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Speaker 1: special edition of the OTP honoring Eilers Week. These guys

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Speaker 1: right here were all involved with the Tennessee Oilers as

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Speaker 1: part of was it the Oilers Radio Network.

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Speaker 2: The Tennessee Oilers Right Here Network, the.

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Speaker 1: Tennessee Oilers Radio Network. Larry Stone, who was the executive

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Speaker 1: producer of the Oilers Radio Network, and then Titans Radio.

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Speaker 1: Cody Allison, who was part of our broadcast team in

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight, became the side line reporter for Titans

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Speaker 1: Radio and went through twenty fourteen in that role. And

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Speaker 1: then a guy who's been in a variety of roles

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Speaker 1: since nineteen ninety seven, RTT Bryan, who is now the

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Speaker 1: executive producer of Titans Radio and game day host. But

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Speaker 1: we were all involved in one way or the other.

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Speaker 1: You were first, Larry Stone, How did you end up

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Speaker 1: running the Oilers Radio Network?

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Speaker 2: I got a call in I was working with the

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Speaker 2: Tar Hill Sports Network. We had just finished up in

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Speaker 2: the NCAA tournament and I was wrapping up the season

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Speaker 2: and I get a call one day in Chapel Hill saying,

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Speaker 2: understand your moving to Tennessee and we'd like to talk

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Speaker 2: to you about the Tennessee Oilers. And my response was,

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Speaker 2: what in the hell are the Tennessee Oilers.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, that was the response of a lot of people.

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Speaker 2: Initially, I mean I'd been kind of focused on, you know,

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Speaker 2: college basketball and coach Smith breaking Adolph Rupps record, So

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Speaker 2: I wasn't really in tune with that, and so thank you,

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Speaker 2: thank you kind of led one thing led to another,

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Speaker 2: and three days later I was interviewing in an outlet

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Speaker 2: mall food court, which was a sign of things to come,

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Speaker 2: of how money would not be spent in this organization

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Speaker 2: and so and then two days later I was in

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Speaker 2: Nashville and got the job. And so I'll never forget

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Speaker 2: meeting Rhett the first day that I worked in the building.

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Speaker 2: And of course, those who have lived in Nashville for

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Speaker 2: a long time remember w kdf WGFX Studios located on

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Speaker 2: Second Avenue on the Hill. There walked into the radio station.

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Speaker 2: There were two rock stations at the time, and it

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Speaker 2: was the same day. You remember this, the same day

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Speaker 2: that Frank wychek, Al del Greco, Eddie George and Coach Fishughes,

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Speaker 2: Coach Fisher and Bruce Matthews came to town and I said, Okay,

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Speaker 2: we need a tape recorder and I got this looked

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Speaker 2: like what That's how far away they were from news

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Speaker 2: and sports coverage at that time. There was no tape

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Speaker 2: from which we had to start, was to go find well.

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Speaker 1: Because Cody will remember this because we were with Dick

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Speaker 1: Broadcasting in Knoxville, correct and the two Nashville stations. So

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Speaker 1: Dick Broadcasting was two stations in Nashville, two stations in Birmingham,

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Speaker 1: two stations in Greensboro, North Carolina, and then two stations

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Speaker 1: in Knoxville. Well, the two stations in Knoxville were the

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Speaker 1: serious people. This was w IVK and WNX and we're

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Speaker 1: very serious, we do everything. And then the two stations

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Speaker 1: in Birmingham were newer. The two stations in Greensboro were

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Speaker 1: fun because Allen Dick, the son of James A. Dick

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Speaker 1: two stations in Nashville were your uncles. If you wanted

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Speaker 1: to see a show in Nashville, you called the KDF guys.

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Speaker 1: If you wanted to do anything fun in Nashville, if

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Speaker 1: you want to you know, passes to Hermitage Landing, you

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Speaker 1: called the KDF guess. They were fun guys. So when

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Speaker 1: we heard they were getting the rights, we're like, seriously.

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Speaker 3: I know we talked about it.

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Speaker 1: I'll never forget we had this conversation. We're like, these

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Speaker 1: people don't have any idea because they played the rock

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Speaker 1: there was was there anybody serious in the building. No.

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Speaker 4: I was the sports I mean I was the most

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Speaker 1: We didn't have them. And you were a jock. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what did what shift? Did you work? Seven? The midnight? Okay?

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Speaker 3: John Justice?

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Speaker 1: John Justice was your radio.

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Speaker 2: That was when one four five was a rock station.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because it was Kicks one O four when we

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Speaker 2: Because he was the only serious one in the building.

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Speaker 2: I don't I don't mean to deflate his balloon. That

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Speaker 1: That's why people loved working for.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that just tells you how small potatoes this

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Speaker 1: Did you even get paid for that? Sure? Okay, not

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Speaker 4: And but yeah, that first day he was describing, we

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Speaker 4: And I had no earthly idea how to cover an

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Speaker 2: I mean there was nothing, Mike, I mean there was

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Speaker 1: And in the words, I'm damn lucky to be saying.

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Speaker 2: Well no, but I'm not saying you.

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, how old are you at that point twenty

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Speaker 2: That point twenty seven? Okay, So there's but I'm not

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Speaker 2: that day was partly a PR tour, but it was

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Speaker 1: And then then you find that did you find out

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Speaker 1: that day it was going to be Memphis?

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Speaker 2: Yes, Okay, it was in the next two weeks that

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Speaker 2: they find there was one more hurdle in Houston that

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Speaker 2: But the plan was that if they did not do that,

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Speaker 2: that we were actually going to fly and do a

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Speaker 2: Tennessee broadcast of the ninety seventeen which, of course you

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Speaker 2: did the pregame in ninety six of the Tennessee oiler

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Speaker 2: or the this is the Houston Oilers radio network and

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Speaker 2: the NFL, and there were what nine stations. I think

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Speaker 2: the original I own one of them.

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Speaker 1: That's right. So you liked it so much you bought

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Speaker 1: I bought it the company? You bought the company. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the ninety seven season in Memphis. From the broadcast perspective,

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Speaker 1: Joe mcconnald's play by play Jeff Van.

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Speaker 1: The great Jeff Ennoe. And you start off the first

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Speaker 1: longtime NFL announcer, a BA, NBA, Major League Baseball, college sports.

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Speaker 1: Joe McConnell has all these skins on the wall. But

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Speaker 1: you find out the first pregame show there's something Joe

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Speaker 1: McConnell can't do.

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Speaker 2: He can't read a script.

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Speaker 1: I mean, God, love love Joe, but he's a surprise.

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Speaker 1: You can.

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Speaker 2: Now, you're right, he could not read a script. Great guy,

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Speaker 2: but a great guy, but could not read a script.

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Speaker 1: But that's more typical for some broadcasters than what you

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Speaker 1: would know. There are people who are serious readers and

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Speaker 1: then there are people who are absolutely not. And Joe

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Speaker 2: Now it's amazing. Yeah, I mean when you heard his voice,

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Speaker 1: You realized you'd heard his voice before.

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Speaker 2: Sure he was Walter Payton, Walter Payton.

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Speaker 4: When he broke the rushing record with one hundred and

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and he was I mean, he's a great guy.

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Speaker 2: We joked that he was the oldest living human ever,

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Speaker 2: you know, just because he carried himself as about one

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Speaker 4: With his demeanor and in all actuality, it wasn't much

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Speaker 1: Now in an age. But he seemed like he was

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but he was just such a I think that

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Speaker 2: And even the year that you did color for him,

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Speaker 3: I spotted for him that year.

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Speaker 1: That's right. Well, that's the best story how Cody came

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Speaker 1: to be the spotter in nineteen ninety eight. Do you

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Speaker 1: want to start with where you were at that point

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight, finishing law school? You got another year

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Speaker 2: Right, and somebody's dog died. Well it was kind of

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Speaker 2: I don't remember this part.

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Speaker 1: So Larry had had set up someone to be a.

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Speaker 1: And he was a really nice guy. And he had

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Speaker 1: a breakup with a girl.

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Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah, we were young.

