Speaker 1: February fifth, twenty seventeen, NRG Stadium, Houston, Tayhawk. Two minutes
Speaker 1: twelve seconds left in the third quarter of Super Bowl
Speaker 1: fifty one, the Atlanta Falcons led the New England Patriots
Speaker 1: by what twenty five? I think you know what happens next.
Speaker 1: This is twenty eight two three. Hello, Welcome to Games
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Speaker 1: the best games in the history of all sports on
Speaker 1: pomp Man. Today's episode the twenty eight to three game
Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty one. You're Patriots versus the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 1: Great game, great game. We have Danny A. Mondola born,
Speaker 1: raised in Houston, where this Super Bowl took place. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a This gonna be a good one. This
Speaker 1: was a crazy game, man. I remember where I was
Speaker 1: watching this game. I remember I remember where I was.
Speaker 1: You were making a huge ass play fourth quarter. I
Speaker 1: don't remember keep going. It was crazy, man, I mean
Speaker 1: this is I think a lot of us were rooting
Speaker 1: against the Pats here, a lot of us. I know.
Speaker 1: I thought I was like Matt Ryan's a new guy.
Speaker 1: Brady's He's finished. Belichick's finished, It's over. The Pat's rain
Speaker 1: has come to a close. And uh, you knew, I
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't know because you look. You take
Speaker 1: a look at this game, and you have the Atlanta Falcons,
Speaker 1: the number one scoring offense, Matt Ryan, the MVP, Dan Quinn,
Speaker 1: the founder of that Seattle six defense that's over here,
Speaker 1: the head coach for the Atlanta Falcons now. And then
Speaker 1: you have the on the other spectrum, you have Tom
Speaker 1: Brady on the revenge game. He was suspended earlier in
Speaker 1: the year for what, like, what is it the flake game? What?
Speaker 1: I don't even know what that even means. That he
Speaker 1: took some hair out of the ball. No, it's scientifically
Speaker 1: proven through the PSI when the temperatures are below thirty
Speaker 1: two degrees PSI drops. I mean, I watched a whole
Speaker 1: Bill Nye science guy. I'm gonna take your words for it.
Speaker 1: I have not seen that, but I mean this was
Speaker 1: this was like a heartbreaker for the Falcons. I mean
Speaker 1: the Falcons. Atlanta loves their Falcons. They they needed this.
Speaker 1: I've seen them. They walk a little differently after this.
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan just like was the MVP. This year he
Speaker 1: was MVP. I mean, he was a dude. We were
Speaker 1: like this, dude's on the rise. You know what this
Speaker 1: was for him? This is like if the movie Kill Bill,
Speaker 1: if she gets the Bill and then he kills her. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like like you're like, wow, all that for to just
Speaker 1: get killed? Yeah, That's exactly how it was. Sam and
Speaker 1: and he uh, it was unfortunate to see what has
Speaker 1: been the butterfly effect of Matt Ryan after this, But
Speaker 1: he walks differently now. He really does, he really does.
Speaker 1: I mean this is it's like if you have sex
Speaker 1: with the hottest woman of your life and you can't
Speaker 1: get hard. That's what I think this was for him.
Speaker 1: This was the biggest night and he couldn't. He couldn't
Speaker 1: get it up. He couldn't he got it up for
Speaker 1: a second. For a second, You're like, wow, he's really
Speaker 1: he's hard. He didn't have access, no no blue pills.
Speaker 1: Yeah it'll kill that'll that'll kill you. Guys were blue
Speaker 1: pilled up in that in that end of the third
Speaker 1: to the fourth through overtime, we were we were raging.
Speaker 1: You were raging, we were raging, rock hard, we were
Speaker 1: let's just say we were full dude it was. I mean,
Speaker 1: you were huge. You were huge that play you made
Speaker 1: in the end. I know some people say it was
Speaker 1: first down, you had other chances to get it, but
Speaker 1: that was that was some crazy shit. It was. It
Speaker 1: was a cool play. But what about that play with
Speaker 1: Julio Jones on the sideline making an insane catch. If
Speaker 1: they would have won the game, my catch would have
Speaker 1: been nothing, and it would have been a Julio Jones
Speaker 1: catch for the Super Bowl. So you know, I'm super
Speaker 1: excited to go over this game. Let's go back though,
Speaker 1: back to February fifth, twenty seventeen. Yeah, what was going on?
Speaker 1: I was. I was in Boston. I remember I was.
Speaker 1: Actually I was playing a comedy called Laugh Boston. I
Speaker 1: looked it up. I had a weird month. I remember,
Speaker 1: I was. I was. I was on tour opening an
Speaker 1: arenas for Amy Schumer and then also playing Jewish Community Centers. Hey,
Speaker 1: So it was like a real up and down. I'm like,
Speaker 1: a gig's a gig man. J c C needs love too, baby, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the j c C needs love. They do. Now, you
Speaker 1: were in Boston watching this game. I came back that
Speaker 1: Sunday to watch it in New York but yeah, I
Speaker 1: was in Boston. I wish you would have just got
Speaker 1: to feel. I'm so glad I got You're so glad
Speaker 1: I got out. You've never really felt this energy and
Speaker 1: probably your life. That's not true. Eli Manning. He gave
Speaker 1: it to me twice, and he gave it to you, guys, twice.
Speaker 1: He gave it to us. To Eli, he had the
Speaker 1: blue pill. That game. Dude he was. Eli was like
Speaker 1: the dude he could. He only got hard when it mattered.
Speaker 1: Eli was like every moment of his life. He was
Speaker 1: just like, I don't And then the playoffs came, and
Speaker 1: so did Giants fans. Am I right, guys? Gosh, I
Speaker 1: hate the Giants. Oh my god, it's it's such a
Speaker 1: funny thing to have over Patriots. It's so weird that
Speaker 1: we have that, you know what. I respect the Giants.
Speaker 1: Oh they were bad as Yeah, I'm gonna save it.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm saving this for the Giants. Save it.
Speaker 1: But all right, you were in Boston. You were in Houston.
Speaker 1: I was in Houston. We were both kind of working. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were both working. Number one movie, Number one movie,
Speaker 1: the Lego Batman movie. Do you ever see that? I
Speaker 1: never saw it. Did you see it? I tried to
Speaker 1: watch you with my little girl for a while. It's
Speaker 1: just it's a lot and I don't really think it's
Speaker 1: for children, really, I really do. There's like a lot
Speaker 1: of like adult humor in there. I'm sitting there, I'm like, uh,
Speaker 1: isn't that weird when they make movies. I remember I
Speaker 1: took my niece to see Ralph Breaks the Internet, and
Speaker 1: you know, at one point she starts crying. She's like,
Speaker 1: I'm scared. I'm like, you picked the fucking movie. What
Speaker 1: the hell? Yeah, this wasn't my first pick. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: that's that's a difference between uncle and dad. You let
Speaker 1: them and you gotta guide him sometimes. But we'll break
Speaker 1: that down another time. We'll break it down the other times.
Speaker 1: I never saw it. I heard people love it though
Speaker 1: bad and Bougie that's a good tune. And how many
Speaker 1: times did you see an Instagram story of a girl
Speaker 1: with you know, doing the bad and bougie? Yeah? Was
Speaker 1: TikTok around then? TikTok was just coming out? Maybe no Jack,
Speaker 1: was this TikTok there? TikTok came out twenty sixteen, twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: so this could have been on TikTok it. None of
Speaker 1: us were on TikTok yet. Absolutely absolutely that was That
Speaker 1: was a big tune, though it was a lot of
Speaker 1: butts shake into that tune. What else some ridiculous trends.
Speaker 1: How about the little salt big guy. Oh dude, he's huge.
Speaker 1: He's got like forty five million followers. He's I think
Speaker 1: more followers in Obama. How crazy? We got a fact
Speaker 1: check on that, Jack, I could be wrong, check check Instagram.
Speaker 1: It's it's because he just put salt on. Like if
Speaker 1: this was like nowadays, if he made his big hit
Speaker 1: right now during COVID, I would I don't think I
Speaker 1: would want him touching my food and then getting his
Speaker 1: forearm after he was just got a great forearm, by
Speaker 1: the way, thank you. That's that's a that's a look
Speaker 1: at that forearm. It's a good Hey. You know what
Speaker 1: reminds me of I always wanted good forums. Remember the
Speaker 1: movie Over the Top with Slvester Stallone. It was the
Speaker 1: arm wrestling one where you don't remember that movie over
Speaker 1: the Top he had. Is that a big movie? No
Speaker 1: one else here seeing it? I love I love Slide,
Speaker 1: I love slid dude. I've just never seen that one.
Speaker 1: He was an arm wrestler and he was trying to
Speaker 1: get a new semi truck so he could take his son,
Speaker 1: who I don't know. It was a great movie. We'll
Speaker 1: move on from that. We'll pull up Rotten Tomatoes show
Speaker 1: over the Top. I want I want to I want
Speaker 1: to know what we're working with here? S who else
Speaker 1: is in that one? Uh? Some young kid, the kid
Speaker 1: from one of the I don't know. David Mendenhall. Who
Speaker 1: do we got Jack? We got David Mendenhall. It's saying
Speaker 1: thirty two on Rotten Tomatoes. I mean rotten Tomato. You
Speaker 1: gotta pay Rotten Tomatoes to get a good score. And
Speaker 1: back then, I don't know. I love stallone, Copland, Rocky
Speaker 1: creed All that he's a legend. What what else have
Speaker 1: we got here coming out? Oh? Wow? We had the
Speaker 1: romp him the romper for men? That's that wasn't a trend?
Speaker 1: Who had we have the link? Can we see this?
Speaker 1: The romp him a romper for men? I kid you not, guys,
Speaker 1: this is not did you ever do one of these? No?
Speaker 1: But I was with Rob Nikovich this past Saturday and
Speaker 1: he was wearing a pineapple romper at his barbecue, you
Speaker 1: that he wore, and then I would we had some
Speaker 1: Rhode Island. You know people over there that that are
Speaker 1: Fromode Island. And I guess if you're wearing pineapples, that
Speaker 1: means you're a swinger. Wow. And then if you go
Speaker 1: to like a grocery store, why why is pineapple? I
Speaker 1: have no clue, But I guess if you go to
Speaker 1: a grocery store and if you see someone with the
Speaker 1: upside down pineapple in their cart, that means they're down.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, I gotta start going to the grocery store
Speaker 1: just just lingering in the whole foods. Dude, you better
Speaker 1: put that pineapple upside down. That's you know some you know,
Speaker 1: some old ladies like, oh, look at that lovely pineapple.
Speaker 1: Sure she doesn't know, she has no clue, there's no
Speaker 1: idea what she let you introduce her? Uh? What the
Speaker 1: romper men and rompers to me is like if that's
Speaker 1: the last imagine being at the urinal on a dude.
Speaker 1: He's taking it off. But is it a one piece
Speaker 1: or is it just a two is? I think it's
Speaker 1: a two piece. No, it's a one piece. Not not
Speaker 1: for men, not for men, yeah, I think I may
Speaker 1: have gotta go. You gotta have aye. The women's bath
Speaker 1: I have worn one, you've worn one. I think I
Speaker 1: have all right. I don't mean to shame here. It's
Speaker 1: all right. We don't shame him. This is a we
Speaker 1: don't we canceled canceling on this podcast. The game day,
Speaker 1: game day tweets, game day tweets. Day of the game,
Speaker 1: Julian tweeted game day hashtag won more, hashtag let's go.
Speaker 1: And this week of the game, Sam did not tweet
Speaker 1: or he probably got it scrubbed. I probably got it scrubbed.
Speaker 1: That probably wrote something racist or misogynistic. And you know, hey,
Speaker 1: comedy is comedy. Hey, it's hard to pay those bills.
