uh Gold Cup dot orgus where you can

765
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 1: get those tickets, UM, but get them while you can.

766
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 1: The tournament's gonna start on June fifteenth. Around the country,

767
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 1: ten cities, Mexico will likely be here and you're not

768
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 1: gonna want to miss their eighteenth return to NRG Stadium.

769
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 1: More than any other stadium in the country, we are

770
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:36,959
Speaker 1: the home away from home. We are the home away.

771
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:40,080
Speaker 1: It's an amazing it's an amazing time when the Mexican

772
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: national team is here. Just wash your head when they score,

773
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,799
Speaker 1: because I beer will fly. I remember the first time

774
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:46,800
Speaker 1: that I saw them, The first time I was in

775
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: the building and I was leaving, I was leaving out

776
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 1: of the building, to go. It was I was it

777
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 1: was twenty I want to say it was summer or fourteen,

778
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 1: and I was leaving and I left the stadium like

779
00:37:57,880 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 1: I don't know, two thirty three o'clock or whatever that day,

780
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 1: and I look and there's a line like down Kirby

781
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 1: and going around six ten from people waiting, and they're

782
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 1: all in green shirts. So I figured I knew right

783
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:11,800
Speaker 1: away what it was. But I'm like, oh my gosh,

784
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 1: the game isn't for like four or five hours. They're

785
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:15,759
Speaker 1: like waiting for the gates to open. I was like,

786
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,319
Speaker 1: this legit, man, I mean, it's gonna be fun. It's

787
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 1: a festival. It is a It is an incredible festival

788
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 1: atmosphere for those games. Tailgating is obviously a huge part

789
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 1: of our culture. The number one tailgating atmosphere in all

790
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 1: of UM, in all of football, right here at NRG Stadium.

791
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 1: But if you have not been out to see um,

792
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: the spectacle that is UM. Any of these major international

793
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 1: soccer events, but's certainly one that has the Mexican national

794
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,719
Speaker 1: team in Houston. It's it's as fun as it gets.

795
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,920
Speaker 1: So quarterfinals here, semifinals and finals, I know they're not here.

796
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 1: But they're not semifinals. I believe you put me on

797
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 1: the spot. Once in Philadelphia, ones in Dallas, and then

798
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:57,919
Speaker 1: they're gonna be in Chicago for the championship. So very nice. Yeah.

799
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 1: So uh, it's it's a it's a huge, huge opportunity

800
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,279
Speaker 1: for this community is show once again while we are

801
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:06,800
Speaker 1: the premier soccer community in America, and um, you know,

802
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 1: if you get a chance, I mean, you know, lost

803
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 1: in all the lost in all the excitement around um,

804
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:15,480
Speaker 1: the incredible run that our our local sports teams have

805
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:17,800
Speaker 1: had has been. How great the Dynamo have been opening

806
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 1: up start this season, and so you know, you get

807
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 1: you get a great product over there each and every week.

808
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 1: But um, when you see the guys playing for their

809
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:28,239
Speaker 1: national team, particularly in one that counts, um, you know,

810
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 1: you and I've talked a lot about, I know, sports

811
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 1: fans talking about the intensity of of playoff hockey and

812
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,800
Speaker 1: how I'm crazy that is. I mean, these are on

813
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 1: another level compared to that. It's really a lot of fun. Well,

814
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:41,879
Speaker 1: guess who's spent an off season trying to figure out

815
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 1: the glorious game of soccer? Yours truly? Oh and I

816
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 1: you know, you know I started I watched the All

817
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:53,720
Speaker 1: or Nothing on Manchester City that was on Amazon Prime.

818
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:55,959
Speaker 1: So I've watched all the all the All or Nothing.

819
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 1: If you don't know that show is they started a

820
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:01,319
Speaker 1: few years ago with Oh the Cardinals were the first one.

821
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 1: So basically they did a hard Knocks style show with

822
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:07,960
Speaker 1: the Cardinals all season long, not training camp. But I

823
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:09,719
Speaker 1: started with the season and then went with it, and

824
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:13,440
Speaker 1: so it's a fast It was fascinating, It was fascinating.

825
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 1: That's when you really got a glimpse into Tyron Matthew

826
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 1: and I just he was so good that year in

827
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: fifteen for them and then got hurt at the end,

828
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 1: and they were there for all those moments. So anyways,

829
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:26,400
Speaker 1: they did They did the Cardinals, they did the Rams,

830
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 1: and they did the Cowboys. Those are three they've done it.

831
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 1: Apparently they've done the Panthers for this year, but they

832
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 1: really kind of kept under wraps. But then they went

833
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 1: to college football and they did Michigan for a year,

834
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 1: remember that, And then they decided to do Manchester City,

835
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:44,760
Speaker 1: and I have become a city fan. I just loved

836
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:49,360
Speaker 1: everything about the team, Pep Guardiola, I mean everything about it.

837
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 1: But the one thing that I that I learned watching

838
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:57,800
Speaker 1: that was all these different Cups and Gold Cup and

839
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 1: Premier League and how all that. Like I couldn't figure

840
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 1: that out to save my life. Like I didn't get it,

841
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:05,719
Speaker 1: but I understand it now. I'm like, Okay, I get

842
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,360
Speaker 1: what Premier League. I understand what Champions League is. I

843
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 1: get what Boonist League is and how that all plays

844
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Speaker 1: together with Premier League. Like I get all that after

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Speaker 1: watching All or Nothing. So I have taken a crash

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Speaker 1: course and trying to understand soccer from an international you

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Speaker 1: play for your country stage, but also you play for

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Speaker 1: your club team, and then how all that plays into

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Speaker 1: the Champions League. I like, I get it now. Finally,

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Speaker 1: welcome on the bandwagon. Plenty of room to get people

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Speaker 1: on with you and impact that these superstars have UM

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Speaker 1: globally with fans. I mean. So in twenty sixteen, JJ

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Speaker 1: Watt came down to the Mexican national team's practice over

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Speaker 1: at the Houston Methist Training Center ahead of Copa America

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Speaker 1: and Cheezer Rito. At the time, UM literally lost his

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Speaker 1: mind and excitement at meeting. It was it was it

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Speaker 1: was one of the cool scenes I've ever seen. But

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Speaker 1: the thing that was so as as a sports um

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Speaker 1: person that was so kind of ironic of it is

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Speaker 1: JJ Watt was very excited to meet cheat Rito. Cheech

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Speaker 1: Territo loses his mind. JJ Watt at the time had

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Speaker 1: like three or four million followers you know in the universe.

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Speaker 1: Cheech r Rito had like twenty. Yeah, and he was

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Speaker 1: losing his mind. A chance to meet a guy. They're

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Speaker 1: such big superstars and you've seen that friendship grow and

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00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:26,799
Speaker 1: it happens a lot with these guys. They're all they

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Speaker 1: all get a chance to to realize many of the

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Speaker 1: same things in the off season and putting in the

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Speaker 1: hard work and uh and getting to represent your national

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Speaker 1: team is something that um, you know, very few of

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Speaker 1: them get to do, but it's the ultimate honor in

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Speaker 1: the sports. And so UM we have. We are very

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Speaker 1: fortunate that we've build the base here to to bring

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Speaker 1: these great teams year in and year out, and this

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Speaker 1: is another opportunity to watch them at their best and

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Speaker 1: cannot wait to do it. Fletch you the best, my man.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, big thanks to Mark Vandomir, to

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Speaker 1: Vincent Smith twelve you for listening. You guys have a

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Speaker 1: great Memorial Day weekend and we will see you on

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Speaker 1: Monday take air and as always, go Texans.