September 11, 2025 • 41 mins
Covino & Rich celebrate the 48th anniversary of the iconic Atari 2600! What other hobbies did we have as kids besides gaming? The guys share stories about what it was like as they both lived & worked near the Twin Towers in 2001! Plus, sports moments that united us as a nation, including the greatest first pitch of all-time!
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Select. Fox Sports Radio is one of your presets. It's
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Chicken fingers the sampler from Benigan's Buffalow Chicken strips back
in the day, had the cheese sticks, the wings. You
can mix match the whole thing, spin off Nip the
broccoli bites. I used to work at Bennigan's and I
used to say, I want out of this place. And
I stopped caring, kind of like Mike McDaniel, you know
it's over.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
They're like, hey, don't you care about your job?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
And I was like, well, such like yeah maybe, such
like no, not really, So thank you guys. I'm happy
to be here on Fox Sports Radio though. Steve Cavino,
Rich Davis, super producer, superstar, Danny g He's on the
phone today seventy seven ninety nine on Fox. I'm glad
Big Sexy Ryan is here today because he is a gamer.
(01:55):
And we got to talk about that in a few minutes,
and how far it's come. DB's got your updates spots
on the videos Spotty Boy at spot Center. Now we'll
talk about nine to eleven because we'll never forget. It
was a terrible time for everybody, but we were actually
there on the East coast. A few moments in the
sports world that helped everyone sort of heal, we gotta
look back, Yeah, because they were some wou'd say three,
(02:15):
I'm gonna say, I may add a third. They might
be three moments, three moments that held off everyone heal.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Okay, And if we.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Have time, something really interesting about this football Sunday, because
there's a lot of revenge going on. If we have time,
we got to talk about it. But right now, Old
School went fifty hits on this day nineteen seventy seven.
Atari twenty six hundred became a thing, and Rich you
brought up the old School nes much like you. I
(02:43):
was classically trained on that as well. I really feel
like that's what really changed everything, but really started everything
to me was not Pong or anything like that. None
of the handheld games. It was Atari twenty six hundred.
I had it. I loved it. We're talking pac Man
and Pitfall. I feel like, unless you're a true lifetime gamer,
(03:04):
you really connect with one console, like your first was Atari.
My siblings would say Sega Genesis. I would say I
would say, yes, Nintendo Soper, Nintendo Sega Genesis.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
But yeah, what.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Hobbies were you into? As a kid because this was
a hobby. It became a hobby, right, This is what
your parents complained about, the same way you complained about
your kids being on their tablet. Was what your parents
were saying about you in front of the TV playing
video games. But that became a multi billion dollar industry
where people actually make money, So that hobby became a
(03:41):
job for a lot of people. And Big sixy Ryan
is a gamer that makes money. Can you please just
give us a little insight on that?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Right?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And you're on a twitch, right, yeah, I stream on twitch.
Ryan mcbeing on twitch, drop me a follow.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
But yeah, Ryan McBain, I see all the time playing
your games, and you make money doing that.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
A little bit of money. People love to see me
get scared.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
I play a lot of horror games.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Is that really the pulledough? First off?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
People like to watch this, like we like to watch
I don't get it at all, Right, I can't understand
watch to watch.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Not you in general.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
My my kids watch people play Minecraft, and I'm like,
how about you play Minecraft?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
You know my kids will watch this? Uh, the I
forget they're even the Milo and something.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
They watch these kids or cartoon people play Minecraft I'll
never understand it.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
What's up, Dann Buyer.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Imagine loading up Techmo super Bowl and being like I
gotta go to work like.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
That's like, that's amazing, Yeah, have to do that.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
I gotta play weeks six, seven, and eight tonight on
my season. That would be the worst, wouldn't it? So
old school hobbies? If you want to chime in on
the game stuff and the impact they had on you,
but you know what it means, go right ahead.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I'll play Dan Byron's Techmo super Bowl, not not super Techmobile,
which is a big mistake people make.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
It's correct, It's tech.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Super Bowl, which is better than the og Tech Mobile.
People don't like talk about that enough. Four more plays,
eight plays instead of four and all the teams and
all the teams. Can you imagine though watching other people play?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
It's Ryan God bless you imagine investing now and roadblocks
now on the market. You gotta be a little entertaining
to me personally. I get hammered, and I just like
talking about so people love that. I want to see
Ryan get scared. You know what, that's funny. I didn't
know that was like your your hook though, Like he
(05:34):
just plays scary because I see his clips all the time.
Again Ryan McBain on Twitch. He's making money on this.
You could invest money in it now, it's a big deal.
I saw someone say, man, our kids got a lot
of nerve asking us for row Bucks on their roadblocks, Roebucks.
I don't even have earth Bucks and you want Roebucks.
Get out of my face. But these hobbies have turned
(05:55):
into multi billion dollar industries and ways for you to
make money.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
What were some crazy hoigh hobbies.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
You got into as a kid, aside from the obvious
baseball card collection and you're scratching sniff stickers.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Besides all that, you just named my one and only hobby.
I was the only one baseball card collector.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
You didn't do like karate or anything else like extracurricular.
That was like a hobby. You running cobra kai. There
was no miagi do in my hometown, but no. I
hung out at the baseball card shop and.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
That was like, what was the name of it.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
It was called rare coins only because it.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Was just an old like some old dude smoking a cigar.
It sounds like a coin. There was an old guy
named val I. Remember this guy got rest in peace, Like,
no way, he's still alive.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
This guy maybe thirty five, Yeah, maybe he's one hundred
and ten. He's the old this guy ever.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
But I remember this guy val owned rare coins in
Franklin Square, Long Island, and he realized that I'm not
really making much money on rare coins. But it was
the baseball card explosion of the late eighties early nineties,
so he's like, I guess I'm just gonna do all
baseball cards.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
But he still called it rare coins, and his wife
would come by every It was like a hobby shop,
really a hobby shop, but it was like one little
thing of coins and the rest was baseball cards. And
we even told him, like Valley, you need to get
video games. He got a street Fighter NBA Jam and
his place became the hang. But every day, without fail,
you went there after school or on the weekend, you'd
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be playing, you know, NBA Jam. Getting some upper deck
nineteen nineties.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
No, you wanted that Consaco rated rookie, that Mark McGuire
USA card, those Griffy rookies.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I wanted some nice car like stadium club cards.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, they came out. The upper decks came out. That
was a closer than ninety ninety one, though right now
there was.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Eighty nine eighty late ladies.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
So VAL's wife would come in every day and all
she would do is yell at him, curse him out,
put him down, and then leave. And then he would
look at us kids and go, let me tell your kids.
I think all moms and ladies of the eighties did that.
My mom did that to my dad, Let me tell
your kids. We were like, yes, why you busted my
chops attendsia.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
You'd say, uh, the lesson kids, life sucks. Then you die.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Oh man, I was like, what a great lesson. Thanks
and you tell all the kids that life sucks. You
have a Greg Jeffries scorecard? Do you have a future star?
Dave Maginen? Did you have friends? Like some hobbies? Are
all hobbies cool? Or were some cooler than others? Because
there was some kids who were in the trains, I'm like,
all right, nerd. And then there was the kids kids
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who collected marbles. Remember mars are great.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I do remember that. I think we all had them though,
right like everybody has.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
My older brother had a huge bag of them.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
He'd bring them to school and there'd be kids on
the elementary school playground, some trying to steal each other's
marbles in their marble bath.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Because some are really cools.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
There were steelers at the boulders.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Do you have any friends that were early on the whole,
like try to find rare action figures and like resell
them at those type of shops like basebook shops. But
they were ahead of the game. I remember the one
that was popular was is it Marvel or x men? Iceman?
Whatever Iceman was was that was the one that was Yeah,
chuckled out, you know what. There were certain ones that
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were hard to get. I always envied at the time,
because again we're talking about when we were kids, eighties,
whatever that generation is.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
For you go back Thursday, old school.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
And fifty hits hobbies because today is when Atari came out,
and look that hobby became probably the biggest thing in
our world. One of the biggest things in our world.
Remote control cars was was a big deal back in
the eighties. Oh really, let's take your you know, if
you got one at radio shack, you were lucky. But
people that took it serious, you'd see theirs and you're.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Like, oh my god, so jealous.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Sorry I didn't mean to take you on your jack.
What's up, buddy, Bud?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 7 (09:49):
Guys?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
What's up?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Man?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Tell us about it? I remember my buddy had like
one called the Frog.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
And yeah, those are the old Tamaya.