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Speaker 1: We were very young. A breakup with a girlfriend, and

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Speaker 1: this breakup, problematically for him, meant that he had he

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Speaker 1: couldn't leave Knoxville and the dogs that he had, because

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Speaker 1: at least one of the dogs was blind. So he

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Speaker 1: called Larry and I mean, it's not because, but I mean,

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Speaker 1: you can't forget that you got. Larry comes to me

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Speaker 1: and he goes, listen, this is like something off Saturday

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Speaker 1: that life. He comes to me, he goes, listen to

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Speaker 1: this poor guy. He's broken up his girlfriend and his

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Speaker 1: dog's blind, so he can't spot anymore. And I'm like,

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Speaker 1: what that means? Can that be real?

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Speaker 3: He's not blind the dog again?

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Speaker 1: Right right? Yeah, that's right. The whole thing is so

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Speaker 1: so Larry's panicked because getting a spotter for Joe is

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Speaker 1: no easy task. Joe is not an Joe's an old

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Speaker 1: be on your game. And Larry asked me, He goes,

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Speaker 1: do you know anybody? And you had told me that

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Speaker 2: No, you didn't. You missed the prank call.

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Speaker 1: know I don't. Okay, Well, you're got to love work.

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Speaker 1: You're will and I think on the words, it's always

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Speaker 1: game on with Duncan, So grab a coffee and kick

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Speaker 1: so we get through ninety eight. We finished the last

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Speaker 2: Yes, which was also the week that the Titans logo

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Speaker 1: We all went out for that. You and I went

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Speaker 3: Yes, that was fun.

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Speaker 2: They locked the door and they were guards, remember they

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Speaker 4: Going to say, you said they didn't scramp the scenes.

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Speaker 1: So we lose twenty six to sixty YEP, seasons over

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Speaker 1: I don't think we have any idea how good this is.

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Speaker 6: Right, but you just couldn't appreciate it like you can now.

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Speaker 2: you know, people say that it was the Miracle or

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Speaker 2: But it just started happening so fast that we literally

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Speaker 4: Well, this is obviously pre nine to eleven. Then you know,

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Speaker 3: Couldn't get down the escalator.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, people they're tripping right coming down the.

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Speaker 1: And there are ten thousand people inside the Nashville Airport

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Speaker 7: Groups thought it was a joke, I mean to I

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Speaker 1: Here's where I am, here's where I'm going to meet you.

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Speaker 2: It was so real at that point, like wow, well and.

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Speaker 1: To think, I mean, everybody but me's in their twenties

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Speaker 1: And I mean it's like this is really happening, and then.

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Speaker 2: You get sick. We still got to get back to

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Speaker 2: Well when you get sick.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I got really sick.

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Speaker 2: And I'll never forget going to Mike's room, and I mean.

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00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,400
Speaker 1: He looked like, and this was day four.

441
00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:25,919
Speaker 2: He's like the end of the world. I'm like, I

442
00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:27,359
Speaker 2: don't know if he's going to make it or not.

443
00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:30,640
Speaker 1: Well, so they gave me something when we landed on Friday.

444
00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,959
Speaker 1: I was so sick and I went to sleep for

445
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,720
Speaker 1: like fifteen hours, I remember, and Cody says, well, let's

446
00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:38,320
Speaker 1: go get something to eat. So I'm like, you know what,

447
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,600
Speaker 1: I think I could eat like a plane Hamburger. So

448
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:43,720
Speaker 1: I think I'm going to take another one of these

449
00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,720
Speaker 1: pills that they've given me the night before because it

450
00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:48,880
Speaker 1: makes me feel better. Bad idea. It was a really

451
00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:53,879
Speaker 1: bad idea because at lunch, I'm going and of course,

452
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:58,080
Speaker 1: like all of ownerships coming by upper Management's coming by

453
00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:00,680
Speaker 1: and they're thinking the announcer, guys got to be drunk.

454
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:02,639
Speaker 2: We're pulling you out like weakend at Bernie.

455
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was so bad. I had not eaten Hi,

456
00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,359
Speaker 1: so when when we called that game, I had not

457
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:14,880
Speaker 1: eaten in four days. We get back and the thing

458
00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 1: happens at the stadium with forty thousand people, which was

459
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 1: just crazy. And then we go back to the office

460
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:23,919
Speaker 1: because we've got to get all the ticket stuff straight.

461
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:26,719
Speaker 2: And remember there was there was not two weeks, No,

462
00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:27,800
Speaker 2: there was one week.

463
00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:31,800
Speaker 1: I left the office at four am, having made plans

464
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,120
Speaker 1: with my family with hotel because we had to tell

465
00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:37,000
Speaker 1: everybody everything, and then had to be back up at

466
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:37,640
Speaker 1: eight o'clock.

467
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:39,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, get ready to go.

468
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,600
Speaker 1: Get ready to go. We left that afternoon, and then

469
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:45,320
Speaker 1: we get to Atlanta. Then guess who gets sick? Yep,

470
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:46,280
Speaker 1: Larry Stove.

471
00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 2: Larry as sick as I've ever been as an adult.

472
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 1: Really, and that's how I was the week before.

473
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,800
Speaker 2: And singer thinking, I wonder when we'll get back to

474
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 2: the super Bowl so I can really experience this. But

475
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 2: part of what also made me sick. I don't know

476
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 2: if you even know this part of the story was

477
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 2: at that time, Doug Matthews and I the former UT

478
00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:11,639
Speaker 2: defensive coordinator. We did the postgame show in Nashville, and

479
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:15,159
Speaker 2: so we were on after the game. We stayed after.

480
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:17,800
Speaker 2: So here we are in Jacksonville and they come in

481
00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,359
Speaker 2: my ear and say, Steve Dickard has said to stay

482
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 2: on the air until they get back to the stadium. Okay,

483
00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:27,200
Speaker 2: all right, so I wonder what we're going to do. Well,

484
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:29,960
Speaker 2: we didn't have any problem. We took calls, and I

485
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,679
Speaker 2: mean there were there were some interesting calls, you know,

486
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:37,240
Speaker 2: as the alcohol penetrated all of the blood cells.

487
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:39,120
Speaker 1: Not me calling Joe McConnell.

488
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 2: But these are folks who are really excited, and so

489
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 2: it's it's it's Doug and I sitting in the press

490
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:52,040
Speaker 2: box in Jacksonville and it comes an absolute mond soon

491
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 2: and we've all been there in Florida when that happened.

492
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 2: But I mean raining like there's no tomorrow. And so

493
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:06,639
Speaker 2: we parked all the way across the stadium. So you

494
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:08,720
Speaker 2: think of where the press box is, it was behind

495
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:12,520
Speaker 2: the other side another mile. So I had to walk

496
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:16,600
Speaker 2: through the rain at night to get to the rental car.

497
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,159
Speaker 2: So that also controlled I think you started it and

498
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 2: then that contrit. Yes, but yeah, I spent the entire

499
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 2: week of the Super Bowl. I didn't get to meet

500
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 2: Tina Turner. I mean that was awesome.

501
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:32,159
Speaker 1: By the way, they did not come with us on

502
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 1: the initial part of the trip, which is leading to

503
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 1: the joke. You guys had to drive down, so we did.

504
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:41,680
Speaker 1: And you tell the statistician to lady Jim Curry.

505
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 4: I had rented a four by four vehicle because there's

506
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:46,720
Speaker 4: this ice storm coming to Atlanta, and we're like, okay,

507
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 4: probably need a head down Thursday afternoon to make sure

508
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 4: we get there, and you know, here we go. I

509
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:59,880
Speaker 4: had procured a replica Super Bowl thirty four of.

510
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 1: Coin like they were going to use in.

511
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 4: The coin toss, and we stopped him at a McDonald's

512
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:12,160
Speaker 4: in Ringold Georgia, and I proceeded to because this thing

513
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 4: came in. It came in a little velvet, it was

514
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:18,119
Speaker 4: a string and it was the big deal. And the

515
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 4: young lady that waited on.

516
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 1: Us as the McDonald's, Hey, what are y'all doing? Y'all, well,

517
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 1: we're on our way to the Super Bowl. Wow, that's

518
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 1: really exciting. We're a little giddy at this point.

