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Speaker 1: thielin the Vikings wide receiver fourteen touchdown receptions this year,
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Speaker 1: playoff teams that he faced during the year. A couple
Speaker 1: of stories here that I wanted to bring to your attention,
Speaker 1: and you know they're kind of off of the main
Speaker 1: headlines here, the main sports pages, But twenty five percent
Speaker 1: of games in the NBA have resulted in twenty point blowouts,
Speaker 1: as nearly twice the opening two week average from each
Speaker 1: season in the last decade. You're seeing a lot of
Speaker 1: blowout games in the NBA. Now, we haven't had a
Speaker 1: significant COVID nineteen outbreak. And this is before the annual
Speaker 1: mid season, you know, malaise, you know, before it really
Speaker 1: starts to become a grind. You're seeing this. I was
Speaker 1: watching the Nets in the seventy sixers. The Nets didn't
Speaker 1: have Katie or Kyrie. They blew out the seventy sixers.
Speaker 1: It feels like there is load management taking place during
Speaker 1: games that you're playing games. You're just load managing, and
Speaker 1: it's almost like you take a night off. Calvin Murphy,
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame broadcaster, Hall of Fame player, broadcaster
Speaker 1: for the Texans, was caught on a hot mic after
Speaker 1: the Rockets, I should say lost a game. So Calvin
Speaker 1: Murphy and NBA Hall of Famer, he's the broadcaster for
Speaker 1: the Rockets, and he was caught on a hot mic
Speaker 1: going to break where he said he quit and he's
Speaker 1: talking about James Harden quitting during the game that they lost.
Speaker 1: I'm not accusing anybody of quitting, but it feels like
Speaker 1: players are taking nights off while they're still in uniform.
Speaker 1: Just something to keep an eye on, and this is
Speaker 1: already a shortened season. If you like getting such with
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Speaker 1: Here was another story. The Los Angeles clubhouse attendant for
Speaker 1: the Angels has named names in pitchers doctoring baseballs. There
Speaker 1: was a text message from Garrett Cole to Brian Harkins.
Speaker 1: Brian Harkins, he gets a text he's the clubhouse guy.
Speaker 1: He was fired by the Angels. Says hey, Bubba's Garrett
Speaker 1: cous wondering if you could help me out with his
Speaker 1: sticky situation, and then in parentheses winky face emoji. We
Speaker 1: don't see you until May, but we have some road
Speaker 1: games in April that are in cold weather places. That
Speaker 1: stuff I had last year seizes up when it gets cold.
Speaker 1: Harkins was fired last March, and he had been there
Speaker 1: for over forty years, and he was providing pictures with
Speaker 1: an illegal blend of rosin and pine tar, which is
Speaker 1: obviously a violation of a rule that's really never strictly
Speaker 1: enforced here. But his attorneys have filed suit against the
Speaker 1: Angels in baseball that was back in August, and the
Speaker 1: defendants filed emotion to dismiss it in early November. But
Speaker 1: he is naming names with some of these players that
Speaker 1: he provided the sticky stuff to this substance that you'll
Speaker 1: find and it's a who's who of great pitchers. The
Speaker 1: clubhouse attendant, Harkins claims Garrett Cole, Justin Verlander, Edwin Jackson,
Speaker 1: Max Scherzer, Felix Hernandez, Corey Kluber, Jaba Chamberlain. Adam Wainwright
Speaker 1: there among the pitchers who previously asked for his specific
Speaker 1: blend of pine tarn rosin, which became popular throughout the
Speaker 1: league when he made it for former closer Troy Percival.
Speaker 1: That was more than twenty years ago. He also names
Speaker 1: current and former Angels players who use this blend, and
Speaker 1: his nickname is Bubba and that's why Garrett Cole said that.
Speaker 1: But he was the visiting clubhouse manager from nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: until his termination in March of twenty twenty. Perceval taught
Speaker 1: him to place rosin, pine tar and mota stick, a
Speaker 1: form of pine tar in the bottom of a soda
Speaker 1: caned melted with a lighter to create the sticky substance
Speaker 1: that would be widely distributed to home and away pictures.
Speaker 1: DA sounds like Walter White is cooking up something here
Speaker 1: and breaking bad. Yeah, Paul. The official rule is no
Speaker 1: player shall intentionally discolor damage the ball by rubbing with soil, rosin, paraffin, licorice, sandpaper,
Speaker 1: emory paper, any other foreign substance. They basically say anything,
Speaker 1: you cannot use spit, you cannot do other things. But
Speaker 1: this year, because they don't want you licking your fingers.
Speaker 1: They allowed you to have a moistened rag in your
Speaker 1: back pocket to squeeze, to get a little wetness for
Speaker 1: a grip. But that's considered natural because it's part of you.
Speaker 1: And there are hitters who I've talked to, former hitters
Speaker 1: they should say, who were fine if somebody need a
Speaker 1: pitcher needed grip, because they would rather that you had
Speaker 1: grip on your breaking ball than not have it, and
Speaker 1: then you throw inside at them. Now, not everybody feels
Speaker 1: that way, but a text message from Justin Verlander and
Speaker 1: notes from a subsequent phone call were also prevented as
Speaker 1: evidence by the former clubhouse attorneys Clubhouse attendance attorneys. In
Speaker 1: a phone call, Verlander, who pitched with Garrett Cole in
Speaker 1: the Astros before Cole left for the Yankees, alleged that
Speaker 1: baseball began to crack down on pitchers use of ball
Speaker 1: doctoring substances when it found out teams were conducting studies
Speaker 1: to concoct more advanced blends to maximize the pitcher's spin rate.
