WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: The Lee Elia Tribute 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:01.520 Kutbooms. 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:05.440 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.240 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.520 of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:15.560 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:17.520 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:18.400 Wow. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:22.360 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:29.480 The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard starts right now in. 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:32.240 The air everywhere. 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:36.239 The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mallor and Danny g 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.920 Radio A Happy Friday to you. 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:41.760 Although you can listen to this oneever. 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:44.040 This is more of an evergreen pod than what we 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:46.959 normally do on the Fifth Hour. But it is the 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:52.880 summer of twenty twenty five. We're in July, and come one, 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:57.760 come all, gather around the magic pod box. You won't 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:02.640 believe your ears. Be ready to smile. I'm talking cheshire 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:06.280 Cat smile from ear to ear. It is time to 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:11.240 pour one out for our homie. A Bonus Malard monologue 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:15.520 in honor of the late great former Cub manager Lee 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:20.240 Ilia and Phillies manager who left this mortal coil. And 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:25.679 he left this world with a legendary microphone meltdown for 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:29.600 the ages, the Michael Angelo of the coaching Rant. People 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:31.200 talk about the greatest of all time. They did a 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:33.840 rant on my overnight show last night. You might have 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:38.040 heard it on the Ben Maler Show, and I mentioned 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.560 that people talk about who's the greatest quarterback in the NFL, 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:42.120 and some people will say Back in the day, they'd 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:44.760 say Joe Montana. Now everyone says, well, it's Tom Brady. 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:47.559 Tom Brady's the greatest of all time. They say who's 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.160 the greatest baseball player? Most people say, Babe Ruth is 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:53.280 the greatest baseball player. Oh, there's a name Willie Mays 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.440 or someone like that, but most people say Babe Ruth. 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:59.320 They say, who's the greatest basketball player of all time? 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:02.080 The real ones know it's Michael Jordan. The real ones 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:03.040 know it's Michael Jordan. 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:06.080 You say, who's the person that gave us the greatest 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.280 rant of all time into a news conference? 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:10.639 And that's Lee Ilia. 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:15.000 So that is the one that stands out, the Michelangelo 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:18.720 of the coaching Rant. So in his memory, in his honor, 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:23.520 we are cracking open the vault on the Fifth Hour podcast. 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:27.600 Here it's Benny's big board, not a list, not a 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:31.200 list to Terry in England. Now I was thinking of 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:35.400 doing this anyway, and then my senior advisor, a platinum 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:39.480 artist who is back in the mallor Palooza this year, 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:44.280 our friend Jayscoop, and he had messaged me. He works 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.600 in collaboration with just Josh, and he's like, this would 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:49.920 be a great idea. So the again, not a list. 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:52.720 I want to make sure that's on the record. 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:53.240 Not a list. 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:56.600 But this is Benny's big board, the five greatest microphone 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.720 meltdowns in US sports history. Now this is the coaching, 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:04.239 and I left a lot of the basketball. In fact, 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:06.720 there's no basketball in this. I can do a separate 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:11.520 subcategory in basketball. Lee Ilia was a baseball manager, of course, 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:15.200 and so this is almost all baseball and mostly football. 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:20.400 Because it's not an ordinary big board, it's a full on, 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:25.320 off the cuff, top of my dome compilation. These are 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:30.399 the most epic, unhinged rants to ever grace a presser, 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:35.560 at least that I remember today that I cobbled this together. 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:39.240 So if we missed any of your favorites, and we did, 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:40.880 you know we only have limited time here. 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:43.040 Hit us up. Let us know. 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:47.480 You can email me real fifth hour at gmail dot com, 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:49.880 Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:51.080 We'll try to accommodate you. 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:55.240 Now, before we get to the five at the very 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.880 top of Big Ben's Big board, we have the honorable 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:03.280 mention category because we got to give props before we 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.280 get to the big dogs, the big dogs. We're going 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:11.680 to start out in Cincinnati, home of legendary show contributors 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:15.920 like just Josh, who we already mentioned, and Justin and Cincinnati. 