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Speaker 1: Turn here. Hey, everybody, welcome to another season of the Tailgate,
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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings. I'm Simonson, I'm your host. We're prompted
Speaker 1: to be on KFA N again to bring you some
Speaker 1: comics and entertainers who are fans of the other team
Speaker 1: to talk about the upcoming Vikings matchup. We got some
Speaker 1: great guests on the first episode. In the second half
Speaker 1: of the show, we're gonna connect with two New York
Speaker 1: comedians and huge fans of the New York Giants, Christa
Speaker 1: Stefano and Mike Cannon from the Chrissy Chaos podcast. But
Speaker 1: first Light is a jentlebed butt. First, let's kick things
Speaker 1: off with King Minnesota himself. Ladies and gentlemen, you know
Speaker 1: him from his Netflix special Empty Nester. You probably know
Speaker 1: him from a whole bunch of other stuff. I just
Speaker 1: call him my best pal, Ladies and gentlemen. The Chad Daniels.
Speaker 2: Hey, baby, Hi everybody. A lot of people were hoping
Speaker 2: that Nick Schwartzen was on when you said King of Minnesota.
Speaker 2: You know what's interesting. You and I do a podcast
Speaker 2: every week, and I've never heard you use that voice before.
Speaker 3: You really like it.
Speaker 2: You're real radio e today where you're like, everybody, welcome.
Speaker 1: To the show.
Speaker 2: I do love.
Speaker 1: Do you think it landed?
Speaker 2: I think it landed because there's an energy in this state.
Speaker 2: There's an energy that somehow entered the state when there
Speaker 2: was someone left. We're not going to talk about it.
Speaker 2: I just want you to know that a trade went
Speaker 2: down this offseason. In five minutes afterwards, both my kids
Speaker 2: texted me the words, hey, we can watch football together again.
Speaker 1: Would not to be fair. It wasn't even a trade.
Speaker 1: It was a release, sure rease. It wasn't even a release.
Speaker 1: It was a go sign somewhere else. And Chad came
Speaker 1: back into the fold in a spend time in the
Speaker 1: same room as him during a football like It's it's.
Speaker 2: All it's brought my family back together.
Speaker 1: It's brought your family back together. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: Of the many things you know about me, maybe near
Speaker 1: the top of the list is I'm a big no
Speaker 1: expectations guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like to exist in a relationship. That's how I
Speaker 1: like to exist. Like, I think, the less expectations that
Speaker 1: there are placed upon me, the better I look to
Speaker 1: the people who count on me because they're like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, he's crushing it. It's great for me. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'd like to get you a football jersey that says
Speaker 2: low bar on the back or wishy washy. I haven't
Speaker 2: decided which one, because watching is unacceptable.
Speaker 1: Let's start with low bar and let's walk towards wishy
Speaker 1: washy because I think with said change, it's a great
Speaker 1: year to be a Vikings fan. There are some people
Speaker 1: that are down on what we can do and how
Speaker 1: far we can go. But let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: I like being counted out. I like that we're not
Speaker 1: sitting there talking about how far we have to get
Speaker 1: for this season to be a success. I like that
Speaker 1: everyone's over. If something great happens. Man, we didn't. We
Speaker 1: weren't expecting that set the bar low and let's leap
Speaker 1: over it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it was doctor Seuss that said, set
Speaker 2: the expectations low. See how far you can go. We
Speaker 2: have some new arms, let's see how far they can throw.
Speaker 2: I think it was doctor Seuss that said that. And
Speaker 2: I bet you it's eight yards when it fourth and seven. Now,
Speaker 2: I would like to talk about how unacceptable it is
Speaker 2: to watch a football game with you. Come on, what
Speaker 2: do you do, Sybil? Your mood changes on such a
Speaker 2: level where it's like, I can't believe they're doing this too,
Speaker 2: this is the greatest team we've ever seen, and then
Speaker 2: right back down to I can't believe we're doing this.
Speaker 2: I like to hold I like to maintain my levels.
Speaker 2: Which are they should do that they're professionals versus what's
Speaker 2: happening right now. They're professionals. I don't hit a big
Speaker 2: I don't have a lot of ebbs and flows. I'm
Speaker 2: pretty much on a straight line.
Speaker 1: And I think that's why we're a great team. So
Speaker 1: that's why I think it's good for us to watch
Speaker 1: football together, because if you're the extra person watching football
Speaker 1: with us, you're getting the whole gambit of experiences. You're
Speaker 1: getting you're getting a guy who doesn't like to and
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to psychologically analyze you right now, but
Speaker 1: maybe that has something to do with you don't like
Speaker 1: to be let down, so you don't like to let
Speaker 1: yourself get built up. So stay in the middle. And
Speaker 1: over here, I'm a big emotion guy who likes to
Speaker 1: feel my feelings and I want to run to the
Speaker 1: top of the hill and then I want to be
Speaker 1: all the way down at the bottom of the valley.
Speaker 1: And so I think it works. And I think as
Speaker 1: Viking fans, I have to I have to assume you
Speaker 1: are the more wealth thought out, impressive one and I'm
Speaker 1: more of the norm. I think there are more SI
Speaker 1: Viking fans in the state of Minnesota than.
Speaker 2: Sigh, because there are a lot of SI Viking fans.
Speaker 2: I listen. I've been to Las Vegas when the Vikes
Speaker 2: are in the playoffs and the negative energy. I just
Speaker 2: want to walk around the room, just ambidexterously slapping people
Speaker 2: in the face, both fans. I don't care. I don't
Speaker 2: have a dominant hand when it comes to slapping. So
Speaker 2: I'm jazzed up for this season. I think it's going
Speaker 2: to be great. Everybody has us in the basement because
Speaker 2: of the the Chicago Draft and this Jordan love and
Speaker 2: all this, and that, you know, Detroit made it so
Speaker 2: far last year. Guess what, I don't see it. I
Speaker 2: don't see us in the base.
