Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we make
Speaker 1: every day National Girls and Women in Sports Day, and
Speaker 1: we give every event a women's sports slant, even the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. It's Thursday, February sixth, and we're coming to
Speaker 1: you from the home of Super Bowl fifty nine, New Orleans.
Speaker 1: On today's show, we're bringing you not one, but two
Speaker 1: interviews straight from Radio Row. We chatted with Michelle Beadle,
Speaker 1: host of Beatle and Decker, and put a women's sports
Speaker 1: spin on some of the biggest Super Bowl stories of
Speaker 1: the week. And we grabbed ESPN's Munich Times in between
Speaker 1: her one hundred or so NFL shows to talk Poe
Speaker 1: boys and the fragile nature of pro locker rooms. Plus
Speaker 1: the face of the league is on the move, a
Speaker 1: unanimously impressive accomplishment, and do your shoes have an apostrophe?
Speaker 2: It's all coming up right after this Welcome back slices.
Speaker 1: We'll get to all the New Orleans fun, but first,
Speaker 1: here's what you need to know today. In the WNBA,
Speaker 1: we've got another jaw dropping free agency move courtesy of
Speaker 1: one of the quota quote faces of the league, two
Speaker 1: time WNBA champ Sid Colson, who's played with the Las
Speaker 1: Vegas Aces since twenty twenty two, is signing a one
Speaker 1: year contract with the Indiana Fever.
Speaker 2: Her agent told ESPN.
Speaker 1: Colson is just the latest name to sign with the
Speaker 1: Fever in the offseason, joining Natasha Howard and Dewana Bonner.
Speaker 1: A point guard, she's expected to back up Caitlyn Clark.
Speaker 1: She played a similar role for the Aces. She averaged
Speaker 1: less than ten minutes a game the last three seasons,
Speaker 1: but always drawing high praise from her teammates for her
Speaker 1: leadership and her locker room contributions, along with, of course,
Speaker 1: her social media antics. Aces star Asia Wilson bemoaned the
Speaker 1: loss of another teammate, commenting on social quote, have you
Speaker 1: seen the rest of my teammates?
Speaker 2: There will still be cake this year.
Speaker 1: I already got the design end quote with a picture
Speaker 1: of the cake she got her teammates for Pride Month.
Speaker 1: The cake read hooray you gay with a pair of
Speaker 1: scissors on it, and sid Colson called her an a
Speaker 1: apostrophe lly ally too much to the NWSL where news
Speaker 1: broke on Wednesday that the league will pay five million
Speaker 1: dollars to create a play compensation fund, part of a
Speaker 1: settlement following a joint investigation by three attorneys general from
Speaker 1: New York, Illinois, and Washington DC into allegations of abuse
Speaker 1: that were brought to light in twenty twenty one. Money
Speaker 1: from the fund will go to players who experienced abuse.
Speaker 1: The settlement also mandates that the league maintained safeguards that
Speaker 1: were put in place in twenty twenty two, following two
Speaker 1: investigations that documented widespread misconduct across multiple teams. In a statement,
Speaker 1: NWSLPA Executive director Megan Burke said, quote, this investigation was
Speaker 1: initiated by the NWSLPA because players refused to stay silent
Speaker 1: in the face of systemic abuse. The human rights and
Speaker 1: civil rights violations they endured were enabled by a system
Speaker 1: that failed in its most basic duty to protect its players.
Speaker 1: This settlement not only acknowledges those failures, but for the
Speaker 1: first time, establishes enforcement mechanisms under the law to hold
Speaker 1: nwsl accountable and to prevent future harm.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: If you want to know more about the settlement, we'll
Speaker 1: link to a story on the topic by the athletics
Speaker 1: meg Linihan, whose reporting in twenty twenty one helped uncover
Speaker 1: years of abuse. More nwsl News a new doctor series
Speaker 1: about the twenty twenty four NWSL playoffs has been greenlit
Speaker 1: by Prime Video. The series will follow Orlando's championship run
Speaker 1: and promises behind the scenes footage of big moments.
Speaker 2: No word yet on a release date, though we'll keep
Speaker 2: you posted. More soccer, We've got our.
Speaker 1: First new name pronunciation from the newlywed soccer Girlies. Here's
Speaker 1: the star formerly known as Lynn Williams on The Women's
Speaker 1: Game podcast, introducing herself using her new name and sharing
Speaker 1: why she made the decision to change it.
Speaker 2: And I'm Lynn Biandolo.
Speaker 3: So, Sam, you wrote that wrong, but I'm coming to
Speaker 3: you from my new city, Seattle, new city, new name baby.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I originally wasn't going to. And then when I
Speaker 3: was having my father daughter dance, we were just dancing
Speaker 3: and talking and he brought it up and he's like,
Speaker 3: and I think you should change your name on your jersey.