Speaker 1: According to Harkins notes, he used the clubhouse attendant. He
Speaker 1: get a little like boutique in the you know, like
Speaker 1: a little six ounce rosin Jar. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he was selling it at you know, Sephora or something
Speaker 1: like that. I like some moisturizer and uh, can I
Speaker 1: get the stingiest out there? Give me the Troy Perceval
Speaker 1: worked for him with the the emoji wink wink wink. Yes,
Speaker 1: the nicknames clutch, that's interesting. It's Ken Grippy, that's my
Speaker 1: that's a shot, A shot. No, I didn't mean to.
Speaker 1: I didn't mean I should take the rest of the
Speaker 1: segment off. But I can't, Todd, I can't you just
Speaker 1: building off over mcaveg Ken Grippy. I'm still trying to fairy.
Speaker 1: Why would they call him Buba' not the rosinator or
Speaker 1: something like that. You had the inflator? Come on, you
Speaker 1: goat name than that just layout? Dan nailed that one.
Speaker 1: It took a shot layout. Yeah, sometimes you just go hey,
Speaker 1: you know, throw the tally and I take twenty, take
Speaker 1: twenty this segment. Nothing wrong with that. I've been counted out,
Speaker 1: tap Ount. That should be your nickname, tap Ound, Ken Grippy.
Speaker 1: Come on, n have a good name for a store
Speaker 1: for illegal substance for Ken Grippy. Let's see what else
Speaker 1: do we have we got our playoff weekend, and the
Speaker 1: poll question was, if we're gonna pull off a surprise,
Speaker 1: who's pulling off the surprise? The opposite? What's the most
Speaker 1: likely blowout? And it's actually Washington over I'm sorry the
Speaker 1: Bucks over Washington edged out. We need a new question. Well,
Speaker 1: we have this question. It actually comes from a tweet
Speaker 1: from Sam Munson for Pro Football Focus. He said, if
Speaker 1: you're going to have an overall draft in the NFL,
Speaker 1: DeShawn Watson would go number two behind Patrick Mahomes. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure how we would word it, but do we
Speaker 1: agree with that that Deshaun Watson if you're going to
Speaker 1: start a team, he's twenty five years old? Would he
Speaker 1: be the second guy you start with Mahomes? One? DeShawn
Speaker 1: Watson too? Who else is in that mix? Josh Allen, Well,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, Am I getting DeShawn Watson on the Texans? No,
Speaker 1: you're a brand new team. It's open draft for the NFL.
Speaker 1: I don't have to deal with that drama. Okay, because
Speaker 1: you don't have to deal with that, Because if you're
Speaker 1: saying I get to Shaun Watson, but I also get
Speaker 1: the Texans, then no, I would not take him there.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, Yeah, Justin Herbert, it's a little too soon.
Speaker 1: It's a little too soon. Kyler Murray. It's a little
Speaker 1: too soon, I think, Joe Burrow, Yes, because keep in mind,
Speaker 1: you know, Justin Herbert had a wonderful season, but Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield had a great rookie season. He had the second
Speaker 1: best rookie season prior to Justin Herbert. And then we
Speaker 1: saw what happened in that second year. I know everybody's
Speaker 1: in on Justin Herbert. I just know how this happens.
Speaker 1: You start out shining star, then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: the defense is a just a little bit, You take
Speaker 1: a dip, and then you come back and then we
Speaker 1: find out if that third season or that fourth season
Speaker 1: that you are who we think you are. It happens,
Speaker 1: and it happens at that position. Eight seven seven three
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Speaker 1: Get a couple of phone calls in here, Jeff and
Speaker 1: Detroit is back with a question. Hi, Jeff, what's on
Speaker 1: your mind today? Hey? What up? The one time for
Speaker 1: Chad ro Don chat Roll named John to sign a
Speaker 1: two saying I think that's how he pronounces his name
Speaker 1: is the Meme Master. He has a picture of Fritzie.
Speaker 1: It's the funniest thing in the world. I'm gonna try
Speaker 1: to tweet it real quick to the show. But Dan,
Speaker 1: I know you're a man of great integrity and would
Speaker 1: never give up your sources. But your sources have been
Speaker 1: dropping some straight gold and knowledge on us here. Man,
Speaker 1: My question to you is, has your source ever appeared
Speaker 1: in any of your interviews in the last two years?
Speaker 1: Have we ever seen your source? You know, I haven't
Speaker 1: tell us four years. It just gets me wondering have
Speaker 1: we ever seen them? Because I mean, you come up
Speaker 1: with some really, really good stuff. Brother, Thank you, Jeff.
Speaker 1: I've been doing this a long time, and I would
Speaker 1: never tell you anything about my sources because all you
Speaker 1: need is probably four or five sources. And these are
Speaker 1: sources I've developed when I was at Sports Center, and
Speaker 1: I've mainta a relationship with them, and they are people
Speaker 1: who do not care about the limelight. What I've always
Speaker 1: said to my sources is just keep me straight, keep
Speaker 1: me honest on something, because if I say something wrong,
Speaker 1: I want somebody to correct me. And there's no agenda
Speaker 1: because I'll just say I'm trying to find out, you know,
Speaker 1: how many Ohio State players tested positive for COVID, and
Speaker 1: then my source will say, let me see what I
Speaker 1: can find out, and then come back and say it's
Speaker 1: probably close to twenty. So far. They're going to be
Speaker 1: tested again today. They did reach out the big ten
Speaker 1: in Ohio State to see if they could postpone the
Speaker 1: national title game. They reached out to the SEC commissioner.
Speaker 1: They also reached out to Alabama and we're told no.
Speaker 1: But I don't know what's going to happen with Ohio State.