Speaker 4: Agree.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying. I don't see it either. I agree.
Speaker 1: I think I think this is a classic, and let's
Speaker 1: you know, let's let's tie it to something that the
Speaker 1: people can understand. I think this is your classic nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety one Minnesota twins hanging out in the basement. Next
Speaker 1: thing you know, they're sitting on the balcony. That's what
Speaker 1: I think is possible here. Now Am I telling myself
Speaker 1: that in this moment, and you're gonna get some text
Speaker 1: from me on Sunday that contradict that. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: think if you can't handle me at my best, you
Speaker 1: don't deserve me at my worst. But can I I'm.
Speaker 2: Gonna tell you something right now, I block you on Sundays.
Speaker 2: You know that also worse. The first feels incredible. I'm
Speaker 2: jazzed up. I think what's gonna happen is you know
Speaker 2: what a boxer is right handed? And then in the gym,
Speaker 2: no cameras allowed they train to be a southpaw, and
Speaker 2: then they come out in the first round and all
Speaker 2: the tapes the other boxer watched mean absolutely nothing because
Speaker 2: they trained to fight a right handed guy and now
Speaker 2: they're fighting a left handed guy. I'm jazzed up. I'm
Speaker 2: so excited about this season. I don't care if we're over.
Speaker 2: I am excited to see where this particular team, with
Speaker 2: its new leadership, can go well and.
Speaker 1: Can I can I double down on that because for me,
Speaker 1: it's the first time I've felt hope in a long time,
Speaker 1: even knowing that the ceiling might be lower this particular year,
Speaker 1: it felt like, since you know, essentially the Minnesota miracle,
Speaker 1: every single year after that, you're like, well, this is
Speaker 1: what we are, and it kind of feels like what
Speaker 1: we're gonna be. What we are is what we're gonna be.
Speaker 1: But there's this universe where this year, even after signing Darisaw,
Speaker 1: after signing Jefferson, after getting Grenard and free agency, they
Speaker 1: still have seventy five million ish dollars this offseason.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: So let me let me let me paint you a
Speaker 1: pretty little scenario that I don't think is unrealistic. It's
Speaker 1: three things three things can happen. The first one is
Speaker 1: Jordan Addison, Yeah, takes a giant jump up. Now, you
Speaker 1: and I were at that San Francisco forty nine Ers
Speaker 1: game last year. We were in the building, and I
Speaker 1: think we both in betwixt some lunatic Niners fans trying
Speaker 1: to ruin your day. But I think we both left
Speaker 1: that game going, Oh, given the right opportunity, Jordan Addison
Speaker 1: might be a top twenty wide receiver in the whole league.
Speaker 2: I had him in fantasy last year and it was unbelievable.
Speaker 2: I don't even remember. At the end of the first half,
Speaker 2: an interception was thrown and Jordan Addison went and he
Speaker 2: took the ball from the d back and scored a touchdown.
Speaker 2: That's unbelievable, and that's the kind of stuff that we're
Speaker 2: going to be looking for from him.
Speaker 1: So imagine he takes that jump up this year. He's
Speaker 1: still on a couple of years of his rookie deal, right,
Speaker 1: and then you've got a guy like Ivan Pace Junior,
Speaker 1: who also showed up last year. Let's say he takes
Speaker 1: a jump up in this defense. He's also on an
Speaker 1: undrafted rookie deal, good low money contracts, they're overperforming. And
Speaker 1: then this guy that fell to us, Dallas Turner, that
Speaker 1: some people are like, oh, he's kind of Micah Parsons ish, dude,
Speaker 1: if he is a fraction of Micah Parsons early, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you have these three players who leap up,
Speaker 1: and you walk into next season with key pieces all
Speaker 1: over the roster, a cheap quarterback room, a rookie that's
Speaker 1: about to play, and seventy five million dollars. Dude, we
Speaker 1: might stumble into a super Bowl window. I said, I'm
Speaker 1: with you, oh for I don't care. It's about to me.
Speaker 1: It's about the next few years. And this is the
Speaker 1: first year that I've felt like, oh my gosh, there's
Speaker 1: a path. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I've never been a sit and be patient for a rebuild,
Speaker 2: but I'm just excited to see to take the little
Speaker 2: glimpses of hope. And you know what, I'm not even
Speaker 2: writing them off this year. I refuse to do that
Speaker 2: because I'm I'm and I.
Speaker 1: Don't think we should. I'm just painting both sides of it.
Speaker 1: I think we can be enthused for this year but
Speaker 1: also have those parallel goals of win football games. But
Speaker 1: if We're in week eight and you're like, Hey, it
Speaker 1: turns out Dallas Turner is a stud out the Gate.
Speaker 1: That's an extra added piece of information that I am
Speaker 1: going to be excited about.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm excited about the whole thing.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about New York because I think
Speaker 1: you and I as comedians, we have a relationship with
Speaker 1: that city, and then as Minnesota sports fans, I don't
Speaker 1: have the anger that Twins fans do. I know we
Speaker 1: lost to the Yankees over and over, but I always
Speaker 1: got and over and over and over. But I always
Speaker 1: understood why. I never viewed them as the evil Empire.
Speaker 1: I always thought like what if, what if we did
Speaker 1: more better? Like that was my theory on that whole situation.
