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C&R in for the great Dan Patrick! College Football week 1 overreactions! Is Arch Manning trash? Did CJ Daniels already have the Catch of the Year? Should Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer be done? They debate the NFL at-the-game experience versus watching on TV! Rich points to high ticket prices & his superior big screen at home. The rest of the crew have good thoughts about being with "your people." On Bill's debut day for UNC, 'STEVE COVINO OR BILL BELICHICK' for a C&R prize! Plus, in honor of Jeremy's official retirement, Linsanity memories!
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Oh.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
I think a vampire. It's so brighton here. It's freezing
Coveno and Rich in for the Great Dan Patrick, and
I figured I'd start off with a nice complaint to
get it going, because who really loves a Monday. However,
it's not just any Monday's Labor day, Monday Day, So
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(00:42):
By the way, I did they set it for football
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Speaker 1 (01:09):
And that smooth, buttery voice making all those good points.
That's great analysis. Danny is Danny G.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Turn the lights down.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
He's on the phones at eighty seven seven ninety nine
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before we get in for Dan Patrick, really dive into
the weekend. By the way, hope you had a Lee
Corso Ohio state sort of weekend, not an arch manning
Alabama sort? Why are you google imaging Lee course looking
for a new wallpaper? Wanted to see he went out

(01:41):
on a high note. All his predictions were right, so
I wanted to see all the games that he got
right real quick. But congrats on a long career. Making
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(02:03):
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(02:25):
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(03:01):
com slash Covino and Rich f FSR and let the
wild Rump is starting. All right, Well today, let me
give you a little teas of things. I know I
want to get to sure. It's September baseball as of today,
so we are going to talk some baseball. We are
days away from the NFL beginning. It's the first of
the month, and how we got to talk about some
college football from this past weekend. And I gotta say

(03:24):
before we get into your observations and this past weekend,
shame on me because on September first, I'm the idiot.
I got a Starbucks. This morning, I got a pumpkin muffin.
Is it okay? Now? Is it the football started? I'm
I allowed to have some time of pumpkinyl You have
the talate and the television taste of a teenager and

(03:49):
TikTok algorithm of a fifteen year old. My daughter's a
fifteen year old girl in high school, same taste, buds
as rich. She's the one excited about the new No, no,
you're telling me you don't spice everything. I'm not a
pumpkin spice guy. But you don't want to buy the muffin. No,
I'm saying, I got a muffin, A pumpkin muffin. That
means you fell into the trau and it means.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
You are son of them.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
All right, well, hey, over the weekend, but I'll have
a bite. Let's get into it now. This is the
time of year where you start busting out those hoodies.
This is the time of year football consumes your life.
This is the time of year. Every kid's officially back
in school starting this week. So it is a big
transition week, wonderful time. It really is, though of the

(04:35):
sports year, because you are getting ready for your baseball playoffs. Yea,
hopefully your team's in it. Lots of parody this year.
That's a big buzz, more parody than we've seen in
previous years. When it comes to baseball, there's no I mean,
you could argue the Brewers are you know, leaps and

(04:55):
bounds above everyone at this moment, but you cann't say that.
But there's a part of every baseball fan it's like, Yeah,
this shoe's gonna drop, this fantasy's gonna stop. Come on,
excality's gonna kick in. Telling me if they played the
Dodgers in a series, you wouldn't bet on the Dodgers. Well,
that's how everybody feels. You know, we don't know, they
might be legit and that's what makes it fun. But

(05:16):
you know, baseball playoffs, you got college football, you got
NFL starting this Thursday. You got a big fight on
the horizon. You're like, who Jake, Paul No Canello, Crawford.
So there's lots going on. Basketball be here before we
know it. So and thank god you Yankees lost yesterday.
They were starting to look unbeatable and I was starting

(05:38):
to get a little nervous, can you know? And I
have a big bet Mets Yankees bet and just talking
about I know, I'm just you sound like the nervous Southerner.
But it is such a great time to be a
sports fan. So I ask you this, of all the
things you observed this weekend, it's a time, like I said,

(06:01):
for all those things, but it's also a time for overreactions.
And it's human nature. I can't deny it. We all
fall victim of overreacting. And it's gonna happen, Danny g
And within the next week in the NFL. I'm a
bigger NFL fan than I am College like by far same.
And you know it's gonna happen. A couple premier teams

(06:22):
are gonna lose Week one, and the narratives is gonna
be like, my goodness, did their window close or do
they not have it this year? And some trash team's
gonna win. I remember what it was last year the
garbage Saints. Remember they started like two and zero and
everyone's like, maybe even all so bad. No, they're bad.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
Oh they were better than two and oh I think
they started yet they still pretty strong.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
But anyway, I want to go over the overreactions and
which ones you think, well, maybe they aren't overreactions, Like
is is Kaylin de boor just not the answer in Alabama?
I mean they're already saying get this guy out of here.
If you look back to last year, last three games,
there were one and two thirteen and a half point
favorites over Florida State, who looked like Doodoo Pie last year.

(07:08):
I mean, you gotta maybe credit Florida State for turning
around that program quick. But we're talking two touchdown favorites.
And the narrative was that this team is soft, run defense,
run offense, everything. Alabama just wasn't playing with any gusto,
no heart when it comes to Alabama. Aside from all that,

(07:28):
the viral thing was the meme of the year. It
was like a meme was born. It is some JABBRONI
holding up his middle finger looks like my brother in law, Chris.
This is like a sad college football fan and is
not the new face of Alabama. I think it goes
with your point, though, I was like mem of the Year,
Meme is born. Just started. Season just started. That's why
everybody needs to get a grip here, Arrowsmith Style Get

(07:50):
a Grip eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox when
the NFL season starts, we do something called things that
made you go hmm right, your observations in the world
of football just all around in the weekend. This weekend
because NFL is not even here yet, we're going to

(08:10):
talk about, hey, are we moving too soon here? Can
you really make any assessment in the first week. Like
one of my favorite headlines rich over the weekend was
arch Manning, this is a legit. Well I think it
was a barstool headline, but you know they come with
a sense of humor, which I loves. Yeah, yeah, but

(08:34):
it is barstool, right, So a lot of people saw it.
It is legitimate, but you know who's behind it, right.
The headline was I think he's ass text me and
I wasn't sure if it was his observation or a
topic for today's show. Arch Manning ask cheeks question mark,

(08:54):
arch Manning is cheeks meaning the bad kind hold on,
I gotta find you the actual headline because it was
really funny. But again, are we are we really moving
too soon? Can you really make an assessment? Is how
I feel about this. But that's the narrative we run
with as fans. Oh here it is. It's a picture
of arch manning right, and it says might be ass

(09:17):
And that's what everybody was quick to jump on. The
game wasn't even over yet, dude, that's what I meant about, Like, Yo,
we're really jumping the gun. The game was, it was
it wasn't even halftime, and the headline was he might
be ass.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
I know what you guys are saying, but in fairness
to fans and media, you can only react to what's
in front of you at the moment, right.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Right, And that is true, and that's that's absolute fact.
We need to keep that in mind. It's like, hey,
this is uh, this is all we got to work
with right now, right. But that made me laugh. I
was on the treadmill watching this and by the way,
just to paint a picture, we're out here in Los Angeles,
and were you running as lackluster as Alabama's run? Game
almost had a moment i ow most had a moment

(10:01):
feet on High in LA. I don't want to stereotype
or paint and broad strokes as I paint this picture.
But for whatever reason, it's not like it's not like
I give me a good sports city. Give props Saint Louis, Chicago,
you know, New York, Austin, New York where you know,

(10:22):
if you're at the gym or at the bar, everybody's
glued to that game. I had to have someone please,
can please we put college football on? It is why
are we watching news?

