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Speaker 1: go kind of thing, and maybe, um, well I know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I do know. The Bills have been pretty adamant about

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Speaker 1: not sacrificing Sunday home game right for a trip over there.

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Speaker 1: So maybe they come to the Bills and say, well,

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Speaker 1: what about a road game right before the bye week

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Speaker 1: or right after the bye week? You know, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: or that would be usually it's before the bye weeks

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Speaker 1: because then the Bills could wear white on white. You know,

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Speaker 1: they're the road team, has a road teams. Those those

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Speaker 1: unis pop Yeah, they look good. They look they all

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Speaker 1: blue is good too, though. I like the all red

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Speaker 1: they all red's great with the white helmets, man, it

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Speaker 1: looks like it's great. I love that look. Yeah, So

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Speaker 1: we'll see what comes of it. Dates, times, teams to

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Speaker 1: be announced probably dates and times. First we are and

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Speaker 1: then after the schedule comes out, you know in May.

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Speaker 1: Well we're two months away from the schedule. Well it's yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's usually it's almost early April. Now aren't they doing

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Speaker 1: a post draft? Now they do it post draft now,

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Speaker 1: they used to do it pre draft. I think it's

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00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,360
Speaker 1: post draft probably be all right, So work three months.

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Speaker 1: You got a little ways to go. Um other stuff

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Speaker 1: mentioned by Commissioner Goodell. He said they'll also be returning

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Speaker 1: to Mexico as Techa Stadium in twenty twenty two. They

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Speaker 1: had not gone down there each of the last two

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Speaker 1: years because of the pandemic, so they will be down

453
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Speaker 1: there south of the border as well. The Manning brothers,

454
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Speaker 1: they're killing it when it comes to media. They are

455
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Speaker 1: a media conglomerate unto themselves. Are they not Steve Omaha Productions. Unbelievable. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna do more Monday night football broadcast Manning cast.

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Speaker 1: And they're gonna branch off into other sports, which is

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Speaker 1: pretty amazing. Are they going to start a dodgeball league

459
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Speaker 1: or something or whatever? No, I mean, I don't other like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what was it. It wasn't now what

461
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Speaker 1: was it? It was other like, it wasn't NBA, it

462
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Speaker 1: wasn't a college basket. I don't know what it was.

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Speaker 1: I can't remember the game. The sports they were gonna do,

464
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Speaker 1: but they were gonna branch off into like golf and stuff. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know so, uh yeah, those guys are busy. But

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Speaker 1: I would think, did you see some of the Manning

467
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Speaker 1: cast this year? Watch some of it. It was a

468
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,880
Speaker 1: little disjointed because they were in two different places. Then

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Speaker 1: you throw in a third interview subject who's in another

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Speaker 1: place as well, and then there's that talking over stuff

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Speaker 1: that even we experienced in the times we've had to

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Speaker 1: do the show remote. There's these pregnant pauses and people

473
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Speaker 1: talking over each other and then why did you say? Oh,

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Speaker 1: I didn't hear that. Why oh you were talking and

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Speaker 1: I was talking, Okay, you go, And it just kind

476
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Speaker 1: of the odds up the work. It's the awkward silences.

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Speaker 1: And I get that too, and I don't mind doing it.

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Speaker 1: But you've got these guys. They were watching a play

479
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Speaker 1: and you can tell I don't like I watched it

480
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Speaker 1: too much. But both of them, both Peyton and Eli,

481
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Speaker 1: when something's going on and the place, they get up

482
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Speaker 1: and they take the snap. Both Peyton and Eli get

483
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Speaker 1: this look on their face and they are intent watching

484
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Speaker 1: the game. They're like they're dissecting everything they see. And

485
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Speaker 1: then you get a chance to see them and it's

486
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:23,399
Speaker 1: it's pretty interesting for that reason, but the broadcast quality

487
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:29,920
Speaker 1: the dialogue is awkward at times, uncomfortable in other times

488
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Speaker 1: the guest list is spectacular, but it would really be aided.

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Speaker 1: I'm with you. It would really help if those guys

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Speaker 1: were in the same room. Yeah yeah, everything would just

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Speaker 1: function smoother, I believe, and I can make for a

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Speaker 1: more enjoyable production, right. I mean, the content is good,

493
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Speaker 1: it's the delivery and that's an easy fix. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it really is just get them in the same room

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Speaker 1: and maybe you know, if COVID stuff is all relaxed

496
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Speaker 1: by the time we get to next fall, they'll be

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Speaker 1: able to do that. But if I'm one of the producers,

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Speaker 1: I'm encouraging them. Hey, let's get you guys in the

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Speaker 1: same room, and only if the only the interview subject

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Speaker 1: has to be somewhere else, that's fine, right, And then

501
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: you can get them. Get one of those guys up

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Speaker 1: with a white board or you know, with a with

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Speaker 1: a telestrator who draw lines on the pictures and see

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Speaker 1: what they're talking about, because that it's PhD stuff as

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Speaker 1: far as football goes. When you hear those two guys

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Speaker 1: on the on the air, and it really is and

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Speaker 1: it's worth watching. But the and the production qualities there

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Speaker 1: as well, I mean they've got. The graphics are good,

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Speaker 1: all of that stuff's good. But the fact that they

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Speaker 1: are isolated really really is a drawback. And the fact

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Speaker 1: that they got an extension, I would think that ESPN

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Speaker 1: probably had to say, listen, we'll do you this extension,

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Speaker 1: but you got to do meet certain param you know,

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Speaker 1: we want this change, this change, and this changed. You

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Speaker 1: got to be in the same place. You gotta you know,

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Speaker 1: we'll technically support you and all that, and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: go maybe get a host or maybe another a third

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Speaker 1: person in there to direct traffic. You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: If you're gonna give those guys that kind of cat

520
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Speaker 1: and certainly they drew some numbers, some ratings, but they

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Speaker 1: got if if those guys are running their broadcast careers,

522
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Speaker 1: which it looks like they are, the way they ran

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Speaker 1: their football careers, they want to get it right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I mean that's what it would take. That's just

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Speaker 1: our opinion, Yet that's what it would take. I anticipate

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Speaker 1: they would listen to that. I would consider them to

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Speaker 1: be open minded to that. So and if it means

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Speaker 1: a better broadcast, it's probably gonna mean more money in

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Speaker 1: their pockets, So they'd be wise to go that route.

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Speaker 1: We have to take a break, but before we do,

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Speaker 1: we want to remind you today's Twitter conversation, what's your

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Speaker 1: favorite super Bowl memory? Worth? Three days away from the

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Speaker 1: big game. You've watched a ton of these over the

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Speaker 1: years you've been on this planet. Many of you have

535
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Speaker 1: probably not missed one in your entire lifetime. So let

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Speaker 1: us know what's your favorite super Bowl memory? Three five

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Speaker 1: fifty one, eight eight eight five fifty two, five fifty

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Speaker 1: And as we mentioned, you know you've got this international

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Speaker 1: series of games. We're gonna be talking to an international

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Speaker 1: journalist covering the NFL our good friend Neil Reynolds from

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Speaker 1: nfl UK. We'll be joining us in the second hour

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Speaker 1: of the program about a half hour from now, to

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Speaker 1: discuss those developments, and we'll talk to him a little

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Speaker 1: bit later. Up next, though, is you and your phone

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Speaker 1: calls and your comments on the tweet sheet that's coming

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Speaker 1: up next here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. I'll get back to One Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you. Keeping it simple today,

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Speaker 1: give us your favorite super Bowl memory? Can be anything

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Speaker 1: under the sun, and we're gonna jump right into these.

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Speaker 1: You can give us a call at eight oh three

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Speaker 1: five fifty one eight eight eight five fifty two five

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Speaker 1: fifty open line for you there, or you can hit

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Speaker 1: us up on the tweet sheet AD one Bills Live

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Speaker 1: and that's where we're going right now. Tweet sheet brought

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Speaker 1: to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving

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Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills. JT leads us off today

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Speaker 1: and says, definitely the David Tyree helmet catch against Billy

559
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Speaker 1: and the Pats, it looked like Belichick was going to barf. Also,

560
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Speaker 1: I'm very happy about the rehiring of Chromer. This old

561
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Speaker 1: line is about to be a nasty bunch of dogs.

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Speaker 1: The snowman had to have loved this higher David Tyree

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Speaker 1: helmet catch. It's pretty memorable. On yeah, one of them

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Speaker 1: probably and all this, all these memories you kind of

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Speaker 1: if you put them into context, is where I think

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Speaker 1: is where you got to start. And that the context

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Speaker 1: of that catch in that game, with all that was

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Speaker 1: going on, with the perfect season on the line, and

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Speaker 1: the Patriots and the Giants coming from nowhere with Eli

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Speaker 1: that has gotten that maybe one of the most memorable

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Speaker 1: moments ever, Yeah, because it's so unique. Well, yeah, holding

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Speaker 1: the ball up against your helmet with one hand while

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Speaker 1: he got two guys draped all over you. Not to

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Speaker 1: mention the fact that Eli Manning looked like he was

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Speaker 1: completely dead in the water, right. Mike Carey has said

576
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Speaker 1: before he was about like a split second from calling

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Speaker 1: him down in the pocket because he had like he

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Speaker 1: had like four hands on him pulling him around. He

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Speaker 1: shakes loose, throws it up, and David Tyree pulls it

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Speaker 1: down against his helmet. The bull never touched the ground

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Speaker 1: and he pulls it in and then on the next

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Speaker 1: you know, two or three plays later, Plexico Burros touched down. Right,

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Speaker 1: they take the lead and win it. And then I

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Speaker 1: don't think as many people remember it because it didn't

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Speaker 1: seem as difficult as that. But the Eli Manning's best

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Speaker 1: throw of his career might be the Mario manningham pass

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Speaker 1: that's right in the two thy twelve Super Bowl. That's

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Speaker 1: right the Patriots again down that window was tiny down

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Speaker 1: the sideline, going down the sideline and covered he was

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Speaker 1: not open and dropped it in catches it two feet

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Speaker 1: in out abound. While yeah, there's the first down to

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Speaker 1: write those two. And it's interesting as well. And we

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Speaker 1: think back and I've heard people say, well, you know,

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Speaker 1: for all the things that the Super Bowls, that I

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Speaker 1: was in the Super Bowl twenty five and they say, wow,

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Speaker 1: you know, you guys got got a play, gotta coat

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Speaker 1: whatever you want to say. You know that that coaching

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Speaker 1: staff had Bill Parcels on it, Bill Belichick on it,

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Speaker 1: and Tom Coughlin. All three of those guys were on

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Speaker 1: that giant staff over there. Um, great bunch of guys,

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Speaker 1: a great bunch of coaches, and Bill went on to

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Speaker 1: bigger and better things than their own. That's which is Um,

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Speaker 1: it's a small you know, the further you get into

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Speaker 1: history and the older you get a guy like me,

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Speaker 1: you see all these guys and where they came from

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Speaker 1: and how they've crossed paths with him. It's it's pretty

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Speaker 1: interesting stuff. But that, um, the Tom Coughlin road to

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Speaker 1: two Super Bowl victories with the Alliance, I mean he

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Speaker 1: literally built the Jacksonville Jaguar organization from the ground up.