Speaker 1: So like I was pumped to an Alex Rodriguez bought
Speaker 1: the Timberolves because he's like a famous guy that can
Speaker 1: be held accountable. So that's a good thing for the
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of people in the state that
Speaker 1: are really anti New York, and I can get behind that.
Speaker 1: But I to me, most of my feelings about the
Speaker 1: city are based on what it's like to do stand
Speaker 1: up comedy there.
Speaker 2: Sure, and mine my feelings about the city at least
Speaker 2: in sports are going to a Twins game Game three.
Speaker 2: We had two games at home target Field, and then
Speaker 2: game three was there, and I bought tickets in the
Speaker 2: bleachers like a complete nonsensical fool, and immediately had my
Speaker 2: Twins hat on and was getting mustard packets opened and
Speaker 2: thrown at me. So I smelled like mustard and had
Speaker 2: orange stains all over a black jacket and then an hat,
Speaker 2: and then also I had beer port all over me,
Speaker 2: to the point where the security I came over and
Speaker 2: told my friend and I we should probably head out
Speaker 2: around the seventh inning because the subway is going to
Speaker 2: be filled with these guys going back. And it was
Speaker 2: a bad idea for us. So and they were winning
Speaker 2: the the Yankees were when the Yankees were winning, the
Speaker 2: Yankees were winning, yeah, make sure, because they swept. They
Speaker 2: swept the series, beat us too at home, and then
Speaker 2: the third one there.
Speaker 1: And for all the negative you know, energy you and
Speaker 1: I give to the state of Wisconsin, and some of
Speaker 1: it's deserved. For example that you know they don't emphasize
Speaker 1: reading in the schools and their cars are made out
Speaker 1: of cheese, stuff like that. You know they haven't they
Speaker 1: haven't allowed. I don't need to get into all this stuff.
Speaker 1: The point is, I mean, here's the deal. Wisconsin and
Speaker 1: Minnesota are the same state. If football is never invented,
Speaker 1: it's just one giant state. Yeah, I guess they're East Minnesota.
Speaker 1: I guess. My point is, as much as we complained
Speaker 1: about Packer fans, you can go, like I've told this
Speaker 1: story on the show before, we were in Lambeau for
Speaker 1: the Randy Moss Moon game, going nuts while they were
Speaker 1: getting throttled in the playoffs, and it wasn't like you
Speaker 1: got to a point where you're like, we should probably
Speaker 1: chill out just a little bit, you know. But it
Speaker 1: wasn't this uh oh, somebody's gonna beat my skull in
Speaker 1: on the subway vibe, right, And you you do have
Speaker 1: to give them credit for that, because I do find
Speaker 1: that to be true with with the New York Giants fans,
Speaker 1: with the Philadelphia Eagles fans. You just that's the sort
Speaker 1: of place where you're like, hey, Chad, Chad wore a
Speaker 1: jersey to a Yankees game, and so obviously somebody, you know,
Speaker 1: somebody beat him with a coffee mug outside the stadium.
Speaker 1: So he's not coming home.
Speaker 2: Yeah, any place that has a jail in their own
Speaker 2: stadium for their fans. I don't need to go watch
Speaker 2: an away game there, can I.
Speaker 1: Ask you this whole greatest city on the planet thing.
Speaker 1: And I'm not here to criticize New York because I
Speaker 1: like parts of New York. But I have never in
Speaker 1: the times I've been there, I have never understood that.
Speaker 1: Is that something you have to say when you live
Speaker 1: there because you like you know, if you like, if
Speaker 1: you dig, like if your job is you work at
Speaker 1: the zoo, scoopid elephant. Yeah, you know, somewhere in the
Speaker 1: back of your brain you have to be like, well,
Speaker 1: I do good, hard work with my hands. You know.
Speaker 1: There has to be something you tell yourself. Yep, in
Speaker 1: between piles of elephant? Is that the thing in New
Speaker 1: York they do? They have to believe that so they
Speaker 1: don't go I'm in a concrete jungle. It's so loud,
Speaker 1: the doors are all too short, Yes, of course, I
Speaker 1: just I don't understand it. I can't get anyone from
Speaker 1: there to back to just be honest, because you could
Speaker 1: criticize Minnesota in some ways like the cold, and then
Speaker 1: I will break down and be honest about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the amount of rent checks that have
Speaker 2: to be rewritten because the ink gets smudged because people
Speaker 2: are crying is unbelievable. In New York. That's when you
Speaker 2: you have to tell yourself as you're writing a forty
Speaker 2: five hundred dollars check for to have a couch in
Speaker 2: your kitchen as your bed, and you're just like, this
Speaker 2: is this is the greatest city in the world. Of course,
Speaker 2: that's why I'm doing it. I mean, it's the only reason.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to feel about the Giants as
Speaker 1: a fan base. You know me, I don't. I dislike
Speaker 1: a lot of fan bases or like, excuse me, teams,
Speaker 1: not even the fan base. I know how I feel
Speaker 1: about the fan base the team. I dislike a lot
Speaker 1: of teams. The Giants have never really registered for me,
Speaker 1: even though there is a pretty long and unique history. Right,
Speaker 1: You've got forty one donut yep, Randy Moss squirting the refs,
Speaker 1: which is still pretty wild when you think about it.
Speaker 2: He rules so hard, so he's he broke great cash
Speaker 2: on me, dude.
Speaker 1: The fact that it's almost surprising that we've been through
Speaker 1: this much sports history and he's the only there's so
Speaker 1: many water bottles. He's the only guy who's ever been
Speaker 1: like what on a ref because he was mad? That's
Speaker 1: wild to me. Decades of sports, and we have no
Speaker 1: other tape of that. Uh so we've got that, We've got.