Speaker 3: He said, this is the family you chose to be in,
Speaker 3: and Marley's an incredible person, and so I think you
Speaker 3: should just change your name. And I was like, Okay,
Speaker 3: instant tears. Obviously, besides one other family in the congo,
Speaker 3: anybody in the world who has the last name Biandola
Speaker 3: will be like directly related, So I think that's really cool.
Speaker 4: Wow, beautiful story behind the name change. Also b in
Speaker 4: Dolo not buy in Dolo noted saved in the brain.
Speaker 4: I'll get it right next time.
Speaker 1: To a little basketball in fashion where the weight for
Speaker 1: Asia's A one shoes is nearly over Asia's signature shoes,
Speaker 1: launching with a bright pink colorway. We're officially unveiled on
Speaker 1: Tuesday and will be available for purchase in May, unless,
Speaker 1: of course, you're Don Staley, who has already posted picks
Speaker 1: rock in the Shoes. The collection will also include slides
Speaker 1: and apparel. You can listen to the ACES Star sit
Speaker 1: down with Badass actress and writer Lisa Ray to discuss
Speaker 1: the development of the line, and you could also check
Speaker 1: her out with a senior footwear designer for Nike Basketball
Speaker 1: on The Athletic Women's Basketball Show, where they discussed the
Speaker 1: design process, science versus style and more.
Speaker 2: We'll link to both those in the show.
Speaker 1: Notes to boxing, shout out to Claressa Shields, who captured
Speaker 1: the undisputed heavyweight title over the weekend thanks to a
Speaker 1: unanimous victory over the previously undefeated Danielle Perkins, with the windshields,
Speaker 1: became the first boxer of any gender in the four
Speaker 1: belt era to become undisputed champion across three different weight classes.
Speaker 2: Finally, a reminder that.
Speaker 1: The college softball season begins today with a bunch of
Speaker 1: ranked teams in action, including number two Florida, Number three Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: and number four Oklahoma State. Will link to the schedule
Speaker 1: and tune in info in the show notes.
Speaker 2: So while we're talking.
Speaker 1: Asia's shoes and WNBA moves, much of the sports world
Speaker 1: is centered in New Orleans for the Super Bowl. And
Speaker 1: while we don't cover the NFL here on Good Game,
Speaker 1: we do need to be in all the places that
Speaker 1: the biggest.
Speaker 2: Sports shows, companies, execs, and athletes are.
Speaker 1: Super Week is not just about football, NBA players, WNBA players,
Speaker 1: big name coaches, comedians, actors, and celebs of all kinds
Speaker 1: make their way down to Super Bowl Week and go
Speaker 1: to radio row, the parties and the events. Now in
Speaker 1: the past, when the sports world gathered in one place,
Speaker 1: it was usually just male athletes and shows that covered them.
Speaker 1: But we need to get women's leagues and athletes and
Speaker 1: shows into these spaces too. So here we are Ruben
Speaker 1: Elbows on Radio Row and spreading the gospel of women's sports.
Speaker 1: And while I'm here with Ihart women's sports for the
Speaker 1: first time, I'm still seeing the same stuff I saw
Speaker 1: on Radio Road that I have every other year when
Speaker 1: I came with the ESPN, actual shows making interesting content
Speaker 1: and side shows like I don't know comedian Bert Kreischer
Speaker 1: cutting it up or the shirtless old Spice guy making
Speaker 1: the rounds. I'm also, of course, having a little fun
Speaker 1: in New Orleans while I'm down here. Last night, I
Speaker 1: did take some advice from a handful of folks who
Speaker 1: chirped in with some New Orleans res. I grabbed a
Speaker 1: frozen Irish coffee from Aaron Rose, which I highly recommend,
Speaker 1: and I got an espresso martini at the Carousel Lounge,
Speaker 1: where the bar slowly spins as you're drinking, which makes
Speaker 1: it kind of tough to tell if you've had too many.
Speaker 1: As you're walking up to it, you're like, oh, it
Speaker 1: doesn't move, and then you sit down and you're like, oh, okay.
Speaker 1: I asked one of the bartenders and they said the
Speaker 1: longest they saw someone sit there was three to four
Speaker 1: straight hours, which no, thank you. I'll take a couple
Speaker 1: spins around the carousel, and then I headed off to
Speaker 1: wander the French Quarter.
Speaker 2: I ran into all sorts of friends.
Speaker 1: I noticed how many Christmas trees are still lit up
Speaker 1: in all the bars and hotels here.
Speaker 2: It is February.
Speaker 1: I feel like in Chicago this is happening a lot too,
Speaker 1: like straight through February, maybe into March.
Speaker 2: I want to.
Speaker 1: Judge you people because it seems strange, but also whatever
Speaker 1: brings joy during dark times, I say, do it.
Speaker 2: So Christmas trees in February, why not.
Speaker 1: I'm going to have lots more Super Bowl shenanigans from
Speaker 1: the days to come, but we got to take a
Speaker 1: quick break. When we come back, we'll hear from Michelle Beadle,
Speaker 1: who dropped some Super Bowl adjacent hot takes straight out
Speaker 1: of the oven.