Speaker 1: I'm just, you know what, I just I'm trying to
Speaker 1: protect the future here. Hey, that aren't we all. Let's
Speaker 1: get into the teams. The twenty sixteen New England Patriots
Speaker 1: fourteen and two. That's pretty damn good. Lost one first
Speaker 1: four when Brady was out against I think the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: And then week was this when Garoppolo was qban. Garoppolo
Speaker 1: came in first three, he heard his shoulder and the
Speaker 1: Jacoby Burssett came in and we won that. He finished
Speaker 1: the third game, we lost, ended up losing to the
Speaker 1: fourth game, but no one could play because Jacoby broke
Speaker 1: his thumb or something that I don't know. You won
Speaker 1: the AFC East for the eighth consecutive year best scoring defense. Brady,
Speaker 1: as you said, suspended four games because of deflake Gate. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, damn, this is a speculation, this would be
Speaker 1: that this would be Brady's last run. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: this is crazy. I remember thinking, like, I guess Brady
Speaker 1: is done. Did you guys ever think that? Or no,
Speaker 1: you had a feeling he could have gone forever here.
Speaker 1: I was hoping he was gonna go forever. I was
Speaker 1: always you know, they train you over there to have
Speaker 1: everything like blinders on, worry about what's going on now.
Speaker 1: And yes there was rumbles and talks of what's gonna
Speaker 1: happen potentially, But like, did he seem irked by that? Ah?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't. He's got He's got unbelievable
Speaker 1: partmentalization skills. So like, Brady's the same kind of guy
Speaker 1: every day when he comes in. Now there's a select
Speaker 1: few of people that know him, and he'll open up
Speaker 1: too but like for everyone, like Brady is like the
Speaker 1: ultimate leader. You know, he comes in. Did you have
Speaker 1: a rock of pineapple romper in the green room? I
Speaker 1: don't think he. I don't think he did. Just why
Speaker 1: did you say the greenroom? I'm a moron in the
Speaker 1: locker room. Locker room? Hey man, it's that's that's your
Speaker 1: locker room, though, the green room is your locker room. True,
Speaker 1: you know, is there green room talk? There's greenroom talk
Speaker 1: because there's locker room talk. Yeah, yeah, all heard that.
Speaker 1: I would hope. I mean, that would be weird if
Speaker 1: you kept at PG in in this this year. Didn't.
Speaker 1: Wasn't that like a huge thing about locker room talk
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen with Trump and stuff? Yeah? I think so,
Speaker 1: the locker room talk. But let's let's jump over to
Speaker 1: the Falcons. Yeah, twenty sixteen Falcons eleven and five. They
Speaker 1: were hot. They lost. The crazy thing is both these
Speaker 1: two teams twenty sixteen Pats and Falcons lost to Seattle. Hmm,
Speaker 1: that's crazy. Crazy. Dan Quinn's second years as a head
Speaker 1: coach came over from Seattle, implicated that awesome defense that
Speaker 1: helped them partnered with that great offense with Matt Ryan,
Speaker 1: Julio Jones, Momo, Devonte Freeman. Like this was a stout,
Speaker 1: crazy team. Little side note, Kyle Shanahan's last game was
Speaker 1: going to San Francisco. Does this lead into like does
Speaker 1: this This kind of made me think because I remember
Speaker 1: when Billy O'Brien we were in the Super Bowl in
Speaker 1: twenty eleven, going playing in Indianapolis and he was leaving.
Speaker 1: He knew he was leaving to Penn State. This was
Speaker 1: the collapse that they had going in from the third
Speaker 1: quarter in the offense kind of had it, you know, sputtered.
Speaker 1: Was Kyle Shanahan's mind already in San Francisco. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Does this affect the team? Kind of does it? I
Speaker 1: don't know, but Billy O'Brien did it. We ended up
Speaker 1: losing that Super Bowl. It kind of reminds me of that.
Speaker 1: So this is the biggest comeback in Super Bowl history.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that? Is that going through your head?
Speaker 1: I'm thinking the locker room, you're down I think twenty
Speaker 1: one to three, but then there's two and a half
Speaker 1: three minutes left in the third quarter, you're down twenty
Speaker 1: eight to three. Is there a point where you were
Speaker 1: like we lost. Nah, but after that twenty eight to three,
Speaker 1: Y're sitting there like, we can't mess up anymore. What's
Speaker 1: the vibe in the locker room? You know that was
Speaker 1: a raw rock guy. You know it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: hell of a story. Come on, guys. You know everyone
Speaker 1: was pretty much focused in. You know, the coaches were
Speaker 1: doing a good job kind of settling guys down, like, hey,
Speaker 1: we were moving the football. We just need to tighten
Speaker 1: things up. We had three things we had to do
Speaker 1: in this game that were like specific coaching points. We
Speaker 1: couldn't turn the ball over. We had a pick six
Speaker 1: and we turned the ball over with Legarrett Blunt on
Speaker 1: a drive going into the end zone or going into
Speaker 1: scoring area. We had to score in the red area.
Speaker 1: We didn't do that. We kicked a field goal in
Speaker 1: the first half, and we threw a pick six in
Speaker 1: the red area. And we had to do well on
Speaker 1: third down, and I don't think our third down numbers
Speaker 1: were good by any means in the first two and
Speaker 1: a half quarters. So like we were playing the game
Speaker 1: the way we couldn't play to beat a very good
Speaker 1: football team. In order to combat a really good offense,
Speaker 1: you got to keep that other defense on the field,
Speaker 1: and we were not doing that. But we knew if
Speaker 1: we tightened things up, we played one play at a
Speaker 1: time like we were moving the ball. We were doing
Speaker 1: pretty well. It's just we weren't finishing drives. We had
Speaker 1: one play mess up. And that's the thing with football.
Speaker 1: It's an ultimate team sport. Eleven men have to do
Speaker 1: their job at the same time for six seconds, and
Speaker 1: if one guy messes up, it could be a colossal
Speaker 1: fuck up. This becomes the fifth Super Bowl for the Patriots. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one for the thumb. Does this make Tom Brady the goat?
Speaker 1: He becomes the all time leader in Super Bowls for
Speaker 1: a quarterback. Belichick becomes the all time leader of Super
Speaker 1: Bowls for a coach? Sam, is it annoying that Patriots
Speaker 1: are just winning and doing anyse things? As a New
Speaker 1: York fan, I think you're breeding some obnoxious kids in Boston.
Speaker 1: I think I think when you look at how much
Speaker 1: they've wont it's not just your fault. The Red Sox
Speaker 1: are winning, the Bruins, you know, the Celtics. The Celtics
Speaker 1: got yeah they got one, and yeah, I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: it's your breeding. An annoying an annoying fan base of
Speaker 1: kids who are entitled and expect greatness. I mean, I'll
Speaker 1: put it this way. I'm Knicks, Yankees, Rangers, Giants. The
Speaker 1: Knicks losing throughout my childhood gave me a sense of humility,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. The Yankees Yankees fans got
Speaker 1: too cocky because you kind of had that expectation. I
Speaker 1: think they I think they lost their stripes Yankees fans. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they've lost the stripes. They haven't. They haven't lost it. No,
Speaker 1: they're in first place right now. They're doing great there,
Speaker 1: they're rocking. But you know, uh no, Yeah, it annoyed me.
Speaker 1: I expected you guys to lose. I didn't think you're
Speaker 1: gonna come back. I mean the fact that this Brady
Speaker 1: become the goat this game, right, I mean, that's the
Speaker 1: that's the crazy thing. He's probably the goat here and
Speaker 1: then he keeps playing it is weird. I thought he
Speaker 1: was the goat before though. On four. Yeah, because he
Speaker 1: did in a free agent era. He did it. He
Speaker 1: didn't he did in a free agent era like back
Speaker 1: in the day when Bradshaw Montana, you know, and Aikman
Speaker 1: when he got three these these quarterbacks a lot of
Speaker 1: these teams were bought. There was no salary cap. There
Speaker 1: was like free agency was lacking, and and Tom went
Speaker 1: through two different you know teams. You know, he had
Speaker 1: the first generation Pats where he won three. Then this
Speaker 1: is his second with the second generation Pats. Then he
Speaker 1: goes on to win it, you know, in the future
Speaker 1: another one. So like, I don't know, that's a hot take.
Speaker 1: Everyone wants to talk about it, but I mean it's
Speaker 1: hard to do it with different teams. What was I
Speaker 1: mean the energy going into overtime when you guys tie it,
Speaker 1: I mean that was insane. You're down, uh, twenty twenty
Speaker 1: eight to twelve at a certain point. So then it's like,
Speaker 1: all right, it's a two possession game, mister field goal. Right,
Speaker 1: so it's twenty it's twenty twenty eight to twelve. You
Speaker 1: have to do two touchdowns and to two point conversions,
Speaker 1: which is very hard. That's what people don't realize. The
Speaker 1: two point conversion. Getting one is very hard. It's just
Speaker 1: for some reason, it's always extremely hard. There's less space,
Speaker 1: there's less area in the red area, especially on the two.
Speaker 1: You got guys pinned back ready to go at it
Speaker 1: to get two. That was pretty insane. But to have
Speaker 1: the blinders on, like I said, and guys believing if
Speaker 1: we just do one play at a time. You know,
Speaker 1: once we got that ball in halftime, we knew we
Speaker 1: were winning. We knew we were winning. The only thing
Speaker 1: worse than the Falcons collapse in the Super Bowl was
Speaker 1: the Kendall Jenner commercial. You remember that, the Pepsi one
Speaker 1: whereas it's like the protesters and the cops and she
Speaker 1: hands a cop a pepsi. You know that's just and
Speaker 1: that's supposed to say. Everyone's like, oh, we could drink pepsi.
Speaker 1: This is like, this was the beginning of like Twitter
Speaker 1: really being like you idiot, what are you doing. They're
Speaker 1: remaking this one and Kiev where she hands one to
Speaker 1: the Russian military and it really saves everything. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Jenners, they just they're there, world savers. They are
Speaker 1: world savers. Jenners and Kardashians. Yeah, everyone's trying to be
Speaker 1: like them. Everyone's trying to look like them, ever trying
Speaker 1: to be with them. This was kind of the beginning
Speaker 1: of Kendall in the public eye. I feel like too,
Speaker 1: this was like her, Yeah, this was her her starting
Speaker 1: point and of her going on, and Kendall is the
Speaker 1: one that ruins basketball player's careers, right, I think so,
Speaker 1: I mean I think they all do. I think that's
Speaker 1: like the Kardashian curse, right, so Kardashian Jenner, Yeah, both
Speaker 1: of them. It's a slash. It's a slash hyphenated or
Speaker 1: is a slashed? No, I don't think it's Is it hyphenate? No,
Speaker 1: it's slash. It's a slash. It's definitely slash. But you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: she dated book or who else did she date? She?
Speaker 1: I think they just ruined everybody. Simmons and Men's. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's tough. Blake Griffin. Blake also just played at a
Speaker 1: crazy physical level. I mean he's you know, yeah, but
Speaker 1: they started dating. Then he got traded to Detroit. That's
Speaker 1: tough from La La, Like, I'm not a big La guy.
Speaker 1: But Detroit, Oh, Detroit's actually pretty fun. I mean everything's
Speaker 1: pretty fun for you. You You have a good life, yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know Detroit, you go there, you feel American.
Speaker 1: You see nothing about nothing but American in La over
Speaker 1: Detroit for a reason. Yeah, my child lives here, sam
Speaker 1: my child. But if your child moved to Detroit, you'd
Speaker 1: be like shit, dude, I'd be so happy. Have you
Speaker 1: had Detroit style pizza? It's like square pizza. It is
Speaker 1: great pizza. It's really good pizza. I'm not I've had
Speaker 1: great times in Detroit. I wouldn't want to live in Detroit. Hey, man,
Speaker 1: you know it's the heartland. It's the heartland. Making sure
Speaker 1: not to alienate listeners here. How many? How many? What
Speaker 1: if you got traded at the Detroit Lions, would you
Speaker 1: be happy? Who's the quarterback? Is this Stafford? Sure? Hey,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. You'd rather the Tom Brady New England Patriots.
Speaker 1: Was Tom in New England when I got traded? Yeah,
Speaker 1: then that'd be Yeah. I mean it's different. It's different.