Speaker 1: I was told they have a couple of starters on
Speaker 1: the defensive line. You've tested positive. But you know, I
Speaker 1: try to get one in each sport Baseball, I have two,
Speaker 1: but I you know, I haven't. You know, you get
Speaker 1: into this and then you break a story, and then
Speaker 1: people will be critical of you if you broke the story,
Speaker 1: or people who do this for a living will be critical,
Speaker 1: or they'll take what you broke or what like. I
Speaker 1: just tell you, I tell the audience I don't care
Speaker 1: what other websites or other networks carry this, and they
Speaker 1: can have their own people who take credit for it.
Speaker 1: I want the audience to know when you're in. You're in,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate that. And if I can keep you
Speaker 1: straight on things with what I hear, whether it's a
Speaker 1: player or coach, a manager a team, then I tell
Speaker 1: you that. And if I don't know, I have no
Speaker 1: problem saying I don't know, but I'll try to find out.
Speaker 1: So that's where I stand. But no, I would never
Speaker 1: tell you who my sources are. In fact, you probably
Speaker 1: wouldn't know who my sources are even if I told you.
Speaker 1: It's not like we meet in an alley or anything,
Speaker 1: or in a parking lot you got overcoat on. No,
Speaker 1: although I'm very protective because you know, I've had people
Speaker 1: that are friends who say, you know who's your source
Speaker 1: on this? And I'll go, now, it ain't happening, ain't
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Uh, let me see what else do we have?
Speaker 1: The Browns We're gonna find out as of now, there's
Speaker 1: no more positive tests there for them Ohio State. We're
Speaker 1: gonna find out. There's no news they were being tested
Speaker 1: again with COVID. But does somebody have their microphone on
Speaker 1: because I hear somebody typing, sorry, okay, thank you. Setan.
Speaker 1: The NBA has talked about expansion, and one city that
Speaker 1: I know is really interested is is Seattle. And I
Speaker 1: guess the price tag is two and a half billion dollars.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that gets you, but that's the
Speaker 1: entry fee. It sounds like to become an expansion team.
Speaker 1: If you bring in Seattle, do I have to bring
Speaker 1: in another city. I hope Seattle. I loved going to Seattle.
Speaker 1: I love the basketball fans there. I was there for
Speaker 1: the NBA Finals. I still have a Seattle SuperSonics warm
Speaker 1: up that I got back in the mid nineties when
Speaker 1: I was there covering the Sonics against the Bulls. I
Speaker 1: also have an NBA ball that the Sonics used in warmups.
Speaker 1: It says Seattle SuperSonics on it and it was given
Speaker 1: to me by some the equipment people there with Seattle.
Speaker 1: But they gave me a warm up and then they
Speaker 1: gave me one of their basketballs. I still have it,
Speaker 1: have it here in the man Cave. In fact, if
Speaker 1: you're watching now, we're showing it to you. But I
Speaker 1: it was I hated to see them lose their franchise
Speaker 1: going to Oklhoma City. But there should be no doubt,
Speaker 1: no question if Seattle gets a franchise, then you go
Speaker 1: back to be in the SuperSonics like that, that can't
Speaker 1: even be a discussion. I wouldn't have a naming contest.
Speaker 1: But they you know, they may think differently, like the
Speaker 1: Browns were the Browns, you know, when the Browns went
Speaker 1: to Boltimore became the Ravens. You know, they're still the Browns. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Point what really hurts for Seattle SuperSonics fans is oh
Speaker 1: seven or eight, you know they were they had a downtime,
Speaker 1: but they got Kevin Durant. So they had Kevin Durant
Speaker 1: for one year year and then they get hardened in
Speaker 1: Westbrook and they go on that run. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they would have gotten the same exact players if
Speaker 1: they stayed there, but in your mind that that has
Speaker 1: to be in your head when you're watching Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: go to fifty wins, fifty five wins, sixty wins. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: no offense, But is Kevin Durant going to be the
Speaker 1: greatest player in Sonic's history. You got Gary Payton, Jack Sikma,
Speaker 1: Sean Kemp, Delli Shrimle, you finish that. Nate McMillan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they had some talent that went through there. That Seattle team.
Speaker 1: You were a big dale Ellis guy. I'd love Dale Ellis.
Speaker 1: Dale Illness was one of the first long shooters. You know,
Speaker 1: when you shoot a three, we always think you get
Speaker 1: right up to the line. Dale Ellis, they didn't care
Speaker 1: about the line. They had Ray two, Ray Allen for
Speaker 1: five years there. They've had two of the greatest shooters
Speaker 1: in the history of the game. Ray's top five. Dale
Speaker 1: Ellis is there, Nan, you throw in well, Durant was
Speaker 1: only there for a year, but one of the great
Speaker 1: shooters of all time. Yeah, mclub. How did that seventies
Speaker 1: Sonics team win a title? I don't feel like they
Speaker 1: were loaded with super star names we remember, No, they weren't,
Speaker 1: but they had They had like three or four guards.
Speaker 1: Lenny Wilkins was the coach. Gus Williams was on there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Paul Yeah, Jack Sikma that that championship, Damed, Dennis Johnson,
Speaker 1: Gus Williams, John Johnson, Lonnie Shelton, Fred Brown, Paul Silas, yeah, Downtown,
Speaker 1: Freddie Brown. It was just a really good team. I
Speaker 1: don't think it was a great team or how you know,
Speaker 1: we don't think of them as a great team, but
Speaker 1: they played like a great team. Yeah, mclub. I always
Speaker 1: look at the seventies champions and it seems like a
Speaker 1: ragtag time. Is that fair to say? I mean you
Speaker 1: I heard all the stereotypes that the league was. You
Speaker 1: still have the ABA, and you didn't have Magic and
Speaker 1: Bird and then you didn't have Jordan. But you know
Speaker 1: there's no TV contract, big TV contract back then. You
Speaker 1: know the fact that Golden State won, you know, Golden State.