519
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:31,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and so if we're in for fun

520
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 4: and for volity that yeah, we're doing this. I'm like, yeah,

521
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 4: I got a special assignment. We're here to deliver the

522
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 4: official coin coin top for Super Bowl.

523
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 1: He was so excited, she lit up like a Christmas tree.

524
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:48,440
Speaker 1: She stopped the whole restaurant.

525
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 4: Y'all stop back there, come here, come here, I get

526
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:53,359
Speaker 4: it out of the bag.

527
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 1: Her eyes get even bigger.

528
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 4: And there is a picture that we can provide where

529
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:01,400
Speaker 4: and I.

530
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,120
Speaker 1: Cody's contributing to all of that lot.

531
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,919
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's he's pumping the tires on the whole thing

532
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 4: full Tel buggy.

533
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:11,359
Speaker 1: And so there is a photo of us and some

534
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:17,880
Speaker 1: very excited McDonald's work Like I was gonna flip it, like, yeah,

535
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 1: we went the way.

536
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 4: Yeah we embellished, absolutely embellished. But that was fun and

537
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 4: we had photographic evidence to prove it.

538
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 2: But no McDonald's employees were hot or harm They all.

539
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 4: Took a picture the making of this photo.

540
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:34,639
Speaker 1: But did they did you end up with free food

541
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 1: out of it? No?

542
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 3: No, we had to pay for it.

543
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 2: Larry paid for it.

544
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you.

545
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 4: But it was fun because they just they freaked out,

546
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:46,920
Speaker 4: They really literally freaking.

547
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 2: Did you guys know, I don't even know if I

548
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 2: ever told you. Did you know that we were close

549
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 2: to not doing the game? No, it doesn't surprise me

550
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 2: tell me that we were close. I didn't even know

551
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 2: that the rights holder Dick Broadcasting at the time. And

552
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 2: you know, I think enough time has passed that we

553
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 2: can tell the story right. Sure, they were so concerned

554
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 2: because the NFL charges beyond what the rights holder pays

555
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 2: the team.

556
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 1: And they can only carry if the flagship can carry

557
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 1: the game the network. The network could carry the pregame

558
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 1: and the post game all six hours, all six hours

559
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 1: of it. But the flagship station is the only station

560
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 1: that can originate a broadcast. So it's only going to

561
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 1: be on in one place.

562
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 2: So it's on in Nashville, and so the cost is significant,

563
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 2: which you would expect. And so they were like, I

564
00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 2: don't know if we're going to do this, and so

565
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 2: it was up. It was in question of whether we

566
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 2: were going to do the Jacksonville game up until Thursday

567
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 2: that we were leaving, of whether we were even going

568
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 2: to do it or not. And finally Sayer minds prevailed

569
00:29:57,960 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 2: and we did it.

570
00:29:58,520 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 3: I'm sure you had some influence.

571
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: Well, I mean did you have to throw a fit

572
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 1: a little bit?

573
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 3: Yeah?

574
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 2: I mean why would we?

575
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 3: I mean, it's.

576
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 1: Truly enough.

577
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 2: I mean you come home the times when we've been

578
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 2: back well twice, you know, yeah, so you know it

579
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 2: doesn't happen, and you know it's not about the expense,

580
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 2: it's about to doing it, you know. And we were

581
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 2: we were making the point. Can you imagine what what

582
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 2: the pr is going to be if we don't go

583
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 2: do this ball game?

584
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 3: And the NFL is so new in Nashville, tennisee.

585
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 1: Well, you know, and let's face it too, the ninety

586
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 1: seven year in Memphis didn't go great. The ninety eight

587
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 1: year at Vanderbilt didn't go great. I mean, to see

588
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 1: this thing this weekend and to know how excited people

589
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 1: are about wearing Oiler stuff and how excited that they

590
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 1: are about seeing the team where the Oilers uniforms that

591
00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 1: they wore in nineteen ninety seven to ninety eight is

592
00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 1: so chilling to me because people hated it so much

593
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety seven and ninety eight. Care Oh, they

594
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 1: hated it. There's no oil in Tennessee. Why we need

595
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:14,479
Speaker 1: our own name, we need our own thing. And so

596
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 1: it's awesome Now that there's this twenty five years and

597
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 1: that people have become true NFL fans and they've bonded

598
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 1: with this owner in this way that they feel so

599
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 1: strongly about them, it's exciting. But man, it wasn't. It

600
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 1: wasn't a sure thing. So the ninety nine season, I mean,

601
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 1: you talk about timing wow.

602
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 2: Well, and it was just you know, I think that

603
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 2: I think that the things that went on in ninety

604
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 2: seven and ninety eight, you know, the every game was

605
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 2: a road game in ninety seven, you know, the training

606
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 2: at the pediatric clinic in Bellevue. You know, they didn't

607
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 2: have an indoor facility that that game. I didn't know this,

608
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 2: and I don't know. Jeff Fisher was telling me recently

609
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 2: that they didn't practice the week before that Minnesota game

610
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 2: because remember they didn't have an indoor facility, so there

611
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 2: was nowhere to practice, so they had to do walk

612
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 2: throughs in the ice. And I mean, you've got to

613
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 2: be thinking, you know, we can't have anybody fall or

614
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 2: anything like that. So just all the things that happened,

615
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 2: I think gave that ninety nine team a toughness. You know,

616
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 2: they just had a mental toughness that Okay, we're down.

617
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 3: A little chip on their shoulder.

618
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 1: You know, we'll get past it.

619
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 2: You know, we get behind. No big deal, We'll just

620
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 2: you know that. And then there obviously was a lot

621
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 2: of talent and the ninety nine draft with Curse and

622
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 2: you know McNair coming into his own and so but

623
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 2: it was I mean, it was such an unbelievable story

624
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 2: that they even made it there, and for us it

625
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 2: was so just I mean, we were lucky. I told

626
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 2: Mike this recently. I don't think he knew this that.

627
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 2: You know, it didn't hit me until we were coming

628
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 2: back from the break. You know, halftime is twenty five

629
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 2: minutes in the Super Bowl. I had not prepared a thing.

630
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 1: Because it's one of the greatest five minutes. One of

631
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 1: the greatest things about doing the NFL over doing college

632
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 1: is the NFL halftime. It's now thirteen minutes. But that's

633
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: also it's not an exactly it's really twelve minutes. The

634
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 1: college halftimes. You get both bands and you get to

635
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 1: I mean, oh gosh, I mean that's Phil Phil, Phil Phil,

636
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 1: and the pro halftime is nothing. And now all of

637
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 1: a sudden you've got double that.

638
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 2: I blame it on the sickness.

639
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 1: Is that what you lack of preparation?

640
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 2: But who you were always prepared well, But I wasn't

641
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 2: prepared that day. I mean, and I mean there was

642
00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 2: again that just back to what I said at the

643
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 2: start of this, none of us were prepared. I mean,

644
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 2: it just happened so quick. You know, if you'd had

645
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 2: an extra week, maybe you kind of would have known

646
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 2: a little bit better. But I mean, it just it

647
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 2: was just boom boom, boom, boom boom, and here you go.

648
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:16,319
Speaker 1: And I think in a way, though everybody else was

649
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 1: so new to it that it not to about the

650
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 1: football side. I'm talking about the people on our side,

651
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: that it probably would have ended up messed up that

652
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: they'd have had us, you know, doing so much other

653
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:33,360
Speaker 1: stuff to promote or to whatever, because they were trying

654
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: so hard to squeeze every ounce out of it. I mean,

655
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 1: I went to Kroger like every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, given

656
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: away tickets somewhere during the playoff run. And I mean

657
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 1: I understand doing that, but at the same time, it

658
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: was like by the time we got to the AFC

659
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,839
Speaker 1: Championship game week and I was sick. It's like, man,

660
00:34:54,880 --> 00:35:00,239
Speaker 1: I need to be just prepared, and it was you know,

661
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:01,479
Speaker 1: that was part of being new.

662
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 2: What's your favorite play from those four playoff games? All right,

663
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 2: I mean other than the mayor, Yeah, just put that out.

664
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 3: I've got mine.