Speaker 1: I mean that's apples and oranges. Sam, all right, you know,
Speaker 1: work and living. I refuse to believe you'd be happy
Speaker 1: to go to there's a crazy Hi. There's some nice areas,
Speaker 1: sure I've been. It's I've had great times in Detroit.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying Detroit rock city. Man. Yeah. How many
Speaker 1: memes did you see on this? A lot of? Man?
Speaker 1: Twenty eight to three. I still see it the scoreboard.
Speaker 1: They won't the date. The Falcons will never live this down.
Speaker 1: That's what's tough is like, we all know how hard
Speaker 1: it is. And by we all, I mean you to
Speaker 1: get to the super Bowl, it's it's hard. It's very
Speaker 1: They make it to the super Bowl, and to lose
Speaker 1: in to be this close and to lose, that's that's
Speaker 1: honestly the worst as an athlete. Yeah, Like, you rather
Speaker 1: lose in the AFC Championship. Of course, you got to
Speaker 1: lose in the first round. You lose in the super Bowl,
Speaker 1: it ruins your whole offseason. You have a taste in
Speaker 1: the back of your throat that you just can't get
Speaker 1: rid of. He was thinking about top Matt Ryan was
Speaker 1: picturing hoisting the trophy. You know, it was in his mind.
Speaker 1: You know, they had those T shirts a ready coming out, Yeah,
Speaker 1: before they shipped them to a third world country where
Speaker 1: they think the Falcons roughed you guys up. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: the thing is, we did see people start coming on
Speaker 1: the sideline, and I bet that fired you up. I
Speaker 1: mean we're like, what are we doing? What? What are
Speaker 1: we doing? You can't do that, but hey, I feel
Speaker 1: like Tom is also a dude that if you give
Speaker 1: him any fuel, any anything, any fuel. Did he say
Speaker 1: anything in the locker room at halftime. No, he's Tom's
Speaker 1: He's got to stay level minded because everyone's watching them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know he and then sometimes when you're that like big,
Speaker 1: he can't. He can't go and raw rock guys all
Speaker 1: the time because it could make him freeze. You know,
Speaker 1: they get all scared. It's Tom Brady. The guys been
Speaker 1: watching them since they were like two, and then now
Speaker 1: they're playing on the same team with them. And this
Speaker 1: was like five years ago and I can only met
Speaker 1: there's like kids that aren't even born five years into
Speaker 1: their career now that are playing with them. But it's nuts. Now,
Speaker 1: he didn't do that. It's been in the league as
Speaker 1: long as one of his teammates has been alive. Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think multiple, Yeah, it's crazy multiple. Yeah, dude's got
Speaker 1: a he's got he's got some durability pliability. I guess
Speaker 1: I just picture him. I've seen too many football movies
Speaker 1: where I just picture him being like, you pussies need
Speaker 1: to make us proud, and you're like, but he doesn't.
Speaker 1: He doesn't do that. It wasn't like that. No, there's
Speaker 1: other guys for that. There's other guys for that. And
Speaker 1: did anyone talk up and say like, what do you got?
Speaker 1: You guys want to you guys want to be a
Speaker 1: disgrace that you guys want to lose to Atlanta. No,
Speaker 1: it's it's that's kind of raw rock college stuff. Oh okay.
Speaker 1: You know in the pros, especially with the team teams
Speaker 1: that I wrote that I was on with the Patriots,
Speaker 1: they bring in good guys, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: A lot of it is like the psychological the psychological
Speaker 1: makeup of a lot of these guys are like hard
Speaker 1: working dudes. That team guys. You know, there wasn't a
Speaker 1: lot of divas, so it wasn't really like that. It
Speaker 1: was like we have to focus up or you know,
Speaker 1: it's going to be a shitty day. How about Belichick?
Speaker 1: What did he say? Belichick doesn't like he's very good
Speaker 1: at understanding what his team needs and when they need it.
Speaker 1: So if they're doing really well, he's going to cut
Speaker 1: you down. Wow, if you're doing if you guys are
Speaker 1: blowing a team out, well we could have done this,
Speaker 1: we kind of done we could do this. But if
Speaker 1: we're doing it's a pretty good Belichick there. Hey, I
Speaker 1: was around him for a long time and yeah, and
Speaker 1: so but if the team is doing shitty like he's
Speaker 1: going to give you the answers what he thinks it
Speaker 1: is that we have to do all right, fellas, we
Speaker 1: gotta do this. We got to tighten it up. It's
Speaker 1: very this is you know, this is this is work,
Speaker 1: this is a business. This isn't you know the program
Speaker 1: or or you know the old movies, any given Sunday
Speaker 1: or that's a good one. And again it was Sunday Solid.
Speaker 1: That was really good. Jamie Fox, Willie Steamen Beaman, come on, man,
Speaker 1: Willy Beaman, keep the girl. I like how that movie
Speaker 1: they had to be like this, like the Something Sharks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because the NFL clearly will not like clearly not just
Speaker 1: doing blow and banging women and chopping cars in half.
Speaker 1: Remember the show playmakers, Yes, three end, Yes, well they did.
Speaker 1: That was another one where they couldn't use NFL teams
Speaker 1: because it was like dudes beating their wives and stuff
Speaker 1: and uh, what's his name? That was the whole plot.
Speaker 1: First off, the tight end is gay on that show.
Speaker 1: That was all which like a little on the nose,
Speaker 1: but uh, the tight end come on, and then uh
Speaker 1: then uh the running back beat his wife and he's
Speaker 1: like it's a war on the field. You're telling me
Speaker 1: it can't be award home and you're like, yeah, of
Speaker 1: course you gotta you gotta not do that at home
Speaker 1: to a got it. I mean, if we look at
Speaker 1: the track record, it doesn't look like it was far off. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: it was a great show, didn't I didn't watch it
Speaker 1: was my makers back in the day. It was on ESPN.
Speaker 1: I think, wasn't it You remember that right Manney making? Yeah,
Speaker 1: cougars and then uh yeah, any given Sunday is great, though, great,
Speaker 1: that's a classic Pacino. Life is a game of it.
Speaker 1: See that's what I picture Belichick being like life is
Speaker 1: a game of inches, you know, which he wouldn't do. Nah.
Speaker 1: He's more of like, we got a block, and he
Speaker 1: does this weird handclap like where or he is like
Speaker 1: a podium and he hits the podium with his hand
Speaker 1: and I look at that and I'm like, it's gotta hurt.
Speaker 1: It's gotta hurt. Every time he goes we had block,
Speaker 1: you had to tackle, and you're like, that's all we really,
Speaker 1: that's it. Yeah, And then we do those things and
Speaker 1: we end up winning, and it's like, oh fuck, it's
Speaker 1: not that hard. It keeps it simple. You think of
Speaker 1: the movies and like Pacino in any given Sunday, he goes,
Speaker 1: he goes a little too hard on that speech where
Speaker 1: he's like, I made every remember the thing where he goes,
Speaker 1: I made every young choice a middle aged man could make.
Speaker 1: And you're like, why are you saying this far? This
Speaker 1: seems a little too much. Nah, But there are coaches
Speaker 1: like that that are you know, like who Billy O'Brien. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was a very hearty guy. You know, he's the
Speaker 1: head coach or he was the head coach of the
Speaker 1: Houston Texans and Penn State. Did they like that? You
Speaker 1: think some guys do. But you know then sometimes you
Speaker 1: got a guy making twenty million dollars sitting here looking
Speaker 1: at a guy yelling at him saying, hey, fuck you dude,
Speaker 1: shut up. Yeah, you know what I mean. So like
Speaker 1: it's uh, and we didn't have many of those guys,
Speaker 1: but there it's just they got cut. Probably if you
Speaker 1: had an a get cut. It's just if they were
Speaker 1: going to invest in someone, it was going to probably
Speaker 1: be in a guy that's not going to be a problem. Distractions.
Speaker 1: But let's get over to the gaming Corner presented by
Speaker 1: win Bett. The betting lines of this game Patriots were
Speaker 1: minus three won that one. Yeah, over and under fifty
Speaker 1: three to one Patriots. What is mL money money line? Geez,
Speaker 1: I'm on a gambling show. This is a gambling segment.
Speaker 1: Are you a gambler? Not a big gambler? I don't
Speaker 1: like losing money. I gambled once and we all saw
Speaker 1: how that went one hundred K down the toilet. Not cool.
Speaker 1: But let's do our prop bet. Bet with your heart.
Speaker 1: That's the problem. If you bet with your heart, you
Speaker 1: should be betting with your head, right, Yeah, I know
Speaker 1: your heart? You always? I mean, dude, if I if
Speaker 1: I bet with my heart, I'd never win. So but
Speaker 1: then the one time you try to bet with your head,
Speaker 1: you lose too. Do you think? So? Always? What's this
Speaker 1: prop bet going to be? I don't know what should
Speaker 1: we do? How many? How many times you can say, hmmm,
Speaker 1: how many times will Danny bring up you gotta believe?
Speaker 1: Gotta believe any of those? You think he'll say that
Speaker 1: a lot? I think get them. I think we can
Speaker 1: get the over under has got to be three, okay,
Speaker 1: maybe two? Two? You gotta believe is a decent amount.
Speaker 1: Let's go with two. You gotta believe. Two. You gotta believes.
Speaker 1: Today we're gonna be joined by Danny Amminbrola A Mondola.
Speaker 1: I mean, before we talk to Danny A Mondola, Let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break, and we are here. The most
Speaker 1: anticipated guest thus far here on Games with Names, the handsome,
Speaker 1: the clutch, the two time Super Bowl champ, one of
Speaker 1: the coolest dudes I know. I swear to God, Eagles BFFs, Eagles, Rams, Patriots, Dolphins, Lions, Texans.
Speaker 1: That's the teams he played for. Guys, he's played for
Speaker 1: a lot. They call him a journeyman. He's also got
Speaker 1: an unbelievable smile. Danny A. Mindola, Welcome to Games with Names,
Speaker 1: presented by when Bett. How are you doing. I'm great, brother,
Speaker 1: How are you doing? Thanks for having me. You know
Speaker 1: I'm doing I'm doing better now that you're here. You know,
Speaker 1: Chris Long was good. I don't know if we're supposed
Speaker 1: to be talking about that on your episode because this
Speaker 1: is dedicated to you and Super Bowl fifty one. Is
Speaker 1: that Muhammad Ali wallpaper behind you? Yes, sir, Wow, that's
Speaker 1: pretty cool. Yeah, we're in my Sturry no, Sam, That's
Speaker 1: what he is. If you want, if you want to,
Speaker 1: if you want to be cool, go hang out with
Speaker 1: him for one day. I'm trying to. We got him
Speaker 1: on the show. I'm excited. I've heard so much about
Speaker 1: Danny from Jewels. I mean, this is this is an
Speaker 1: exciting game to have you on because this is the
Speaker 1: twenty eight to three game. I mean, you balled out
Speaker 1: in this game. Balld out. This playoff Danny being playoff Danny,
Speaker 1: And this is playoff Danny being playoff Danny. About fourteen
Speaker 1: to sixteen miles away from the Woodlands where he grew up,
Speaker 1: born and raised All state baseball player. He may have
Speaker 1: played a couple of basketball games, don't know, played a
Speaker 1: lot of football out of five a school. Then he
Speaker 1: goes to Texas. This guy's mister Texas. And then he
Speaker 1: goes to play in one of the most infamous football
Speaker 1: games in the history of the National Football League in
Speaker 1: his hometown stadium and has what did he have? He
Speaker 1: had four catches? What do you have, Jack Dola? Eight
Speaker 1: catches seventy eight yards, a tuddy and a two point conversion.
Speaker 1: And aw that was a big two point conversion too.
Speaker 1: You guys needed. Yeah, we were down by a lot.