Speaker 2: It's next joining us now.
Speaker 1: She hosts Beatle and Decker weekdays from noon to three
Speaker 1: pm Eastern, non serious XM's Mad Dog Sports radio channel.
Speaker 1: You know her from Sports Nation, NBA Countdown, Get Up,
Speaker 1: NBC Sports Olympics coverage, and that time that we faked
Speaker 1: save Linda Cone from a rattlesnake bite on a hike
Speaker 1: in Arizona.
Speaker 5: It's Michelle beadle ps that still lives on the internet.
Speaker 2: I found it and I'm never going to let it go.
Speaker 2: If you want to google it, you can.
Speaker 1: We were being silly and funny and stories were printed
Speaker 1: and Ran CMZ asked about Michelle sucking rattlesnake bite out
Speaker 1: of Linda Cone's leg.
Speaker 2: It did not happen if we think it happens, if
Speaker 2: we believe that, if it's on the internet, it's real.
Speaker 2: It's real. I haven't seen you in forever. It's nice
Speaker 2: to see you. You too, like on a nice, humid
Speaker 2: New Orleans. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We both were just like, yeah, we can't even try
Speaker 1: with the hair. Might as well, why we have makeup
Speaker 1: on what we've been doing. I tried and then immediately
Speaker 1: pulled it back, like Monica when she went to Tropical Island.
Speaker 2: I'm getting like more and more Gilda Radner by.
Speaker 1: The second, All right, did you get into anything yet? Bars, restaurants, parties,
Speaker 1: dinner last night?
Speaker 5: Because it started at six, which is in my wheelhouse,
Speaker 5: and I'm back in my room by eight thirty.
Speaker 2: No, I'm like, I don't have it in me anymore.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 1: I started drinking it four yesterday, so I could have
Speaker 1: two drinks, one at four, one at five, eight, dinner
Speaker 1: at six thirty, and I was in my room by
Speaker 1: eight thirty.
Speaker 2: Do you remember, like years ago we do these things
Speaker 2: and you're like, I'm dancing at two. I am no.
Speaker 1: I mean, I might still find it in me at
Speaker 1: some point this week, but it's hard.
Speaker 5: I just I don't care anymore. And my bandwidth for
Speaker 5: being social is very small.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and let me tell you, working in the women's
Speaker 1: sports space almost entirely for the last year and a half.
Speaker 2: Yeah, coming back here, I have a little PTSD.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, I forgot. I forgot about some of this.
Speaker 1: Like I sat down at the bar yesterday and the
Speaker 1: guy was I was just chatting with was like, oh,
Speaker 1: go to this bar. I met the owner. He's Greaty's
Speaker 1: showing me the card. I'm I go cool, and then
Speaker 1: he goes or you can go to this place. And
Speaker 1: it was a card for a strip club with like
Speaker 1: giant knockers on it. I was like, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1: I took about five minutes for this to get weird.
Speaker 1: I am at the super Bowl.
Speaker 5: I get because I was gone for like what two years.
Speaker 5: Basically from any work. And so my first one of
Speaker 5: these was last year, and I just I kind of
Speaker 5: just was slinking in and slinking out.
Speaker 2: I'm not there yet. Here now it's weird to be back,
Speaker 2: but also good.
Speaker 1: You do talk some WNBA on your show on Beatle
Speaker 1: and Decker.
Speaker 2: How has that been.
Speaker 1: Have you had to do convincing to get the mainstream
Speaker 1: dude world to want to talk about it? Because it
Speaker 1: feels like this year we finally had a break yo.
Speaker 5: God, Yeah, you know what, it was weird about it
Speaker 5: and my my, my feeling is still this, Like was
Speaker 5: the argument about put it this way, the mouth breathers
Speaker 5: that ran to the defense of Kaitlin Clark that didn't.
Speaker 2: Really care about the sport itself.
Speaker 5: While obnoxious and boring, but it also opened up a
Speaker 5: lot of doors and a lot of eyes. And so
Speaker 5: I keep saying, you know what, they exist. People got here.
Speaker 5: Maybe it wasn't the coolest journey, but they're here now
Speaker 5: and a lot of them stuck around. And what I've noticed,
Speaker 5: so like when I do the Fandal Show with Chandler
Speaker 5: Parsons and lou Will, lou Will coaches his daughter's AAU team,
Speaker 5: so he is like entrenched in the women's world, like
Speaker 5: his daughter's love the w NBA, so he's he's like
Speaker 5: a bigger.
Speaker 2: Feminist than most.
Speaker 5: And then when I do the radio side, what I've
Speaker 5: noticed is a callers legitimately are in and they'll always
Speaker 5: start the conversation.
Speaker 2: Like I've never watched a single WNBA game, which, by.