Speaker 3 (10:32):
One thing?

Speaker 1 (10:33):
It drives me bonkers. You're at a gym, you would
think that it's part of their requirement as an employee, like, hey,
if there's something big going on, throw it on for
our customers. Like no one cares. And it's just the
vibe of Los Angeles. I love living out here in
Los Angeles, but it is one of those disconnects. And
we've been out here a decade now, but you go

(10:53):
to we you know, maybe it's because we don't go
to like a high end gym. I got to go
to twenty four hour fitness across the street, probably because
the people that get eight dollars an hour don't care.
But we're at twenty four fitness and you don't know
how many times I've had to say, can you put
something on?

Speaker 3 (11:08):
There?

Speaker 1 (11:08):
It's a gym, right, so you would think that there's
some like minded people that want to be on the treadmill,
watch some sports or whatever. They should know what's going on.
Same with the local bar. You think John Taffer has
any patients for going into a bar and they don't
have the game on or a game on. So I
actually went out of my way. I said, hey, can
you put on? I saw the headline he might be asked,

(11:30):
I want to see how this game wraps up? Can
you put on the game? And I had the game on?
Some old guy? True story? Tell me if this is legitimate.
Some old guy? What is he had quitters on?

Speaker 5 (11:43):
You know?

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Quitters are tube socks that were down in his ankles
because they were like the elastic was done, so they
quit on him years ago and he's still rocking. Old
guy with quitters in a headband like it looked like
a la hobo comes you know, into the gym and
he starts. He brought his own remote control, like let's
say it's direct TV. I don't know what they used

(12:05):
the gym. He had his own direct TV from his
house or whatever control, pulls it out of his bag
and he starts changing the channel of the TV that
I was watching.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
I was ready to, like to get off my treadmill
and give him a karate kick to the sternum, but
I realized he was really old.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
Is that even allowed?

Speaker 1 (12:23):
Dude? That's what I was saying, Is that like a
baller movie?

Speaker 6 (12:27):
Dude?

Speaker 1 (12:27):
I can't, Well, I get it.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
Are you sure you weren't exercising next to the owner
of the gym?

Speaker 1 (12:31):
I had, like I had, I felt this guy because
he probably went in there one too many times and
he was like I've had enough. And he's like he
took matters into his own hands, brought his own control
because no one cares there. And you know, I had
to look at him like now I'm watching this, and
I gave him a friendly look and he realized, so
he went to another TV and changed that channel. I

(12:53):
was like, thank goodness. But the point here is arch Manning.
Is he asked or not? That's the point. Well, the
point is the overreactions we're all going to make. But
you can just simply say, ohio, State's defense is elite.
But I will say that while some were glued again,
I'm more of an NFL guy. Can't watch every game,

(13:14):
but I did set the DVR and said, I'm gonna
skim through this one. It is Texas, it is Ohio State.
But I realized I started coaching my kids on the
weekend soon for fall sports, and I said, you know,
it's the less one than I could have to myself.
So I went to go play softball with my buddies
and one of the guys goes, anyone interested in hearing

(13:34):
the score in Texas Ohio State at halftime? And people
are like, yeah, I guess so yeah. A lot of
guys were DVR it seven to nothing Ohio State. We're like,
who wait, wait, what's arch Manning doing? It? Really was,
it really was disappointing if you thought it was going
to be arch Manning on this scip I was reading
the subtitles at the gym before you know, old man

(13:56):
McGirt changed the channel on me. Only claimants came in
and said, hey, you know, Ohio State is they wouldn't
let the leash off him. It's like, let him off
the leash, let him do his thing let him throw
and by the time they let him do that, like
the game was over, It's like, yeah, why do you
let him do that in the beginning of the game.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
But he looked flustered for a lot of the game.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
That's Ohio State's defense, right.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
There were a lot of Uncle Rico gifts and memes
coming out because of his throwing motion on a few
of those passes.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
So I kind of hate that too, and it is noticeable,
But he comes from a good line of quarterbacks. I
don't know, you know what, It's insane to see how
much goes into the quarterback throwing angle and arm positioning
and all these little things we would never think of.
And when you watch Hard Knocks, you got to see

(14:47):
what they go through with Josh Allen and all the
qbs there as far as like just angle and efficiency
and all these things, and everyone thinks they know everything.
But the same way, you see, he didn't play his
best game, the same way you see rookie quarterbacks struggle
when they enter the NFL. And maybe we were wrong
to think arch Manning, you know, I mean, I know

(15:08):
he played last year. We watched him last year, but
not all the time. Obviously, he had a couple of
games when you wears was hurt. Did we expect Arch
Manning to come in and just light up Ohio State?
Who's really good? Teemed like maybe we just were mesmerized
and almost glamored a little bit by the by just
the name Manning, like hours time, like we were last

(15:31):
week before he even made his season debut. The minute
Michael Parsons left for Green Bay, We're like, oh, there's
a narrative that Dallas might you know, just the we
build a story to tear it down. That's just the
culture that we live in. And we've been building up
this story of oh Cooper, you know, his run fell short.
He could have been the greatest of all the Mannings,

(15:51):
and he was a great receiver, and this is his
son carrying on the name, and everybody loves the story.
So yeah, but Texas came in right right number one.
So there you go.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
I mean, Manning's not the whole story here. He's not
the team.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
It was one. It was true, but you're that that's
a sexy name to tune in for, no doubt, and
you've been hearing about it so long, So is it
a matter of he's ass he's cheeks or Ohio State's
defense was great. Are we overreacting? That's really what we
are getting at, reacting the other thing. Yeah, let's go
over what is the biggest over CJ. Daniels catch? Are

(16:27):
we overreacting?

Speaker 3 (16:29):
I don't know. That was sick.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Okay, it was sick, and it's made other NFL players
famous overnight. O'Dell Beckham Junior he lived for years off
of that one catch. It really was not saying he
was a bed wide receiver by any means, but Odell
Beckham Junior, his whole legacy is based off of some
circus catches. One in particular, that, dude, if God gives you,

(16:51):
or if life gives you a moment, run with it
for as long as you can.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
Look.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
I hit twenty seven little league home runs. I ran
with that all the way to the Dan Patrick Show.
Ran you're still running, still running with that. That's my point,
and look at me. I'm in for DP well because
of those little home runs. That gave me a sense
of false confidence, and it gave me some some chatter,
and I ran with it. Only Jay had that moment,

(17:20):
and yeah, he was a great receiver, but he leaned
into that for as long as he could as he should.
Daniels catch was was very close to that. So here's
here's why I bring it up the rich It was
one of the highlights. But remember the theme Arch manning CJ. Daniels.
What they're saying is is that the catch of the year.

(17:42):
Can you in the first game. It reminds me of
when you come in in January. We overreact now in
like January February and communis like fight of the year.
I'm like, you just started. That's a good point. But
sometimes you see some magic right off the bat. You
can't top that. Like, are we going to look back
at this season and say, yeah, that was it? And
it was? It was week one A CJ. Daniels had

(18:03):
to play of the year. If it put OBJ on
the map the way that it did, we still remember it.
We still talk about, Oh the kid, Yeah, he's got
to lean into it. Milk it for what it's worth.
You know, you're the OBJ of college football. We might
have seen the play of the year week what well,
what was your big overreaction? What do you think it is?