Speaker 1: The best thing about that whole week was building a
Speaker 1: bro jo in one of my best friend's garage. So
Speaker 1: every pretty much after every practice, Julian and I and
Speaker 1: Foxboro will go back to our house, one of our
Speaker 1: houses and play ping pong to where it's sick in
Speaker 1: the head, I mean, dip spit everywhere, shirts off, sweating, dusting,
Speaker 1: but nobody, I mean, we're in the basement in a
Speaker 1: Foxboro place. So we had to kind of duplicate that
Speaker 1: in Houston. So I called up one of my best
Speaker 1: friends who lives like a couple miles from the stadium,
Speaker 1: and I was like, bro, he's meanwhile, his wife is pregnant,
Speaker 1: like eight seven eight months pregnant with their first child.
Speaker 1: We in fact build a bro Joe den in his
Speaker 1: garage so we can kind of emulate a regular week
Speaker 1: of practice for us. So we kind of turned his
Speaker 1: his garage, put a pink pong table in it, put
Speaker 1: a couch in there, put a couple of tables, and
Speaker 1: then next thing you know, me and Julian we brought
Speaker 1: Gronk over there. All my high school buddies came over
Speaker 1: and we were just chilling kind of emulating a normal week,
Speaker 1: which was one of the best memories I've had from
Speaker 1: that game. But I mean, you guys saw how that
Speaker 1: game turned out. It was just a long night for us.
Speaker 1: We were running, we ran, we probably I probably lost
Speaker 1: ten pounds that game of just waterway just sweating. I got.
Speaker 1: I remember I got four ivy total of the whole game,
Speaker 1: two before and then two at halftime, and I got
Speaker 1: one of those recently, but it was for a hangover.
Speaker 1: But those work for hangovers. Now, how come there were?
Speaker 1: How come there was? How come you were so tired
Speaker 1: in this game? Why? Why? Why? Why would that occur?
Speaker 1: Aren't you guys like and how were you guys prepared
Speaker 1: for it? Danny? We were, Well, we knew they were
Speaker 1: gonna play a lot of man coverage on you know,
Speaker 1: second third down, so we knew we were going to
Speaker 1: be have running routes as opposed to sitting down in
Speaker 1: zones kind of working at a slower pacing zone route.
Speaker 1: So we knew we were gonna be running all night.
Speaker 1: But thank god that the halftime was so long. I
Speaker 1: guess the halftime is twenty minutes as opposed to whatever
Speaker 1: the ten eight minutes we get at a normal game,
Speaker 1: because I was in there, I got I got a bag,
Speaker 1: and I said, we had enough time to get to
Speaker 1: get two bags of ivy just to get all the
Speaker 1: liquids back in. But we were running all all night.
Speaker 1: And then also with the amount of plays, I think
Speaker 1: we played what one hundred and five off offensive snaps,
Speaker 1: which an average is usually like sixty, So we had
Speaker 1: to go out and pretty much sprint one hundred and
Speaker 1: five times. Is that because your defense was getting killed?
Speaker 1: Well that no, it was because our defense was getting
Speaker 1: the ball back for us. Remember in the second half,
Speaker 1: Oh right, they were getting us the ball back, so
Speaker 1: they were keeping their offense off the field, and it
Speaker 1: lined up where we had to run a lot. What
Speaker 1: do we got, Jack? Ninety nine offensive snaps? Ninety nine
Speaker 1: offensive snaps? Jack, Danny, I'm curious. I mean, you're you're
Speaker 1: back home for this big game? Was it? Is it
Speaker 1: stressful having all your friends around that week leading up
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl? Maybe a time where you want
Speaker 1: to mentally prepare. It was probably it was a close.
Speaker 1: It was my close. So it was like three or
Speaker 1: four guys that came over and that's pretty much it.
Speaker 1: But you know, it swept for tickets though. Oh man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I bought as many tickets as I could. I got
Speaker 1: thirty seven tickets, and we had to pay for all
Speaker 1: of them. And I didn't make any of my friends
Speaker 1: pay me. I just kind of gave them out and
Speaker 1: hoping it I ended up in a ditch somewhere one day,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be there to pull me out. But uh
Speaker 1: we uh we have you ever kill a hooker by accident?
Speaker 1: That friend has got to help you, barrier what I said,
Speaker 1: I got, I got thirty seven, thirty seven motherfuckers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't forget. But yeah, another thing to add on
Speaker 1: onto why we were so spent that night, tired, just
Speaker 1: because the way the swing, this, the way the game
Speaker 1: flow was going, we were we were down by a lot.
Speaker 1: They were running the ball, you know, their receivers were chilling.
Speaker 1: We were down, so we had to we had to
Speaker 1: throw the ball, spread it out, throw it out, try
Speaker 1: to get chunk yarders plays and and you have we
Speaker 1: our most comfortable set to do that in was you know,
Speaker 1: three white outs, sometimes four white out sets, so we
Speaker 1: could stretch the field and make chunks. But yeah, we
Speaker 1: were I remember I remember somewhere in the third or
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, was I we had I mean your face,
Speaker 1: you know, you're covered in snot like nob he gives
Speaker 1: a shit about anything. You're bleeding, like you like Julian
Speaker 1: had dip all over his beard, like it was like
Speaker 1: eye black was running in your eyes. Like it was
Speaker 1: like nobody gave a shit except let's get to the
Speaker 1: next series. Let's hit to the next drive with as
Speaker 1: much energy as we possibly can. Do you remember any
Speaker 1: specific scouting reports about this defense that was so damn
Speaker 1: stout in that first half, even though we were kind
Speaker 1: of moving the ball and we turned it over twice.
Speaker 1: Do you remember anything specifically in the preparation. Well, we
Speaker 1: knew that we knew they were going to play a
Speaker 1: lot of Cover three and they played that Seattle defense
Speaker 1: that we faced the year before. They had dan Quinn.
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn, they had the same coordinators they had. They
Speaker 1: had a big, a big down safety presence with Pool.
Speaker 1: I think thirty seven was the post safety. Uh we weren't.
Speaker 1: We offered Alford was their best corner who matched up
Speaker 1: on Julian all night. And then they were down true
Speaker 1: font who got injured previously in the season. So they
Speaker 1: put thirty two in I can't remember his name, and
Speaker 1: then Pool was in the slot number thirty four, who
Speaker 1: we felt we matched up. I thought I matched up
Speaker 1: great against and and they were a good team. They
Speaker 1: they you know, they they prided themselves on, uh stopping
Speaker 1: the run with the down safety. So they're going to
Speaker 1: play a lot of Cover three. They're gonna leave some
Speaker 1: open gaps if we could get to them in the
Speaker 1: passing game. And then once we start spreading them out,
Speaker 1: they started switching to more you know, two man, a
Speaker 1: little bit more post safety man coverage when we started
Speaker 1: running a lot of passing plays. So let's get into
Speaker 1: the game. So the beginning part of the game, first
Speaker 1: drive will be three and out. It I don't even
Speaker 1: remember three out it. I feel like it was a
Speaker 1: shitty first drive. Yeah. I think we three and outed
Speaker 1: like the first three, three or four and we're no.
Speaker 1: Then we started driving, right we started off, Yeah, we
Speaker 1: started off fairly slow. Yeah, well the first quarter was
Speaker 1: scoreless entirely. Yeah, it was scoreless. But what were the
Speaker 1: three things? Do you remember what Bill used to say
Speaker 1: at the beginning this game, the three things we needed
Speaker 1: to do to do in this game to win this game.
Speaker 1: Play smart, specifically smart, tough, fundamentally sound football. No, remember
Speaker 1: he I mean he did definitely say that. He always said, Remember, like,
Speaker 1: all right, this game's gonna come down to three things.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, third down, you're gonna have to do good.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to score points in the red area, touchdowns,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna have to not turn the ball over.
Speaker 1: First half, what we do all three of those things.
Speaker 1: We turned the ball over pick six in the red area.
Speaker 1: Then we go and freaking we're driving into scoring territory
Speaker 1: and Legarrett you know, got smoked and you know, fumbled,
Speaker 1: and then we were just turning the ball over and
Speaker 1: we weren't scoring in the red area. What did what
Speaker 1: was going on in the locker? I black out during games,
Speaker 1: so I don't even remember what went on in the halftime.
Speaker 1: So do all your fans in Boston. By the way,
Speaker 1: he's from Boston, he's from Situate. Oh is it not really?
Speaker 1: But kind of yeah, So yeah, you're down by this much,
Speaker 1: it's twenty one three. Yeah at halftime? Yeah, there was
Speaker 1: really not a whole lot. Do you could say, I mean,
Speaker 1: there is there's two things that what is one thing
Speaker 1: that you hit that I remember, what is one thing
Speaker 1: you would always say? Well, what is one thing that
Speaker 1: you always say that I made up all the time?
Speaker 1: I mean, gotta believe. I couldn't hear you what I
Speaker 1: made that up? By the way, what what made what up?
Speaker 1: I made that up? What did you make up? Gotta believe?
Speaker 1: Who's gotta believe? Though, Who's gotta believe? We gotta believe?
Speaker 1: So is that what you said in the locker room?
Speaker 1: You're just like, Oh, you gotta believe. This is what
Speaker 1: we gotta do. Believe? What were you specifically doing in
Speaker 1: the locker room at halftime after getting ivs. There's two
Speaker 1: things I remember being in the locker room after I
Speaker 1: got my IV One coach said it's gonna take a
Speaker 1: lot more than what twenty four points to beat us tonight.
Speaker 1: And then the other thing I remember is Julian walking around.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he had his shirt off for reasons.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I don't know why his patrio off
Speaker 1: at this time, but he was it was hot. He
Speaker 1: was saying, Oh, this is gonna be a hell of
Speaker 1: a story. Boys, this is gonna be a hell of
Speaker 1: a story. Wow, that's awesome. And what would I say
Speaker 1: after that, it's gonna be a hell of a story.
Speaker 1: It turned out to be a hell of a story.
Speaker 1: But then I would also say my my infamous saying
Speaker 1: that I made up. We gotta believe, Yeah, we gotta believe.
Speaker 1: We'll kind it. But uh, there's no chance you made
Speaker 1: that up, fully made that up. So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I love that you're being robber in the locker room,
Speaker 1: that you're being positive. That's such good energy, you know,
Speaker 1: But once it hits twenty eight to three, is any
Speaker 1: part of you like, maybe this isn't our game? Is
Speaker 1: it any part of you thinking that? Or no, don't lie,
Speaker 1: don't lie, Danny, don't lie. Danny. Haame's on the sideline saying,
Speaker 1: what the fuck, guys, this is gonna be the worst
Speaker 1: offseason ever. We're not even gonna get to do anything.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, I'm probably not even be here next year.
Speaker 1: What were what was really going through your mind? Danny?
Speaker 1: Give me the real shit. I want to hear this
Speaker 1: fantistically one guy and your team had to be like
Speaker 1: you blew it? You blewed like that was probably Chris Long. Honestly, yo,
Speaker 1: we were we get I mean, I've been down in
Speaker 1: games before, and I've gotten you know, killed in games before,
Speaker 1: but I was like, this is the super Bowl, everybody's
Speaker 1: watching this, and we better scored just so we don't
Speaker 1: get run out of the building, honestly, because we were
Speaker 1: down by so much. And and I remember it was
Speaker 1: I think it was like a I think it was four.
Speaker 1: It was a fourth down in the third quarter, and
Speaker 1: I had caught it out like a ten yard out
Speaker 1: as ghost right, so it caught a ten yard out
Speaker 1: on the play, And I was like, it was at
Speaker 1: that point, was so tired, and I felt like my
Speaker 1: back was completely against I thought I was digging myself
Speaker 1: out of a hole. And at that point, we're just
Speaker 1: trying to focus on one play after another. Just don't
Speaker 1: don't fuck up so we don't have to hear that
Speaker 1: shit from Bill and we could keep rolling and and
Speaker 1: that that that goes to show you the strength of
Speaker 1: the football team. Like that's how a lot of guys felt.
Speaker 1: A lot of guys were like, you know, we're not
Speaker 1: We're not out of this thing yet. That's how most
Speaker 1: that's how the team felt like it's gonna take more.
