Speaker 1: Welcome to the Greatest, a production of I Heart Radio. Hello,
Speaker 1: welcome to another episode of The Greatest. I'm when your
Speaker 1: host c J told and I'm joined here by my
Speaker 1: co host. You're not even talking into the mike. You know,
Speaker 1: whenever we do it on the couch, I have to
Speaker 1: look at you and be like talked into the mic. Listen,
Speaker 1: this mic is multidirectional? Is that? And Kurt, the producer
Speaker 1: of the show, We've discussed it over emails that you skipped.
Speaker 1: We have tech rehearsals, we have fought. We do one
Speaker 1: a day every day of the week. We make sure
Speaker 1: that the equipment is working properly. And I think we're
Speaker 1: actually hitting a really great strike. You're doing a great job,
Speaker 1: you and Kurt together. Um, we are back. I'm Um.
Speaker 1: I am c J's wife and co host. We just
Speaker 1: got back from Utah. I was gonna say vacation. Vacation
Speaker 1: feels like to use right now. We had to drive
Speaker 1: eleven hours there and back and then but we have
Speaker 1: to see my parents. Everybody tested negative beforehand. We were
Speaker 1: masked up. Were the people in the national parks glaring
Speaker 1: at the people without masks? Yes, Um, that's who we've become.
Speaker 1: Um I did go down a rapid in the Colorado
Speaker 1: River outside of the raft on my butt, and I
Speaker 1: feel like maybe comedy isn't my calling and maybe I
Speaker 1: should be some sort of nature guide. Now I could
Speaker 1: do that. Uh are are we had a guide on
Speaker 1: the raft and marl as in Marlow coach from Alga
Speaker 1: their own lots of night games. One of my favorite
Speaker 1: lines she does she sleeps in a forerunner to be
Speaker 1: able to just there are people that love I mean,
Speaker 1: that's why I asked my mom, Like I was looking around,
Speaker 1: I go, so some of these people they just loved
Speaker 1: being outside, and we like being outside too, But then
Speaker 1: we have an oversized couch that we do like coming
Speaker 1: back to. We like to lay as well, so we
Speaker 1: we like to go to parks and then we like
Speaker 1: to come back and sleep in a sanitized five star Airbnb. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's how. But it was successful trips. Everyone's healthy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we we practice social distancing. We did it the
Speaker 1: right way, and yeah, I'm very glad that we were
Speaker 1: able to do that and very grateful that we were
Speaker 1: able to escape and and get out of the city
Speaker 1: for a few hours. But um, I don't want to
Speaker 1: delay bring on our guests who were so so so honored. Okay,
Speaker 1: you give your you give your superlatives, and then I'll
Speaker 1: give my superlatives. I mean this is like sounds corny
Speaker 1: and cheesy but awesome. UM, so smart, so creative. I
Speaker 1: was lucky to work with her at the NFL. Okay,
Speaker 1: your your turn. I I think of this person as
Speaker 1: the NFL's north star, where you know, like they look
Speaker 1: to her to write to the ship, um if it
Speaker 1: ever goes off course she is somehow in charge of
Speaker 1: all of these people. But it is friendly and kind
Speaker 1: and so cool and recently was featured on Good Morning
Speaker 1: Football talking about women in sports media. And yeah, appear
Speaker 1: that I also look up to. So please welcome the
Speaker 1: NFL's AJ Curry h who Yeah, I like don't even
Speaker 1: know how to live up everything wild Well we actually
Speaker 1: didn't even say what your job is there? What is
Speaker 1: your what is your title at the NFL? So I
Speaker 1: am the senior manager of Social Content at the NFL.
Speaker 1: I do our activations at our temple events. So last
Speaker 1: year I printed tweets on confetti that rained down at
Speaker 1: the people. Wow, I've like helped players break like Guinness
Speaker 1: World records like just a bunch of whatever if it's
Speaker 1: out a temple of it and it's social, like I've
Speaker 1: probably helped with it. And then I run are like
Speaker 1: platform innovation team, so that's Snapchat, Giffy, and I mean
Speaker 1: hopefully still TikTok. I think I know what I was
Speaker 1: thinking about this last night when I was reading all
Speaker 1: the news about TikTok potentially being banned, which is an
Speaker 1: insane thing to say, but yeah, I mean maybe we
Speaker 1: can start there. What do you how what are your
Speaker 1: thoughts on that? And don't get her into troubles right? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean I just saw you know you
Speaker 1: sort of said in tweets just like it's more than
Speaker 1: what he what what our president was calling it, but like, well,
Speaker 1: what attracts you to TikTok so much? And how is
Speaker 1: it relevant to your job right now? Yeah? So obviously,
Speaker 1: like I've run the NFL's TikTok along with one of
Speaker 1: my colleagues, Matt Cummings. He handles like most of our
Speaker 1: day to day programming, but we really launched it together.
Speaker 1: And along with the launch, obviously there was like a
Speaker 1: bunch of strategy involved. So like I've been in the
Speaker 1: TikTok world like a very long time and uh, it's
Speaker 1: obviously weird and crazy and a lot of people don't
Speaker 1: understand it, but it's like easily, easily my favorite social
Speaker 1: media platform. Like it is just it's so positive, like people,
Speaker 1: they are truly so positive. It's filled with advocates like
Speaker 1: I love that, Like they're like they care about things
Speaker 1: and they talk about them and they perform songs about
Speaker 1: black lives matter and they there's just like it's so
Speaker 1: powerful and like it really is. It just makes me
Speaker 1: really confident in our next generation. Um it's so cheesy,
Speaker 1: but I just love it so much, and I find
Speaker 1: it hard to believe that we'll be able to mimic
Speaker 1: exactly what that was anywhere else maybe features and things,
Speaker 1: but like the community in the environment like is so no.
Speaker 1: I mean we worked together, you know, in the social lab,
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of the sort of stigmas
Speaker 1: that the tech talk generation and even when like Instagram
Speaker 1: and Snapchat all this was coming out, was that the
Speaker 1: youth were just like dancing or just showing off. And
Speaker 1: it's really like best with technology because it is new
Speaker 1: technology and it's like, oh yeah, they just want to
Speaker 1: be on their phones all the time. But it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but people are making incredible things. Yeah, it's like and
Speaker 1: and I like how people are sort of phrasing, you know,
Speaker 1: uh TikTok and you know, saying that it's about the creators,
Speaker 1: like the fact that like YouTube and all these platforms
Speaker 1: are like we are built by our creators. And by
Speaker 1: just calling the youth creators and empowering them to just
Speaker 1: like make stuff and make it easy for them and
Speaker 1: present them with features to further their voice and messages
Speaker 1: is so cool. And so to hear that any of
Speaker 1: these are in danger, it is just such a bummer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like literally there's a girl that I followed who
Speaker 1: started as just like someone who was just like playing
Speaker 1: guitar and piano in her bedroom and she just was
Speaker 1: on like the top music charts the other day. One
Speaker 1: of hers like that is TikTok, Like that is purely
Speaker 1: TikTok powering that. And it's just it's wild how like
Speaker 1: it's opened up so many doors and opportunities. And I
Speaker 1: know people always point to like whatever, like some cringeing
Speaker 1: influencers as being like that them defining the app, but
Speaker 1: like it it really like when you're on there, you
Speaker 1: can just see like it's so much more. And I
Speaker 1: feel like to the fact that like older people are
Speaker 1: intimidated by like making TikTok and being on TikTok, I
Speaker 1: think that's like kind of kept it so like young
Speaker 1: and youthful, like you were staying with like the new tech,
Speaker 1: like they are the only ones who wanted to get
Speaker 1: on there and try, and that's kept it kind of
Speaker 1: like its own little bubble insulated. Yeah. I always say like, oh,
Speaker 1: they'll reach a point where I'll just be like, no
Speaker 1: new technology for me, you know, I'll just have been like, oh,
Speaker 1: I aged out. And I really thought TikTok was gonna
Speaker 1: be it, you know, Like I thought I was like,
Speaker 1: oh no, not gonna be able to learn that. And
Speaker 1: I haven't learned it, but I do love watching it.