Speaker 1: I could make a case that is it doesn't sound
Speaker 1: right to say the least talented, but the least known
Speaker 1: NBA champion in a long time. You had Rick Berry,
Speaker 1: you had Clifford Ray, you had Derek Dickey, you had
Speaker 1: but Sonny Sonny Parker was on there like you just
Speaker 1: had guys and you go wow, And they won a
Speaker 1: title and they beat I think they beat the Bullets
Speaker 1: that year, and the Bullets had a lot of talent.
Speaker 1: Then yeah, poll. But if you go back and look
Speaker 1: at pictures from the seventies, NBA plaid pants, plaid jackets,
Speaker 1: a lot of tweets, afros, turtlenecks, afros, mustaches, tight shorts,
Speaker 1: tall socks, Yeah, good time. That's right in my wheelhouse there,
Speaker 1: right my wheel parted down the middle. Yep, Jeff in Texas.
Speaker 1: Hi Jeff, what's on your mind? And we'll take a break. Hey, DP,
Speaker 1: thanks for the call your first time, long time six
Speaker 1: one two thirty, just turned forty three, benched personal best
Speaker 1: three five. Who I wanted to say, I love you guys.
Speaker 1: I wanted to say, Fritzy, You're an absolute favorite. Don't
Speaker 1: stop being you Fritzy. Well, thank you, Jeff, Jeff. Somebody's
Speaker 1: just it's such a shame. He was gonna say all
Speaker 1: these nice things. Something happened then, ironically he's a fan
Speaker 1: of Fritzy and his mic crap that you did a whole,
Speaker 1: he did a whole celtically prepared for me. Wow, offense,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jeff, Thank you for I think those kind
Speaker 1: words for to thank you. It's funny the guy calls
Speaker 1: in to get town and all we do is just
Speaker 1: bag on Fritzie even more, which is why he felt
Speaker 1: compelled to call in, and that you keep being you
Speaker 1: don't listen to those jerks. And I'm not the only
Speaker 1: one that didn't have micro today and I'm getting crushed somehow.
Speaker 1: Took a shot at mclovin. Here we go, what wow,
Speaker 1: right now, and my back real friend there, that's actually
Speaker 1: not true. That it's very much in your nature. I
Speaker 1: really don't like to go to that. I have to
Speaker 1: keep it in my back pocket. But if I'm provoked enough,
Speaker 1: then you know, you got the same clothes on from yesterday.
Speaker 1: I do. I didn't sleep in it, but I am
Speaker 1: wearing the same clothes. Yes, okay, Yes, mcl he's been
Speaker 1: looking at pay me back ever since Thanksgiving or whatever,
Speaker 1: the last time that I stole his names bit from him.
Speaker 1: He's been looking for something, man, Todd, you gotta let
Speaker 1: it go. Like mclovin, just he he just added something
Speaker 1: to your name. It was unique. I didn't try to
Speaker 1: steal it. No, it was unique, and it was different
Speaker 1: than it spiced things up a little bit instead of
Speaker 1: the same old And you get so territorial with stuff
Speaker 1: I do, even mock headlines or even just a name,
Speaker 1: a play on a name like Sean McVeigh. Yes that yeah,
Speaker 1: that hurt ken, grippy ken, grippy hurt you like I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take makes me laugh. I'm gonna take the long
Speaker 1: way home to look digest a little bit. Yeah, Todd
Speaker 1: has a pie to the face coming up and we
Speaker 1: have chicken pot pies coming. Todd wanted chicken pot pies
Speaker 1: and he said, all right, but you gotta take the
Speaker 1: blueberry pie to the face. He lost the bet for
Speaker 1: Washington making the plants fair. Yeah, it does, all right,
Speaker 1: let me take a break. Adam Feeling, the Vikings wide
Speaker 1: receiver will join us. More phone calls as well. It's
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Speaker 1: twenty fourth, Mercedes Benz Vans. Todd put it out that
Speaker 1: we're gonna have Adam Feeling on the Vikings. But you
Speaker 1: said catch Adam Feeling. We're gonna catch up with Adam Feeling.
Speaker 1: Was that week? Well, that's like the Today Show, like
Speaker 1: a morning show would do. Hey, we're gonna catch up
Speaker 1: with him. Well, Adam will save me because he's got
Speaker 1: much more interesting creative things to say that I could
Speaker 1: come up with. I do have a question here for
Speaker 1: you guys before I get to Adam Feeland. The most
Speaker 1: touchdown passes by an undrafted player in a season in
Speaker 1: NFL history. This is touchdown the let's see most all
Speaker 1: time touchdowns in a season. Now, Adam Feeland is won.
Speaker 1: The guy before him who tied Adam tied him his record,
Speaker 1: so tied for the most all time by an undrafted player.
Speaker 1: Doug Baldwin of the Seattle Seahawks. I's gonna got twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1: He's Adam Feeling, the Vikings wide receiver. As we catch
Speaker 1: up with him and he joins us down, how are
Speaker 1: you feeling pretty good? Can't complain, just uh got a
Speaker 1: little conditioning in before I got on the show, So
Speaker 1: feeling good? All right. I'm looking at what you guys did.
Speaker 1: The Vikings did your twenty twenty playoff teams? One in
Speaker 1: one versus the Packers, one in one versus the Bears.