(18:23):
Is it Kaylee Debor and Alabama? I think the overreaction
is Arch Manning's ass Yeah, maybe Ohio State's defense. Maybe
they're just really good, I think, And there's a lot
of pressure on this kid. You know, I don't think
he's ass Texas. I think it's funny and I think
you know, we all thought, man he's asked, But you know,

(18:44):
I think that's it's way too soon to make that
as Arch Manning assessment. Arch Manning seventeen for thirty, one touchdown,
one interception, one hundred and seventy yards. How do you
think he's going to fare this coming Saturday against San
Jose State when Texas is favored by thirty seven points,

(19:06):
So we'll be wondering he's about to He's about to
put up circus numbers, and you know Texas went into
Week one rank number one.

Speaker 3 (19:14):
Any college football fans are not going to respect that
until it's up against one of the real contenders.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
Danny, You're one hundred percent right. But I think now
he'll have a moment to start to start patting those stats.
And I'll tell you when people will start caring. They'll
start caring first weekend of October when they play Florida
or when they play Oklahoma the weekend after. But the
next couple of weeks. You know what, I noticed it too.

(19:41):
It's time for arch Maanning to get loose play some low,
lower level teams. But overreaction arch Manning's ass overreaction or not?
Caitlin de Boor in Alabama over before it sort of
even started. CJ Daniels Catch of the Year first week.
You know, I think I don't think that's an overreaction.
I think that play, like I said, it made other

(20:03):
NFL stars superstars overnight. I don't think that's an overreaction.
It was a really great Yeah. I think it was
a snag, a grab or it was a snag.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
Yeah, a stretched out snag.

Speaker 6 (20:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
I think that's probably the one thing where we will
look back at week one and be like, yeah, that
still stands.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
I agree, I don't think that's an overreaction. So what
were your overreactions that you noticed over the weekend? Something
else that I just noticed. And by the way, the
numbers eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox at Covino
and Rich at Fox Sports Radio. Rich, I feel like
there's a lot of people in our demo, if not
people listening, that live this life already where you're living

(20:46):
that Dad life of running around taking your kid to
travel league, and he's just trying to be super dad,
trying to do a million and one things. You're trying
to maintain your house. You're trying to rake the leaves,
mow the lawn. I had to coach the team, but
you're also trying to like have a nice barbecue and
watch the game or whatever. You just got so many

(21:06):
things going on you can't be at all these places.
Like Ohio State played a big game this weekend, and
I know my brother in law, who's the biggest fan ever,
couldn't even watch it because he's at his kids game.
And that's got to be like tough when you only
live so strong for that one team, like that's my
brother in law's team. And I understand your kid comes first,

(21:27):
that's obvious, but that is like, damn, I can't even
watch them beat arch Manning in this way. Well, to me,
the NFL on Sundays, we have been conditioned. And probably
because I didn't grow up in a college football town.
I grew up in New York. You grew up in Jersey,
Danny out here in LA. That's my point, Like these

(21:48):
college games are so big, everyone matters so much. But
this was such a rivalry. And my brother's there like
giving up my brother in law's giving orange slices to
his kid, missing the whole thing, playing flag football with
the son. Yeah again those moments. I'm not downplaying those moments.
I'm just saying, like, ah, yeah, you right all year
just to watch that game. You can't even watch it.

(22:09):
I mean, I know there's USC and UCLA and there
was gonna say I grew up with the Pete Carroll Trojans. Yeah,
but to me, like where we grew up, no one
cared about college football even slightly compared to the NFL.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
It was a big deal here in southern California because
of Reggie Bush.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
And but I'm saying, like, when you look at like
Kevino said, let's be honest, if you're a family man,
have kids, even you know, in any circumstance, to me,
Sunday is mentally reserved for NFL football, wives, husbands, kids.
People sort of acknowledge like Sunday it's also church day.
So there's people who go to church, like it's almost
that they have rest slash football, right, Yeah, But if

(22:45):
Saturday is something important going on, like there's that struggle
of it is. It is very tough. I can't even
sit back and watch the games today. It is very
tough if you're a family man to say a selfish
little bee to say Saturdays like to watch the game.
It's impossible. Now I gotta go to the king. Now
I gotta go to my kids game. I feel like

(23:05):
a little little b You do you do because you
know the right thing is just to go to your
kids game. And it's great. I'm not saying that's not fun.
It's fun, and it's it's mandatory. I like that more
than football. Yeah, of course, but there's this like, ah, man,
I waited all year just to watch this game. I
can't even watch It's but.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
I noticed that with a lot of my friends, and
you guys aren't real football fans. Man. This is why
my kid does taekwondo on Wednesdays.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yes, you know, I'm serious, Like, I'm like, how did
you I'm at the gym watching Ohio State. The biggest
Ohio State fan I know can't even watch it. And
it's not the same. You can't watch it later. Social
media ruins everything. You can't watch it later, so you're
overreactions from the weekend, what you feel social media was

(23:52):
overreacting on your observations and more. There's also some BS
fights we could talk about, but we have lots to
get to. Tod again in for Dan Patrick, we're gonna
talk some NFL. We're gonna play a game called Covino.
That's me or Belichick. Guess you guys like the same guy.
Apparently we're the same dude. You know it's interesting tonight
prizes tonight there's a football game that oh that's a

(24:14):
big one that I think there's a discrepancy of like
why people are going to watch it, And I'll explain
it has to do with Belichick and Jordan Hudson. So
we'll get to that in a bunch. More NFL, some
college football, and of course we're big baseball guys. So
baseball it's it's the playoff run now man September baseball.
You can't turn back now September baseball. So we got

(24:36):
when you say big baseball guys, you mean twenty seven
little league home runs? Yeah, exactly, that's me. That's why
I think of you. All Right, we got more Cavino
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Speaker 1 (25:21):
Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Yeah, two rock
superstars live at arch on Labor Day weekend. I hope
you've had a great one. Hope you'd enjoy hanging with
us today. So we're here remembering great DP. No more
white pants unless you're Pitbull. Oh man, I gotta put
my white pants away. Everybody was talking about it. I know,

(25:44):
Minor extra tight. Everybody's talking about your wife. I got
the bulch cut pants. I know. I guess I gotta
put them away. For next year. Steve Covino just a
kid from Union, New Jersey. Richitat this from Franklin Square,
Long Island. He put the square in Franklin Square. We
joined forces years and years ago to do the Cavino

(26:04):
and Rich Show. We're on Monday through Friday, two to
four out here on the West, right here on Fox
Sports Radio five to seven on the East. We're always
giving away prizes. So real excited to play this game
today with you. Danny g worked hard. He worked through candlelight.
I heard this on a holiday weekend. Who worked by candlelight?
A Lincoln? I believe the crotchet and Abernez or screws.

(26:27):
Who else candle light worked with candlelight just you know,
through the wee hours of the night to prepare this game.
And I'm so excited to hear how I'm so much
like Bill Belichick. We're gonna play a game. Yeah it's
called Cavino or Belichick. We're gonna do that in a
little bit, giving away prizes and more. And the numbers
eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. We want to
say hello, get involved. Got a happy Labor Day weekend.

(26:48):
We're we're talking about the NFL, which of course starts
in Tuesday Wednesday, three days. Okay, wait, I know you're
gonna say the same. A lot of great games week one.
To me, we could go over the whole list, but
I was already eyeing Ravens bills. I feel like that game.