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Speaker 1: He was the first hire. He hired the general manager,

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Speaker 1: all the staff people, all the secretaries, all the pr people,

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Speaker 1: and they went to the championship game all right, right

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Speaker 1: right out of the gate, and and we're a tough

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Speaker 1: team to play against right out of the gate. And

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Speaker 1: then he, you know, he moved on to New York

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Speaker 1: and won two Super Bowls. Jack on the tweed Sheet

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Speaker 1: goes the same exact route as JT did. Watching Brady

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Speaker 1: lose to the Giants after an undefeated season in OH seven,

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Speaker 1: with the helmet catch by Tyree on fourth down, then

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Speaker 1: the late scoring drive to steal the wind for Big Blue,

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Speaker 1: and the sheer amount of hits and brutality that number

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Speaker 1: twelve suffered in that game warms the cockles of my heart, which,

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Speaker 1: in case you didn't know, are the ventricles of your heart. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so that's what the cockles of your heart are. The ventricles. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the pumping chambers, you know, the two on the bottom,

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Speaker 1: the bigger ones. Those are cockles. That's the part that

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Speaker 1: is the ventricles. That's the translation. I'll accept it because

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Speaker 1: it's what ultimately pumps the blood through your body. So

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Speaker 1: if those are warm, what they're pumping through is gonna

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Speaker 1: be warm too. So there you go. You learn something

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Speaker 1: every day. I gotta tell you. Lori on the tweet

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Speaker 1: Sheet says Jack Squires. I don't know. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if this is a misspelling. Jack squirrecs pick six against

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Speaker 1: Joe Thisman and Super Bowl eighteen Jacks the the squirrec

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Speaker 1: is the name? Sure the I don't recognize that Joe

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Speaker 1: against the Raiders. Yes, he was gonna throw a screen pass,

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Speaker 1: got batted into the air. Squire catches it and go

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Speaker 1: walks in for a pick six. I will I am

639
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:51,800
Speaker 1: gonna say that I've never seen that name ever before

640
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,360
Speaker 1: years in the NFL. Jeff and Thomas can get it

641
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 1: up on it. We'll see, yeah highlights. I will apologize

642
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 1: and say I did not know that name. Is that

643
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 1: the Raiders? It's the Raiders Washington game, Joe Thiseman. I

644
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: think that's the eighty three three season. It's the same

645
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 1: one that Marcus ran the eighty two yard where he

646
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:15,840
Speaker 1: doubles back and runs through all of them. No, that

647
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:18,400
Speaker 1: was him, Dolphins, wasn't it. No, that was no, that

648
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: was Washington. Raiders thumped him like thirty eight to nine ers. Yeah,

649
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:25,839
Speaker 1: that was yeah, he tipped it up in the air

650
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: and caught it himself. I think it was only ten

651
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 1: or eleven at the time, So yeah, I'll plead ignorance

652
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 1: on that. But okay, that's a good one word than that.

653
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:37,439
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's a good one, very good one. Uh

654
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 1: let's go to the phones, as. We've got some people

655
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 1: on the line with some Super Bowl memories, and we'll

656
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Speaker 1: lead off with Dave in Florida. Dave, what do you

657
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: have for us? You're on one Bill's life. I do

658
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 1: it today, Fellas, Good, good, all right, good, my mommy,

659
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: it has six with me is nine b V station

660
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:58,279
Speaker 1: down me. I was his name Leon against the Cowboys,

661
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: and it showed me a lot of heart and a

662
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of professionalism. Yeah, I was. I

663
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: was waiting to see how long that one would take

664
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 1: to show up here. Now that one stays with me

665
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 1: for a long time, Fellas, that's that's it. Yere. We'll

666
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:15,759
Speaker 1: have one for next year. Okay, when we go to

667
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 1: the super Bowl next year. Yeah, I hope you're a

668
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:22,479
Speaker 1: sex stayer, Dave. Thanks. Yeah. Yeah, I I've told this story.

669
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,360
Speaker 1: I mean people have probably heard it. But I throughout

670
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 1: my CBS career, over two decades plus at CBS, going

671
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 1: to games all over the country in every NFL city,

672
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 1: week after week, once a month. I know, where you're

673
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 1: going there. Once a month, I would somebody would come

674
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:45,840
Speaker 1: up and say, hey, Steve, how are you doing? Enjoyed

675
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:48,400
Speaker 1: you guys with the bills? And I would get congratulated

676
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:51,479
Speaker 1: for running down Leon Lett in the Super Bowl because

677
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 1: you know, I'm a short, small white guy with the

678
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:55,840
Speaker 1: number in the eighties, with the number in the eighties

679
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 1: must have been you. Um. And I always, and I

680
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: promise Beebes, I would never do take credit for it.

681
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 1: I would never say hey, thanks, I would say, well,

682
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:08,760
Speaker 1: actually so I do. I say, actually that was don Beebe.

683
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,279
Speaker 1: But I appreciate it. That kind of thing I've and

684
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 1: it has to this day. I still get congratulated. What

685
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 1: you call that the singular play of your team's era

686
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:24,160
Speaker 1: that embodies what that team was about. Do you think

687
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:27,360
Speaker 1: do you think there is a better play? No? I

688
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 1: certainly that pretty much is. Certainly because because of us

689
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 1: losing four straight, that play showed the resiliency that it

690
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 1: took to come back and play in four straight. You know,

691
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 1: um yeah, And you know that that play has has

692
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 1: been a part of Beebes's life now since that moment.

693
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 1: He not that he would want to escape it, but

694
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 1: it's it follows him wherever he goes, and that does

695
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 1: epitomize what that team, what it took for that team

696
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:06,240
Speaker 1: to continue to go back, because I can't think of another.

697
00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: I'm sure there are candidates that will go into the

698
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 1: list for a single play that's gotta be it. That's

699
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:14,719
Speaker 1: got it right. Yeah, that's a good point by you.

700
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:16,759
Speaker 1: I didn't hadn't thought about it. I think that embodies

701
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 1: what your guys teams were making more than any other

702
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 1: play during your run. And you know, if you're looking

703
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: for a game like they would probably you know, like

704
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:25,920
Speaker 1: the comeback game, same thing. You know, it's kind of

705
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 1: being down and out and not given up and you know,

706
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:31,359
Speaker 1: having things go your way, that play going the way

707
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 1: it did. Yeah, that's that's a good point. That is

708
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 1: probably is the play that personifies what that team. I

709
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 1: always kind of thought that, but I you know, I

710
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 1: figured I'd go to a source and see if it

711
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:46,840
Speaker 1: was legit. Let's squeeze Joe and Buffalo in here before

712
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 1: the break, Joe, what do you have for us? Jo

713
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:52,760
Speaker 1: all one Bill's life him. I think super Bowl three

714
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:57,240
Speaker 1: in its entirety because it was the most consequential super

715
00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 1: Bowl the AFC excuse me, the Cold Football League. Nameth

716
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 1: and the Jets were eighteen point underdogs. I believe Don

717
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 1: Shula had a great Baltimore team and Namoth predicted the victory.

718
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: It was consequential because not only did the Jets win,

719
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:19,360
Speaker 1: I think it accelerated the talks on the merger and

720
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:22,720
Speaker 1: two years later the AFL was merged into the NFL.

721
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 1: So I think it was. I still think it's probably

722
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 1: the most consequential super Bowl ever. I think the next

723
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:32,360
Speaker 1: year Kansas City one of super Bowls in Minnesota, and

724
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 1: that may have helped too. But I actually think super

725
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 1: Bowl three I think it is. Yeah, thanks Jo, I

726
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 1: think it is widely known Steve as a league legitimizer

727
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 1: for the AFL. Right, yeah, super Bowl three. Yeah, one

728
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,320
Speaker 1: and two were won by green Bay Green Bay pretty handily,

729
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:51,360
Speaker 1: and yeah handily. But the second Super Bowl two was

730
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: against green Bay, Green Bay, Kansas No green super Bowl

731
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:57,360
Speaker 1: one Green Bay, Kansas City. Green Bay, Kansas City was

732
00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:01,399
Speaker 1: super Bowl one Green Bay, and I don't super Bowl too,

733
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you, but yeah, the third one when

734
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:10,920
Speaker 1: when Joe Namath and the Jets beat those guys, the Colts,

735
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,280
Speaker 1: it really was. It was a it was a huge,

736
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 1: huge momentum change, and that's a good point. It certainly

737
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: was consequential for the future of both leagues and what

738
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:24,240
Speaker 1: the NFL has become now. Raiders and Packers, Super Bowl too,

739
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 1: Raiders and Packers. I wouldn't have got that. Never. I

740
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 1: don't know if I would have got that. I would

741
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 1: not have gotten that. I don't know why. Why is

742
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,719
Speaker 1: that such a hard one to remember? Everybody remember super

743
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: Bowl three because of the name of thing. Everybody remembers

744
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:43,440
Speaker 1: the first one, But for some reason, super Bowl too.

745
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 1: That's a hard one for me. I mean, I'm not alive,

746
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 1: but you know, just study the history and whatnot. I

747
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 1: would not have gotten that. My teammate James Lofton went

748
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 1: to the Chiefs Packers Super Bowl one. Yes, as a

749
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 1: walk up you told me, right, said, and his dad.

750
00:42:57,680 --> 00:42:59,399
Speaker 1: He and his father just walked up because he's from

751
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 1: LA from down there. They walked up to the stadium,

752
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: bought tickets and walked in. Yeah, that was the coliseum

753
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 1: right where it was. Yeah, just walked right in. It

754
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 1: wasn't I think he said it was twelve dollars tickets.

755
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 1: It wasn't a sellout. That's awesome. Yeah, Oh, man, that's great.

756
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 1: All right, we're They also had both networks broadcasting the game,

757
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 1: NBC I think did, the CBS did the second half. Yeah,

758
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: so they split it down the middle. All right. We

759
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 1: gotta take a break here, but we're taking more of

760
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 1: your Super Bowl memories. Next here on one Bills Live,

761
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:49,600
Speaker 1: presented by Collat of Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio, the

762
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,400
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabers, along with the City of

763
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 1: Buffalo of teams up to help promote feb Fest twenty

764
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:59,040
Speaker 1: twenty two at the Market this Saturday, February twelfth, from

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00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:01,399
Speaker 1: nine am until five five pm. The event is a

766
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:05,360
Speaker 1: great opportunity for our community to show its support for

767
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:09,800
Speaker 1: Black History Month by supporting Buy Black Buffalo retail vendors,

768
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 1: take a photo with Billy Buffalo, and enjoy live music,

769
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 1: Bills and Sabers, giveaways, and more. The event is free

770
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 1: and open to all. Fib Fest check it out. We

771
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:22,920
Speaker 1: do want to get to the phones where we've got

772
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 1: some more Super Bowl memories. Waiting and leading us off

773
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: here is Mike and Niagara Falls. Wait you got first, Mike. Ah,

774
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 1: this is a story Steve may remember. I think he

775
00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 1: was in the area, but this is one of the

776
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 1: one of the bills Super Bowls and the Depolo family,

777
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 1: their whole col room was right alongside the pool in

778
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 1: the pool area, and they had like a little hospitality

779
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 1: areas set up outside the room. And a person came

780
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:59,759
Speaker 1: up and recognized Iliol Depolo and asked him if he

781
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:03,919
Speaker 1: was still in shape, and mister Dapolo took it as

782
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:09,359
Speaker 1: an insult. He immediately got downs. Terry Raylin off pushups

783
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 1: his wife. His wife started screaming at him in Italian.

784
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 1: Of course he wouldn't listen to her, and he was

785
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 1: up to about twenty five pushups, and finally his wife

786
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: yelled over for Dennis, and Dennis came over, and of

787
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:27,400
Speaker 1: course he did listen to Dennis. But I'll never forget

788
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:30,799
Speaker 1: that as long as I live. Had nothing to do

789
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 1: with the games at all, Thanks Mike. But a lot

790
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:36,879
Speaker 1: of stuff goes on around the hotel super Bowl week.

791
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:39,400
Speaker 1: It was. Yeah, it was a different time. It's a

792
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:44,799
Speaker 1: different era than it is now. And most of us

793
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 1: on those teams had a close had a relationship with

794
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:52,400
Speaker 1: Elio da Polo, the famous restaurant tour and also famous

795
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 1: wrestler from back in the day. Still do and the

796
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:02,239
Speaker 1: atmosphere around it, and you forget to Super Bowl twenty five,

797
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 1: it was if if that's when you're talking about. There

798
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 1: was no big pomp and circumstance because the Gulf War

799
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,799
Speaker 1: had just begun. It began on Wednesday before the game,

800
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:13,400
Speaker 1: or maybe the Thursday before the game, like one hundred

801
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:17,320
Speaker 1: hours before the game. So you know, there was no parade,

802
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:20,200
Speaker 1: no parties, none of that. People were just down there.

803
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 1: And of course, like like you would expect nowadays, if

804
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: if the Bills get to the Super Bowl or when

805
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 1: the Bills get to the Super Bowl, it's gonna be

806
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 1: a big family gathering. So it was like that. And

807
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:36,319
Speaker 1: I remember, yeah, a lot of a lot not just

808
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 1: the Depiltos, but there are other prominent families and other

809
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 1: you know groups that we're down there, and it was

810
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: it was a family reunion. I mean, they they all

811
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:50,279
Speaker 1: set up. I mean they moved down there for like

812
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:54,440
Speaker 1: everything up here and moved down there where you at

813
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:56,279
Speaker 1: we're over here, Oh yeah, yeah, I'll come over. You know,

814
00:46:56,880 --> 00:47:03,359
Speaker 1: it was very much a family atmosphere in Tampa Bay

815
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: that year, because you know, it was a little bit

816
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 1: different singing. It was twenty years, thirty years ago, and

817
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:12,840
Speaker 1: so you could move around a little differently than you

818
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 1: can now. And there were the way it was set

819
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 1: up was very was nice and it lent itself to

820
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 1: those kind of gatherings. But yeah, the pool side with

821
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: the hospitality area, it was just like it was like

822
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:28,399
Speaker 1: an all day party, come and go party. And yeah,

823
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 1: Elio was in shape. Yeah, and don't tell him he's

824
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 1: not Kevin in Hamburg is next? What do you got first?