Speaker 1: We knew that we had to pick up some things,
Speaker 1: of course, but like we were driving the decently and
Speaker 1: we When you play in the Super Bowl, the rhythm
Speaker 1: of that game is tough, right, Yeah, Well, the whole
Speaker 1: time I'm looking at the clock in relation to the score,
Speaker 1: and I think it's it was like it read three
Speaker 1: fourteen and we were down by sixteen, and I was like,
Speaker 1: and we're moving the ball a little bit. I think
Speaker 1: we got it. We just got the strip sack. We're
Speaker 1: I think it was like maybe high, like you know,
Speaker 1: high two minute mark, and I'm like, shit, if we
Speaker 1: score here, we're gonna get to two and then all
Speaker 1: we got to do is get the ball back right
Speaker 1: after that and then we'll be set. So I was like,
Speaker 1: the time in my mind was working out, but then
Speaker 1: you have to the time in my mind was working
Speaker 1: out that it's it was going to come down to
Speaker 1: the wire if we did everything right, and but you
Speaker 1: had to get too too. You had to get two
Speaker 1: point conversions and those aren't easy. Well, you know, you
Speaker 1: remember we never put more than two more than one
Speaker 1: two point conversions in that week, and for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: we had two two point conversion plays, for whatever reasons,
Speaker 1: the first time we ever did that. So we got
Speaker 1: to actually the practiced. We got to ect. I know,
Speaker 1: so we usually we already know the two point play.
Speaker 1: It's probably something that we haven't got to run, y
Speaker 1: acause only run a handful of them a year, but
Speaker 1: we we for whatever reason, I thought it was so
Speaker 1: odd preparing for the game that we had we had
Speaker 1: installed two two point plays. So I'm like, oh shit,
Speaker 1: and then it comes down and I'm fucking laughing my
Speaker 1: ass off, like and the last the second, the second
Speaker 1: two point play was to me and I was like,
Speaker 1: we practiced it. I don't even know if it really
Speaker 1: even worked in practice, so this is kind of like
Speaker 1: hit or miss. So it was like, but I'm like,
Speaker 1: these coaches are getting yester that my theory on this
Speaker 1: Sam is the guy on the wall right behind us,
Speaker 1: Ernie Adams. He actually cracked the simulation that we're in
Speaker 1: and knew that it would come down to two two
Speaker 1: point conversions because that's the kind of guy Ernie Adams is.
Speaker 1: Let Bill know. Bill then therefore made the team put
Speaker 1: in two two point conversions, and Danny scored the game
Speaker 1: winning two point conversion to get us tied to then
Speaker 1: go into halftime and or overtime. Overtime, he is to
Speaker 1: to Belichick what text Winner is to Phil Jackson. Is
Speaker 1: that fair to say? Basically he's that influential in the
Speaker 1: Patriots culture. Ernie, Yeah, do you have any stories about Ernie? Bill?
Speaker 1: Bill built Ernie his own private press box on the
Speaker 1: visitors side, and it's like this little tiny two seater
Speaker 1: that Ernie sits and watches every game. But it's like
Speaker 1: an Eagles nest, like Ernie Ernie and the Eagles nest
Speaker 1: up at the top of the top of Foxboro Stadium.
Speaker 1: Talks a top of Gillette. Story Wise, I didn't really
Speaker 1: interact too much with it, and then they had to
Speaker 1: have built. I was just I was just so nice.
Speaker 1: I was just super nice to him, like he you know,
Speaker 1: he didn't say much to me. I didn't say much
Speaker 1: to him. I usually dap him up and be kind
Speaker 1: of awkward with him in the hallway and then he'd
Speaker 1: crack a smile so he'd be Uh. He's definitely a
Speaker 1: football mind and has a lot of perspective on the game.
Speaker 1: Do you remember him always bringing in a fucking huge
Speaker 1: hairloom tomato and that's what he would eat only for
Speaker 1: the whole day. He would sit at the table by
Speaker 1: himself in the cafeteria with no with a forking knife.
Speaker 1: Thank god. He would fork and knife this thing, a
Speaker 1: little pepper, no salt. He always stayed away from the
Speaker 1: sodium and he would eat that thing. And I would
Speaker 1: just sit there every day and I'd walk by him, like, Hey, already,
Speaker 1: how's the tomatoes, ego, they're in season? What so there's
Speaker 1: four forty eight It was five fifty six lest in
Speaker 1: this game. This is when Brady hits you six yard touchdown, Danny.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, what are you thinking you get that touchdown?
Speaker 1: You're down eight? Yeah, well we're down touchdown in your
Speaker 1: home field. We were down, and I remember we got
Speaker 1: a I got a we audibled. I guess they they
Speaker 1: went to cover four. Uh, they moved uh the slot
Speaker 1: player inside a shade, and we knew it coverage we
Speaker 1: were getting. And then tom uh signaled Gotti to us
Speaker 1: or which was quit basically a fight guaright out and
Speaker 1: to go on the outside. And it was, honestly, it
Speaker 1: was like, I was pretty I was pretty embarrassed that
Speaker 1: I fell down and caught the ball. That was the
Speaker 1: first thing that went through my head. But then I
Speaker 1: was so thankful that I didn't drop the ball because
Speaker 1: I was like, I remember just turning around. It was
Speaker 1: ball was coming fast. And then we were down and tired,
Speaker 1: and usually you don't celebrate or do shit when you're
Speaker 1: so when you score a touchdown and you're down. So
Speaker 1: I just kind of ran back to the huddle. You know,
Speaker 1: I knew we were going to go have to go
Speaker 1: for two. I already knew the play. I think James
Speaker 1: White it was to play the direct to James White.
Speaker 1: After that he had a big game too. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: James White. James isn't he unsung hero? James White, No doubt,
Speaker 1: He's one of the best teammates, one of the best players,
Speaker 1: great running back. This guy looks like Marshall's fault some
Speaker 1: days and on film and he's just he's amazing. What
Speaker 1: did Tom say anything to you after that play? No,
Speaker 1: we were just head head was still down. We're still cruising.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of work to do. We got
Speaker 1: to come up with the ball in eight points and
Speaker 1: in a couple of minutes. And Julian would always say it,
Speaker 1: I remember the first I first scored my first touchdown
Speaker 1: of the Super Bowl. Well, Julian's played in a lot
Speaker 1: of Super Bowls over the years, and you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of battles with the Jets, I mean side of
Speaker 1: the Giants, and he would always tell me, does it.
Speaker 1: I don't care what you do. He would always, I
Speaker 1: don't care what you do in this game. It doesn't
Speaker 1: count of wish you win. I'm like that. And then
Speaker 1: it didn't hit me until we lost. I lost the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl after a couple of years later, and I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, this game is nobody remembers. The people
Speaker 1: who lost the Super Bowl just went like the prey.
Speaker 1: They put whatever team wins on blast, and rightfully so,
Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah a lot of so. So you score
Speaker 1: that touchdown and then Falcons get the ball back. Julio
Speaker 1: Jones goes up on the sideline makes a freaking insane catch.
Speaker 1: Are you sitting there saying, oh fuck, did we just
Speaker 1: lose this now? Yeah? Yeah, Like what did you think
Speaker 1: about that? Got that catch? Oh? Unbelievable this. I was
Speaker 1: right on our sideline too, and he was double covered.
Speaker 1: I think that damn to some form of too high
Speaker 1: but double covered. Matt Ryan obviously funny about only where
Speaker 1: he could catch it. He jumps over to cats and
Speaker 1: then sticks his toe in the ground and I'm like,
Speaker 1: that was the sickest catch I've ever seen in my
Speaker 1: entire life, and they're about to run this clock out
Speaker 1: and we're completely fucked. So uh yeah, I thought that
Speaker 1: was so soon. And then you got that we we
Speaker 1: felt like we got the extra life when Trey got
Speaker 1: that sack and then they had the hole Dean and
Speaker 1: then they kind of fucked up a wet dream with
Speaker 1: that whole play calling. Sequinshaw. Yeah, well they try to,
Speaker 1: you know, instead of running the ball, and then they
Speaker 1: got behind and they tried to make a you know,
Speaker 1: a chunk play out of a five step drop, missed
Speaker 1: the blitz, and High Tower comes out with a big
Speaker 1: sad play of the game play of the game. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: this was I mean, this is when things went downhill.
Speaker 1: I mean this is like, literally, Matt, I don't think
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan has recovered from this moment. It's it's he's
Speaker 1: gonna We're gonna find out this year maybe a new
Speaker 1: new territory and new environment will help him get rid
Speaker 1: of those demons of the old nineteen or Super Bowl
Speaker 1: fifty one, so fall out, So I have to ask you,
Speaker 1: Julian makes this catch with two twenty eight left. What's
Speaker 1: what's going through you ahead? When he makes Are you
Speaker 1: thinking that he didn't come down with it? No? I
Speaker 1: knew he's covered in like that was a gut of
Speaker 1: a movie. No, yeah, red shirts on Julian. It was
Speaker 1: the It was better than the Julio catch. The Julio
Speaker 1: catch was like pure athletic ability, looked like a like
Speaker 1: fucking amazing catch. Julian was just pure grit and just
Speaker 1: that ball's not hitting the ground no matter what how,
Speaker 1: no matter who kicks it. Like the cover. The route
Speaker 1: was good, the coverage was good. The rout was shitty, Danny,
Speaker 1: the route was shitty. I would have gave him a
Speaker 1: little you could have gave I rounded it like a banana.
Speaker 1: You're on fucking page night. We were on ninety nine
Speaker 1: by then. It was bad. I didn't need the cushion up.
Speaker 1: I didn't give him a sellout to the out? Is it?
Speaker 1: You could have given't that the worst nightmare of your
Speaker 1: life when you're running a scene versus too high in
Speaker 1: the in the safety or in the in the cover
Speaker 1: corner looks back at the ball before you do. I
Speaker 1: think there's a couple of different ways, though, because you know,
Speaker 1: he he knew what you were running obviously, you you
Speaker 1: know it was an off. It was a uh well
Speaker 1: is it a Scene Reid kind of thing? Beam read?
Speaker 1: I think it was bunker bunker, Yeah, So you could
Speaker 1: either go to the post or cross. You got two man,
Speaker 1: you could have gave him a little bit more outside.
Speaker 1: I liked how you kept your speed though, because it's
Speaker 1: hard to give him something and then still keep your speed. Uh.
Speaker 1: He made a pretty good play. He turned around, he
Speaker 1: was ready to jump for the ball, and he made
Speaker 1: the best play he could. But the fact that I
Speaker 1: watched it, I've watched it over and over obviously, But
Speaker 1: the fact that you you jumped off one foot and
Speaker 1: then you're in the air and in your mind you
Speaker 1: had already redirected your body, and then you already you
Speaker 1: came down and redirected your body the other way when
Speaker 1: you hit the ground. So you were jumping one way
Speaker 1: with anticipation to do one thing over here, and then
Speaker 1: by the time you had hit the ground yet you
Speaker 1: had already decided that your foot was gonna go the
Speaker 1: other way, which was impressive to me. And then the
Speaker 1: fact that that did, I mean, is an amazing catch Bro, amazing.
Speaker 1: Did I say any do you remember? Yeah? I mean
Speaker 1: communicate after that. Yeah, so I remember remember I said, hey,
Speaker 1: did you catch that? And he goes, yeah, I caught it.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, yeah, he caught it all right.
Speaker 1: Once you said that, I know you caught it. Very
Speaker 1: next play, very next play, they hit Dola on the crosser?
Speaker 1: Was the crosser like for like a twenty hourd game,
Speaker 1: was that the next player or was the next third down?
Speaker 1: It was? It was I think it was close to
Speaker 1: the next place, so we might have very next play
Speaker 1: it might have been. Yeah, we had a cross And
Speaker 1: then at that point, Bro, I felt like the water
Speaker 1: the dam has broken. We were we had so much
Speaker 1: momentum and these these guys were getting so tired conditionally
Speaker 1: that we're not. They weren't ready to follow us around
Speaker 1: for whatever how many minutes we played, you know, seventy
Speaker 1: five minutes, but they they we were running so much.