(27:10):
The fact that that's week one, I mean, are you
watching Hard Knocks? You're real fired up about the bills.
You could argue ing, oh Joe and whoever else is
making this Lions Packers. There's so many great games week one,
but the question is do you want to watch these
games live? Danny g found the hottest, most expensive average

(27:30):
ticket prices in the National Football League, and Danny, I
don't think it's shocking, to be honest, not not not
knowing what I knew.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
Yeah, it didn't surprise me.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
Because I saw a list of the most expensive franchises,
most successful, like the value of each franchise, And that's
why I'm not surprised. A lot of these teams are here.
They got bills to pick. Oh, they got expectations. I mean,
let's let's just zip through this. And it makes sense

(28:00):
because my big I think the bigger conversation is me
thinking none of this is worth it. And I'll explain.
You're defending Super Bowl champs, the Philadelphia Eagles. Your average
ticket price four hundred and fifty six, bucker bers. The
Patriots are still cleaning it. The Patriots still clinging to,
you know, the dynasty, I mean, and they're rebuilding now.

(28:21):
The average ticket price. People think that maybe the Patriots
are just a prize AFC team, right, they can make
some noise.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
Looks like they've turned a corner at least what they
did in the off.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Season signing Tommy DeVito. Yeah, that's the big move right there.
In fact, the average price was five hundred since signing
the Veto. It's for sixty eight, so he's that actually
went down for sixty eight and for sixty eight for
the Pats.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
And because yeah, you'll know, you know, vrabel is going
to have that team ready to go.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
No doubt, no doubt. So again, if you just joined
US Eagles four to fifty six average ticket, Patriots for
sixty eight average ticket, your team the forty nine ers
overdo average ticket. But again, San Francisco's expensive. That's also
part of it. I mean, it's the Bay area. I know,
it's Santa Clair, but and they're also a team that
consistently competes, right, yeah, exactly, good team. Five hundred and

(29:12):
one dollars average ticket for Levi Stadium and number one.
It's no surprise because a ticket to go see Penn
and Teller's two hundred bucks. So what do you expect
it's going to cost to see the Raiders Las Vegas
for five hundred and seventy eight dollars and it makes
the value of that team. They're like top top seven,

(29:33):
top How are they as far as valued franchise?

Speaker 3 (29:37):
Oh, they're yeah, they're up there towards the top, up
there towards the top right, and they were down towards
the bottom for Mark Davis when they were in Oakland,
So they they are making well the value at least
it's not cash flow in his actual bank account. The
value of the team, the value of everything there in
Vegas and stashed the prices up a little bit. You
guys were saying, you know, to go see the Raiders
to be more specific, and the Raiders are my favorite

(29:59):
NFL team. I'm a wife long fan. But to be
more specific, to see your team play the Raiders in
Las Vegas, Because let's be honest, that's every NFL fans
circled date on the calendar to go see their favorite
team and make a boys or girls weekend out of
it in Vegas.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
Right, it's not necessarily about the Raiders. I don't mean
that in a disrespectful way. It's about who they're playing
and what's going on at half of the Agent Stadium.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
Half of the stadium is filled with Raider fans.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
Yeah. See, the reality is right, it's a hey, you're
you're a Cults fan. Oh, they're playing the Raiders. Your
dukest friends in Indianapolis, I'll get together and say, let's
make a Vegas weekend. We'll stick around on Sunday to
see the game. It's it's a tourist dream to have

(30:48):
their team play. So the Raiders what you're hoping you're
one of those eight games that way, nothing's cheap in
Philadelphia defending Champions four fifty six, the Pats of the
Pats for sixty eight Niners, San Francisco, Santa Clara. It's
all expensive five hundred and one average ticket price. And
the Raiders is Vegas and it's a destination. Number one,

(31:11):
A steak dinner at a nice casino hotel, for under
seventy five eighty dollars, like the cheapest steak at a restaurant. So,
I mean, what do you a lot five hundred and
seventy eight average average ticket price so per person at
Allegiant Stadium. That led me to my thought of while
it is fun and electric to be at a stadium

(31:32):
for football, I can't deny that you go there, you're
the benefit of a football game. Here's my take. Has
nothing to do with the football game itself. You go
to a football game, it's about the tailgate. It's about
the interaction with like minded fans. You're walking through the
parking lot. Music's blaring, people are cooking, people are high

(31:55):
five and ro hugging and playing corn hole, the energy
throwing around the football. It's the experience. Then you get
into the game and you hope you sit in a
section with fans that you know you're going to high
five of every first down and another first down. Other
than that, I think the actual viewing experience of an

(32:17):
NFL game is the worst of all four major sports.
You go to a hockey game, you have decent seats,
you feel like you're right there. You hear the guys
crashing against a glass hockey live is unbelievable. You go
to an NBA game, you're hearing that, You're hearing the
sneakers on the court. You're there, You're watching these guys.
If you have decent seats, you're like, oh my god,

(32:39):
there's Lebron James. You go to a baseball game, you
could get pretty cheap tickets remote unless it's a Dodgers
game or a Yankees game, or maybe Mets or Cubbies.
Most teams, you could buy a pretty cheap ticket to
a ball game. Bring the kids, get a hot dog,
get a drink. They have a lot of great food
at stadiums down baseball. As my dad would at least

(33:01):
try to convince me as a kid, every seat in
the ballpark has a cool different angle. Oh don't worry,
these are those bleeders decks. The upper decks are the best.
Nose bleeders are the best. So I say football is
the worst of all four. And I say this because
I've had great seats in an NFL game, and I'm like,

(33:22):
what do you gain there? Three yards? Four yards? You
don't realize how great And maybe it's happened, maybe it's
a credit. I think it's more over bragging, right. I'll
be honest, like, I've been to Super Bowls, and the
more I think about it, I'm gonna be real with you,
I think it's more about me being like I was
at the game. It's a bragging right, because the reality
is NFL on TV is the best experience and you

(33:44):
can't beat the view like the pylon cams the first
down line unless you are if you're near an end zone,
if the gameplay is in towards the other end zone,
you're like, Oh, what the hell's going on down there?
You find yourself looking at the big screen half the time.
You got a telescope to our last game in Miami.
I remember we used to see let's say you are

(34:06):
built so far. We were by like the ten yard line,
and then you're hoping, I hope the actions at this
end zone and then you're at the fifty yard line.
The minute I'm just saying that Rich was falling asleep.
I swear to you the last game we went to together, Rich,
I think this is a lion.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
This is one of the reasons why the NFL stadiums
that are newer are more intimate now, Like one of
the reasons a Legion stadium is popular with all NFL
fans is you do feel like you're in the middle
of the action, no matter where you're sitting in that
stadium in.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
Vegas itself is bringing a next level of showmanship and entertainment. No,
I mean when it comes to hockey and when it
comes to going on there with.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
Their halftime stage and everything. It's glitzy, but also you
feel like you're in the middle of it, whereas the
old school stadiums were big, colossal coliseums. And that's kind
of going to the side. Because of what you're talking about.
You want to feel like you're closer to the action.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
Not to mention, we grew up on the East Coast.
You go to a Giants game or you forget about it,
Buffalo game, You're freezing your ass off for four quarters.
I don't care how much you say you love football.
I remember go to a game on I remember going
to a Jets Cults game in the pouring rain once.
I was like in high school. It was the nineties,
and I remember being like, this is the most miserable
I've ever been in my life. Yeah, it's reason and

(35:26):
I'll say this, it sounds ridiculous. Have my freezy freakys
on it. It sounds ridiculous. But when you're watching NFL
football on your big screen TV with the son no
surround sound or whatever you got going on, you're hearing
the sounds of the game, unless you are, like within
the first twenty rows, you're not hearing the pads and
the whistles and much. It's like you're you're just sort

(35:49):
of watching. I look at it this way. Any How
many NFL games do you go? With those ticket prices?
We just talked about Raiders? What was it five seventy
eight average ticket price five sixty eight, five seventy eight.
I go to maybe one game of year. So for
that one game a year, I do enjoy. It's the
one game of year I go to. You pay me
in meat balls at Fox Sports Radio. I'm working on