Speaker 2: Well, we do have that punk ass from Denver that
Speaker 2: threw a whole bunch of stuff on the court because
Speaker 2: he was thrown a fit against the Tea Wolves in
Speaker 2: the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that we do have. We do have the NBA
Speaker 1: conspiracy of allowing Jamal Murray to continue to play despite
Speaker 1: his antics.
Speaker 3: Wild.
Speaker 2: Hi, I'm a four year old. I like playing with
Speaker 2: a ball now.
Speaker 1: To be very clear, Jamal Murray, four year old. Randy Moss,
Speaker 1: cool guy, he absolutely, cool guy. Very different situations.
Speaker 2: You're you're throwing stuff out onto a court that could
Speaker 2: cause an injury versus playfully squirting a referee and mooning wisconsinites.
Speaker 1: Who who cares?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: But then you have our favorite, our mutual one of
Speaker 1: our mutual favorite Vikings of all time, Randall Cunningham King
Speaker 1: deep Ball, the man himself. Everybody thinks about ninety eight,
Speaker 1: but this is like, this is an interestingly forgotten part
Speaker 1: of Vikings history. They're playing the Giants in ninety seven
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Cunningham comes in late as a replacement,
Speaker 1: drives him down the field sick ass touchdown, I believe
Speaker 1: to Chris Carter, they get an on side kick, march
Speaker 1: down the field with no time left, win the game.
Speaker 1: That's a big moment for sized childhood at that point
Speaker 1: pre ninety eight. That was the moment, and that was
Speaker 1: I know you followed Cunningham from the Eagles to the Vikings, right.
Speaker 2: I was tricked into being an Eagles fan because of
Speaker 2: the musical duo Crisscross. They wore all Eagle stuff in
Speaker 2: their video, and I thought, well, I like rap music,
Speaker 2: I'm going to be an Eagles fan. And then so
Speaker 2: I followed him over and I got to see when
Speaker 2: he came in initially for the first time. And that
Speaker 2: was the most exciting thing because I was at the
Speaker 2: Vikings game when it happened.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, in ninety eight, you were there in ninety
Speaker 1: eight when he came in for the first time. Here's
Speaker 1: another fun one. When you go down the history list,
Speaker 1: this is and it's in again this book of World records.
Speaker 1: So the Vikings became the first in two thousand and
Speaker 1: five November thirteen, two thousand and five, they became the
Speaker 1: first team to return a punt, a kick, and an
Speaker 1: interception for a touchdown all in one game to beat
Speaker 1: the New York Giants. I remember that game as a kid.
Speaker 1: I believe that was.
Speaker 2: The herschel Walker.
Speaker 1: It might it might not have been a It might
Speaker 1: have been a Marcus Cheryl's touchdown. I can't remember exactly
Speaker 1: who returned that, who returned the punt, but big, big
Speaker 1: fan of that. So I think my point is I
Speaker 1: don't even though you would think the forty one donut
Speaker 1: would have a massive effect on how I view this team.
Speaker 1: I'm not overly emotionally connected to them in a negative
Speaker 1: way like I am a lot of other fan bases.
Speaker 1: I just feel like this is the game to get.
Speaker 1: It's a tough matchup, but this is the game to get.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Do you remember before I have a story about this,
Speaker 2: but herschel Walker when he had a run from scrimmage,
Speaker 2: a touchdown reception of over ninety yards, a run from
Speaker 2: scrimmage touchdown over ninety yards, and a kickoff return over
Speaker 2: ninety yards.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that was a thing at all. That's
Speaker 1: the wildest thing. It's the real thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now, I'd like to tell you about when I watched
Speaker 2: the last game. I think that I watched the Vikings
Speaker 2: and the Giants play was I was in Sacramento, California,
Speaker 2: and it was a playoff game. Vikings worth three seed
Speaker 2: and it's a couple of years ago. Yep, Giants were
Speaker 2: six seed, and you know the three and the six.
Speaker 2: So you go, well, this the good odds for us,
Speaker 2: and it wasn't going great. And then there's a knock
Speaker 2: at my door and I think, like I ordered food
Speaker 2: and forgot or something. So I go to the door
Speaker 2: and it's two armed security guards with their hands on
Speaker 2: their guns. And I didn't know what was going on.
Speaker 2: I was like, hey, it's happening. I was a little
Speaker 2: nervous because I was holding the door and my hand
Speaker 2: was behind the door, and they kept looking at it.
Speaker 2: And this felt very wild Westy because their hands were
Speaker 2: kind of like doing the little quiver over by their gun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they had the Clint Eastwood ready to go thing
Speaker 1: going on.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, the little flippy thing was already flipped. And so
Speaker 2: I just go, hey, what's going on? And they said,
Speaker 2: we have a domestic disturbance. Complain about this room, and
Speaker 2: I said, well, there's no way about this room. There's
Speaker 2: no chance because I've been here all by myself. You
Speaker 2: don't believe me, Why don't you come in here and
Speaker 2: try to bend this sock? And nobody laughed. I thought
Speaker 2: it was funny. There was no sock spoiler alert, but
Speaker 2: I thought it was funny to say to them. Anyways,
Speaker 2: they have to come in my room to make sure
Speaker 2: no one's in there, and I still don't know what's
Speaker 2: going on, and so they're like, hey, do this, do this,
Speaker 2: do this, and they don't find anybody, and they go, hey,
Speaker 2: we have a witness in the in the hallway that
Speaker 2: heard this go down. I'm like, well, we better talk
Speaker 2: to him. So I get out there, and there's this
Speaker 2: lady and she goes I was walking by this room
Speaker 2: and I heard a man yell get on the ground.