665
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 1: I think it's probably the Derek Mason punt return.

666
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, the free kick.

667
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: The free kick return, it's actually a kickoff return technically.

668
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 1: That's it because at the moment that happened, you know,

669
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: they had outplayed us at in the first half dramatically

670
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 1: and they were only had fourteen to ten. And the

671
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: story is they had a scuffle in their locker room

672
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,720
Speaker 1: because the defensive players weren't happy with the offensive players,

673
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 1: and our guys just went back out and we had

674
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 1: their number. That team had their number, and they were good,

675
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,759
Speaker 1: and they were really good. I mean, to think about this, right,

676
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 1: we shouldn't. I mean, I you think think about it.

677
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:56,239
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a football team that went fifteen to

678
00:35:56,360 --> 00:36:00,799
Speaker 1: oh except for the Titans. Right, that's crazy. I don't

679
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:06,320
Speaker 1: think that's happened since. But I mean, it's just it's nuts.

680
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: And when he ran back that punt and we took

681
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 1: the lead, it's like, we're gonna win this game, and

682
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:15,839
Speaker 1: I had been so sick. I hadn't considered winning. I

683
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 1: thought we probably you know, it's Jacksonville, we'll beat them again,

684
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 1: you know, even though everybody's picking against us and they're

685
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 1: laughing at us and all this. But then it's like,

686
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: we're actually going to go to the super Bowl and

687
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: on the road and on the road, and it's their

688
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 1: coronation and we've just ruined it. And you know, we've

689
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 1: had it come back the other way, so we know

690
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 1: how it feels. But at that moment, it felt pretty good.

691
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 1: So that's yours too for me.

692
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 4: I mean the Anny sixty eight yard run in the

693
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 4: divisional round.

694
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 2: And that's where he's looking up at trying to see

695
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 2: who's coming behind.

696
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 4: Because that was when you're like, okay, this this is

697
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 4: and people channing in the RCAA Dome.

698
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: Eddie, I'm like, gat, I've forgotten about that. Yeah, they

699
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:08,319
Speaker 1: had to call time out early in the ball game.

700
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 4: This, I'm like this, this is big time. This is

701
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 4: big time.

702
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 1: And the other play in that game too is Terrence

703
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 1: Wilkins runs back the punt and Aldell Greco sees that

704
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: he steps out of bounds at the start of the

705
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 1: punt return. Jeff Fisher throws the flag and the challenge

706
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 1: is all new. Of course, a challenge had gone for

707
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 1: the Titans the week before against Buffalo, and sure enough

708
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 1: he had stepped out of bounds and it cost them

709
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 1: a sixty plus yard return and it was on the

710
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 1: Titan sideline. Yeah, because remember he.

711
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:45,479
Speaker 4: And Steve Waterson were pointing that, Yeah, he had stepped out.

712
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:48,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was a huge play. What's yours?

713
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 2: I love the Eddie run, but I also love uh

714
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:58,360
Speaker 2: Steve's play in the Super Bowl. You know the play

715
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:00,400
Speaker 2: that set up the final play?

716
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 3: Yeah?

717
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 4: That Carter Carter right, Yeah, as another guy with him.

718
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,280
Speaker 4: They had him basically he was as far from the turf.

719
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 2: They had him, and he was vintage Steve. I mean,

720
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 2: that's just vintage Steve. How many times did we see

721
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:18,400
Speaker 2: him do that? And that's a great put the franchise

722
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 2: so close to winning that game, or at least putting

723
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 2: it in overtime.

724
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 1: Man, it was a long ride back to the hotel

725
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 1: after that loss.

726
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 2: For multiple reasons.

727
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:34,240
Speaker 3: Remember I do remember.

728
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 2: We got stuck in traffic coming through Buckhead, right, and

729
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 2: we didn't know why, and then we found out later

730
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 2: why Right with mister Lewis.

731
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,320
Speaker 1: The Ray Lewis incident.

732
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 6: I just remember being on the field and the confetti

733
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 6: coming down.

734
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,480
Speaker 1: Do you remember what the song they played for the Rams?

735
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:53,960
Speaker 4: I don't, simply the best Tina Turner?

736
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:55,880
Speaker 3: Okay, nice she was?

737
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 2: Was she the halftime or was she the pre game?

738
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 1: Because that's when I've freaked out?

739
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 2: So who was halftime?

740
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:07,400
Speaker 1: Halftime? Was this guy? I know who halftime was at

741
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 1: the AFC Championship game? L No, No, that was the

742
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 1: one in two thousand and three. It was Casey and

743
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 1: the Sunshine Band. Wow. So we're down at that point

744
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:20,400
Speaker 1: and here's Casey in the Sunshine and I'm finally able

745
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:23,800
Speaker 1: to eat just something I've eaten, like a I've eaten

746
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 1: like a bagel, a plain bagel or something. So I'm like, oh,

747
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:30,760
Speaker 1: I'm energized and that's the way, and You're like okay,

748
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:32,319
Speaker 1: and then we go on to win. And so every

749
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: time I hear one of their songs, I'm I'm very happy.

750
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,800
Speaker 1: Ll cool J was in Oakland, right, he was in Oakland.

751
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: I actually got that. That was when Pat Ryan goes man,

752
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 1: he's buff. He was.

753
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 6: I actually got to stand right next to him and

754
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 6: he actually, you know, kind of fist bumped.

755
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 1: He was a cool You get to be around a

756
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 1: lot of people, I did, you know.

757
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 6: Just being down there on the field, and but yeah,

758
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 6: ll he was I like him.

759
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, the ladies love James right.

760
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 2: And of course, I mean you can't talk about that

761
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 2: season without talking about, you know, the opener and you

762
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 2: know the way I mean the preseason opener and Jeff Fisher.

763
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 2: I mean they you know, you talk about preseason football

764
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:20,959
Speaker 2: and nobody game plans. Man, they had a game plan.

765
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 2: They were going to come out there and win that game.

766
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,799
Speaker 2: And they you know, Faith Hill right was she did

767
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,440
Speaker 2: the national anthem. I mean that was just such an

768
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 2: electric atmosphere and it was this is our stadium, you know,

769
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 2: this is we have a stadium we.

770
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 1: Have Imagine what it's going to be like in the

771
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 1: fall of twenty twenty seven, now when we open the

772
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:46,239
Speaker 1: new stadium. And the comparison to what happened when we

773
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 1: opened the place in nineteen ninety nine on September twelfth,

774
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: or actually in August.

775
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:56,760
Speaker 4: Well, I say this, just coming back from Tottenham Hotspur,

776
00:40:57,360 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 4: I've got a better idea about it.

777
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:04,880
Speaker 1: Struck truly. Yeah, that's the stadium, that stadium plan I

778
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 1: won't say it's identical, but it's very similar.

779
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 4: And I mean, and the footprint is sitting right in

780
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:10,799
Speaker 4: the middle of a neighborhood.

781
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's crazy.

782
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 2: Wow.

783
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 4: All the parking is underneath the stadium.

784
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 1: You go buy Bob's, your uncle fish and chips. There

785
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 1: it is, and uh, right there it is. It's a

786
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 1: little it comes on you a little bit like lambeau

787
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 1: Field does in green with the k MA. With the

788
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:30,840
Speaker 1: k MA, you're driving along, only more snug. It's not

789
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 1: wide like that. You're driving along and you're in a

790
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 1: city that is the size of Clarksville at the time.

791
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 1: Clarksville is now bigger by the way than Green Bay.

792
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 1: But you're driving along and you see the k Mart

793
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:43,840
Speaker 1: and then there's lambeau Field.

794
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 2: Because you're thinking, it's like, you know, like in Clark

795
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 2: Griswold when he sees the Christmas tree, you know the

796
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 2: light here's right, yeah, and there's a Kmart. Lambo is great,

797
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:57,359
Speaker 2: by the way.

798
00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 6: You remember, you guys sent me down to do a

799
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 6: pregame there and they have tailgates everywhere, cooking brots. They

800
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 6: hooked me up with six broughts, brought him back up.