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:20.360 So the Reds have been a glorified dumpster fire for years, 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:24.080 but one of the great rants, and it reached honorable 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:27.120 mentioned status, was a number of years back the Red 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:30.560 set of manager named Brian Price. Let's just say the 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:35.560 price was not right. As Price was upset, the Reds 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:39.640 beat writers had led out a secret about a roster 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.640 move the Reds were going to make before the team 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:47.120 announced it, and that led to a record setting seventy 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:52.480 seven f bombs in a tirade that while it didn't 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:56.120 make the top five, it did make honorable mention. Let's 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:57.839 give you a little taste of this. This is Brian 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.960 Price years ago the res and you're probably about ten 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.480 years ago or so. Listen to him, and he starts 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:07.760 out rather come and next thing you know, it's F this, 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.240 F that, F you blah blah blah. 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:11.400 Take a listen. 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:13.440 You know, look, I don't need you guys to be 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:14.400 fans of the Reds. 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:17.200 I just need to know that if there's something that 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:19.159 we want to keep here, that it stays here. We 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:22.320 don't need to know that Tucker Barnhart's in the airport 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.200 when we haven't spoken to Kyle Skipworth. I think we 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:28.159 owe them and that kid the right to be called 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.360 and told that he's going to be sent down, as 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.159 opposed to reading that Tucker Barnhart's on his way and 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:37.440 from Louisville. I just I don't get it. I don't 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.440 get why it's got to be this way. Has it 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.480 always been this way? Where we just tell everybody everything? 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:47.440 So every opponent that we have has to know exactly 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:51.720 what we have, relievers are available, which guys are here, 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:53.640 and which guys aren't here when they can play what 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.240 they can do. It's nobody's in business. It's certainly not 0:05:56.279 --> 0:06:00.440 the opponent's business. We've got to deal with this. I 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:02.800 like to talk, and I have spoken as candidly as 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:06.159 I can with you people. If if that's not good enough. 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.960 I won't say a thing. I'll go yes, sir, no certain, 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.320 and I can do that. But I've been as candid 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.320 as I can be about this team and our players, 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:17.919 and we got to deal with this. Every team that 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:21.040 we play has to know everything guy that's here and 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:22.240 what they can and can do. 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:27.360 Me so in disgrace and sick of it. 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:32.359 It's hard enough to win here to have every opponent 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:37.680 know exactly what we bring to the table every day. 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:39.400 I don't like it. 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:40.919 That's what I'm saying, to make it very clear. I 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.680 don't like the way that this is going at all. 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:45.640 I don't like it. 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.680 I don't think you guys need to know everything, and 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:50.559 I certainly don't think that you need to see something 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:54.200 and tweet it out there and make it in world event. 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.120 How do we benefit from them knowing that we don't 0:06:58.160 --> 0:06:59.600 have Devin Mesarako? 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.400 How do we benefit from that they benefit from it? 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.840 I just want to know how we benefit from these 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:10.000 people knowing that we don't have a player here. Can 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:14.240 you answer that? How is that good for the Reds to? Yeah, well, 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:18.560 it's making my job harder, Sure it is, well, thank you. 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:21.680 I don't just don't know if that's what we're supposed 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.080 to do, or we supposed to open up everything here 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:27.800 for everybody to know all the time. So it's all 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.160 I want to know what your expectations are, because me, 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:32.640 if I got to tell these guys we got to 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.640 go out there and they know we don't have Devin Mesuraka, 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.120 what benefit is that to me as a manager and our. 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:39.160 Team to win a game? 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:40.360 All right? 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.880 So that Devin Mesurako or whatever the guy's name was, 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:47.360 and that was Brian pie seventy seven f bomps. That's 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:49.040 just a little taste of it. 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.040 Got kind of boring. He kept saying the F word, 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:52.640 but it got kind of boring. That was the meaty 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:53.200 part of it. 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:56.560 And this is the honorable mention on Big Ben's big board. 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:58.600 These are some of the great tie raids in honor 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:02.760 of Lee Ilia. Now he tried to find the top 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:04.760 audio on John McKay. 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:05.720 This is way back. 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:09.040 We're going back to the nineteen seventies, so this is 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:12.080 way over fifty years ago. John McKay was one of 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:14.720 the great college football coaches of all time. At the 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:18.080 University of Southern California. He wasn't getting paid a lot 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:19.680 of money. They didn't pay a lot of money back 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.360 in those days. He was getting low balled and near 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:24.880 the end of his career he's like, gos, screw it. 