Speaker 1: We were in better physical condition. Yeah, and that's and
Speaker 1: that's one of those things where we used to have
Speaker 1: to run. We were at we would condition. We conditioned
Speaker 1: that week of the Super Bowl and everyone's sitting here like,
Speaker 1: what the fuck are we doing? Why are we conditioning?
Speaker 1: And like once again, Ernie cracked the simulation. Knew that
Speaker 1: we needed to get more sprints in because we were
Speaker 1: gonna have a fucking ninety nine play game going into overtime.
Speaker 1: We win the toss. What were you thinking? Game over
Speaker 1: game set match? We got this or what? Yeah? And
Speaker 1: there was no doubt online we were about to and
Speaker 1: I think we went. My favorite drive of the game
Speaker 1: was to fit my favorite one because I think every
Speaker 1: skilled position, every skilled position person touched the ball. I
Speaker 1: think I think James, Malcolm James in order. I had
Speaker 1: the third. I think Julian had a crosser hug you
Speaker 1: had to come back, Martellis had a catch or a
Speaker 1: I think it was a. He had a big PI.
Speaker 1: He had a seam in the N, a P, I,
Speaker 1: a seam and then a PI and then we give
Speaker 1: the ball to James to close it out. I mean,
Speaker 1: everybody touched the ball in the last drive, which it
Speaker 1: was was so sick. And do you you remember the
Speaker 1: first person you talked to after the game was over.
Speaker 1: Did you guys connect quickly or what happened? It was madness, right?
Speaker 1: We Uh, it was madness. I can't remember. I blocked out.
Speaker 1: I ran around like through my helmet. Uh, just grabbed
Speaker 1: anybody I could. I remember Julian tackled me full on
Speaker 1: game tackle. And then I linked up with my I
Speaker 1: got a good picture of that. Yeah. And then I
Speaker 1: linked up with my mom actually right after that and
Speaker 1: had a great celebration with her. And it was it
Speaker 1: was awesome, man, it was awesome. Yeah, definitely amazing to
Speaker 1: be in the hometown for that one. And and I
Speaker 1: had played in that stadium probably ten times before, but
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, I that stadium looked so different to
Speaker 1: me that night, Like I'll never go back in there
Speaker 1: and it will be the same feeling as that night.
Speaker 1: But that's crazy. Any any good post super Bowl stories
Speaker 1: that you have, Danny. Let's see, I got a couple.
Speaker 1: We might have to edit a couple of these. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got one. I remember after the first Super Bowl
Speaker 1: we won, we went to this Harvard Harvard party. We
Speaker 1: go to this Harvard party. It's like this where I
Speaker 1: expect the Patriots to go. You guys want to go
Speaker 1: somewhere crazy, I'm thinking Cambridge. No, this is the night
Speaker 1: before the parade, so we were stuck in Boston. So
Speaker 1: we're stuck in Boston and we're like, we got like
Speaker 1: a Phoenix party, Like I think it was Julian's brilliant idea. Anyway,
Speaker 1: We're like, we got the Phoenix Club. They won't have
Speaker 1: us to come out tonight. I'm like perfect. So we
Speaker 1: go get some sushi. Completely we're blocked out at sushi.
Speaker 1: We're walking around. We go to a club. We helped
Speaker 1: the car. Remember a car in the snowstorm. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: car gets stuck. Me and Daddy get out of the
Speaker 1: car to push the car off the freeway. This little
Speaker 1: old lady like in the middle of the in the
Speaker 1: middle of the freeway, like going on it on your
Speaker 1: way downtown, but just rescued by two drunk Patriots too
Speaker 1: drunk the super Bowl winning page afterwards you rescue a
Speaker 1: cash from a tree, which is amazing when you're in that. Say,
Speaker 1: that same night, we go get sushi. We're ripping it.
Speaker 1: We find a guy. We go to this little club
Speaker 1: before the Phoenix party, right, and we find this guy
Speaker 1: and we have we have probably thirty bottles of champagne
Speaker 1: at this small little venue and all we're doing is
Speaker 1: pouring him on each other and then breaking the bottles.
Speaker 1: And we paid the guy just to clean up the bottle,
Speaker 1: all the glass. All he had was a broom in
Speaker 1: a in, a in a mop, and a in a
Speaker 1: bucket and he probably picked up thirty five bottles of champagne.
Speaker 1: We just broke in the back of this bar. He
Speaker 1: was picking him up. And then we go to this
Speaker 1: Harvard party and we walk in and then all these
Speaker 1: you know, kids are upstairs and it's like a huge
Speaker 1: uh like fit you and there it's I guess like
Speaker 1: I'm the right house, but it's like you can rent
Speaker 1: this house out. And they're all like like cameras action,
Speaker 1: and it was it was insane. I go up. I actually, uh,
Speaker 1: I'll skip to later that night. We were we were
Speaker 1: leaving stories too. I got I had to get out.
Speaker 1: I had to get out of there, and uh wow
Speaker 1: and uh juwe I go upstairs to tell Julian that
Speaker 1: I was I had to go and and he's he's
Speaker 1: sitting he's up in like this mysterious, mysterious psychedelic bedroom
Speaker 1: and he's sitting on the bed with his shirt off
Speaker 1: and the sunglasses on, smoking a Marlboro Red and he's
Speaker 1: got like fifteen chicks around him just and he's telling
Speaker 1: like the same stories we're talking about right now, like
Speaker 1: just old war stories and the's and I'm like, hey, Joels,
Speaker 1: I gotta get out of here. He's all right boops.
Speaker 1: After that, I saw him at the Prey the next day.
Speaker 1: My favorite part of the Marlboro Red. That's of course
Speaker 1: you're going with the most aggressive cigarette. Oh that's amazing, dude,
Speaker 1: I love that. That same night, I will leave it
Speaker 1: at that. No, come on, don't tease us. We were
Speaker 1: at that club and some guy he's got a phone.
Speaker 1: You remember that. I don't remember the guy with the phone.
Speaker 1: I grabbed the phone. Oh this is like, dude, whears
Speaker 1: my car. You guys sharing to pieces together. It was
Speaker 1: it was it was a It was an awesome night.
Speaker 1: And and you know, getting to get tell him about
Speaker 1: getting to the parade in the morning with Officer your office. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we we had a police escort, Like we were supposed
Speaker 1: to go back to Foxborough to take a bus back.
Speaker 1: We ended up staying in the city, hopped in a
Speaker 1: cop car, lights on, went in the to this to
Speaker 1: the parade in a cop car, going through all these
Speaker 1: lights and stuff. Literally drink drinking champagne, drinking champagne in
Speaker 1: the back of the cop furst. I don't know if
Speaker 1: we've bought my howks with the most aggressive police. Unless
Speaker 1: you play for the Patriots, you can literally do whatever
Speaker 1: you want. We'll have to blink out the name. What uh?
Speaker 1: I want to have a go ahead. A couple of
Speaker 1: questions about you got you guys and your romance. I mean, so,
Speaker 1: first off, who's a better quarterback between you two? He
Speaker 1: played college quarterback. That wasn't for me. I kind of
Speaker 1: gave that up at like eighth ninth grade. I was like,
Speaker 1: there's too much decision making you this. I just kind
Speaker 1: of want to run around on the field. I just
Speaker 1: want to black out and get in the back of
Speaker 1: a cop car. I don't want to I don't want
Speaker 1: to read schemes. That's but you both had big throws
Speaker 1: in big games. Yeah, you know, we we played a
Speaker 1: lot of baseball growing up. His dad was, you know,
Speaker 1: very strong influence on him as a coach, and same
Speaker 1: with me. My dad's a high school football coach. So
Speaker 1: we were active. Man. We were in the gym, in
Speaker 1: the cages and on the field every single day growing up.
Speaker 1: As a kid. You just toss them wall you catch
Speaker 1: one ball, you got to throw it back, so you
Speaker 1: might as well make it nice. So that's kind of
Speaker 1: how we grew up, and we both you know, I
Speaker 1: got a couple. How many touchdown passes you have in
Speaker 1: the league, Jewels, I mean, I got Jack. You got
Speaker 1: one for six, one hundred and twenty eight yards and
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Julian, you have a one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: eight point three passer rating. Yeah, correction, Jules has two
Speaker 1: two touchdowns and one hundred and fifty eight point three
Speaker 1: passer rating. One the Philip dor said against the Eagles,
Speaker 1: Danny you have one TOUCHDWN. You know I threw a
Speaker 1: touchdown pass to Danny Mondola. That's amazing. What was the
Speaker 1: divisional round? Yeah, that was ironically we practiced that play
Speaker 1: probably ten times and was the only play. Only time
Speaker 1: it worked was the only time it ever worked was
Speaker 1: in the game. Danny, you're three for four passes, eighty
Speaker 1: three yards, two touchdowns, one hundred and fifty six point
Speaker 1: two passer rating, both insane passer ratings. Hey, you know,
Speaker 1: that's that's what you gotta do. Like you said, you
Speaker 1: catch you, you gotta throw it back. Yeah, is Julian's locker.
Speaker 1: The smellius in the locker room. No, without question, bro,
Speaker 1: without question, he had every single game and practice. I
Speaker 1: think he disposed of his gloves, but he keeps the
Speaker 1: gloves like in his locker, like in the open part,
Speaker 1: and there's like four hundred pairs of glove like smelly
Speaker 1: old ones in there. And he's like, he's like he
Speaker 1: thinks he's Willie May's Hayes, you know, like who steals
Speaker 1: second base and like has to pit it against his wall.
Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, you caught three passes yesterday and practice,
Speaker 1: like you don't need to save the gloves and frame them. Right.
Speaker 1: It's so since Yeah, he's a complete yellow shirt yellow shirt.
Speaker 1: Yeah he's He wore the same yellow shirt every day
Speaker 1: he played football, Like we get it. Kent State, Baby,
Speaker 1: Kent State was a reminder of all the people that
Speaker 1: went to Alabama, the big schools like Texas, Tech, Tech whatever.
Speaker 1: It's like, Pop, I said, Buddy, I am what I am,
Speaker 1: Kent Steak golden yellow baby. All right, Dola, any last
Speaker 1: thing regarding what would you name this game? What would
Speaker 1: you name the game? I have no idea. The twenty
Speaker 1: eight three game. Is that what it's known as? Right?
Speaker 1: Now I think it's twenty eight three. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: to me, it was just a Houston blur. It was
Speaker 1: I you know, I have a couple memories in my head,
Speaker 1: seared in my head, but it was just a blur
Speaker 1: to me. It was like complete exhaustion by the end
Speaker 1: of the game, Like all I wanted to do is
Speaker 1: get a cocktail ready to go and party it out. Danny,
Speaker 1: what's your drink? I drink? I like vodka, Little Tito's
Speaker 1: from Austin, shout out Tito's. But yeah, an he likes
Speaker 1: bud Light Seltzer too, right, But we love bud Light
Speaker 1: Seltzer and bud Light Seltzer's are I'm obsessed with bud
Speaker 1: Light Seltzer. I'm just saying, you know, anyway, keep an
Speaker 1: eye off with my whiskey. Bodegga cat which is coming
Speaker 1: might be out by the time this comes out. So
Speaker 1: Bodega Cat, Bodega Cat. Whiskey. Yeah, you have a whiskey
Speaker 1: coming up coming out. Man, you're gonna like it's really good,
Speaker 1: all right. I love I love a good Tito's still
Speaker 1: good Tito's Martini man loose, Yeah, the goose will make
Speaker 1: you loose. Yeah. The goose will make you loose, all right, Dola,
Speaker 1: We appreciate you, appreciate you. Thanks for having me. Well,
Speaker 1: that was a great interview. He was awesome and I
Speaker 1: felt the love between you two. It's it's a it's
Speaker 1: a romance that we'll go down in history as one
Speaker 1: of the best. I think it's special. It is very special.