Speaker 1: Lost to the Colts, lost to the Titans, lost to
Speaker 1: the Seahawks, lost to the Bucks, lost to the Saints.
Speaker 1: So two and seven. They're best team that you faced
Speaker 1: this year? Is who? Um, that's a great question. Probably
Speaker 1: the Bucks. Just the way that they were able to
Speaker 1: play defense, get after us, um, you know, get after
Speaker 1: the passer. They got guys at every level on defense.
Speaker 1: And then the way that they're able to spread the
Speaker 1: ball around on offense and the weapons they have in
Speaker 1: office is offense is pretty impressive. Okay, give me that
Speaker 1: defense though. Tampa's defense, how impressive? Yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 1: think I think it just starts with their their front seven.
Speaker 1: I mean, the way that they're able to get after
Speaker 1: the passer. Um, the way that they're able to stop
Speaker 1: the run, fly around. I mean, obviously we have a
Speaker 1: pretty good run game in Minnesota and uh man, they're
Speaker 1: just able to fly around and then and then in
Speaker 1: the back end there are no slouches there. So um,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, there's a few of those teams.
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at the Colts very similar, Um,
Speaker 1: you look at you look at the Packers very similar.
Speaker 1: I think those those playoff teams that have a chance
Speaker 1: to go a long way as they have, they have
Speaker 1: guys that can get after the passer, and they have
Speaker 1: guys in the back end they can cover, So it's
Speaker 1: a good formula. Can you root for the Packers or
Speaker 1: do you like because they're in your division? Like, do
Speaker 1: you want them to do well because they're in your division?
Speaker 1: Or do you have to root against them? I don't
Speaker 1: necessarily root for or against to be honest, I just
Speaker 1: love watching playoff football, So I just I just love
Speaker 1: watching um kind of evaluating uh and uh, just watching
Speaker 1: close games. So I'm just open for some good football.
Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be some great games, especially um,
Speaker 1: you know, tomorrow and Sunday, so it should be fun
Speaker 1: to watch. Yeah, but let's say the game is hanging
Speaker 1: in the balance. The Bears have a chance to win
Speaker 1: with a game winning field goal and you could you
Speaker 1: could swipe it one way or another. The Bears beat
Speaker 1: the Saints or they lose in dramatic fashion. What would
Speaker 1: you do. I'd rather have the Bears win, you would, yeah,
Speaker 1: over the Saints. Yeah, but they're in your division. I know,
Speaker 1: but it is what it is. But but you guys
Speaker 1: should have had issues with the Saints before, uh and
Speaker 1: vice versa too. But do you hate the Packers? Like,
Speaker 1: are you program? You grew up a Vikings fan? Are
Speaker 1: you programmed to hate the Packers. I mean, let's just
Speaker 1: put it this way. Um, there's there's not another team
Speaker 1: I like beating more than the Packers. So it's but
Speaker 1: it goes both ways, right, Like, there's nothing worse than
Speaker 1: losing to the Packer so um. And they've they've had
Speaker 1: our number as a late so um. But uh but yeah,
Speaker 1: there's nothing better than than beating the Packers, especially at Lambeau.
Speaker 1: But is there does it get chippy? Like is it
Speaker 1: different they you know, you know, I wouldn't say it
Speaker 1: gets chippy with them. I think they're pretty uh. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I got a lot of friends on that team. Um.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of those guys are you know,
Speaker 1: they're good football players and they're good people. So um,
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed playing against teams that that have you know,
Speaker 1: respect for one another. Um. Now, at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, yeah, you want to beat them and you
Speaker 1: want to beat them bad, but still it's nice to
Speaker 1: have you know, mutual respect and go out there and
Speaker 1: play a clean, clean football game. So UM, I enjoy that. Um.
Speaker 1: And probably why why I'm not going to necessarily root
Speaker 1: against any of those teams. Have you ever had any
Speaker 1: interesting conversations that continue throughout the game with a defensive back.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely, Um, but I mean interesting like did
Speaker 1: they get does it get you know, really trash talk
Speaker 1: or is somebody actually can carry on a conversation with you. Oh.
Speaker 1: I think there's a little bit of both. Depends on
Speaker 1: who you're playing. Uh. Some guys, I'm not gonna go
Speaker 1: into names, but some guys are a little weird with
Speaker 1: way they talk, like, you know, complimenting, um, you know,
Speaker 1: asking how the families doing. Uh, you know, like almost
Speaker 1: like overly nice. Uh So that's kind of weird. Um
Speaker 1: folk compliments fact like it's not real right, right, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: I will you don't really know, right, it's kind of
Speaker 1: like a little bit of like over the top and
Speaker 1: a little bit of maybe, but it's just kind of
Speaker 1: a weird like head game maybe that they're trying to play. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then you got the other side where it's like
Speaker 1: way over the top of the other way, like you know,
Speaker 1: saying that I'm gonna punch you in the face if
Speaker 1: you say a word uh so, uh, which gets a
Speaker 1: little weird, like you're gonna punch me in the face
Speaker 1: with a helmet on. Uh. It's a little weird. Wait
Speaker 1: wait what what what Warren's getting punched in the face
Speaker 1: or somebody just say that to you. That's a great question.
Speaker 1: That's why I think it's it's weird and it's a
Speaker 1: little over the top. But what did they start the
Speaker 1: game by saying feeling on a punch you in the
Speaker 1: face today? Yeah? Like like, uh plays over and and
Speaker 1: you know I'm because I like to you know, talk
Speaker 1: a little bit on the field, you know, have fun
Speaker 1: with it. Um. And you know, I looked at the
Speaker 1: guy and I'm like, what do you Why are you
Speaker 1: talking right now? Like he was he was talking smacking
Speaker 1: our team And he looked at me and said, say
Speaker 1: a word and I'll punch you. Like all right, man,
Speaker 1: Like I got a helmet on, Like it's it punched me.