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:28.720 The Tampa Bay Buccaneers were an expansion team and this 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:34.679 renegade owner, Hugh Culverhouse, who was despised, he actually was 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:36.280 like the godfather of the La Rams. 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:37.360 That's a whole different story. 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:40.320 Yeah, the guy that owned the Bucks offered John McKay 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.080 to more than double his salary. They made him like 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:46.080 the highest paid coach in football at the time. So 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:50.120 John McKay left the University of Southern California and he 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:53.440 went all the way to Tampa to coach the Buccaneers. 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:57.320 And they were an expansion team. They were terrible, and 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:00.720 John McKay was a quote machine. Now one of the 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.040 great quotes of all time. I tried to find the auto, 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:06.120 I couldn't find it. It was when he was asked 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:09.280 about his team's execution and he famously said, I'm in 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:11.760 favor of it. Now, they give you an idea how 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:15.360 crazy times have changed. A few years back. I forget 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:18.040 who the coach was, but a coach used that line 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:20.320 like I think it was an NFL coach used that 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.600 line might have been a college coach, but they just 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:27.040 repeated it and the wokesters on social media. 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.360 I can't believe the coach said that. 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:31.720 So I didn't find that sound bite, but I did 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:35.160 go to the archive from This is a clip, old clip. 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:37.160 From NFL films. I think this came from. 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.880 This is some of the highlights of John McKay. He 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:45.120 was coaching the Buccaneers. He's on the sidelines and listen, 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.560 I'll give you a little taste of this. It's honorable 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:51.600 mention John McKay. We're going back over fifty years and 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:55.679 here's John McKay on the sidelines, miked up for NFL films, 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:59.840 and listen to him critique his Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:00.720 real time. 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:05.280 Take a listen, don't hit him, don't hit him. 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:09.880 Well, let's say, oh, jeezus, gentlemen, who can't stop a 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:10.840 pass or a run. 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:13.160 We're in great shape. 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:14.920 I have a lot of careers going in Monday. 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:17.120 Yeah, let's play everybody. We're just hard. 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:18.439 We're not proving one thing here. 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:19.640 We we prove we can't play. 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:25.160 That's not it's just he was a football Another damn chicken. 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:25.520 We got out here. 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:27.880 That's what I say, we got some many fucks and 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.000 no sour. Yeah, yeah, I would figure that you would 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.880 stagger around. What's wrong with playing mont in the game? 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.920 He tackles, He's only got one chass Megas football team. 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:38.360 He asks like he's got it made. He ain't got 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:39.240 nothing made. 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:39.839 All right? 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:44.280 So that was that was John McKay, Uh chicken. 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:46.240 That was pretty good. I like that. 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:50.720 So that's that's back in the nineteen seventies. Another honorable mention, Uh, 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:54.599 the greatest of all time Bobby Knight college basketball. So 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.760 I said there were no coaches from basketball liede bad 0:10:57.840 --> 0:10:58.280 job by me. 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.040 There's no NBA coaches. But this is Bobby Knight. 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.359 And going back many years, he was still at Indiana 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.120 Legendary Indiana Who's yours college basketball coach? Also coached at 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:13.160 Texas Tech. And here is Bobby Knight giving out advice 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.440 on what he wanted to happen when he finally died. 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:20.720 Now Bobby's dead, but listen to this wisdom from the 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:22.040 late great Bobby Knight. 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:23.920 When my time. 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:29.199 On Earth is gone and my activities here are past, 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:33.560 I want they bury me upside down and my critics 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:35.800 can kiss my and. 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:37.280 The crowd goes wild. 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:42.440 The crowd goes wild as Bobby Knight walks away. All right, 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:46.680 Another honorable mention on this fifth hour honoring Lee Ilia. 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:50.440 We go to New Jersey and a man who got 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:56.640 a television career because of a roughly thirty second rant 0:11:56.920 --> 0:12:00.320 to the media. We are talking going back twenty five years. 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:04.839 I believe this soundbite's from This is HERM Edwards and 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:07.800 it is an infamous SoundBite. Did not make the top 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:10.280 five on Big Ben's Big Board. But here's HERM Edwards 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:13.400 coaching the Jets. Things were not going well, because things 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:16.559 never go well when you're coaching the Jets. But here's 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.680 HERM Edwards on what it is all about. 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:20.960 Take a listen. 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:24.000 This was great about sports. This is what the greatest 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:28.920 thing about sports is. You play to win the game. Hello, 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:33.920 You play to win the game. You don't play to 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:38.760 just play it. That's a great thing about sports. You 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:41.120 play to win, and I don't care if you don't 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:45.160 have any wins. You go play to win. When you start. 