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Speaker 1: Mike Keith and Amy Wells Welcome. Hello, How are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm ready to go see the commanders? Yes, I am

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Speaker 1: ready to go see the commanders. How many times have

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Speaker 1: you said not commanders and something else? Anything else? They've

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Speaker 1: had a series of names. I don't know that I

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Speaker 1: have yet. I'm sure I will. Yeah, now that you've

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Speaker 1: jinxed me, thank you. Oh, I didn't mean to I would,

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Speaker 1: but clearly we can. Well, but you have to be intentional.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's the thing because it doesn't just roll

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Speaker 1: off the tongue I have found in you and I

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Speaker 1: were watching their program. They have a show called Command Central,

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Speaker 1: which is really good, by the way, it is really

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Speaker 1: they do some really good things. And in watching their

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Speaker 1: their television program Command Central with Julie Donaldson, it's really good,

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Speaker 1: and you made the point you can do a lot

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Speaker 1: of things with command Yeah, it is. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: it's a marketing dream in terms of it's an action

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Speaker 1: word exciting. Sure, you think about superheroes and like you're

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Speaker 1: in command. It's a powerful word. It is a powerful

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Speaker 1: you can do a lot of stuff with it. So

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Speaker 1: in that regard, I think it's good. I think it

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Speaker 1: also kind of has like a Marvel superhero kind of

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Speaker 1: vibe to it that I don't love. But a lot

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Speaker 1: of that is I mean, it's clearly not bad. Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's definitely not bad. And sometimes pigeons or something, well,

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Speaker 1: but sometimes when you get into this, you're just looking

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Speaker 1: for the one that's down the middle. Yeah, because it

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Speaker 1: doesn't offend yea. And certainly, you know, they went through

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Speaker 1: all of that. They were certainly looking for down the

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Speaker 1: middle and not offend. And some of the other names

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Speaker 1: they had, and we talked about this on Titans tonight

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Speaker 1: with Keith Bullock, the Federals, Admirals, the Armada, you know,

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Speaker 1: some of the other names that were out there were

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Speaker 1: very down the middle. Well, it is an interesting thing

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Speaker 1: because they kind of had to crowdsource a bunch of

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Speaker 1: different names. And I'm sure you wouldn't know this better

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Speaker 1: than I would, having been through the naming of a

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Speaker 1: football team before, I would imagine that the amount of

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Speaker 1: work that you have to do to just find even

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Speaker 1: a couple choices that will probably work. Has got to

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Speaker 1: be just a heavy list. So I was not in

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Speaker 1: the room for all of that, but I did go

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Speaker 1: through it because my first day on the job made

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Speaker 1: twenty six, nineteen ninety eight, they took me to a

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Speaker 1: meeting with a PR agency that we were working with,

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Speaker 1: and I had just come out of hosting a talk

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Speaker 1: show every day for nine years, and they said, as

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Speaker 1: you talk to your listeners, what was the big topic

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Speaker 1: with the oilers? I said, changing the name, because mister

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Speaker 1: Adams said he was going to change the name, and

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Speaker 1: then there were some who thought he was backing up

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Speaker 1: on that, that he was going to keep it, that

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Speaker 1: he was comfortable with the Tennessee oilers, and that upset people.

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Speaker 1: Now he never said that, but when he didn't seem

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Speaker 1: because they all said the same thing, there's no oil

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Speaker 1: in Tennessee, which is actually not true. Tennessee is the eleventh,

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Speaker 1: or at that time was the eleventh most oil producing

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Speaker 1: state in the United States. Makes the top fifteen not

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Speaker 1: prob You remember how the Clampets got to Beverly Hills

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Speaker 1: through oil. Yes, yeah, they loaded up the truck and

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Speaker 1: went to Beverly. That was fictional. We don't need to

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Speaker 1: sing no, we don't, and I won't. But the thing is,

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Speaker 1: there is oil in Tennessee. But people said, we want

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Speaker 1: age that they could be a wonderful club sandwich and chip,

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Speaker 1: and we're having the meal and he looks at the

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Speaker 1: true story and my first day on the job, and

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Speaker 1: the guy looks at me again. He goes, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're aware of that. He goes, talk about some other issues.