825
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:37,759
Speaker 1: I tell you doing Thanks for taking my call. Sure.

826
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Speaker 1: My memory favorite one is when Santonio Holme is a

827
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,320
Speaker 1: famous toad drag against the Cardinals to break their hearted

828
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:48,880
Speaker 1: the last five or ten seconds. And the reason why

829
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 1: I'm picking as my mom and day grew up in

830
00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:53,759
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania and all Sewer country and you always hear about

831
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:57,239
Speaker 1: Min Swan's famous catches against Dallas and the high up

832
00:47:57,239 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 1: in the air and bouncing the ball. And it looked like,

833
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,279
Speaker 1: don't mean the Lynn Swann would have done if it

834
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: had been back in the Branshaw day. You know, he's

835
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:06,840
Speaker 1: look like one of those. Of course he jumped in

836
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:09,239
Speaker 1: the high air higher, but it looks like a Lynn

837
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:11,239
Speaker 1: might have been a Lynn Swan type of being. I

838
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 1: like the way he did that, did it look like

839
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:15,439
Speaker 1: Lynn Swann would have done it back in his day,

840
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:18,479
Speaker 1: have been back in the seventies. So yeah, I wanted

841
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 1: to just share that one with y'all. Yeah, that's a

842
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 1: good one, Kevin. Thanks, And I would say that's probably

843
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:26,919
Speaker 1: one of the best Super Bowls in the last ten

844
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:30,560
Speaker 1: or fifteen years, just because it was a tight game

845
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: that was decided essentially in the final minute a regulation.

846
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:37,879
Speaker 1: I mean, the Steelers were either down to their last

847
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 1: was that fourth down I'm trying to remember. I think

848
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 1: it might have been third down the past. Fantastic pass,

849
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:48,440
Speaker 1: even better catch. That's why Ben is going to go

850
00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:52,919
Speaker 1: to the Hall of Fame. Um. He could he could throw.

851
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 1: He was a singular thrower. That was him at his peak, right,

852
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:57,839
Speaker 1: I mean he was at his peak at that point

853
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:02,760
Speaker 1: twenty ten. He could swing it like nobody's business, and

854
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 1: and that throw was absolute perfection. Of course, the catch

855
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 1: by Holmes was another steel or wide receiver man of

856
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:11,000
Speaker 1: playing a Super Bowl. We've seen a ton of them. Yes,

857
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:14,920
Speaker 1: So yeah, let's squeeze one more in here. We go

858
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:19,720
Speaker 1: to fred in or Rochester. We got first Fred. Yeah, guys,

859
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna switch back to Super Bowl twenty five for

860
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:28,200
Speaker 1: me personally, and I think for a lot of people,

861
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:32,839
Speaker 1: as we've already talked about, that was It was one

862
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:35,439
Speaker 1: of the turning points I think in my life. I've

863
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:39,720
Speaker 1: always been a bold fans, but yeah, that atmosphere before

864
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:45,480
Speaker 1: twenty five was something else. It was a family atmosphere.

865
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:48,959
Speaker 1: I drove with a friend of mine. We got awful work,

866
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,720
Speaker 1: we got the time off of work, drove down twenty

867
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 1: one hours or whatever it was, didn't stop, got to

868
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 1: another friend's house that was staying down there, actually with

869
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:03,880
Speaker 1: my boss the time UM stayed at his play swept

870
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:06,680
Speaker 1: on the floor uh didn't have they didn't have an

871
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:09,160
Speaker 1: extra bed, and said it's okay, we got to sleeping bags.

872
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:12,439
Speaker 1: We'll stay right here. We didn't have tickets for the game,

873
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 1: but somehow we ended up. We watched the game on

874
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:23,560
Speaker 1: a screen that was um um, that was put on

875
00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 1: the Sears building. There was a big Seares building down there,

876
00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:29,760
Speaker 1: and it was like the on the side of their building,

877
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:32,840
Speaker 1: and it was the size of a of a driving

878
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:37,520
Speaker 1: uh driving movie screening. And we watched the game on

879
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:41,560
Speaker 1: on the side of the Searies building with a million

880
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:44,840
Speaker 1: other fans that really couldn't get into the game. We tried,

881
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 1: but we just couldn't get in. UM watched what I

882
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 1: thought was the best Super Bowl that was ever played.

883
00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 1: Of course I'm bias. UM watched uh Surman Thomas put

884
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:59,440
Speaker 1: the you know, put the game on his back and

885
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:02,759
Speaker 1: and just you know, just I mean, he should have

886
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:05,080
Speaker 1: got MVP, but of course they lost the game, so

887
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:08,359
Speaker 1: he couldn't get that. But anyway, yeah, that was to me,

888
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:11,719
Speaker 1: that was the best. I also at that time, we

889
00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:15,520
Speaker 1: somehow managed to get into the Bills Hotel and we

890
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:17,960
Speaker 1: didn't even know where we were going. We were just

891
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:22,360
Speaker 1: walking around and we got in there, and I was

892
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 1: and I still remember to this day. The thing that

893
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 1: shocked me the most is standing next to UM Glenn Parker.

894
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 1: And I was about five to eleven, almost six foot

895
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 1: and went one hundred and eighty pounds. You know, I

896
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 1: thought I was a pretty good sized and then I

897
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 1: stood next to Glenn Parker and down on me just

898
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:51,280
Speaker 1: exactly how big these guys are. But anyway, anyway, I'll

899
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 1: I don't want to go on any parts, but that

900
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 1: was a special special day. I'm sorry that we lost,

901
00:51:57,719 --> 00:52:00,400
Speaker 1: but it was a great experience. Yeah, thanks for I

902
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:02,560
Speaker 1: appreciate the call, and I'm sure a lot of people

903
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:04,880
Speaker 1: share those sentiments. The links that some people went to,

904
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:08,680
Speaker 1: yeah to get down legend There are legendary stories. There

905
00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:13,680
Speaker 1: are legendary family stories about who your your cousin, your dad,

906
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:16,680
Speaker 1: your uncle, or you like Fred, you drove twenty one

907
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:18,640
Speaker 1: hour as you slipped in. Somebody would go into the game,

908
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 1: didn't even get to the game, watched it on the

909
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:22,400
Speaker 1: side of a building with a bunch of the You know,

910
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:27,600
Speaker 1: it's amazing what people will do. I have family members

911
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:30,440
Speaker 1: who kind of went through the same thing. One of

912
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:34,160
Speaker 1: my older brothers was at every single home playoff game

913
00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:36,840
Speaker 1: I ever played in here, and a couple of the

914
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:41,239
Speaker 1: times it was he barely made it, you know, so

915
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:45,040
Speaker 1: it was fun, awesome. We will we will take a

916
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:47,920
Speaker 1: break here, but when we come back, we will be

917
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:52,879
Speaker 1: joined by nfl UK's Neil Reynolds, who's going to talk

918
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 1: to us a little bit more about the International Series upcoming,

919
00:52:56,520 --> 00:52:58,840
Speaker 1: with four games in the next five years to be

920
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:04,000
Speaker 1: played in Germany, including three games scheduled for London next year,

921
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:07,840
Speaker 1: and just how big a candidate the Bills might be

922
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:10,319
Speaker 1: for one of those games. We'll talk with him next

923
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:12,440
Speaker 1: here on one Bill's Live presented by Klada Health. It's

924
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:33,319
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio at a Steve Tasker who has been

925
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:35,640
Speaker 1: all over her field. Kind of unique. He was kind

926
00:53:35,680 --> 00:53:41,320
Speaker 1: of a dual role player for you state Steve a blimp.

927
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 1: We're not even in the strated fere of normalcy. All right.

928
00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 1: Here we are our number two on a Thursday. Chris Brown,

929
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:55,239
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you and ABT. He'll be joined now

930
00:53:56,200 --> 00:53:59,920
Speaker 1: NFL dot Com, sky Sports NFL UK Reporter. Also hosted

931
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:04,319
Speaker 1: Inside the Huddle Neil's Reynolds Podcast. It's Neil Reynolds who

932
00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:08,360
Speaker 1: is also a gigantic fan of the Shirtless Wonder Ryan Fitzpatrick.

933
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:10,720
Speaker 1: But we'll get into that a little bit later. Um,

934
00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:14,520
Speaker 1: how you doing, Neil? You're doing all right? I'm good,

935
00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:16,319
Speaker 1: Thank you, Chris. Yeah, and well it's not to love

936
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:20,000
Speaker 1: about fitz Magic. I mean was I know you're gonna

937
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 1: steer me to that in a little while. But the

938
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:27,879
Speaker 1: site of fits shirtless every man's dream. Look at him,

939
00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:34,239
Speaker 1: love it. It looks like a pro athlete. Yeah. Uh, look,

940
00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:37,359
Speaker 1: for we had time you were gonna be you got

941
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:39,480
Speaker 1: sidetrack and we could you never you never made it

942
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:41,760
Speaker 1: over to the Bill's Patriot game early in the seat

943
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:44,080
Speaker 1: and midway through the season where the Bills played here

944
00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:47,319
Speaker 1: in Orchard Park against the Patriots. But uh, we did

945
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 1: hear that there is gonna be some games in Europe

946
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:51,680
Speaker 1: that we just found out about today. I want to

947
00:54:51,719 --> 00:54:54,200
Speaker 1: get your take on that, Brownie, and I've been kind

948
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:56,920
Speaker 1: of between the two of us thinking like Buffalo might

949
00:54:56,960 --> 00:54:59,919
Speaker 1: be a prime candidate to play one of the games

950
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:05,000
Speaker 1: in Germany or perhaps one of the UK games as well.

951
00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 1: What do you think the criteria is for choosing which

952
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 1: team's head to Europe to play. I think, well, it

953
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:16,040
Speaker 1: kind of gets eliminated by the teams. You kind of

954
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:19,360
Speaker 1: narrow down whoever is in the rotation to do a

955
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:24,399
Speaker 1: home game. Then they may protect a game. But then

956
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:28,399
Speaker 1: I think fan bases and stories and stars certainly come

957
00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:31,680
Speaker 1: into it, you know. And it's very obvious with the

958
00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:34,719
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, they would be a certainly a huge draw

959
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:38,840
Speaker 1: in the UK with FAA, Barda, Christian Wade, Josh Allen.

960
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:42,840
Speaker 1: You know, it's a team that's right there, right ready

961
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 1: to compete. So I don't know all of the exact

962
00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:49,800
Speaker 1: criteria behind the scenes, I know that teams protect games

963
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:52,879
Speaker 1: that's why we've never had the Packers in the UK.

964
00:55:54,360 --> 00:55:56,359
Speaker 1: But look, if the Bills play in Germany, I'm going

965
00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:58,080
Speaker 1: there as well, because I think once we get a

966
00:55:58,120 --> 00:56:01,600
Speaker 1: regular season game in Germany, it's going to be fantastic.

967
00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:05,239
Speaker 1: That was confirmed of course this week. So we've got

968
00:56:05,280 --> 00:56:08,680
Speaker 1: three games in London, the Jags going back to Wembley.

969
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:12,040
Speaker 1: We've got two at Tottenham hotspurst Stadium, So up from

970
00:56:12,080 --> 00:56:16,759
Speaker 1: two games to three in London this next season. We've

971
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:19,520
Speaker 1: got game in Mexico of course, and then Munich's going

972
00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:21,520
Speaker 1: to host a regular season game in Germany for the

973
00:56:21,560 --> 00:56:24,440
Speaker 1: first time and they deserve it. The fan base series

974
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:28,000
Speaker 1: every bit as knowledgeable, every bit as passionate as those

975
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 1: in the UK and can't wait for that. Yeah, we

976
00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:34,120
Speaker 1: were kind of trying to figure out why Munich was chosen.