Speaker 7 (09:57):
I had one. It was a rough rider and then
the old Volk Flagon one and that kind of was
the springboard for me to get into ry airplanes. And
I still do that.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Yeah, dude, they were you know, when you got something
next level, entry level like the Frock, you you knew
that you weren't playing on that game. You had like
a toy. They had a real remote control car. Do
you that's awesome man, that you still do that for fun?
You know, you want to set your kids up with
fun hobbies like that too that they could take into
(10:28):
their adulthood.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Do you guys remember the worst remote control car of
all time? The Animal? Do you remember?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
They had claws, came out of clause, came out of
the wheels, and it was supposed to be able to climb.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Over all terrain.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yea, everybody remembers that if it could stop, well anything
could everything stopped the Animal? Everything you couldn't. It made
it seem like it could go through a jungle or forest. Meanwhile,
it couldn't get over a little, you know, some weeds
on your front lawn. The animal was a great, a
great one.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Rich.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Do you think of a lot of those little kids
that love the RC stuff are now flying drones?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yes, that's basically what I was thinking when he said that,
you know he's flying these planes. I bet you it's
the same kids that were doing that are are.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Doing the drone stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
But I don't I feel like I resisted a lot
of these things. If you're you guys are having these conversations,
and I had friends that would do this stuff, and
I'd be like, yeah later, you know, I know, because
you were probably running around playing with them all or football.
Speaker 8 (11:23):
On the street.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
My same.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
My childhood was more street sports and Nintendo saying because
I had a buddy that was way into you guys. Ever,
hear of like slot cars, but you race like you?
You like like you race these cars. You could go
to places and race like I guess you would say
they're little wooden type of cars that maybe six inches
to a foot long, and you'd bring them to places
and race them. I'm like, yeah, no, thanks. Old school
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hobbies and what else ties into this in a funny way.
I don't know if you missed it, but yesterday we
found out that Iowa Sam. You know, we're talking about
the trifencing dot org right USA fencing and Iowa Sam
started telling us about how he used to fence when
he was a kid, like.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
What ye against adults and he was a child.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
He said, he was.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
A little kid with the whole uniform on fencing other people. Yeah,
we made a joke that he was like Kramer with
the little kids. He goes, no, I was the little
kid fencing with adults. But we never knew that. So
we figured out was a nice tie in with the
Atari anniversary. What were some other hobbies? I know for
you of the previous generations, didn't you go through a
phase that you would roller blade around town with a
(12:28):
cutoff shirt?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
I tried no. The answer to that is no, pull
me home.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah, but people did roller but I wasn't roller blades
And I bugged him like once and busted my ass
and never tried him again.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
A huge hobby was BMX biking skateboarding. Obviously, I don't
know if.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I ever considered that a hobby though, I was just
like how I got around. Yeah, can you guys remember,
because I can remember a couple of names. You remember,
the GT Performer, the Mongoose, the Mangoo, diamond Back, the
diamond Back.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
We all wanted a diamond Back.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
You had a Hoffe.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
You were kind of week, but you knew everybody had
one at one point. I have to tell you, guys
the quick story. I may have told it before on
Fox Sports Radio, but if you're going to talk about
all those great bikes back in the day, the mongoose,
to remember the Dino, right, wasn't the Dino one of them?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
You know?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
It was big. I think it was called the Kuwahara bike.
I got a double check it. But it was the
one that Elliott rode in et and because of that
became a big deal for a minute. But when I'm
talking about g T and the Mongoose and all those,
I wanted one of those so bad. The GT Performer,
the GT and they really did ride smooth, that had
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a Columbia. I had a rally Racer and a Columbia,
and I liked my bike. But when you felt a GT,
it did feel next level, and you want it one
so bad, and your parents made you feel like it
was so expensive and.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
They were like one hundred and thirty five bucks.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, my buddy Paul loves to point that mike expensive then,
but they weren't that expense. My childhood friend loves to
point out how like the rich kid in town had
the GT Performer or the mongoose. Actual addition, and the
reality was that bike is the price of like a
dinner now, like like you got with your wife for
a nice dinner and that's the price of what it costs. Meanwhile,
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your parents made it seem like but if you had
a decent bike, it was still costing you a hundred bucks.
Do you remember that, Remember that weird neighborhood feeling when
someone got their bike stolen?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
I did. It was like an investigation, Like John got
his bike stolen. It was a horrible feeling. It happened
to me. Yeah, it's like your lifeline. Everyone in the
neighborhood made a big beat, but it was so weird.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I had a friend who really loved his bike and
it got stolen and he went to major extent, you know,
major leaps and bounds are trying to find this bike,
do you know, p W. Herman, Oh yeah, I remember
it was in the base of the Alamo or something right. Oh,
by the way, Redline was another major brand when we
were kids, Redline BMX bikes. Oh but a get it.
Some people guys like you and I rich. Yeah, you
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had your friend on the back of the pegs. Maybe
you rode around the neighborhood. You built some ramps here
and there. I never was and tricks and made it
into a hobby. I just wrote tricks. But it was
a hobby for a lot of kids. The biggest trick
I might be able to do was go off a
curb and turn my handleballs around one time, skid around,
something like that. But my story real quick was I
(15:15):
wanted one of these Danny G's so bad for Christmas, Mom, Dad,
I need a new bike. I'm thinking GT Performer, Mongoose, Dino,
any of those premiere I'd say nineteen ninety ish bikes.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
My parents got me like a ten speed Lance Armstrong.
That's weak, but not even even a mountain bike.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Not.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
It was like you were either one or two stages.
You either had a cool little dirt bike or you
you know, graduated to a cool mountain bike. My parents
got me a tense speed, and I remember thinking like.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
You just made me so uncool.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
Way, but there was a time I remember riding on the.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Bike came with a lifetime guarantee, no ass and a
wedgie for a lifetime guarantee.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Get you one of those little specialized cats too.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah, as well wear bike pants and advisor.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
My buddy Barnando, you know, wanted a mountain bike because
after the BMX, you wanted the mountain bike.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, And his parents put him like a huffy with
a newspaper rack on the back, and man, he could not.
He lost all cool points riding that bad boy. But yeah,
BMX biking was a hobby, just not for me. Could
I admit something embarrassing? That is a goal of mine
in the next six months. Yeah, my kids don't ride bikes.
(16:30):
That's crazy because we we live on a hill, right,
and then it just never with all their activities in
sports and dance and baseball and this we my kids are,
I mean they're only five and eight, but still like
they're not dead.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
They're at the age now it's all yeah, But in
my mind, I'm like, gosh, I should have already taught
them how to ride a bike. But my kids on
know how to ride a bike. It's just in our
neck of the woods. It's not a thing.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Did they do big wheels and tricycles?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I guess like little those you know the way, why
things you charge?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Don't sleep on the fact that that ET did have
a big part on us wanting tried BMX bikes. We
saw those kids, see Thomas Howell and what's his face,
Henry Thomas and all those ET kids riding around.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
The neighborhood, flying across the moon.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
That was sort of every kid's fantasy to just drive
around right around the town the way they were in
that movie.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Now, there was also that movie I think it was
called Rad Yeah, Rad Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
So it really took that and skateboarding next level. That
was your fantasy. My fantasies are a bit different than yours.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
You didn't want to just right around those hills like that.
That Old school hobbies based on the video games. Now
we turn it over to you and then we reminisce
about nine to eleven old school hobbies. Let's go rapid fire.
We'll start with Reese and Kentucky.
Speaker 8 (17:40):
Hey, Rees, what's up guy?
Speaker 9 (17:43):
I loved all this. I had a hutch by the way,
but not getting into that. But I have three brothers
or two brothers, three of us and we're all uber competitive.
I'm fifty now I'm the middle. So when the Nintendo
came out and just have one so they get us
all one in the game.
Speaker 8 (18:03):
It was Mike Tyson punch out.
Speaker 10 (18:05):
I had to go downstairs in the basement. They gave
us a twelve inch TV. We had to plug it
in do all that, so we had to watch each
other to go through this. King Hippo was the hardest.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
One until you figured out.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
Until you it it was the easiest effort.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
But remember there was that you were calling your friends
and figure you had to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
And until you figured out, you have a Nintendo hotline.
That is, if you were stumped, you can call him up,
no doubt, Reese, that's a.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
Go can hit.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
By the way, Mike tith in here, remember the code
to fight Mike Tithing with double O seven three seven
three five nine six three when we actually had never
beat Mike tithon. One of the times we've had Tyson
actually on the show, he's so clueless on that game.
He's like, who's the guy, but he's he called the
blast Joe.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
He did, yeah, because he didn't play it.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
He never played it. Now I never played it. Andy
and Mississipip. What's up Andy?