801
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 2: My favorite Green Bay memory, which is totally off the

802
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:16,240
Speaker 2: ninety seven, ninety eight, ninety nine subject, is that we're

803
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 2: there to set up for a preseason game. Remember that

804
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 2: the titles and the Packers played story in the preseason

805
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 2: every year. It was great. That was such a such

806
00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:29,360
Speaker 2: a fabulous preseason series because it's Green Bay and because

807
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 2: it was cool.

808
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:31,720
Speaker 1: It was seventy five degrees of knights.

809
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:35,480
Speaker 2: Yeah. But we're up in the booth and we're setting up,

810
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 2: and we've been up there, we've been up there, Like

811
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:40,720
Speaker 2: where where is Mike and Cody And they're down sitting

812
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 2: in Brett Farre's locker. Remember that was the when they

813
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 2: opened the remodeled.

814
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 1: They opened the remodel and there was an old guy, yeah,

815
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 1: and he looked like something out of a out of

816
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 1: a movie classic. And he's like wearing a hat and

817
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:56,840
Speaker 1: he's probably eighty years old, and he walks with a

818
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,800
Speaker 1: little bit of a limp and he's smoking a filterless

819
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: sick at and he's like, would you guys like to

820
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 1: see the place? And so he walks us through where

821
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 1: Paul Horning came out and where Brett Farvre's locker is

822
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 1: and all these things, and you know, it's just we

823
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 1: didn't have camera phones at that but he.

824
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 3: Was in a cart. Didn't he take us around a cart?

825
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 1: I just remember. I just remember seeing all of it

826
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 1: and understanding where Lombardi's office was, and I mean that

827
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:32,320
Speaker 1: that history, and we had tapped into that years earlier,

828
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: and we made our first trip there in ninety eight,

829
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 1: which turned out to be Reggie White's final game with

830
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 1: and that produced one of the greatest pregame features in

831
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 1: Oiler's radio network history. Keep going because well, well I

832
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 1: tell you what I need to I need to mention

833
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:49,360
Speaker 1: this about Seat Geek. Seat Geek is now the official

834
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 1: ticketing partner of the Tennessee Titans. If you haven't heard

835
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 1: the name yet, get used to it, because you'll be

836
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:56,800
Speaker 1: hearing it a lot more this season. Whether you're buying

837
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 1: or selling tickets to Titans games or to any live

838
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 1: of it in Nashville. Seat Geek is the place to

839
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 1: do it. Seat Geek the new official ticketing partner of

840
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. Rhett, We're Titans fans can fan beautiful?

841
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: Well done? All right? So ninety eight December twenty second, December.

842
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 3: Twenty second, snowing he was snow Yeah, it was.

843
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: Snow snowing, and we went down on the field in

844
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 1: pregame and acted like a couple of goofs right well,

845
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:28,759
Speaker 1: because he's got I mean, we never thought we'd be

846
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 1: in Green Bay for in the snow, in the snow,

847
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:35,400
Speaker 1: and you're it's perfect. It's it truly is the frozen

848
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:39,240
Speaker 1: tundra of Lambeau Field. I mean I literally had tears

849
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 1: welling up in my eyes. I couldn't believe that I

850
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:44,759
Speaker 1: was lucky enough to be there. You've seen this on

851
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 1: TV for all these years and we're actually there, and

852
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 1: Larry has planned the most magical pregame feature.

853
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:53,240
Speaker 3: He's a planner.

854
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:57,920
Speaker 1: Oh, he's a planner, and he's written something just absolutely beautiful.

855
00:44:58,160 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 1: Would you take it from here? Larry?

856
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 2: So the line was something along the lines of, you know,

857
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 2: you know that we we should be above this and

858
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,120
Speaker 2: think of ourselves as journalists, but that it brings out

859
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 2: the kid in you to look out and see the

860
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 2: snow at Lambeau Fine, it's great. And Joe McConnell says,

861
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:20,880
Speaker 2: I been there, done that.

862
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 4: That was literally the com pop in the balloon and

863
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:27,239
Speaker 4: we all looked at him like, come on, now, I

864
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 4: guess you.

865
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: Hadn't led him in on what the field was sort

866
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:31,840
Speaker 1: of going to be, and he might not have he

867
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:33,800
Speaker 1: might not have gone along with it anyway.

868
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:36,399
Speaker 4: I just say he might not have cared at all.

869
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 2: But then Mike saved it because Mike said, well, I'm excited.

870
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 2: I'm excited, and you know, and so then I said,

871
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 2: and so he said, well and I ordered up for

872
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:47,799
Speaker 2: my guys. I ordered up the snowy weather, you know,

873
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 2: and so and so I said something and again he's

874
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:53,839
Speaker 2: called the Chicago Bears. So he's they've played Green Bay

875
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 2: all these years, and he's called these other teams. And

876
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:58,279
Speaker 2: did he call the Viking? He did, Yeah, So, I

877
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:00,880
Speaker 2: mean he's been to Landfill a lot of time. So

878
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 2: kind of the next thing was, Joe, you have to

879
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 2: have a lot of memories here. You know, I'm thinking

880
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 2: we're gonna get Walter Payton or we're gonna get the

881
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:12,359
Speaker 2: Purple people Eaters or something like that, and we get

882
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 2: you know, well, it was a it was a snowy

883
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 2: November day and green Bay was three and nine in

884
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:23,720
Speaker 2: Chicago was two and ten, and we kicked a five

885
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 2: yard field goal with no time left to win six

886
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:28,360
Speaker 2: to three.

887
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 1: Neil Armstrong's second edition of the Bears. We're able to

888
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:37,800
Speaker 1: win here over Lyndy and Front and the Green Bay Packers.

889
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 1: And you're going, I mean Bears Packers if you don't

890
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 1: realize it. They so hate each other.

891
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:49,800
Speaker 2: Oh oh, they as ugly as any college football.

892
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:55,799
Speaker 1: It is so nasty, beauty, it's it's raven Steelers, but

893
00:46:56,000 --> 00:47:01,480
Speaker 1: with a much longer history. It's beautiful. The hate, the venom. No,

894
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 1: it's just priceless, generational, generational. And yet Joe.

895
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:08,760
Speaker 2: Gives US sixty three twelve.

896
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 1: To seven with a blocked punt of safeties or I mean,

897
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:14,239
Speaker 1: just wow, But that was Joe.

898
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:16,880
Speaker 2: I mean, that was Joe. That's what God bless him.

899
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:20,359
Speaker 2: He was just the he just he had He just

900
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 2: had that kind of surly you know, which prepared us

901
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 2: all for working with Pat Ryan the next year.

902
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:32,799
Speaker 1: You know, because God, he was positively delightful. And Jeff.

903
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:35,480
Speaker 2: I have to say something about Jeff van Note, because

904
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,760
Speaker 2: you guys didn't get the chance to be Jeff. Jeff

905
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 2: was a classic San Francisco sixties flower child. I mean,

906
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:49,800
Speaker 2: just mister laid back. And yet you watch the NFL

907
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 2: films of him just wailing people with block I mean,

908
00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:55,799
Speaker 2: he was a nasty one of.

909
00:47:55,840 --> 00:48:00,480
Speaker 1: The greatest Falcons, but man, he was bitter about being

910
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:04,439
Speaker 1: replaced by me as the color analyst in nineteen ninety eight. Well,

911
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:06,919
Speaker 1: that was I was very afraid I would run into

912
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:10,800
Speaker 1: him at some point because I'm a I'm a diminutive man.

913
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:12,960
Speaker 1: I think he could take him, Mike, I think I

914
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:15,200
Speaker 1: don't think I could take him in the car somewhere

915
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 1: to get a sandwich. I mean, there's no way.

916
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 2: What a great guy.

917
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:22,719
Speaker 4: Well to some of you in this conversation, Okay, I

918
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 4: want to ask you a question because I was looking

919
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:29,360
Speaker 4: through a lot of the old game books yesterday in

920
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:32,719
Speaker 4: the ninety eight season, do you remember what happened at

921
00:48:32,719 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 4: the end of the Chicago game at Vanderbilt twenty five

922
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:37,799
Speaker 4: years ago this week?