977
00:56:34,280 --> 00:56:36,120
Speaker 1: Maybe it had a lot to do with Bayern Munich's

978
00:56:36,719 --> 00:56:40,080
Speaker 1: fantastic stadium. I mean, even Roger Goodell was talking up

979
00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:42,760
Speaker 1: and down about how great a facility that is. Because

980
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:45,120
Speaker 1: we were trying to I guess we were trying to

981
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:48,600
Speaker 1: draw a line back to NFL Europe and I remember

982
00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:52,080
Speaker 1: Hamburg had a team, Cologne had a team, Frankfort had

983
00:56:52,120 --> 00:56:55,640
Speaker 1: a team. Berlin had a team, but Munich, to my knowledge,

984
00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:57,600
Speaker 1: did not have one, and so I was just kind

985
00:56:57,600 --> 00:56:59,200
Speaker 1: of puzzled a little bit as to why that was

986
00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:01,319
Speaker 1: their first choice. Do you have any insight on there?

987
00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:03,720
Speaker 1: I think it, Yeah, I think. I think the stadium,

988
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:06,080
Speaker 1: I think, I mean, the cities were able to bid

989
00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:08,440
Speaker 1: like a like an almost like bidding for an Olympics,

990
00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 1: so they put together a really good bid. I think

991
00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:16,520
Speaker 1: it's the stadium that was a real draw. It's a

992
00:57:16,920 --> 00:57:21,400
Speaker 1: big stadium, seventy thousand, so that appeals to the NFL

993
00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:24,720
Speaker 1: of course from a from a dollars and cents point

994
00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:26,640
Speaker 1: of view, but what I was pleased about. So they've

995
00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:30,479
Speaker 1: got four year agreement with playing games in Germany. Two

996
00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:32,640
Speaker 1: are going to be in Munich and two are going

997
00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:36,200
Speaker 1: to be in Frankfurt, which is a nod to those

998
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:39,400
Speaker 1: NFL Europe days. Yeah. Some of my greatest nights covering

999
00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:43,640
Speaker 1: professional football were spent in Germany, covering NFL Europe games

1000
00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:47,280
Speaker 1: in dustled off in Frankfurt. So I'm glad that Frankfurt's

1001
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:50,000
Speaker 1: going to be in the mix because I think it's

1002
00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:54,760
Speaker 1: such an established place for American football. So yeah, it's

1003
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:58,200
Speaker 1: exciting it's really exciting. I'm glad the glad the Wembley

1004
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:01,360
Speaker 1: thing is happening with the Jags as well. We've got

1005
00:58:01,360 --> 00:58:05,960
Speaker 1: these teams that can now market themselves internationally, so this

1006
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 1: potential for even more games to come overseas. Yeah, I mean,

1007
00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:13,880
Speaker 1: it's crazy from where it was fifteen years ago. Even

1008
00:58:14,680 --> 00:58:17,080
Speaker 1: we just started out in two thousand and seven with

1009
00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:19,960
Speaker 1: the first London game. So let's go back twenty years

1010
00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:21,400
Speaker 1: and I would have told you were crazy if we

1011
00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:23,760
Speaker 1: were going to get one regular season game. Now we've

1012
00:58:23,760 --> 00:58:26,400
Speaker 1: got all these games all over the world's great. And

1013
00:58:26,520 --> 00:58:28,840
Speaker 1: what do you think about the games that are still

1014
00:58:28,840 --> 00:58:31,760
Speaker 1: happening in the twenty twenty two twenty one season here

1015
00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:35,360
Speaker 1: the last one the Bengals and the Rams, two very

1016
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:39,200
Speaker 1: different franchises coming out with different philosophies, and then they

1017
00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:41,160
Speaker 1: both end up in the Super Bowl. What are your

1018
00:58:41,160 --> 00:58:45,240
Speaker 1: thoughts about that? The philosophy is it fascinates me to

1019
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:47,400
Speaker 1: begin with. You know, you've got this team that's built,

1020
00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:51,920
Speaker 1: you know, superstar roster. And then Sean McVay told me

1021
00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:53,480
Speaker 1: this week when I asked him, he said, but they

1022
00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:58,000
Speaker 1: are a real team. First locker room they are. Yeah,

1023
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:00,680
Speaker 1: I used he used coach speak, but they are we

1024
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:04,680
Speaker 1: not me. But that's genuinely how he feels his Rams are.

1025
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:07,920
Speaker 1: So you've got the Rams that people like to say

1026
00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:10,680
Speaker 1: they've gone all in. I would say they're not mortgage

1027
00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:13,640
Speaker 1: in their future. You know, they're five years under Sean McVay,

1028
00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:16,520
Speaker 1: four years in the playoffs, second super Bowl appearance in

1029
00:59:16,600 --> 00:59:18,560
Speaker 1: four years. I'll take that. If I'm a fan of

1030
00:59:19,160 --> 00:59:23,520
Speaker 1: most NFL teams, you'd take that return. So I love

1031
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:25,080
Speaker 1: what the Rams are doing. I don't think they're going

1032
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:27,640
Speaker 1: to fall off the cliff next year or the year

1033
00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:30,000
Speaker 1: after that. I think they're going to stay competitive. And

1034
00:59:30,840 --> 00:59:34,320
Speaker 1: the Bengals are a great story. And obviously they've shown

1035
00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 1: the power of the draft, you know with Tyler Boyd

1036
00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:40,960
Speaker 1: T Higgins, obviously Jamar Chase. This year, Joe Burrow has

1037
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:44,000
Speaker 1: transformed everything. All I keep hearing all week when I'm

1038
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:47,680
Speaker 1: on these media sessions is that yes he can throw,

1039
00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:49,800
Speaker 1: and yes he can dissect the defense, and yes he

1040
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:52,160
Speaker 1: can read a defense, and he can move if he

1041
00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:56,000
Speaker 1: needs to. But his greatest skill is just raising the

1042
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:59,400
Speaker 1: game of those around him. So Bengals have done it

1043
00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:03,040
Speaker 1: through the draft. Rams have done it through free agency.

1044
01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:06,040
Speaker 1: But then the Bengals have added Trey Hendrickson through free agency.

1045
01:00:06,520 --> 01:00:09,080
Speaker 1: The Rams got the likes of Cooper Cup and Nick

1046
01:00:09,160 --> 01:00:12,600
Speaker 1: Scott through the draft. So it's actually everyone's still doing

1047
01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:14,320
Speaker 1: it every which way you need to do it to

1048
01:00:14,360 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 1: build a roster. So yeah, I think I feel like

1049
01:00:18,160 --> 01:00:21,040
Speaker 1: there's pressure on both teams. There's a really long answer.

1050
01:00:21,080 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 1: I apologize. I feel like I feel like the Rams.

1051
01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:28,919
Speaker 1: Everyone's expectation and criticism of the Rams as well. You've

1052
01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:32,280
Speaker 1: built this superpower, you need to win, So I get

1053
01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:35,920
Speaker 1: that there's pressure there. But there's also pressure for the

1054
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:39,080
Speaker 1: Bengals because you never know when you're going to go back.

1055
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:43,040
Speaker 1: And the AFC is loaded, Yeah, Josh Allen and the Bills,

1056
01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:46,520
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes are the Chiefs, Justin Herbert and the Charges.

1057
01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:49,640
Speaker 1: If Lamar Jackson gets fit again, and the Ravens, I mean,

1058
01:00:49,680 --> 01:00:53,160
Speaker 1: the AFC is loaded with young quarterbacks. It's gonna be

1059
01:00:53,160 --> 01:00:55,560
Speaker 1: really tough to get out of that confidence. I don't

1060
01:00:55,640 --> 01:00:59,200
Speaker 1: know if this is something that's necessarily safe to go on.

1061
01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:03,919
Speaker 1: As in sigative journalists in trying to deduce who might

1062
01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:07,200
Speaker 1: be showing up in Munich, who might be showing up

1063
01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:11,440
Speaker 1: in London. Later this year. But I do remember back

1064
01:01:12,120 --> 01:01:14,480
Speaker 1: in the new year, as soon as we flip the calendar,

1065
01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:20,640
Speaker 1: that the NFL awarded marketing rights to a handful of

1066
01:01:20,680 --> 01:01:24,720
Speaker 1: teams in the league to market themselves in Germany in

1067
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:27,440
Speaker 1: the UK. So I'm wondering if we can whittle the

1068
01:01:27,480 --> 01:01:30,360
Speaker 1: list down a little bit. Germany, the teams that won

1069
01:01:30,440 --> 01:01:33,360
Speaker 1: marketing rights there the Panthers, the Chiefs, the Patriots, and

1070
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:37,040
Speaker 1: the Bucks. So yeah, I'm not saying, you know, and

1071
01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:39,280
Speaker 1: I guess we would have to cross reference schedules to

1072
01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:41,480
Speaker 1: see if any four of those teams are playing one another.

1073
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:44,760
Speaker 1: Obviously Tampa and Carolina will play one another at some

1074
01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:48,919
Speaker 1: point in time. The other aspect of international play neil

1075
01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:53,120
Speaker 1: that I wonder comes into play the NFC. Those are

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01:01:53,120 --> 01:01:56,240
Speaker 1: the teams that have the extra home game this year

1077
01:01:56,480 --> 01:02:00,640
Speaker 1: in the seventeen game schedule. Knowing how hesitant teams are

1078
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:03,200
Speaker 1: to give up a home game, if you've got an

1079
01:02:03,200 --> 01:02:06,200
Speaker 1: extra one in the bag already, maybe you're more app

1080
01:02:06,280 --> 01:02:08,600
Speaker 1: to be one of those teams selected. Am I on

1081
01:02:08,640 --> 01:02:11,640
Speaker 1: the right track? I think I think so. Yeah, I

1082
01:02:11,680 --> 01:02:14,080
Speaker 1: think we are. I think I don't think we'll always so.

1083
01:02:14,200 --> 01:02:18,480
Speaker 1: For example, in the UK, it's it's the Bears, the Dolphins,

1084
01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:21,600
Speaker 1: the Vikings, the Jags, the forty nine ers and the Jets.

1085
01:02:21,640 --> 01:02:24,640
Speaker 1: I don't think we'll always yeah, I say the Vikings.

1086
01:02:24,680 --> 01:02:27,800
Speaker 1: We don't think we'll always just see those teams. But

1087
01:02:27,880 --> 01:02:30,040
Speaker 1: of course they're gonna have an interest in playing games now.

1088
01:02:30,080 --> 01:02:32,640
Speaker 1: They may strike their own deal the same way that

1089
01:02:32,640 --> 01:02:36,680
Speaker 1: the Jags did at Wembley. San Francisco ever vested interest

1090
01:02:36,720 --> 01:02:38,720
Speaker 1: in Leeds United in the Premier League, Are they going

1091
01:02:38,720 --> 01:02:42,080
Speaker 1: to play a game Leads? That is something that is

1092
01:02:42,120 --> 01:02:45,720
Speaker 1: on the table and something the NFL would encourage. I

1093
01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:47,760
Speaker 1: think we will see one of those teams in Germany,

1094
01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:51,400
Speaker 1: maybe the Chiefs or the Bucks. But I think the

1095
01:02:52,160 --> 01:02:55,400
Speaker 1: Jeff Duncan, a great reporter covering the New Orleans Saints,

1096
01:02:55,440 --> 01:02:57,560
Speaker 1: has already reported that the Saints are going to be

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01:02:57,640 --> 01:02:59,360
Speaker 1: one of the home teams for London. I haven't I

1098
01:02:59,400 --> 01:03:03,000
Speaker 1: haven't had that found anywhere else, but I trust Jeff

1099
01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:06,080
Speaker 1: Duncan's reporting. So that would play into what you're suggesting,

1100
01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:10,240
Speaker 1: because obviously Saints are an NFC team. Yeah right, you know,

1101
01:03:10,240 --> 01:03:12,360
Speaker 1: it makes some It does make some sense. What uh

1102
01:03:13,720 --> 01:03:17,000
Speaker 1: these we'll probably find out about ninety days when the

1103
01:03:17,040 --> 01:03:19,320
Speaker 1: schedule does come out, you know what the what the

1104
01:03:19,320 --> 01:03:24,280
Speaker 1: teams are gonna be. Um, the seventeen game schedule this

1105
01:03:24,360 --> 01:03:28,240
Speaker 1: year also adds the opportunity for more games means more.

1106
01:03:28,680 --> 01:03:31,080
Speaker 1: You know, now we've got five games overseas. They're going

1107
01:03:31,080 --> 01:03:33,640
Speaker 1: back to Mexico for the first time. Uh, the UK

1108
01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:35,440
Speaker 1: is going to have their three games, and of course

1109
01:03:35,680 --> 01:03:37,920
Speaker 1: Berlin and this is gonna go home for four more years.