Speaker 7 (19:00):
Hey, guy's got a couple real quick. I had an vision.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
In television call Eco Vision. Yeah. My uncle was doing
well in the eighties. He had twitch okay.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
To follow ryme nice and I was jealous of a
kid in my neighborhood had an Evil Knievel bike and
had a handlebar that you can riv.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
That's pretty cool. You want to hear something crazy history? Boy?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Here?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Do you know how Evil Knievel got his name? Evil
canevl No, his last name is Knievel, right, but he
was in prison with a guy named Awful Knoffle look
awful on the History Channel. So he's like, yeah, I'll
just be evil, and he.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Became He became a because Awful.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yeah, look it up. I don't believe it all right, right,
made it up? I dreamt it yea in Vegas? What's up, Javier?
Let's Derek dere Derek?
Speaker 3 (19:59):
What's man?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah? So I'm gonna start with video games for sure.
The N sixty four is the first.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
One I owned, and.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Hot Wheels was a great game.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
I don't know if y'all played that Hot Wheels on
the N sixty four was amazing.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
No, but I collected hot Wheels and matchbox cars.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Anyone remember collecting matchbox cars in like that blue foamy case. Yeah,
you had to handle like old suit k yellow handle. Yeah,
the yellow handle. Yes, to have a car wash.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
That's something CoA is into right now. And he's got
so many Hot Wheels.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
You know that's a hobby collect I still got mine.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
You know what I'm gonna cal You know, I'm gonna
steal something from him because he brought this up maybe
like a month ago on our Patreon and I forgot
it existed, and he unlocked him memory. So I'm gonna
unlock him memory for all of you right now. Do
you remember if you were baller enough and your parents
were cool enough to get this. Do you remember that
your Matchbox cars they had a little car wash you
could buy for your Matchbox cars.
Speaker 8 (20:54):
It was like it was like a little setup.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
But you can remember seeing the TV commercial you could.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
You could have a car wash for your Matchbox cars.
Look it up and I guarantee you'll unlock a memory, like,
oh my god, I remember that those were great. I
think those are hobby because you would collect them. Yeah,
so if you were collecting them, I think that's that's
definitely considered a hobby.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
What's up, da?
Speaker 5 (21:14):
I had an older sister, so I was forced to
play Barbie. But they gave me like a Ken doll. Okay,
but it was Donny Osmond. Yes, yes, but my my
favorite part about it was blowing up the furniture.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
I don't know it was.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
That's that's she had a whole big So you mentioned
the car wash thing, and I'm like, I had to
endure playing Barbie because I had an older sister.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Is that why you stayed at the Harrows in Vegas
recently to see Donny? I thought, that's why when you
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Speaker 4 (21:46):
You get to see Barbie, but love Donnie Osma.
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It doesn't you want to go to Illinois? I had
a baker. Oh, we'll go to hobby are now?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Now you're trying to skip HOVI here, what's up?
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Hobby?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Here?
Speaker 4 (21:57):
What's up? Guys?
Speaker 7 (21:59):
Day?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Thank you man?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (22:02):
But do you guys remember pod and Slammers?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
I remember not understanding them. They're a little after our
like after my time. That's more early nineties, right. My
siblings weren't the pop. I was chasing uh, you know,
women and playing baseball, I guess at that time. But
I totally remember how big that was for so many people.
Like you said slammers. I still don't understand how that
game was played, but I remember how people collected them
(22:27):
in a major way.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
You know.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Oh, I was going to say that that unlocked a memory.
My older brother got in trouble when my mom found
his collection of garbage pail kids A huge Yeah, that
was for him.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
That was a hobby.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Do you remember you remember yours? I was? Mine was
itchy Richie. What was the Steve one? Uh, sexy Steve?
I think I don't think it was. I think I
don't think it was a studeley Steve. I don't think
that was seductive Steve.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I don't think that it was sports sporty Steve, spoiy Steve.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Yeah, I want to take one last call. It was
sports talk Steve. I want to say, how had a Baker? Yeah?
Was the wrapping in Illinois? What's that Baker?
Speaker 7 (23:03):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Hey, hey you're on Baker?
Speaker 8 (23:09):
Sorry?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I know I have an income poll so I just
wanted to and what video games is my My brothers
they had stowbels and three wheelers and they were nine
and twelve years older than me, and they had Natari
(23:31):
And by the time I was grown, the Atari was
broken and the legos were smashed.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Let's hear from Mike McDaniel. Everybody, thank you, Mike, appreciate it.
Well done to you.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
How about he said, he mentioned three wheelers, though there
were some kids in the neighborhood that had the little motorcycles.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Now Rich had a hog stick.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
I got a right, That's how I got a round
to go around.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Yeah, they called him.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
I heard he could one street at a time. People
would be like, people like, where's Rich? And all of
a sudden, you hear boy, you know if we want
to take it back. Though, pogo ball was a thing
you did. I was pretty good and use your sister
skip it. No, No, I was a big, big pogo ball.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Did either of you ever have a dirt bike? Because
I know a lot of us.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Bug Dark See it's funny because you're talking like a
motorized motocross dirt bike. Growing up in the suburbs of
New Jersey, we called the BMX like a dirt bike.
That's just what we call them. But no, an actual
dirt bike. I did not no, no, but I wish
I did. I wish I did.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Well.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Hey, listen, So old school hobbies.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Props to the Calco visions in the in televisions and
all the old school consoles. Atari came out twenty six
hundred came out on this day nineteen seventy seven. It
exploded in the eighties and now it's the hobby is
now someone's job. It's the biggest is that credit street
going and props to the come up because we all witness.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
So wait, Ron, you have a Twitch and and only fans.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Whoa Ryan McMain if you want to follow him on Twitch.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
It is funny to see. So there you have it.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
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chime in on the old score hobbies, talk about the
(28:02):
video games that impacted you, hit us up at Covino
on Rich at Fox Sports Radio. But on this day,
all those years ago, two thousand and one, Rich and
I were on the East coast.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Yeah, our stories.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
We've told it every year since because you never want
to forget on our Patreon at serious extent. But here
on Fox Sports Radio, I'll make it simple. I was
working at k Rock, New York, home of Howard Stern
and woke up that morning and I'm hearing Howard talking
about what's going on, And You're.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Like, what, like, do I even go in at what's
going on?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
And got on the bus from Jersey heading into New
York and right at the tunnel, true story, right at
the tunnel right there about that because we I didn't
know what was going on, We didn't know it was
a terrorist act. At the time, they said turn around,
we're not letting you in, turned around, continued listening to
the stern broadcast him.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
My buddy, old buddy, Crazy Cabby.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Were talking about this guy Osama bin Laden, who I
really had never heard of at the time. Young dude, Yeah,
I was a young dude. Didn't care about that stuff
and innocence if you will, because life changed. Got back
to my hometown, put on the TV, continued watching this horror.
Ran up the hill in my hometown of Union, New Jersey,
was able to see the twin towers up and smoke
(29:23):
my buddy Barry. Then tragedy happened. I never made it
into the city, but we had to live with the
aftermath because that's where we worked. That was our backyard,
and everybody knew somebody that had passed away or that
was affected. And I'll just say this, I'll give a
shout out to Thomas J. Fisher. He was my neighbor
right across the street. Till this day. My parents live
(29:45):
on the street named after him because he passed away
that day. Our neighbors, our colleagues, their family members, high
school kids, shout out to my buddy Ali Shahid Khalei
Shahied I saw him the night before played pool never
saw him again. Everybody knew somebody. It was a horrific,
horrific day. But we did get back to normal. And
(30:08):
we'll tell you about that in a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Rich.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
You were in the city doing Nickelodeon stuff, Yeah, I was.
I was in Union Square, which is like ten fifteen,
you know, ten twenty blocks away from World Trade, and.
Speaker 8 (30:20):
I remember I was.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
I was doing an eight in the morning shoot for Nickelodeon.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
At the time, I was doing Little Videos, which was
the host of Blues Clues, the original in between all
like Ketan and Kell and the Amanda Show and all that.
I was the guy like coming up next to Nickelodeon.
So I was in the middle of a shoot and
the camera guys like, yeah, guys, I gotta go, and
we're like, where are you going? It's like eight in
the morning. He said, I live across the street from
World Trade and my wife said there's a fire. I
(30:45):
gotta leave, sorry, man, and he ran out of there.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
And I just remember being stuck in the city all
day and you go outside and everyone was walking up
from downtown like away from disaster. It was just a I.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Remember, I couldn't I couldn't get home until that night.