(36:10):
Labor Day because I have to have bills to pay
the cost of a month. They got child support. So
if I go to one game, yeah, I have a
pretty decent time, right, be real though, what that be real?
Like Cypress Hill, we went to one NFL game last
year with Somewhere Buddies. Yeah, it was a meaningless game.
It was Raiders Dolphins. In the end of November, both

(36:33):
teams were out of it or in Miami. Went to
Miami and it was it was ass was what was
more ass? Arch manning this weekend that game. Both teams
were under five hundred or episode three of the game,
like we had, we had like decent seats and they
were two eighty person.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
Max Crosby was playing on a bum ankle and you
needed him to get a sack. Remember I did.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
I did my prop bed also drank a lot the
night before, So everybody's like sort of sluggish, right, But
not only that. I'm just saying it was like two
eighty a person. We had mediocre seats and both teams
are under five hundred by that point. Yeah, trying to
compare it to like the insanely awesome views and coverage
we get nowadays nowadays, especially at home, and the comfort

(37:17):
of again, that's what I'm saying I had that we
invested this.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
Those were money teams. Rich. When it's your team and
you're joint, you're it's like a big gang and you're
so excited to be with your people and there's electricity
in the air you're walking in and you can't believe
you are there. There is nothing like walking into an
NFL stadium.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
You're You're exactly right. And I pointed that out when
I said, it's the room where it happens. It's a
Hamilton reference. That's part of it. Just being there where
like men, like minded fans, and and and being part
of that experience and that history that could be made.
I could make the same argument that Rich is making
about the NFL about fighting, because I'm a huge fight fan,

(37:59):
and I grew up my entire life watching boxing and
of course UFC, but boxing primarily. And you think of
all the action that you watch from home and pay
per view and whatever else you're watching, you go to
an actual boxing event, You're not seeing the same way

(38:19):
you see on TV, not even close. But it's about
being in the room where it happens. That's really what
it's about. So you're never gonna see the same way, No,
especially not in today's coverage. What do you think, Mark?

Speaker 7 (38:33):
Back in seventeen to eighteen, I bought tickets to the
Rams game because the buddy of mine had tickets, So
I sat next to him and we sat in the
end zone looking through the uprights for the field goal,
watching the whole setup, and like after a play and
then the players have to go back and then they go.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
To their huddles.

Speaker 7 (38:51):
Just that experience of watching the setup and then watching
like a running play and a team a running back
gets through the line and gets through the secondary starts
to run. That's like the greatest thing to see in person.
The other part was during a time out, you watch
the referee because I've been broadcasting, I'll watch the referee
to see when they tell the players, Okay, now you

(39:13):
can start playing a game because now the TV is back,
so you can go back to playing.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Yea, you do pick up on those little things, but
you realize that TV provides an experience that real life
can't even compete with anymore. The reality is cover. The
reality is TV so good. You find yourself you're at
the football game, and all the things I agree with you,
Mark and everything you said, but when you're at the
NFL game, you find yourself looking at the big monitors
more than you're actually looking at the field, because even

(39:37):
the monitors are more vibrant and vivid than what you're
seeing in reality.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
Isn't that one of the biggest differences what Mark was saying,
you feel like you're part of the movie rather than watching.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
Yeah, Danny, you know what I wrote it down, so
you're saw right. I go based on what the communio
was saying, you're in the room where it happened, you
feel part of it instead of watching it. But the
reality is, I wonder how much of that subconsciously is
ego driven the same way a woman not to be stereotypical,
Oh please, where a woman would And I've seen studies

(40:07):
on this where women are now choosing Wait, is that
how you preface something really controversial and rude that you're
about to say you've seen study.

Speaker 3 (40:15):
Though, by the way, he's a girl dad.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
Oh yeah, I can't say anything. I'm a girl dad,
so I can't say anything offensive. No, but I've seen
articles about this, so I'm not bsing you that studies
they're saying younger women choose vacation destinations based on Instagram opportunities.
That is true, people are choosing vacation spots based on
ig and TikTok opportunities. My point is, are you there

(40:41):
because you think it's the best experience or you there
because we as people? Is our human instinct? Like I
want to be part of it.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
You're talking about social media wienies who pose for lots
of pictures. Hardcore NFL fans don't really give a you
know what about that. We just want to be close
to what we love.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
I feel like, if you go to a big game,
are you really a fan? If you're not at a
big game?

Speaker 3 (41:02):
You're talking about people that aren't necessarily sports fans, though
they're fans of themselves and they're into themselves.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
Is it also like a weird fan pressure? Let me
explain they're As we get closer to the baseball playoffs,
I'm a big Niners, but you know I'm an East
Coast Baseball Mets fan. Every time the Mets are in
the postseason or my football team makes a run, there's
an instinct for me to be like, I gotta go
to like the playoff game, I gotta go to the
Super Bowl or World Series or something. Is that?

Speaker 4 (41:33):
What?

Speaker 1 (41:33):
Why do I feel that instinct? Is because I need
to be in the room where it happened? Is it? Yeah?
Because it's like, who's a bigger fan than you? Jibbroni Joes?
What does that prove?

Speaker 3 (41:41):
Like?

Speaker 1 (41:41):
We all try to prove like I'm a bigger fan.
I'm there. Well, look if that guy's going, then you
gotta go. Yeah, there's like a weird team a line.
It's also showing support to the team that you root for,
Like you can't say you root for this team if
you're not there to support them when it matters most.
But that's part of it, Like you gotta go there
and represent. It about you represent and showing who you
truly are, which is a fan of that team is

(42:03):
a part of who you are at that point. The
NYG made a lot of great points. You care a
lot more when it's your team. When it's not your team,
you're just like, man, it's kind of boring. Better view
at home? So can I ask you the truth? If
the reason we bring this up though, is because the
average ticket price is five hundred bucks and the Raiders
is five to seventy eight. They're the highest five seventy
eight a ticket. I'll give you how I know people

(42:25):
don't need to be hassled every Like the world is
a lot of extroverted insurance. What do you call yourself again?
I'm an outgoing introvert, outgoing insurt a lot. I like
to go out, but I'd rather chill at home. But
that's what I'm saying. A lot of people, once you
get them out, they're like, oh, this is fun, but
it's it's hard to get people to do anything. If
I told you, Danny and I know you can say, well,
it's not more dream. If I said, yo, freebies, I

(42:48):
got tickets for on a ram Seahawks. You know, week
four or whatever. Are you driving a so far and
doing all that? Or you're like, no, hello, I'm just
watching on TV.

Speaker 3 (42:56):
It's one hundred and twenty five dollars to part forgive it. Oh,
it's all included. I'm gonna go because I love football.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
To me, that seems like the biggest headache in the world.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
But I'm not paying one twenty five to park unless
it's my team.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
Okay, let's go to JP. We'll start. That's why you
got to give credit to these crazy fans that are
just willing to show up. That's why they're fanatical JP
and Upstate New York. Let's kick it off with you.
It's up, buddy.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
Alrighty boy.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
I was a young man when I called.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
But anyway, hey, ed, welcome.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
I've been to one hundred and seventy seven NFL games.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
Damn.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
I started with my brother in the seventies and our
goal was to go to every NFL stadium in the league.
Since the seventies, teams that moved, teams have changed. We
went to Baltimore Cowboy game in the old Memorial Stadium
in Baltimore.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
Is by the way, have you covered everyone or is
there something you still haven't been to?

Speaker 2 (43:54):
Four? We couldn't get four because during the strike year
we got shut out of Seattle and we got shut
out of Kansas City.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
Okay, so there's been only four the Packers. That was
the number three. And actually I'm having hard time figure
number four.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
It's all good.