Speaker 5: The way, that's fine, that's that's the majority. But now
Speaker 5: I love it and I love watching the games, and
Speaker 5: it's been really I'm a cynic, So I was shocked,
Speaker 5: to be honest, Well.
Speaker 1: I think to your point, and this is what I've
Speaker 1: always said when I was doing shows like Around the
Speaker 1: Horn or other places, if people don't have any information
Speaker 1: because they haven't done any work, you can't create an
Speaker 1: argument or a debate about it. And ultimately that's what
Speaker 1: drives most of those kind of shows. Even Around the
Speaker 1: Horn that has a lot more nuanced and thought to it,
Speaker 1: you're still ultimately tossing up a question for me able
Speaker 1: to have an opinion about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you can't have an opinion if you don't
Speaker 2: do the work.
Speaker 1: And you can well, but you're right. We actually saw
Speaker 1: that a lot during the WNBA season. Plenty of opinions
Speaker 1: for people who weren't watching and didn't know anything. But
Speaker 1: but it did give you this very easy sort of
Speaker 1: Caitlin versus angel. I mean, are they being mean to
Speaker 1: Caitlin or do you not know what you're talking about?
Speaker 2: Whatever?
Speaker 1: It was at least something that opened a door in
Speaker 1: the conversation, and then it made it easier to like
Speaker 1: get people to at least get interested.
Speaker 2: And then once they watched, they were like, oh shit, yeah,
Speaker 2: we've been missing such fun. Yeah, this is fun.
Speaker 5: These women are like they're badasses and they they talk smack,
Speaker 5: which I mean all the things that we love the
Speaker 5: men's game for.
Speaker 2: It's there. Most people like it unless they're unless they're misogynists,
Speaker 2: they're being mean. Yeah.
Speaker 5: And by the way, and that was a thing that
Speaker 5: I had to keep saying, it's same thing with women refs, right.
Speaker 5: I kept saying, please don't run to their defense. They
Speaker 5: don't want you to. They don't want you to say
Speaker 5: a woman reugh a women basketball player.
Speaker 2: They are players and they are refs. Like they don't
Speaker 2: need your help.
Speaker 5: I know you want a white knight into this thing,
Speaker 5: but we're good, right, And so yeah, like it's and
Speaker 5: could it be more predictable. We're gonna pit one woman
Speaker 5: against another. I was just like, course, do whatever it
Speaker 5: is you gotta do. These women don't care, and I
Speaker 5: want there to be some a bit of like competitive
Speaker 5: pettiness because I like it at all my sports.
Speaker 1: Well, also, that's what we've been crying for in the NBA. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like why is everyone friends? No one hates each other anymore?
Speaker 1: That what happens in the WNBA, and people are like
Speaker 1: physical and competitive, and.
Speaker 3: We're like, why do swim money exactly have a pillow
Speaker 3: fight instead.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we're a women's sports show, but we're not
Speaker 1: above getting into the hot takes that are taking over
Speaker 1: Super Week.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna do them in our own special way.
Speaker 1: Okay, we have Philadelphia Eagles versus Kansas City Chiefs on
Speaker 1: Sunday and want your take on the hot takes.
Speaker 2: But with a twist.
Speaker 1: Okay, So the Chiefs are looking for their third straight
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Yeah, fourth and five years. Some folks are
Speaker 1: kind of tired of it there. It's boring, it's repetitive,
Speaker 1: it's bad for the game. People used to say that
Speaker 1: Yukon women's basketball was bad for the game to dominate
Speaker 1: others said, you know, they bring eyeballs. They give folks
Speaker 1: someone to know or someone to hate. Yep, they set
Speaker 1: a standard for the rest of the league to catch
Speaker 1: up too. So, whether it's the Chiefs or Yukon women's basketball,
Speaker 1: are dynasties bad for sports.
Speaker 2: It's a good one.
Speaker 5: I suppose if you are a fan of a dynastic organization,
Speaker 5: then you would say, no, I love them. It is
Speaker 5: funny that we're like, we love greatness until the greatness
Speaker 5: has been around too long, and now we hate it
Speaker 5: because I find myself like, weirdly rooting against a three
Speaker 5: pet and I don't know why, Like, are there particular
Speaker 5: aspects to like Chiefs world, maybe spouses or brothers that
Speaker 5: I'm like don't want to hear from anymore. Yeah, sure
Speaker 5: that's not enough for me to be rooting against them,
Speaker 5: but I don't think so. I mean, look, as a
Speaker 5: San Antonio Spurs fan, we had a dynasty for a while,
Speaker 5: and so if I sat here and said dynasties were
Speaker 5: awful for sports, I'd be a hypocrite.
Speaker 2: But I get it. I get the boredom fammables fans,
Speaker 2: thank you. I can't hate on it.
Speaker 1: Wild Some of the greatest dynasties of all time, and
Speaker 1: that's what we like.
Speaker 2: Talking about years down the road.
Speaker 1: In the moment, though, it feels a little bit like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wish the Bills were here and we could be
Speaker 1: talking about that.