And again everyone knows someone, So Mike Keefer is the
neighbor and friend we lost in our in our block,
in our streets. Everybody was affected. Life was never the same.
You guys know the deal, whether it be at the airport.
But for us working in New York, it was just
constant security for years, dudes and army gear with machine guns,
(31:22):
and that became the new normal. However, there were a
few moments that brought us back to normal. Yeah, and
made us realize that, Yeah, I guess life moves forward
and will be okay, because there was a sense of
when could I laugh again? When could I cheer again?
When could I do anything again? Dude, work in radio,
I mean I imagine a lot of people listening to
(31:44):
Fox Sports Radio would find it interesting that we had
to pull songs off the playlist because they were insensitive.
At the time, Afroman was a big deal. We were
playing it on the rock radio station about getting high.
Then it goes I got huh gone. Drowning Pool Bodies
was one of our biggest songs. The lyrics was let
the Bodies hit the Floor. Pulled from the playlist because
(32:05):
it was deemed insensitive. So even the music industry, these bands,
these artists, everybody was impacted in someone sensitive lyrics old.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
We had to edit a notorious big song and we
also could no longer play gap band. You dropped a
bomb on me.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Oh yeah, like anything I had an insensitive reference or
that made people think of it. You had to make
the adjustments, you had to pivot. This song in heavy
rotation was remember Enrique Iglesia's hero Yeah, and they would
put all the little clips of FDN Y and NYPD
in the song yep, but yeah. Just there were a
couple of sports moments that really helped the healing process.
(32:41):
And while set up V one, because I know that
you have more thoughts about it than I do, because
you're a Mets fan. I mean, my feeling is that
the Mets were not really competitive as we wanted that year.
But on September twenty first, ten days later, ten days
after the terror attacks, Piazza Mike Piazza came to the
(33:02):
plate at Shay Stadium the eighth inning, the Mets trailing
the rival Braves two.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
To one, and Piazza.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
It was the first sporting event in this city since
the attack, and Piazza hit a blest.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Lopez wants it away and a deep to.
Speaker 8 (33:17):
Left center and talent on the line, This one has
a chance. Like Piazza in the next league three to.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Two, forty one thousand fans independence going wild. He took
Steve Carse deep to left center with a go ahead,
two run home run. And everybody at home watching that
because remember everyone was rocking the FDN WY I like a.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Bobby Valentine, all the players spots playing the video now
an emotional moment.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Yeah, I mean New York went wild, and you know
what it did give everybody the feeling like, oh, we
could cheer again, we could cheer again.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
There was a.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
There was a sense of okay, you're cheering. I could Yeah, Okay,
it's okay. And that's the power of sports. There's a
lot of people that pooh pooh sports like it means nothing. No,
that means it means a lot more than people really realize.
And the other moments we're going to talk about we'll
get to after Dan Buyer's update dB.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
What's up man, guys.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
Tonight, it is the start of Week two in the
NFL season with the Commanders and Packers from Lambeau. Kickoff
comes up at eight to fifteen Eastern time. NFL Network
reported earlier today that forty nine Ers quarterback Brock Party
could miss two to five weeks with a turf toe injury,
as he's likely to miss games against the Saints and Cardinals.
According to the report, Vikings quarterback JJ McCarthy miss practice
(34:30):
today because his wife was giving birth to their baby boy.
Raiders tight end Brock Bauers miss practice he has a
knee injury. Raiders have an extra day. They're hosting the
Chargers on Monday Night Football, the first of two games
on Monday Night. Chiefs a wide receiver Xavier Worthy was
a limited participant in practice today because of his shoulder
injury suffered against the Chargers in Week one, well in
(34:50):
advance of their AFC showdown Bills and Jets a little
bit dinged up. Sauce Gardner limited in practice for New
York because of a groin issue. At Oliver didn't practice
he's got an ankle injury. The NFL says they won't
punish Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson for shoving a fan on
Sunday Night. After that, fans chef Jackson and wide receiver
DeAndre Hopkins during a touchdown celebration.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
And finally in baseball today in Toronto.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
On the ground of first pig five Bloody, he goes
to the back and Kevin Goss made the best pitch
to shut out six something. The Blue Jay Swayne complete
game two hitter struck out nine. On the Blue Jays
Radio Network, you heard the six nothing win. But maybe
more importantly, Blue Jay's up three and a half now
on the Yankees in the AL East, while the Astros
are just a half game up on the Mariners in
(35:35):
the AL West. Following the lost guys. Back to you,
Thanks Dan Buyer, have a good night, Bud.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Thank you dB. So we're Covino and Rich. Appreciate all
the feedback. At Covino and Rich. There's a few other
sports moments that brought some normalcy back to our lives
around this time, all those years ago, nine to eleven,
two thousand and one. We told you about Mike Piazza.
There's like two or three more that really started to
bring us back. We'll hit on those and tonight tonight
(36:03):
is your night, bro, a real good Thursday night football.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Do you have a read or feel on this game
at all?
Speaker 1 (36:08):
We'll discuss Washington Green Bay in just a few right here,
Cavino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio. You know nobody
believes me, but I jumped over the flagpole and I did.
I did, jumped over the flagpole and super Mario Brothers
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as I said, growing up in East Coast, Super Mario Brothers.
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Yeah, super Mario.
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Boom Boom now. In regards to the twenty fourth anniversary
of a tragic Day nine to eleven, we talked about
some of the sports moments that brought the world back
to a bit of normalcy. Of course, that Mike Piazza
(37:40):
home run against the Braves ten days later the other
I said, I was thinking of two others, and I
don't think they're the ones you had for me. I
was thinking of Sammy Sosa running out with the American flag.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Oh, that's a cool one.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
I had not thought about that. I saw feedback someone said,
Sammy Sosa, it's an iconic moment for sure. But as
a Yankees fan, remember they made the World Series then
right yere the year the only year I rooted for them,
and they lost. Well, not only you, even the Boston fans.
Instead of singing Sweet Caroline, they sang New York, New York,
and that was kind of cool. It's like, all right, look,
(38:14):
this is uniting people. At least. That's good. We're cheering
for Mike Piazza. We started feeling normal again thanks to sports.
And there's another moment too, Rich that Zach wanted to
bring up. Zach in Kansas City are on the Cavino
and Rich show.
Speaker 9 (38:33):
Hey it's up, guys. A big fan of the show.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (38:38):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 11 (38:39):
I was in second grade during nine to eleven, but
I remember pretty vividly all the Thanksgiving Day game November
twenty second, two thousand and one, Dallas Cowboys versus the
Denver Broncos when CREB performed higher during the halftime show.
That was like the most patriotic thing of all time.
Speaker 9 (39:00):
I mean I remember.
Speaker 11 (39:00):
I mean the clips still circulator on social media all
the time, and so that's just where I wanted to
bring up.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
That's what I dude, great call, it really is.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
It's an unforgotten Actually the clip lives on, like he says,
but people forget that that's what it's from in that moment,
and it was a majestic performance of can you Take
Me Hi?
Speaker 3 (39:21):
And people are flying.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Around the stadium in the American flag. Scott Stadd was
wearing the Cowboys jersey. He's not kidding. That was a
big moment and it still lives on. But the coolest moment.
I think we saved for last Yeah, but thank you, Zach.
That's a great The coolest moment happened to your stadium
with the guidance of the captain Derek Jeter.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
Yeah, the backstory is awesome.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
When they're in the when they're in the tunnels getting
ready for this moment. It was Derek Jeter who told
President Bush, you have to throw it from the mound,
and you better not bounce it.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
And you better not bounce it.
Speaker 8 (39:57):
And I mean George W.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Bush throwing out a perfect strike with a bulletproof vest on.
I always thought the Queen of England in the Naked
Gun movie had the coolest first pitch.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Well, that was a great screwball. Yeah, it was an
amazing screwball.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
But this one, with the pressure of that moment and
how much it meant to the world because this was
the first game at Yankee Stadium in the two thousand
and one World Series, everybody's watching this is what a
sense of composure, Yeah, and amazing and strength. I know,
I know it sounds ridiculous, Gus. You're saying it's only
a first pitch, but imagine the difference if he threw
like a fifty cent or Bubba Bowie.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Oh pitch in that moment, it would have been terrific strike.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
It had been really bad, perfect strike from the rubber
from the mound.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
And that was the first pitch of Game three.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
It like showed the strength of our country, it did.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
It meant so much in that moment, and it was.