Speaker 3 (44:15):
Well, what can you experience at the stadium that you
can't get on TV?

Speaker 2 (44:20):
Well, for me, it started in nineteen sixty nine at
Franklin Field to see the Eagles and the New York Giants,
and throughout all this time, like my brother and I
went to ten Thanksgiving Day games in Dallas ten and
what I liked about the game was just what somebody

(44:41):
on your team earlier said. You get there for the
first time, You're at your favorite team stadium, and you
walk in and you say, wow, I am here, and
you know, my favorite team was the still is the Cowboys.
And when I got into Texas Stadium for the first time,
I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
Yeah, I get him and it being part of it,
being part of it, the room where it happens. You know,
there's millions every time I'm at a fight, especially, I'm like,
there's millions all over the world that are paying money
at home having parties watching this event. And I am here.
My friends and family are all at home watching this.

(45:18):
But you know you're you're describing exactly. Well, First of all,
there's two things at play, so you can't you can't
feel that way when you're at home. That's what you're
paying for. There's two layers here. And I'm not getting
all psychological on you, though I am a little bit.
If you go back to the days of colosseums and

(45:38):
you know, dat of gladiators fighting lions and arenas, we
we all sense, we all have a sense of community
that we want. We want to be part of a community.
You want to root for something together with someone else. Right, So,
going like when Danny said when he hangs out with
other Raiders fans, when you go to the Bronx and
your chest bumbled with a bunch of other Guido Yankees fans,

(46:01):
Vinny bro Bleach teachers. There's something he said about it.
You see. It's the same reason why when you're walking
through the mall. I'm out here in l A. If
I'm walking through the mall with my kids and I
see another if I see a guy wearing a Mets hat,
I give him a little like, hey, let's go Mets.
We all, we all desire community, and that's what sports
gives us combined. You're trying to psychoanalyze me, combine, combine

(46:24):
our desire for community with let's be honest, there's something
ego about what you just said. And I and I'm
not saying it's a bad thing. We want to be
there when we're in a Mayweather fight back in the
day or now, you know, if you're a Canelo Crawford
fight and you're like, man, millions of people are watching it,
but I'll here it got me there, and I'm not

(46:45):
trying to brag about it on social media. That's a
question itself. Are you sharing or are you bragging? Both? No,
because I'm not posted like I'm here, like I know
within myself. I'm here, and there's an extra cool feeling
being there. I call bull shit talky mushrooms because if
you're at this, if you're a Canela fight, yeah, and

(47:07):
you do a selfie by the ring and you're like
just happening to be in Vegas, that's like that's bragging,
bragg again, bragging or shit?

Speaker 3 (47:14):
Do it?

Speaker 1 (47:15):
I do it for work reasons, to work reasons.

Speaker 3 (47:18):
Yeah, but are you a fan of that sport? Rich
If you're not, and then suddenly you're posting that stuff,
then I would hear what you're saying and be like, Okay,
that's bragging. But if I know Covino's a boxing guy,
which he is, and he's always talking about boxing, then
I'm like, oh, that's cool. Now he's part of it
right now.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
Read but but will you be lying to yourself if
you didn't post a picture yourself and like a Dodger's
World series game, if you didn't almost subconsciously want the
world to be like, yo, I'm I'm just reminding everyone
how big of a Dodgers fan I am. I'm here
right just like you know, selfie time. That's the truth.
We all want to show the world that we are
in the rumor it happened at the star of their

(47:57):
own TikTok page. That's true. Let's go to him in Oregon. Hey, Kim,
what up, Kim?

Speaker 3 (48:02):
Good morning?

Speaker 2 (48:04):
Just you guys were talking earlier about like Katrina the
documentaries that two uh were watching.

Speaker 1 (48:09):
I said, the first two episodes were great. That last episode, man,
you had a smash. You had toothpicks in my eyes
like a Tomcat from Tom and Jerry.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Well, I watched one yesterday that I think you would
be very interested, if not sports wise, unknown number on Netflix?

Speaker 1 (48:27):
Is this the the girl that was cyberbullied?

Speaker 3 (48:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (48:31):
Yeah, I heard a lot about it. That's my homework
assignment tonight. So it's worth watching.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
It is I mean, it's just it's disturbing. It's worth watching,
and you wonder at the what's the well, I'll give that.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
Well right that I'm hearing that from everybody that that's
the one you gotta watch. Let's say how to Baker
in Illinois. What's up, Baked? Hey Baker?

Speaker 3 (48:53):
Hey?

Speaker 8 (48:53):
Uh, I just want to say I'm with Rich on
the NFL live or at home saying I smet seven
hundred and fifty dollars a ticket to take my step
son to see my Eagles play his Vikings, and I thought,
you know what I'm gonna do this once fifty yard line,

(49:15):
third row, couldn't see craft.

Speaker 1 (49:18):
Yeah, it's like you're there, but it's like, how could
yore a big cowboy head? It's cool to be there.
You and your step son probably had a great time bonding,
and you probably just felt cool, Like who is sitting
in front of you, Yokazuna, Who's the best step dad
there ever? Was? It's me, Baker, right, because you felt
cool you were there, third row, fifty yard line. But
the reality is eh, but you go to one two

(49:39):
games a year. You can't go there and just bring
the fun and have fun. Right, And I get it.
That's a great story. I'm glad you shared with us.
Thanks Baker, So again, if you just joined us, we're
just saying, hey, man, when you're paying an average of
five hundred and seventy eight dollars per ticket, that's the
highest Raiders forty nine, Ers, five hundred and one, Patriots
four sixty eight, Eagles four hundred and fifty six average
ticket prices, Let's be real. The TV experience is way better.

(50:02):
I'm just saying the game. I'm just saying, when you
do the math on that family of four plus food
and drink, you are talking about the cost of like
an all inclusive week with you, like your girlfriend or
wife at a resort. All right, option a cod to
a Raiders Cults game in the middle of the season
with you and your broke or or I don't know,

(50:25):
go to the Bahamas for five days. It's the same
thing I'll watch on TV. I've decided watching on TV
is really underrated and I'm staying home. Like I said,
you put all this money into your setup. I know
you're calling me. I know you gotta enjoy it.

Speaker 3 (50:40):
I might earn my.

Speaker 1 (50:40):
Name, as you like to call me, double talking Dickie,
because come playoff season, if the Mets make the postseason,
which they likely will sneak into that wild card, if
you see me going back to New York to see
a Mets playoff based on everything yourself, but it must
be a brag. And I don't think everyone thinks that way.
I think you're projecting on everybody else because that be
how you feel. Because based on everything you said, you're

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only going back to New York to brag that you
went to the game. It's there's a subconscious I need
to be their thing. It's a subconscious I need to be.
That's different from bragging about it. All right. Well, hey, yes,
it's like you're a fraud. If you don't like how
could I claim to be? Yeah, I'm the guy. Yeah,
if that's fair, I agree with you. There. I don't
think that everyone's there just to brag about it, all right. Well, hey,

(51:26):
we got more. Could be on rich And for DP.
We're gonna talk some NFL Week one. I want to
think you look at some of these I have, like,
in my opinion, there's like two games that I feel
like Vegas got the points right wrong. And I'm going
to jump on real quick. So we'll talk a little
Week one NFL Action more next right here, could be
on rich and for DP.

Speaker 4 (51:43):
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Speaker 1 (51:52):
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and their defense. And congrats to Tony ferguson he beat
a YouTube influencer in a boxing match.