1110
01:03:38,600 --> 01:03:40,280
Speaker 1: How what are your thoughts on the new game on

1111
01:03:40,320 --> 01:03:43,360
Speaker 1: the extra weekend, the new you know, the the seventeenth

1112
01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:45,600
Speaker 1: game as a regular season, and how what that means

1113
01:03:45,640 --> 01:03:51,080
Speaker 1: to expanding some opportunities overseas. Yeah, I think I think

1114
01:03:51,120 --> 01:03:54,960
Speaker 1: that's that inventory only helps. And I think what's what

1115
01:03:55,040 --> 01:03:57,560
Speaker 1: it's led me to think is you know what's next?

1116
01:03:57,760 --> 01:04:02,200
Speaker 1: Because yeah, the world is literally the NFL's oyster now

1117
01:04:02,200 --> 01:04:04,240
Speaker 1: and you've got you've got the games in Germany, the

1118
01:04:04,280 --> 01:04:08,800
Speaker 1: games in the UK. Do they look at Paris and France?

1119
01:04:08,840 --> 01:04:11,720
Speaker 1: Do they look at Spain? You know, the teams had

1120
01:04:11,800 --> 01:04:17,120
Speaker 1: the rights and they've used them to market themselves in Australia, Brazil, China.

1121
01:04:17,360 --> 01:04:21,280
Speaker 1: So I'm not suggesting the NFL's about to become a

1122
01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:25,040
Speaker 1: Formula one season where everything is traveling roadshow every week.

1123
01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:29,240
Speaker 1: But I do think the UK kind of showed the way,

1124
01:04:29,560 --> 01:04:33,680
Speaker 1: and I think they've had successful games in Mexico. They'll

1125
01:04:33,720 --> 01:04:37,360
Speaker 1: be a huge success in Germany. All that does is

1126
01:04:37,480 --> 01:04:41,640
Speaker 1: encourage more and more. Because Robert Craft told me a

1127
01:04:41,640 --> 01:04:45,000
Speaker 1: few years back, he said the NFL will eventually tap

1128
01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:47,720
Speaker 1: out in America in terms of popularity, and then we

1129
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:49,880
Speaker 1: have to look overseas. And I think that's what they're

1130
01:04:49,880 --> 01:04:52,920
Speaker 1: starting to do. Yeah, and I think most of us

1131
01:04:52,920 --> 01:04:55,560
Speaker 1: would agree. We're probably not far off from what will

1132
01:04:55,560 --> 01:04:59,640
Speaker 1: eventually be an eighteen game regular season schedule. All probably

1133
01:04:59,640 --> 01:05:04,680
Speaker 1: just too preseason games, so that'll present even more international

1134
01:05:04,720 --> 01:05:07,919
Speaker 1: inventory to choose from. And at that point in time,

1135
01:05:07,960 --> 01:05:11,360
Speaker 1: once you get to eighteen game season, I think logic

1136
01:05:11,400 --> 01:05:15,400
Speaker 1: would say you're probably going to have two bye weeks,

1137
01:05:15,520 --> 01:05:19,080
Speaker 1: perhaps for every team, And so when you have the

1138
01:05:19,160 --> 01:05:22,480
Speaker 1: bye week to play with on the back end, you

1139
01:05:22,520 --> 01:05:26,040
Speaker 1: can have teams arguably play as many as two international

1140
01:05:26,120 --> 01:05:28,640
Speaker 1: games a year if you give them the bye week

1141
01:05:28,680 --> 01:05:33,080
Speaker 1: on the back side to account for travel and recovery. Yeah,

1142
01:05:33,160 --> 01:05:35,000
Speaker 1: I think I totally agree, and I think we're not

1143
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:36,720
Speaker 1: going to see this plateau. We're not going to see

1144
01:05:36,720 --> 01:05:38,960
Speaker 1: it go backwards for a number of years. I see

1145
01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:42,720
Speaker 1: this just continue to grow. And like I said, I

1146
01:05:42,720 --> 01:05:45,240
Speaker 1: think the fans. I think the fans deserve it, you know.

1147
01:05:45,280 --> 01:05:47,920
Speaker 1: I think the fan base here in the UK is

1148
01:05:47,960 --> 01:05:50,880
Speaker 1: certainly very very passionate, and it's the same in Germany.

1149
01:05:50,920 --> 01:05:54,720
Speaker 1: And I'm sure again two thousand and seven it was

1150
01:05:54,760 --> 01:05:58,560
Speaker 1: a passionate fan base here. But it's grown ridiculously since

1151
01:05:58,600 --> 01:06:01,400
Speaker 1: we had the first regular season. So what happens when

1152
01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:04,640
Speaker 1: you switch on that tap in Australia and China and

1153
01:06:05,400 --> 01:06:13,120
Speaker 1: Japan and you go around the world, it's actually you

1154
01:06:13,200 --> 01:06:18,200
Speaker 1: can you could really paint a global league Eventually. I

1155
01:06:18,240 --> 01:06:19,800
Speaker 1: don't know if that will ever be the case, but

1156
01:06:20,520 --> 01:06:23,800
Speaker 1: you're certainly not laughed out of town if you're saying, Okay,

1157
01:06:23,800 --> 01:06:25,240
Speaker 1: I think there's going to be a London team. I

1158
01:06:25,240 --> 01:06:27,320
Speaker 1: think there'll be a German team now, you know. Okay,

1159
01:06:27,360 --> 01:06:29,480
Speaker 1: well maybe they'll put two in London. They'll have one

1160
01:06:29,480 --> 01:06:33,160
Speaker 1: in Frankfurt, one in Munich. There's a division. Yeah, it's

1161
01:06:33,200 --> 01:06:36,280
Speaker 1: not as ridiculous as it used to be because we've

1162
01:06:36,320 --> 01:06:39,320
Speaker 1: come so far. Well yeah, and interestingly enough, we'd always

1163
01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:42,320
Speaker 1: said we'd always thought, um, you know, ten years ago

1164
01:06:42,360 --> 01:06:44,400
Speaker 1: fifteen years ago, and even back in the nineteen ninety

1165
01:06:44,440 --> 01:06:47,440
Speaker 1: ninets when I played a game in Olympic Stadium in

1166
01:06:47,480 --> 01:06:51,360
Speaker 1: Berlin and also in Wembley i played, and so the

1167
01:06:51,440 --> 01:06:53,280
Speaker 1: games go back a long time. We were thought, Wow,

1168
01:06:53,320 --> 01:06:54,680
Speaker 1: what would it be like to have a team in

1169
01:06:54,720 --> 01:07:00,600
Speaker 1: London or like that. Now it seems more likely that

1170
01:07:00,720 --> 01:07:03,840
Speaker 1: what will happen is it won't be one team in Europe.

1171
01:07:03,880 --> 01:07:08,080
Speaker 1: It'll be five teams in Europe, six teams or four

1172
01:07:08,120 --> 01:07:11,000
Speaker 1: teams in Europe. That'll be like in all those in

1173
01:07:11,400 --> 01:07:16,439
Speaker 1: Berlin and Madrid, in Paris, in London, and it will

1174
01:07:16,480 --> 01:07:19,480
Speaker 1: be an expansion unlike anything the league's ever seen. I

1175
01:07:19,480 --> 01:07:22,480
Speaker 1: think it will be. That seems more likely to me

1176
01:07:22,640 --> 01:07:27,360
Speaker 1: now than one team sprinkled in somewhere over there, right.

1177
01:07:27,720 --> 01:07:30,760
Speaker 1: I mean, I know it's and people say this to me,

1178
01:07:30,800 --> 01:07:35,400
Speaker 1: and it's kind of fanciful, but I don't think. I

1179
01:07:35,440 --> 01:07:39,080
Speaker 1: don't think it's that big a leap from where we

1180
01:07:39,120 --> 01:07:43,120
Speaker 1: are now to that compared to when we had no

1181
01:07:43,240 --> 01:07:46,120
Speaker 1: games to where we've got to. I feel like I

1182
01:07:46,120 --> 01:07:49,320
Speaker 1: feel like the journey's a lot of the journeys already

1183
01:07:49,360 --> 01:07:54,280
Speaker 1: well underway. So yeah, very exciting, very exciting times. And

1184
01:07:54,920 --> 01:07:58,920
Speaker 1: you know, I think I think that sometimes the pushback

1185
01:07:58,960 --> 01:08:00,920
Speaker 1: I get from fans of America, of course, is oh,

1186
01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:04,000
Speaker 1: you're taking one of our games away. But a lot

1187
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:06,400
Speaker 1: of the times the teams that come over to play

1188
01:08:06,440 --> 01:08:10,560
Speaker 1: in the UK don't sell out their stadiums, you know.

1189
01:08:10,640 --> 01:08:14,720
Speaker 1: They that's just the harsh reality. Sometimes their stadiums are

1190
01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:17,559
Speaker 1: empty on Sundays or half empty. They're not when they

1191
01:08:17,600 --> 01:08:21,280
Speaker 1: come and play in London. And that may rub some

1192
01:08:21,360 --> 01:08:24,679
Speaker 1: people the wrong way, But I still feel that proofs

1193
01:08:24,720 --> 01:08:28,639
Speaker 1: that we deserve games here. We deserve to have NFL football.

1194
01:08:28,720 --> 01:08:31,800
Speaker 1: Geography shouldn't be a barrier for us, and then just

1195
01:08:32,720 --> 01:08:36,800
Speaker 1: for fans stateside, can you just paint a picture for us?

1196
01:08:36,920 --> 01:08:44,280
Speaker 1: Neil As to the UK fan affiliation, have we reached

1197
01:08:44,280 --> 01:08:46,559
Speaker 1: a point? Maybe it's always been this way, so pardon

1198
01:08:46,560 --> 01:08:51,920
Speaker 1: the ignorance, But has has the UK fan base just

1199
01:08:52,120 --> 01:08:57,320
Speaker 1: been NFL fans in general they'll watch anybody play, or

1200
01:08:57,960 --> 01:09:01,200
Speaker 1: has it matured and developed to the point where UK

1201
01:09:01,360 --> 01:09:08,960
Speaker 1: fans have settled into hardcore singular team affiliations. Oh they're

1202
01:09:09,040 --> 01:09:12,360
Speaker 1: very they're very very hardcore. Yeah. I mean you still

1203
01:09:12,360 --> 01:09:16,160
Speaker 1: have people that will watch Red Zone. They're on Sky

1204
01:09:16,200 --> 01:09:18,599
Speaker 1: Sports of course we bring different games every week, which

1205
01:09:18,640 --> 01:09:21,519
Speaker 1: showing five live games a week, three on a Sunday night,

1206
01:09:22,080 --> 01:09:24,599
Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football, Monday Night football. So people are tuning

1207
01:09:24,680 --> 01:09:27,800
Speaker 1: in to watch generic games no matter who it is.

1208
01:09:27,840 --> 01:09:30,519
Speaker 1: But then there is a there are people that like

1209
01:09:30,560 --> 01:09:32,519
Speaker 1: watching Red Zone because they want to be all around

1210
01:09:32,560 --> 01:09:35,400
Speaker 1: the league. But make no mistake, there are people that

1211
01:09:35,479 --> 01:09:37,599
Speaker 1: just watch game Pass because they only want to watch

1212
01:09:37,680 --> 01:09:41,320
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. They don't, so they are they are

1213
01:09:41,400 --> 01:09:48,439
Speaker 1: really dialed in, really really passionate about their teams. And yeah,

1214
01:09:48,479 --> 01:09:50,200
Speaker 1: I think that's only going to I think that will

1215
01:09:50,240 --> 01:09:52,519
Speaker 1: continue to grow with That's why I think these teams

1216
01:09:52,560 --> 01:09:55,200
Speaker 1: that are looking to market themselves here they kind of

1217
01:09:55,240 --> 01:09:59,200
Speaker 1: see an opportunity to get in and to maybe turn

1218
01:09:59,400 --> 01:10:03,000
Speaker 1: a lot of the UK into Vikings fans or Jets

1219
01:10:03,080 --> 01:10:05,920
Speaker 1: fans or Dolphins fans. That's that's kind of why they're

1220
01:10:05,920 --> 01:10:08,599
Speaker 1: looking at it. But what would you do that I'm

1221
01:10:08,640 --> 01:10:10,320
Speaker 1: sorry I didn't mean to interrupt, Neil, but what would

1222
01:10:10,360 --> 01:10:13,080
Speaker 1: you consider the top three fan affiliations in the UK

1223
01:10:13,280 --> 01:10:16,120
Speaker 1: which teams are the most popular? It does it very

1224
01:10:16,200 --> 01:10:20,000
Speaker 1: year to year to team. You're allowed to throw stuff

1225
01:10:20,040 --> 01:10:22,479
Speaker 1: at me as I say this, So Number one is

1226
01:10:22,520 --> 01:10:28,479
Speaker 1: probably the Patriots. Yeah, um, just because of number twelve

1227
01:10:28,520 --> 01:10:31,160
Speaker 1: for so many years, then I would then I would

1228
01:10:31,160 --> 01:10:33,400
Speaker 1: say teams like the forty nine Ers and Dolphins are

1229
01:10:33,479 --> 01:10:37,320
Speaker 1: very sensibly targets in the UK. You know, our first

1230
01:10:37,360 --> 01:10:40,599
Speaker 1: go around before we had the regular season games was

1231
01:10:41,120 --> 01:10:45,120
Speaker 1: the eighties, or when Steve would have played in the

1232
01:10:45,200 --> 01:10:49,519
Speaker 1: game at Wembley in the early nineties. I think it

1233
01:10:49,560 --> 01:10:51,320
Speaker 1: was ninety one. I think it was that that one

1234
01:10:51,400 --> 01:10:55,160
Speaker 1: the Bills played in. Then you know it was Dan

1235
01:10:55,240 --> 01:10:58,679
Speaker 1: Marino and it was it was Joe Montana, then Steve Young.