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:48.240 Telling me it doesn't matter to retire. 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:50.040 Get out, get out. 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:54.240 That was HERM Edwards giving a sermon that is still 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:59.400 gospel to this day. People that are young that never 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.199 even knew who horm Edwards were or was. 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:03.679 Rather like, oh herm Edwards. 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:08.720 The last honorable mention before we get in to the 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.200 top five on Big Ben's Big Board. This is not 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:15.360 on the top five. It is my personal favorite and 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:17.720 I love this. Back when we used to have sound 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:20.960 on the show and drops on the show, and back 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:24.640 in the old days, we played a lot of drops 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:28.560 from this particular guy. It's a college football coach at 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:33.160 Coastal Carolina. The Shanta Clears, I believe, is what their 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:38.520 mascot is. Here is David Bennett, the only college coach 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:43.080 to sneak into Big Ben's Big Board in terms of 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:47.720 honorable mention. He was at Coastal Carolina and for some 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:51.800 reason he started talking about well, he started talking about 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:56.000 cats and dogs and it well, just listen. 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:58.160 Trying to get our two boys ready to gear him 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:01.120 a goff ternment foot prints right, twelve cats live across 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:01.480 the road. 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:02.720 Our door's open. 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:05.040 Screens broke. We need to get a new screen door. 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.200 But the screens broke, so you can come in through 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.200 the screen, but you can't get back out of I 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.120 turned to look, there's a little kitty cat in our kitchen, 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:13.120 so I. 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.280 Said, what are you doing in here? A little kitty cat. 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:18.640 By that time, the cat turns, tries to get back out, 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:19.920 that scream won't go that way. 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:24.560 Cat starts going all crazy, and I told our players 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:26.880 we need more dogs. Bows barging in the back after 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:29.200 go shut bow up, mels like, what's going on? It 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:30.840 says the cat and house cat in the house. I said, 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.120 it is a cat in the house. So I told 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:34.920 our players, I try to let it out the front door. 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.600 The cat's still going crazy in there, and I told 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:39.520 our players. 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:41.560 You needy bit more like a dog. We don't need 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:44.080 a bunch of cats in here. Looking in the mirror, 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:45.120 I look good. 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.120 I got my extra bands on, I got my other shoes. 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:49.360 Be a dog. 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.040 We don't need no mowns. We don't need no cats. 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:54.960 We need more dogs. 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:58.840 We all need more dogs. We all need more dogs. 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.880 That was great, David Bennett. I don't know what happened 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:03.960 to him. I looked it up a couple of years back. 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:05.800 I don't know what he's doing. He's probably retired at 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:09.200 this point. That was a years ago rant from the 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:13.480 coach at Coastal Carolina. And as you may remember, my 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.880 father in law my in laws have a house in 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:20.360 North Carolina, and I was down there a couple years 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.960 back with the wife. We went to visit him, and 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:28.080 we drove by Coastal Carolina. And when we were driving 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:31.640 by Coastal Carolina, I was like, this is a big deal. 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.560 In fact, they had an ad up in the airport 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.160 we flew into. I think it was in Myrtle Beach, 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:40.320 I believe any I don't remember where. It's been a 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:41.440 little while, but. 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:43.280 They had a sign up for the school. I was like, 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:44.560 that's the school. 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:47.840 The Cats and Dogs guy went to. That's the guy 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:52.680 right there. That was huge, huge, all right, Now turning 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:56.600 the page, Let's go to the main event. Now, Benny's 0:15:56.600 --> 0:16:01.680 big board. Not a list, not a list. Five microphone 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:07.280 meltdowns in US sports history, the Coaching edition, And we 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:09.400 go to number five. 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:16.280 Numbber five, Numbber five, an underrated rant old school. 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.360 We go now to Minnesota. He was the head coach 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:25.360 of the Old Minnesota Vikings. Jerry Burns. Jerry Burns, and 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:30.400 he came out swinging, defending his offensive coordinator with a 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:36.240 profanity laced outburst that was equal parts loyalty in lunacy 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:42.600 as Jerry Burns worked himself up burnsy into an absolute tizzy, 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:48.280 spitting fire at the football media who was questioning the 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:54.040 Minnesota Vikings play calling. And he was a poet, a 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:57.400 poet of rage. Let's go in the hot tub time 0:16:57.440 --> 0:16:59.440 machine back. I think this is in the late eighties, 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:03.880 early nineth these. Here is Jerry Burns, the Minnesota Vikings 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:12.840 head coach, passionately, passionately defending his offensive coordinator. And listen 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:15.720 to Jerry Burns. Let's go to the audio tape. 