923
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, one hundred percent remember it

924
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 1: because I have a reason to specifically remember it. First

925
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 1: of all, Joe got a bit confused about what was

926
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 1: going on because it was very confusing. So into the

927
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:55,719
Speaker 1: ball game, they can't get Al del Greco on the

928
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: field to try a field goal that that would have

929
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 1: tied the game, and they can't find him, and so

930
00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:09,600
Speaker 1: the situation ended up being Craig Hinterrick and Dave Craig

931
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:12,480
Speaker 1: ran out tried the field goal. It was blocked. Titans,

932
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 1: or I should say Oilers lose twenty four to twenty

933
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:20,960
Speaker 1: one three twenty. Well, so Joe's confused because he's like,

934
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:25,280
Speaker 1: what am I seeing? What's happening here? And I've sort

935
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:29,319
Speaker 1: of got it because I've got I say to him

936
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:32,960
Speaker 1: something to the effect of they don't know where del

937
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:36,239
Speaker 1: Greco is. What had happened is del Greco had been

938
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:40,760
Speaker 1: told on the sidelines that a play that had occurred

939
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 1: two plays earlier was a first down, when in reality

940
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 1: it came up short and it was third down when

941
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:50,600
Speaker 1: they didn't make he had gone back to the net

942
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:53,520
Speaker 1: to stay warm, which is what a kicker does. It

943
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:55,800
Speaker 1: was not on Al del Greco at all. It should

944
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 1: have never been blamed on Al del Greco. But after

945
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:03,799
Speaker 1: the game end, Floyd Reese is so angry. Of course,

946
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:12,160
Speaker 1: we're playing at Vanderbilt Stadium. There were screen doors, like

947
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:15,719
Speaker 1: on your back porch in the Vanderbilt locker room that

948
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:19,080
Speaker 1: we were in, and I don't know why it was there,

949
00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 1: but Floyd Reeese comes in and he takes that screen

950
00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 1: door and he slams it so hard it literally comes

951
00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:32,600
Speaker 1: off the hinges. I mean, it was absolutely crazy. Well,

952
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:38,760
Speaker 1: my wife's family is from just outside Chicago. My father

953
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:42,839
Speaker 1: in law and his wife are in town. We take

954
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:47,239
Speaker 1: them out to dinner afterwards, and they are thrilled that

955
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:52,400
Speaker 1: the Bears have won. And I'm not, Oh no, I

956
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:55,840
Speaker 1: mean because I've just been traumatized by having to do

957
00:50:56,000 --> 00:51:00,279
Speaker 1: I did the postgame interviews, and I'm traumatized by what's

958
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:03,200
Speaker 1: happened and seeing del Greco. I mean, it's just horrendous

959
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:05,919
Speaker 1: to see al one of the great guys of all time,

960
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:08,879
Speaker 1: and not his fault. I don't know if it's ever

961
00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 1: been fully pointed out that a coach had told him

962
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:17,319
Speaker 1: first down, we've got time, right, and so he did

963
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:20,880
Speaker 1: what he was supposed to do, and so, you know,

964
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:22,480
Speaker 1: the whole thing I mean is just awful. And then

965
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:24,920
Speaker 1: my in laws are like, oh, this is so fantastic.

966
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 1: And I told my wife. I made it very clear,

967
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:30,880
Speaker 1: no no no, no, no, no no no no. I said,

968
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:34,799
Speaker 1: if they ever want to see another game, if they

969
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 1: ever want to have another meal, then we need to

970
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:40,719
Speaker 1: make sure we understand we're for this team, right, you

971
00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:43,680
Speaker 1: just paying for the this is paying for the meal, baby,

972
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:46,359
Speaker 1: this is paying the mortgage here. Oh.

973
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:49,160
Speaker 2: It was awful unless you want to take Michelle back.

974
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:52,600
Speaker 1: And it was so funny because I was getting all

975
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 1: the calls from our mutual friends in Knoxville, right because

976
00:51:56,040 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 1: they're busy winning the national championship. Everything's just fantastic. They're

977
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:03,359
Speaker 1: having the best time, and they're like, how's that going

978
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:08,319
Speaker 1: over Vanderbilt, you know, And it was really kind of

979
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:11,840
Speaker 1: like what do we see? You know, because there was

980
00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:15,839
Speaker 1: some crazy stuff that was some crazy moments through this. Yeah,

981
00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 1: talking about the ice on the oh the ice at

982
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:22,520
Speaker 1: the end of season. Well, the first game September sixth

983
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:26,279
Speaker 1: or yeah, it was the streatest quarterback of all time. Yeah,

984
00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:29,120
Speaker 1: September it was his best game. Yeah, I think it

985
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 1: was his only win as a start. And he didn't

986
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:36,440
Speaker 1: even I mean, he was terrible and Natron Means carried

987
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:40,960
Speaker 1: like twenty five times for seventy eight yards. Right, they

988
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:44,080
Speaker 1: beat us thirteen to seven. It was awful. It was

989
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:46,799
Speaker 1: just a It was an awful game. And it was

990
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:50,319
Speaker 1: the first ever game in Nashville, and we had done

991
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:54,560
Speaker 1: all those stickers everywhere there. I am there September whatever,

992
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 1: the day was I am there, and oh, it was

993
00:52:58,080 --> 00:52:59,560
Speaker 1: just it was an utter disaster.

994
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:04,240
Speaker 4: How about how about the preseason game where the lights went.

995
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:07,239
Speaker 2: That's right, Vanderbilt.

996
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:11,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that was was that ninety seven? I thought

997
00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:15,240
Speaker 1: that was in ninety seven that happened. I can't remember.

998
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:18,320
Speaker 2: We played one preseason game in Vanderbilt in ninety seven.

999
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that was.

1000
00:53:21,640 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 2: We played at Dallas, played.

1001
00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:28,920
Speaker 1: Heath played Heath Shuler at Memphis, which was handy to

1002
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:31,239
Speaker 1: help draw crowd because he was with the Saints at

1003
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 1: that point. And we played the Broncos in ninety eight

1004
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:38,359
Speaker 1: and they hottest day, but they had to convince Mike

1005
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 1: Shanahan to play John Elway.

1006
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:43,320
Speaker 2: We played like two snaps.

1007
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:45,319
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean he was he was out of

1008
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:48,680
Speaker 1: there lickety split, but he was not going to play

1009
00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:52,279
Speaker 1: because everybody in Nashville's going, We're going to go see

1010
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:55,479
Speaker 1: John Elway and listen every ad we ran as John

1011
00:53:55,520 --> 00:54:01,480
Speaker 1: Elway and the Broncos and I'm not agenda, but I'm

1012
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:04,839
Speaker 1: not sure that we knew that he wouldn't play. We

1013
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 1: were so inexperienced, well again and play, yeah yeah, but

1014
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:13,840
Speaker 1: we were so a quarter right, But we were so

1015
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:19,120
Speaker 1: inexperienced in promotion from the from our standpoint with the

1016
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 1: radio side and everything we did on this, a lot

1017
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:23,759
Speaker 1: of the people who came from Houston were not inexperienced.

1018
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:26,600
Speaker 1: They were professionals. Some of us on the other hand,

1019
00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 1: and so when we cut the spots John Owen and

1020
00:54:29,239 --> 00:54:32,279
Speaker 1: the Broncos, we never crossed our mind. John Elway wasn't

1021
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 1: going to play, wasn't meant to be false advertising. Well

1022
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:39,280
Speaker 1: then then Shanahan comes out and goes, yeah, those NOO's

1023
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:41,600
Speaker 1: over in Nashville, We're not playing John Elway. And so

1024
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:46,760
Speaker 1: Fisher had to call Shanahan because their friends their friends,

1025
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:50,239
Speaker 1: and he had to call Shannan say, listen, we need this,

1026
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:53,680
Speaker 1: we need this bad. I mean, that's how I don't

1027
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:56,760
Speaker 1: I don't want to say we were desperate, but well.

1028
00:54:56,719 --> 00:54:59,360
Speaker 2: We're trying to get going. That's the thing about Jeff

1029
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:05,399
Speaker 2: Fisher that I will contend till the final day I'm

1030
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:08,680
Speaker 2: on this earth that if it were not for Jeff Fisher,

1031
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:14,239
Speaker 2: the chances of this team being successful here are low.

