Speaker 1: Got anything. Dad. Hey, this is the Christian ocunnell Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Let's cost live to Philadelphia and I'm in there. E Roch,
Speaker 2: are you there?
Speaker 1: Yes? I am. How are you well?
Speaker 2: Great? E Rock? Welcome to the show. So the super Bowl?
Speaker 2: Can Philadelphia?
Speaker 3: Do?
Speaker 1: I know?
Speaker 2: I've seen you stuff on Instagram. You are a mad
Speaker 2: one eyed Philadelphia Eagles super fan. I love the passion.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, Can the Eagles do it? Absolutely? Do? I
Speaker 1: think the Kansas City Chiefs pose a great threat and
Speaker 1: are a great team and a great friendship with the
Speaker 1: referees sometimes. Absolutely. Listen. We saw it a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago. You know, the Birds, you know, were one
Speaker 1: holding penalty short of beaten Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs
Speaker 1: once before. But I think this time this Eagles team
Speaker 1: has a nastier defense, they got the league's leading rusher,
Speaker 1: and we're all gearing up to get ready to have
Speaker 1: the biggest party on Broad Street after Sunday's game.
Speaker 2: Now, I remember quite a few years ago in twenty
Speaker 2: eighteen when you last won it and the city just
Speaker 2: went feral. You just went mad because Eagles fans are
Speaker 2: knowing all over the world are being sort of super fans.
Speaker 3: Plus yeah, well, let's make no bones about it. Other
Speaker 3: fans can say whatever they want. We are the craziest,
Speaker 3: most passionate, most energetic, most loyal fan base in the
Speaker 3: entire NFL. Heck, we're hoping all of Australia over there
Speaker 3: is going to be Eagles fans because we.
Speaker 1: Got one of your own. We got Jordan Mallatt on
Speaker 1: our team. We're hoping to bring some Australian craziness with us.
Speaker 1: But absolutely we didn't know what it was like to
Speaker 1: win a Super Bowl. So we were climbing poles, setting
Speaker 1: off fireworks in the street, just partying. But it was
Speaker 1: all positive energy.
Speaker 2: Now you're right now, Australia, will we watch in this
Speaker 2: Super Bowl? Because often Australians out in the NFL are
Speaker 2: normally punters, you know that is put on to kick
Speaker 2: the boat as far as again his punted down the field.
Speaker 2: But obviously he's a key man. He's a left tackle,
Speaker 2: so this is a big role.
Speaker 1: Left tackle. To explain to people that don't know American football,
Speaker 1: left tackle has to be the biggest, baddest, meanest dude
Speaker 1: because their best pass rusher, which is the guy trying
Speaker 1: to in essence murder your quarterback. He had the most
Speaker 1: talented guy on their team is on the left side
Speaker 1: because that's the quarterback's blind side. He can't see him
Speaker 1: coming right. So Jordan Malatta, the pride of Australia right
Speaker 1: and on the Philadelphia Eagles Pro Bowl left tackle is
Speaker 1: in charge of protecting Jailen Hurts from getting absolutely obliterated
Speaker 1: out there.
Speaker 2: I was watching some of the footage and one of
Speaker 2: the commentatess was because he's a big dude, but that's
Speaker 2: just like what six eight hundred and sixty hundred and
Speaker 2: seventy kilos and he was just popping these guys like pretzels.
Speaker 2: The commentates of the yet analysis just went, he's voting
Speaker 2: people in half.
Speaker 1: He really is. He's a massive human being. I've had
Speaker 1: the pleasure of meeting him a couple of times. I'm
Speaker 1: five foot six, my friend, exactly like you ever Steve
Speaker 1: would ventriloquist with like a puppet zombies like that, That's
Speaker 1: what I look like standing.
Speaker 3: Next thing, and so have you?
Speaker 2: Have you taken to him?
Speaker 1: We love him. Not only is he an incredible athlete,
Speaker 1: an incredible player and good at his job. Philadelphia is
Speaker 1: a tough city, right. We don't like everybody, but he
Speaker 1: has such a connection with the fans. Certain players have
Speaker 1: to be spokespeople for the team, right they just have
Speaker 1: that outgoing personality they represent the organization well. Jordan Mulatta
Speaker 1: has slid into that player personality, media savvy. Like, it's
Speaker 1: so weird in Philadelphia to be like, here's our favorite
Speaker 1: eagle and he speaks with an Australian act, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's so wild, but he does. He's
Speaker 1: embraced the city, he's embraced the sports, nothing about the
Speaker 1: game and became unbelievable at it right here in Philly.
Speaker 2: It's incredible sports story because he never picked up an
Speaker 2: American football until about twenty eighteen, and then he becomes
Speaker 2: a big star.
Speaker 1: It's almost what you want because a lot of these
Speaker 1: guys that have gone through pee wee football as a kid,
Speaker 1: in high school football, college football, it's almost like they
Speaker 1: learn bad habits. When if you get a massive six
Speaker 1: foot eight offs right in front of you that you
Speaker 1: know is athletic, that you know can truck dudes would
Speaker 1: run people over. From Australian rules that you know rugby
Speaker 1: and everything like that, you almost have an unmolded piece
Speaker 1: of clays Line. Yeah, our offensive line coach, who's the
Speaker 1: best in the NFL, said, Okay, I'm going to take
Speaker 1: this raw talent and I'm going to teach him exactly
Speaker 1: everything I want him to do, the way I want
Speaker 1: him to do it, and how to do it. And
Speaker 1: he was open to learning picked up on it. Boom
Speaker 1: becomes the best left tackle in the National Football League.
Speaker 2: And what Draff pick was, he was way way way down.
Speaker 1: He was a seventh round pick. A couple of hundred
Speaker 1: people got picked. And I think with him being from Australia,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, now, much like Major League Baseball
Speaker 1: and much like basketball, the eyes of shifted to international.
Speaker 1: Where can we find these diamonds in the rough? And
Speaker 1: we found our first big one right there.
Speaker 2: It means that, you know, obviously the game is later
Speaker 2: on this morning, Monday morning for ours because of the
Speaker 2: time difference. It means that every big Australian is now
Speaker 2: going to be watching the Super Bowl going, that's it.
Speaker 2: I'm heading to America. Get me an NFL team. I'm
Speaker 2: six s eight, I'm fat, I'm massive, I'm going to
Speaker 2: be a millionaire. Where's Taylor Swift?
Speaker 1: Hey? Listen exactly and if you're one of those people,
Speaker 1: I want you to call up Howie Roseman, who is
Speaker 1: our general manager. Don't talk to the New York Giants
Speaker 1: where they're terrible team. You'll do nothing but lose.
Speaker 2: Now, Listen, I don't want to be the voice of
Speaker 2: doubt here, okay, but what happens if you lose? What
Speaker 2: happens to that party five? If you lose? I hate
Speaker 2: to even say it.
Speaker 1: Well, listen, we have everyone's going to be drunk. I mean, let's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because booze and losing go really well, they're really
Speaker 2: good partners exactly.
Speaker 1: And if we lose, the only thing I'll ask you
Speaker 1: guys to do Pray for us, Pray for our city.
Speaker 2: Hope some prayers. Hope some prayers. My friend, Eric, enjoy
Speaker 2: your Super Bowl. Thanks for chatting to us.
Speaker 1: Mate, you got it. Take care of guys.
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