Speaker 2: I mean I do wish. Yeah, Like there's a couple
Speaker 2: other teams I'd like to be talking about. Okay.
Speaker 1: So Jason Kelcey, Eagles legend, retired after last season. He
Speaker 1: said he's publicly rooting for his former team.
Speaker 2: And not for his brother, Travis Kelcey and the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: So fair or foul.
Speaker 1: Rooting for your former team instead of your sibling who's
Speaker 1: still playing.
Speaker 2: Who you work with on a pretty decent sized podcast.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, look, they are just that's a healthy
Speaker 5: sibling relationship. It's like like I have two siblings, one
Speaker 5: I talk to, one I don't. And Travis and Jason
Speaker 5: remind me of my brother and me because I would
Speaker 5: do the same thing. We get along so well. We're
Speaker 5: like best friends. And yeah, publicly i'd be like I'm
Speaker 5: running against you don't care.
Speaker 2: Do you believe them? No, not at all. I don't
Speaker 2: at all. And we've seen the videos of his daughters,
Speaker 2: like loving Travvy so it's kind of like I get it.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think a lot of people are rooting
Speaker 5: for the Eagles just because it's a feel good story.
Speaker 5: Like Jalen Hurts has been waiting for this moment. Say
Speaker 5: Quon Barkley was rejected by a team that he wanted
Speaker 5: to stay. It's got all the makings of like good tears.
Speaker 2: But we'll see. Yeah, I ain't holding my breath. I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, if you're healthy enough, relationship, you know, Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: he will survive.
Speaker 2: If it's tenuous, you gotta lie public. Yeah, yeah, And
Speaker 2: then it feels like a little bit bit bitterness. Okay.
Speaker 1: Steve Spagnola, defensive coordinator for the Chiefs legend defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: He's coached four top ten defenses in terms of yard
Speaker 1: and she's won four Super Bowls. Only coordinator offense or
Speaker 1: defense in NFL has to win a Super Bowl with
Speaker 1: two different franchises.
Speaker 2: The only to win four Super Bowls.
Speaker 1: In that role had a little, quick, unsuccessful stint as
Speaker 1: head coach of the Saint Louis Rams rip back in
Speaker 1: twenty two, thousand and nine, twenty eleven.
Speaker 2: But now it's sixty five.
Speaker 1: It kind of seems like he's going to ride out
Speaker 1: his career as a defensive coordinator in success. Okay also
Speaker 1: sixty five Chris Daily, assistant to Gina oriam at Yukon.
Speaker 1: She arrived with him in nineteen eighty five. She has
Speaker 1: spent thirty nine seasons in stores. She has been there
Speaker 1: for all eleven championships fifty nine conference titles. She's already
Speaker 1: in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. But Wow, seems
Speaker 1: to be content as an assistant as well. So is
Speaker 1: a legendary assistant career as valuable as a legendary head
Speaker 1: coach career or is.
Speaker 2: There always a bit of an asterisk?
Speaker 5: I think because we live in a society where we're
Speaker 5: never really content. First of all, it's a eye opening
Speaker 5: and refreshing to find the place to be just comfortably.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm good with him and successful.
Speaker 5: I mean, how many of us are like, even though
Speaker 5: we have a great thing going, we're like, well, what's next?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: And they always say everyone's like one job above the one.
Speaker 1: They're like, they just keep getting promoted until it's like oops.
Speaker 5: Yeah, more than others just kept failing up. But in
Speaker 5: this case they're not failing they're actually kicking butt where
Speaker 5: they are. I kind of love it. And yeah, there
Speaker 5: will be some people who sort of are on the
Speaker 5: on the superficial level of the knowledge of everything that
Speaker 5: will always think, well, why didn't you do it at
Speaker 5: this level?
Speaker 2: But I think there's nuance there if you're aware, no
Speaker 2: one's ever gonna look at spags and be like, yeah,
Speaker 2: but what couldn't have it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, And if I'm him, I wouldn't want to go
Speaker 5: try that again. You're in a great spot where you
Speaker 5: could potentially do this I don't know, six more times,
Speaker 5: which is terrifying.
Speaker 2: But yeah, no, be happy where you are.
Speaker 5: It takes wisdom and age to finally figure out like
Speaker 5: it's okay to be happy with what you have.
Speaker 1: Well, and also I think the idea that we only
Speaker 1: valued the very top of the pyramid and we often
Speaker 1: neglect to understand how important the other pieces are. I
Speaker 1: think we're going to for sure see that with like
Speaker 1: the Lion's potential next season. Yeah, with Dan Campbell losing
Speaker 1: almost this whole staff, what does that look like? Here's
Speaker 1: but okay chiefs kicker Harrison butker our favor, I'm sure
Speaker 1: here we go, he said during media availability this week.