1032
00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:18,520
Speaker 1: You can make the case that he's the most important

1033
00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:24,359
Speaker 1: piece in all of it because he so got what

1034
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:28,839
Speaker 1: we needed. So few coaches would have done all the

1035
00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:29,680
Speaker 1: things he did.

1036
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 2: I mean, who would have called Mike Shannon. I mean,

1037
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:35,279
Speaker 2: can you imagine Mike Ditke or I mean that you know,

1038
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:37,080
Speaker 2: the people that were in the league at that time,

1039
00:55:37,120 --> 00:55:41,439
Speaker 2: Tom Coughlin, oh, you know, Ditka, Bill Parcells was still

1040
00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:44,600
Speaker 2: in Can you imagine them calling Mike Shanahan and saying,

1041
00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:46,240
Speaker 2: we need John Elwad, we need it.

1042
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:50,279
Speaker 1: We need it because the crowd's expecting it. And you know,

1043
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:53,759
Speaker 1: it had been misstep after misstep, and some of the

1044
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:58,880
Speaker 1: things were mistakes. Some of them were just unfortunate, you know,

1045
00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:01,680
Speaker 1: things that have happened. And the other part of it, too,

1046
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:04,520
Speaker 1: was just not knowing the area, sure, you know, not

1047
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:09,880
Speaker 1: understanding the whole Nashville Memphis thing. Not understanding that Bowling

1048
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:12,920
Speaker 1: Green was sixty miles away, and that that was a

1049
00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:16,400
Speaker 1: great opportunity that Clarksville was closed and that Huntsville was closed.

1050
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:18,160
Speaker 1: There's a lot of draw Yeah, there was a lot

1051
00:56:18,200 --> 00:56:20,719
Speaker 1: of draw, but that there were so many things that

1052
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:24,480
Speaker 1: had to be pulled together to make it work. And

1053
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:28,279
Speaker 1: Fisher was remarkable, and he was remarkable with us too,

1054
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:33,919
Speaker 1: because I mean he must have thought meeting me, you know, hey,

1055
00:56:34,120 --> 00:56:40,160
Speaker 1: Harry high School great to see because seriously, because all

1056
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:43,320
Speaker 1: my experience was in college. I had covered a quote

1057
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:46,759
Speaker 1: unquote big time program. I'm not going to say I

1058
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:49,040
Speaker 1: thought I knew what I was doing so much, because

1059
00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:52,279
Speaker 1: I really didn't. But I mean he could have been

1060
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:54,319
Speaker 1: absolutely awful to me.

1061
00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:56,440
Speaker 2: Well, and he could have been awful to the fans,

1062
00:56:56,520 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 2: Oh sure.

1063
00:56:57,239 --> 00:57:00,440
Speaker 1: I mean because there were players who were dis missive

1064
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:03,719
Speaker 1: of you know, the fan base early on because they

1065
00:57:03,719 --> 00:57:04,640
Speaker 1: were pro guys.

1066
00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:07,520
Speaker 2: And now you know, I mean, it's get he did

1067
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:11,440
Speaker 2: because Cody he got the questions were, when you're going

1068
00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:12,319
Speaker 2: to change the name.

1069
00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:14,279
Speaker 1: You know, he didn't know anything to do with that.

1070
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:16,800
Speaker 2: We need to draft more balls, you know, why don't

1071
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:18,960
Speaker 2: you draft? Why don't you be the pro balls? I mean,

1072
00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:20,920
Speaker 2: if I had a quarter for every time I heard that,

1073
00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 2: you know, I can't. I can't cheer for the Oilers

1074
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:26,240
Speaker 2: or Titans because I'm a Valls fan.

1075
00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:29,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, well they don't play so but.

1076
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:31,440
Speaker 2: He had to put up with all of that, and

1077
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:35,640
Speaker 2: yet he's trying, you know, and he's a he's worked.

1078
00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 2: I mean, imagine you worked and worked and worked to

1079
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:41,240
Speaker 2: become an NFL head coach and this is what you're

1080
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:41,919
Speaker 2: saddled with.

1081
00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:45,400
Speaker 1: Well, and it started in nineteen ninety five at a

1082
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:48,760
Speaker 1: preseason game that Cody and I was at in Knoxville.

1083
00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:51,920
Speaker 1: Washington was playing Houston, and that's where the Tennessee and

1084
00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:57,280
Speaker 1: dropped the report that Nashville and Metro was going to

1085
00:57:57,360 --> 00:58:01,479
Speaker 1: start negotiating, you know, exclusive to potentially move the team.

1086
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:05,680
Speaker 1: He had to walk in the Marriotte in downtown nash

1087
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:08,400
Speaker 1: in downtown Knoxville and tell his team this report was

1088
00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:10,960
Speaker 1: going to come out. So for Jeff, all of this

1089
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:14,080
Speaker 1: had been going on four years by the time he

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00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:17,320
Speaker 1: got to nineteen ninety nine, and he was gracious and

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00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 1: he was magnanimous. If you saw him at Kroger, if

1092
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:22,320
Speaker 1: you saw him at the gas station, he was kind.

1093
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:24,800
Speaker 1: He was good to the media. He was very good

1094
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:27,680
Speaker 1: to all of us that worked with him. People have

1095
00:58:27,880 --> 00:58:31,200
Speaker 1: often wondered why we are all still so loyal to

1096
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:35,240
Speaker 1: Jeff Fisher, and that's because when the world wasn't looking,

1097
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:37,280
Speaker 1: he was good to us.

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00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:37,760
Speaker 3: Right.

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00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:40,400
Speaker 4: Well, it goes back to what Larry said earlier when

1100
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:46,040
Speaker 4: we started this OTP. He is the catalyst of what

1101
00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:49,480
Speaker 4: you outlined with the roster building that had taken place.

1102
00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:53,440
Speaker 4: They played all these road games in ninety seven, and

1103
00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:56,760
Speaker 4: you know they played in four different stadiums in four seasons. Crazy,

1104
00:58:56,840 --> 00:58:59,200
Speaker 4: they had no one else but each other. And so

1105
00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:02,480
Speaker 4: he's fitness grew from there. And then you make a

1106
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:05,040
Speaker 4: pick like Javon Curse at pick sixteen in the ninety

1107
00:59:05,080 --> 00:59:08,120
Speaker 4: nine draft, you already had a young Steve and Eddie

1108
00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:11,280
Speaker 4: and those guys are coming in. He's clearly the catalyst

1109
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:13,680
Speaker 4: that put all that together. And lightning was caught in

1110
00:59:13,720 --> 00:59:15,080
Speaker 4: a bottle and here come the tighten.

1111
00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:19,480
Speaker 1: And he kept mister Adams involved enough and up to

1112
00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:22,120
Speaker 1: date enough. I mean, he did the right things with

1113
00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:25,520
Speaker 1: and other people did too in the organization, but Jeff

1114
00:59:25,640 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 1: especially made mister Adams feel a part of it. He

1115
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:33,280
Speaker 1: made mister Adams decision to move here certainly stand up

1116
00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:38,440
Speaker 1: and just a class act. I will always contend that

1117
00:59:38,520 --> 00:59:41,200
Speaker 1: the three eight and eights, I think that's some of

1118
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:44,120
Speaker 1: the most amazing coaching that's ever been done in the NFL.

1119
00:59:44,920 --> 00:59:48,440
Speaker 1: For the circumstances that they were going that were going around.

1120
00:59:48,600 --> 00:59:52,160
Speaker 1: I mean, the stories that we can't tell about what

1121
00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:55,320
Speaker 1: I mean, we've just skimmed the surf anything here, well

1122
00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:57,040
Speaker 1: you can, yeah, go ahead.

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00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:01,240
Speaker 4: Well, the thing is that.