It was a strike thrown by our president, George W.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Bush.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
An amazing first pitch, probably the best first pitch in history,
more accurate.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Than Devin Williams as of late.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Oh yeah, I'm not saying a lot though, So hey,
share your memory, share your thoughts, and we thank these
moments for putting us back on track. But we'll never
forget in two thousand and one, nine to eleven again,
Coveno and Rich all your feedback at Covino and Rich
at Fox Sports Radio. Now, as far as tonight, I
got no read on this game. Maybe take the points
of your Washington fan plus three and a half. But
(41:19):
I don't know it's gonna be a good one. We'll
see you tomorrow, I reave it. There, see you in
the over Promised Land. We do that next.
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(01:55):
And we got to talk about that in a few minutes,
and how far it's come. DB's got your updates spots
on the videos Spotty Boy at spot Center. Now we'll
talk about nine to eleven because we'll never forget. It
was a terrible time for everybody, but we were actually
there on the East coast. A few moments in the
sports world that helped everyone sort of heal, we gotta
look back, Yeah, because they were some wou'd say three,
(02:15):
I'm gonna say, I may add a third. They might
be three moments, three moments that held off everyone heal.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Okay, And if we.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Have time, something really interesting about this football Sunday, because
there's a lot of revenge going on. If we have time,
we got to talk about it. But right now, Old
School went fifty hits on this day nineteen seventy seven.
Atari twenty six hundred became a thing, and Rich you
brought up the old School nes much like you. I
(02:43):
was classically trained on that as well. I really feel
like that's what really changed everything, but really started everything
to me was not Pong or anything like that. None
of the handheld games. It was Atari twenty six hundred.
I had it. I loved it. We're talking pac Man
and Pitfall. I feel like, unless you're a true lifetime gamer,
(03:04):
you really connect with one console, like your first was Atari.
My siblings would say Sega Genesis. I would say I
would say, yes, Nintendo Soper, Nintendo Sega Genesis.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
But yeah, what.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Hobbies were you into? As a kid because this was
a hobby. It became a hobby, right, This is what
your parents complained about, the same way you complained about
your kids being on their tablet. Was what your parents
were saying about you in front of the TV playing
video games. But that became a multi billion dollar industry
where people actually make money, So that hobby became a
(03:41):
job for a lot of people. And Big sixy Ryan
is a gamer that makes money. Can you please just
give us a little insight on that?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Right?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And you're on a twitch, right, yeah, I stream on twitch.
Ryan mcbeing on twitch, drop me a follow.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
But yeah, Ryan McBain, I see all the time playing
your games, and you make money doing that.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
A little bit of money. People love to see me
get scared.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
I play a lot of horror games.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Is that really the pulledough? First off?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
People like to watch this, like we like to watch
I don't get it at all, Right, I can't understand
watch to watch.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Not you in general.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
My my kids watch people play Minecraft, and I'm like,
how about you play Minecraft?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
You know my kids will watch this? Uh, the I
forget they're even the Milo and something.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
They watch these kids or cartoon people play Minecraft I'll
never understand it.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
What's up, Dann Buyer.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Imagine loading up Techmo super Bowl and being like I
gotta go to work like.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
That's like, that's amazing, Yeah, have to do that.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
I gotta play weeks six, seven, and eight tonight on
my season. That would be the worst, wouldn't it? So
old school hobbies? If you want to chime in on
the game stuff and the impact they had on you,
but you know what it means, go right ahead.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I'll play Dan Byron's Techmo super Bowl, not not super Techmobile,
which is a big mistake people make.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
It's correct, It's tech.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Super Bowl, which is better than the og Tech Mobile.
People don't like talk about that enough. Four more plays,
eight plays instead of four and all the teams and
all the teams. Can you imagine though watching other people play?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
It's Ryan God bless you imagine investing now and roadblocks
now on the market. You gotta be a little entertaining
to me personally. I get hammered, and I just like
talking about so people love that. I want to see
Ryan get scared. You know what, that's funny. I didn't
know that was like your your hook though, Like he
(05:34):
just plays scary because I see his clips all the time.
Again Ryan McBain on Twitch. He's making money on this.
You could invest money in it now, it's a big deal.
I saw someone say, man, our kids got a lot
of nerve asking us for row Bucks on their roadblocks, Roebucks.
I don't even have earth Bucks and you want Roebucks.
Get out of my face. But these hobbies have turned
(05:55):
into multi billion dollar industries and ways for you to
make money.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
What were some crazy hoigh hobbies.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
You got into as a kid, aside from the obvious
baseball card collection and you're scratching sniff stickers.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Besides all that, you just named my one and only hobby.
I was the only one baseball card collector.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
You didn't do like karate or anything else like extracurricular.
That was like a hobby. You running cobra kai. There
was no miagi do in my hometown, but no. I
hung out at the baseball card shop and.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
That was like, what was the name of it.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
It was called rare coins only because it.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Was just an old like some old dude smoking a cigar.
It sounds like a coin. There was an old guy
named val I. Remember this guy got rest in peace, Like,
no way, he's still alive.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
This guy maybe thirty five, Yeah, maybe he's one hundred
and ten. He's the old this guy ever.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
But I remember this guy val owned rare coins in
Franklin Square, Long Island, and he realized that I'm not
really making much money on rare coins. But it was
the baseball card explosion of the late eighties early nineties,
so he's like, I guess I'm just gonna do all
baseball cards.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
But he still called it rare coins, and his wife
would come by every It was like a hobby shop,
really a hobby shop, but it was like one little
thing of coins and the rest was baseball cards. And
we even told him, like Valley, you need to get
video games. He got a street Fighter NBA Jam and
his place became the hang. But every day, without fail,
you went there after school or on the weekend, you'd
(07:20):
be playing, you know, NBA Jam. Getting some upper deck
nineteen nineties.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
No, you wanted that Consaco rated rookie, that Mark McGuire
USA card, those Griffy rookies.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I wanted some nice car like stadium club cards.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, they came out. The upper decks came out. That
was a closer than ninety ninety one, though right now
there was.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Eighty nine eighty late ladies.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
So VAL's wife would come in every day and all
she would do is yell at him, curse him out,
put him down, and then leave. And then he would
look at us kids and go, let me tell your kids.
I think all moms and ladies of the eighties did that.
My mom did that to my dad, Let me tell
your kids. We were like, yes, why you busted my
chops attendsia.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
You'd say, uh, the lesson kids, life sucks. Then you die.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Oh man, I was like, what a great lesson. Thanks
and you tell all the kids that life sucks. You
have a Greg Jeffries scorecard? Do you have a future star?
Dave Maginen? Did you have friends? Like some hobbies? Are
all hobbies cool? Or were some cooler than others? Because
there was some kids who were in the trains, I'm like,
all right, nerd. And then there was the kids kids
(08:24):
who collected marbles. Remember mars are great.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I do remember that. I think we all had them though,
right like everybody has.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
My older brother had a huge bag of them.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
He'd bring them to school and there'd be kids on
the elementary school playground, some trying to steal each other's
marbles in their marble bath.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Because some are really cools.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
There were steelers at the boulders.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Do you have any friends that were early on the whole,
like try to find rare action figures and like resell
them at those type of shops like basebook shops. But
they were ahead of the game. I remember the one
that was popular was is it Marvel or x men? Iceman?
Whatever Iceman was was that was the one that was Yeah,
chuckled out, you know what. There were certain ones that
(09:08):
were hard to get. I always envied at the time,
because again we're talking about when we were kids, eighties,
whatever that generation is.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
For you go back Thursday, old school.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
And fifty hits hobbies because today is when Atari came out,
and look that hobby became probably the biggest thing in
our world. One of the biggest things in our world.
Remote control cars was was a big deal back in
the eighties. Oh really, let's take your you know, if
you got one at radio shack, you were lucky. But
people that took it serious, you'd see theirs and you're.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Like, oh my god, so jealous.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Sorry I didn't mean to take you on your jack.
What's up, buddy, Bud?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 7 (09:49):
Guys?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
What's up?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Man?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Tell us about it? I remember my buddy had like
one called the Frog.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
And yeah, those are the old Tamaya.
Speaker 7 (09:57):
I had one. It was a rough rider and then
the old Volk Flagon one and that kind of was
the springboard for me to get into ry airplanes. And
I still do that.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Yeah, dude, they were you know, when you got something
next level, entry level like the Frock, you you knew
that you weren't playing on that game. You had like
a toy. They had a real remote control car. Do
you that's awesome man, that you still do that for fun?
