Speaker 1: Calm Down with Aaron and Carissa is a production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio One day after a Super Bowl. My
Speaker 1: yelling into this mic, it feels you sound like you
Speaker 1: played in the Super Bowl. How do you do? What
Speaker 1: was your stat line? Freaking no catches and hungover? As
Speaker 1: my stat line? I really had a great time. You
Speaker 1: went to the game? How was it? It was good?
Speaker 1: It was good. I have a lot of thoughts about that. Um,
Speaker 1: I just well, first of all, what a game? Right
Speaker 1: it was? I get jealous when it's not on our
Speaker 1: network because I want to be covering it. I think
Speaker 1: that's where I have a lot of fomo about the
Speaker 1: whole thing, and um yeah, I just I have anxiety
Speaker 1: not being there. I have anxiety when the players are
Speaker 1: on the field and I'm not down there. I have
Speaker 1: anxiety when Odell Beckham is going back to the locker
Speaker 1: room and I can't talk to Neil and know what's happening.
Speaker 1: It's hard for me to sit back and watch. I'd
Speaker 1: love to know any other job that feels that way.
Speaker 1: Maybe Tom Brady felt that way when he sat back
Speaker 1: and he watched him self not playing in a super Bowl.
Speaker 1: How about the time or the calendar for those guys
Speaker 1: that didn't see his post. He had a calendar um
Speaker 1: a reminder that popped up on his phone, and it
Speaker 1: was to say that he was supposed to be playing
Speaker 1: in the super Bowl, which is kind of and he
Speaker 1: wrote ship and I DMed him and I said, enough
Speaker 1: is enough to stop this right now? Come back? I mean, well,
Speaker 1: I'm still interested to see the fact that you know,
Speaker 1: and I know I made a big bigger deal of
Speaker 1: this than maybe it is. But he never said he
Speaker 1: was retiring in that whole soliloquy of a speech he
Speaker 1: gave or Instagram posts. So Aaron, I know you're not
Speaker 1: a gambler in the sense of which, by the way,
Speaker 1: how about me winning the pool? Yeah, my friends pool,
Speaker 1: the hockey pool. You were in it. You wanted dang it.
Speaker 1: I wanted of a random thing where it was just
Speaker 1: like picking like who would score first? What was you know,
Speaker 1: who would whatever more? Receiving yards the Bengals or the
Speaker 1: anthem ring. Jared literally sat there in time to the
Speaker 1: anthem and he was like, oh, shoot, come on, come on,
Speaker 1: keep it longer. He's longer. So that was fun. But
Speaker 1: Ram's winning Super Bowl fifty six, it was very poetic.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the first team that ever won
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl in their home stadium was the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers last year, and then to have it followed
Speaker 1: up again with the Rams this year. I was really
Speaker 1: excited to have all of those guys. You know how
Speaker 1: we feel about Matthew and Andrew Whitworth. I mean, how
Speaker 1: about that guy, Aaron Donald, Aaron Donald crying at the end.
Speaker 1: My god, I wanted to ball for him. Is Aaron
Speaker 1: Donald not gonna be playing next year? Because all that
Speaker 1: point game coverage was about like him not returning, and
Speaker 1: like is Andrew returning? It's Sean McVeigh returning. A lot
Speaker 1: of departures, potentially Sean McVeigh. The Andrew Whitworth stuff I
Speaker 1: have heard. I have heard those rumors, and it wouldn't
Speaker 1: surprise me about both. But the Aaron Donald won the
Speaker 1: only reason I think Rodney Harrison started that. I'm not sure,
Speaker 1: but I saw a tweet that he put up there.
Speaker 1: But the only thing I would say about Aaron Donald
Speaker 1: and just being able to talk to him and listen
Speaker 1: to other people. He put so much into it, and
Speaker 1: I know they all do. I get that they all do,
Speaker 1: but you just saw his emotion. He and he kept saying,
Speaker 1: this is the only thing I don't have. But I
Speaker 1: don't I don't see him. And I was listening to
Speaker 1: Peter Schreeger this morning on Good Morning Football because he
Speaker 1: usually has a good sense. I don't know. I hope
Speaker 1: that's not the case. But man, he wanted it so bad.
Speaker 1: I was so happy for him. But holy crap, Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: They came in there and they lived up to their
Speaker 1: end of the bargain as well. I mean, Jamaar Chase,
Speaker 1: are you kidding me? Signed to every endorsement out there.