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:18.359 Let me say something. As long as I'm in his 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:21.040 fucking job, Schnelker will be the offensive coach. 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:22.840 I mean, no, no question fucking about that. 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:25.480 Fucking question about that. 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:30.000 We I don't like the name names after a fucking 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.920 after a fucking game, but we we can't. We can't 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:36.119 be responsible for the block, and we can't be responsible 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:38.800 for the guys jumping off side. We can't be responsible 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:40.880 for the fun we get down there and and uh 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:42.720 and it was a dumb play by by Anderson. 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:45.280 I love I love Anderson, but it was a numb 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:45.920 fucking play. 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.160 When he had with his foot was shoe was coming 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:49.840 off up the line, screat we were hard to take 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.920 time out we had a fucking trap play called and 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:54.320 and his fucking shoe comes off. 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:57.400 That ain't that ain't bought Schneker's fall. 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:00.600 We have another fucking trap play and then he picks 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:01.800 up his fucking feet, he walks in. 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:04.119 We got the fucking the pass. 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:08.280 Who ac out there in the flat is the boss 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:09.240 throwing in low? 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:11.520 That is a Sneker's fault. 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:14.800 We got right down there, we got we got the 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:17.879 second down and then what the hell two years ago 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:19.879 out of what fifteen forty, whatever the hell it was, 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:26.480 and Irwin, she jumps off side. These are things that 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:28.600 have been hurting us all along, the little things. We're 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.960 working at him to stop them. We goog the ball 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:33.640 good today. We went down there and we didn't get 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:34.520 the bone hands on him. 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:35.960 He wouldn't stin. 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:37.640 I think we did. 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:39.199 Yeah, all right. 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:42.719 So that was Jerry Burns after a win, ranting and 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:46.400 defending somebody named Bob Snelker, who was the offensive coordinator 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:49.240 of the Vikings back in I think this was nineteen 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:51.920 eighty nine, So that was number five on Big Ben's 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:52.359 big board. 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:55.160 Jerry Burns defending Bob Schnelker. 0:18:55.280 --> 0:19:00.960 Now the number four, number four a oldie, but a 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:07.280 goodie an NFL coach undressing one of his players. Mike 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:10.240 Singletary was the baddest man on the planet when he 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:15.240 played linebacker for Mike Ditka, and Dicka almost made this list. 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:17.240 We were trying to find there were a couple of 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:20.200 Mike Dicka rants we didn't. We weren't able to find 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:23.119 the audio. So we're going with Mike Singletary here at 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:26.040 number four. He was very briefly the forty nine ers 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:29.720 head coach, and they had a first round pick who 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.400 was a athletic gift from the gods. Fact, we had 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:36.120 this guy on this podcast a while back, Vernon Davis, 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:39.680 and things were not going well early in Vernon Davis's 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:42.439 career built like a Donnas. He wasn't playing up to 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:46.560 Mike Singletary's standard as the forty nine er coach, and 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:51.000 so Mike Singletary, in front of the media on national 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:56.640 television in a postgame news conference, pantched Vernon Davis. In fact, 0:19:56.760 --> 0:20:00.840 it got to the point where Mike Singletary on Mike, 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:04.320 you'll hear it here. Mike Singletary not just called out 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:09.560 Vernon Davis, it was a public execution where he essentially 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:13.240 said they would be better off playing a man short. 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:14.960 Let's go to the audio tape. 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:19.000 Here is Mike Singletary whose number four. 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:22.040 Take a listen, Vernon, Vernon. 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:24.679 Just was something that I told everybody at the very 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:29.159 beginning of the week. I will not tolerate players that 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:34.960 think it's about them when it's about the team and 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:40.960 we cannot make we cannot make decisions that costs the 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:46.560 team and then come off the sideline and it's nonchalant, No, 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:49.960 you know what. This is how I believe. Okay, I'm 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:50.800 from the old school. 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:54.400 I believe this. I would rather play with ten people. 0:20:55.840 --> 0:20:59.240 And just get penalized all the way until we got 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:01.680 to do something else, rather than play with eleven when 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:04.639 I know that right now that person has not sold 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:07.000 out to be a part of this team. It is 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:10.160