Speaker 1: But I'm so happy you brought up this girl that
Speaker 1: you were able to see her like rise, because I
Speaker 1: think c J and I feel that way kind of
Speaker 1: about you and your role within the NFL, Like we
Speaker 1: you know, there's at a revolving door, but like we're
Speaker 1: not there anymore. Other people that we worked with are
Speaker 1: not there anymore, And you're kind of a constant in
Speaker 1: the best way who's there and who is really like
Speaker 1: really such a good voice for women and for youth
Speaker 1: and for progress within the league that we always joke
Speaker 1: about how you will be the first female commissioner in
Speaker 1: any league, because we just you have such a passion
Speaker 1: for the NFL that it is impossible for it to
Speaker 1: not rub off on other people. Yeah. I think it's
Speaker 1: like it's so funny to say that, because I think
Speaker 1: about that, like so often. There are like people like you,
Speaker 1: guys that I love that have like come and gone.
Speaker 1: And I think for me, the NFL was truly my
Speaker 1: dream job. That was like kind of my like like
Speaker 1: I loved football literally forever, Like this was like my peak.
Speaker 1: And so when I got there at like kind of
Speaker 1: a young age and I got my foot in the door,
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, here we are. You want
Speaker 1: to make your dream continue to be your dream, you know,
Speaker 1: like you wanted to be as good as you imagine
Speaker 1: to be, And like, I think the only way that
Speaker 1: I saw the opportunity to do that was to like
Speaker 1: get in there and stay there and like work to
Speaker 1: continue to make change kind of like throughout what you do.
Speaker 1: I wasn't recording, but I was recording on this. H
Speaker 1: my gosh, Like, I mean, that's a perfect example of
Speaker 1: why women need to be in charge of things. You know, Well,
Speaker 1: actually I can't. I just can't know. I think we
Speaker 1: got it. I think we got that. We had Okay, great,
Speaker 1: happy to hear that. Now. I mean, we're not gonna
Speaker 1: we're not gonna cut that out. We're not going to
Speaker 1: pretend to restart. But I think that's another absolutely because
Speaker 1: you know, we talked a lot about in in comedy,
Speaker 1: sometimes you get a dream job and then you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's actually a job and I do have to go,
Speaker 1: and there are annoying things about it. And and I've
Speaker 1: seen this happen in sports to where people they have
Speaker 1: worked in it so long that they're they used to
Speaker 1: be these die hard Cubs fans or whatever it is,
Speaker 1: and now they're just like, who even cares? What's it
Speaker 1: even meant? Like it they've seen too much that they
Speaker 1: become so disenfranchised by it. But you're someone who, like,
Speaker 1: you've seen so much and it just continue, Like do
Speaker 1: you just take all the good and then leave the
Speaker 1: bad to be able to keep going? Yeah? I think
Speaker 1: like I just try really hard to like not get
Speaker 1: into like a jade of passive place, whether it's like
Speaker 1: how I'm growing at the like it's just in my
Speaker 1: career as a whole, whether it's things that I care about,
Speaker 1: like I just try not to settle, and it's I mean,
Speaker 1: it's obviously not easy at all, but I just try
Speaker 1: and like remember, I don't know, I just I just
Speaker 1: try and keep fighting forward. And I just can't sit
Speaker 1: around like You're very promotive to me. I imagine in
Speaker 1: high school, Like what what clubs were you in in
Speaker 1: high school? Oh? Well I I was on the speech team. Okay, yeah, yes, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So you're just like a positive go getter and that
Speaker 1: that will you know, that helps you in a career,
Speaker 1: like you've chosen because it can be I mean, you
Speaker 1: are a Bears fan and the Bears have not won
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. I'm just saying the Bears have not
Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl. Like when I was at the NFL,
Speaker 1: they would get not mad at me, but I'd be
Speaker 1: like cults, colts, cults, cults, and it's like Megan, there's
Speaker 1: actually other teams and the cults aren't that good. And
Speaker 1: I was like I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: We squeaked into the playoffs that year. But like you've
Speaker 1: got a Texan shirt on right now? Is it is
Speaker 1: it hard to like be a fan and then also
Speaker 1: in it. That's such a good question, So like football
Speaker 1: as a hole, So like that for me, I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's really easy to like acknowledge when like it's a
Speaker 1: good team, a good highlight. That is easy for me
Speaker 1: to like object to really separate. But like I do have,
Speaker 1: of course biases towards the Bears, but like I just
Speaker 1: try and also to be like, all right, this could
Speaker 1: be biased or but I think this could be cool,
Speaker 1: and then I let other people help. But I also
Speaker 1: just really like the players themselves, So like this is
Speaker 1: a Deshaun Watson shoot because I love DeShawn Watson, and
Speaker 1: I also have a lot of interactions with players throughout
Speaker 1: my career, so like when I have like a really
Speaker 1: good positive interaction with someone, I become like their biggest fan.
Speaker 1: And so like I had a great time with DeShawn
Speaker 1: when he was drafted and I presented him with a
Speaker 1: letter from his mom. He cried and I cried, and
Speaker 1: we cried together, and it was like so precious and
Speaker 1: like I he definitely does not remember me, but like
Speaker 1: that just moment me a lot. So I feel like
Speaker 1: also I get these like jerseys and jerseys, it's like
Speaker 1: kind of mementos to like these like moments and interactions
Speaker 1: in my career as well. Can you can you describe
Speaker 1: sort of that you know, you talk about activations, but
Speaker 1: maybe people who aren't in the industry know what that is.
Speaker 1: And like, you know, you talked about the letters that
Speaker 1: you gave to Shawn. Can you tell us about that
Speaker 1: project act and maybe some other projects you've done at
Speaker 1: these ten pole events for the NFL. Yeah, So the
Speaker 1: activations are kind of content capture opportunities or like really slashy,
Speaker 1: newsworthy things that we try and do at our temples,
Speaker 1: which are Draft, Kickoff, Combine, Pro Bowl, Super Bowl, all
Speaker 1: of those kind of main events. So it can be
Speaker 1: anything from like something in partnership with one of our
Speaker 1: platform partners, so like a TikTok or Twitter, or it
Speaker 1: can be just like a really cool organic content capturing opportunities.
Speaker 1: So Draft Letters was one of those when we started
Speaker 1: that actually that year um that Sean was drafted and
Speaker 1: we found we basically got loved ones of the players
Speaker 1: to write them letters uh, congratulating them, um right like,
Speaker 1: and so we would present those with the players right
Speaker 1: after they were drafted. Right they get off the stage,
Speaker 1: they'd like honestly, they go through like a bunch of
Speaker 1: crazy interviews right there, you know, like running around, and
Speaker 1: then I bring them kind of into our area and
Speaker 1: I sit them down and I say, take a breath,
Speaker 1: You've made it, and now we have a message for
Speaker 1: you God. And it's always like even like we helped
Speaker 1: the parents some sometimes they film them, We help them
Speaker 1: fum before and like even just have them filming the
Speaker 1: message before their you know, son is even drafted. I'm
Speaker 1: like crying with them as they're filming, like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: Devin Bush's family had me like full balling with them,
Speaker 1: like in like a hotel ballroom and he didn't even
Speaker 1: drafted yet, it was. And so it's like, I think,
Speaker 1: a really special moment because when they see their families
Speaker 1: after they're drafted, it's still part of this whirlwind, right,
Speaker 1: like they have to go do all these things, and
Speaker 1: so to give them just a second to like sit
Speaker 1: down take it all in, like this is fully their
Speaker 1: dreams come like they've worked their entire lives for this,
Speaker 1: and they get to sit down and just take it
Speaker 1: like like a second to like take it all in
Speaker 1: and then just get this message from the people who've
Speaker 1: been by their sides this entire time, just saying how
Speaker 1: proud they are of them, Like it's like my favorite
Speaker 1: thing that we do. It's so powerful and yeah, like
Speaker 1: it it makes me want to cry talking about it,
Speaker 1: like it's just no, it's I mean, and and the
Speaker 1: reality is to be even make it to the NFL
Speaker 1: is a miracle, you know, like you are a one
Speaker 1: in billion, and a lot of these guys and families
Speaker 1: have had to go through so much. We just started
Speaker 1: watching the New Last Chance You season and the first
Speaker 1: episode ends with like the star wide receivers sleeping in
Speaker 1: his car and you're like, fun, and he just loves
Speaker 1: football so much and and and so there's guys like
Speaker 1: that that that that then are getting that letter and
Speaker 1: it's a culmination of of so much hard work by
Speaker 1: an entire community and family that yeah, I mean, that's incredible.