Speaker 1: He has nothing to apologize for when it comes to
Speaker 1: a college commencement speech he gave last May, including encouraging
Speaker 1: women to be homemakers, deriding birth control and homosexuality, and
Speaker 1: referencing quote the tyranny of diversity, equity and inclusion. We
Speaker 1: got a few high profile women in sports, including Notre
Speaker 1: Dame Hooper Han Hidalgo, US women's national team player Corman Albert,
Speaker 1: that have similarly promoted.
Speaker 2: Homophobic views God have hid a little bit behind their religion.
Speaker 1: So our high profile teammates responsible for publicly calling out
Speaker 1: problematic folks? Or are we okay with public support as
Speaker 1: long as their private conversations happen or there's some sort
Speaker 1: of debate or effort to talk to them behind the scenes.
Speaker 5: Well sure, theoretically, wouldn't that be fun if we thought
Speaker 5: they were like, let's go grab a coffee and talk
Speaker 5: about life.
Speaker 2: But we know that's not happened.
Speaker 1: Harrison said that this speech led to lots of meaningful
Speaker 1: conversations with teammates.
Speaker 5: I'm going to puw look again, you and I have
Speaker 5: had our fair share of loud public spats with what
Speaker 5: we have deemed the wrong side of things and I
Speaker 5: stand by those so for the same reasons that I
Speaker 5: feel free to say what I wanted to say.
Speaker 2: You can do whatever we want.
Speaker 5: The ramifications, whatever they may or may not be, he
Speaker 5: will deal with. He seems to be very proud of
Speaker 5: his quote unquote religious stance. But we've seen it so
Speaker 5: many times, Like it was only last season when Miles
Speaker 5: Garrett publicly was like, Deshaun Watson's been a like a
Speaker 5: stellar teammate and a great citizen.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, yeah, but no, he hasn't.
Speaker 1: But also, you don't have to say that that's You
Speaker 1: can just say he's my teammate and we support each
Speaker 1: other in the locker room, and I'll leave it at that.
Speaker 2: You don't have to say he's been a stellar human being.
Speaker 5: And you don't oh someone blind loyalty they are their
Speaker 5: colleagues or coworker.
Speaker 2: I mean, have we had to defend all the people
Speaker 2: we've worked with, No, and no one would expect us to.
Speaker 2: Now do I have to go out and say everything
Speaker 2: I think about him. I also hold back a little
Speaker 2: bit on that.
Speaker 1: I remember writing a story about this because it was
Speaker 1: interesting how nobody's stepped to defend Colin Kaepernick. But everybody
Speaker 1: will step to defend a teammate accused of domestic by rape,
Speaker 1: sexual assault like that bro kind of bad logic will
Speaker 1: stand in those spaces when it's a woman versus man,
Speaker 1: or it's one of those kind of issues. And when
Speaker 1: it's something like standing up against police brutality, everyone shrunk
Speaker 1: back and didn't want to say.
Speaker 5: A word no, and the voices that were loud were like,
Speaker 5: those were not the ones I expected to come forward.
Speaker 5: So funny Colin Kaepernick came up yesterday as well, which
Speaker 5: makes me happy. I was like, I want that to
Speaker 5: always come up, still come up forever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially with the end racism in the end zone
Speaker 1: being removed.
Speaker 2: So did we end it though? Is that? I think?
Speaker 1: I think it's let's take everyone, yeah, oh being told
Speaker 1: racism has ended.
Speaker 5: I read that yesterday and I was like, cooluations.
Speaker 1: Somebody put a big banner on a US naval ship,
Speaker 1: I mean accomplished.
Speaker 2: Like, look, is it silly? Yeah? Is it all silly
Speaker 2: and performative?
Speaker 5: Yes, But when you say you're ending it in these
Speaker 5: times where we're ending a lot of things, it just felt.
Speaker 2: Very likely sends a message but different. Getting love is
Speaker 2: lover something I think.
Speaker 1: No, no, definitely not choose choose love ah yes, heterosexual
Speaker 1: please okay? Final most important question. Travis Kelsey was asked
Speaker 1: me plans to give girlfriend Taylor Swift a ring if
Speaker 1: they're in the super Bowl. He sidestepped it by answering
Speaker 1: super Bowl ring. Next question, so fair or foul asking
Speaker 1: a pro athlete about their love life their marriage plans.
Speaker 2: I hate it.
Speaker 5: I hate the idea of a And somebody was like,
Speaker 5: he's gonna propose. I was like, she's a billionaire and
Speaker 5: the most famous person in the world. Do you think
Speaker 5: she wants some commoner type proposal in the middle of
Speaker 5: a bunch of drunk riff raps.
Speaker 1: She's the only person that a proposal during the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl would not be good to know.
Speaker 2: I would be angry.
Speaker 5: I'd be angry on her behalf. No, it is It's
Speaker 5: just silly. It is almost laughable that Taylor Swift gets
Speaker 5: talked about the same way like just some normal chit
Speaker 5: walking around.
Speaker 2: It about like what are we doing? I will say this.