1236
01:10:59,120 --> 01:11:03,160
Speaker 1: So those teams are very popular as well. There is

1237
01:11:03,200 --> 01:11:05,960
Speaker 1: a there is a decent Bills fan base in the

1238
01:11:06,040 --> 01:11:10,960
Speaker 1: UK because I think especially if we love an underdog,

1239
01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:13,080
Speaker 1: and the Bills kind of grew on us as a

1240
01:11:13,080 --> 01:11:16,160
Speaker 1: as a nation with those Super Bowls year after year

1241
01:11:16,200 --> 01:11:19,679
Speaker 1: after year in the early nineties. So yeah, those teams

1242
01:11:19,680 --> 01:11:22,759
Speaker 1: that were kind of popular in the late eighties early nineties,

1243
01:11:22,760 --> 01:11:25,479
Speaker 1: there's still a factor in the UK today. And then

1244
01:11:26,600 --> 01:11:28,719
Speaker 1: you've had all the kind of glory hunters we've jumped

1245
01:11:28,720 --> 01:11:34,120
Speaker 1: on the Patriots bandwagon. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Well, one last thing,

1246
01:11:34,479 --> 01:11:36,320
Speaker 1: any predictions for the Super Bowl? What do you, how

1247
01:11:36,360 --> 01:11:40,400
Speaker 1: do you think the game's going to come out? Well,

1248
01:11:40,400 --> 01:11:43,360
Speaker 1: I'll say this, and I think this playoff series proved it.

1249
01:11:43,439 --> 01:11:46,360
Speaker 1: This regular season proved it. We think we know and

1250
01:11:46,479 --> 01:11:48,559
Speaker 1: we talk like we know, but we just don't know.

1251
01:11:48,880 --> 01:11:50,559
Speaker 1: We don't know what's going to happen from week to

1252
01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:53,080
Speaker 1: week in the NFL. I'm gonna say Rams. I feel

1253
01:11:53,080 --> 01:11:55,400
Speaker 1: like I feel like it would be a close game,

1254
01:11:56,160 --> 01:11:58,800
Speaker 1: and I think the Rams will win, maybe twenty seven,

1255
01:11:58,960 --> 01:12:02,920
Speaker 1: twenty four. If it's not a close game, I think

1256
01:12:02,920 --> 01:12:05,439
Speaker 1: the Rams win, but it means Aaron Donald and Von

1257
01:12:05,520 --> 01:12:09,240
Speaker 1: Miller have completely taken over and destroyed all hopes for

1258
01:12:09,320 --> 01:12:11,519
Speaker 1: Joe Burrows. So I'm going Rams and hoping it's a

1259
01:12:11,560 --> 01:12:14,479
Speaker 1: close one. Yeah. Kind of makes you wonder if you know,

1260
01:12:14,960 --> 01:12:18,160
Speaker 1: we're looking at another pass rush like the Seahawks had

1261
01:12:18,200 --> 01:12:21,720
Speaker 1: against Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos, which was not

1262
01:12:21,760 --> 01:12:24,000
Speaker 1: a very entertaining game. What was that forty three to

1263
01:12:24,160 --> 01:12:26,160
Speaker 1: eight or something that was awful? Hope? I don't want

1264
01:12:26,200 --> 01:12:29,760
Speaker 1: that or the Bucks last year against Mahomes. Yeah, right,

1265
01:12:30,400 --> 01:12:32,720
Speaker 1: for his life, right, Yeah, let's hope it's not that.

1266
01:12:32,960 --> 01:12:36,120
Speaker 1: Thank you, Neil. Neil appreciate the time as always, good

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Speaker 1: luck staying up for this, right because it's pretty late

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Speaker 1: for you. You You got the kickoff as well, twelve thirty am.

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Speaker 1: So no, so we're on eleven Sports NFL. I'll be

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Speaker 1: hosting from ten o'clock. We've got Klais Campbell, Kirk Cousins,

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Speaker 1: Warren Moon or our guests Brian Boarding as with us,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, we go on there at ten kickoffs at

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01:12:54,760 --> 01:12:59,479
Speaker 1: eleventh thirty. I'll crawl into beds some time around four am,

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Speaker 1: but I'll be happy, man, All right, good enough, Thanks Neil,

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Speaker 1: enjoy it all. That's Neil Reynolds from the NFL UK

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01:13:08,680 --> 01:13:12,760
Speaker 1: and from Sky Sports. Basically is uh covering the league

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01:13:12,800 --> 01:13:15,760
Speaker 1: wall to wall for all the UK fans on the

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01:13:15,800 --> 01:13:18,160
Speaker 1: other side of the pond, and we love having him

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01:13:18,160 --> 01:13:19,840
Speaker 1: on checking in with him. He gives us a nice

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01:13:20,200 --> 01:13:24,080
Speaker 1: international perspective and it's headed that way man, I mean

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01:13:24,120 --> 01:13:27,080
Speaker 1: we I think he's right. I think we are. I

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01:13:27,080 --> 01:13:29,479
Speaker 1: don't know how far into the future, but I think

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01:13:29,479 --> 01:13:32,839
Speaker 1: we will eventually get to a point where we're looking

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01:13:32,920 --> 01:13:36,800
Speaker 1: at a European division. I think that's the first step

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01:13:36,880 --> 01:13:40,799
Speaker 1: to international play on a regular basis with teams located.

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01:13:41,000 --> 01:13:45,600
Speaker 1: That's the that's the you know the logical step. I

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01:13:45,640 --> 01:13:47,560
Speaker 1: don't think they'll go I don't think they'll go to

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Speaker 1: the Pacific RIM or South America. UM a little bit

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01:13:51,880 --> 01:13:55,720
Speaker 1: longer flight, right, Well for some of the cities, Yeah,

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01:13:55,760 --> 01:13:58,439
Speaker 1: I mean Mexico City's not that far. But certainly if

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Speaker 1: you go to South Polo or you know, Brazil. Yeah,

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01:14:01,680 --> 01:14:06,000
Speaker 1: and I'm talking Pacific Rim. That's Pacific Ocean. That's yeah,

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01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:08,599
Speaker 1: that's a long way. So yeah, you actually go north

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01:14:08,640 --> 01:14:11,680
Speaker 1: to get there. So it's Hawaii. Hawaii's five hours from California,

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01:14:11,840 --> 01:14:15,000
Speaker 1: so it's a hike. It's a hike. I so I

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01:14:15,040 --> 01:14:20,559
Speaker 1: think you know Paris, Berlin, London, Madrid, Yeah, some of

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Speaker 1: the likely suspects, and you could go to any one

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Speaker 1: of a number of German cities Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt. Yeah,

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01:14:27,680 --> 01:14:30,720
Speaker 1: Neil mentioned dusldor if I forgot the team too, I

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01:14:30,840 --> 01:14:33,760
Speaker 1: forgot about that. Before we go to break here, we

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01:14:33,840 --> 01:14:36,720
Speaker 1: do want to update you. It is official now. Linebacker

1302
01:14:36,800 --> 01:14:41,519
Speaker 1: Tyrrell Dotson, Buffalo's exclusive rights free agent, has resigned and

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01:14:41,600 --> 01:14:44,439
Speaker 1: it's a one year contract. So Tyrell Dotson will be

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01:14:44,479 --> 01:14:47,439
Speaker 1: back in the fold on the roster next season. We

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01:14:47,479 --> 01:14:49,040
Speaker 1: have to take a break here but when we come back,

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01:14:49,080 --> 01:14:50,920
Speaker 1: more of your phone calls on your best super Bowl

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01:14:50,960 --> 01:14:53,479
Speaker 1: memory Open lines for you at eight oh three five fifty,

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01:14:53,600 --> 01:14:56,160
Speaker 1: and some more of your comments on the tweet sheets

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01:14:56,160 --> 01:14:58,000
Speaker 1: coming up next year. On One Bills Live, presented by

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01:14:58,000 --> 01:15:23,080
Speaker 1: Collatta Health, This is Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome

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01:15:23,120 --> 01:15:25,519
Speaker 1: back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve tasking with you,

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01:15:26,400 --> 01:15:29,160
Speaker 1: asking you for your best Super Bowl memories. Could be

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01:15:29,160 --> 01:15:32,160
Speaker 1: anything under the sun in all previous fifty five super Bowls,

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01:15:32,560 --> 01:15:35,080
Speaker 1: or something around Super Bowl Week that you remember if

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01:15:35,080 --> 01:15:37,479
Speaker 1: you happen to travel to one Open line for you

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Speaker 1: At eight o three oh five fifty. We go to

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Speaker 1: John in Buffalo. Next, John, what do you have for us?

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Speaker 1: You're on one Bills Live. Yeah, yeah, you can you

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01:15:44,280 --> 01:15:48,000
Speaker 1: hear me? Yeah? Go ahead? Okay. First of all, Steve,

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01:15:48,120 --> 01:15:50,360
Speaker 1: you should be in the Pro Bowl or you should

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01:15:50,400 --> 01:15:53,200
Speaker 1: be in the Fame. It's been. It's been to seven

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01:15:53,240 --> 01:15:55,160
Speaker 1: of them. I was gonna sec you don't get any

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01:15:55,160 --> 01:16:02,360
Speaker 1: respect special teams. Secondly, um, I've been up a season

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01:16:02,400 --> 01:16:05,599
Speaker 1: ticket holder. I was the second season ticket holder from

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01:16:05,640 --> 01:16:09,080
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty to sixty eight. Sixty year. I couldn't because

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01:16:09,080 --> 01:16:12,439
Speaker 1: I was in Vietnam, and in Vietnam, I listened to

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01:16:12,720 --> 01:16:15,360
Speaker 1: tapes that were sent to me from Buffalo to the

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01:16:15,439 --> 01:16:18,920
Speaker 1: radio broadcasts of the games with I think it was

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01:16:19,040 --> 01:16:22,640
Speaker 1: Van Miller that game. The only team we beat that

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01:16:22,720 --> 01:16:26,040
Speaker 1: whole year was the Jets, and that allowed us to

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01:16:26,560 --> 01:16:30,960
Speaker 1: draft oj And at that time, the Bills and the

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01:16:31,160 --> 01:16:35,439
Speaker 1: American Football League got absolutely no respect. They were treated

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Speaker 1: as second class. Vince Lombardi said, well, they're sort of

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01:16:39,400 --> 01:16:42,720
Speaker 1: a minor league team. And before I go on to

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01:16:42,760 --> 01:16:44,960
Speaker 1: tell you about the moment, I think both of you

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01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:49,600
Speaker 1: should get the Van Miller Road Award for Outstanding broadcast.