Speaker 1: Is your second favorite thing? The tweets on the confetti?
Speaker 1: I think yeah, And honestly, they kind of like fall
Speaker 1: in the same realm of Like one of the big
Speaker 1: parts of the Twitter confetti that we did was we
Speaker 1: went and we found players old tweets from like way
Speaker 1: back in the day talking isn't manifesting that this would
Speaker 1: one day happen, right, Like Patrick Mahomes tweet was on there,
Speaker 1: and it was like, I can't wait to wonder it
Speaker 1: must feel so great to be the quarterback who went
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl and then gets to say I'm
Speaker 1: going to Disney World and you tweeted that years ago,
Speaker 1: and then that rains down on his head as he
Speaker 1: did that. Yeah, And it's like, I guess like one
Speaker 1: of the best parts I think about the NFL, and
Speaker 1: like it's sometimes hard to remember, but like every you're
Speaker 1: just watching people live their dreams constantly, whether that's you know,
Speaker 1: the first time they scored a touchdown or they're like,
Speaker 1: you know, fifty if sack, or they're like, you know,
Speaker 1: making it to a certain level in the playoffs, or
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl or the Pro Bowl, like every
Speaker 1: single thing, and especially knowing where like so many of
Speaker 1: them came from, like and work to get there. There's
Speaker 1: just so many milestones and you just see like this
Speaker 1: pure joy of like playing the sport that they love
Speaker 1: and have always loved, and like that just it just
Speaker 1: warms my heart always. It's great. I mean I do
Speaker 1: think that kind of brings us to the topic. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you suggested this and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is such a perfect midnight like the MD and
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, hear me out greatest celebrations. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and that that's like on a personal level, it's
Speaker 1: also perfect because I remember when when I went to
Speaker 1: the NFL and we were launching the Checkdown and we
Speaker 1: didn't you know, obviously it was like, you know, the
Speaker 1: Checkdown is is a fun, sort of youthful way of
Speaker 1: looking at sportsbrations. It's like what it's specialized. And I
Speaker 1: think I was just so lucky for the time that
Speaker 1: I was there and we were launching this thing, because
Speaker 1: celebrations just became like legal or or it was being
Speaker 1: sort of embraced by the league, and the account was
Speaker 1: kind of like, hey, if you want to see the
Speaker 1: celebrations that players are doing after plays, you can see
Speaker 1: it all on the Checkdown. And so I just remember,
Speaker 1: like I'm mark in my head just so there's like
Speaker 1: some marks of like time just based on like celebration
Speaker 1: stions of like the Packers playing Duck Duck goose and
Speaker 1: and all this other stuff. I don't want to I
Speaker 1: don't want to say anyone's selections. So I just want
Speaker 1: to say, this is also such a perfect topic to
Speaker 1: how do you want to discuss It's also just so
Speaker 1: funny being their personalities and their creativity. Like that's the
Speaker 1: side I think that it's hard to see unless you're
Speaker 1: looking for it, And so when we change some of
Speaker 1: the rules, bring that into the light a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Like I mean, it just up the fun bag games
Speaker 1: by like a million. It was a smart move because yeah,
Speaker 1: it just makes it endears you to all of these
Speaker 1: players and you're like, oh my god, they're a really
Speaker 1: good dancer. Oh they're really funny. Like you see all
Speaker 1: these different facets of their personality that before then you
Speaker 1: weren't able to see. And I think that's a really
Speaker 1: valuable thing if you want to continue to grow and
Speaker 1: like appreciate your fan base. We want to know the players,
Speaker 1: you know. That's the that's the reality. It doesn't I
Speaker 1: don't want the Colts to just be a roster of
Speaker 1: people I don't know, Like I love their family, ease.
Speaker 1: I love their kids. I want to know what they like.
Speaker 1: I watched their wedding videos like I'm in it. Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm obviously like a thousand percent the same. Um.
Speaker 1: I have like like an Instagram Burner account if you will.
Speaker 1: It's not really burner, it's like it's a Mac and
Speaker 1: Cheese account, but I was gonna bring up Mac and cheese.
Speaker 1: I also use it to like if you look at
Speaker 1: who is that account is following, it's all NFL players
Speaker 1: and like their families because I love to go through
Speaker 1: and like look at that stuff. And obviously you can
Speaker 1: pull some of it for content, but like it just
Speaker 1: helps you just learn about them even more. Yeah, oh
Speaker 1: a j I got. I got made fun of for
Speaker 1: picking Brawny James as one of my favorite sports influencers
Speaker 1: on a previous episode. So I listened to that episode
Speaker 1: and like you guys were talking about it before you
Speaker 1: even said brawny, I was kind of thinking brawny and
Speaker 1: then you said it. I was like, oh my gosh. Yes,
Speaker 1: And he's like such like a modern person too, because
Speaker 1: he also is like on Twitch and like obviously to
Speaker 1: talk and and then he said Carmel Anthony who I
Speaker 1: used to work for us when my mom's surprised there,
Speaker 1: but I was girled about that. So I think that
Speaker 1: us making fun of c J with the brawny stuff
Speaker 1: is more that c J is a grown man and
Speaker 1: he is brawny as a child. Um, and just the
Speaker 1: questions that that raises in society in general. Um. But
Speaker 1: I know that c J has such love for him.
Speaker 1: He does own a jersey of this trial. He's really cool. Um. Okay,
Speaker 1: a J, do you want to lead us off with
Speaker 1: your first pick for greatest celebration? Oh my gosh. Okay,
Speaker 1: So first I have to talk about how I've been
Speaker 1: like really stressing out about calibrations because there's so many
Speaker 1: ways to categorize them, right, Like there's obviously like the
Speaker 1: just like overall like iconic celebration. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: want to take any of yours, so I won't say
Speaker 1: him yet, but like obviously there's like the classics celebrate tours,
Speaker 1: like you know, the t O and the Chad and
Speaker 1: like everything from like you know, the Dirty Bird and
Speaker 1: things like that, where those are like iconic celebrations. But
Speaker 1: then we have this new era of celebrations. And also
Speaker 1: I figured I listened to the podcast. I know what
Speaker 1: sports you guys like, so I figured I just come
Speaker 1: in with the full football expertise, so that wall are
Speaker 1: definitely gonna hit on the other sports. It was kind
Speaker 1: of my thoughts. So there's also like the more modern ones,
Speaker 1: there's some touchdown celebrations, sack celebrations, first down celebrations, like
Speaker 1: there's just there's so many you could do, just like
Speaker 1: your favorite celebrations with the best pantomime props, because the
Speaker 1: best teams you could like, there's just so many. So
Speaker 1: it was very, very hard for me, and I literally
Speaker 1: am like looking at my list of notes right now
Speaker 1: to like like, okay, here's a million of them, which
Speaker 1: one of mine. People, this is how invested she is listeners.
Speaker 1: She's picking on the fly because it's too hard. This
Speaker 1: is sophace choice. Yes, um okay, So I think what
Speaker 1: I'm going to start with. I think it was vastly underrated.
Speaker 1: Um frankly, I think it did not get enough attention.
Speaker 1: But I think that almost why it was so great.