Speaker 5: He does handle the questions like it's remarkable how she's.
Speaker 2: You, and the way he talks about her is very refreshing,
Speaker 2: Like he leads with like she's so smart. I'm learning
Speaker 2: so much and I'm like, I love Travis.
Speaker 5: That's cute, though exactly like she's opened up a world.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Actually, she writes poems and shitt words as a show
Speaker 1: that has short segments that are called like hoops engay
Speaker 1: shit for the enga shit, where we talk about all
Speaker 1: the ladies that are you know, galpals on teams. We
Speaker 1: like to pry a little bit, but only when offered
Speaker 1: the information. We don't do the dig in. We're not
Speaker 1: asking who's proposing to whom. But when we find out
Speaker 1: when they post the selfies with the rings or they
Speaker 1: show themselves on vacation, we're like, oh shit, those two okay,
Speaker 1: we're into it, like we allowed them to bring the
Speaker 1: goss to.
Speaker 5: Us because I don't because at the end of the day,
Speaker 5: I don't care and I don't need to know.
Speaker 1: But it's also really kind of unfair to be like, well,
Speaker 1: you're famous of football, which means we get to ask
Speaker 1: you your favorite sexual position.
Speaker 2: Wait all stop, what happened? But also what is it?
Speaker 5: But also just while we're here, since we've already put
Speaker 5: it out in the world.
Speaker 2: And that's how she was My last question for you
Speaker 2: my favorite. No, I don't like sex, so next question,
Speaker 2: I'm over it. Well, you're in the wrong place because
Speaker 2: Radio Row is chock full of talent. Look at it,
Speaker 2: look at sexy vibes all around us.
Speaker 1: Always great to see you, Beatle and Decker. Everybody listen
Speaker 1: and continue to fight the good fight. Get those WNBA
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Speaker 1: for stopping by. We have to take another break. When
Speaker 1: we come back. We'll break a couple of rules for
Speaker 1: a fave. It's Menichimes.
Speaker 2: Okay, we have Amena.
Speaker 1: Chimes drive by. I have no questions prepared. I don't
Speaker 1: have her bio, but you don't need it. She is
Speaker 1: the queen of all things NFL on ESPN, The Mena
Speaker 1: Chimes Show Featuring Lenny with Lenny featuring I didn't know
Speaker 1: what kind of billing he was getting these days, featuring
Speaker 1: that's her dog. We have rules on this show. Everything
Speaker 1: has to relate to women's sports, which you don't cover.
Speaker 1: But everybody loves Mina Kan so there will be no
Speaker 1: protestations from anyone if they get to hear from you.
Speaker 2: What's your Super Week, Look like, what are you doing?
Speaker 6: We have NFL live somewhere like in the French Quarter,
Speaker 6: I believe on Thursday and Friday. I first take Thursday morning.
Speaker 6: I just taped my show, The Menicime Show featuring Lenny here,
Speaker 6: and that's pretty much it. It's kind of it's weird.
Speaker 6: It's like, spend so much time thinking about one game. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and then it goes back really quickly and yeah, it's over.
Speaker 2: So Lenny is not here. I'm guessing Lenny's not here.
Speaker 6: He also, we just had a live show in LA
Speaker 6: for wildfire relief. He didn't make it out. People were
Speaker 6: a little disappointed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels like he's said it derelict in his duties.
Speaker 6: It's like like Beyonce, you know, when you like watch
Speaker 6: an award show and you're like waiting for her to perform,
Speaker 6: and then she like shows up late, or like she
Speaker 6: just shows up, it doesn't perform.
Speaker 2: I guess that's kind of Lenny's or doesn't come at all,
Speaker 2: not till like it doesn't come at all. Not just
Speaker 2: humble brag.
Speaker 1: But I on a Peabody and Beyonce won the same
Speaker 1: year for Lemonade, and we were right next to each
Speaker 1: other in the program, and I spent the whole time
Speaker 1: being like, what she's coming, she's gonna be and absolutely not,
Speaker 1: Uh okay, so Mina.
Speaker 2: I'm curious. I asked Michelle Beatle this question as well.
Speaker 1: We took the Super Bowl hot takes and we converted
Speaker 1: them to be like similar to women's sports. So people
Speaker 1: used to always blame Yukon for ruining women's basketball because
Speaker 1: of their dominance. Now people are saying the Chiefs are
Speaker 1: making the Super Bowl boring and redundant because they keep
Speaker 1: coming back.
Speaker 2: Are dynasties bad for sports? Dynasties are not bad for sports.
Speaker 6: I felt this way about Yukon when I had to
Speaker 6: live through a million segments about that.
Speaker 2: Do you remember how always it was the only time
Speaker 2: we talked about it.