You know, you want to set your kids up with
fun hobbies like that too that they could take into
(10:28):
their adulthood.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Do you guys remember the worst remote control car of
all time? The Animal? Do you remember?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
They had claws, came out of clause, came out of
the wheels, and it was supposed to be able to climb.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Over all terrain.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yea, everybody remembers that if it could stop, well anything
could everything stopped the Animal? Everything you couldn't. It made
it seem like it could go through a jungle or forest. Meanwhile,
it couldn't get over a little, you know, some weeds
on your front lawn. The animal was a great, a
great one.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Rich.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Do you think of a lot of those little kids
that love the RC stuff are now flying drones?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yes, that's basically what I was thinking when he said that,
you know he's flying these planes. I bet you it's
the same kids that were doing that are are.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Doing the drone stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
But I don't I feel like I resisted a lot
of these things. If you're you guys are having these conversations,
and I had friends that would do this stuff, and
I'd be like, yeah later, you know, I know, because
you were probably running around playing with them all or football.
Speaker 8 (11:23):
On the street.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
My same.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
My childhood was more street sports and Nintendo saying because
I had a buddy that was way into you guys. Ever,
hear of like slot cars, but you race like you?
You like like you race these cars. You could go
to places and race like I guess you would say
they're little wooden type of cars that maybe six inches
to a foot long, and you'd bring them to places
and race them. I'm like, yeah, no, thanks. Old school
(11:44):
hobbies and what else ties into this in a funny way.
I don't know if you missed it, but yesterday we
found out that Iowa Sam. You know, we're talking about
the trifencing dot org right USA fencing and Iowa Sam
started telling us about how he used to fence when
he was a kid, like.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
What ye against adults and he was a child.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
He said, he was.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
A little kid with the whole uniform on fencing other people. Yeah,
we made a joke that he was like Kramer with
the little kids. He goes, no, I was the little
kid fencing with adults. But we never knew that. So
we figured out was a nice tie in with the
Atari anniversary. What were some other hobbies? I know for
you of the previous generations, didn't you go through a
phase that you would roller blade around town with a
(12:28):
cutoff shirt?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
I tried no. The answer to that is no, pull
me home.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah, but people did roller but I wasn't roller blades
And I bugged him like once and busted my ass
and never tried him again.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
A huge hobby was BMX biking skateboarding. Obviously, I don't
know if.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I ever considered that a hobby though, I was just
like how I got around. Yeah, can you guys remember,
because I can remember a couple of names. You remember,
the GT Performer, the Mongoose, the Mangoo, diamond Back, the
diamond Back.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
We all wanted a diamond Back.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
You had a Hoffe.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
You were kind of week, but you knew everybody had
one at one point. I have to tell you, guys
the quick story. I may have told it before on
Fox Sports Radio, but if you're going to talk about
all those great bikes back in the day, the mongoose,
to remember the Dino, right, wasn't the Dino one of them?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
You know?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
It was big. I think it was called the Kuwahara bike.
I got a double check it. But it was the
one that Elliott rode in et and because of that
became a big deal for a minute. But when I'm
talking about g T and the Mongoose and all those,
I wanted one of those so bad. The GT Performer,
the GT and they really did ride smooth, that had
(13:34):
a Columbia. I had a rally Racer and a Columbia,
and I liked my bike. But when you felt a GT,
it did feel next level, and you want it one
so bad, and your parents made you feel like it
was so expensive and.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
They were like one hundred and thirty five bucks.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, my buddy Paul loves to point that mike expensive then,
but they weren't that expense. My childhood friend loves to
point out how like the rich kid in town had
the GT Performer or the mongoose. Actual addition, and the
reality was that bike is the price of like a
dinner now, like like you got with your wife for
a nice dinner and that's the price of what it costs. Meanwhile,
(14:09):
your parents made it seem like but if you had
a decent bike, it was still costing you a hundred bucks.
Do you remember that, Remember that weird neighborhood feeling when
someone got their bike stolen?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
I did. It was like an investigation, Like John got
his bike stolen. It was a horrible feeling. It happened
to me. Yeah, it's like your lifeline. Everyone in the
neighborhood made a big beat, but it was so weird.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I had a friend who really loved his bike and
it got stolen and he went to major extent, you know,
major leaps and bounds are trying to find this bike,
do you know, p W. Herman, Oh yeah, I remember
it was in the base of the Alamo or something right. Oh,
by the way, Redline was another major brand when we
were kids, Redline BMX bikes. Oh but a get it.
Some people guys like you and I rich. Yeah, you
(14:52):
had your friend on the back of the pegs. Maybe
you rode around the neighborhood. You built some ramps here
and there. I never was and tricks and made it
into a hobby. I just wrote tricks. But it was
a hobby for a lot of kids. The biggest trick
I might be able to do was go off a
curb and turn my handleballs around one time, skid around,
something like that. But my story real quick was I
(15:15):
wanted one of these Danny G's so bad for Christmas, Mom, Dad,
I need a new bike. I'm thinking GT Performer, Mongoose, Dino,
any of those premiere I'd say nineteen ninety ish bikes.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
My parents got me like a ten speed Lance Armstrong.
That's weak, but not even even a mountain bike.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Not.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
It was like you were either one or two stages.
You either had a cool little dirt bike or you
you know, graduated to a cool mountain bike. My parents
got me a tense speed, and I remember thinking like.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
You just made me so uncool.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
Way, but there was a time I remember riding on the.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Bike came with a lifetime guarantee, no ass and a
wedgie for a lifetime guarantee.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Get you one of those little specialized cats too.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah, as well wear bike pants and advisor.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
My buddy Barnando, you know, wanted a mountain bike because
after the BMX, you wanted the mountain bike.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, And his parents put him like a huffy with
a newspaper rack on the back, and man, he could not.
He lost all cool points riding that bad boy. But yeah,
BMX biking was a hobby, just not for me. Could
I admit something embarrassing? That is a goal of mine
in the next six months. Yeah, my kids don't ride bikes.
(16:30):
That's crazy because we we live on a hill, right,
and then it just never with all their activities in
sports and dance and baseball and this we my kids are,
I mean they're only five and eight, but still like
they're not dead.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
They're at the age now it's all yeah, But in
my mind, I'm like, gosh, I should have already taught
them how to ride a bike. But my kids on
know how to ride a bike. It's just in our
neck of the woods. It's not a thing.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Did they do big wheels and tricycles?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I guess like little those you know the way, why
things you charge?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Don't sleep on the fact that that ET did have
a big part on us wanting tried BMX bikes. We
saw those kids, see Thomas Howell and what's his face,
Henry Thomas and all those ET kids riding around.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
The neighborhood, flying across the moon.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
That was sort of every kid's fantasy to just drive
around right around the town the way they were in
that movie.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Now, there was also that movie I think it was
called Rad Yeah, Rad Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
So it really took that and skateboarding next level. That
was your fantasy. My fantasies are a bit different than yours.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
You didn't want to just right around those hills like that.
That Old school hobbies based on the video games. Now
we turn it over to you and then we reminisce
about nine to eleven old school hobbies. Let's go rapid fire.
We'll start with Reese and Kentucky.
Speaker 8 (17:40):
Hey, Rees, what's up guy?
Speaker 9 (17:43):
I loved all this. I had a hutch by the way,
but not getting into that. But I have three brothers
or two brothers, three of us and we're all uber competitive.
I'm fifty now I'm the middle. So when the Nintendo
came out and just have one so they get us
all one in the game.
Speaker 8 (18:03):
It was Mike Tyson punch out.
Speaker 10 (18:05):
I had to go downstairs in the basement. They gave
us a twelve inch TV. We had to plug it
in do all that, so we had to watch each
other to go through this. King Hippo was the hardest.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
One until you figured out.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
Until you it it was the easiest effort.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
But remember there was that you were calling your friends
and figure you had to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
And until you figured out, you have a Nintendo hotline.
That is, if you were stumped, you can call him up,
no doubt, Reese, that's a.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
Go can hit.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
By the way, Mike tith in here, remember the code
to fight Mike Tithing with double O seven three seven
three five nine six three when we actually had never
beat Mike tithon. One of the times we've had Tyson
actually on the show, he's so clueless on that game.
He's like, who's the guy, but he's he called the
blast Joe.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
He did, yeah, because he didn't play it.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
He never played it. Now I never played it. Andy
and Mississipip. What's up Andy?
Speaker 7 (19:00):
Hey, guy's got a couple real quick. I had an vision.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
In television call Eco Vision. Yeah. My uncle was doing
well in the eighties. He had twitch okay.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
To follow ryme nice and I was jealous of a
kid in my neighborhood had an Evil Knievel bike and
had a handlebar that you can riv.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
That's pretty cool. You want to hear something crazy history? Boy?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Here?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Do you know how Evil Knievel got his name? Evil
canevl No, his last name is Knievel, right, but he
was in prison with a guy named Awful Knoffle look
awful on the History Channel. So he's like, yeah, I'll
just be evil, and he.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Became He became a because Awful.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yeah, look it up. I don't believe it all right, right,
made it up? I dreamt it yea in Vegas? What's up, Javier?