Speaker 1: And it is Trey Quinn did the Michael Scarn dance
Speaker 1: from the office. I remember this, what a phenomenally subtle
Speaker 1: pop culture reference. That like if you got it and
Speaker 1: you felt it, you were in this community of people
Speaker 1: who knew what was happening. And I just thought it
Speaker 1: was so creative. Everybody else is out here doing you know,
Speaker 1: childhood games or like you know, really like well known dances,
Speaker 1: and I just thought he came out with like the
Speaker 1: most creative take on a dance that people would know,
Speaker 1: but also like you gotta be in this office community
Speaker 1: to kind of understand. So yeah, that's my favorite thing
Speaker 1: is when like they do that and they're like that's
Speaker 1: cool or like it's kind of like underwhelming at first,
Speaker 1: but then the internet, just one person on the Internet,
Speaker 1: all they have to do is just tweet, oh my god,
Speaker 1: that was a Michael Scarn dance from uh the office,
Speaker 1: and it blows up. All the office fans come in
Speaker 1: and it's like it's These dances, especially in the NFL,
Speaker 1: have really been a great way for pop culture to
Speaker 1: overlap with sports. And I think that's how like a
Speaker 1: lot of sports is being consumed now with social media.
Speaker 1: So I think that's a great thing. Yeah, it reminds
Speaker 1: me of and this wasn't a celebration, but when that
Speaker 1: song got put to Cam doing his like warm up
Speaker 1: and that um that was so like and everybody was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: you don't even have to like football, just pick a
Speaker 1: song that you think this would look funny with and
Speaker 1: it took off. What was the hashtag, uh Dak dances
Speaker 1: to Anything, That's what it was, Jack Dances to Anything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think like to Like there's like these If you're
Speaker 1: a casual fan, if you just see like highlight after
Speaker 1: highlight after highlight in your feed, that's like not going
Speaker 1: to make you like football anymore. Like you don't have
Speaker 1: like a way in right like we talked, like Megan,
Speaker 1: you said like families like you know, players themselves. That's
Speaker 1: like you're at least start into like why you like
Speaker 1: like the sport and then build your fandom. Like that's
Speaker 1: definitely how I was too. There's people like who like
Speaker 1: food is their way into football fandom because they love
Speaker 1: all the food and snacks and tailgates and parties and
Speaker 1: like to be able to open this new door for
Speaker 1: someone who maybe doesn't ever watch football but loves the
Speaker 1: office and then they see this like that's just like, Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm in a root for Trey Quinn and I happen
Speaker 1: to be you know, this is on TV or it's
Speaker 1: all around, and so I think things like that, Like
Speaker 1: you know, people I say like hot game A Chargers
Speaker 1: because I love their logo or whatever. Like people like
Speaker 1: at their color. This team's colors were cool, Like people
Speaker 1: grow their fandoms that way. But this is expanding those
Speaker 1: doors even more so there's even more ways to like
Speaker 1: find your way into like this football fandom. That's a
Speaker 1: great first pick. Okay, you want me to go? Okay,
Speaker 1: so I went really classic for all of my picks.
Speaker 1: I did. Um. Yeah, that's just so. My my first
Speaker 1: pick is actually a person one that has been mentioned already,
Speaker 1: and I'm just I'm going with Teo because I think TiO.
Speaker 1: TiO was doing all of his celebrations before it was allowed,
Speaker 1: so he was being danalized, he was being fined, he
Speaker 1: was like getting in trouble, and he just was like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. Anyways. My favorites are the sharpie,
Speaker 1: the cheerleader, obviously going to the Cowboys logo, uh, popcorn,
Speaker 1: the cell phone like he just was. So TiO has
Speaker 1: like a really soft spot in my heart, and I
Speaker 1: think it's because he kind of was a viral sensation
Speaker 1: before that existed, and he helped kind of bring the
Speaker 1: NFL into the twenty one century. I think if he
Speaker 1: hadn't done those celebrations and they hadn't been so popular
Speaker 1: and funny, we may not have the celebration rules we
Speaker 1: have now. Like it kind of took someone to do it.
Speaker 1: I mean, just everything he did, like the situps on
Speaker 1: his driveway that's my quarterback. He just was so you
Speaker 1: just had to look at what he was doing and
Speaker 1: his celebration since he just puts so much thought in it,
Speaker 1: and he like to leave props. He was putting props
Speaker 1: places that He's like, I'm gonna score in this end
Speaker 1: zone and I'm gonna pick this prop up. Like it
Speaker 1: takes so much confidence too. It's like a new age
Speaker 1: Babe Ruth. It is. Yeah, he just, uh, he cracks
Speaker 1: me up and so like he like gave football a personality.
Speaker 1: I feel like like he's one of the people who
Speaker 1: truly helped give football a personality, and I really love that. Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just so fun like and obviously even
Speaker 1: if you're like a die hard fan or a casual fan,
Speaker 1: like you can point to like him if somebody asked
Speaker 1: you about celebrations, like he's just a staple. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: remember getting because I played football for nine years, but
Speaker 1: I never watched it. And I think, to me, I mean,
Speaker 1: on a very like basic dumb brain level that I have,
Speaker 1: I just thought, like every obviously every NFL play is
Speaker 1: a human feat but it just looked all the same
Speaker 1: to me, Like a tackle look the same, like a
Speaker 1: cash look the same. But then yeah, seeing t O
Speaker 1: like what is he gonna do? Was always like I
Speaker 1: would tune in and that was like one of the
Speaker 1: first jersey. Him and Chad Johnson were first jerseys that
Speaker 1: I wanted to get when I was a kid. Those
Speaker 1: were the celebrators. So my pick, uh and ah, I
Speaker 1: love how you said that we do lean into certain
Speaker 1: sports quite a bit or favorite them. Um, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go very c J pick NICKI Young his missed
Speaker 1: shot celebration. So, like we all know Steph Curry as
Speaker 1: the guy. You know, he's known for shooting at three
Speaker 1: and then turning around and not even looking at it
Speaker 1: going He's just that confident. But Nick Young, this is
Speaker 1: two thousand fourteen, so I don't even think this death
Speaker 1: stuff even caught on. But he shot it and then
Speaker 1: he turned around and put his arms out and then
Speaker 1: I feel like he also like heard it miss and
Speaker 1: then turn around was like dang it. But I just
Speaker 1: love like he was committed to every single motion of
Speaker 1: that play. And again we talked about like this, these
Speaker 1: celebrations being extension of personality. Man, if you were to
Speaker 1: like guess, like, okay, one NBA player to ever do this,
Speaker 1: who would you guess? And it would Nick Young without
Speaker 1: a doubt. And that was like one of my my
Speaker 1: favorite memes, Like it's a it's it's a gift that
Speaker 1: is used for anyone trying to look cool and failing,
Speaker 1: and so it's almost, yeah, it's a bad celebration, but
Speaker 1: also aid, yes, I mean I think the football equivalent
Speaker 1: is doing that sort of like slow or like funny
Speaker 1: dance into the end zone and then having the ball
Speaker 1: stripped from you or like you don't end up scoring,
Speaker 1: but like you when you celebrate and then the touchdown
Speaker 1: gets called back, which I've seen. Actually, the saddest one
Speaker 1: of that I couldn't even think of is I hope
Speaker 1: I feel like it's probably well I compared your listening
Speaker 1: in but I want to talk about Clenton Nelson, No
Speaker 1: he's not on my list to is my only footballer. Okay,
Speaker 1: good so Quenton Nelson. Um, he scored a touchdown, it
Speaker 1: got called back, but they had a phenomenal celebration where
Speaker 1: he did a keg stand and I loved it because
Speaker 1: obviously on brand for an offensive lineman. Um. Somebody literally
Speaker 1: played the keg which I mean amazing um, and it
Speaker 1: got called back, which is really sad, and I don't
Speaker 1: know if they ever got a chance to do it again.