Speaker 2: And I sat there for a second and I was like,
Speaker 2: that is not something I would say. And then I thought, oh,
Speaker 2: I bet you heard a man yell get him on
Speaker 2: the ground. You big, because I have the under and
Speaker 2: they are running all over us. And so I was
Speaker 2: screaming at my TV. Oh did we all laugh at that?
Speaker 2: And then I said, can I go back in the
Speaker 2: room and they said, yep, absolutely, sorry for bothering you,
Speaker 2: and I said, no problem. And then I shut the
Speaker 2: door and I yelled stay under the bed. And I've
Speaker 2: never heard people knock louder. It's like all three of
Speaker 2: them picked a different spot on the door and started pounding.
Speaker 2: It was crazy. But that is my recollection of New
Speaker 2: York Giants Minnesota Vikings playoff football.
Speaker 1: You're the King and I love you a lot. Thank
Speaker 1: you for doing this first episode, and we will see
Speaker 1: you on the other things that we do.
Speaker 4: School.
Speaker 1: Maybe that was the great Chad Daniels joining us here
Speaker 1: on the first episode of the Tailgate. Remember you can
Speaker 1: check out his tour dates at chaddaniels dot com or
Speaker 1: check out his amazing Netflix special Empty Nester. Streaming Now
Speaker 1: broke it down a little bit from the Viking side.
Speaker 1: Talked about, you know, the expectations, what we're looking for,
Speaker 1: which I do think despite having those expectations, the first
Speaker 1: game of the year is a big one because when
Speaker 1: you look at our when you look at our our
Speaker 1: schedule the first seven after New York, given what people
Speaker 1: did last year, they are not necessarily easy. So we
Speaker 1: focused on the season with old Dad Chaniels. Now let's
Speaker 1: get into focusing on what's going on with New York.
Speaker 1: We're gonna jump over in the next part of the show,
Speaker 1: and like I said, we're gonna talk to Chris DiStefano
Speaker 1: and Mike Cannon. To lifelong die hard Giants fans, we
Speaker 1: are also fantastic comedians. So we will be right back
Speaker 1: here on the Vikings Tailgate, brought to you by Ticketmaster,
Speaker 1: the official ticket marketplace of the Minnesota Vikings. Joining us
Speaker 1: to talk all things Giants, ladies and gentlemen, Chris DiStefano
Speaker 1: and Mike Cannon. Boys, I need your perspective on something
Speaker 1: because your team delivered my team one of the most
Speaker 1: historic ass kickings in our franchise history, NFC Championship game.
Speaker 1: We call it forty one donut. There's a name for
Speaker 1: it in town here. That's like, we have this horrible
Speaker 1: celebration of awful moments. I need to know from your perspective.
Speaker 1: Does that game ring as a moment that you ever
Speaker 1: think about? Is this one of those things where we
Speaker 1: think about you and you don't think about us, Because
Speaker 1: I mean, moss squirting the water bottle that was a
Speaker 1: wild moment for me as a child.
Speaker 4: I remember the first half.
Speaker 5: Then I was pretty much out drunk for the rest
Speaker 5: of it, so I remember, so I kind of saw
Speaker 5: the forty one nothing the next morning in the middle
Speaker 5: of a hangover.
Speaker 3: I think I'm similar.
Speaker 6: I remember trying to use that victory, like I remember
Speaker 6: Kerry Collins and all of a sudden he showed up
Speaker 6: and being very exciting. But I was fifteen, and I
Speaker 6: think I tried to use the Giant's victory to like
Speaker 6: pick up a girl or something like that, and she
Speaker 6: just couldn't have shown less interest. So I just kind
Speaker 6: of immediately was like, all right, I forgot about that
Speaker 6: game pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: That's I forgot. It was Carrie Collins. I mean Carry Colin.
Speaker 1: Anybody who's in the NFL, that's great, but it's not
Speaker 1: like it was to Eli or even Kurt Warner when
Speaker 1: he was there for a cup of coffee. It was
Speaker 1: to Carry Collins. Yeah, that feels nice.
Speaker 4: That hurts the worst. It's like, yeah, you lost forty
Speaker 4: one nothing to a man named Carry. Yeah.
Speaker 6: He also wasn't Wasn't there some report afterwards where you
Speaker 6: guys tried to make something of signs stealing or like something.
Speaker 1: Hey, there was no report. There's a lot of people
Speaker 1: well that feel like there was a lot of evidence
Speaker 1: that we could not ever prove. Yeah, that's the sort
Speaker 1: of thing that you could, uh that goes at the
Speaker 1: top of the conspiracy theory sports list. Here's a question
Speaker 1: for you. How many years has it been since somebody
Speaker 1: has repeated in the NFT East. Hasn't it been like
Speaker 1: twenty years or something?
Speaker 3: Gotta have been.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine what it's like to have Dallas, Philly,
Speaker 1: and Washington on every side. Do you enjoy that insanity?
Speaker 1: Do you like that it's jokers from every side?
Speaker 3: I don't mind that.
Speaker 6: I mean the thing about New York, though, is it's
Speaker 6: such a it's a destination so people so that we
Speaker 6: have Dallas fans living amongst us, we have Philly fans
Speaker 6: living amongst us. We have a bunch of comedian friends
Speaker 6: that are from Philadelphia that are in New York and
Speaker 6: they are loud about their support. So it's, you know,
Speaker 6: it's it just gets it. It gets confrontational pretty quick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, That's that's the tricky thing with the Packers. They live.
Speaker 1: No one's like I'm gonna build my business in Appleton, Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: They come to Minneapolis.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think as New Yorkers, you know, we're just
Speaker 5: you know, kind of know that where you know the
Speaker 5: best city. And even if we're not winning the NFC East,
Speaker 5: it's like, what do you want to live in Dallas?