Let's Derek dere Derek?
Speaker 3 (19:59):
What's man?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah? So I'm gonna start with video games for sure.
The N sixty four is the first.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
One I owned, and.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Hot Wheels was a great game.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
I don't know if y'all played that Hot Wheels on
the N sixty four was amazing.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
No, but I collected hot Wheels and matchbox cars.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Anyone remember collecting matchbox cars in like that blue foamy case. Yeah,
you had to handle like old suit k yellow handle. Yeah,
the yellow handle. Yes, to have a car wash.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
That's something CoA is into right now. And he's got
so many Hot Wheels.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
You know that's a hobby collect I still got mine.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
You know what I'm gonna cal You know, I'm gonna
steal something from him because he brought this up maybe
like a month ago on our Patreon and I forgot
it existed, and he unlocked him memory. So I'm gonna
unlock him memory for all of you right now. Do
you remember if you were baller enough and your parents
were cool enough to get this. Do you remember that
your Matchbox cars they had a little car wash you
could buy for your Matchbox cars.
Speaker 8 (20:54):
It was like it was like a little setup.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
But you can remember seeing the TV commercial you could.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
You could have a car wash for your Matchbox cars.
Look it up and I guarantee you'll unlock a memory, like,
oh my god, I remember that those were great. I
think those are hobby because you would collect them. Yeah,
so if you were collecting them, I think that's that's
definitely considered a hobby.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
What's up, da?
Speaker 5 (21:14):
I had an older sister, so I was forced to
play Barbie. But they gave me like a Ken doll. Okay,
but it was Donny Osmond. Yes, yes, but my my
favorite part about it was blowing up the furniture.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
I don't know it was.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
That's that's she had a whole big So you mentioned
the car wash thing, and I'm like, I had to
endure playing Barbie because I had an older sister.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Is that why you stayed at the Harrows in Vegas
recently to see Donny? I thought, that's why when you
go to his house he calls it Damn Bier's dream house.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
You get to see Barbie, but love Donnie Osma.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
It doesn't you want to go to Illinois? I had
a baker. Oh, we'll go to hobby are now?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Now you're trying to skip HOVI here, what's up?
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Hobby?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Here?
Speaker 4 (21:57):
What's up? Guys?
Speaker 7 (21:59):
Day?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Thank you man?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (22:02):
But do you guys remember pod and Slammers?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
I remember not understanding them. They're a little after our
like after my time. That's more early nineties, right. My
siblings weren't the pop. I was chasing uh, you know,
women and playing baseball, I guess at that time. But
I totally remember how big that was for so many people.
Like you said slammers. I still don't understand how that
game was played, but I remember how people collected them
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in a major way.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
You know.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Oh, I was going to say that that unlocked a memory.
My older brother got in trouble when my mom found
his collection of garbage pail kids A huge Yeah, that
was for him.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
That was a hobby.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Do you remember you remember yours? I was? Mine was
itchy Richie. What was the Steve one? Uh, sexy Steve?
I think I don't think it was. I think I
don't think it was a studeley Steve. I don't think
that was seductive Steve.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I don't think that it was sports sporty Steve, spoiy Steve.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Yeah, I want to take one last call. It was
sports talk Steve. I want to say, how had a Baker? Yeah?
Was the wrapping in Illinois? What's that Baker?
Speaker 7 (23:03):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Hey, hey you're on Baker?
Speaker 8 (23:09):
Sorry?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I know I have an income poll so I just
wanted to and what video games is my My brothers
they had stowbels and three wheelers and they were nine
and twelve years older than me, and they had Natari
(23:31):
And by the time I was grown, the Atari was
broken and the legos were smashed.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Let's hear from Mike McDaniel. Everybody, thank you, Mike, appreciate it.
Well done to you.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
How about he said, he mentioned three wheelers, though there
were some kids in the neighborhood that had the little motorcycles.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Now Rich had a hog stick.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
I got a right, That's how I got a round
to go around.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Yeah, they called him.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
I heard he could one street at a time. People
would be like, people like, where's Rich? And all of
a sudden, you hear boy, you know if we want
to take it back. Though, pogo ball was a thing
you did. I was pretty good and use your sister
skip it. No, No, I was a big, big pogo ball.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Did either of you ever have a dirt bike? Because
I know a lot of us.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Bug Dark See it's funny because you're talking like a
motorized motocross dirt bike. Growing up in the suburbs of
New Jersey, we called the BMX like a dirt bike.
That's just what we call them. But no, an actual
dirt bike. I did not no, no, but I wish
I did. I wish I did.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Well.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Hey, listen, So old school hobbies.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Props to the Calco visions in the in televisions and
all the old school consoles. Atari came out twenty six
hundred came out on this day nineteen seventy seven. It
exploded in the eighties and now it's the hobby is
now someone's job. It's the biggest is that credit street
going and props to the come up because we all witness.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
So wait, Ron, you have a Twitch and and only fans.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Whoa Ryan McMain if you want to follow him on Twitch.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
It is funny to see. So there you have it.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Thank you guys for chiming in the rest of your
answers at Covino and Rich at Fox Sports Radio. Now, buddy,
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all those years ago, two thousand and one, Rich and
I were on the East coast.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Yeah, our stories.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
We've told it every year since because you never want
to forget on our Patreon at serious extent. But here
on Fox Sports Radio, I'll make it simple. I was
working at k Rock, New York, home of Howard Stern
and woke up that morning and I'm hearing Howard talking
about what's going on, And You're.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Like, what, like, do I even go in at what's
going on?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
And got on the bus from Jersey heading into New
York and right at the tunnel, true story, right at
the tunnel right there about that because we I didn't
know what was going on, We didn't know it was
a terrorist act. At the time, they said turn around,
we're not letting you in, turned around, continued listening to
the stern broadcast him.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
My buddy, old buddy, Crazy Cabby.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Were talking about this guy Osama bin Laden, who I
really had never heard of at the time. Young dude, Yeah,
I was a young dude. Didn't care about that stuff
and innocence if you will, because life changed. Got back
to my hometown, put on the TV, continued watching this horror.
Ran up the hill in my hometown of Union, New Jersey,
was able to see the twin towers up and smoke
(29:23):
my buddy Barry. Then tragedy happened. I never made it
into the city, but we had to live with the
aftermath because that's where we worked. That was our backyard,
and everybody knew somebody that had passed away or that
was affected. And I'll just say this, I'll give a
shout out to Thomas J. Fisher. He was my neighbor
right across the street. Till this day. My parents live
(29:45):
on the street named after him because he passed away
that day. Our neighbors, our colleagues, their family members, high
school kids, shout out to my buddy Ali Shahid Khalei
Shahied I saw him the night before played pool never
saw him again. Everybody knew somebody. It was a horrific,
horrific day. But we did get back to normal. And
(30:08):
we'll tell you about that in a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Rich.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
You were in the city doing Nickelodeon stuff, Yeah, I was.
I was in Union Square, which is like ten fifteen,
you know, ten twenty blocks away from World Trade, and.
Speaker 8 (30:20):
I remember I was.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
I was doing an eight in the morning shoot for Nickelodeon.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
At the time, I was doing Little Videos, which was
the host of Blues Clues, the original in between all
like Ketan and Kell and the Amanda Show and all that.
I was the guy like coming up next to Nickelodeon.
So I was in the middle of a shoot and
the camera guys like, yeah, guys, I gotta go, and
we're like, where are you going? It's like eight in
the morning. He said, I live across the street from
World Trade and my wife said there's a fire. I
(30:45):
gotta leave, sorry, man, and he ran out of there.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
And I just remember being stuck in the city all
day and you go outside and everyone was walking up
from downtown like away from disaster. It was just a I.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Remember, I couldn't I couldn't get home until that night.
And again everyone knows someone, So Mike Keefer is the
neighbor and friend we lost in our in our block,
in our streets. Everybody was affected. Life was never the same.
You guys know the deal, whether it be at the airport.
But for us working in New York, it was just
constant security for years, dudes and army gear with machine guns,
(31:22):
and that became the new normal. However, there were a
few moments that brought us back to normal. Yeah, and
made us realize that, Yeah, I guess life moves forward
and will be okay, because there was a sense of
when could I laugh again? When could I cheer again?