Speaker 1: So I do it. It is fun to how there's
Speaker 1: like teams that get really into it, Like the Seahawks
Speaker 1: are really good, the forty Niners are Like. There are
Speaker 1: entire teams that you're like, oh, I wonder what they're
Speaker 1: gonna do, And I do love that the Colts and
Speaker 1: I think some of it is t y, but I
Speaker 1: think some of it is. The younger guys too have
Speaker 1: like fully been we're going to be a celebration team,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I love rooting for a celebration team
Speaker 1: because it's just more fun to watch too. Um. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and then we'll be right back. Okay,
Speaker 1: and we are back with our number two picks for
Speaker 1: greatest celebration and c J did pick a basketball player
Speaker 1: who actually did not score for his first pick. Um
Speaker 1: just wanted to read CJ. Is I just you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you have to do a refresher Like Fiance, they
Speaker 1: always play the last episode like they go to commercial
Speaker 1: and then they play the scene before the commercial. It's like,
Speaker 1: we just saw it. Keep it moving, Nigeria. I want
Speaker 1: to go not Everyone is like you were your fast
Speaker 1: forwarding through commercials or like, So we were on this
Speaker 1: road trip this past week and Megan won't sit through
Speaker 1: a fifteen second ad read on a podcast. What she'll
Speaker 1: do is for a full minute, hit the fifteen second
Speaker 1: fast forward and then miss it and then go back
Speaker 1: and then keep doing it until you find a spot.
Speaker 1: And that is longer than they add read. Okay, but
Speaker 1: that is also a thousands to present me. And we're like,
Speaker 1: I have like premium everything just because I cannot sit
Speaker 1: through the app. I can't do it, cannot do it.
Speaker 1: I had regular Hulu until like a year ago, and
Speaker 1: our friend Lisa, who's been in the pod, was like,
Speaker 1: what do you do, Like you have a brand new car,
Speaker 1: just buy Hulu without commercials, Like give it up? And
Speaker 1: I'm like, you're right, You're right, And then I get
Speaker 1: so like irrationally mad at the few shows that like
Speaker 1: still have commercials even if you opt out of commercials.
Speaker 1: I'm like, why why? Yeah. I do want to also
Speaker 1: bring up that I just we got panned Express last
Speaker 1: night after we got back from the road, and so
Speaker 1: we had fortune cookies and I just found on the
Speaker 1: ground c J's fortune that was in his fortune cookie
Speaker 1: and it says share your witty humor with others. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, I mean, and then it has like
Speaker 1: a little I always think you should this should be
Speaker 1: your next um tattoo because Panda Express is written underneath
Speaker 1: it you pand Express it is it is pretty great.
Speaker 1: And I had just put I tweeted the stupidest joke ever.
Speaker 1: I said, more like crabber and good because I had
Speaker 1: just eaten a lot of crabber and coons. And then
Speaker 1: I opened up my fortune cookie and said this, and
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, I gotta I gotta
Speaker 1: keep going on my instinct. My instinct is great, and
Speaker 1: mine says it's okay to say sorry. And I was like,
Speaker 1: fuck you, pand Express, that's an insane like I oh,
Speaker 1: I wish I could go back in time and switch
Speaker 1: our fortune cookies at the last second. Alright, alright, okay,
Speaker 1: so um okay, agge, we are a number two picks.
Speaker 1: You lead us off. Okay, my number two is actually
Speaker 1: it's a tie, um and it's a tie between um
Speaker 1: we Actually you just mentioned it. It's a tie between
Speaker 1: teams because not pick just one, and so by tie
Speaker 1: is the Vikings and the Seahawks. And I think that
Speaker 1: exactly what you were saying. They are all in on celebration.
Speaker 1: They are celebration teams. They are wildly creative. And so
Speaker 1: I will list a few of my favorites. Now, Seahawk
Speaker 1: the Bye Bye Bye phenominal really great. Everybody can identify
Speaker 1: that like such a win. They did the new the
Speaker 1: new edition dance. The amount of practice and coordination, I
Speaker 1: I just like, I cannot even um. They did I
Speaker 1: believe mining for Gold against San Francisco, what I mean savage.
Speaker 1: And then also they've done I mean there's probably a
Speaker 1: million more. I'm not even this game, but they've done surfing,
Speaker 1: love surfing. They did one where they were doing they
Speaker 1: were like an orchestra, but then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: it morphed into everyone doing the macarena. I want the storyline,
Speaker 1: like I need to know more. I love the Seahawks celebrations,
Speaker 1: and then the Vikings were my second choice. Um. Specifically,
Speaker 1: the two that stand out to me are definitely Limbo Um,
Speaker 1: which they took from I believe, like a soccer team. Um,
Speaker 1: but I love that they brought it to the NFL,
Speaker 1: And then the duck duck gray duck because it's playful,
Speaker 1: it's nostalgic, it's easily identifiable, and also like a shout
Speaker 1: out to the local jargon because most people call it
Speaker 1: duck duck goose. In Minnesota, they call it duck duck,
Speaker 1: gray duck, And so I felt like it was also
Speaker 1: like just a celebration where they're you know, they're from
Speaker 1: in their home. So that burger stuff with cheese, Oh
Speaker 1: that thing is good. Um yeah. I remember seeing the
Speaker 1: Seahawks do so much choreography and being like, I hope
Speaker 1: they win because if they lose, and their coaches like
Speaker 1: you guys spent forty five minutes on an eight count
Speaker 1: of bye bye bye, like when we could have been
Speaker 1: watching film, Like you almost have to be a team
Speaker 1: that's good to fully be all in on celebrations because
Speaker 1: if you're under five hundred but you're doing choreograph celebrations
Speaker 1: at practice, they're gonna be like, guys, we gotta get
Speaker 1: drills down before we're doing uh, you know, like a
Speaker 1: toe heel. It's like the first touchdown of the game
Speaker 1: and you celebrate and then it just goes downhill from there.
Speaker 1: Like then that celebration feel like almost loses, like it's shine. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's so funny too, because like the Seahawks used to
Speaker 1: be this like beast mode team where it was the
Speaker 1: defense was really intimidating and cool and like bad asks
Speaker 1: him punch you in the face and they're gonna and yeah,
Speaker 1: and they're still cool. They still are very good. But
Speaker 1: now it's like, yeah, we're gonna have a little fun,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna do dances as well. When you see Lebron, right,
Speaker 1: Lebron is like super cool, but when you see him
Speaker 1: like being like kind of goofy. I don't know why,
Speaker 1: but like he makes being goofy cool, like it's a
Speaker 1: more cool. And when he's care me it's cool. They're
Speaker 1: like you're a giant jacked man. Anything kind of looks cool.
Speaker 1: You know. I tell you Ja that all the time.
Speaker 1: It's like, baby, just get ripped and then anything's cool
Speaker 1: you do. I'm trying. I just want to be considered cool,
Speaker 1: but you're so cool. I'm now noticing your shirt, to
Speaker 1: which I'm sure is going to come up. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: so um my number two pick again in this classic realm.
Speaker 1: If I had to point to a specific one, I can,
Speaker 1: but it is the Tiger Sunday red sure fist pump
Speaker 1: like there's pins made after it. The twenty nineteen Masters
Speaker 1: when when the comeback like he does sort of like
Speaker 1: a double flex and then it was a really I
Speaker 1: thought it was such a heartwarming, nice moment because they
Speaker 1: flashed back to his first Master's win and he's hugging
Speaker 1: his mom and his dad, and in twenty nineteen he's
Speaker 1: hugging his mom and his children, and it really felt
Speaker 1: full circle. But when you see Tiger in that red
Speaker 1: shirt and when he gets at fist pump, it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, we want, Like that is it signifies, Oh,
Speaker 1: I just want And it's like so masculine for like golf,
Speaker 1: you know, you just put it in and it's a
Speaker 1: put is like truly just like tapping a ball into
Speaker 1: a hole and he's able to like get his whole
Speaker 1: body going, and golfers have celebrated. I remember when Phil
Speaker 1: Mickelson finally won a major and it was a huge
Speaker 1: as very much Peyton, get the monkey off your back,
Speaker 1: and he just like jumped up in the air kind
Speaker 1: of like he was a bridesmaid and made to do it.