Speaker 5: Who cares win all the champions? It doesn't matter. I
Speaker 5: want to go there. They could triple the tax right
Speaker 5: in New York.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm not leaving.
Speaker 1: Well, here's the problem with Dallas is you start to
Speaker 1: I think as you get older. You know, you love
Speaker 1: sports when you're a little kid in a certain way,
Speaker 1: and you love them, I think usually different when you're
Speaker 1: an adult. And then you see the guys who don't
Speaker 1: You're like, I didn't know you could throw a stadium
Speaker 1: chair onto the field right there? Are there are people
Speaker 1: you tend to love them differently. But I think as
Speaker 1: you get older you kind of recognize that the space
Speaker 1: that it takes to be a normal person while also
Speaker 1: loving your team. But one of my I don't know
Speaker 1: if you guys know, Blake Wexler. He's a very funny comic.
Speaker 1: He's out of Philadelphia, and I would argue the sweetest
Speaker 1: human person I've ever met. Until he walks into a
Speaker 1: sporting event, you can't even imagine. The Philly thing is
Speaker 1: a unique beast. And I agree with you. I do
Speaker 1: think it needs to be celebrated. I don't want to
Speaker 1: be a part of it. Yeah, I don't want to
Speaker 1: be I don't even want to be against it. But
Speaker 1: I like from afar. It's like watching Jerry Springer. It's
Speaker 1: on the TV. It's fun to see from a distance.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah. And it's sad too, because you know, I
Speaker 4: love this country.
Speaker 5: It's sad that our national animal is the ego and
Speaker 5: then but also the Philadelphia they have that animal. But
Speaker 5: I will say Philly bothers me, but not as much
Speaker 5: as Dallas.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Philly, you almost root for them because they're they're
Speaker 6: blue collar, they're you know, they're trying to come up.
Speaker 6: Dallas has this arrogance and entitlement to their success that
Speaker 6: really rubs me the wrong way.
Speaker 4: Yes, that's what it.
Speaker 1: Is, Mike, Yeah, it's it's and it comes with so
Speaker 1: we we Historically the hail Mary, if you will, The
Speaker 1: term was coined Drew Pearson cheated and pushed off, and
Speaker 1: it was cheating. He cheated, he pushed off they got
Speaker 1: into like so we have. There is a unique level
Speaker 1: of disdain for the cowboys in our area too, and
Speaker 1: that is what it is. I get that you won
Speaker 1: the Super Bowls, it's a long time. It's really the
Speaker 1: guy who's like, do you remember when I ran for
Speaker 1: sixteen hundred yards in high school?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: But like, dude, you're forty nine. Man, your kids can't read.
Speaker 1: Why don't we focus on that? Ye, here's a question
Speaker 1: for you, because you talked about this on a podcast
Speaker 1: and then everybody was got really upset Chris. But it's
Speaker 1: something that I have said forever. Adults in Jerseys, let
Speaker 1: me give you my view on it, and let me
Speaker 1: see if we're walking the same path here. I think
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, when you meet somebody with a
Speaker 1: weird hobby and you're like, that's great. You're into a
Speaker 1: weird thing and you love it so much. But then
Speaker 1: the moment that person is an a hole, you're like, God,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna burn you down, I'm gonna destroy everything. That's
Speaker 1: how I feel about adults in Jerseys. If you see
Speaker 1: him at a game with their kids high five and like,
Speaker 1: isn't this great?
Speaker 5: Jason?
Speaker 1: Like good for you? The moment they do something wrong,
Speaker 1: you're like, I'm gonna torture you for this decision.
Speaker 6: That is the best part about it, though, is I
Speaker 6: almost look at it as they're giving you the keys
Speaker 6: to break their heart, like they're providing all the information
Speaker 6: necessary for you to destroy everything that they stand for,
Speaker 6: because you know that they don't have much else. If
Speaker 6: their rocket, if they have a ton of jerseys, those
Speaker 6: people are hanging onto that for dear life. So that
Speaker 6: is really they're just open for business if they're if there.
Speaker 5: I mean, listen, I'll wear a jersey here and there.
Speaker 5: But I kind of I did always kind of feel weird,
Speaker 5: especially now. I mean, I'm forty years old. It's hard
Speaker 5: for me to be like I want to buy it.
Speaker 5: It's it's either I'm buying a jersey of a guy
Speaker 5: who I'm fifteen years older than, or I'm buying the
Speaker 5: jersey of a guy who was around my age, who's
Speaker 5: doing ten times is.
Speaker 4: Better than me in life. So either way, I'm like,
Speaker 4: I don't want to buy it.
Speaker 3: Dude, me too.
Speaker 6: There's nothing more off putting than seeing a dude with
Speaker 6: gray hair wearing a jersey.
Speaker 3: They just don't Oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know this gets over talked about, but you
Speaker 1: when you're young, you can really dismiss the fact that
Speaker 1: guys your age are millionaires because you're like, well, you're
Speaker 1: a you were gifted with a special thing, and someday
Speaker 1: I'll get mine. But then when you're like forty and
Speaker 1: those guys are retired, and you're like, ah, I was
Speaker 1: supposed to have spent this time getting mine.
Speaker 4: I literally in my brain.
Speaker 5: I mean I literally turned forty a week or two ago,
Speaker 5: and I swear the other day I was thinking, because
Speaker 5: I just thought about the same thought since I've.
Speaker 4: Been a kid.
Speaker 5: I was thinking, I still have the chance to make
Speaker 5: the NBA, even though I haven't played basketball in twenty years.