Speaker 1: The thing is when you get to go to work
Speaker 1: with people you love, that's that's fucking awesome. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean, everyone in the room we feel it, right,
Speaker 1: we feel that, you know, And that's the environment. Once
Speaker 1: he got traded, it was like, yeah, we wouldn't want
Speaker 1: another super boar, but it was like not the same.
Speaker 1: How bummed were you when he got traded or he
Speaker 1: signed somewhere else or I don't know, sign he signed
Speaker 1: with Miami? That Miami, yeah, Miami. It everyone gets cut traded.
Speaker 1: You're happy your friend gets a good contract. Happy he
Speaker 1: got a good contract. But selfishly, I was pissed off because,
Speaker 1: like he said, we're not gonna have the ping pong anymore.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna have bro time get to cut to
Speaker 1: you like playing ping pong ping pong against a wall
Speaker 1: and just hitting it by yourself. No, I didn't force
Speaker 1: gump it. I didn't force Gump, but I had to
Speaker 1: recruit other players to play. But then I became the sheriff.
Speaker 1: But deep down in my heart, I knew I wasn't
Speaker 1: the sheriff. Danny was always the sheriff when it came
Speaker 1: to ping pong, so like it was like false hope,
Speaker 1: you know, beating up on all these little slappies left
Speaker 1: and right. But deep down in my heart, I knew
Speaker 1: Danny would come here and scrape me. I needed that.
Speaker 1: I needed that competition. Yeah, and you guys were both
Speaker 1: like bruiser wide receivers. Yeah, he was. He was a
Speaker 1: He was a very tough, tough football player. Man. He
Speaker 1: he also had probably the best hand eye coordination I've
Speaker 1: ever seen. I mean, you could throw anything at him
Speaker 1: and he can't be looking. He won't be looking, and
Speaker 1: he can snag it somehow. This that, a lighter, a ball,
Speaker 1: a fucking a can, a dip, a water, a beer, anything.
Speaker 1: He could do like some sport catch trick, catch on it,
Speaker 1: Like that's just how like cool he was, Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: and then wave his hair, but whatever, that's just that's Danny. Yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys did damage on that town. I'm
Speaker 1: picturing these knights in the cop car, messed up meeting chicks.
Speaker 1: We had a lot of fun. Boston is a great
Speaker 1: sports town to live and be a professional athlete. And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that right now. Yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 1: A lot of thick Boston accents coming out of your
Speaker 1: hotel room. They are home. I guess that was always jewels.
Speaker 1: It's crazy, that was the thing. Jeweles and dola a dola, Hey, jewels.
Speaker 1: The women. So with the prop bet, I think you
Speaker 1: got it out of him. They gotta believes, do we do?
Speaker 1: We hit that jack, We got five gotta believes you
Speaker 1: really dragged it at a dola there, So we cashed
Speaker 1: the bit. We cashed it. We cashed it, dude. And
Speaker 1: just just for everyone to know, I made it up.
Speaker 1: Don't let don't let don't let that little uh, that
Speaker 1: Italian charm just come off through his voice. And if
Speaker 1: you're watching this through his little, uh, little eyewink, don't
Speaker 1: let that fool you. I made that up. Italians and
Speaker 1: Jews have a weirdly similar energy at times, don't you
Speaker 1: think over protective mothers? Yes, uh, Italians a swaggy Italian
Speaker 1: is very similar to a swaggy Jew. Yeah, but they're
Speaker 1: always a little better looking. I think they're always a
Speaker 1: little better like they do have You're a handsome fella, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I mean Danny's better looking. You gotta call a
Speaker 1: spade a spade his choice, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: It is what it is. If I was a gay man,
Speaker 1: I'd be happy to be held down by either of you.
Speaker 1: I'll put it that way. So what's the legacy of
Speaker 1: this game? I mean, James White, we talked a little
Speaker 1: about him. We should have probably talked more about him
Speaker 1: because one hundred and thirty nine total yards, two rushing touchdowns,
Speaker 1: game winning touchdown by the way, one receiving touchdown in
Speaker 1: a two point conversion. I mean, should he have been
Speaker 1: the MVP? Should have been Brady? Does it matter? Because
Speaker 1: it's a team game, and that's really all that matters
Speaker 1: at the end. It's a team game. But that's what
Speaker 1: like these championship teams have. They always have these unsung heroes,
Speaker 1: and that's the kind of guy James White was like
Speaker 1: he was a beast, not just a beast, but in
Speaker 1: meetings at work with this demeanor, with this attitude nothing
Speaker 1: ever fail one of the like just calm, cool, collect
Speaker 1: guys I've ever met my life, and it rubs off
Speaker 1: on guys, and that's a that's a form of leadership
Speaker 1: when you have that for younger players to see, like, oh,
Speaker 1: James White isn't bitching about having to do ten extra
Speaker 1: half gasters. I can't say shit because James is doing it.
Speaker 1: And then you see it shine on the biggest stages
Speaker 1: of all time with guys like James White, past you know,
Speaker 1: past guys like Shane Ververen, the Danium Mondolas, the Chris Hogan's,
Speaker 1: the Malcolm Mitchell's, Everyone's got their part. High tower, high tower,
Speaker 1: I mean unsung hero unsung heroes, Trey Flowers. Big play,
Speaker 1: big play. Yeah, a lot of guys have to make
Speaker 1: plays in order to win those games. This is a
Speaker 1: tough one. We've talked about it, but it's a tough
Speaker 1: one for Matt Ryan. It really is. Uh, I mean,
Speaker 1: twenty eighth to three, It's tough. That's the name of
Speaker 1: the game. You You'll never forget that, you know what.
Speaker 1: I honestly feel bad for Matt Ryan because he had
Speaker 1: an incredible season, unbelievable year and I actually used to
Speaker 1: watch game film of this guy. So I've always kind
Speaker 1: of liked Matt Ryan because we were in the same
Speaker 1: system in college when I was thrown when I was
Speaker 1: a quarterback, he ran the same offense. My offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: was his offensive coordinator at Boston College, and so I
Speaker 1: always had a fan Like I was always a fan
Speaker 1: of Matt Ryan. Obviously not on this day, but to
Speaker 1: see the ripple effect of what this has done to
Speaker 1: that team, him specifically, I mean, you don't want to
Speaker 1: see that on anyone. He's a stud, he's a great
Speaker 1: football player, and to see, you know, these last few
Speaker 1: years after that, it just seems like it's kind of
Speaker 1: messed with his psyche. Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You know how much time and effort I do, because
Speaker 1: you know, you're a professional athlete. You know how much
Speaker 1: time effort, how much he cares about what he's doing
Speaker 1: and trying to get to where he's trying to go,
Speaker 1: and to see it not always get there, and to
Speaker 1: see guys not be able to get back to the
Speaker 1: dance again, like that's that's that's sad. I feel bad
Speaker 1: for those guys. You know, it didn't happen in my career.
Speaker 1: I've been fucking lucky that I got to play with
Speaker 1: where I got to play with, who I got to
Speaker 1: play with, under people I played for, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So he got lucky in ways too, having
Speaker 1: you know, such a great offense to throw it to. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, just because they didn't win doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: people won't talk about Matt Ryan is having a great career.
Speaker 1: He's an MVP. Yeah, but no he probably they're not
Speaker 1: going to talk about that. Yeah, maybe not. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean, that's just winning, winning something And what
Speaker 1: did he say? No one fucking remembers second place? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's and this is a podcast to celebrate both sides,
Speaker 1: and I'm celebrating Matt Ryan. Right. People remember second place? Sometimes?
Speaker 1: Do they? Nazi Germany? They came in second, right, they're
Speaker 1: the bad guys, but we remember them, Sam, you got
Speaker 1: one on me, all right? I mean you remember them
Speaker 1: because of this game the ground. Yeah, I mean, look,
Speaker 1: there are great players who never won twenty years down
Speaker 1: the road. You know, when there's like robots fair enough,
Speaker 1: if they're talking about it, are they gonna be talking
Speaker 1: about Matt Ryan? That's when that's when we don't watch
Speaker 1: football players anymore. We watch football teams, and maybe there'll
Speaker 1: be a robot that blows a twenty eight to three
Speaker 1: lead in the Robot Bowl and we're like that dude
Speaker 1: was so close to being an icon robot, but he wasn't.
Speaker 1: But he wasn't, But he still has opportunity. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward still playing He's but he's what is he
Speaker 1: an Indie? I think that's gonna be a good But
Speaker 1: is he starting Indie? Yeah? He should be. He should
Speaker 1: be starting in Indy, and I think that could be
Speaker 1: a good matchup. You know, Indy needs a quarterback. The
Speaker 1: Wentz thing didn't really happen the way they wanted it
Speaker 1: to last year, but Wentz played pretty good. Yeah, Jack,
Speaker 1: who is it Peterson or what's his name? Who's the
Speaker 1: head coach for the Colts? Samy? Frank right? Frank right,
Speaker 1: Like he's a he's a good quarterback coach. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: I'm really really interested to see where this goes with
Speaker 1: him and Matt Ryan going into this year with that
Speaker 1: run game, with that great defense that the Colts have.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and there's literally no distractions in Indianapolis, So
Speaker 1: there's I've been there many times there's nothing to do
Speaker 1: but football. So Saint Almos, Saint Elmos Steakhouse is great.
Speaker 1: That you can't go there every night, No you can't.
Speaker 1: But if you have like a cold or something, you
Speaker 1: go and get that shrimp cocktail. And they hate They
Speaker 1: put so much goddamn fucking horse radish in that thing.
Speaker 1: It blows your socks off. Legendary horse radish. It's too much,
Speaker 1: almost like I do. I like it too, but like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to enjoy my food. Well then don't get
Speaker 1: a little less. Put a little less sauce on it.
Speaker 1: And that's what I'll have to do. Easy solution, let's
Speaker 1: less sauce. Has Atlanta recovered from this as a team? God? No? No,
Speaker 1: I mean Braves won a championship last year's World Series.
Speaker 1: Different sport, Bulldogs won. It's football is different. Why. I
Speaker 1: just think the Falcons the energy They've never won, They've
Speaker 1: never won a Super Bowl. No, right, the energy is different.
Speaker 1: I remember I watched a playoff game there in a
Speaker 1: bar was Falcons versus Giants. I think it was the
Speaker 1: year that they beat the past the second time. And
Speaker 1: I'm wearing an Eli jersey in the in the bar. No,
Speaker 1: one said a rude thing to me, and I was like,
Speaker 1: who are these people? You're supposed to insult me? I'm
Speaker 1: a visitor, you know. Everyone was like, oh, hey, how
Speaker 1: are you? I'm like, fucking cowards. Typical New Yorker cowards
Speaker 1: look at him, Typical New Yorker just just wants he
Speaker 1: just craves coldness. I was like, when no one spat
Speaker 1: on me, what do you guys? Soft do that? In Philly, Philly,
Speaker 1: they would have torn my head off Philly, I mean Philly.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'd be scared to do it in Philly, Boston,
Speaker 1: you know. But Atlanta. I was like, what are you
Speaker 1: gonna do? What are you gonna do? Crazy? Thing? Is
Speaker 1: what year was it that Atlanta went to the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl with Chandler as the quarterback and the dirty Birds?
Speaker 1: Was it? What was that? That was the nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: eight season. I went to the playoff game where they
Speaker 1: beat the forty nine ers in San Francisco. Didn't they
Speaker 1: beat them? There were Jackie twelve thirteen year old Julian Edelman,
Speaker 1: I was there were you rocking in Jersey? Uh? Nah?
Speaker 1: We didn't have like my parents didn't. We didn't spend
Speaker 1: money on jerseys and shit, I had to eat like
Speaker 1: bags and baseball bats and shit. You know it's nice.
Speaker 1: So like, well, we got Jackie. They're saying that game
Speaker 1: was at the Georgia Dome. At the Georgia Dome, did
Speaker 1: they play in the regular season? January ninth, nineteen ninety nine?
Speaker 1: Did they play in the regular season? The regular season?