Speaker 1: And it's like, oh, yeah, Tiger does make golf so
Speaker 1: much cooler by just like being there and being who
Speaker 1: he is. Because if any of the other golfers did that,
Speaker 1: it would feel very all lives matter. But Tiger doing it,
Speaker 1: You're like, yes, great, love it. I feel like to
Speaker 1: golf is like such like a it's kind of like
Speaker 1: a subtle rate. Yeah. And so would you just see
Speaker 1: him punch like all of that like penned up, like
Speaker 1: keeping it down and chilling in Like when you see that,
Speaker 1: it just feels like almost like a police of energy
Speaker 1: like he did it, and like it's it's perfect and
Speaker 1: I have to want like it's it's such a natural.
Speaker 1: Like I mean, even as a kid, I remember my
Speaker 1: brother's making fun of me once because my mom said
Speaker 1: I could do something, and I go yes, and I
Speaker 1: like did that like kitching, and it's like it's dorky,
Speaker 1: but it's your natural like inclination if you're just trying
Speaker 1: to do a contained celebration. But I wonder if now
Speaker 1: he's like, well, this is my thing, I gotta do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean for for being a kid, like when we
Speaker 1: go out and try to be like our favorite athletes,
Speaker 1: like for Jordan's it was putting your tongue out and
Speaker 1: playing basketball, but like I remember playing golf for one
Speaker 1: summer and kids were doing that, and so like it
Speaker 1: is really I just feel like some of these athletes
Speaker 1: who become stars, they have one built in naturally in them,
Speaker 1: like not only are they good, but then they can
Speaker 1: do this significant, iconic celebration that's just like every brand
Speaker 1: that they endorse, just their eyes lap and goes that's it.
Speaker 1: The tiger pump, I mean like Aaron Rodgers, but is
Speaker 1: like discount double check. Yep, that's ours, all right, my
Speaker 1: number two pick. We're talking about iconic is and I
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta watch more these these fights uh to completion.
Speaker 1: But like Muhammad alive knockout Sunny listed in the first round.
Speaker 1: We all know the picture He's standing over Sunny liston
Speaker 1: who was just knocked cold on the ground, and he
Speaker 1: kind of has like the tiger kind of like arm
Speaker 1: hook and he is yelling at just like taunting him,
Speaker 1: but like not just like taunting him and you suck
Speaker 1: blah blah, but just I can't. I think he's like,
Speaker 1: get up. No one's gonna believe this, even though it's
Speaker 1: on TV. That's what they said. He he was saying.
Speaker 1: But he was just like in that moment to have
Speaker 1: kind of the presence of mind to just still be
Speaker 1: clever and act as if like it wasn't hard to
Speaker 1: knock him down. And I remember my friend had the
Speaker 1: picture of the photograph blown up on his wall and
Speaker 1: we used to just stare at it and I was like, Wow,
Speaker 1: to be as good at something and to have that
Speaker 1: confidence and to have that wit all in the same
Speaker 1: moment is one of the most badass things I've everseen.
Speaker 1: So um, Ali, I almost almost knocked out my microphone.
Speaker 1: So funny maybe talking about like how cool and badass
Speaker 1: and then you hit your own podcast Mike, because I
Speaker 1: get passionate and I'm just like that and start fumble
Speaker 1: the microphone. But Ali, and probably not Eiven his best celebration,
Speaker 1: but Muhammad Ali is one of the greatest performers to
Speaker 1: ever live. Was sunny, Okay, I don't know, oh dear,
Speaker 1: al Right, well, let's hope. I hope we watched the
Speaker 1: and when we were the King. When we were Kings,
Speaker 1: Ali two, he in his knockout punch on George Foreman.
Speaker 1: He hit him and he was falling down, and he
Speaker 1: would have been legally able to punch him again to
Speaker 1: make sure, but Ali said it was he liked the
Speaker 1: aesthetic of him slowly falling, So I mean he didn't
Speaker 1: punch him again, And I'm like, yeah to me again,
Speaker 1: that's like Ali is a creative director as well, loving
Speaker 1: the aesthetic, the fact that that's like how you, you know,
Speaker 1: control your career and your place. They're like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to because I love the aesthetic and also
Speaker 1: like the sheer violence that's happening, you know, like a
Speaker 1: man is falling down in his because he's just been beaten. Alright,
Speaker 1: let's take a break and we'll be back with our
Speaker 1: number one picks. All right, and we're back a j
Speaker 1: You said you've listened to some episodes before, so you
Speaker 1: we're gonna have you go last is our big finale.
Speaker 1: So Megan, how about you give us your number one
Speaker 1: pick for groups. So, in typical fashion, I have lots
Speaker 1: of honorable mentions. Um Ocho Sinko, as we've mentioned. I
Speaker 1: mean yeah, him and TiO kind of go hand in hand.
Speaker 1: I remember I loved his putting. I thought that was
Speaker 1: like so funny to do that. Um yeah, he just
Speaker 1: he's a classic too. Ums my favorite like Bold Bold celebrations,
Speaker 1: which is when he made his own Hall of fame.
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, the confidence that you have to exude
Speaker 1: to be able to do and then execute like just perfection.
Speaker 1: I don't like proper humor. You should, but when it
Speaker 1: comes to NFL celebrations, I love prop humor. That is
Speaker 1: my exception. Honestly. I like to judge the pantomime propping
Speaker 1: more even more so, and I feel like sometimes you're
Speaker 1: not confident in your object work if you're lying props.
Speaker 1: So I mean object work that's like a real thing
Speaker 1: and improps like I'm not. I I always like, you know,
Speaker 1: go to the opening the cabinet. Some of these men
Speaker 1: and women they're very they've got great object work. They
Speaker 1: could absolutely go to Second City and make the main stage.
Speaker 1: I think, Okay, my favorite sort of league celebration. I
Speaker 1: love that the winning hockey team gets the Stanley Cup
Speaker 1: for the entire summer and they pass it around player
Speaker 1: to player. I think that is like one of the
Speaker 1: coolest traditions. It's also very disgusting now, um when you
Speaker 1: think of it in like COVID times, because I think
Speaker 1: what they do is like have sex next to it,
Speaker 1: fill it up with beer and drink out of it.
Speaker 1: Who knows what they're doing. They eat cereal lot of it.
Speaker 1: But it is like so cool that it just gets
Speaker 1: like passed around. I love that. I would want it
Speaker 1: fully sanitized before it got to me. But I think
Speaker 1: it's so cool that these men, you know, get to
Speaker 1: take it to small villages in Russia and just do
Speaker 1: whatever the funk they want with it. Um. And then
Speaker 1: also honorable mention is Jr. Having his shirt off the
Speaker 1: entirety of the summer after the Calves winning. Did he
Speaker 1: have a shirt off at the White House? Like, okay,
Speaker 1: he had a shirt on at the White House, maybe
Speaker 1: that was the exception, but he he just took his
Speaker 1: shirt off and didn't put it back on. So iconic
Speaker 1: that they made a Jr. Sleeve tattoo shirt that you
Speaker 1: can buy. Um. I posted a picture this week. Someone
Speaker 1: thought I was wearing one, and I was like, now
Speaker 1: I wish I was wearing one. Um, so I will
Speaker 1: be buying one. So happy to see him. I know
Speaker 1: CJ just got a new JR. Lakers jersey. Would you
Speaker 1: call that a waste of money? For sure? But that's
Speaker 1: my husband. That's what I've signed up for. Okay, um no,
Speaker 1: my pick Okay, So my pick is a female athlete
Speaker 1: US Women's World Cup, Brandy Chastain ripping off that jersey
Speaker 1: after just a nailing the penalty kick. And this was
Speaker 1: something that like, oh, I think it put female soccer
Speaker 1: on the map in the US. It was like an
Speaker 1: act of such joy and aggression and fun and it
Speaker 1: was also something that you see the men get to
Speaker 1: do all the time, and she did it and and
Speaker 1: there was nothing like scandalous about it, but people still
Speaker 1: got mad. I remember people being like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: like there are, yes, there are like events as a
Speaker 1: child that I look back on now being like why
Speaker 1: were people Like I remember my parents being like who cares?