Speaker 5: It's it's not possible, But in my head, I'm like,
Speaker 5: because I've always thought that eventually I'll make the NBA,
Speaker 5: because I've bet, you know, because I played on the
Speaker 5: high school beateam.
Speaker 1: That makes me actually feel better about myself because every
Speaker 1: time I would go in a gym to shoot jumpers,
Speaker 1: it was never just like I'm shooting jumpers. It was like, ah, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I could get that one, like you said, like, and
Speaker 1: then you start fantasizing you're like, all it would take
Speaker 1: is me, Like, what happens if somebody is there, somebody
Speaker 1: up there watching. You have that fantasy that somebody sees
Speaker 1: you hit threes because you know you can't play defense
Speaker 1: in the league, but they're like, you can hit. Look
Speaker 1: at this dude. Put him in the corner. He hit
Speaker 1: a big three. He's used to being in front of people.
Speaker 1: This is this makes sense.
Speaker 6: The amount of times that I shot around in my
Speaker 6: front driveway while keeping an eye on the road for
Speaker 6: a college scout to drive by slowly. It's such a
Speaker 6: humiliating amount.
Speaker 4: It's like stand up comedy too.
Speaker 5: It's like you like, we'll be doing a show wherever
Speaker 5: at a club in New York and then well, you know,
Speaker 5: somebody will be like, oh man, right after you left,
Speaker 5: you know, Louis c k walked in and you and
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, that could have been my chance, Like
Speaker 5: what is he going to do? See my stand up
Speaker 5: and be like, hey, you know what, I want to
Speaker 5: give you the money, all the money that I made
Speaker 5: on Louie and all my specials.
Speaker 4: I want to give it to you.
Speaker 5: I want to give you the money and give you
Speaker 5: the credit. Like we have these warp images of what
Speaker 5: people can even do for us.
Speaker 1: I wonder if you get older, like, because there is
Speaker 1: a point where you naturally, even if you were like
Speaker 1: I was the aged as well as Tom Brady, you
Speaker 1: get to the point where, like I would clearly be retired.
Speaker 1: Now do you think your brain transitions into be like
Speaker 1: and obviously I would coach. Do you think you transition
Speaker 1: into that part of it?
Speaker 3: I already have.
Speaker 6: I've been looking for exit plans from comedy, so I'm
Speaker 6: considering doing high school coaching at some point. But Lebron
Speaker 6: is I don't know about you guys, but Lebron is
Speaker 6: literally my last bastion of hope in terms of feeling
Speaker 6: a connection to pro sports. The fact that he's thirty nine,
Speaker 6: almost forty, the exact same age as me, and I'm
Speaker 6: just like, well, he's still playing, so I could.
Speaker 3: I could probably, you know, I could get out there
Speaker 3: for ten minutes.
Speaker 4: If Lebron can do it's so can I?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Very obviously, very obviously. I mean it's a movie that
Speaker 1: screwed my You guys are Knicks fans, so this will
Speaker 1: connect or you'll hate it. But I like the movie
Speaker 1: Eddie to me, Yes, that was like cemented into my brain.
Speaker 1: For I was like, well, Eddie, I mean, anything's possible
Speaker 1: if Eddie happened. I had like, you don't realize how
Speaker 1: niche of a movie that is. And until you're a
Speaker 1: little older, Like you remember Eddie where whoopies the coach
Speaker 1: of the Knicks, Like, what the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 1: It's not a movie.
Speaker 6: There's an image from that movie that is stuck in
Speaker 6: my head till now, and I hadn't thought of it
Speaker 6: in a long time, but the horse walking on the
Speaker 6: court in sneakers. Dude, that image of the owner out
Speaker 6: there with his cowboy hat and the horse like.
Speaker 3: That is just etched in my brain.
Speaker 5: Old school Larry Johnson, grandmama Larry Johnson was seized. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and we're ten years older than he was, right now.
Speaker 1: That's right. He seemed so old. Let's talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about the game. We have a hard schedule to
Speaker 1: start the year, and everybody is free, like, you gotta
Speaker 1: get this one. This is the wind. They're not like
Speaker 1: they have built the giants up as like if you're
Speaker 1: gonna get one, you get this one. If you don't
Speaker 1: get this one, you might as well just walk out
Speaker 1: into the ocean is are you, But we are kind
Speaker 1: of slated over on our end as having a tough
Speaker 1: year with our division having out and better and Kirk
Speaker 1: being gone, and so are you guys looking at it
Speaker 1: the same way, like, well, if we can't get this one,
Speaker 1: what the hell are we gonna do?
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, obviously Saquon Barklay, you know, leaving
Speaker 5: going to the Eagles.
Speaker 4: That hurts and sucks. But I don't know.
Speaker 5: I'm one of those guys. I just have faith in
Speaker 5: Daniel Jones. I don't nobody else does.
Speaker 4: But I do.
Speaker 5: I drafted him in my fantasy draft two days ago, and.
Speaker 4: The crowd what nuts.
Speaker 5: They could not believe that I took him, and I
Speaker 5: was like, I'm a loyal New Yorker, dude.
Speaker 4: I think Daniel Jones is gonna be the MVP.
Speaker 1: That's that's so endearing.
Speaker 3: I think it's all about the beard.
Speaker 1: You're like the dad who has to draft all Ohio
Speaker 1: State players because that's his favorite college team. Like, I
Speaker 1: don't think you should have taken Injigba in the first round.
Speaker 1: That's not what anybody had ranked.
Speaker 6: I love Chris has so much faith though, because that's
Speaker 6: like the opposite of the New York media, and it's
Speaker 6: so indicative of some of the New York fans though.