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Speaker 1: I go, there are no other issues, and the guy

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Speaker 1: if you want me to tell you the truth, this

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Speaker 1: is the reason that when Amy Adams Strunk in the

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Speaker 1: last two to three years has brought back all the

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Speaker 1: oiler part of our history. It really took that long

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Speaker 1: because we were told very early on, once it became

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Speaker 1: up oilers. People don't want to hear this, They don't

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Speaker 1: anything like that, which is why to me, as a

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Speaker 1: many people are now wearing the Oiler's gear again. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because I, like I said, I have a whole bunch

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Speaker 1: and basically never bring it up because what they found

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Speaker 1: is what I told this gentleman over the club Sandwhich

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Speaker 1: it was a it was a big thing that people

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Speaker 1: another name. So the commissioner, Poltagliabu convinced mister Adams that

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Speaker 1: he could retain the Oiler's history and retire the name,

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Speaker 1: and that all of the history stayed with the franchise,

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Speaker 1: and we picked a new name. And it was a thing.

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Speaker 1: It took it, you know, it was a thing. And

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Speaker 1: that's why if you pick up our record book, Warren

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Speaker 1: Moon's still in our record book is the leading passer,

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Speaker 1: and Earl Campbell is still in our record book and

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Speaker 1: all the because they are still part of our history.

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Speaker 1: It's like we say, our friend Keith Bullock, he is

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Speaker 1: the leading Tackler in Titans history, but not in not

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Speaker 1: in franchise history. Yes, because our franchise still dates back

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Speaker 1: to nineteen sixty. The Baltimore Ravens are the Cleveland Browns technically, right,

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Speaker 1: they left Baltimore, or they left Cleveland to become the

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Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens. Part of the agreement was they would leave

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Speaker 1: the history behind, knowing that there would be another incarnation

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Speaker 1: of the Cleveland Browns, which they are now. It's very confusing,

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Speaker 1: but it's interesting that you can negotiate for your own past,

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Speaker 1: if that makes sense. Well, I think the commissioner knew

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Speaker 1: this was such a big deal, and he was starting

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Speaker 1: to think that if they didn't overcome this hurdle, it

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Speaker 1: pr wise it would be hard to get off the

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Speaker 1: ground with the fan base. Because we in this part

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Speaker 1: of the country want things that are ours. We embrace

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Speaker 1: the I mean, it's like the Grand Ole Opry is

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Speaker 1: ours very and we are very passionate. And even if

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Speaker 1: if someone here teases about something in regards to country music,

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Speaker 1: or I make a remark about the clamp, it's a

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Speaker 1: moment ago I can say that, but no one else.

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Speaker 1: But but if somebody in New York says it, or

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, yeah, I'm not saying they'll have a fight,

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Speaker 1: but they might. But that but that's part. That's part

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Speaker 1: of our culture here is we are very much family,

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Speaker 1: right it is. It is tight knit and people from

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Speaker 1: around the country as they have come in here have

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Speaker 1: noticed that over the years. Yeah, and so when we

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Speaker 1: became the Titans, we became this region's team. It was

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Speaker 1: almost immediate. They had that and we went to the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, which which helps all. I had the Music

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Speaker 1: City Miracle, yes, but it took a minute to get

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Speaker 1: to Titans too. I was gonna ask, I mean, you've

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Speaker 1: really gotta siphon through a lot of different suggestions, was

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Speaker 1: there what do you do? Do you accept ideas well?

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Speaker 1: They nominations? Yes and no. Are you given nominations you

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Speaker 1: don't want? You are given nominations? But there are a

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Speaker 1: lot of things that kind of fit together. I'll give

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Speaker 1: you an example of a strange quirk in history. So

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Speaker 1: when the team announced they were leaving Houston and moving

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Speaker 1: to Tennessee, I was immediately interested in anything they did

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Speaker 1: because I'm from here. I was thrilled we were getting

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Speaker 1: a team, having no idea I would ever work for him.