Speaker 1: This is awesome? And then you would like hear on
Speaker 1: the radio, you know, corn eaters being like, okn't believe
Speaker 1: she took her shirt off. So it was like it
Speaker 1: kind of was like divisive, which I always love. The
Speaker 1: New York Times called it the most iconic photograph ever
Speaker 1: taken of a female athlete. There's a statue of it
Speaker 1: now in Pasadena. The game is like, Pasadena, we can go.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing yeah, we can go look at it. But
Speaker 1: like so she said that, like when she like, people
Speaker 1: are like, why did you do it? Why didn't She's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I wasn't even thinking. All I was thinking is this
Speaker 1: is the greatest moment in my life. And and I
Speaker 1: think you see that in her face, and it's just
Speaker 1: so cool and it's giving me chills. I just I
Speaker 1: love to see women just be like, you know, we're
Speaker 1: so rarely allowed to do that, and in sports to
Speaker 1: see it, it it was just so badass and cool and
Speaker 1: I love her forever for its great. Yes, that that
Speaker 1: actually was going to be my like sneaky honorable mention
Speaker 1: because I grew up playing soccer, Like I played soccer
Speaker 1: my whole life. I played travel soccer. I played UM
Speaker 1: soccer in high school UM for a bit, and that
Speaker 1: team was like my idols at the time, and like
Speaker 1: that home. It just I mean, you said it perfectly,
Speaker 1: but it just that will live in my heart and
Speaker 1: like it's my favorite energy. Like it's just it's yeah cool,
Speaker 1: all right. So as you can see I'm wearing on
Speaker 1: a shirt you have to talk into the microphone. I
Speaker 1: have talked you into the microphone. I'm trying to look
Speaker 1: at I was taught to speak to people in their eyes.
Speaker 1: I'm now holding the microphone up to my face. Uh my.
Speaker 1: My number one pick is the Minnesota moon. Uh and
Speaker 1: what we don't need to talk about a lot because
Speaker 1: I know it is sort of a controversial topic in
Speaker 1: the NFL. But two thousand four wild card game Vikings
Speaker 1: versus Packers, Randy Moss scores a touchdown and then he
Speaker 1: mimes mooning the crowd, which I think it is, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think now it's it's it's not so so bad,
Speaker 1: but I just thought it was. It was really cool.
Speaker 1: I Mean I really loved Randy Moss back then, again
Speaker 1: a player who had such personality that showed in his
Speaker 1: game and then off the field too. Like I also
Speaker 1: just loved his giant afro. Like there were just so
Speaker 1: many moments and like visuals that made Randy so cool,
Speaker 1: but the Minnesota Moon was always such a bad, like
Speaker 1: no pun intended, badass thing that he did. So I
Speaker 1: had to get this shirt from my This is the
Speaker 1: first pick that I've ever had where I've worn the
Speaker 1: shirt during the episode. But yeah, this are these are
Speaker 1: the things I like to buy. I think it's like
Speaker 1: a really funny and cool So it was also one
Speaker 1: that was very divisive. Do you have any honorable mentions, um,
Speaker 1: honorable mentions? No, not really, not that I thought Randy
Speaker 1: Moss was not someone that as a player we rooted for.
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, we can It could be racial,
Speaker 1: it could be any number of things of just like,
Speaker 1: oh a man who just like is a badass and
Speaker 1: field school. I can see Indiana not liking that. And
Speaker 1: he's someone that I've like so enjoyed as a broadcaster
Speaker 1: and as someone um post career and yeah, to play
Speaker 1: for the Patriots and they still love you. It's like, wow,
Speaker 1: you really are fun and cool. Yeah that that Randy
Speaker 1: celebration actually was in a response to the Wisconsin Marching Band.
Speaker 1: Yeah they had like they I forget exactly what they did,
Speaker 1: but they had things like printed I think on their
Speaker 1: drums um and they like it's like marching Man came
Speaker 1: out and that was like a the moon was in
Speaker 1: a response to that as a retaliation. I got to
Speaker 1: look up more exactly what happened. But it's funny because
Speaker 1: that wasn't just like an out of nowhere thing, like
Speaker 1: he was responding to something, which I think is all
Speaker 1: interesting spin on this story now. And I think you know,
Speaker 1: I remember in the article Joe Buck apparently I called
Speaker 1: it a disgusting act. But I feel like if you
Speaker 1: hear the back story on that, it's like, man have
Speaker 1: so much thought is put into that that it's but
Speaker 1: he's kidding, like it's fully and if he's big pulling
Speaker 1: his pay ups down, that's not even a big deal.
Speaker 1: I would be remiss if I didn't mention. Also, the
Speaker 1: Lamba Leap. I love the Lambo leap. I love hearing
Speaker 1: stories about it. James Jones was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: once I did the Lambo leap, an entire beer got
Speaker 1: dumped on my head because people are just so excited.
Speaker 1: But then he's like, then I'm just drenched in beer
Speaker 1: for the rest of the game. I love when guys
Speaker 1: can't make it up there like everything about it is
Speaker 1: like that is probably one of the most classic. We
Speaker 1: do this always here and it's there's and it and
Speaker 1: it really when you see people do other places, you're like,
Speaker 1: something doesn't feel fully right like it it's so packers
Speaker 1: centric to me. Yeah, a j bring us home honorable mentions,
Speaker 1: feel free to give us those as well. Okay, so
Speaker 1: first I'm gonna make it quick, but I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: an honorable mensic category to when people like fallout to
Speaker 1: things they care about in their celebrations. So my, um,
Speaker 1: that's everything from like Cassius Marsh does a taekwondo sack
Speaker 1: celebration because he used to do taekwondo as a kid.
Speaker 1: Um Marquist Goodwin does a long jump celebration because he's
Speaker 1: done the long jump. I like when people shout out
Speaker 1: their babies. But Watson put a fullball shirt, put it
Speaker 1: up when pregnant, and then he actually did that when
Speaker 1: he's on the Patriots, got fined for it, and then
Speaker 1: obviously you know, the rules changed. So when he's on
Speaker 1: the Saints, um, he did it again because his wife
Speaker 1: was expecting twins and he did it and he held
Speaker 1: up two fingers. Um, everyone found out he was having twins,
Speaker 1: which I Devin Funchius has done it with like the
Speaker 1: lack of my baby. But my favorite example of that
Speaker 1: is actually Dante Pettis on the forty Niners has two
Speaker 1: cats and he loves his cats, and his signature celebration
Speaker 1: is like like a cat, like cleaning itself, and that
Speaker 1: is I think it challenges traditional masculinity. It's meaningful, it's bold, um,
Speaker 1: but it's also like not like super distracting. I just
Speaker 1: to me, that is hilarious. Oh I love that one.
Speaker 1: And then my like for real honorable mentions. Also, the
Speaker 1: Packers did a lunch line which like, um, the Titans
Speaker 1: did remember the Titans stands, I mean only pull that
Speaker 1: off perfectly. Um. But my like true winner here. Um.
Speaker 1: In modern day football celebrations is and it's also probably biased.
Speaker 1: But the Chicago Bears motown celebration, I thought it was
Speaker 1: super creative. They had basically away for everyone to be involved.