Speaker 1: Stupid guys. Unreal. And then when Joe Burrow went down
Speaker 1: and I was texting you, I was like, this looks
Speaker 1: so bad. It looked like the same knee that he
Speaker 1: tore his a c L on last year, and it
Speaker 1: just again. And Odell Beckham went out with that same
Speaker 1: knee injury that he sustained in against the Bengals. Ironically,
Speaker 1: it's just I was so impressed with Joe Burrow, the
Speaker 1: poise that this young man has year two in the NFL,
Speaker 1: to sit up at that podium and just have such
Speaker 1: an incredible outlook. I remember him saying that he had
Speaker 1: watched the Kurt Warner Football Life and that when you lose,
Speaker 1: to be able to step away, and obviously, as a competitor,
Speaker 1: the last thing you want is to lose, but to
Speaker 1: be able to take a positive away from it and say, hey,
Speaker 1: we've made it this far and it's something to build
Speaker 1: off of. He just I'm constantly impressed with him and
Speaker 1: just the poise that he has at a very young age.
Speaker 1: He's it's easy to root for someone like him. And
Speaker 1: of course in these games there's always a winner and
Speaker 1: a loser. But in this particular case, I was happy
Speaker 1: to have all of those guys, the von Miller's of
Speaker 1: the world, you know, all these guys come over Jalen
Speaker 1: stuff like that, and have it end up in a
Speaker 1: super Bowl victory. So, my boy, it was. It was great.
Speaker 1: It was a great game. I'm you know, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: glad it was a game. It's really hard to be
Speaker 1: at a football game. For me. I have to hear
Speaker 1: the broadcast. I have to hear what's happening. That's why
Speaker 1: I kept asking you. I kept looking on Twitter. I
Speaker 1: just want to know what people are saying. I need
Speaker 1: my Pereira. I want to know about the calls very
Speaker 1: I'm very spoiled in all of that. I just I
Speaker 1: like to know what other people are saying because and
Speaker 1: we should remind people of this. You have an i
Speaker 1: FB in out the games that you're working, and so
Speaker 1: you're hearing the broadcast, right, So when you're sitting there
Speaker 1: and as an observer and you're not getting that, does
Speaker 1: it feel like you're disjointed a little bit from the
Speaker 1: game all of it? And it's hard to because I
Speaker 1: people are sitting there, they don't care about the game,
Speaker 1: they're there for the social and I just that's not me.
Speaker 1: I don't like to be around people that aren't dialed
Speaker 1: in um, that are just there for the halftime show,
Speaker 1: which holy crap was amazing as well. Another thing I
Speaker 1: thought was better on television. Okay, that's my question was
Speaker 1: so on TV is I mean, you know, and everyone
Speaker 1: says this. I feel like every year everyone's like, this
Speaker 1: is the greatest, you know, halftime performance of all time
Speaker 1: in person. Is it because it's hard to hear or what?
Speaker 1: What takes away from it? Yeah, like, listen, there's an echo.
Speaker 1: Obviously we were on this side that all the houses
Speaker 1: opened up too. But I think on television, you could
Speaker 1: follow the storyline. Those were their houses where they grew
Speaker 1: up in California. That was their area. Then we saw
Speaker 1: the lights on the field, but we didn't know it
Speaker 1: was the grid of Compton and their area, Like, we
Speaker 1: didn't know that. And then just as my sister, My
Speaker 1: sister said it perfectly. She's a dancer. She said, yes,
Speaker 1: but that whole show is choreographed for camera, not for
Speaker 1: you sitting there at home. I got home, I watched
Speaker 1: the whole thing four times again. It was unbelieved you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you missed so much sitting there. Plus, I love a performance.
Speaker 1: I thought Dre was so hot and he moved his
Speaker 1: body good and he looked great. Piano yeah says that.
Speaker 1: What's fifty cent doing upside down? Did we know what
Speaker 1: that was about? That was from his video? What video
Speaker 1: that was in the video? Oh? I didn't know. I
Speaker 1: didn't know what we were doing there. That was all
Speaker 1: like kicking it back and like paying homage to the video.