Speaker 1: That's fine. Um. You know, you start to look at
Speaker 1: the Vikings growing up, and it was right in your
Speaker 1: wheelhouse with with Moss and Chris Carter. Have you talked
Speaker 1: to them of about you know, being a wide receiver?
Speaker 1: What comes into it? Yeah? Yeah, no, it was pretty cool. Um.
Speaker 1: I've been able to talk to them both, Um, have
Speaker 1: pretty good conversations with them. Um, you know, just talking football.
Speaker 1: I did an interview with Randy Moss a few years back,
Speaker 1: and uh, he didn't even necessarily want to do the interview.
Speaker 1: He just wanted to talk ball, which which I thought
Speaker 1: was was fun and cool, and uh, you know he
Speaker 1: was he was teaching me about some of the things
Speaker 1: that he did to help him and his routes and
Speaker 1: things like that, and um, I thought that was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Do you have fanboy at all? Do you ask for
Speaker 1: jerseys like when you face the Saints or Brady with
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers, Aaron Rodgers? Would you ask for a jersey
Speaker 1: for any of from any of those kinds. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of easing to do. I like to
Speaker 1: do it. You know, guys that I get to know, um,
Speaker 1: you know, play against a lot um you know, maybe
Speaker 1: get to know off the field for sure. Um I
Speaker 1: need to I need to ask some of those guys
Speaker 1: for their jerseys because I got to know a few
Speaker 1: of them. But uh, um, but yeah, you know, if
Speaker 1: I don't really know him, it's kind of awkward. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure, like you know, uh, Brady and Rogers and
Speaker 1: those guys, I mean, they get they probably get asked
Speaker 1: by fifteen people every game or their jersey, So I
Speaker 1: try to avoid that. But but hopefully if I, you know,
Speaker 1: you build a relationship with them off the field and
Speaker 1: and maybe we'll get one one day. But uh, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just kind of a weird deal when you when
Speaker 1: you're talking to guys like that. Well also you need
Speaker 1: to have the clubhouse guy go over and ask, because
Speaker 1: you can't ask because you don't want to be told no.
Speaker 1: So'd rather the clubhouse guy went over and ask for
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. Would you put up Aaron Rodgers jersey? I would. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Aaron and I've got to have a pretty good relationship,
Speaker 1: so definitely would because of our, you know, off the
Speaker 1: field relationship. He loves to play golf. I love to
Speaker 1: play golf. So we played a lot together in Lake
Speaker 1: Tahoe with the tournament there and got to know him
Speaker 1: pretty well. He knows my family and all that, So
Speaker 1: definitely would put his up. Packers, Saints, Buccaneers other who
Speaker 1: makes the Super Bowl in the NFC, Well, um, that's
Speaker 1: the tough one. I think I think it's between the
Speaker 1: Saints or not the Saints, the Buccaneers and Packers. If
Speaker 1: I were to if I were a betting man. That's
Speaker 1: who I would bet on. Between those two, I don't
Speaker 1: really know. I mean, obviously the first meeting wasn't great
Speaker 1: between them for the Packers obviously, but I would I
Speaker 1: would have to imagine, uh, you know, going to Lambeau
Speaker 1: if those two played each other that, um, that would
Speaker 1: be a lot better game. So so we'll see which
Speaker 1: defense would you rather face? Buccaneers are the Packers I
Speaker 1: would rather face. I would rather face the Packers because
Speaker 1: we were able to run the ball pretty well against
Speaker 1: in the second meeting. But uh, but they're they're both
Speaker 1: very similar to be honest. Uh, there's not much difference
Speaker 1: between the two. Um, both are both our top defenses
Speaker 1: in the NFL. How many minivans does Kirk Cousins have?
Speaker 1: He has? He has one van um, but then the
Speaker 1: rest of his cars are basically van but they're not vanned.
Speaker 1: So he just strikes me as he's a minivan guy.
Speaker 1: He he he's not a minivan guy. He's more of
Speaker 1: like the astro van uh with like the creepy curtains. Um.
Speaker 1: But uh, but yeah, he's he's he's an interesting guy's
Speaker 1: it's unbelievable. He loves cars, but will not spend the
Speaker 1: money on buying a car, so he tries to get
Speaker 1: the best deals. I think he has a deal back
Speaker 1: home with with like a Toyota dealership or somewhere. Oh no,
Speaker 1: I think it's a Honda dealership. So I think he
Speaker 1: does have a van back home from the Honda dealership. Hey,
Speaker 1: it's great to talk to you. Congratulations on the season there, Adam.
Speaker 1: We appreciate your time. All right, I appreciate it. Thanks.
Speaker 1: That's Adam feeling of the Vikings. So two and seven
Speaker 1: against the playoff team, he knew how to lose against
Speaker 1: the playoff teams. They did beat the Packers and they
Speaker 1: did beat the Bears. Yes, Pa, Now, if you're a
Speaker 1: wide receiver and the defensive back to open the game
Speaker 1: with you say one word and I'm punching the face,
Speaker 1: don't you beat him? Don't you do anything you can
Speaker 1: to get that guy out of the game because you
Speaker 1: were in a helmet. Nothing hurts, not a football player.