Speaker 1: So Prince and Mukamar was the main singer. Who's got
Speaker 1: his mic, he's pointing his finger, He's owning the stage
Speaker 1: like the rest of the team behind him is doing
Speaker 1: this like shops thing. Um, so that meant like it
Speaker 1: wasn't just like a three person thing, like anybody like
Speaker 1: could get involved and be a part of the celebration,
Speaker 1: which I loved. And then to me like almost like
Speaker 1: the very subtle hero of that celebration was Dion Bush
Speaker 1: runs in front of the camera and kneels down in
Speaker 1: front of Prince and like cheers like he's the crowd,
Speaker 1: and I just put the scene together, you know, And
Speaker 1: so I thought that and then that led to very
Speaker 1: similar to the Dack dance hashtag Bear sitting to anything,
Speaker 1: and it blew up and had this own like whole
Speaker 1: social media you know, then take on it, and I
Speaker 1: think obviously the Bears have you know, not been you know,
Speaker 1: the best team for for quite a bit, but they
Speaker 1: were really that year coming back onto the maps like
Speaker 1: a true threat with you know, Khalil Mack and everything.
Speaker 1: And so I thought, like, one beyond just being like,
Speaker 1: oh okay, the Bears are coming back, it was like
Speaker 1: we're coming back with a vengeance and you're gonna know
Speaker 1: also everything about us, like we're gonna celebrate the best,
Speaker 1: we're going to play best, we're going to like it
Speaker 1: just felt like they didn't just come back and like,
Speaker 1: oh we're gonna try. It was like we're gonna go
Speaker 1: all in on everything and like we're gonna get your
Speaker 1: attention no matter what we have to do. And so
Speaker 1: that one takes it home for me. Did they do
Speaker 1: that one against the Lions. Yes, they didn't. That's because
Speaker 1: I'm like they play them twice and it feels like
Speaker 1: a dig at them m to be like we own
Speaker 1: no town. Actually maybe in the mo town, but we
Speaker 1: own it. Yes, they like they have done. Also, I
Speaker 1: feel like underrated because they weren't. I think it's a
Speaker 1: good last year. Obviously the year before, but that year
Speaker 1: they really they pulled out all the stuffs. They were
Speaker 1: doing drills, they didn't work stuff, they did the Choco
Speaker 1: slide like they and then obviously Club Dub is like
Speaker 1: a permanent like for every win. I mean that is
Speaker 1: you know, they go back to their locker room after
Speaker 1: they win and there's lights, there's two scoballs, plastic music.
Speaker 1: I mean that could probably be you know, in this
Speaker 1: as its own entity, like just like you know, they
Speaker 1: branded this thing and they kind of own it, which
Speaker 1: I just really love. Yeah, we really need like a
Speaker 1: hard knocks spinoff of just these see them in the
Speaker 1: meeting rooms planning, starting at the pitching process to the rehearsal,
Speaker 1: and then all the way to doing it in game.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I wanted. I actually pitched a player
Speaker 1: once a celebrate ation and he loved it, and then
Speaker 1: he took it to his team and they didn't like it.
Speaker 1: They never did it, sad, But I really wanted a
Speaker 1: synchronized swimming celebration, so that'd be so good, so good.
Speaker 1: Me and one of my coworkers, Brendan, all the time
Speaker 1: we talked about wanting a hibachi grill celebration like the shrimp. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just catch it in your mouth. Yes, I forgot.
Speaker 1: That happens a lot like when I was at the Pistons.
Speaker 1: Andre Drummond and I he we exchanged numbers and then
Speaker 1: at like two am one night, I got a text
Speaker 1: and it was Andre Drummond being like, have you seen
Speaker 1: Game of Thrones? And I was like I have, and
Speaker 1: he goes, well, can you ask if when I dunk it,
Speaker 1: if they can play the Game of Thrones theme song
Speaker 1: on the JumboTron with a picture of my head on
Speaker 1: a dragon. And I was only there for it. Was
Speaker 1: like the first month of two and I was like,
Speaker 1: I can ask, and I asked and they were like
Speaker 1: absolutely not. But I was just like head on a dragon.
Speaker 1: I love just the full planning and thought process that
Speaker 1: goes into that, and like them envisioning themselves in their heads,
Speaker 1: like executing all of like little you know, pieces that
Speaker 1: go into it. It's so good. They're so they really
Speaker 1: are so creative and it goes back to showing like
Speaker 1: who they are, Like it's very like helmets off more
Speaker 1: than just like you know this like touchdown machine like
Speaker 1: just and in baseball, they have their walkout music that's
Speaker 1: sort of like and it's like with the ball, like
Speaker 1: whenever when you hear like a country song, you're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to the bathroom, don't need to see
Speaker 1: this guy bat. But then I love when someone like
Speaker 1: walks out to like nas or like guns and Roses
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh more, there's like funny songs that
Speaker 1: sometimes people pick. I guess, yeah, we didn't do a
Speaker 1: lot of but we we have no baseball, but we
Speaker 1: do like the baseball walkout song because I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about doing the Jose Batista bat flip um,
Speaker 1: but de started to keep it to football, but that
Speaker 1: you know, No, I do think baseball they got to
Speaker 1: expand their horizons, but they may not be a lot too.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Are you allowed to break a bat
Speaker 1: over your leg? I think, but whenever I see it,
Speaker 1: it's like I would break my leg. Oh yeah. In
Speaker 1: the new Nike commercial they have somebody breaking a bat
Speaker 1: and then breaking a putter or like a golf club,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, if you broke a golf club over
Speaker 1: your I would die. I would be in the hospital,
Speaker 1: like Bo Jackson is doing. His leg is just like
Speaker 1: Mac Tree is too. Mac trucks as les. So that's
Speaker 1: sort of like a negative celebration, but it is cool
Speaker 1: as hell. Yeah, very cool. Um. All right, well a J,
Speaker 1: thank you so so much for coming on the show.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you and your Mac and Cheese
Speaker 1: burner account? Um? Okay, so you can find me on
Speaker 1: Twitter and Instagram at a J underscore Curry Curry as
Speaker 1: in step Cury. No, we're not really you know, um
Speaker 1: and then also on TikTok at at a J. That's
Speaker 1: my subtle flex. It can't go away now out, it
Speaker 1: can't go I know I'll be so sad. And then
Speaker 1: you can find my Mac and cheese Aron on Instagram
Speaker 1: at Baby Got Mac with two y y NFL Disposables
Speaker 1: account at NFL Disposables on Instagram, where I post my
Speaker 1: film shots from games. Oh yeah, you just have really
Speaker 1: cool and you and that's when you have like the
Speaker 1: vest on. I love seeing you in a vest a
Speaker 1: media vest Well, we're so excited I for, you know,
Speaker 1: fingers crossed getting to see funds stuff. Maybe they'll be
Speaker 1: Dr Fauci theme celebrations this year or who knows. You know,
Speaker 1: they're really going to have to put some thought in
Speaker 1: some heart into the celebrations this season. But thank you
Speaker 1: so so so much. We miss you. Thank you guys, seriously,
Speaker 1: I'd like am so. I miss you both so much
Speaker 1: and I'm so glad that we follow each other on
Speaker 1: social and we can keep up. But I just miss
Speaker 1: seeing your faces and talking to you. And I'm glad
Speaker 1: that we got this and this podcast is phenomenal and um,
Speaker 1: I am just so lucky to be part of it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you. Um. You can find
Speaker 1: c J at c J Toladanno and myself at Megan
Speaker 1: Gaily I am starting a UM NBA bubble show. I
Speaker 1: will be filming it in our backyard. I have a
Speaker 1: bubble machine. That's as far as I've thought so far.
Speaker 1: C J has promised to not help me or contribute
Speaker 1: in any way, and I can't wait to see what
Speaker 1: that looks. I have no choice. I will be helping you. No,
Speaker 1: you will not be helping me. I've actually hired a producer,
Speaker 1: slash editor, slash friend who I used to work with
Speaker 1: at the NFL, another female content creator. And we don't
Speaker 1: need you, c J. Okay, so be looking for that
Speaker 1: the name who knows I may change it every week.
Speaker 1: C J says that's bad for social media. I don't
Speaker 1: really give that that. Um and thanks to our producer
Speaker 1: Kurt and oh everybody stays safe. Where your mask be good,
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