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01:16:49,760 --> 01:16:55,200
Speaker 1: Your program is outstanding. At the end of my tour

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01:16:55,280 --> 01:16:58,320
Speaker 1: in Vietnam, with two days or three days left in country,

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01:16:59,120 --> 01:17:02,000
Speaker 1: on the Armed Force Radio's network, I listened to Joe

1340
01:17:02,080 --> 01:17:06,000
Speaker 1: Namath and the New York Jets beat the Baltimore Colts

1341
01:17:06,360 --> 01:17:09,680
Speaker 1: in the AIRFL finally got the respect it deserved. And

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01:17:09,720 --> 01:17:13,120
Speaker 1: then as an extra happening, I found out that the

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01:17:13,200 --> 01:17:18,519
Speaker 1: Knox Brothers had acquired the Oakland Golden Seals. So when

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01:17:18,560 --> 01:17:22,080
Speaker 1: I landed back in country, I found out the Golden

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01:17:22,120 --> 01:17:25,000
Speaker 1: Seals were playing a game that night, and that's the

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01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:27,280
Speaker 1: first thing I did. I went to that game figuring

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Speaker 1: that the Seals eventually would be the Buffalo team, And

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01:17:31,160 --> 01:17:34,840
Speaker 1: that night I saw the Oakland Seals knock off the

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01:17:35,000 --> 01:17:38,760
Speaker 1: Chicago Blackhawks with Bobby Hall playing. So you guys are

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Speaker 1: outstanding and thanks a lot. Yeah, thanks, wow, John, there's

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01:17:42,040 --> 01:17:45,240
Speaker 1: a lot in that one. Thanks. That's uh that that

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01:17:45,400 --> 01:17:50,600
Speaker 1: was a nice about our show and also all the

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01:17:50,640 --> 01:17:53,559
Speaker 1: other stuff that I'm one of the few. I'm old

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01:17:53,640 --> 01:17:56,960
Speaker 1: enough too, I've met I had met Seymour Norty Knox

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01:17:57,520 --> 01:17:59,240
Speaker 1: when I first got here in eighty six, and I

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01:17:59,320 --> 01:18:02,360
Speaker 1: kind of heard some the old stories about how the

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01:18:02,479 --> 01:18:05,400
Speaker 1: team got to Buffalo and and then it was going

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01:18:05,479 --> 01:18:08,680
Speaker 1: to be an NHL team and all that. It was, um,

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01:18:08,920 --> 01:18:10,320
Speaker 1: some of the other stuff. What else did he said?

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01:18:10,320 --> 01:18:12,519
Speaker 1: The sixty eight broadcast of the Bills game, Well, he

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01:18:12,600 --> 01:18:15,040
Speaker 1: used to have them sent over to him and to listen.

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01:18:15,040 --> 01:18:18,320
Speaker 1: Remember cassette tape, probably cassette tapes, maybe sixty eight. I'm

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01:18:18,400 --> 01:18:21,120
Speaker 1: probably that's a little early. Probably like real to reel,

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01:18:21,280 --> 01:18:24,920
Speaker 1: real to real would be my guess. That takes some

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01:18:25,000 --> 01:18:27,360
Speaker 1: new Van Miller of course. Yeah, we should have asked him.

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01:18:27,360 --> 01:18:29,720
Speaker 1: I would bet real to reel on that. And thank

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01:18:29,760 --> 01:18:31,800
Speaker 1: you by the way, johnp for your service as well. Yes,

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01:18:31,960 --> 01:18:34,839
Speaker 1: that too. Yeah, that was It was a different world

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01:18:35,080 --> 01:18:38,360
Speaker 1: back then, and um, you know the games still be

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01:18:38,400 --> 01:18:41,840
Speaker 1: playing in rock pile, but listening to the Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: on Armed Forces radio, which was really the only way

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Speaker 1: to do it back then. Right, And he came back

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01:18:46,840 --> 01:18:49,080
Speaker 1: in country. He came back in country in Oakland. He

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Speaker 1: saw the Oaklands, he saw him out there play the

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Speaker 1: that's my guess, that's what it sounded like. He came

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01:18:53,400 --> 01:18:55,600
Speaker 1: back in country, got to Oakland, California, went there to

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Speaker 1: see the Seals play because he knew they're going to

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01:18:57,200 --> 01:18:59,240
Speaker 1: be a Buffalo team. I'm going to the Sabers game tonight,

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01:18:59,280 --> 01:19:01,680
Speaker 1: by the way, So and got to see Bobby Hull

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Speaker 1: to boot. I mean, that's welcome him, so I'm beat him. Yeah. Nice,

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01:19:06,560 --> 01:19:08,799
Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. But that's a that's pretty cool story,

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01:19:08,840 --> 01:19:11,519
Speaker 1: thanks John. Yeah, that is a cool story. And he's right.

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01:19:11,640 --> 01:19:13,120
Speaker 1: I mean we were talking about it in the first

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01:19:13,120 --> 01:19:16,760
Speaker 1: hour of the show. Super Bowl three was a league

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01:19:16,880 --> 01:19:23,839
Speaker 1: legitimizer for the AFL. It firmly convinced all of the NFL.

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01:19:24,000 --> 01:19:27,000
Speaker 1: They say, it's like this league's here to stay. It's

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01:19:27,000 --> 01:19:30,200
Speaker 1: not going anywhere, and It's some surmise that it's that

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01:19:30,360 --> 01:19:34,599
Speaker 1: it sped up the process to the merger, and maybe

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01:19:34,600 --> 01:19:36,880
Speaker 1: it very well did. I mean, I'm not old enough

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01:19:36,880 --> 01:19:40,080
Speaker 1: to know that. Um it seems like it did. I mean,

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01:19:40,080 --> 01:19:43,040
Speaker 1: it was heading in that direction, but that probably accelerated.

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01:19:43,200 --> 01:19:45,719
Speaker 1: Think about the landscape and how different it is now.

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01:19:45,960 --> 01:19:49,920
Speaker 1: And because once those once the two leagues merged, there

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01:19:49,920 --> 01:19:52,559
Speaker 1: were good teams, bad teams in both leagues, and there

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01:19:52,640 --> 01:19:58,080
Speaker 1: was just no escaping the the fact that you know,

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01:19:58,520 --> 01:20:01,360
Speaker 1: for a long time the Philadelphia the Philadelphi Eagles stunk

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01:20:01,720 --> 01:20:03,439
Speaker 1: and they couldn't play well. And you know, they were

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01:20:03,439 --> 01:20:05,720
Speaker 1: in the same division with Dallas and the Giant, all

1399
01:20:05,760 --> 01:20:08,519
Speaker 1: these teams, and you get these teams they started to

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01:20:08,560 --> 01:20:12,080
Speaker 1: have their own personality as opposed to everybody, not just

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01:20:12,200 --> 01:20:15,839
Speaker 1: in the NFL versus the AFL. I think once they merged,

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01:20:17,120 --> 01:20:22,000
Speaker 1: it started to grow very quickly. And you know, I've

1403
01:20:22,040 --> 01:20:23,640
Speaker 1: said this a long time. The NFL is one of

1404
01:20:23,640 --> 01:20:26,600
Speaker 1: the despite what we've been talking about some point, you

1405
01:20:26,640 --> 01:20:29,799
Speaker 1: know this week, it's the most well run sports league

1406
01:20:29,880 --> 01:20:35,560
Speaker 1: in the world. I mean, it grows like weeds everywhere.

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Speaker 1: The other thing too, about the AFL is it was

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01:20:37,800 --> 01:20:40,920
Speaker 1: widely known as a far more entertaining league. I mean

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01:20:40,960 --> 01:20:44,040
Speaker 1: a lot more downfield passing, you know, airing it out.

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01:20:44,880 --> 01:20:47,280
Speaker 1: You know. I still remember the Larry Felzer book that

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01:20:47,320 --> 01:20:49,920
Speaker 1: he wrote about the AFL called go Along, Right, because

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01:20:49,960 --> 01:20:52,240
Speaker 1: that's what it was. I mean, they were airing it out.

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01:20:52,280 --> 01:20:55,680
Speaker 1: They were purposely trying to be entertaining, entertaining brand of

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01:20:55,760 --> 01:20:58,839
Speaker 1: football in the NFL at the time, which was mostly

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01:20:59,040 --> 01:21:02,120
Speaker 1: three yards in a cloud of Wellington Mara. And when

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Speaker 1: the league's first merged, how they're going to split up,

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01:21:04,960 --> 01:21:07,880
Speaker 1: who's gonna make money, who's all this? And the brilliance

1418
01:21:08,080 --> 01:21:12,200
Speaker 1: of Pete Roselle to say, listen, we're all in this together.

1419
01:21:13,160 --> 01:21:15,519
Speaker 1: And it was the first time where a league they

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01:21:15,640 --> 01:21:19,000
Speaker 1: pool all the money and split it between all of them,

1421
01:21:19,040 --> 01:21:22,920
Speaker 1: so that Green Bay and Buffalo and New Orleans and Jacksonville.

1422
01:21:23,600 --> 01:21:27,599
Speaker 1: Now Jacksonville can compete with New York and Los Angeles

1423
01:21:27,600 --> 01:21:31,439
Speaker 1: and Chicago and Dallas and Houston, big teams like that,

1424
01:21:31,640 --> 01:21:33,880
Speaker 1: And you can put teams just about anywhere you want

1425
01:21:34,720 --> 01:21:37,240
Speaker 1: knowing that they got a chance to be financially viable

1426
01:21:37,280 --> 01:21:41,000
Speaker 1: and it's the best league on the planet. Back to

1427
01:21:41,080 --> 01:21:44,559
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet where Jeremy says his best Super Bowl

1428
01:21:44,600 --> 01:21:47,519
Speaker 1: memory is when the Packers beat the Steelers. I have

1429
01:21:47,560 --> 01:21:49,760
Speaker 1: a few friends and family that are Steelers fans and

1430
01:21:49,800 --> 01:21:52,720
Speaker 1: just love basking in the sorrow of a loss. They

1431
01:21:52,720 --> 01:21:55,759
Speaker 1: were a spoiled franchise for years and needed some humble

1432
01:21:55,840 --> 01:21:59,200
Speaker 1: pie at the time. That was the Aaron Rodgers Super

1433
01:21:59,280 --> 01:22:02,720
Speaker 1: Bowl win. I think that they beat the Steelers and

1434
01:22:02,920 --> 01:22:09,919
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers only Super Bowl title from Bills, Tom Oh

1435
01:22:10,000 --> 01:22:12,679
Speaker 1: Bills and Bills and Tom. I think these are two

1436
01:22:12,680 --> 01:22:17,120
Speaker 1: separate memories here one watching Super Bowl twenty five on

1437
01:22:17,160 --> 01:22:20,880
Speaker 1: a snowy TV and rural Vermont. For those young kids

1438
01:22:20,880 --> 01:22:23,599
Speaker 1: that don't know what a snowy TV is. That's when

1439
01:22:23,600 --> 01:22:25,879
Speaker 1: you've got the rabbit ears on top of your television

1440
01:22:25,920 --> 01:22:29,760
Speaker 1: set and the quality of your picture is severely compromised

1441
01:22:29,760 --> 01:22:33,559
Speaker 1: by static coming through the signal, So he says, on

1442
01:22:33,600 --> 01:22:36,360
Speaker 1: a snowy TV and rural Vermont, messing with rabbity ears

1443
01:22:36,360 --> 01:22:39,280
Speaker 1: desperate to improve the reception. Could always tell when Thurman

1444
01:22:39,360 --> 01:22:41,360
Speaker 1: was running, well, not so much when Jim was making

1445
01:22:41,400 --> 01:22:45,559
Speaker 1: completion and then the kick up good question marks Still

1446
01:22:45,600 --> 01:22:47,559
Speaker 1: not sure. Can you imagine watching the end of that

1447
01:22:47,640 --> 01:22:51,719
Speaker 1: game on a snowy TV? Holy mackerel. You know what happened.

1448
01:22:51,720 --> 01:22:53,240
Speaker 1: If you think it goes you're jumping around in the

1449
01:22:53,320 --> 01:22:55,400
Speaker 1: room and and the TV goes out because you're jumping

1450
01:22:55,439 --> 01:22:58,839
Speaker 1: around the room and you're moving that you're moving the antenna. Yeah,

1451
01:22:58,960 --> 01:23:02,120
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, that's hilarious. The next year, I was

1452
01:23:02,200 --> 01:23:06,960
Speaker 1: living in Czechoslovakia teaching English, worked my way by hook

1453
01:23:07,000 --> 01:23:10,200
Speaker 1: and crook to the Marine barracks in Vienna. Desperate to

1454
01:23:10,280 --> 01:23:12,519
Speaker 1: find a way to watch the Super Bowl. So he's

1455
01:23:12,520 --> 01:23:15,640
Speaker 1: looking for Armed Forces television. Now I got razzed all

1456
01:23:15,720 --> 01:23:19,080
Speaker 1: night by jarheads chuggin beer. Still upset about the game,

1457
01:23:19,120 --> 01:23:22,960
Speaker 1: but so much fun. Yeah, a lot of it's a

1458
01:23:22,960 --> 01:23:26,559
Speaker 1: lot of the time, especially if you're not stateside. It's

1459
01:23:26,640 --> 01:23:30,240
Speaker 1: personal experience. The lengths you went to to find some

1460
01:23:30,360 --> 01:23:34,200
Speaker 1: kind of broadcast or telecast somewhere to see the game.