Speaker 1: I also died, Like those girls were so hot. I
Speaker 1: loved watching them. It was great. I it was so
Speaker 1: awesome to go back and watch it on television. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was amazing. I was very happy that it was
Speaker 1: a game. You know, you mentioned at the beginning, it's
Speaker 1: like just you that's all you want. You wanted to
Speaker 1: be interesting, and like that final drive and then with
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow getting the ball with that much time, I mean,
Speaker 1: you think about what Patrick Mahomes was able to do,
Speaker 1: you know against Buffalo scoring in thirteen seconds. It's like
Speaker 1: any time left on the clock. With these kinds of guys,
Speaker 1: you never know what they're gonna do. So I was
Speaker 1: just happy that it was a game, and I just
Speaker 1: think it's so sweet, you know when you watch all
Speaker 1: the families on the field at the end of the
Speaker 1: game and the confetti and then what Aaron Donald said
Speaker 1: to his daughter, like promising her that she would make
Speaker 1: it onto the field and stuff, so you know those things.
Speaker 1: I was staying to Jared, I'm so sad in hockey
Speaker 1: that there's no confetti because that just looks so cute
Speaker 1: to like lay in there. I was like, we're so
Speaker 1: worried about on the ice slipping and falling and you're
Speaker 1: shuffling your feet and everybody's playing with their kids and
Speaker 1: running around and like this is so opposite of what
Speaker 1: we get to do. I mean, we get to drink
Speaker 1: out of the cup. You can't drink out of the Lombardy.
Speaker 1: But how did that? How did that mark with the cup?
Speaker 1: How many days do you get it? You just get
Speaker 1: it for a day. I think it was also interesting
Speaker 1: watching my husband. My husband gets so emotional for celebrations
Speaker 1: because he, you know, was just like he we sat
Speaker 1: there and we watched the whole celebration and this person
Speaker 1: suite that invited us, and I know that they probably
Speaker 1: wanted to go. But Jared Love I think it takes
Speaker 1: him back and it reminds him about like what he
Speaker 1: went through. But yeah, he's just like, I have goose bumps.
Speaker 1: This is so awesome. I'm like, I know it is.
Speaker 1: It's great. I'm also impressed that Jared stayed around for
Speaker 1: the celebration. Isn't he quick to get out exit stage left? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I think it's different when guys win it. Like
Speaker 1: I remember when Troy Troy posted yesterday about there's nothing
Speaker 1: that feels like this good and you and you heard
Speaker 1: I heard von Miller say that to me. I have
Speaker 1: during the NFC Championship, which just I want them to
Speaker 1: experience heaven. That's why he and Aaron Donald on the
Speaker 1: post game set, we're saying, what does heaven feel like? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think athletes would have been there. They like to
Speaker 1: sit there and kind of appreciate it and be reminded
Speaker 1: of what it felt like when they wanted. But as
Speaker 1: soon as we left the stadium, we were running through
Speaker 1: the crowds and we out of there, and we got
Speaker 1: out of there. We had it pretty organized with our
Speaker 1: ride and where we were going to meet him. And
Speaker 1: my husband is so good, like being a survivor with him,
Speaker 1: we would win because he's yeah, we would yes, amazing race.
Speaker 1: He would nail it in a second. Oh my gosh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was It was like a very fairy tale ending
Speaker 1: to that whole story for them. And um I heard
Speaker 1: Stan Crockey talk at the end of the game and
Speaker 1: he was like, you know, someone had asked him like, oh,
Speaker 1: could you have dreamed this up? And he's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I did. That's why I wanted to. Yeah, Jesus not
Speaker 1: to mention that used my draft picks. Oh my gosh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they had to. I mean we talked about this.
Speaker 1: It's a lot like with the Los Angeles Kings did
Speaker 1: at the time. They they spend it all. I mean
Speaker 1: they used all their draft picks. They got to win now,
Speaker 1: so thank god they did for the city and and
Speaker 1: all that, because you know, it's kind of now is
Speaker 1: the time. We don't be rebuilding in the next couple
Speaker 1: of years, but this is the time to win it.
Speaker 1: So good for them, it's great, it's awesome. Congratulations to
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams. The first Super Bowl championship for
Speaker 1: the l A Rams. The last time the Rams when
Speaker 1: it was when they win St. Louis in So congrats
Speaker 1: to them. And now the football season is officially over,
Speaker 1: which makes us sad. But then we will turn our
Speaker 1: attention on our podcast to a bunch of things that
Speaker 1: we will be doing in the off season. That is
Speaker 1: it for our mini episode. More to come over on
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