Speaker 1: And Adam would say, yeah, great, punch me in the face.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, it's kind of a be awesome. And it's
Speaker 1: if you say a word, I'm gonna punch you in
Speaker 1: the face. Could you just say word. You say a word,
Speaker 1: I'll put you in the face. Word Yeah, ask mcl
Speaker 1: no to Hey, what are cornerbacks down? Like three touchdowns
Speaker 1: and like there's one incomplete pass and they're jumping around
Speaker 1: and doing this motion like yeah, we stopped them, and
Speaker 1: you know mahomes is gonna throw a touchdown on the
Speaker 1: next path. I feel like cornerbacks over. Celebrate. Let me say,
Speaker 1: get a couple of phone calls here and we'll take
Speaker 1: a break. The pop peyes are coming off the trigger grill.
Speaker 1: Anthony and Florida joins us. Hey Anthony, how are you?
Speaker 1: Hey dan This is actually Anthony in California. I want
Speaker 1: to say Happy New Year, give a shout out to
Speaker 1: chat Row, and thank you for a great show yesterday.
Speaker 1: So here's my question for you. I've been binge watching
Speaker 1: Columbo lately. It's just so much fun. So, keeping your
Speaker 1: great depth of acting skills in mind, I'd like to
Speaker 1: know if they rebooted the TV show, would you like
Speaker 1: to be a Colombo and relentlessly hound the killer until
Speaker 1: you get them to confess? Or be the broadcaster who
Speaker 1: gets killed by a Danette after threatening to expose some
Speaker 1: deep dark secret, or see the broadcaster who kills a
Speaker 1: Danette in a fit of rage and then tries to
Speaker 1: cover it up, but gets relentlessly hounded by Colombo until
Speaker 1: you have no choice but to confess. Anthony, Anthony and Anthony.
Speaker 1: It's a little, a little deep, little dark. It's Friday.
Speaker 1: I got a half hour to go, I got my weekend,
Speaker 1: and you're talking about killing a dan Ede or you're
Speaker 1: more of a gym teacher climbing a rope guy? Yeah,
Speaker 1: waters guy, Colombo, Peter Fall, great character, but they reboot everything,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to see them. I guess I
Speaker 1: could see Monk, the guy who played Monk. Maybe he
Speaker 1: could be Colombo. What's his name, Tony Chaloup, Yes, great actor.
Speaker 1: I don't know, like you have to have the mannerisms
Speaker 1: of Peter Fall in Colombo, but that's back in the seventies.
Speaker 1: But it feels like, you know, we love to reboot things,
Speaker 1: and I don't know, you want to bring back Colombo.
Speaker 1: I guess you know the show that they can't bring back,
Speaker 1: but I would love to know if they could, how
Speaker 1: it would look and sound and feel. Now is all
Speaker 1: in the family with Archie Bunker that was so far
Speaker 1: ahead of its time back in the seventies Archie Bunker,
Speaker 1: and you know Norman Lear. Norman Lear's impact on TV
Speaker 1: and I think he's like in his late nineties now,
Speaker 1: but really unbelievable in his creativity. And you know what
Speaker 1: he saw when he saw it and to put that
Speaker 1: on network TV. Yes, Dan, you remember Archie Bunker. Carol
Speaker 1: O'Connor was the actor who played the old crusty guy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: How old do you think Carol O'Connor was when he
Speaker 1: was on Archie Bunker? Which is what's the number that
Speaker 1: pops in your head? He looked like he was in
Speaker 1: his late fifties. He was forty six years old. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's that's almost like, uh, Wilford Brimley in Cocoon,
Speaker 1: he was he had just turned fifty. You and Wilford
Speaker 1: Brimley are the same age. Britzie and I are a
Speaker 1: year older than Wilford Brimley was when he shot Cocoon,
Speaker 1: and he looked like he was ninety five years Yes,
Speaker 1: he did Wilford Brimley for Quake grew. There's this funny
Speaker 1: thing on Twitter. It's called the Wilford Brimley line. And
Speaker 1: when you turned fifty and two months, Yeah, which I
Speaker 1: think that was the age of Wilford Brimley Cocoon. And
Speaker 1: then they put your photo next. Yeah, like Josh mell
Speaker 1: is going to do it one day. Yeah, you got diabetes.
Speaker 1: I'm Wilford Brimley for quea grew diabetes. Yeah, just the
Speaker 1: way he said it. Have you got diabetes? No, I
Speaker 1: got diabetes, but I don't have diabetes. You're gonna diabetes?
Speaker 1: All right, We'll take a break and uh we'll come back.
Speaker 1: Last call for phone calls. If you're watching, we will
Speaker 1: unveil our chicken pot pine Whoo. I'm looking right out
Speaker 1: at the uh trigger grill area, and I got a
Speaker 1: fire burning. It's a little nip in the air, little
Speaker 1: chill pop pies coming off the tregger. Yea poll I have.
Speaker 1: I have actors who are the same age as Wolford
Speaker 1: Brimley and Cocoon. Matthew McConaughey. Matthew McConaughey is the same
Speaker 1: age as Wilford Brimley was in Cocoon. That's right. Oh
Speaker 1: my god. Jennifer Aniston, oh uh, Jason Bateman, he could
Speaker 1: be thirty five. My wife will now compare me to
Speaker 1: guys that are similar age like, she'll go, you look
Speaker 1: good for your age, and I'll go why, And then
Speaker 1: she'll mention somebody. I'll go, wait, and you're comparing me
Speaker 1: to him, therefore I look good. How about leave out
Speaker 1: for your age? And she'll no, No, I mean, I
Speaker 1: mean it's a compliment. You know, I saw such and
Speaker 1: such and guys you're the same age, and you look
Speaker 1: you look so much better. And I go, is there
Speaker 1: a compliment in here if I did that to you, Han?