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Speaker 1: I did a TV show at that time, and I

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Speaker 1: did my TV show and he had a complete design

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Speaker 1: of the Tennessee Copperheads. And so the design was a

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Speaker 1: green uniform with gold stripes. All of these sorts of things,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the helmet and the whole thing. He had

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Speaker 1: done a complete mock up of all of it. And

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Speaker 1: so it was a name, and I gave him publicity.

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Speaker 1: I said, I think this is interesting. I think how

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Speaker 1: they picked the name will be interesting again, having no

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Speaker 1: idea that less than two years later I would be,

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Speaker 1: you know, involved with the franchise. So that was a

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Speaker 1: name that got through the first I mean it went

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Speaker 1: to It had traction. Some will say it was the

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Speaker 1: most popular name Opperheads when the well now here me out.

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Speaker 1: Some will say it was the most popular name when

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Speaker 1: they did the audience survey. But I do know it

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Speaker 1: was also the most unpopular names. People don't like snakes, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: mister Adams like Pioneers. It was really decided very quickly

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Speaker 1: the Davy Crockett character. He liked that of course because

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Speaker 1: Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Sam Houston, they're all from Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I realized that. Oh yes, they're all

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Speaker 1: from East Tennessee. Okay, so yeah, I can't. I'm tracking

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Speaker 1: the connection. Branding of that would be just it would

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Speaker 1: and it just didn't I mean, it was way way

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Speaker 1: too close. Thunder was a name that had a lot

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Speaker 1: so they kind of kept going back and forth on

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Speaker 1: a few other things. And Titans was one. Mister Adams

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Speaker 1: like Titans, Nashville being the Athens of the South, and

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Speaker 1: so the Greek tie into it was interesting. And the

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Speaker 1: New York Jets were originally the New York Titans, so

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Speaker 1: they had to agree to give that name to us,

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Speaker 1: to turn that over. And they did agree because they're

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Speaker 1: an original AFL team and they are a franchise that

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Speaker 1: mister Adams helped when they were struggling in their early days.

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Speaker 1: He kept them afloat, and so they agreed to they

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Speaker 1: agreed to give us Titans. But in two thousand and nine, okay,

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Speaker 1: you'll love this, we play a throwback game against the Jets.

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Speaker 1: Mark Sanchez is a quarterback. They wear their old New

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Speaker 1: York Titans uniforms and we wear our original nineteen sixties

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Speaker 1: Oilers uniforms with the blue helmet and of that. Well,

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Speaker 1: Titans as the Oilers. Well, that would be confusing, like

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Speaker 1: as a listener, that would be confused. I refused, and

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Speaker 1: some people got upset with me because I said, listen.

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Speaker 1: I said that might work on television because you can

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Speaker 1: see the teams. Radio ain't real visual, right, So you

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Speaker 1: say the Titans do something, and you think the Titans,

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Speaker 1: you would never in a million the Jets. Exactly interesting.

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Speaker 1: So I'm very excited when twenty twenty three or twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four or whenever it happens when we wear the

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Speaker 1: oilers uniforms again, are you gonna whip out all your

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Speaker 1: old Oilers guard? Undoubtedly, because I had. You know, I

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Speaker 1: see people here walking around our offices with the Tennessee

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Speaker 1: Oilers stuff on that. And I've said this on the

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Speaker 1: OTP before. You couldn't give it away in ninety seven

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Speaker 1: presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans. You know, I've really

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Speaker 1: enjoyed myself. I think this is wait a minute, you're

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Speaker 1: on everyone. So I think this has been a good

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Speaker 1: one though, and I'm excited to go play in a

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Speaker 1: place we're not super familiar with. I like Landover Maryland. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna be honest. I haven't spent much time

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Speaker 1: in Landover Maryland. I was nearly born there, really, yes,

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Speaker 1: Oh well, it's a shame you missed it. Yes. Um,

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Speaker 1: I like Maryland and I like DC, so I'm sure

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Speaker 1: Landover Maryland is nice. And then bye week. More than

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Speaker 1: you wanted to know, I don't think so enough for

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Speaker 1: Amy Wells, I'm my key. Thanks for joining us for

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