Speaker 3 (52:35):
Congrats to Miami and to Florida State. Florida State, don't
take away you know it's their QB is so fun
to watch.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
Sometimes, you know it is Danny g Sometimes when someone loses,
you don't really give credit to the winner. You just
mock the loser, Like I feel like the narrative is like,
oh man Alabama. Oh, and congrats Florida State just also
played well like you. Oh yeah, that happens so often.
Congrats to Ryan Day's nipples. I don't know if you
saw them. They went viral over the weekend. One of

(53:05):
them did, one of them did. And there's an update.
By the way, if you're not familiar with Nipplegate, his
nipples all over social media. Over there you Janet Jackson
Nipplegate because he I mean it was real, like eraser
tip Jesus. But they looked like there was two one
prominent piercings sticking out, like you had a little barbell
in there or something. I don't know what you even

(53:25):
call that. Rich, you would know you're the expert. What
is Rich Davis and Ryan they have in common. You
think I have a pig get out of here. But look,
the update is that we were all duped. It was
like a fake photo that.

Speaker 3 (53:37):
Went viral of somebody.

Speaker 1 (53:39):
Yeah, yeah, totally fakes. So you can never believe anything
that being said. We're Cavino and Rich. We're gonna tuckle insanity.
But first we have a game to play, all right,
This is a game.

Speaker 4 (53:51):
Bill Belichick has some things in common.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
Bill Belichick's the man.

Speaker 4 (53:55):
They both have younger girlfriends named Jordan man if that
was my daughter, sleet Boat have a powerful presence in
the sports world.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
Look harder, so you can do that when you're seventy two.

Speaker 4 (54:06):
You tell us he's it's Steve Cavino or build sella check.

Speaker 1 (54:11):
I'm not mad at him at all.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
I want to know what it is, Okay man, all right,
what started from Rich's late night edible mind has turned
into a fun on air game I've put together from
time to time. What better day to play than on
Belichick's debut for UNC versus TCU tonight.

Speaker 1 (54:28):
Dude, what a cool week? Right, you got NFL start
and you got this game tonight, like so much look
forward to baseball heating up. I heard some buffoons talking about, like,
what are they gonna show Jordan tonight on the sidelines.
I was like, Yeah, Bill Belichick's Jordan. If she's there,
why would they not show her? She's part of the

(54:49):
Bill Belichick story at UNC like to not show Well,
he's the storyline. She's definitely part of it. But he's
the storyline.

Speaker 3 (54:58):
All Right, We're gonna get our contestant on the studio
line and then I'll explain the game real quick. You
know what, Coveno, I'll use you for this. Since you're
the man in the moment, would you love to travel too,
Beautiful Gainesville, Florida, Medford, Oregon, Las Vegas, Nevada, Memphis, Tennessee
or Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Speaker 1 (55:15):
Oh, Kitty Hawk. Huh hm, you know what, I'm working
on my Gaines So I want to go to Gainesville,
that's Mike, Yeah, Gainesville, Mike in Florida.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
Mike Yeah, A good choice.

Speaker 3 (55:28):
Guys, this morning, Happy Labor Day. What do you do
for a living there in Florida.

Speaker 6 (55:32):
Well, I'm a retired school teacher of thirty five years.

Speaker 3 (55:35):
Nice, All right, here's no go for it. What were
you say?

Speaker 6 (55:39):
I don't want to ask. Did the kid give him
that hat to sign? Or would he just have a
bunch of hats here in the sign?

Speaker 1 (55:46):
That's a great question. I think he had hats. He
was signed right, so.

Speaker 6 (55:51):
But still that that man knew the kid. He was
stepping in front of the kid and grabbing the hat.

Speaker 4 (55:58):
You know, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
It was a bad look for sure. And and how
aggressively he snagged the hat that us open story.

Speaker 3 (56:05):
Oh anyway, Mikey, here's how the game works. Covino or Belichick.
I've done extensive research on both Coach and Covino and
their young girlfriends. Rich and I are going to trade
off reading a fun fact and then you've got to
tell us is it Steve Covino or Bill Belichick. You
have five chances to get too correct, and then you
win a CNR in nerve football. Okay, we have been ready.

(56:30):
We don't know, we don't know one of the other. Okay,
Rich is going to read the first fun all.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
Right now, is this Covino or Belichick? His Jordan simultaneously
enrolled in cosmetology school and commuted daily while balancing her
academics Cano. No, sorry, that's Belichick Jordan. That's one st
Jordan Huts. However, my Jordan has become a certified pilate's

(56:57):
instructor in the past like months, so close, so you
can almost.

Speaker 3 (57:03):
Mike.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
You know how I came up with this game, Trith
be told. I was on a little vacation with my wife,
Grandma had the kids. I was on the beach and
I had an edible and I happen to be scrolling
on Instagram and I saw Covino at the beach with
his girlfriend doing something ridiculous, and the next scroll was
Belichick on the beach doing like pilates on the beach
or something. I'm like, oh my god, Covino and Belichick

(57:24):
the same guy, Yeah, except where not? We just date
women named Jordan the same guy, same guy, but yeah, no,
different beach. But think about that. He's like, yeah, a
big game tonight, you know a lot of and she's like,
I got cosmetology school later.

Speaker 3 (57:41):
Contrast, right, Danny got two. Yeah, I'm gonna read the
second fun fact here. His Jordan has gotten the couple's
dog booked for several national ad campaigns. Covino or Belichick.

Speaker 1 (57:54):
Yes, that's right. My dog, my dog, theo brings home
more money than anybody in the house. Are not even joking.
He's like a little circus dog. And he's actually got
several national gigs where he's like a little dog model actor.
It's so funny. Covino is like a stage He's a
stage dog dad. It's crazy. All right, I even care.

(58:16):
I'm not making that up.

Speaker 3 (58:18):
Mike is halfway to a CNR prize. Rich back to
you for the third fun fact.

Speaker 1 (58:22):
All right, is a Cavino or Belichick his job?

Speaker 3 (58:29):
Third one?

Speaker 1 (58:29):
Yeah, oh oh, this is not always just about Jordan. No, okay,
like you've never played you know, or Belichick? Okay, he
first met John bon Jovi while working in New York.
Cavino or Belichick, Carina, No, yeah, I've worked in rock.

(58:50):
I'm not sure I ever met John bon Jovi.

Speaker 6 (58:53):
Yeah, that's why I thought it too.

Speaker 1 (58:57):
I would have got that one wrong. And I'm from Jersey,
never met the guy.

Speaker 3 (59:00):
All right, well, you have two more chances to get
one correct to be a winner. Mike. Here's the fourth
fun fact. He was fired from a job in nineteen
ninety five, but it did not deter him from his
dream Covino or Belichick.

Speaker 6 (59:15):
It would look it looks like Belichick, but our Bryan
wrong Belichick.

Speaker 5 (59:19):
Belichick is yes right in your winner congratulations got is
too correct?

Speaker 3 (59:24):
That means you win a CNR prize just like that.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
We have IOUs which are just as good as money.
So we've had bribery balls before, Nerve footballs, then Swiggy
stain of steel water bottles. Now we're heading into football
season again, so we got brand new Nerve Football's inventories
coming in, so we owe you one. We're throwing some
koozies and all that stuff. Again, just trying to brib
people to listen to our show. So thank you, Mike. Congrats.
We appreciate you. Mike.

Speaker 6 (59:51):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
But then again, you know, I think that could have
been either one of you, did you get fired from
Bennigan's in nineteen ninety five or I was never? Never
fired from Bennigan's. Never I did work at Benagans. Get
you ever get fired? I was let go because of
COVID if you count that firing. But like fired like
not like well you're like like vincrick Man, like Vince

(01:00:13):
prick Van or Donald Trump like you fired? Never? No
U now again. Grew up New Jersey, never met bon Jovi.
We built our careers in New York. Rich Davis worked
at Z one hundred. I was driving the van at
k Rock New York and just trying to get on
the air and was doing weekends and all that stuff.