1124
01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:05,920
Speaker 2: And mister Adams, you know I'm sure that till the

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01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:09,360
Speaker 2: day that he passed away that so many people in

1126
01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:12,800
Speaker 2: Houston thought poorly of him. But here's what you can

1127
01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:18,240
Speaker 2: say about him is he did not want to move. No, No,

1128
01:00:18,520 --> 01:00:23,160
Speaker 2: he was a Houston product. He loved the history, which

1129
01:00:23,160 --> 01:00:25,000
Speaker 2: is back to your point of how good it is

1130
01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:30,520
Speaker 2: to see the Titans fan base now feel about our

1131
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:33,640
Speaker 2: oiler's history the way he did. That was why he

1132
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:36,640
Speaker 2: fought so long to keep the name. That's why he

1133
01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:40,560
Speaker 2: wanted the baby Blue still in the Titans uniforms. That's

1134
01:00:40,600 --> 01:00:45,560
Speaker 2: why he didn't want Earl Campbell's records and and you

1135
01:00:45,600 --> 01:00:48,560
Speaker 2: know all the other great oilers. He did not want

1136
01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:51,440
Speaker 2: that history to go to Houston. It wasn't being petty,

1137
01:00:51,520 --> 01:00:53,120
Speaker 2: it was that that was his.

1138
01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:56,160
Speaker 1: That was his. He started the AFL with Lamar Hunt

1139
01:00:56,480 --> 01:00:59,880
Speaker 1: and Paul Tagliabu and Jerry Richardson. Then the owner of

1140
01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:03,880
Speaker 1: the Panthers flew to Houston to sit down with him

1141
01:01:03,920 --> 01:01:06,760
Speaker 1: and said, you have to change the name. But here's

1142
01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:08,520
Speaker 1: what we will let you do. We will let you

1143
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:12,680
Speaker 1: keep the history. And so for those who don't understand

1144
01:01:12,720 --> 01:01:17,680
Speaker 1: this today, particularly the folks in Houston, not belittling, but

1145
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:21,360
Speaker 1: that was an important part of the deal. The Oiler's

1146
01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:23,280
Speaker 1: name was never going to be in Houston. That was

1147
01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:26,280
Speaker 1: never going to be in play. And that's why the

1148
01:01:26,280 --> 01:01:29,680
Speaker 1: Oilers come to Nashville as part of the homecoming weekend.

1149
01:01:29,760 --> 01:01:35,160
Speaker 1: Now because Amy has taken what her dad wanted and

1150
01:01:35,240 --> 01:01:38,480
Speaker 1: because of the momentum of history and time, has been

1151
01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:40,240
Speaker 1: able to build on it in a special way.

1152
01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:42,480
Speaker 2: Well, and let's be clear too, to those in Houston,

1153
01:01:43,800 --> 01:01:46,920
Speaker 2: you got what mister Adams said he wanted right right.

1154
01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:50,080
Speaker 2: It took four years more and you got it dollars,

1155
01:01:50,160 --> 01:01:53,640
Speaker 2: So he was right. Whether you think he was right.

1156
01:01:53,880 --> 01:01:56,720
Speaker 2: Here's the other thing. And you guys live in Nashville

1157
01:01:56,760 --> 01:01:59,640
Speaker 2: and I don't any longer. But when I was driving

1158
01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:03,800
Speaker 2: into Mike and I had the great fortune one of

1159
01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:09,720
Speaker 2: the great moments of our work together was we took

1160
01:02:09,800 --> 01:02:12,480
Speaker 2: a trip to Houston before the ninety nine season and

1161
01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:14,320
Speaker 2: we got to sit down with mister Adams.

1162
01:02:14,360 --> 01:02:15,080
Speaker 3: I never knew that.

1163
01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:20,600
Speaker 2: We got to tour his museum and part of that

1164
01:02:20,760 --> 01:02:26,760
Speaker 2: trip we were given the document that the NFL owners

1165
01:02:27,120 --> 01:02:33,080
Speaker 2: got about why this move would make sense. And I

1166
01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:36,800
Speaker 2: never forget you guys, remember Paul tagleybou was at the game,

1167
01:02:36,920 --> 01:02:42,200
Speaker 2: the San Diego game, the Ryan Leaf I interviewed him

1168
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:44,240
Speaker 2: and he said on the air, Now, can you imagine

1169
01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:46,840
Speaker 2: the current NFL commissioner saying this on the air. He

1170
01:02:46,920 --> 01:02:49,600
Speaker 2: said this on the radio. Well, you know, we're not

1171
01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:52,080
Speaker 2: really sure this is going to work, but we got

1172
01:02:52,080 --> 01:02:57,800
Speaker 2: our fingers crossed. He said that on the radio. But

1173
01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:04,040
Speaker 2: the forward thinking people that were in the organization, everything

1174
01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:09,040
Speaker 2: that they predicted about Nashville and the Mid South overall,

1175
01:03:10,120 --> 01:03:10,720
Speaker 2: it has happened.

1176
01:03:10,720 --> 01:03:14,880
Speaker 1: And did you know when they started to uncover things

1177
01:03:15,080 --> 01:03:19,600
Speaker 1: looking at the stadium site, there was an original design

1178
01:03:19,960 --> 01:03:23,760
Speaker 1: for a second stadium to be built in the spot

1179
01:03:23,800 --> 01:03:27,040
Speaker 1: where the new stadium is going to be. Somebody in

1180
01:03:27,080 --> 01:03:30,640
Speaker 1: the mid nineteen nineties had had the thought at some

1181
01:03:30,760 --> 01:03:33,920
Speaker 1: point they're going to need another stadium, and that is

1182
01:03:33,960 --> 01:03:37,000
Speaker 1: the spot where the new stadium will go. Mister Adams,

1183
01:03:37,040 --> 01:03:39,840
Speaker 1: we got to wrap up. Mister Adams was the only

1184
01:03:39,920 --> 01:03:43,080
Speaker 1: one who wanted Nashville. Everybody else wanted to go to

1185
01:03:43,120 --> 01:03:46,640
Speaker 1: Baltimore because it was better financial offer. He wanted Nashville

1186
01:03:47,200 --> 01:03:50,280
Speaker 1: because he's on the board of Couson Plastics, which was

1187
01:03:50,320 --> 01:03:54,320
Speaker 1: a toy maker in Franklin. They used to sponsor our

1188
01:03:54,440 --> 01:03:58,160
Speaker 1: rival team in nine to ten year old baseball, and

1189
01:03:58,200 --> 01:03:59,600
Speaker 1: so that was how I came to know the name.

1190
01:03:59,640 --> 01:04:01,840
Speaker 1: But he's out on the board and he liked it here.

1191
01:04:02,280 --> 01:04:04,520
Speaker 1: He believed this was a place that could handle it,

1192
01:04:04,880 --> 01:04:06,920
Speaker 1: and he was proven right. And to see what his

1193
01:04:07,080 --> 01:04:10,480
Speaker 1: daughter's done now that makes it all the more special.

1194
01:04:11,080 --> 01:04:14,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's an amazing story and golly, it's just

1195
01:04:14,640 --> 01:04:17,120
Speaker 2: such a privilege to have been a part of it

1196
01:04:18,040 --> 01:04:21,520
Speaker 2: when it was much different than it is now.

1197
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Speaker 1: Cody Allison, Attorney at law, don't go prank call anybody.

1198
01:04:25,640 --> 01:04:28,720
Speaker 1: Rett Brian from Titans Radio, the ever reliable one in

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01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:33,080
Speaker 1: year twenty six, thank you. And Larry Stone, the innovator

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01:04:33,120 --> 01:04:35,240
Speaker 1: of all of it. Thank you, Thank you brother, thanks

1201
01:04:35,280 --> 01:04:37,120
Speaker 1: for having us. Proud of you and look forward to

1202
01:04:37,160 --> 01:04:39,280
Speaker 1: hearing you on the radio on Sunday again with us.

1203
01:04:40,200 --> 01:04:42,040
Speaker 2: It'll be fun, it'll be a great time.

1204
01:04:42,320 --> 01:04:44,760
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining all of us for the Oath team.

1205
01:04:45,320 --> 01:04:49,600
Speaker 1: Welcome to the big show where the Leggin's going. Everybody

1206
01:04:49,720 --> 01:04:55,400
Speaker 1: knows it's our house. Fine thought, Tennessee. Make any story greenness.

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Speaker 3: That's a big