Speaker 1: They did? Where they played in the Georgia Dome again?
Speaker 1: Dang wait wait September twenty seventh at Candlestak Park beat
Speaker 1: the Giant or lost to the forty nine ers thirty
Speaker 1: one to twenty. What year? This was nineteen ninety eight,
Speaker 1: the year they won this? They went to the Super Bowl?
Speaker 1: Who they who beat them? In the Super Bowl? They
Speaker 1: they lost to the Vikings. No, no, no, they lost
Speaker 1: to the Broncos. Broncos. All right, this one's for John.
Speaker 1: Remember that was that? This? That was the second Lway
Speaker 1: you're right, or the first. I don't know the owner.
Speaker 1: I just remember after John Lway won, is like first
Speaker 1: Super Bowl that the owner came on after collected this
Speaker 1: the Lombardi and he goes, this one's for John. That's
Speaker 1: what I remember. It could be Compuy no a Niner guy.
Speaker 1: I know, but in terms of respect, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: you respect the hell out of him. He was a
Speaker 1: monster California kid, went to Stanford. I'm from the area.
Speaker 1: But like I, I didn't like the Broncos and I
Speaker 1: still don't like the Broncos. Yeah. They beat my ass
Speaker 1: in the AFC Championship twice. Yeah, in fact, I hate
Speaker 1: the Broncos. We always prayed if when we were going
Speaker 1: to those AFC Championships, for just a fucking snowstorm something crazy,
Speaker 1: because we're gonna be in Denver. It's gonna be cold.
Speaker 1: The altitude fucks you up. No, every time we go there,
Speaker 1: it's seventy five and Sonny like, what the fuck? We
Speaker 1: wanted the elements in our favor. Yeah, we're like a
Speaker 1: beer in Denver. You have a e three beers. You
Speaker 1: get fucked up from that altitude. Yeah, it'll get you. Yeah.
Speaker 1: She's like on a plane. Yeah, but you're on the ground.
Speaker 1: Plane drunk is good, though. I don't really drink on
Speaker 1: the plane never. No, it's a good place. I know
Speaker 1: what I do do on the plane though, you vabe. No,
Speaker 1: I don't babe everyone. No. I like to snack. I'm
Speaker 1: a snacker, all right. Well, comforting snacks. What are you doing? Like,
Speaker 1: I'll go to all like pre pre flight, I'll go
Speaker 1: to the store. I'll grab like a sour candy, a
Speaker 1: chocolate candy, like a bag of chips, like a vitamin
Speaker 1: water zero. We'll have to blank that out because they're
Speaker 1: not a sponsor. Uh. And then I always like try
Speaker 1: to be kind of like, oh, I feel guilty for
Speaker 1: getting and all that, and then I'll get like a
Speaker 1: trail mix you know, so then you even read the
Speaker 1: calories and a trail mixer, you'll think you're being healthy
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, I'm just picking out the M
Speaker 1: and M. This isn't good. No, this is unhealthy, terrible,
Speaker 1: But uh, Jack, do we forget anything here? We cashed
Speaker 1: our prop bet ninety eight was, in fact John Elway's
Speaker 1: fifteenth season. Another stat correction, Danny is in fact better
Speaker 1: looking than Julia m s. Dealer's choice, it's Steeler's choice.
Speaker 1: And our last stat correction is we talked about Ernie
Speaker 1: Adams enjoying a tomato for lunch every day. It's pronounced heirloom,
Speaker 1: not hair loom. I wanted to say something about that,
Speaker 1: just clearing that up. Yeah, And then one last one, Jules,
Speaker 1: can you define bro jo for us? The bro jo
Speaker 1: is like a dojo, you know, like where the karate
Speaker 1: kid and they like used to train and stuff. I
Speaker 1: don't know why you're asking him to define this. We
Speaker 1: all got it. The ojo is where a bunch of
Speaker 1: bros do a lot of activities. It's one of those
Speaker 1: I've heard about every bros suffix in the book, but
Speaker 1: brojo is new. I hadn't heard that until yesterday. Brojo
Speaker 1: is I mean that's you Stick around me, buddy, you'll
Speaker 1: get a lot of bros. It's like if Cobra Kai
Speaker 1: were the good guys. That's the vibe. That's what it is.
Speaker 1: That's what No Cobra Kai. We're like straight, but you're
Speaker 1: more interesting then what's the good guys in that? Again?
Speaker 1: Danny his name was Danny, right, yeah, Daniel Danielson. But
Speaker 1: what they have a name for their dojo? What's it called? Right?
Speaker 1: Oh Miagi? Yeah, But they're that's the thing. They're a
Speaker 1: little more boring. Cobra Kai is cooler. But I literally so,
Speaker 1: I'm driving to San Francisco, yeah with my daughter to
Speaker 1: go see our parents. We always I drive from La
Speaker 1: to San Francisco. I like driving, I don't know. We
Speaker 1: pull over and what are those trees called the Karate
Speaker 1: Kid tree? What are they? Jack? Is that a bond? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a Bonzei tree. Me and my daughter went, we
Speaker 1: saw these Bonzeie trees. Picked up a Bonzeie tree. I
Speaker 1: was trying to explain to her about karate Kids. She's
Speaker 1: five years old. She's like, Dad, this is just cold tree.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, you're gonna learn about this and we're
Speaker 1: gonna take very good care of this, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: nourish this plant, and it's gonna be something like in
Speaker 1: the Karate Kid. She looked at me and said, can
Speaker 1: we go get chicken nuggets? I said, all right, let's go.
Speaker 1: That is That's a tough one to explain it really
Speaker 1: not yet, You're like, hold on, next up Weekendo, Bernie's
Speaker 1: let me break it down for you. Revenge of the Nerds.
Speaker 1: What do you think? Oh my god, dude, that's by
Speaker 1: the way, well the Karate Kid, I mean they just
Speaker 1: had a remake with Jaden Smith like ten years ago. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was actually pretty good. Yeah, it's pretty good. Do
Speaker 1: you see it? I did not see it. I've watched
Speaker 1: Cobra Kai. Though I tried to watch it, I just
Speaker 1: can't do it because they're too hung up on high school. Still, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a little weird that forty eight year olds are like,
Speaker 1: remember that thing I said to you senior year and
Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, of course, and you're like, yeah, you don't.
Speaker 1: That's insane saying anyone that remembers that. Yeah, that's gotta
Speaker 1: be tough. That means they haven't really, they haven't grown.
Speaker 1: They haven't grown. Yeah. It's also weird that Ralph Maccio
Speaker 1: has just like a super hot wife in that show
Speaker 1: and she's like, please fuck me, and he's like, I
Speaker 1: can I have a karate tournament. She's like, you're fifty three, dude,
Speaker 1: what do you please. It's like crazy, I'm watching the show, like, dude,
Speaker 1: fuck your wife. Oh yeah, you gotta gotta fuck that way.
Speaker 1: You don't movie, you lose it. That's what That's what
Speaker 1: we say here. Well, twenty eight for three. That's the
Speaker 1: name of the game obviously, right we're calling it twenty
Speaker 1: eight to three. It's got I mean, what the comeback
Speaker 1: that Danny call it the Houston Blur? I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't think that's it. I don't twenty eight to three. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we gotta go with twenty eight to three.
Speaker 1: Let's score this bad boy. What's the rubric for this
Speaker 1: bad boy? Steaks? What's the super Bowl? What's the rubric?
Speaker 1: I go, I go stakes ten? It's a super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I mean steaks are ten? Yeah? So star power is
Speaker 1: time time out. If steaks are ten here, I don't
Speaker 1: think they could be ten because the eighteen to one
Speaker 1: super Bowl should be a ten because that was an
Speaker 1: undefeated season. Gotcha, So we're going that's fair because that
Speaker 1: that's got to be the ultimate undefeated season. Star powers
Speaker 1: up there too, though, this is this is a lot
Speaker 1: of names. I mean you got you got hall of
Speaker 1: famers on both sides. I mean Juliobi, Hall of famers,
Speaker 1: Tommy Don't we got Dolu Dola. We got a lot
Speaker 1: of defensive players like high Tower, A lot of names.
Speaker 1: What are we thinking? Like? Nine? Uh? I want to say,
Speaker 1: I mean it is Atlanta Falcons though you know so
Speaker 1: you're not You're not that. I don't think it's nine either.
Speaker 1: Falcons drag it down because the Pats these are huge names.
Speaker 1: Seattle't know. I what you gotta you gotta deal this one.
Speaker 1: I don't. I was in it, so i'ld go eight
Speaker 1: five just because the Falcons, like I think, I think
Speaker 1: we're doing like a Pats versus Giant super Bowl. There's
Speaker 1: bigger names in that. That was a you know, this
Speaker 1: book was like Strayhan, you know, there was still Tuck.
Speaker 1: You know, I think I think the Giants had bigger
Speaker 1: names than the Falcons. And then we also look at
Speaker 1: some of your other super bowls, like the Seahawks had
Speaker 1: huge names. Yeah, yeah, that was I mean, we were
Speaker 1: defending super Bowl champions. You look at other you look
Speaker 1: at other Patriots super Bowls, and I just think you're
Speaker 1: dealing with bigger names. No fly Zone, what was theirs?
Speaker 1: What was the Seattle Legion of boom See? I should
Speaker 1: know that, Like, what are we dealing gameplay? You gotta
Speaker 1: go high, I think, dude, gameplay. That's I mean, it
Speaker 1: was a hard, fat, hard fought battle in the beginning. Then,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, if you're you're if you're a
Speaker 1: Falcons fan, you got to give this a one. If
Speaker 1: you're a Patriots fan, it's a ten. But it's like
Speaker 1: if you're the rest of America, you gotta go toward
Speaker 1: the Patriots because it's an incredible super Bowl that. I
Speaker 1: mean it was. It was very biggest comeback in Super
Speaker 1: Bowl history. And it's like, low key one of the
Speaker 1: biggest comebacks. And nah, there was a couple thirty five os. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you think. I gotta go at least nine
Speaker 1: overtime in super Bowl history, first overtime in Super Bowl
Speaker 1: and five nine to five? Is that crazy? I go,
Speaker 1: I go nine. I think we're looking at a record here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a record. You gotta give the name. I think, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's another high one. I mean, there's a high twenty
Speaker 1: eight to three. I've seen it, mean so many times
Speaker 1: in so many different ways, and so many different cities,
Speaker 1: and so many different worlds and so many different galaxies,
Speaker 1: planets names in eight names and eight names and eight
Speaker 1: What do we got there, Jackie? We're coming in an
Speaker 1: eight point seventy five. That's a high score. That's gonna
Speaker 1: be a high one. Eight seven five, that's if that's
Speaker 1: an eight seven five, man, what else is That's that's
Speaker 1: the greatest comeback in sports. Let's you know, it was.
Speaker 1: It was a shocking game. It's that's that that goes
Speaker 1: to the integrity of the art of scoring these games
Speaker 1: with names, we can't. I don't care if I was
Speaker 1: involved in it. There's no I don't know if there
Speaker 1: will ever be a ten, Sam, do you. I don't
Speaker 1: think a ten can be hit. I don't think he can.
Speaker 1: Maybe by Julian on a dating app named Rayah, but
Speaker 1: other than that, I don't think it can be hit. Uh.
Speaker 1: Rian better be paying us for all this stuff that
Speaker 1: we're giving that. Uh, that's all for this episode of games.
Speaker 1: You're supposed to even say that. I don't. It's supposed
Speaker 1: to be like hidden in it. Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: We're probably gonna be kicked off now. I'm sorry. I'm
Speaker 1: off Ryan. Now I could be seeing someone. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Well, Uh, a ten by Julian in a bar.
Speaker 1: I saved that one. Well, this hasn't been Games with
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Speaker 1: see you next time. I'm you know what. I appreciate
Speaker 1: you thinking I'm so good looking. I wish I was
Speaker 1: as cool as you. Thought I was. I really do
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman one fine piece of ass from Sam Morrel,
Speaker 1: co host. We'll see you next time, folks,