When could I do anything again? Dude, work in radio,
I mean I imagine a lot of people listening to
(31:44):
Fox Sports Radio would find it interesting that we had
to pull songs off the playlist because they were insensitive.
At the time, Afroman was a big deal. We were
playing it on the rock radio station about getting high.
Then it goes I got huh gone. Drowning Pool Bodies
was one of our biggest songs. The lyrics was let
the Bodies hit the Floor. Pulled from the playlist because
(32:05):
it was deemed insensitive. So even the music industry, these bands,
these artists, everybody was impacted in someone sensitive lyrics old.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
We had to edit a notorious big song and we
also could no longer play gap band. You dropped a
bomb on me.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Oh yeah, like anything I had an insensitive reference or
that made people think of it. You had to make
the adjustments, you had to pivot. This song in heavy
rotation was remember Enrique Iglesia's hero Yeah, and they would
put all the little clips of FDN Y and NYPD
in the song yep, but yeah. Just there were a
couple of sports moments that really helped the healing process.
(32:41):
And while set up V one, because I know that
you have more thoughts about it than I do, because
you're a Mets fan. I mean, my feeling is that
the Mets were not really competitive as we wanted that year.
But on September twenty first, ten days later, ten days
after the terror attacks, Piazza Mike Piazza came to the
(33:02):
plate at Shay Stadium the eighth inning, the Mets trailing
the rival Braves two.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
To one, and Piazza.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
It was the first sporting event in this city since
the attack, and Piazza hit a blest.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Lopez wants it away and a deep to.
Speaker 8 (33:17):
Left center and talent on the line, This one has
a chance. Like Piazza in the next league three to.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Two, forty one thousand fans independence going wild. He took
Steve Carse deep to left center with a go ahead,
two run home run. And everybody at home watching that
because remember everyone was rocking the FDN WY I like a.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Bobby Valentine, all the players spots playing the video now
an emotional moment.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Yeah, I mean New York went wild, and you know
what it did give everybody the feeling like, oh, we
could cheer again, we could cheer again.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
There was a.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
There was a sense of okay, you're cheering. I could Yeah, Okay,
it's okay. And that's the power of sports. There's a
lot of people that pooh pooh sports like it means nothing. No,
that means it means a lot more than people really realize.
And the other moments we're going to talk about we'll
get to after Dan Buyer's update dB.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
What's up man, guys.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
Tonight, it is the start of Week two in the
NFL season with the Commanders and Packers from Lambeau. Kickoff
comes up at eight to fifteen Eastern time. NFL Network
reported earlier today that forty nine Ers quarterback Brock Party
could miss two to five weeks with a turf toe injury,
as he's likely to miss games against the Saints and Cardinals.
According to the report, Vikings quarterback JJ McCarthy miss practice
(34:30):
today because his wife was giving birth to their baby boy.
Raiders tight end Brock Bauers miss practice he has a
knee injury. Raiders have an extra day. They're hosting the
Chargers on Monday Night Football, the first of two games
on Monday Night. Chiefs a wide receiver Xavier Worthy was
a limited participant in practice today because of his shoulder
injury suffered against the Chargers in Week one, well in
(34:50):
advance of their AFC showdown Bills and Jets a little
bit dinged up. Sauce Gardner limited in practice for New
York because of a groin issue. At Oliver didn't practice
he's got an ankle injury. The NFL says they won't
punish Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson for shoving a fan on
Sunday Night. After that, fans chef Jackson and wide receiver
DeAndre Hopkins during a touchdown celebration.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
And finally in baseball today in Toronto.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
On the ground of first pig five Bloody, he goes
to the back and Kevin Goss made the best pitch
to shut out six something. The Blue Jay Swayne complete
game two hitter struck out nine. On the Blue Jays
Radio Network, you heard the six nothing win. But maybe
more importantly, Blue Jay's up three and a half now
on the Yankees in the AL East, while the Astros
are just a half game up on the Mariners in
(35:35):
the AL West. Following the lost guys. Back to you,
Thanks Dan Buyer, have a good night, Bud.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Thank you dB. So we're Covino and Rich. Appreciate all
the feedback. At Covino and Rich. There's a few other
sports moments that brought some normalcy back to our lives
around this time, all those years ago, nine to eleven,
two thousand and one. We told you about Mike Piazza.
There's like two or three more that really started to
bring us back. We'll hit on those and tonight tonight
(36:03):
is your night, bro, a real good Thursday night football.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Do you have a read or feel on this game
at all?
Speaker 1 (36:08):
We'll discuss Washington Green Bay in just a few right here,
Cavino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio. You know nobody
believes me, but I jumped over the flagpole and I did.
I did, jumped over the flagpole and super Mario Brothers
(36:28):
as I said, growing up in East Coast, Super Mario Brothers.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Yeah, super Mario.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
So welcome back to the show, Covino and Rich doing
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Boom Boom now. In regards to the twenty fourth anniversary
of a tragic Day nine to eleven, we talked about
some of the sports moments that brought the world back
to a bit of normalcy. Of course, that Mike Piazza
(37:40):
home run against the Braves ten days later the other
I said, I was thinking of two others, and I
don't think they're the ones you had for me. I
was thinking of Sammy Sosa running out with the American flag.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Oh, that's a cool one.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
I had not thought about that. I saw feedback someone said,
Sammy Sosa, it's an iconic moment for sure. But as
a Yankees fan, remember they made the World Series then
right yere the year the only year I rooted for them,
and they lost. Well, not only you, even the Boston fans.
Instead of singing Sweet Caroline, they sang New York, New York,
and that was kind of cool. It's like, all right, look,
(38:14):
this is uniting people. At least. That's good. We're cheering
for Mike Piazza. We started feeling normal again thanks to sports.
And there's another moment too, Rich that Zach wanted to
bring up. Zach in Kansas City are on the Cavino
and Rich show.
Speaker 9 (38:33):
Hey it's up, guys. A big fan of the show.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (38:38):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 11 (38:39):
I was in second grade during nine to eleven, but
I remember pretty vividly all the Thanksgiving Day game November
twenty second, two thousand and one, Dallas Cowboys versus the
Denver Broncos when CREB performed higher during the halftime show.
That was like the most patriotic thing of all time.
Speaker 9 (39:00):
I mean I remember.
Speaker 11 (39:00):
I mean the clips still circulator on social media all
the time, and so that's just where I wanted to
bring up.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
That's what I dude, great call, it really is.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
It's an unforgotten Actually the clip lives on, like he says,
but people forget that that's what it's from in that moment,
and it was a majestic performance of can you Take
Me Hi?
Speaker 3 (39:21):
And people are flying.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Around the stadium in the American flag. Scott Stadd was
wearing the Cowboys jersey. He's not kidding. That was a
big moment and it still lives on. But the coolest moment.
I think we saved for last Yeah, but thank you, Zach.
That's a great The coolest moment happened to your stadium
with the guidance of the captain Derek Jeter.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
Yeah, the backstory is awesome.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
When they're in the when they're in the tunnels getting
ready for this moment. It was Derek Jeter who told
President Bush, you have to throw it from the mound,
and you better not bounce it.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
And you better not bounce it.
Speaker 8 (39:57):
And I mean George W.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Bush throwing out a perfect strike with a bulletproof vest on.
I always thought the Queen of England in the Naked
Gun movie had the coolest first pitch.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Well, that was a great screwball. Yeah, it was an
amazing screwball.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
But this one, with the pressure of that moment and
how much it meant to the world because this was
the first game at Yankee Stadium in the two thousand
and one World Series, everybody's watching this is what a
sense of composure, Yeah, and amazing and strength. I know,
I know it sounds ridiculous, Gus. You're saying it's only
a first pitch, but imagine the difference if he threw
like a fifty cent or Bubba Bowie.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Oh pitch in that moment, it would have been terrific strike.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
It had been really bad, perfect strike from the rubber
from the mound.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
And that was the first pitch of Game three.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
It like showed the strength of our country, it did.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
It meant so much in that moment, and it was.
It was a strike thrown by our president, George W.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Bush.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
An amazing first pitch, probably the best first pitch in history,
more accurate.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Than Devin Williams as of late.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Oh yeah, I'm not saying a lot though, So hey,
share your memory, share your thoughts, and we thank these
moments for putting us back on track. But we'll never
forget in two thousand and one, nine to eleven again,
Coveno and Rich all your feedback at Covino and Rich
at Fox Sports Radio. Now, as far as tonight, I
got no read on this game. Maybe take the points
of your Washington fan plus three and a half. But
(41:19):
I don't know it's gonna be a good one. We'll
see you tomorrow, I reave it. There, see you in
the over Promised Land. We do that next.
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