Speaker 1: You know what for your age? You know, I saw
Speaker 1: such and sunch and you look pretty good. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make up the couch on the bed man.
Speaker 1: That's my bed. All right. We'll take a break back
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Speaker 1: search f SR to listen live. Had a lot of
Speaker 1: great conversations with Tommy over the years. Great character, Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame manager, always available, always fun, always talking about
Speaker 1: Dodger Blue. He had been in the hospital for lengthy stay,
Speaker 1: got out and just got word from MLB that he
Speaker 1: passed away at the age of ninety three. He was
Speaker 1: with the Dodgers in some way, shape or form for
Speaker 1: seventy one seasons. Came up as a player and not
Speaker 1: much of a player. And he's been married seventy years.
Speaker 1: His wife's still alive, been married seventy years, you know,
Speaker 1: Dodger fans, And I always look at this at certain
Speaker 1: cities when you have legends. You know, you had chickhern
Speaker 1: for how many decades? You had been sculling for how
Speaker 1: many years? Timmy Less sort of being there with the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: like just just having that continuity, that familiarity, and you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you take it for granted. Jerry West has been
Speaker 1: a fixture in Los Angeles, but but you you have that,
Speaker 1: and sometimes you don't realize that other cities don't have that.
Speaker 1: But Los Angeles certainly has been blessed with many, many
Speaker 1: great names, legends people. All right, McLevin. Final results of
Speaker 1: the poll question. Okay, so I put up at the
Speaker 1: last hour, if you could pick anyone out of than
Speaker 1: mahomes to start a team with, who would it be?
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, Deshaun Watson, And we've forgot Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson before it too. DeShawn Watson actually wins that but
Speaker 1: it's really close. Everybody's grouped closely, all right. Adrian in
Speaker 1: Florida joins us. Hey, Adrian, godp Danette, Happy New Year,
Speaker 1: first time, long time five. Hey, I'm actually calling from
Speaker 1: Eglin Air Force Base. I got twenty two and f
Speaker 1: fifteen fighters overhead making what we call the sound of Freedom.
Speaker 1: So it's pretty cool here. But hey, here's my question. Right, So,
Speaker 1: I'm a family member of the Hootat Nation, big Saints fan.
Speaker 1: I know we can't look past the Bears this weekend,
Speaker 1: but do we want Tampa Bay to be playing Green
Speaker 1: Bay and beating up on them or do we want
Speaker 1: to go up to Green Bay and play them? You know,
Speaker 1: and in the very near future? What are you talk? Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think if you asked Drew Brees,
Speaker 1: any any route that gets me into the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: I'll take that. It doesn't matter. You don't want to
Speaker 1: be picky, you don't go you know what, we want
Speaker 1: to face the best this or that, best quarterback, best defense. No,
Speaker 1: do you just want to get in? I mentioned the
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors. You know, these teams in the seventies
Speaker 1: were necessarily great teams that won titles. You know, the
Speaker 1: regular season winning percentage. We were talking about Seattle SuperSonics.
Speaker 1: Seattle SuperSonics when they won, they won sixty three percent
Speaker 1: of their games. This seventy seven Bullets won fifty three
Speaker 1: percent of their games. Now they went on to win
Speaker 1: the NBA title. Let's see Golden State in seventy four,
Speaker 1: they won fifty eight percent of their titles. They were
Speaker 1: forty eight and thirty four. What else Blazers in seventy
Speaker 1: six seventy seven when they won the title, they won
Speaker 1: fifty nine percent. I think that Golden State with Rick
Speaker 1: Berry was more of a faceless team than most of
Speaker 1: these other teams. I think the Bullets with Elvin Hayes
Speaker 1: and West unselled, maybe had Bobby Dandridge. Back then, Seattle
Speaker 1: had names there with Jack Sikma Gus Johnson. Portland had
Speaker 1: Walton and Maurice Lucas. But Golden State had Rick Berry
Speaker 1: and it felt like that was all they had. Rick
Speaker 1: Berry and then a bunch of eyes that were unbelievable
Speaker 1: role players like they That's another thing that when you
Speaker 1: find guys, and Portland is a class classic example of that.
Speaker 1: Guys who understood their role every single night, didn't try
Speaker 1: to be more than what they were. But they knew
Speaker 1: who they were. And uh, you know there's a common
Speaker 1: thread with those teams. Maybe not great teams, but they
Speaker 1: played as as a great team. You know, they played together.
Speaker 1: Let's go around the room. What we learned on the program?
Speaker 1: Back left with Todd. Who's going to get a pie
Speaker 1: to the face? Coming up in about a minute or so, Tom.
Speaker 1: It seems like NBA teams are engaging in load management
Speaker 1: during games, taking nights off, leading to an increase in
Speaker 1: early blowouts. Yeah. Really, at an alarming rate. We're seeing
Speaker 1: a lot of blowouts in the NBA. They're blowout last
Speaker 1: night with the Nets without Kyrie and Kadie beating Philadelphia. Mclovin,
Speaker 1: would you learned today once again you broke Todd's heart?
Speaker 1: Ken Grippy Jr. How do you gotta do that? Sean McVeagh.
Speaker 1: Tom is pretty good. Too big week for me seeing O'Connor.
Speaker 1: Would you learn Todd's weekend ruined? Yeah? I did it
Speaker 1: again once again? Yeah, yeah, Pine of the face coming up?
Speaker 1: You're gonna do it yourself. I'm not gonna. I don't
Speaker 1: want to get close, all right, Paul, would you learn
Speaker 1: it's some positive news for Pritzy. He was able to
Speaker 1: open a can with a cann open an under eight minutes.
Speaker 1: What had I learned? Todd showing Southbury fix the jack question,
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