(01:00:33):
We joined forces years ago, and in the early two thousands, Rich,
you and I were doing the Cavino and Rich Show. Yeah,
it's serious just the time. At the time it was
not even XEM. You had just serious satellite radio. And
we were working with Maxim Radio. Remember when magazines are
a thing. Maxim. We were doing Maxim New Year two
thousd Man, did you know exactly what year this was? No,

(01:00:59):
but you were wearing boot cut jeans. I'm sure you
were probably wearing some affliction T shirt buttoned down from
Men's Express or structure. I'm not sure what it was
at that time. I think it was Men's Express. You
were rocking a suite Affliction, Graphic Tea or something. Maybe
it wasn't that long ago, because I'm looking twenty twelve,

(01:01:19):
I feel like it was before that.

Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
It started on February fourth, twenty twelve.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
Wow, really feels it felt like the middle of their way.
But I'm sure Rich was still rocking that and insanity
began and we were in New York for it, So
please trust our perspective. Yeah, when you know, when you
think of the Knicks, I feel like, as a kid,
if you grew up in the eighties and nineties, it
was about Ewing and Starks and Anthony Mason and that

(01:01:45):
cast of amazing characters. Then there you know, Latrell Spree,
Well you had your different you would say, like iteration
of the Knicks and eras. Now, there was a point
where there wasn't really that much to cheer for with
the New York Knicks, And I just remember when Jeremy

(01:02:06):
Lynn made his debut and linsanity took over New York.
It's hard to explain, and I remember the backstory, he
was living on his like friend's couch and all that.
Everything from the backstory to lisanity itself was unbelievable. It's
very hard to like minshew mania when Gardner Minshew wasn't.

(01:02:27):
That was like a hot minute where this guy's doing
way better than they thought. It's hard to compare someone
coming out of nowhere the way Jeremy Lin did well.
It was, you know when they talk about the zone
being in the zone in sports, it was a guy
playing at the true height of his potential because he
just was in the zone. Is when your confidence just
reaches its total peak. As the kids would say, you're

(01:02:50):
just peaking at the best time, your total peak. It
was two years, two weeks out of nine years that
he played in the NBA, two weeks of high level insanity,
insanity basketball where we saw him going head to head
with your boy Kobe Bryant, Like this was no fluke.

Speaker 3 (01:03:12):
To average twenty five points and.

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
The point is like, yeah, it was short lived, but
not really. He still had a nice career. You want
to ring with Toronto and everything. He had a nice,
a solid career. I think he averaged almost ten points
per game. When you look back at his stats nine
years in the league, that two weeks was the most legitimate,
you could say, fluke I've ever seen because it was real.

(01:03:37):
We lived it. The hype, I'll tell you this, The
hype was real. It was excitement at the garden like
we hadn't seen in years. Rich is right about that.
All your friends were talking about it. You couldn't escape
the highlights on Sports Center. And I just want to say,
like being there in the city for that buzz and
that excitement and just people walking down the street looking

(01:03:58):
at each other like are you watching this? Like we
all knew that we were experiencing something together. And I'll
never forget it. And even though it may seem like
a flash in the pan, he played nine years and
it was legitimate. It was awesome to witness. And I
tip my Yankee hat to the insanity. Yet we got
to experience It's uh, It's definitely worth mentioning lin sanity

(01:04:18):
on the day he officially retires from the NBA. He
retired officially this week this weekend. Jeremy Lynn, thank you
for a couple of weeks of insanity that was like
a pop culture phenomenon. And then again won an NBA title,
didn't play, but won an NBA title with It's like
when people criticize one hit wonders, it's like, yeah, they
may have had one hit, but they had a great
career and there and one hit more than you'll ever sniff.

(01:04:43):
So it's like you try to dump on that moment.
It's like, yo, yeah he had a moment. He also
had a nine year career, So that's like you don't
want to minimize and undermine that. Did that again? But
how many people will play a career and never have that?
Me insane? Let me pose a question for you. Sure,
I'm sorry it was lindsaying, let me pose a question.

(01:05:03):
We could wrap with all four sports. Oh, we could
add a hot dog geedey Okay, the fifth fager sport.
Any sport you want to bring up, I'm fine with.
They could be a fighter because I feel like maybe
maybe either a I happen to just root for teams
who have these stories, or you only can remember the

(01:05:27):
ones on your teams. I'm talking about the player that
sort of came out of nowhere and way exceeded expectations,
like Jeremy Lynn, like he said, sleeping on his friend's
couch and no one ever thought Jeremy Lynn would turn
out to this because I have two examples and they
both happen to be teams I root for, so again,
it might be one of those you remember them more

(01:05:47):
when they're your team. But Jacob de Gram was a
spot starter. He played shortstop in college and early minor
league days. Jacob de Gram was not so supposed to
be a multi cy Young Award winner, one of the
greatest pitchers of the last twenty years. That was not
what we thought. And as a Niners fan, the Niners

(01:06:11):
whiffed on Trey Lance Brock perty was mister irrelevant And
now he's making fifty million dollars a year. Can you
think of anyone else that you're like, Well, that wasn't say,
But Jeremy Lynn's story even more specials. It was not expected,
it was unassuming. He's like, what Jeremy Lynn is this dude,
this guy he's schooling Kobe Bryant here in this moment again.

(01:06:33):
Retired at thirty seven, and you're thinking, again, I haven't
seen him playing years. He stopped in twenty nineteen with
the Raptors when they won that championship with the quadruple doink.
I mean the only other person made in the PLG
last year to Taiwanese a professional that counts, but it doesn't.
So yeah, you know what this is like short but

(01:06:53):
impactful runs. I thought of besides de gram Or, like
I said, Perdy, like that guy that came out of nowhere.
I mean, he was good, But you can't imagine that
anyone that roots for the Twins. When they let David
Ortiz go, they never thought he'd turned into a big

(01:07:14):
poppy for Boston because he played for Minnesota and was like.

Speaker 3 (01:07:18):
How about players like Nick Foles? Nobody expected that calls
won a Super Bowl? And yeah, and for my favorite team,
the Raiders, Darren Waller was a practice squad player for
the Ravens and then turned out to be one of
the best tight ends in all of football.

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
And here's my point, at least that I want to
leave with, is all of these moments are great, and
we all have our own memories of them. But I
think the beacon of all of them was Insanity because
he really took the world by storm. We had never
seen anything like it. You can't discredit the fact that
it was unassuming, like we've never seen an Asian dude

(01:07:52):
light it up like that in the NBA. That was
all part of it, right.

Speaker 3 (01:07:56):
Covid was like he was channeling Michael Jordan for a
ten game.

Speaker 1 (01:07:59):
Stretch with It was like he was playing outside of himself,
right outside of his own body, out of body experience.
Like even he didn't know what was going on, but
he was just in such a zone that it was.
It took the world by sto him, not just New York,
but we were there to witness it in New York
and we say, congrats on a solid career, nine years,
but that impactful, those impactful two weeks. It's so funny

(01:08:21):
how we look back. It was only two weeks. It
was only two weeks. Just like when you look back,
you're like, wait, Notorious Big only had two albums. Yeah,
he only had two albums, but they were impactful. Yeah,
Neirvana was only around for a couple of years. Those
only were around for how many years? Impactful? Impactful? That
a nine year career, but those two weeks defined everything

(01:08:43):
for that dude. And props to him. You your thoughts
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