Speaker 6: It's like we'll ride it to the to the wheels
Speaker 6: fall off, man, let's go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, do you guys?
Speaker 1: Is there a big split like that where because the
Speaker 1: media is the way it is, are there some fans
Speaker 1: that are like, I don't want to hear it. Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones is the first ballot, like, don't don't tell me this. Like,
Speaker 1: and here's the thing. I would say, in most fan
Speaker 1: bases you'd be like, that's a loaded But in your guys'
Speaker 1: fan bases, you've twice as wild card, run through the playoffs,
Speaker 1: won a super Bowl, one time you beat an undefeated
Speaker 1: super team. Like there's it's like you have the unfortunate AMMO.
Speaker 1: For the psychology of that.
Speaker 5: I can understand Daniel Jones, like the conversation there, But
Speaker 5: I mean the people that try to look Mike and
Speaker 5: I in the face and tell us Eli Manning is
Speaker 5: in a Hall of Famer, where like, are you out
Speaker 5: of your mind?
Speaker 4: Dude?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: That people still even bring that up. Yes, he's a
Speaker 5: Hall of He's a Hall of Famer. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 5: he's he's the only part. I mean, he's he's amazing,
Speaker 5: He's a Hall of Famer, and he's got the face
Speaker 5: of a toddler.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: When you watch the fact that all those Mannings are now,
Speaker 1: you know, titans of industry. You do look at Eli
Speaker 1: and it's in possible not to like him, where you're like,
Speaker 1: oh god, he's by far was the least Peyton was
Speaker 1: obviously the most popular, like it got all the attention,
Speaker 1: and he clearly has that little brother like I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna be like funny and kind of weird and mean.
Speaker 1: He's got that vibe to him. It's impossible not to
Speaker 1: like him.
Speaker 6: He has maybe the best dumb poker face on planet Earth, too,
Speaker 6: and that clearly comes from just getting tortured by his
Speaker 6: older brother and him not just showing weakness. He's like,
Speaker 6: all right, if I just stay stoic and dumbfaced, he'll
Speaker 6: eventually walk away from frustration.
Speaker 1: I saw this thing. They had some stupid graphic online
Speaker 1: where they had the highest winning percentage in NFL history,
Speaker 1: and they ranked him one all the way to thirty two,
Speaker 1: and the Vikings were way up. I think they were
Speaker 1: like six or something all time. But then what they
Speaker 1: did underneath the win percentages is they put the amount
Speaker 1: of super Bowls, but they actually put the like the
Speaker 1: little Lombardi a Lombardi, a Lombardi, So all the top
Speaker 1: twelve teams, multiple Lombardies, Vikings zero, So that hurts. And
Speaker 1: then you scroll all the way down. You guys have
Speaker 1: a historically low win percentage, but a hilarious amount of
Speaker 1: super Bowls to go with it. It's like you drive
Speaker 1: into a bad neighborhood and you're like, are there six?
Speaker 1: Are there six lexuses in that driveway? Like it's it
Speaker 1: is the thing that I would as a Viking fan
Speaker 1: who We've won a lot of games forever, I'm so
Speaker 1: jealous of that. Does that does it carry the years
Speaker 1: of losing those titles? Does it get through them or
Speaker 1: does it make it worse when you don't get more
Speaker 1: of them?
Speaker 6: I mean, I personally, I could go my whole life
Speaker 6: without another super Bowl. Those two super Bowls led by
Speaker 6: Eli Manning were at such a perfect point in my
Speaker 6: life that I'm good, I'm held over forever.
Speaker 4: I agree.
Speaker 5: I kind of feel like as long as the Giants
Speaker 5: get in the playoffs, I know that just we're just
Speaker 5: all confident that they can do anything because of what
Speaker 5: they've done. It's the opposite of the Cowboys. The Cowboys
Speaker 5: are just like, oh yeah, we're good in the regular
Speaker 5: season and then fall apart. But I'd rather be I'd
Speaker 5: rather be the Giants, where we just i mean, you're
Speaker 5: just kind of mad at them for about four months.
Speaker 5: You're just angry with them, and then they pull it together.
Speaker 5: It's like a It's like, you know, like a kid
Speaker 5: who's doing bad in school and then at the end
Speaker 5: he's just banging, just gets a hundred, you know.
Speaker 1: On somebody who's just a killer at test.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he doesn't. We were like, yeah, but you.
Speaker 1: Crushed it, all right. Tell me tell me about the
Speaker 1: special Gang, Mike, tell me where we can get it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So it's at YouTube dot com slash Chris d
Speaker 6: Comedy Chris.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: This is his first production he did.
Speaker 6: He's doing me a huge solid by putting it up
Speaker 6: on his YouTube and we filmed it at at New
Speaker 6: York Comedy Club in Stanford, Connecticut.
Speaker 3: It's a I'm really pumped about it.
Speaker 6: It's a really good hour and uh it looks beautiful
Speaker 6: directed by Nicole Lyons, and uh, yeah, I'm just super stoked.
Speaker 5: Mike absolutely destroyed, like genuinely like he crushed.
Speaker 4: So watch it. It's it's an amazing special.
Speaker 5: And and you for me go to Christycomedy dot com
Speaker 5: for all my dates. I'm up there on YouTube dot
Speaker 5: com slash Christy Comedy to see Mike Kennon special.
Speaker 1: Hey, you guys are the best. We really appreciate you
Speaker 1: spending a few minutes with us.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Thanks man, Thank you Bro.
Speaker 1: Thanks again to all of our great guests today, Chad Daniels,
Speaker 1: Christy Stefano, and Mike Cannon. We really appreciate them joining
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