1461
01:23:34,320 --> 01:23:36,599
Speaker 1: My oldest brothers got an epic story trying to get

1462
01:23:36,640 --> 01:23:40,479
Speaker 1: to the Oakland Raider playoff game. Not the fifty one

1463
01:23:40,520 --> 01:23:42,479
Speaker 1: to three, but this was the coldest one ever. It

1464
01:23:42,560 --> 01:23:46,720
Speaker 1: was one return at kick and he get in for it.

1465
01:23:46,840 --> 01:23:50,960
Speaker 1: Did you see that flew in flight? Canceled from Chicago

1466
01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:54,160
Speaker 1: to Buffaloso. He goes to LaGuardia from Chicago and they

1467
01:23:54,160 --> 01:23:57,400
Speaker 1: go where nothing's getting into Buffalo. He goes and they said, well,

1468
01:23:57,439 --> 01:23:59,040
Speaker 1: we got a flight to Rochester and he goes, is

1469
01:23:59,040 --> 01:24:02,760
Speaker 1: that closer and he is like, what where is it? Yeah, say,

1470
01:24:02,800 --> 01:24:04,479
Speaker 1: oh yeah, it's really close to it. He goes, okay,

1471
01:24:04,720 --> 01:24:06,479
Speaker 1: give it to me. So he's on the flight to

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01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:08,880
Speaker 1: Rochester and the guy he goes, hey, and they go

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Speaker 1: they go bills and he goes like yeah and they

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01:24:10,840 --> 01:24:12,680
Speaker 1: go yeah, you're going yeah, but I don't have a

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01:24:12,720 --> 01:24:14,080
Speaker 1: right and he goes, hey, we can come with us

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01:24:14,400 --> 01:24:16,800
Speaker 1: two guys. He doesn't know he's in the back of

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01:24:16,840 --> 01:24:20,439
Speaker 1: a van full of two He's like sitting. This is like, yeah,

1478
01:24:20,439 --> 01:24:21,840
Speaker 1: he's sitting in the back of a cool He says,

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01:24:21,840 --> 01:24:24,120
Speaker 1: there's a cage and everything like like and he's sitting

1480
01:24:24,120 --> 01:24:25,920
Speaker 1: there with the rocking with the two stuff hanging from

1481
01:24:25,920 --> 01:24:30,120
Speaker 1: the street. Makes it to the game. There's a picture

1482
01:24:30,160 --> 01:24:34,680
Speaker 1: I have hanging in my house of me, you know,

1483
01:24:34,680 --> 01:24:37,160
Speaker 1: with that kickoff return looking at the piloting after I

1484
01:24:37,200 --> 01:24:39,920
Speaker 1: get tackled by Willie Gould right and back down the

1485
01:24:40,040 --> 01:24:43,679
Speaker 1: sideline back in the dot like four rows behind the bench.

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01:24:43,840 --> 01:24:46,320
Speaker 1: I can pick out my oldest brother. He made it

1487
01:24:46,360 --> 01:24:50,920
Speaker 1: to the game made it so yeah something So that

1488
01:24:51,200 --> 01:24:53,840
Speaker 1: stories like that are awesome to hear from from people

1489
01:24:53,880 --> 01:24:56,320
Speaker 1: because it it does a lot for you because it

1490
01:24:56,760 --> 01:25:00,439
Speaker 1: proves what a fan you are to go through that

1491
01:25:00,560 --> 01:25:02,439
Speaker 1: to go watch the game live and you can't just

1492
01:25:02,479 --> 01:25:04,080
Speaker 1: want to hear you got to hear it and see it,

1493
01:25:04,120 --> 01:25:08,600
Speaker 1: and then two having to get some lucky breaks to

1494
01:25:08,640 --> 01:25:10,680
Speaker 1: make it happen. There's a lot of fun in that.

1495
01:25:10,720 --> 01:25:12,639
Speaker 1: There's a lot of fun in it. Drew says. When

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01:25:12,640 --> 01:25:14,920
Speaker 1: I asked Bruce Smith for his autograph and the lobby

1497
01:25:14,920 --> 01:25:17,559
Speaker 1: of the Embassy Swees in Atlanta the Saturday before the

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01:25:17,600 --> 01:25:20,880
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, not knowing who I was, initially he said

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01:25:21,040 --> 01:25:24,519
Speaker 1: no before Dad walked over and said something to him like,

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01:25:25,000 --> 01:25:30,439
Speaker 1: let's try that again usob Wow, Dad's standing up to Bruce.

1501
01:25:30,520 --> 01:25:36,519
Speaker 1: That's something that was Oh that was Yeah, that's from Drew.

1502
01:25:36,600 --> 01:25:42,520
Speaker 1: Holl okay, so can't son. Drew said, no, that's hilarious.

1503
01:25:42,520 --> 01:25:47,519
Speaker 1: Came over, so yeah, can't, saying let's try that. Yeah, Well,

1504
01:25:47,520 --> 01:25:49,800
Speaker 1: I know those two. Those two let me tell you something,

1505
01:25:49,800 --> 01:25:51,800
Speaker 1: those two loved each other. So I made it right

1506
01:25:52,040 --> 01:25:55,599
Speaker 1: right away because Bruce obviously didn't recognize Drew. Yeah, Christopher says,

1507
01:25:55,640 --> 01:25:58,120
Speaker 1: seeing the Titans come up one yard short of a

1508
01:25:58,240 --> 01:26:03,160
Speaker 1: victory after the illegal four lateral complete poetic justice. So

1509
01:26:03,200 --> 01:26:06,240
Speaker 1: after beating the Bills in the home run throwback game

1510
01:26:06,360 --> 01:26:08,320
Speaker 1: or what some people here refer to his home run

1511
01:26:08,360 --> 01:26:11,600
Speaker 1: throw forward, they come up a yard short. Who was

1512
01:26:11,600 --> 01:26:14,560
Speaker 1: it Kevin Dyson on the last play too, No, it

1513
01:26:14,680 --> 01:26:18,240
Speaker 1: was the other receiver. His name's gonna come to me.

1514
01:26:20,560 --> 01:26:24,280
Speaker 1: I'm not Derek Mason, Yes, thank you, Jay, Derek Mason,

1515
01:26:24,320 --> 01:26:26,080
Speaker 1: I believe was the guy that came up a yard

1516
01:26:26,200 --> 01:26:28,400
Speaker 1: short there at the end of the game, they lose

1517
01:26:28,479 --> 01:26:33,519
Speaker 1: to the Rams. Finally, Chuck says, my memory, I actually

1518
01:26:33,560 --> 01:26:36,080
Speaker 1: didn't see the first Bill Super Bowl as I was

1519
01:26:36,120 --> 01:26:38,840
Speaker 1: in Desert storm and I had bet that the Bills

1520
01:26:38,840 --> 01:26:41,439
Speaker 1: would win. When the score was announced, they said the

1521
01:26:41,479 --> 01:26:45,160
Speaker 1: Bills score first, usually meaning they won, but then the

1522
01:26:45,240 --> 01:26:49,280
Speaker 1: Giants score was announced. I was devastated. So this guy

1523
01:26:49,439 --> 01:26:55,080
Speaker 1: is in desert storm and has relayed the score Buffalo nineteen.

1524
01:26:55,600 --> 01:27:01,680
Speaker 1: He's like Giants twenty. Oh, dear god man, well, and

1525
01:27:01,800 --> 01:27:05,160
Speaker 1: who reads off a score like that person should be

1526
01:27:05,200 --> 01:27:09,720
Speaker 1: punched in the head. That the thing, that word a

1527
01:27:09,760 --> 01:27:11,960
Speaker 1: word that I was looking for was schadenfreud. It's a

1528
01:27:12,000 --> 01:27:15,720
Speaker 1: German word and it means you're taking great pleasure another sorrow. Yeah, right,

1529
01:27:16,400 --> 01:27:22,080
Speaker 1: and that's what people when like friends terrible when when

1530
01:27:23,840 --> 01:27:27,000
Speaker 1: I had a friend who when the Bills beat When

1531
01:27:27,000 --> 01:27:29,960
Speaker 1: the Bills beat the Patriots in the playoffs this last

1532
01:27:30,040 --> 01:27:33,000
Speaker 1: a month ago, and the Bills played an absolutely perfect

1533
01:27:33,080 --> 01:27:36,960
Speaker 1: game and really lit the Patriots up, crushed him and

1534
01:27:37,080 --> 01:27:39,559
Speaker 1: Josh played so well and it was such a great time.

1535
01:27:39,720 --> 01:27:44,479
Speaker 1: My friend the next day tuned into W E I

1536
01:27:44,640 --> 01:27:48,040
Speaker 1: and Boston on the internet just to listen to them

1537
01:27:49,240 --> 01:27:55,840
Speaker 1: and the absolute abject horror of that, and he that

1538
01:27:55,920 --> 01:27:57,439
Speaker 1: was some of that. I could get that from some

1539
01:27:57,479 --> 01:27:59,680
Speaker 1: of the Bills memories that people are, you know, they

1540
01:27:59,680 --> 01:28:01,960
Speaker 1: really the fact that the Titans cheated to beat the

1541
01:28:02,000 --> 01:28:05,080
Speaker 1: Bills and then got beat in the Yeah, poetic justice.

1542
01:28:05,080 --> 01:28:06,880
Speaker 1: A little bit of that going on, for sure. We

1543
01:28:06,880 --> 01:28:10,440
Speaker 1: step aside here, but when we come back, a noteworthy

1544
01:28:10,520 --> 01:28:13,599
Speaker 1: anniversary that we'll be bringing to your attention. That's next

1545
01:28:13,640 --> 01:28:29,639
Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live. Stay tuned, all right, Steve.

1546
01:28:30,080 --> 01:28:32,840
Speaker 1: Sometimes we drift off into other areas. Yesterday we were

1547
01:28:32,880 --> 01:28:35,240
Speaker 1: talking about dogs and their level of intelligence and how

1548
01:28:35,240 --> 01:28:39,720
Speaker 1: many words they understand. Today is the forty fourth anniversary

1549
01:28:40,080 --> 01:28:43,920
Speaker 1: of the release of Van Halen One, an album that

1550
01:28:44,120 --> 01:28:50,120
Speaker 1: revolutionized what rock guitar was. And I know you you've

1551
01:28:50,160 --> 01:28:52,280
Speaker 1: met ed you were fortunate enough to have met Eddie

1552
01:28:52,320 --> 01:28:55,200
Speaker 1: van Halen, who was a good friend Jim Kelly's. But yeah,

1553
01:28:55,240 --> 01:28:58,080
Speaker 1: and in his passing and we had that conversation and

1554
01:28:58,200 --> 01:28:59,879
Speaker 1: he gave me one of the all time great experience

1555
01:29:00,120 --> 01:29:03,960
Speaker 1: is ever musician watching a guy be a musician, And

1556
01:29:04,120 --> 01:29:09,000
Speaker 1: uh yeah, that van Halen's one of you know, I

1557
01:29:09,080 --> 01:29:11,360
Speaker 1: was born in sixty two, so that eighties when I

1558
01:29:11,400 --> 01:29:14,920
Speaker 1: was writing my Wheelhouse with you know, yeah, good stuff,

1559
01:29:15,040 --> 01:29:17,760
Speaker 1: unbelievable album. What you know long there's a lot of

1560
01:29:17,760 --> 01:29:20,840
Speaker 1: water under that bridge now that certified platinum. There was

1561
01:29:20,880 --> 01:29:23,719
Speaker 1: a special one and I was a little too young

1562
01:29:23,840 --> 01:29:25,800
Speaker 1: to catch on when that stuff was coming out, but

1563
01:29:25,880 --> 01:29:29,080
Speaker 1: I came to respect it later. They're my number one,

1564
01:29:29,160 --> 01:29:31,519
Speaker 1: so cool album. I'm gonna listen to it on the

1565
01:29:31,560 --> 01:29:35,320
Speaker 1: way home. We will see you tomorrow. One o'clock is

1566
01:29:35,360 --> 01:29:37,960
Speaker 1: the time. It's an obl Fan Friday mail bag. Get

1567
01:29:38,000 --> 01:29:38,640
Speaker 1: your questions in