Speaker 6: And that rhino right, and then like the Warriors happened
Speaker 6: the uh you know. The famous season was that twenty
Speaker 6: sixteen or twenty fifty, I can't remember, And people brought
Speaker 6: up Yukon in comparison with them, but it was I
Speaker 6: think a great case study for like people were so
Speaker 6: engaged with the NBA that season, and it was a
Speaker 6: reminder like, actually people really like it when there's a
Speaker 6: dominant team because it's fun to see if anyone can
Speaker 6: actually take them down. And that's reflected in like people
Speaker 6: love to hate the Chiefs right now, and it's a
Speaker 6: good thing for the sport. I don't think that it's
Speaker 6: such a good thing that the NFL is contriving to
Speaker 6: put the Chiefs in the super Bowl, but I do
Speaker 6: think it's good for the sport.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what about we talked about Harrison Butker and his
Speaker 1: relationship to female athletes like Hannah Hidalgo from Notre Dame
Speaker 1: and Corbyn Albert for the US men's national team, people
Speaker 1: who have publicly shared homophobic views. Do you think that
Speaker 1: their high profile teamates need to talk about that publicly
Speaker 1: and call them out or are you okay with the
Speaker 1: tendency to do the locker room.
Speaker 2: Like he's my gun and I got to support him.
Speaker 2: He's a good dude.
Speaker 6: You never see like I would say now I've been
Speaker 6: covering the league for about a decade or whatnot. Politically
Speaker 6: in either direction, you rarely see teammates speak out with
Speaker 6: regard to things other other teammates are saying. It's very
Speaker 6: unusual or you know, good or bad or and I
Speaker 6: have often wondered about that, but I do think it's
Speaker 6: a lot of it is about sort of the delicate
Speaker 6: ecosystem that is an NFL locker room and maintaining that.
Speaker 1: Or locker room of any kind really one of the
Speaker 1: few places where you put a whole bunch of people
Speaker 1: who may disagree about a million things and you have
Speaker 1: one shared goal.
Speaker 2: So you have to figure it out.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I think that there are plenty of his
Speaker 6: teammates who have different views, but it for you know,
Speaker 6: you just almost never hear any sort of descent come
Speaker 6: out of a locker room.
Speaker 1: Yeah, except for interestingly, when Colin Kaepernick protested, there were
Speaker 1: a handful of players who were willing to denounce his
Speaker 1: actions and speak out against it.
Speaker 6: But there were also players who actually spoke up, so
Speaker 6: to that point, it was a very unusual situation in
Speaker 6: both directions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know, what's your top suggestion for New Orleans
Speaker 1: that I have to do before I leave? Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: you already hung out with Stu Gotts from the Dan
Speaker 1: LeBatard Show, So of course that's on my.
Speaker 2: Yeah, really give food there.
Speaker 6: It was on It was somewhere near Bourbon Street. It
Speaker 6: was near le Feet Blacksmith, wherever that is, and it
Speaker 6: was like a Poe Boy place that was open late
Speaker 6: po Boy.
Speaker 2: Killer po Boys. I love was that it? Okay, I
Speaker 2: love those.
Speaker 6: That's not what I can't remember was called I'll send
Speaker 6: it to you, but I you gotta have Poe Boys, Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: I even found a vegetarian version at that killer place,
Speaker 1: so that might be what I do. Mina times drive by.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for the time. Enjoy your big
Speaker 1: Super Week, super Queen of Football. Thanks to Mina for
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Speaker 1: removing end racism from the end zone for the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl rating minus infinity out of five stars.
Speaker 2: Review.
Speaker 1: The NFL is replacing end racism in the end zone
Speaker 1: at Caesar's Superdome in New Orleans ahead a Sunday Super
Speaker 1: Bowl with the platitudinous Choose Love. It'll be the first
Speaker 1: time since twenty twenty one that end racism won't be
Speaker 1: on the field for the highest profile, most viewed sporting
Speaker 1: event of the year. Now, the actual weight and work
Speaker 1: that the league was putting behind the message end racism
Speaker 1: was always a little questionable, you know what, with end
Speaker 1: racism sitting right above the Kansas City Chiefs team, name
Speaker 1: a team whose fans still do the tomahawk chop as
Speaker 1: a celebration. But it was better than not making the
Speaker 1: statement at all and an NFL spokesman's trying to cover
Speaker 1: up saying choose love is quote appropriate to use as
Speaker 1: our country has endured in recent weeks, wildfires in southern California,
Speaker 1: the terrorist attack here in New Orleans, the plane and
Speaker 1: helicopter crash near our nation's capital, and the plane crash
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: End quote. That statement just happened to come.
Speaker 1: The same day a White House official told NBC News
Speaker 1: that President Donald Trump will attend the Super Bowl. Hmmm,
Speaker 1: President Trump will be there and end racism will not coincidence?
Speaker 1: We think not a pretty pathetic display, an unnecessary cow towing,
Speaker 1: and to be honest, exactly what I'd expect from a
Speaker 1: league that likes to pay lip service to issues that
Speaker 1: affect the sixty six plus percent of the players that
Speaker 1: are minorities, while continuing to prioritize white team owners. Now
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